It’s sitcom time in Doctor Who this week, as the man in tweed moves into a flatshare with James Corden, plays a bit of football and embarrasses himself whilst trying to fit in with the humans. For those who watched Third Rock From The Sun or Mork & Mindy, this may seem eerily familiar. Still, … [Read more...]
Doctor Who Adventure Games: City Of The Daleks review
As if a whole new series of Doctor Who wasn’t enough value for your licence fee, the Beeb is also ladling out free video games this year. You can download the first ‘episode’ from the BBC Doctor Who site now, and three more will follow. It seems a bit churlish to launch into a detailed critique … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: Vincent and the Doctor review
As you’ve doubtless heard, this is The Richard Curtis Episode. The jokes about floppy fringes and stuttering write themselves, don’t they? But it would be a lot easier to hurl such abuse if the end result had been rubbish, and annoyingly it isn’t. Despite widespread grumbling about his last few … [Read more...]
Doctor Who – Cold Blood review
So, this week’s Doctor Who was certainly a game-changer. The ongoing crack-in-time storyline took another step forward, and something horrible happened to a regular cast member, all of which I’ll be elaborating upon later. (So stop reading this and go watch the episode if you’re one of the “NO … [Read more...]
Five of the best dorky t-shirts
Every dork worth his or her salt has a geeky t-shirt somewhere in the wardrobe. Whether it features a favourite video game, a geeky sci-fi program or a random catchphrase no one else has heard of, it'll be lurking there somewhere. So if you haven't got one yet, your geek credentials are in … [Read more...]
Doctor Who – The Hungry Earth review
This week in Doctor Who, the Time Lord faces the return of an old and deadly foe: Some soil! See our hero fighting dirt! Be disappointed when he fails to produce a sonic trowel! Sorry, that was unfair, much like reviewing the first half of a two-parter on its own. The Hungry Earth is not entirely … [Read more...]
Doctor Who – Amy’s Choice review
A potential turning point in Doctor Who this week, as Amy Pond must finally decide where her heart lies: thrilling adventures with the Doctor, or a quiet life with Rory – a man who would be sensible and dependable if he could only stop falling over. Rather than a whole episode of Amy listing pros … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: Vampires Of Venice review
This week in Doctor Who, something very predictable happened: The Doctor met a seemingly paranormal threat, and quickly exposed it as a science-fiction menace instead. Never mind the gay agenda and the Scottish agenda, there should be more talk about the “Ghosts are stupid!” agenda. But that was … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: The Time Of Angels/Flesh & Stone
Having survived his first episode and first encounter with the Daleks, Matt Smith’s glowing eleventh Doctor comes up against his first two-parter. Fortunately, he has grand high writer Steven Moffat to hand. Free of the need to delicately introduce our new hero, this is Moffat Unbound. He … [Read more...]
Dork Review: Doctor Who’s “Eleventh Hour”
Never mind the switch of government that we’re facing; the only British regime change that counts in 2010 finally happened on Saturday night: Matt Smith took over as the Doctor in “The Eleventh Hour”. Alongside new head writer Steven Moffat and companion Karen Gillan, he crash-lands gloriously on … [Read more...]










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