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’.
Blushing and pounding onto our screens with an incredibly strong off and on-screen pedigree is a new four-part BBC drama set in the darker side of Victorian London, revealing a world seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
Whilst the previous instalment of ITV1’s supernatural drama Marchlands stoked up the scares and chills, Episode 4 holds back on the jumps but fires up the mystery behind the titular house.
Following on from the series opener, the second instalment of ITV1’s new supernatural drama Marchlands continues with soap and scares in equal measure.
According to the folks at ITV, Marchlands is a “really original concept” blending “relationship drama with an atmospheric ghost story”.
Bit of an odd one this. Half the audience will be overly excited at the prospect of Matt Smith’s Doctor dropping in on Sarah Jane and the gang, but there will also be a group that will be positively foaming at the mouth at the return of Jo Grant, a former companion of The Doctor, … >
In these times of political coalitions, it’s intriguing to watch a unique television experiment which occurred in the late ’90s that has similar themes of co-operation.
Frankly, anyone can create an all-powerful monster or villain, one who can’t be killed but kills indiscriminately, one who is big enough and bad enough to be Big Bad enough to be a threat to the entire universe.
In an extract from his book The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television shared by The Guardian, former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies stated his frustration with the leaks which came out of production and how it partly lead to his decision not to proceed with the Doctor Who 2026 Christmas special. “I … >
Most of Star Trek runs on order and procedure. Starfleet officers follow the chain of command, the science crew run their scans, and the captain weighs every option before giving the word. Yet the franchise has always carried a quieter fascination with the unpredictable: the roll of the dice, the spin of a wheel, the … >