@thane16

Thanks, puro, and a happy new year to you also. And congratulations on the conducting gig.

My Christmas/New Year was quiet and pleasantly self indulgent – and for once the weather was good; cold but crisp and sunny. Sadly, shortly afterwards I received news of the death on Christmas Eve of one of my oldest friends , which put a…[Read more]

The pub seems to be the most appropriate place to raise a glass and wish everyone on the forum a A Happy New Year and all the best for 2026, wherever you are and whatever your circumstances.

There is a year to wait until the resumption of service with the 2026 Christmas special:  may the time pass productively and may we all survive happily to view it 🙂

@nerys

If you wish to know more about the background to Sutekh, look up Pyramids of Mars which is from the Tom Baker era. It’s well worth watching and can be found here on the home page. A condensed and edited version is also available.

Late again, but I didn’t get to watch it until yesterday afternoon, and then I felt I needed a re-watch before commenting.

With my critical faculties dialled back, if not totally suspended, I enjoyed the episode, despite some niggling doubts about narrative points which didn’t seem to fully add up from a logical point of view* . I did feel,…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave

Many thanks for that; I hadn’t come across it before and it’s lovely.  And yes, midges are best contemplated from a distance, dancing in columns in the sun.

@scaryb

😀  Well midges are admittedly one of the few downsides of the Scottish countryside, so I should have realised that it was the Scots if anyone who would come u…[Read more]

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@whisht

Interesting. Are there any songs about midges? Midges in my experience are a million times more pestiferous than mosquitos, because mosquitos at least do you the courtesy of injecting anaesthetic when they bite even if the bites itch later, and  they don’t generally tend to attack in battalions. I have very unpleasant memories of working…[Read more]

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@devilishrobby

please tell me that this article is not serious

If in doubt, google The Onion 😉

@janetteb

I proposed that it might be time to set up a kind of Writers Room rather than leaving the creative decisions entirely with one show runner

I can see your point, and I know that this method has produced many highly successful American shows,…[Read more]