Monthly Archives: May 2011

Dr Who S6 Ep5 – The Rebel Flesh

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

Note: contains some spoilers, although I’ve tried to conceal them for the most part! Due to other commitments this week, this is a rather late review; but I wouldn’t want anyone to think that my lack of a timely review … Continue reading →

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Dr Who: Cobwebs (Big Finish Productions/BBC Radio 4 Extra)

Posted on May 19, 2011 by

During its wilderness years – after the BBC banished it from television after 1989 not to return until 2005 save for one TV movie that must never, ever be mentioned – Doctor Who was kept alive by a series of … Continue reading →

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Dr Who S6 Ep4 – The Doctor’s Wife

Posted on May 14, 2011 by

Note: contains some spoilers, although I’ve tried to conceal them for the most part! After all the build-up, hype, anticipation and expectation of having one of the world’s foremost science fiction and fantasy writers, Neil Gaiman, supply a script to … Continue reading →

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Family Guy: And Then There Were Fewer

Posted on May 12, 2011 by

Family Guy is one of those shows that you always expect – and hope – will be funnier than it is. If only it were as funny as the makers think it (and they themselves) are, it would be a … Continue reading →

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Chatroom (Blu-ray)

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

Every now and then I weaken and pick up a low-cost DVD on impulse at the checkout, of a film that I’ve never heard of before and know nothing about. Frankly its anonymity is usually a good warning: there are … Continue reading →

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The Shadow Line – Ep1

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

Caution: contains spoilers It’s been a very strange week for TV drama. After months of domestic drama drought we suddenly get overloaded with Exile, Vera, Case Sensitive – and now this conspiracy thriller boasting a staggering cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, … Continue reading →

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Dr Who S6/E3 – The Curse of the Black Spot

Posted on May 8, 2011 by

Note: contains some spoilers Well, this is embarrassing. I finished off my last review (of The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon two parter) by saying that my brain was broken and that all I wanted was a nice, simple straight-forward … Continue reading →

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Case Sensitive: Point of Rescue

Posted on May 7, 2011 by

Having slagged off Vera and in particular attacked the central female character, I need to urgently reassert my “I’m not a sexist male reviewer really, honest guv” credentials – which brings me to this week’s other crime procedural drama début … Continue reading →

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Vera – S1/E1

Posted on May 6, 2011 by

In my earlier review of Exile, I mentioned ITV’s big new crime detective hope Vera from the “Vera Stanhope” series of novels of Ann Cleeves starring Brenda Blethyn and rather off-handedly dismissed it by saying “I didn’t watch it last … Continue reading →

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Exile – E1 and Vera – S1/E1

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

What’s with the TV networks at the moment? Just as the summer’s on the horizon and the evenings are lighter, suddenly they’re digging out a load of drama goodies from their storeroom and flooding the schedules with new, original productions … Continue reading →

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Doctor Who S6 E2 – Day of the Moon

Posted on May 1, 2011 by

NOTE: packed full of spoilers, and possibly traces of nuts. Oh boy. Remember how, in my review of episode 1 of the new series of Doctor Who, I suggested that we might have a better chance of understanding what was … Continue reading →

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