@janetteB

Crikey! It looks like I will need to watch Sex Education as well!

Just finished watching the first season of “Slow Horses” with Gary Oldman. A really enjoyable and excellently plotted spy series. It is based on the first novel in a series by Mick Herron. Was pleasantly surprised to discover at the end of the last show a teaser trailer for the second season (with the same cast) based on the second novel in the…[Read more]

@devilishrobby, @nerys, An interesting thought, but I can’t really cast Chibnall as quite that Machiavellian.  As I watched the shows slowly (ever so slowly) turn up months apart I felt that there might have been a more promising three years of stories if COVID had not reared its ugly head. So, on the one hand, Chibnall was unlucky. But on the…[Read more]

@jimthefish Yeah, I can see where you are coming from, and it was a slight episode. But, for me, it was still a fun (albeit) slight episode. Regarding the Doctor telling Yaz how great she was, this was someone trying to break bad news to someone she cared for. Should she have said that on a sliding scale of truly great figures from human history…[Read more]

Has everyone deserted the site? Where is @jimthefish ? Where is @bluesqueakpip ?

OK, on the one hand, I really liked it. It was a swashbuckling adventure, that looked really great, and all the actors worked. On the other hand, (and I tend to think of this as a Chibnall issue) why does everyone, but mainly the Doctor, have to be constantly explaining what has either happened, or is about to happen? The last time I saw the Sea…[Read more]

@janetteB, @nerys, Here is a brief taste of “Slow Horses”

@nerys The other TV show I have been watching (on Apple) is the spy mystery “Slow Horses” with Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas. And I am really enjoying it. Gary Oldman is very good as the irascible head of a group of agents who have been demoted from MI5 for past mistakes to a grim office where they are delegated menial tasks, but who are…[Read more]

@nerys Yes, I tend to agree. I was intrigued by the beginning, and up until they arrive in 2024. But when they started to cram all the actors from the future into the past, and and invented a Picard family history, the story seemed to crowded and sort of…disingenuous. There is nothing like the episode “Nepenthe” in this series.

Trailer for “The Legend of the Sea Devils”

The Legend of the Sea Devils screens April 17. Time to stock up on the jammy dodgers, or jelly beans.

Looks like there is a future Doctor out there who is not Hugh Grant, after all.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/21/hugh-grant-dismisses-reports-he-will-be-the-next-doctor-who

@devilishrobby

I agree that the biggest impediment would be the time commitment, particularly given the number of movie roles he is in at the moment. But, who knows; RTD has worked with him before on “A Very English Scandal”. And I have heard that RTD has very big plans for Who, and he might regard an A-lister as essential to those plans. And…[Read more]

Well, was just reading that apparently Hugh Grant is in discussion with the BBC about taking over as the Doctor. I will leave that bit of news hanging…

Of course, it was recorded first in the Mirror…

@janetteB

Just sticking up my hand to confirm my continued existence (not drowning, but waving–to turn the phrase on its head). Life is quiet here on the island. The price of petrol has gone through the roof (not sure if Putin is to blame, but I’ll happily blame him anyway). And not a million miles from the subject of Putin, I was just reading…[Read more]

Just reading that the penultimate JW Who story is to air at Easter. Hurrah!

But have no more information. Am overloaded with information about Ukraine, which makes me horribly pessimistic. Would really like to read more stories about Who to make me more optimistic.

@dentarthurdent, Have just dragged myself away from looking at awful news about Ukraine in order to put up a robust defence of early “Danger Man”. I loved that show. Still love it. It went through two iterations–the early 30 minute episodes and then the later 50 minute episodes. I would argue that the early ones were better than the later ones…[Read more]

@janetteb Loved your story about the Tardis salt and pepper shakers. It prompted me to look up from the couch in the living room only to see the Tardis cookie jar sitting on a bookcase next to the fireplace. Upstairs is my mini Tardis USB port connected to my laptop. And a recent arrival is the Tardis backpack (a frivolous, lockdown-induced,…[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

Many of you will have seen this. But it is so brilliant it deserves another look.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/19/boris-johnson-grilled-by-line-of-duty-team-in-spoof-video-viewed-by-5-million