Two Worlds Will Collide
Not often that I review a BBC trailer, but not often than Doctor Who returns to our screens.� Series three is just 18 days away and the first sniff of the marketing campaign has begun.� A pair of teasers, which bookend programme breaks on BBC, debuted on Saturday night with whispers that a bigger trailer is to come this Saturday.� The adventure starts here.� I’m expecting another smash hit series, more arguments than ever before in the Oupost Gallifrey forum, more information

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Tags: BBC1, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Freema-Agyeman, Outpost-Gallifrey, Trailer

Doctor Who Retrospective #2 of 10 “The End Of The World”

So, the revitalised Doctor Who was back on our screens and those viewing figures proved that it was back with a bang. No longer a cumbersome millstone around the neck of Michael Grade as it was in the 80’s but an invigorated, modern show, with great lead actors, high production standards and a sense of fun and adventure that was hard to find anywhere else in the schedules. While the previews had been cautiously optimistic the critical response was astonishing, with barely a

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Tags: Billie-Piper, Brittney-Spears, Christopher-Eccleston, Doctor Who, Michael-Grade, Outpost-Gallifrey, Rose-Tyler, Russell-T-Davies, The-End-Of-The-World, Zoe-Wanamaker

Who’s Gonna Win It?

The excitement is ramping up in the knowledge that the first quarter-millionaire has already been crowned in Deal Or No Deal’s Bristol studio, one wonders whether the contestant is already positioned in the West Wing or East Wing on our screens, unaware of their forthcoming infamy and fortune.� Back at the start of 2006, I wrote about this “little TV gem” that was hidden away in the schedules and, with rare accuracy, I predicted

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Tags: Channel-4, Deal-Or-No-Deal, Noel-Edmonds, Outpost-Gallifrey, Quiz Show

Good guy, bad guy

We delved deeper into the psyche of Owen Harper (played with gusto by the quirky Burn “Yes Mister Tulkinghorn” Gorman) in this week’s Torchwood outing, “The Ghost Machine”.� His character has received a little bit of a battering on the forums of Outpost Gallifrey, after his Lynx-effect moment in the first episode, when he seduced a girl in a bar (and later her boyfriend), was parallelled with use of rohypnol and he was accused, somewhat unjustly in my humble opinion, of

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Tags: Burn-Gorman, Doctor Who, Helen-Raynor, Outpost-Gallifrey, Owen-Harper, Russell-T-Davies, Sci Fi, The-Ghost-Machine, Torchwood