Random excited thoughts about The Stolen Earth
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Television | 4 Comments »- Gor blimey, what an episode. Just how many elements can you mix in? - The visual FX were gor-blimey-spectacular. - If only the episode had been called This Stolen Earth. Work in a bit of literary/sci-fi reference, that's what I say... ...
Doctor Who - Turn Left spoilers
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Being British-Chinese, Television | 2 Comments »My random thoughts on the latest incredibly dark episode of Doctor Who: Turn Left...
Old echoes in new Doctor Who…
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in Television | 2 Comments »Maybe it's just me, but amidst the applause (and the odd tear - that hasn't happened in a long time!) in the latest Doctor Who episode, The Doctor's Daughter, did I spot a few echoes of what used to go ...
Damn, the Daleks are coming back
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Television | No Comments »If there's one wish I'd had for the forthcoming season of Doctor Who, it would be: 'No More Daleks please'. Yes, I appreciate they are definitively the most famous of foes, and guaranteed good viewing figures. But when you've reduced ...
Where’s my Easter holiday?
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Oy vey!, Television | 2 Comments »For the last three years, I've been comfortably able to figure out when Easter is, for one simple reason - Doctor Who usually starts on the Easter Saturday. At least it has since its relaunch way back in 2005. However, it's ...
Analogue 1, Digital 0
Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Oy vey!, Professional, Technology | 3 Comments »A long time ago, thanks to my ex-workchums at BBC Wales (thanks guys!), I bought myself a Freecom Network Mediaplayer - basically a hard drive which you can connect to your TV. I gleefully set about downloading about 350 Gigabytes ...
It is not the end, but it has been prepared for…
Monday, September 3rd, 2007 Posted in Television | 2 Comments »So, Doctor Who takes a year off... It was rather inevitable really. Plus people on the production team had been muttering in interviews how tired they were, and how they wanted a break. With most long-running TV programmes that take 9 ...
