They say life is about learning from your mistakes and moving on. But, why wait to make a mistake when TV is full of loads of other people doing stupid things that you can learn from? There’s no better place to cheat-learn from other people’s errors than Netflix’s award-winning Orange is the New Black. Sure, … >
‘The world’s gone mad! I didn’t invite any of these gangsters to my garden party!’ What was it about? Roobarb and Custard are the principal characters in Roobarb, a series of short animations for children originally shown on BBC One in 1974. Roobarb was a dog based on creator George Calveley’s own pet pooch … >
It was recently revealed that the Doctor Who production team auditioned 70 actresses for the part of new companion Bill, which of course eventually went to Pearl Mackie. Assuming a similar number were looked at for previous companions, multiplied by how many of them there have been over the past fifty or so years, and that … >
It sometimes seems, with ever increasingly-detailed playsets and figures coming on to the market, that ‘toys’ today aren’t really designed for children at all, but are in fact aimed squarely at the adult collector market. It’s a shame, because I’m sure I can’t be the only child of the 1970s who spent many a happy … >
As it reaches it’s five year anniversary, I decided to rewatch Doctor Who star Matt Smith’s 90-minute BBC film Christopher and His Kind. Directed by Geoffrey Sax (the director 1996’s Doctor Who TV Movie, don’t you know?), the 2011 biopic is based on the memoirs of English novelist Christopher Isherwood, a young man who travelled to Berlin in … >
With the third Captain America movie out in cinemas now, it’s the perfect time to look back at all 13 movies so far in Marvel’s increasingly ambitious cinematic universe. But which is the best? Let’s find out… Iron Man 2 Arguably the only outright disaster in the Marvel canon, 2010’s Iron Man 2 misjudged … >
It was recently announced that Neil Gaiman is bringing his comic fantasy novel ‘Good Omens’ – which he co-wrote with the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett – to television as a six-part series. For those who don’t know, the book sees an angel and a demon team up to stop the end of the world. … >
“It’s very well-behaved, this place… “I thought there would be happy slapping hoodies. Happy slapping hoodies with ASBOs. Happy slapping hoodies with ASBOs and ringtones. Yeah? Yeah? “Oh yeah! Don’t tell me I don’t fit in.” Coal Hill School Top of our list is a location hardwired into the DNA of Doctor Who. The … >
The Star Wars universe consists of planets that feature stunning terrain. From the sand-blasted Jakku, with its Star Destroyer graveyard and promising scavenger Rey, to the foreboding jungle of Dagobah, hidden retreat for Master Yoda, the conditions on each world vary greatly. In the real world, terrain also varies greatly – from the Sahara desert … >
The Mindy Project is probably a show that you’ve heard of but never seen. If you’re here in the UK you can’t be blamed for not being familiar with it. Like some other cult and critically-acclaimed US comedies of late, it’s had a surprising lack of exposure over here. So we’ve not had the fun … >