I’ve been very fond of this show since it began due in no small part to growing up on Jersey where Gerald Durrell’s well-known zoo is located. Despite flirting with being called ‘Durrell Wildlife Conservation’ the CEO confirmed this year that the name is to revert to simply being Jersey Zoo. Part of what makes … >
Season 10, so far, has been a bit of a Doctor Who selection box. It’s aimed to include all the classic story formats, so far – a modern day opener, a futuristic alien planet and a period romp, and while this classical approach has come at the expense of narrative originality, it’s also allowed the … >
Following on from last week’s heartbreaking introduction, ITV’s Little Boy Blue shifts the focus of the story in this second episode, but is no less emotionally impactful as a result. “A killer whose identity everybody knows, but who we cannot charge. People are getting frustrated by our perceived lack of progress.” While last week’s opener, quite … >
Knock knock Who’s there? Doctor. Doctor who? Doctor Who’s been good so far, hasn’t it? Ha-ha-haaaa. That was the laughter of relief that so far there hasn’t been a dud episode in Peter Capaldi’s swansong season. Good thing too – the man deserves a strong send-off. There’s been nothing mind-blowing, but at this rate, you … >
Beginning in the early 1980s, the Myth Makers videos built up a tremendous archive of video interviews with the cast and crew of Doctor Who. This new DVD release collects together six of the main players of the Pertwee era. Hosted by Nicholas Briggs, long before he became the ‘voice of the Daleks’, each film … >
While the Twelfth Doctor has returned to our television screens with a new season, his predecessors remain busy on audio all year long. April was no exception, bringing outings for his Fourth, Fifth and Tenth incarnations. The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa star in a pair of two-part stories, ‘Alien Heart’ and ‘Dalek Soul’ which form … >
Doctor Who is a show that has always been flanked by controversy of one kind or another. It’s that typical divisiveness, the utter separation between views of what the show should be, that’s come to be a fact of the discourse around it in recent years. That makes Season 10 all the more of an anomaly … >
Awash with sword fights, family feuds and court intrigue, The White Princess follows the fortunes of the Houses of Lancaster and York, opposing sides in the War of the Roses. After defeating Richard III at the battle of Bosworth, Henry Tudor is poised to take the throne. In an attempt to unite the kingdom, an … >
On 22nd August 2007, 11 year old Rhys Jones was shot dead after being caught up in a shooting in Liverpool. The story sent shockwaves through Britain at the time, highlighting the need to crack down on local gang culture. It has also now, almost a decade later, been turned into a new four-part ITV drama … >
The second episode of Grantchester’s new season opens with Peter Davison at a village cricket match! It seems entirely right, but alas this isn’t his dashing early 80s Doctor Who, nor his charming early 30s Tristan Farnon. He’s Geoff Towler, local solicitor, pillar of the community, chairman of the cricket club… but also a bully … >