GOOD OMENS (Amazon/BBC, 2019)
byIn 1990, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman co-authored Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. The book was nominated for…
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LES MISERABLES (BBC, 2018)
byBBC TV adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel which follows Jean Valjean as he evades capture by the unyielding Inspector Javert. Set against a backdrop of post-Napoleonic France as unrest beings to grip the city of Paris once more.
WATERSHIP DOWN (2018)
byFleeing their doomed warren, a colony of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.
Diagnosing DOCTOR WHO Series 11
byTaking the temperature of a most divisive year for the long-running sci-fi drama.
THE AVENGERS – ‘Tunnel of Fear’
by“Tunnel of Fear” is the 20th episode of the first series of the 1960s British TV series The Avengers, and one of only three known complete series 1 episodes to have survived original broadcast…
DOCTOR WHO – ‘Twice Upon a Time’
byAnd so we bid farewell to Peter Capaldi and the Twelfth Doctor. A shame really, as Capaldi was not best served by his writers…
TRUST ME (BBC, 2017)
byCath Hardacrre (Jodie Whittaker) is an overworked and underpaid ward sister in a Sheffield Hospital. She’s also mother to a young daughter with a…
DOCTOR WHO, 10.12 – ‘The Doctor Falls’
byWith a Christmas Special yet to close Steven Moffat’s tenure as Doctor Who’s showrunner, “The Doctor Falls” still has plenty of work left to…
DOCTOR WHO, 10.11 – ‘World Enough and Time’
byAfter that startling opening showing an older, somewhat crumpled version of The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) apparently regenerating, Steven Moffat clearly decided that, as this…
DOCTOR WHO, 10.10 – ‘The Eaters of Light’
byWelcome back Rona Munro, writer of this week’s Doctor Who, “The Eaters of Light”. Munro, as many fans will recall, wrote what turned out…
THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT (1975)
byThe life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming-of-age and growing into old age in conservative England.
DOCTOR WHO, 10.9 – ‘Empress of Mars’
byIf this is his last appointment with the man in the blue box, then clearly writer Mark Gatiss had a field day with this…