E4’s autumn 2011 preview party report
As summer (such as it was) begins to fade away, and the leaves begin to turn, so too the television channels have a whole new season of programming to premiere.
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As summer (such as it was) begins to fade away, and the leaves begin to turn, so too the television channels have a whole new season of programming to premiere.
‘This is a good idea with bad possibilities,’ one of the principal characters in BBC Three’s new pre-apocalyptic drama The Fades announces at the beginning of this opening episode, and it’s a fair summing up.
As Dexter villains go, the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow) – with his love of deer, family, opening femoral arteries and his Yoda-like fascination for the show’s hero – was always going to be a hard act to follow.
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 … >
New Doctor Who novel ‘Paradox Lost’ is a fine representation of the series’ recent fascination with the more puzzling consequences of time travel.
So, by now, the whole world (well, almost) has had the opportunity to gaze upon the first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day, the fourth series of the Doctor Who spin-off from writer Russell T Davies.
After two episodes of stories written by new writers to the show, Life On Mars/Ashes To Ashes co-creator Matthew Graham returns to Doctor Who with a two-parter featuring some familiar faces. Question is, will we be asking for a double?
After two episodes of stories written by new writers to the show, Life On Mars/Ashes To Ashes co-creator Matthew Graham returns to Doctor Who with a two-parter featuring some familiar faces. Question is, will we be asking for a double?
Now that it’s been firmly established that more people than you might have expected survived the events at the end of Series 1, things are settling into the routine (well, as routine as it ever gets around here) of ensuring that this time round, no-one is safe from a grisly dispatch.
It takes a television series of exceptional quality – and daring – to satisfy its audience without answering almost any of the questions posed in the preceding episode of a two-part story. Yet this is precisely what Doctor Who achieves in ‘Day Of The Moon’.