‘The Big C’: Season 1 DVD review

“Cancer is not a gift; cancer is not a passport to a better life.” So says Laura Linney as Cathy, the lead in the US channel Showtime’s new dark sitcom, The Big C. Kinney’s line, in rebuke to some happy-clapping Bible support group members, could also be taken as a rejection of possible preconceptions about this show.

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Karen Gillan (‘Doctor Who’) interview

Doctor Who returns to BBC One for Series 6 later this month, starring Karen Gillan as the Doctor’s companion Amy Pond. Returning for her second series aboard the TARDIS, Karen reveals what lies in store for Amy…

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Geoffrey Sax (‘Christopher And His Kind’) interview

Directed by Geoffrey Sax (Doctor Who: ‘The Movie’, Stormbreaker), BBC Two’s new one-off drama Christopher And His Kind stars Matt Smith (Doctor Who) and explores novelist Christopher Isherwood’s formative years in 1930s Berlin in the run-up to the Second World War.

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