‘Broadchurch’: Episode 5 review

Well, we can probably now discount Jack Marshall as a suspect. Can’t we?

That’s the thing about Broadchurch: to be certain of anything is to risk being utterly wrong. It’s the dilemma the townspeople face this week as their collective gaze turns on a quiet old man who looks a lot like William Hartnell. The murder of Danny Latimer has stirred the sands of the Jurassic Coast, uncovering not only evidence like high tar cigarettes, but also events that some would rather stay buried.

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‘Doctor Who’: ‘The Rings Of Akhaten’ spoiler-free review

Songs. Since the Doctor returned in 2005 they’ve formed a quiet coda in the background of his lives, and not simply because of composer Murray Gold’s bombastic injection of sound. ‘I sang a song and the Daleks ran away’, Nine told Rose. ‘Your song is ending soon’, the Ood warned Ten, and sang him to sleep. And Eleven? Well, he’s played around a lot with a certain Melody lately.

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‘Doctor Who’: The Clara variations and other mysteries

‘The Bells of Saint John’ was a rip-roaring series (re)opener from the pen of showrunner Steven Moffat. In fact, when you consider the up and downloading of souls into a computer system, the repeated (catch)phrase, the direct addressing of the audience, the ringing TARDIS telephone and the slow rotating reveal, the episode could not have been more Moffat-ish if it tried.

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