‘Doctor Who’ finale: A look at the Brigadier’s last bow in ‘Death in Heaven’

‘Death in Heaven’ is a resolutely modern episode of Doctor Who, mixing Russell T Davies-style widescreen excess with the endlessly imaginative twists of Steven Moffat’s dark vision for the show like a pimped-up juggernaut driven by Edgar Allen Poe. It’s also one of the most poignant season finales the programme has produced under the auspices … >

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‘Doctor Who’ analysis: 7 thoughts about ‘Dark Water’

If you’re reading this, then you’re on the Internet. And if you’re on the internet, there’s no way you’ve managed to avoid the revelations of ‘Dark Water’. So, let’s see exactly how dark this water was below the surface…   “Just this once, everyone lives!”  The rebooted Doctor Who has a noble tradition of turning … >

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Our reaction to the Missy reveal in ‘Doctor Who’

So, in the event, it was as many had predicted: the Master is now a woman. Let’s look at that sentence again. Steven Moffat has brought the Master back – as a woman. The man who regenerated the Doctor into Joanna Lumley in ‘The Curse of Fatal Death’ has now done something similar for the … >

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20 years of ‘The Vicar of Dibley’

Can it really be twenty years since The Vicar of Dibley first appeared on our screens?  No no no no no no – yes! Yes, it can, with the first episode having aired in November 1994. Not perhaps the most prolific of shows (20 years on, we’ve only had 20 episodes, the last in 2007) … >

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How will cast changes impact ‘Games of Thrones’ Season 5?

Ever since Walter White took his final stand at the end of the seminal Breaking Bad, television fans from across the globe have been desperately searching for something to take its place. While this may be easier said than done, however, there remains a wide range of choice for those who are willing to open … >

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‘Doctor Who’ spoiler-free speculation: The fate of Clara and Danny

Now that it’s been revealed that Missy’s agenda involves Clara (“I have chosen well”), and with the growing collection of people gathered into her Promised Land (aka The Nethersphere), we cannot help but begin to speculate on the possible destination of the Owsald/Pink romance. Danny and Clara’s relationship has blossomed since their first awkward foot-in-mouth … >

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Is the Doctor in love with Clara in ‘Doctor Who’?

At the beginning, she was The Impossible Girl who appeared throughout the Doctor’s lives, splintered into multiple incarnations to save him a dozen times over. They travelled together as flirty friends in the days when the Doctor was fresh-faced, floppy-haired and full of sparkling youthful exuberance and cheeky good humour. That was then. Now, Clara … >

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