Yep, it's definitely not just the logo that's changing every week.

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Doctor Who comes back for another series that'll be shown in dribs and drabs over the next six months or so, and Steven Moffat has said the 50th anniversary year won't have a big season arc like the previous few series. Although ( Spoilers for 'Asylum of the Daleks' )

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Well then, I've watched the contentious new episode of Doctor Who a second time and I still don't know what to say about it - like much of Steven Moffat's work it's hard to say how good "Let's Kill Hitler" is until the end of the current series. ( Spoilers for 'Let's Kill Hitler' )

I booked all my shows at Shakespeare's Globe for this summer long before casting was announced, with the intention of spreading my trips out across the season. So although I've been excited since hearing Arthur Darvill will be playing Mephistopheles, I'm not actually going to see Doctor Faustus until near the end of its run when Andy gets back from ( Read more... )

The Radio Times preview of the first half of Doctor Who Series 6 did throw up a couple of concerns. One is yet to come, as Matthew "Fear Her" Graham has been handed a two-parter. The other was last night, as "The Curse of the Black Spot" was written by Steve Thompson, aka writer of The Only Non-Moffat Or -Gatiss Episode Of Sherlock And Bloody Hell ( Read more... )

Well I'm sure the only reason the three people reading this blog haven't been DEMANDING a Doctor Who review is that they'll have realised a two-part opener meant no review until the second week. Definitely not that everyone forgot I actually do them, or doesn't care or anything like that. Nope. So, ( spoilers for 'The Impossible Astronaut'/'Day of the Moon' )

Like a lot of people on my twitter stream, I've spent the last few days with the "crooked smile" crack in the universe over my twitter userpic. ( Spoilers for 'The Pandorica Opens'/'The Big Bang' )

So this is the point where those of us who've been quietly confident about Matt Smith for the last 15 months get to sit back and quietly nod and say "oh really? That's nice, dear," while a load of people who've been screaming that he won't be as good as St David of Tennant suddenly think they're the first person to notice he actually does seem to ( Read more... )