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Review: Doctor Who Season 4 Episode 2 - Partners In Crime

The second episode of the fourth season of Doctor Who brings back Catherine Tate in her role from the Season 3 Christmas special as Donna Noble. This episode has both the Doctor and Donna separately investigating a “revolutionary” diet pill.
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Tate’s role in Runaway Bride was largely comedic which worked fine for that episode, but I wasn’t at all sure how that would translate with her as a regular…

Review: Doctor Who Season 4 Episode 1 - Voyage of the Damned

Doctor Who returned for its fourth season with a visit to the Titanic. Not that Titanic, a space faring luxury liner named the Titanic. The Doctor, temporarily without companion is paired up with guest star Kylie Minogue.

Did I mention the new title music? I preferred the previous version, but it’s no big deal.
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This was the extra long Christmas special with the spaceship Titanic visiting the planet…

Eight Ways To Fix Torchwood

I had planned on writing a review of the Torchwood season 2 finale earlier this week. Unfortunately I came away from the episode with really mixed feelings. In many ways this final episode epitomized my feelings on the season as a whole.

On the one hand, it was far and away superior to the first season which was a huge disappointment to me. But for every bit that hit the mark,…

Review: The Sarah Jane Adventures - Revenge of the Slitheen Part One

The Slitheen were subject to a lot of fan criticism when they first appeared in Doctor Who Season One. The farting was regarded as childish (and it is). So I imagine the name of this episode will make a lot of people unhappy.
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However while Doctor Who is intended to be for the entire family, The Sarah Jane Adventures is firmly aimed at children. So the juvenile nature of…

Are You Looking Forward To Merlin?

NBC recently announced that next season it will have a new series based on the wizard from Arthurian legend, Merlin. In a description that sends shivers of terror down my spine they say that it will be looking at his rambunctious 20-something years.

One sliver of hope is that this is actually a co-production between NBC and BBC Wales (who produce Doctor Who and Torchwood) and the BBC apparently envisages this…

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