New Everything, That’s Weird

Do you remember that other fellow who used to play the Doctor: David, erm, something-or-other? No?! Me neither. Matt Smith was electric last night. It will be interesting to see how he develops into the role but the post-regenerative debut that he gave in the “Eleventh Hour” was fascinating. At first, he was a melee of arms and legs, struggling to come to terms with his new body. The eating scene raised a smirk, which is quite an effort on my part because I usually find that kind of base comedy a little off-putting: my inner snob gets released for a moment. But as he settled down, especially after the face-to-eye encounter with the Atraxi on the rooftop, I think we got to see a little bit more of how our new, favourite

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Tags: Adam Smith, Atraxi, David Tennant, eleventh hour, Karen Gillan, Matt Smith, Murray Gold, Steven-Moffat, TARDIS, Theme

Tags: Bernard Cribbins, David Tennant, John-Simm, Regeneration, RTD, Stephen-Moffatt

It’s Christmas Time, There’s No Need To Be Afraid.

You can tell Christmas has finally arrived when Carols from King’s College gets rolled out (BBC2 at 6:15pm if you fancy). No matter what your family’s traditions are on the 24th Decmeber, I am pretty sure that television will play a part in it somewhere if only to take the weight off your feet for half an hour. BBC1 will entertain you with a non-stop selection of light(weight?) entertainment throughout the evening. From 8pm there’s an hour-long installment of My Family, which I gave up watching after Kris Marshall left to join BT and I continue to work on the assumption that it’s not worth going back to. After that

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Tags: Big Bang Theory, Carols, David Tennant, How I Met Your Mother, Kris Marshall, My-Family, QI, Taggart, Victoria Wood

Project 2 (of 3) is looking up

In case you hadn’t noticed, RTD is signing off his era of Doctor Who with a bang. The Waters of Mars delivered a cracking tale that took the character of the Tenth Doctor to previously unexplored dark areas (other than possibly some of Seventh Doctor’s shenanigans in the New Adventures). In order to appease some Whovians who voiced concerns over the so-called gap year, the production team promised three special “projects” in addition to the main stories. First up was the appearance of David Tennant in the Sarah Jane spin-off, a quite successful little adventure as

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Tags: BBCi, David Tennant, Dreamland, End of Time, Russell-T-Davies, Sarah-Jane, Viperox

He and It and Them

Okay, it was only two minutes long and in theory I should be reviewing the last three stories of the Sarah Jane Adventures and Dreamland starts tomorrow and, and, and…  who cares?! We got to see to a couple of scenes from the Christmas Day episode of The End of Time. If you enjoyed the clip, please follow the following link and go and donate as a thank you to Children in Need’s long-standing relationship with our favourite show. This exclusive clip served well to whet the appetite and get fans’ pulses racing. Not so much the question of whether the Doctor really did marry Queen Elizabeth I, but more the meaning behind the Ood chant…

“He is returning and it is returning and they are returning!”

Let speculation commence.

Tags: Children in Need, David Tennant, End of Time, ood

Time Lord Victorious

Well, how was the Waters of Mars for you? Best RTD script so far? Possibly (I still reckon “Midnight” might hold the crown). If there is such a thing as an “instant classic”, and, after all, “Blink” proved to us that there is, then Waters of Mars may just be another. It was as close to faultless Doctor Who as I can imagine with an atmosphere that oozed foreboding, brilliant acting from the two leads, and a script and plot that fizzed along for a marvellous hour of television. At it’s heart was, and I use this term in full knowledge that every other Who-review will include it too, a “base-under-siege” tale where

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Tags: David Tennant, End of Time, Lindsay Duncan, Russell-T-Davies, Time Lords, Waters of Mars