‘Doctor Who’: ‘Closing Time’ spoiler-free review
Funny man James Corden returns to Doctor Who as Craig Owens and finds another alien threat close to home. But will we be calling last orders before chucking-out time?
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Funny man James Corden returns to Doctor Who as Craig Owens and finds another alien threat close to home. But will we be calling last orders before chucking-out time?
Merlin returns to BBC One for a fourth series next month with arguably its scariest and most affecting episode to date.
Following on from last year’s An Idiot Abroad is its sequel, The Bucket List; a series, which will challenge Karl Pilkington to undertake those “must do things” before you die.
Last series, in the space of only a couple of episodes, Downton Abbey established itself as the pedigree television brand; so now it’s back on our screens, it feels like normal (silver) service has resumed.
Combining elements from old and new Doctor Who stories with some of the finest writing the show has ever seen, Being Human creator Toby Whithouse has created a compact, concise tale in a carnivalesque hotel from the depth of a nightmare and a carnivorous creature who’s a cousin of the Nimon. The Doctor, Amy and … >
Hypnotically random from the opening credits, Sky Atlantic’s This Is Jinsy treads a fine line between brilliance and absolute idiocy, with highly amusing results.
So, we’ve reached the end. The Miracle is over, death is back and Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper have managed to avoid its nasty, bony fingers.
So this is it: the last season of anything Stargate-related for the foreseeable future. It’s such a shame, and not just because the series ends on yet another cliffhanger.
Though it was announced in August that the show’s producers had decided to bring Spooks to an end, don’t reach for the tissues just yet.
For the first time since taking over as the Doctor, Jon Pertwee gets to step outside the cosseted confines of UNIT Headquarters and leave his enforced exile on Earth behind.