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Usually we’d bring you teasers for the next Doctor Who episode, but Series 7’s finale, ‘The Name of the Doctor’, is being kept tightly under lock and key. So this week we’ve put together something different… Doctor Who bingo! Clara is summoned to an impossible conference call, alerting her that the deadly Whisper Men are … >
Even before the massive and graphic werewolf-led terrorist attack that occurs in the early pages of Benjamin Percy’s Red Moon, there’s a palpable sense that something terrible is about to happen. A concrete slab of dread that weighs on top of your imagination, and it remains there long after you’ve drifted beyond the epilogue and relaxed your grip on the cover.
We all love a bit of history, especially robot history, right? And there are few bits as fascinating as ‘The Turk’, an 18th century chess playing robot that amazed the folk of the time with its ability to beat a human at the game.
It was one of the first instances of man vs machine, and the concept of The Turk is something that writer Neil Gaiman clearly loves, for it’s embedded deep within ‘Nightmare in Silver’s’ programming.
Ahead of the release of Star Trek Into Darkness in cinemas on Thursday 9 May, each week we’re rewatching a classic Star Trek movie, continuing this week with 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis…
We don’t know what’s more impressive: that Shakespearean stalwarts Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi are finally working together, or that it’s in an ITV sitcom which is actually funny.
Mark Gatiss is a man who knows his Who and – as his past BBC documentaries attest – he’s also a scholar of horror. After the tension of ‘Cold War’ Gatiss blends his twin passions together into a frothing tankard of a script, ‘The Crimson Horror’; a bonkers draught of fun and scares. It’s ‘Whorror’. Oh, no… no, we’re never saying that again…
Imagine Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Imagining it? Good. Brilliant, isn’t it? Now, imagine that said chocolate factory is about to explode – BOOM, wibbly-wobbly chocolatey-wocolateyness everywhere – and that a bewildered Charlie is trapped, wandering through rooms of marvellous impossible treats, while Willy Wonka is planning to rescue him. Now, replace ‘chocolate’ with ‘time’, switch a few names, and you’ve got ‘Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS’.
After the cacophony of criticisms brought upon ‘Rings of Akhaten’, Neil Cross’ name may ring a Cloister Bell in the head of many a Whovian. But you can’t judge one writer by one episode, and we’re certainly not going to compare efforts here. All we’ll say is that ‘Hide’ is as far away from ‘Rings’ as the Akhaten system is from 1970s England.
Currnently enjoying tremendous success with ITV’s acclaimed crime drama Broadchurch, writer Chris Chibnall recently chatted exclusively to CultBox about his work on Doctor Who, Torchwood and BBC One’s upcoming two-part Great Train Robbery drama.
Ahead of the release of Star Trek Into Darkness in cinemas on Thursday 9 May, each week we’re rewatching a classic Star Trek movie, continuing this week with 1994’s Star Trek: Generations…