Win ‘The Steven Spielberg Director’s Collection’ on Blu-ray™!

In recognition of the most influential filmmaker of our time, Steven Spielberg, Universal Pictures International Entertainment are giving two lucky winners the chance to win a collection of eight of his unforgettable films on Blu-ray™! For the first time ever a collection of eight memorable films from three-time Academy Award® winner, Steven Spielberg, has been … >

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Audio review: Big Finish’s ‘Frankenstein’

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (A Modern Prometheus) is a classic story most are aware of but few have read. This new audio release is a full cast dramatization adapted by Jonathan Barnes and directed by Scott Handcock. The adaptation is faithful to Shelley’s masterpiece (written when she was 18) and tells the story of how Victor … >

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‘Doctor Who’ audio review: Big Finish’s ‘Tom Baker at 80’

Recent roles in the likes of Little Britain have demonstrated to wider public something long known by Doctor Who fans; Tom Baker is a national treasure. Now at eighty, this interview comes at the end of a third run of Fourth Doctor adventures, and hot on the heels of his fan-pleasing cameo in ‘The Day … >

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‘The Driver’ Episode 2 review

After a steady start in last week’s opener – enjoyable but pedestrian in its predictableness – the second episode zooms out of the 30mph zone with its foot down, bringing some much needed excitement to a journey that might otherwise have become tedious. Having already been party to some dodgy deals since becoming driver for … >

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‘The Blacklist’ Season 2 start date in UK announced

The new season of US conspiracy thriller The Blacklist will begin in the UK in October. James Spader returns as master criminal Raymond ‘Red’ Reddington in the US next week and Season 2 will launch in the UK at 9pm on Friday 3 October on Sky Living. Watch the Season 2 trailer… Agent Elizabeth Keen’s … >

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Missy - Michelle Gomez

Who is Missy in ‘Doctor Who’?

She’s the malign Mary Poppins played by Michelle Gomez that first popped up at the end of ‘Deep Breath’ for a spot of brolly-brandishing bonkersness. But who the hell is she? Publicity for Season 8 has described Missy as ‘the Gatekeeper of the Nethersphere’ – the Nethersphere presumably being the sought-after ‘Promised Land’ – but what … >

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Our first impressions of Danny Pink in ‘Doctor Who’

Just under 51 years ago, two schoolteachers strolled down the corridors of Coal Hill School, and, while it wasn’t an era for overt flirtation in teatime drama, their absolute, made-to-be-together compatibility was evident to everyone watching. Now it’s happening all over again. Former soldier Danny Pink has rocked up in Shoreditch, and already he has … >

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‘The Village’ Series 2 episode guide

The Village returns to BBC One with a second series set in the 1920s. BBC One’s plan to tell the story of the 20th century through the life of one Peak District village moves into the Jazz Age. The shock of the new will turn the lives of our villagers inside out. Outsiders bring in … >

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Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. seated and holding a cricket bat

‘Doctor Who’: ‘The Fifth Doctor Box Set’ audio review

Big Finish’s latest boxset release takes us back to 1982, for a reunion of Peter Davison’s original TARDIS team of Nyssa, Tegan and Adric. The participation of Matthew Waterhouse, who has stayed away from audio up until this point, allows access to an unexplored era of Doctor Who’s chronology. Comprised of two four-parters, the stories … >

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