24 meets Alien meets Red Dwarf meets….

It seemed to me that Torchwoood’s head honcho and first time Doctor Who writer, Chris Chibnall’s introduction to the bigger stage of the Whoniverse was a somewhat derivative storyline. Any genre fan worth his salt (never understood that phrase… answers on a postcard) would be able to spot at least a dozen similarities between this story and many other movies and programmes of a similar ilk. However, if you flip between either using the phrase “rip-off” or the phrase

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Tags: 24, 42, Alien, Anthony-Flanagan, Chris-Chibnall, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Freema-Agyeman, Graeme Harper, Jack-Bauer, Michelle-Collins, Ripley, Saxon, Torchwood

One For The Future�

Another quality drama from ITV came along last week in the guise of Instinct, which starred the really rather good (and worthy of noting for future reference), Anthony Flanagan.� He has already played parts in Cracker, Life On Mars and Vincent but I hope he gets to spread his wings away from gritty crime drama soon.� The main conceit of this tale was that Flanagan’s character, DCI Thomas Flynn, was a bit of a wunderkid who had an uncanny capability to assess information and

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Tags: Anthony-Flanagan, Cracker, ITV, Life-On-Mars, Modern Drama, Vincent

Hermione… no, the other one… Looking Cool

The series finale of ever-wonderful Spooks, was a surprise package. First, we didn’t get an Al-Quaida inspired plot but instead an environmental one with a mysterious “Aftermath” document that sounded so frightening in its concept that I just pray it’s a piece of extreme writing in the heightened reality of this fictional world, rather than something based on reality. Second, despite ample opportunity, none of the key characters were killed off. I am especially pleased that

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Tags: Adam-Carter, Aftermath, Anthony-Flanagan, BBC1, Hermione-Norris, Modern Drama, Ros-Myers, Spooks