4×10: “Midnight”
Ladies and gentlemen and variations thereupon, that was a bit good wasn’t it? Just at the time when the soon to be gone Russell T Davies gets an OBE for his efforts and the vocal minority are bemoaning the fact that their anti-hero is penning all four of the remaining episodes in Series 4, the great man serves up a real treat with Midnight, a claustrophobic slice of hardcore sci-fi that, even the folk who love him didn’t think
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The Poison Sky was the conclusion to last week’s cliffhanger although we then got another surprise one tagged on the end of the episode, which was only slightly spoiled by the BBC’s “One to Watch” trailer earlier in the day, more on that later though. It hardly took a great mind to work out the best way to rescue poor Wilf from the car, in fact while the “great mind” was tinkering about under the car with his suddenly impotent
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Talking About My Regeneration
One of those added pleasures on a Saturday night (or more usually a Sunday morning) after watching the latest episode of a certain BBC sci-fi show is the fact we get another 40 minutes or so of chat about the programme over on BBC3’s Doctor Who Confidential. The first time I recall having seen on these “shows about other shows” was way back when the BBC used to broadcast a studio-based chat show after every episode of 24 (although for the life of me I can’t remember what it
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Just One Trip
The Doctor meets Shakespeare. When you write it down, it just seems such an obvious thing to do. So, when The Shakespeare Code was revealed as an episode of the new series expectations were high for this season’s “celebrity historical” that followed in the footsteps of The Unquiet Dead (Charles Dickens) and Tooth and Claw (Queen Victoria). He may have been a newcomer to the series but writer, Gareth Roberts, is a Doctor Who stalwart of old and he was given the
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Christmas Review #12 of 12
Who’d have guessed that my 12th and final Christmas review would have been the Doctor Who, Christmas day extravaganza, “The Runaway Bride“? And it’s the twelfth day after Christmas too, genius eh?! After just two installments of a Christmas Day DW special and following the success of “The Christmas Invasion” in 2005, it would now seem that the good Doctor is becoming a fixture in the BBC1 schedules. It comes with plenty of extras too: last year we were treated to an
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