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I've loved this series. Absolutely loved it. Happiest I've been with the show since its return in 2005. Doc 13 has been great, the companions are fun - especially Bradley Walsh's Graham - and I've really enjoyed the smaller scale of it all. It all got too overblown for me, with the Lonely God/Oncomi...

First time I had heard of Grace Dent, I think. She was spectacularly awful. Some good clips though. Lovely to see that bit of "Going Live!" again, and I enjoyed the bits of Les Dennis's show. She had a valid point in that "Blue Peter" was sometimes a bit out of place in the children's TV schedules, ...

I wouldn't usually stop a film halfway through, but if it's two and a half hours long, then damn straight I would! I've done the LoTR films over a couple of nights in the past. Partly because I just can't set that much time aside for viewing anything so long. As far as "Shada" is concerned, I'd pref...

There's a piece about "Ghostwatch" on the BBC News site this morning. Not a long read, but a good one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41740176.

Did Roger Cook used to seek permission?

I adored "Cult TV". It was everything I wanted from a magazine. I mentioned it once on Outpost Gallifrey, saying how much I had loved it, and somebody who had used to work on it responded. He said that the reason it had tanked was the internet, which effectively replaced such magazines, because it w...

I don't know how far a lack of views on YouTube can be attributed to a lack of interest. Personally I had no idea that the episodes were up there (thank you for the links!) How are these links publicised, and where? As to "Adam Adamant Lives!", gimme gimme gimme. Don't care that it's audio only. Of ...

He hasnt closed it, fortunately. It's still there, and hopefully he'll come back when things have died down a little. What you have there, sadly, is a mixture of certain newspapers misquoting him, and also quoting him out of context, mingled wth Who fans being Who fans. These are, after all, people ...

She probably wasn't Sophie Okonedo, certainly. :) However she was the daughter of a pair of Italians, and it's highly unlikely that she was the snow-white-skinned woman of contemporary art. Nor is it likely that she was as blonde as Veerle Baetens, who portrayed her in the recent "The White Queen". ...

"Oh, well that's a recent thesis, so it has to be true. " Meaning? It doesn't fit with your preconceived notions so, despite being based on the contemporary documentary evidence, it must be untrue? As a recent thesis it's more likely to be true than the Ladybird Book of Empire from 1955. And no, no...

They're addressing the show's writing by replacing a not untalented but hopelessly self-indulgent and creatively exhausted writer with a thoroughly mediocre and derivative one. Yeah, that'll fix it. Chibnall's "Broadchurch" is quite celebrated. It seems popular both with viewers and with critics. I...

Sorry to be so long in replying. I'm not around these parts often these days. The history of black Rome, and of black Romans in Britain. First of all, and perhaps most convincingly, are numerous skeletons unearthed in the north of England, which have been categorised as African. (Various traits are ...

There were black Roman centurions. There were black Roman citizens. There were black Roman Britons. The Roman Empire covered black countries, so it's all rather obvious when you think about it. For that matter, there were very high born black Roman Britons, one of whom governed Britain for a time. A...

"Braveheart" is no more historical than "Cutthroat Island"! There was "Rob Roy" in 1995, and "Last Of The Mohicans" a few years before that (again, about as historically accurate as "Braveheart"). Are the 1940s old enough to count? If so, "Schindler's List". Branagh's "Henry V"? There was "Glory" in...

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Is that the pornographic version? ;)

Seeing "The Office" mentioned above makes me think - would "Extras" count, or are those appearances technically fictionalised versions of the real people?

Corbett Woodall managed to do a Kenneth Kendall and appear as 'Newsreader' in many shows, including a number of "Goodies", and there was also Raymond Baxter's famous appearance in the "String" episode. Which reminds me - Kenneth Kendall in "Adam Adamant Lives!" (and quite a lot of other things, tho...

Thank's for Steph info, will have to catch up on that one, supposedly she and Brosnan didn't exactly get on, so it would be interesting to know what he thought of that one. He frequently cites it as his favourite episode. He's always careful to be very complimentary about her. Whatever their "issue...

A friend has just reminded me that Ian McCulloch wrote several episodes of "Survivors". Her least favourite of the bunch, it seems! The episode of "Remington Steele" that SZ wrote is called 'Steele In The Chips', and it's about the invention of a supposedly calorie-free chocolate chip cookie - inspi...

Michael Landon wrote (and directed, and produced) a lot of stuff over the years, beginning of course with "Bonanza", and then going on to more or less run the whole show with "Little House On The Prairie" and "Highway To Heaven". He won a few awards over the years for his writing. Bradley Whitford, ...

Liberace turned up in an episode of "Kojak". Very odd cameo! That was the final season of "Kojak" when, after years as a fairly realistic (as these things go) police drama, it decided to try to take a page out of "Starsky & Hutch"'s book, and lob in an element of comedy. This was very much one of th...

In Doctor Who "Remembrance of the Daleks" (1988) set in 1963 a TV shows the announcement of the first episode of a new science fiction series..." but is cut off at that moment. So was it Dr Who or a parallel universe equivalent??? Logically, there must be a show called "Doctor Who" in the DW univer...

I think one can take "so far" as read, no? Of course they're not saying that those programmes are better than anything that's going to be made in the next eighty-three years. But we're nearly twenty years into the current century, and I see no harm nor foul in a quick poll to ask what's been best so...

I'm really interested to know what you make of Walcott. In researching that collection I found that it was absolutely hated by much of its cast who considered it to be racist. It was voted the worst black TV drama by Black Film Bulletin! Oh boy. Well, I didn't hate it, but then I'm a little less in...

Black and Chinese are two very different categorisations (Chinese isn't a 'race'). "The Asian Detective" might not have been used, but there's nothing wrong with Chinese. I can't see anybody avoiding "The Jamaican Detective" or "The Zulu Detective", although admittedly they would perhaps be a bit le...

It will. It got sent into space aboard the Voyager probe. Barring accident, it'll survive anything save the end of the universe.

Oh no. It was a long life, I know, but there are some people you don't ever want to see go. Chuck Berry practically invented the music I spend half my life listening to. Somebody wrap Little Richard up in cotton wool, quick.

The lieutenant thing actually happens in British drama? I admit it's my preferred pronunciation (just as well I didn't enter the Services!), but surely everybody knows how it's supposed to be said? (Wrongly. I see no 'f'). ;) Personally I've always said "Right-o", so I don't think of it as a grandfa...

I love you, Michael. Have a cookie. ;)


Although you'll have to give it back if the release ends up getting delayed!

Yeah, but "Ironside" has been repeated a lot by the BBC, both in the '80s and in the 2000s, and the "Hart To Hart" reunion movies often air (Lionel Stander did all of them until his death in 1994. I think there was one or two after that). I'm a big "Ironside" fan, for example, and I was born in 1975...

You've never heard of Alma Cogan?! Mind you, my father has never left the '50s, so I grew up listening to that sort of thing. She had a string of mega-hits in the UK in the pre-rock & roll era, before sadly dying very young, of cancer. Later featured in a Python sketch about logic (audio only though...