Just saw this from the blog of Neil Gaiman, which made me laugh: I know that David Tennant’s Hamlet isn’t till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush… “To be, or […]
What’s the point of time travel if you can’t change the past? Similarly, what’s the point in studying the events of history, or telling stories about them? “Don’t try to understand why a fine man is cut off in his prime and an evil one prospers. Try to understand what benefit there is in observing […]
Last year, I entered a Doctor Who short story competition, and was one of the 25 winners whose tales of the Time Lord are being published in a collection later this year, published by Big Finish Productions, who also make very good Doctor Who audio dramas starring the actors for the classic series. And now, […]
The second Podcast of Impossible Things, a commentary on last Saturday’s Doctor Who episode, The Fires of Pompeii, is now online and available to download! Peter and I are joined by Swithun and James, the other two members of the core group.
Updated again: My podcast commentary with my friend Peter on Partners in Crime is now online. Give it a listen! Updated: My review of Partners in Crime, the Doctor Who series premiere, is in today’s Western Mail, and also available to read on their website. They’ve edited it down a bit, so here’s the uncut […]
Along with some friends, I’m going to be doing fan commentaries, dvd-style, on series 4 of Doctor Who. Geeky but fun!
You wait for one alien invasion to come along, and two come along at once. Although nine months have passed for us since the pilot of The Sarah Jane Adventures back in the New Year, which saw the Doctor’s former companion defeat the Bane, adopt a son and begin to gather a rag-tag crew of […]
I hear rumours that the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has leaked onto the Internet and that spoilsports are going around the place saying what happens at the end. Now, having sometimes discovered rather more than I’d have liked to have known in advance about some Doctor Who episodes from internet discussions, […]
Doctor Who has come a long way since it first returned to our screens in 2005. From risky reinvention to mainstream hit, the big question at the beginning of series 3 was “will they be able to keep up the quality and keep it fresh?” If anyone doubted the answer to that question was “yes”, […]
Hooray! The winners of Big Finish’s Doctor Who short story competition have been officially announced, and I was one of the 24 shortlisted. I can now publicly celebrate the fact that I’m going to have my first professionally published short story in an anthology next year – woo! Michael Coen’s What I Did On My […]
