Christmas Review #1 of 12

They are peculiar things, traditions. As I said in the previous post, this is the second year that fazzinchi.co.uk has run a series of twelve Christmas telly reviews and that, in my mind makes it a tradition. “Voyage of the Damned” as if you didn’t know was this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special and was the third one that this production team have created for our Christmas viewing pleasure, following The Runaway Bride in 2006 and The Christmas Invasion the year before that.  So, if

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Tags: Astrid, BBC1, Bernard Cribbins, Christmas, Clive Swift, David Tennant, Geoffrey Palmer, George Costigan, Kylie, Titanic, Voyage of the Damned

Where Did It All Go Right?

Much overdue but here, at last, are my considered thoughts on “Last of the Time Lords”, the final instalment of series three of Doctor Who. Even though it was loved and loathed in apparent equal measure within the picky world of fandom, the broadcast secured some very positive viewing figures that we all now seem to take for granted from these finales and fairly widespread acclaim.  Even the BBC invested a little extra in this televisual treat by commissioning an extra 8 minutes

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Tags: Captain-Jack, Dobby, Doctor Who, Face-of-Boe, Last of the Time Lords, Lucy-Saxon, Martha-Jones, Russell-T-Davies, Scissor-Sisters, The-Master, Titanic, Torchwood