The finale finally flashes across our screens, with flailing bodies, fiery stand-offs and fury from the deep. Miracle Day goes out in a remarkable style that only Torchwood could possibly deliver.
Tom MacRae, writer of the thoroughly enjoyable ‘Rise of the Cybermen’/‘Age of Steel’ two-parter from 2006, returns to Doctor Who with a tale of very different robots and parallel worlds.
Written by that practised purveyor of petrifaction, Mark Gatiss, ‘Night Terrors’ sees the Doctor, Amy and Rory summoned across the stars by an eight year old boy named George (Jamie Oram), who is terrified of… well, just about everything.
Appropriate Adult is very far from being light and formulaic, and makes for discomfiting viewing – as it should.
‘So… why the hell…? Bollocks. Start again,’ Gwen stutters at the beginning of ‘End of the Road’, and oh, how we wish that we could.
Those of you who have been following this summer’s crop of Doctor Who books may have noticed something of a theme running through them.
Gathered to discuss the runaway BBC Two sitcom Miranda at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2011 were its stars Miranda Hart and Sarah Hadland.
Thankfully, unlike the re-opener, this week’s Doctor Who can be safely and fully discussed without fear of inadvertently revealing a spoiler or twelve.
After the naked fight scenes and perennial nudity of last week’s episode, the second instalment of Sky1’s Strike Back: Project Dawn reels in some of the more outrageous aspects of the show.
We were worried. We were scared that Steven Moffat had finally overreached himself and that ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ might be as disappointing as the conclusion of the otherwise majestic ‘A Good Man Goes to War’. We were wrong. Picking up a few hazy summer months after that strangely numbing mid-series finale, a bombardment of instantly … >