Hi, long time no see, as Ten said to Rose in The Stolen Earth.

Anyway, wanna know what I thought of Tennant's Richard?

Weeeeelll......

Whodunits never normally remember to make you cry at the end, even if they did so at the start. The first series of The Killing, to which Broadchurch has been much compared, got so wrapped up in its over-elaborate plotting it forgot to make us care about its histrionic finale. But then, also, The Killing didn’t have Olivia Colman in its cast, an ( Read more... )

Slightly frustrated with the RSC. In view of recent developments, I decided to upgrade my Associate Membership to a Full. The number on the back of my card was no help, they just said they weren't taking calls. So I tried online, put my membership in the shopping basket and was told, "You're already a member. Please fix this issue." Tried ( Read more... )

Just wondering, did anybody else catch David Tennant playing Robert Louis Stevenson in a couple of radio plays this week? I never knew before that RLS fell madly in love with a divorced American lady from Monterey and actually travelled across America by train to throw himself at her feet, despite her frequent protestations that she was staying ( Read more... )

Oh damn you, David Tennant. Just when I was growing old gracefully and getting over you, I had to go and see Much Ado and fall in love with you all over again!

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No more pain
no more strain
now I'm sane but ...
I would rather be gaga...

People keep saying how adorable Eleven is. I wish I could see it, but I just don't. He doesn't do a thing for me. The only time I ever really liked him was in The Big Bang when he was saying goodbye to little Amy. I don't know it it's the writing, or what - I think it's just ( Read more... )

Twenty-Twelve - a comedy series about getting ready for the Olympics.

Apparently David Tennant is going to be narrating this. It looks like fun.

I wonder how they'd cope with the entire Opening Ceremony crowd vanishing and some cheesy alien showing up to light the torch?

I have a ticket - 25th July, a Monday! I was planning to go down for a few days anyway, as I did last summer, to catch up on the Globe season. They're doing a midnight performance of Dr Faustus, which I rather fancy. And if I'm staying at LSE Bankside, as I did last year, it's literally three minutes' walk from the Globe so even at that time of ( Read more... )

I've been wallowing in the new Murray Gold soundtrack album all afternoon (to the detriment of my studies). I was a bit disappointed in the Series 4 one, and the only track from it I ever really listen to is the Song of Freedom, but this is a stunner. What's interesting about it is that it's far more of a narrative - in effect, the story of the ( Read more... )

A friend writes:

I was reading a lovely book entitled, "Master Class In Fiction Writing" by Adam Sexton.

This book draws on the very essences of storytelling, which naturally will appeal to me, by illuminating examples from classic works. And I loved how the author illustrates the exact problem with RTD's storyline as a whole and coherent ( Read more... )