Created by Chris Boucher, former Blake’s 7 and Bergerac script editor, Star Cops was effectively a police procedural in space and one of the rare occasions where the BBC attempted to do some serious sci-fi; no bug-eyed monsters here, just duplicitous, criminal human beings. What was it about? Laid back Nathan Spring is a traditionalist … >
The final box set in the current run of The Ninth Doctor Adventures sees three encounters with River Song. Updated 29/05/24: Star-Crossed is out! Today see the release of Star-Crossed, the latest set of audio adventures for Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor. The three stories see this most isolated of incarnations in the path of the … >
Christopher Eccleston stars with Alex Kingston across three stories in Star-Crossed. As his third series of audio adventures draw to a close, the Ninth Doctor faces his greatest challenge yet. Christopher Eccleston’s incarnation of the Time Lord will enjoy three audio adventures with Alex Kingston’s time-travelling archaeologist Professor River Song. River, who becomes the Doctor’s … >
Into the Stars is the sixth boxset of audio adventures for Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor. As the title suggests, this trio of stories see him travelling at large in the universe in contrast to the previous boxset of Earthbound exploits. Here, he meets a group of highly unusual Sontarans, becomes embroiled in a high-stakes alien … >
Update: a further piece of news on this one, as it’s been revealed that filming of The Mallorca Files is now set to begin at the end of the year. A November start of production has been earmarked, with the series set to debut in 2019. More as we hear it… June 2018 BBC One has … >
Grantchester is like a jigsaw puzzle, and the trick or the fun is in working out how the separate bits fit together. Within the first ten minutes of this week’s third episode, for example, we’ve been given all the pieces. The murdered husband. The catholic wife. The mechanic. The secretary. The lady at the post … >
The truth slowly starts to emerge in this week’s Prime Suspect: 1973 and apparently the only thing anybody is interested in, is helping Julie-Ann Collins. As we suspected last week, it was her father who fitted locks to her room in an attempt at ‘cold turkey’. Trying a somewhat different tack, we learn that her … >
In the fictional world, there’s nothing quite like a good bad cop. From sleazy, utterly decadent moral vacuums like Harvey Keitel’s eponymous Bad Lieutenant to duplicitous departmental rats like Colin Sullivan, Matt Damon’s character in The Departed, there’s always a motorway of movie mileage to be obtained from bad apples. The same, of course, applies … >
England Rugby World Cup winner, national sporting hero and top TV star, Matt Dawson, presents an action-packed collection of rugby’s greatest ever players and most memorable moments in Matt Dawson’s Rip Roaring Rugby, out now through Revolver Entertainment. > Buy the DVD on Amazon. Filmed in the iconic Twickenham stadium, home of English rugby and … >
River Song meets two of her husband’s best friends, Ace and Tegan, in a time-twisting four-part adventure. With her own capacity to time-travel, Professor River Song (Alex Kingston) encountered three Doctors on screen, and has met more on audio since. However, her latest adventure brings her into contact with two of the Doctor’s former travelling … >