Set against a perilous political backdrop and set amid real events, Deutschland 83 is Channel 4’s new German-language thriller. Created by German-American husband and wife team Anna Winger and Joerg Winger, the eight-part series reveals the experiences of Germans from both sides of the Berlin wall during a pivotal period of Cold War tensions where … >
One of the criticisms often levelled at Steven Moffat’s era of Doctor Who, and indeed the show as a whole, is the lack of female writers. According to occasional contributor Neil Gaiman, this has been a priority of late, and Season 9 attempted to redress the balance with scripts from Catherine Tregenna and Sarah Dollard. … >
So, we’ve still not stopped grinning since seeing The Force Awakens last month – and no, we’ve not got over that death yet. Some of the movie’s best moments involved the return of the original characters, but it was as equally exciting to meet Episode VII‘s new faces. > Pre-order The Force Awakens on Amazon. … >
Before becoming known to a wider audience on The IT Crowd, Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry made their first television appearances in the brilliant Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, a pastiche of low-budget ‘80s horror. A second season of Darkplace was discussed but sadly never commissioned, following low viewing figures and concern from Channel 4 bosses as … >
With Doctor Who star Joivan Wade (Rigsy) joining the cast of EastEnders as Jordan Johnson, here we take a look at some of the actors from BBC One’s London-based soap who’ve also popped up in Doctor Who… (And we’re ignoring ‘Dimensions in Time’, sorry!) Bonnie Langford as Carmel Kazemi and as Mel Bush … >
Downton Abbey may be slipping into the stream of television history following its last ever Christmas special last month, but the characters will live on in our imaginations. Few programmes in recent years have managed to capture the affection of the viewing public in quite the way that Downton has. A series that itself harked back with … >
BBC One’s Merlin began in 2008 as a family show but as the seasons progressed, it became darker as the viewers got older. This certainly became evident as the fantasy drama entered its fourth season. > Buy the complete Merlin Season 1-5 boxset on Amazon. We often look back on Merlin as either a light-hearted, … >
Doctor Who fans begin speculating who the next Doctor should be almost the day after each new Doctor makes his debut. Similarly, an ongoing element of James Bond fandom is to discuss after every new Bond film what is going to happen next, whether the current actor will continue to portray him, and if it’s … >
For fifteen years now, Big Finish have been delighting Doctor Who fans with their documenting of unseen adventures for the Fifth to Eighth, and most recently, Fourth Doctors. In 2015, though, they became more ambitious than ever, be it by developing their Novel Adaptations range or creating a long sought-after UNIT spin-off or – and … >
Appropriately for a show that brought the existence of life on other planets to primetime television, The X-Files returns to a very different world to the one it departed. It’s Earth, Jim, but not as we knew it. Dana Scully – a qualified medical doctor and all-round rationalist despite her experiences in nine years working … >