Here’s to BBC2

It’s nearly Christmas for crying out loud and where exactly is the festive fun? Not on the TV that’s for sure. There has been such a paucity of decent telly so far since this little experiment started that I half expected Radio Times’ selections to include a documentary about Scrabble… Oh, Hang on, there is one! I kid you not, it’s part of Alan Yentob’s Imagine… series and is almost worth tuning in for just to see how they make it run for 65 minutes. If that’s not your cup of cocoa then Five are offering yet another CSI marathon, while over on Auntie we reach the conclusion of

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Tags: BBC4, Christmas-TV, HIGNFY, Imagine, Mock-The-Week, Never-Mind-The-Buzzcocks, Oliver Postgate, Paradox, Radio-Times

Doctor Who Retrospective #7 of 10 “Father’s Day”

Wow, just realised that I wanted to finish this retrospective series of reviews before Series Three debuts and suddenly the day is here and I still have the final four reviews left to do. Ah well, I may save the remainder for another time (or even squeeze ‘em in via a blitz of watching and reviewing today… we’ll see how the Other Viewer feels about that). Father’s Day was the eighth episode of the first series and it introduced an extremely significant character into Rose’s life, her father,

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Tags: Doctor Who, Fathers-Day, Paradox, Paul-Cornell, Pete-Tyler, Reaper, Richard-and-Judy, Rose-Tyler, Time-Travel