Hey, why didn't anyone tell me that the BBC made a series about female former codebreakers from Bletchley Park who solve crimes in postwar London? Because apparently the BBC made a TV series just for me and I totally failed to notice. Have any of you out there seen it? Is it any good ( Read more... )

So, say what you want about Steven Moffat, but there's no denying that he is an old-school Who fan, and when he wants to, he can lay on the old-school fanservice thick. In just under 7 minutes, we've got a glimpse of the Time War, an appearance by the Sisterhood of Karn, an unambiguous nod to the Big Finish audios, and a proper regeneration ( Read more... )

So, there have been rumors going around for months now about some missing episodes of Doctor Who turning up. The early versions of the rumors were clearly ridiculous - one report that was floating around had all 106 remaining missing episodes turning up in Ethiopia, a country which only ever received 77 episodes of Doctor Who for broadcast. More ( Read more... )

Well, I'd been idly wondering since Matt Smith rolled into his fourth year playing the Doctor if we'd see an announcement like this: Matt Smith to leave Doctor Who. And here we are ( Read more... )

So, I was wearing a T-shirt with a cartoon drawing of Sun Wukong on it yesterday, and The Nephews were quite intrigued. Who'd have thought that a talking monkey with martial arts skills and an a knack for thwarting authority would hold any appeal to 4-6 year old boys?

Which got me wondering if there are any kid-friendly adaptations of Journey to ( Read more... )

Well, now that I've properly caught up on Doctor Who, I might as well put down a few half-baked thoughts.

( mildly spoilery thoughts on Asylum of the Daleks )

Trailer for Doctor Who series 7! I must admit that I'm slightly less excited than usual about the upcoming season of Doctor Who (by which I mean that I'm merely tremendously excited to see it, rather than leaping out of my seat and demanding that it be autumn NOW). But it has the Doctor riding a triceratops, and River Song, and proper Daleks (in ( Read more... )

On a Saturday night in 1983, I happened to flip channels to the local public television station in Orlando, FL, to be greeted by a scene in which a strange curly-haired man in a ridiculous scarf was opening a door in a space station corridor. "I don't want to lose my arm - I'm rather attached to it. It's so handy," he said to the young man and ( Read more... )

Apparently, Salman Rushdie is writing a science fiction TV drama series for ShowtimeAssuming it survives past the pilot, that could either be brilliant or really, really suck. Rushdie's not really a natural for the small screen, I'd think - so much of what is great about his work is the kind of verbal exuberance that you really need words, not ( Read more... )

( Not really very spoilery, but just to be safe... )