Doctor Who
I co-wrote Back in Time: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Doctor Who with Steve Couch and Peter Williams, which was published in November 2005. It mainly relates to the 2005 series, but with lots about...
View ArticleTV viewing this Christmas
Monday 22 Merry Christmas (BBC 2, 1.40 pm) certificate 12Moving story of the ceasfire on Christmas Day in 1914, when British and German troops met and played football in no-man’s land. Finding...
View ArticleAnthony Head on Blue Peter reading my article on justice in Idea magazine
This is very weird. On yesterday’s Blue Peter (available on BBC iPlayer until 9 June 2009), the team were making a film in 24 hours for this year’s ‘Me and my movie’. They had Anthony Head, of Buffy...
View ArticleTelevision – not in front of the children?
youth from today from Stock Images Patrick Barkham (The Guardian, 14 October 2009) writes: Get out of our living rooms. This country is in danger of becoming a politically controlled nation closer to...
View ArticleInformation is beautiful: The BBC-O-Gram
Fascinating infographic of BBC spending. It puts the £2million spent on Clarkson and £6million spent on Ross into perspective – 50% more spent on Ross than on the Proms! via guardian.co.uk Posted via...
View ArticleDoctor Who monsters
This is a fabulous interactive infographic of all the Doctor Who monsters (not all of them are villains, really – the Ood, for example) since the first episode in 1963. Related posts: Doctor Who I...
View ArticleWhy bother with soap?
I’ve just been reminded of a Culturewatch article I wrote back in 2004 about soap operas, and thought it might be worth posting it here. Bear in mind that it was six years ago that I wrote it, so the...
View ArticleRussell Brand on death and significance
Fascinating extract fromt Jeremy Paxman’s interview with Russell Brand: I came across this on Barry Cooper’s website where he makes an interesting connection with Jonathan Edwards. He also highlights...
View ArticleTHE BIBLE series
This post (THE BIBLE series) is from Tony Watkins. If you wish to republish it on your blog, you are welcome, but please be sure to acknowledge the source and link back to my site. After being a...
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