Down the end of Sydney Street in Brighton, Dreamland, the second original animated Doctor Who story is deep in production, in, it transpires, 3D. I thought the Cosgrove Hall/Firestep animated […]

Okay, it’s not as bad as the 6th Doctor’s coat, but why go back bow ties for the new Doctor’s new look?  I preferred the look in the publicity shots […]

Contains (tagged) spoilers. It’s over. One of the most intellectually and emotionally challenging pieces of drama I have seen in a long, long time. I’ve only just managed to scrape […]

Counting with Torchwood… 3,2,5,0,0,0 4,4,8,0,0,0 2,3,4,0,0,0 6,700 35m/6.7bn 29,158* Here are a few more… 5th, 1st and 3rd most watched programme (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3). The 456: the […]

Even the ideas I thought most feeble are transformed into virtues with the benefit of great writing in Children of Earth: Day 1. Everyone knowing about the Daleks and Cybermen […]

Interviewed after half an hour of building up the Eleventh Doctor, I was underwhelmed by Matt Smith.  His two defining features seemed to be his youth and the fact his […]

In pleasant ignorance, I escaped the fact that it’s Children in Need night, until 5 minutes ago, when the first two minutes of The Next Doctor popped into my RSS […]

The excellent Musical Motifs in New Who has been updated with all series 4 music including the songs in The Unicorn and the Wasp in which I previously identified the […]

With so much in it, The Stolen Earth had the potential to be unfocussed and messy, but it was taught, witty and exciting. Journey’s End, though, seemed to have been […]

The king is dead. Long live the king. Thank you, Russell T., saviour of Doctor Who. Hurrah for script writer Steven Moffatt, best Who scribe ever and now show runner […]