The Lure of Lists
It’s inevitable that there are lists appearing everywhere given that the decade is ending (I almost missed that – probably because in ten years no one managed to decide on […]
Ashcombe Windmill
It’s not a rocket. They’re building a post mill a couple of miles from my house. It appears to be a traditional design, and it’s on the site of an […]
New Who Animation is 3D
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 […]
Of Mice and Models
It’s probably paranoia, but I thought I saw a mouse watching The Unit with me last night. There have definitely been mice at Pen-Y-Bryn Quarry. Giant mice, since Pen-Y-Bryn is […]
Bandwidth Slurped
Apologies if you visited the site this morning and found it not here. A Yahoo Slurp spider ate all my bandwidth overnight. Naughty spider (though in fairness, this was partly […]
BBC Drama: Where Are The One-Offs?
I don’t know what to think about producer Tony Garnett‘s attack on the BBC’s management of drama output. On the one hand, it comes the week after the BBC broadcast […]
Doctor Who: The Bow Tie of Terror
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 […]
Torchwood: Children of Earth
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 […]
Day 4: The Numbers
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 […]
The Torchwood Manifesto
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 […]
The Cardinality of the Intersection…
…of The Guardian’s Top 200 Pubs and Those I’ve Been To Is 5. Each of those I’ve been to is thoroughly deserving of its place, though I’d suggest there are […]
Blears
Steve Bell often makes me smile. But this is is incredibly good; he couldn’t lampoon a more deserving target more accurately.