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How do you foul up an episode with so many potentially great elements in it? Daleks? In New York? With pig slaves? Bring it on! Or, rather don’t!

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Picture the scene. You’re a BBC Wales journalist tasked with talking about the forthcoming 2007 Welsh Assembly elections to a UK-wide audience at 1pm. Bearing in mind that most people in Wales aren’t talking about the election, let alone the UK as a whole. So how do you drum up at least a flicker of interest?

You step into the TARDIS. And I mean literally. Somewhere in the annals of BBC Wales, the TARDIS still stands tall complete with a mini-set around it made of a corrugated iron wall, and a handy (spoilers behind the link!) election poster from the Doctor Who universe. And the link?

“Well, just like the TARDIS, the Welsh Assembly is bigger than it seems”…

I look forward to future election broadcasts where ITN’s correspondents come up against a Primeval dinosaur, or NBC’s correspondents suddenly find themselves explaining the latest Iraq issues from the set of Lost…

Spoilers abound so if you haven’t seen Daleks in Manhattan yet, don’t read my disorganised jumbled thoughts on it!

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If you haven’t seen this week’s superlative episode Gridlock, then go and watch it now before you read my thoughts!

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Well, that was a crap ending to a time-travel series, really, wasn’t it? Almost as bad as the ending to Quantum Leap - although at least the ending to Quantum Leap felt more consistent. Although other people seemed to like it.

To be fair, I haven’t seen much of Life On Mars - mostly because I just don’t feel that nostalgic surge for a time when men were men, women were women and the police could do what they like and get away with it.

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