@jimthefish Years & Years sounds great. @cathannabel:  thank you for that too. We also saw Russian Doll: brill! Jim, Good luck with the thesis. May the calm of the Jedi knights be with you!

@mudlark @missy

I think Dr Who was confronting Missy? With Capaldi’s Doc? All the monsters could be a hard lesson in life, the monsters a back-drop, a good…[Read more]

@pedant @Miapatrick @Cathannabel @JimTheFish

I bought the DVD of Chernobyl on Monday afternoon, watched the five episodes over three evenings and am left stunned. Deftly and concisely constructed almost entirely from the point of view of those involved as it happened, with all the muddle, panic and ignorance, the struggle to cope in the face of…[Read more]

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It should still be on Now TV, which has a monthly sub, asl long as you remember to cancel it (I used … ahem… other means, because the stench of Murdoch is not that easily removed). DVD/Bluray out later this month (and on order).

(Also can you look at user dfhghdfg05, who is, to quote the Artic Monkeys, not quite legitimate…

@craig @jimthefish

I think dfhghdfg05 might be a spammer. Just a hunch.

And hbfdxcvnfghdgdf

ahh @jimthefish – thanks for leting us know about Paul Darrow.

I was a bit young for Blakes 7 (or maybe not – maybe just not got chance to watch due to one telly and me being the youngest with little ability to choose what to watch!)

I actually loved his character – it always seemed much more nuanced/ multi-dimensional than the others (not their…[Read more]

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I should also add that, as a Time Lord, you have been gone for more than five minutes…

@jimthefish

Saw the news this morning. Very sad indeed. Not only was he brilliant as Avon (indeed, his Avon was both magnetic and seductive–in a way perhaps not a million miles away from River Song) but there were other shows I remember him from. In particular, he he was great as Mr. Tallboy in the Lord Peter Wimsey Story–“Murder Must…[Read more]

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Very sad news. I remember him chiefly in Blake’s 7 in which the sardonic and amoral Avon was my favourite character by far. Anti-heroes for me, every time, and he played the part so well.

so it’s been awhile and I’ve not seen this popping up in my in-box (my fault obviously).  I saw this last many, many moons ago.

Above I read Castellan is very good….& is he played by Milton Johns?

@JanetteB I agree -this was my bread & butter Who.  The actor playing Rodan tickles me. Do you recall an Aus movie The Getting of Wisdom? I think t…[Read more]

I was watching Twitter on my own. I thought I was watching the new “type” of Brexit deal of your PM? It was the vote for the Irish Backstop which would be left in the hands of the UK rather than the EU? (I feel bad I don’t know this part better!).

I’m now listening to people talking about the possible vote against your PMs plan- which, I heard on…[Read more]

@pedant @margaret-blaine @janetteb @kevinwho @jimthefish

Sorry, late to the party again (still on holiday). But you all seem to have done your thing. I think the user’s comments are fine – not great, but okay. It’s just the stupid username that’s the problem.

If they change it, as they say they will, then I’m gonna leave it. For now.

@craig @jimthefish

Intruder in the house. Clue in the handle.

@ragnarok I mean @idiotsavon of Savon Manor AND  @ScaryB  😀

Happy new year’s to you both.  x0 x

I remember, yonks, or timey-whimeys agos, we had a Ragnarok theme during the end of the Smith era?

I’ve not watched the new ep yet. In fact, I haven’t hooked into the ABC much at all except for the occasional special from The Midwives or Foyles Wa…[Read more]

@craig or @jimthefish – this forum needs a Mk2

Also: coin >>> meter. Annual reminder!

@thane16, @winston, @craig, @pedant, @cathannabel, @jimthefish, @janetteb, and @everyone

Ok, The Christmas TV setting is being arranged, and yes, there is “A Christmas Carol” and “It’s a Wonderful Life”, and, as indicated earlier, “Die Hard”.

But the truth is that the the main events are the two all-time Christmas favourites in the Blenkinsop…[Read more]