The Paternoster Gang: Heritage 3 is a welcome return for the Great [Silurian] Detective Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), her maid / wife Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart) and Sontaran butler Strax (Dan Starkey). The previous sets, Heritage 1 (June 2019) and Heritage 2 (October 2019) proved this Doctor Who spin-off can stand in its own right. These were enjoyable … >
The third in the new series of Doctor Who monster themed Torchwood specials teams the unlikely duo of Susie Costello and Margaret Blaine, who are thrown together to deal with an unexpected alien incursion that threatens to rain down death and destruction on the planet. Costello was the former second-in-command at the Hub, who hid … >
In her fourth Big Finish boxset since first appearing in Doctor Who spin-off Vienna: The Memory Box in 2013 (and with the seventh Doctor before that), Chase Masterson’s impossibly glamorous bounty hunter, ex-assassins, investigator Vienna Salvatori is back for Vienna: Retribution. This time the three-story boxset is penned by a single writer, the prolific Guy Adams, … >
A one-time companion of the Seventh Doctor in prose, who has gone on to meet other incarnations across various formats (and enjoyed her own successful audio series), archaeology Professor Bernice Summerfield is a seasoned time-traveller. Following on from her last set of New Adventures, trapped in a parallel, dying universe in the company of an … >
Filming has begun this month on six new episodes of Midsomer Murders. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the UK’s longest running contemporary detective drama, Neil Dudgeon will be back as DCI John Barnaby for a seventh season, alongside Nick Hendrix as DS Jamie Winter and Fiona Dolman as Sarah Barnaby. Buy the complete Season 18 box set on Amazon … >
Returning to our screens for a full season after a 16-year absence, Doctor Who managed to pull in a wealth of talent for its 21st century debut. Some of the faces, such as Anna Maxwell Martin (The Bletchley Circle), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Jo Joyner (EastEnders) and Eve Myles (Broadchurch) have gone on to greater success; … >
Picking up directly from the cliffhanger ending of ‘Mistfall’, the opening part of this return to E-Space Trilogy, we find the Fifth Doctor and friends in pursuit of a vital TARDIS component which will allow them to return to their native universe. Crash landing in an icy medieval realm, they abandon the TARDIS moments before … >
Wizards vs Aliens looks unlikely to return for a fourth season this year. CBBC’s sci-fi adventure drama has apparently been placed on hiatus due to budget constrictions. The show’s co-creator Russell T Davies told Broadcast that there is currently “not enough money” to make new episodes, but says it has not been axed. Starring Scott … >
A very good run of stories – and a few hundred years of wizard history – culminate in ‘Twilight Falls’, the final story of Wizards Vs Aliens’ third season. I will always be delighted by the sight of Dan Starkey’s actual face, and what a treat it was to see it make an appearance sans … >
This week’s Wizards Vs Aliens story, ‘The Key of Bones’, is Season 3’s penultimate adventure and very much feels like it. It seems like most of this story exists to set up what’s to come in next week’s two-part finale; indeed, the real action of this story doesn’t come until Part 2. It’s a complex, … >