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 useless…
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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 do…
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 was…
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 to…
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 week’s…
DOCTOR WHO, 10.8 – ‘The Lie of the Land’
byThere’s a line in this week’s Doctor Who, “The Lie of the Land”, that made me smile. It was a smile in recognition that the…
DOCTOR WHO, 10.7 – ‘The Pyramid at the End of the World’
byImagine, you’re a skilled researcher working in a top secret lab completing biochemical trials on crops, and you’ve been out on the lash the night…
DOCTOR WHO, 10.6 – ‘Extremis’
bySteven Moffat returns to Doctor Who writing duties this week with “Extremis”, the first chapter of a three-part story. We’re also back in a library…
DOCTOR WHO, 10.5 – ‘Oxygen’
byIf you’ve been paying attention over the last five episodes of Doctor Who you’ll have noticed certain themes cropping up. There have been digs at…
DOCTOR WHO, 10.4 – ‘Knock Knock’
by“Well, you don’t have to go to outer space to find monsters,” claims Nardole (Matt Lucas) at the conclusion of Mike Bartlett’s “Knock Knock”. Indeed,…
DOCTOR WHO, 10.3 – ‘Thin Ice’
byI was half expecting Stevie Wonder to show up in “Thin Ice”, writer Sarah Dollard’s contribution to this year’s series of Doctor Who. Why? Well,…