How fast things move in the world of television. Or, rather, ‘online content’. It was less than a year ago that the BBC announced that Ripper Street was coming to an end after just its second season. Within months, Amazon Prime Instant Video snapped it up and here it is! Back by popular demand within … >
It feels like it’s only just begun, but Peter Capaldi’s first season of Doctor Who has finished. And what a season it’s been! CultBox asked our followers on Twitter to send in a tweet-sized review of Season 8 – here’s what you had to say… @CultBoxTV Dark, deep and definitely better than previous Moffat … >
Downton Abbey served up yet another delicious season, full of wit and charm, intrigue and insight, with a second helping of memorable one-liners from the Dowager Countess. Best of all, there was an explosive dining room scene in almost every episode. > Order Season 5 on DVD on Amazon. With the Downton residents not returning … >
‘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 … >
Nudged closer to Christmas by Doctor Who, it has been the best part of a year since we last visited Atlantis. The show’s team have promised change, with star Jack Donnelly (Jason) revealing: “It’s not the follow-up you would expect. They really have reinvented it. In every single way they could change it, I think … >
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 … >
Ever wanted to learn more about what your ancestors did in the First World War? This Remembrance Weekend, family history website Find My Past wants to help you find your World War I ancestors and is offering unlimited free access from 7-10 November. Find My Past features a huge searchable online archive featuring billions of … >
Just before tragedy struck in ‘Dark Water’, Clara was preparing to come totally clean to Danny Pink about all her adventures with the Doctor. Did you spot all the references to previous episodes written on the Post-it notes stuck in her flat? Most intriguingly, did you spot the ‘THREE MONTHS’ note? Did this suggest that Clara … >
It’s not all tuxedos and Savile Row suits for our 007. In his half-century onscreen James Bond has had the odd fashion faux-pas (clustered mostly around Roger Moore). Will the upcoming 24th Bond flick feature anything as daring as a bell-bottomed safari suit or an inflatable puffer jacket? Almost definitely not, but it gives us … >
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 … >