Pre-Order ‘Doctor Who: Season 18’ Blu-Ray
❉ The moment has been prepared for! Season 18 Blu-Ray is available to pre-order from today.
Television
All That Jazz: The Beiderbecke Trilogy
❉ Michael Seely looks back on Alan Plater’s trilogy, 30 years on from the first airing of its last instalment.
DVD: ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ (1989)
❉ Despite its languid pacing (even for 1989), many elements of this BBC fantasy drama stand up beautifully.
‘Doctor Who’ 11.08: ‘The Witchfinders’
❉ For once the suspected Evil Alien Bastards were Evil Alien Bastards!
Going Viral: ‘Survivors’ 10 Years On
❉ We revisit the ‘reimaging’ of Terry Nation’s post-apocalypse drama, which first aired 10 years today.
‘Doctor Who’ 11.07: ‘Kerblam!’
❉ The ghost of Doctor Who’s premier world builder Robert Holmes was in the room again, and Bradley Walsh continues to steal every scene he’s in.
‘Doctor Who’ 11.06: ‘Demons of the Punjab’
❉ An enlightening drama about a shameful period of Britain’s colonial past, the sci fi interwoven cleverly and unobtrusively with the historical setting.
Back in The Village! ‘The Prisoner: The Uncertainty Machine’
❉ Titan Comics’ graphic novel is what the 2009 remake should have been, and is as wild and off-the-wall as the original series, writes Rob Fairclough.
‘The Doctors: Villains!’ on DVD now from Koch Media
❉ 5 hours of pure nostalgia, featuring in-depth interviews and a tribute to Roger Delgado by the cast and crew he worked with.
‘Doctor Who’ 11:05: ‘The Tsuranga Conundrum’
❉ Without a doubt, The Tsuranga Conundrum was Chibnall’s best script so far for Doctor Who, writes Rob Fairclough.