So we're nearly done with a lot of things - summer is over, Torchwood is done (on a number of levels) and there's just two episodes left of Who. Things seem to be shifting in my personal life as well - hopefully for the better. So I just wanted to put down a few random thoughts and bits while they occurred to me.

Telly: At the moment, I'm gripped by ( Read more... )

Okay, had a couple of weeks that were definitely blog worthy so what the crikey. We start... in a small chinese restaurant that is hosting a charity dinner. It had been organised by a client of ours and was fundraising for a local hospice. I took Helen along and we were served huge amounts of food and chatted very amiably to the people around us. ( Read more... )

So we are but a fortnight away from the new series of Who and I'm in the mood to use my blog as an outlet to respond to it ( Read more... )

They are not for England, at least not the England football team. The way in which we lost was the worst part although the players afterwards trying to insist that they'd played well in our worst ever World Cup defeat was a close second. Ho hum. I'm supporting Japan now as they play intelligently, courageously and with great resilience. Plus they ( Read more... )

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Today was the Doctor Who prom, a two hour concert at the Royal Albert Hall, hosted by Freema Agyeman. Those of you in the UK can use the listen facility to hear the concert here. However they also did a five minute mini-episode for transmission during the concert which you can see below:

All enjoyable stuff and a reminder how good the music on Who 

So I've just had a lovely weekend with Helen and have sent her back up to Liverpool, only slightly more maimed than when she came down. The human body is a fragile thing, despite what action movies tell us. But our brittle bodies notwithstanding, we managed to do most of what we had planned, including seeing Wanted (enjoyable if slightly over-the- ( Read more... )

David Tennant on the finale earlier this year: "the biggest, boldest, maddest, saddest, most exciting story we've ever done"

Me earlier this evening: "Yup, that's about right and we're only halfway through."

Except it's not even halfway - next week is a special 65 minute (as opposed to 45 minute) episode which is great but it's still 7 days away

Doctor Who is one of those ideas that just works. You have a leading man (could be old, young, middle aged; any accent accepted), one or more assistants (preferably female but all applicants considered) and the stories are set... anywhere. Anywhen. You want to do a political piece about ecological disaster? Go for it. Have a burning need to tell ( Read more... )