I've been uneasy about Steven Moffat's depiction of women for a while - pretty everything I've seen since Press Gang, I suspect. The outpouring in favour of motherhood in the Doctor Who Christmas special left a nasty taste in my mouth, Amy Pond's job as kissogram seemed a little dubious and I wasn't entirely happy with some of the background to ( Read more... )

( Doctor Who spoilers, sorta. Also, contains language )

I don't often record comments on tv I watch - although to be fair I seem to have stopped writing about film and books at the moment - but just to note that I'm halfway through series two of Secret Army, which I wanted to watch because of its links to the sf series 1990. Secret Army is a drama about a group of Belgian resistance workers who help ( Read more... )

There is a spoiler for South Riding in this link, but I suspect that I enjoyed reading this review of Wonders of the Universe, Civilization: Is the West History? and South Riding rather more than I'd enjoy watching the actual programmes.

ETA: Wish I could claim "spoliers" was deliberate...

So, not so much the Napoleon of Crime, more the ( spoiler alert )

After getting on for forty years, all good things (and Last of the Summer Wine) have to come to an end. I've just read the script of the final episode.

( SPOILER! )

I never really saw the first two seasons - it looked good at first, but the character of Jack wasn't as interesting as in New Who and, without any real conscious decision, it never got taped. I guess for me it just show up that RTD - writer of some of the best drama of the last dozen years - was no Joss Whedon ( Read more... )

What smart alec scheduled Ashes to Ashes against Heroes? I noticed this last week, and it occurs to me I can't remember which I've set the ... harddrive for. One of them gets a repeat, I guess, though usually not the week I miss it ( Read more... )

Tonight is one of those rare nights when I need to watch three things at once - and catching up with repeats of Messrs Fry and Fairly-Witless end up with precedence over Harry Hill (and I confess I almost never watch him). Meanwhile Merlin drives a dragon and sword through the Arthur mythos so that only the names remain. It took four people to ( Read more... )

"Ayers Rock sits there like a large boulder on the landscape."

I paraphrase, but only just. I enjoyed Long Way Round and Long Way Down, but I thought the third time would be a mistake, and so it proved. Ewan MacGregor-less, this time By Any Means features at least a hundred means of transport (if you are allowed to count different trains and taxis ( Read more... )