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Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth Series (DVD review – extras only).
As with other earlier new ‘Doctor Who’ seasons, I’ve already reviewed the episodes when they first appeared on TV, so the focus on…
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October 2025
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The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin – The Once and Future Streamer (trailer).
At long last, King Arthur is getting another go. Apparently, the BBC hasn’t cornered the market on moody wizards and morally conflicted knights,…
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The Mighty Nein: seven heroes, nine brain cells, and one world about to regret hiring them (fantasy TV series trailer).
Crikes, The Mighty Nein — proof that even in fantasy worlds of dragons, gods, and all-powerful relics, the real danger is still a…
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Pluribus: Vince Gilligan’s new sci-fi TV series (trailer).
Just when you thought Vince Gilligan couldn’t make Albuquerque any weirder, he’s gone and done it again. Having already given us meth-cooking lawyers…
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: fantasy TV series (first trailer).
Sharpen your broadswords and brace your emotional support ravens, dear readers — the first trailer for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has…
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Thunderbirds Comic Anthology Volume One (graphic novel review).
The first thing I tend to do with any art or graphic novel book is a flick through. The biggest smile on my…
September 2025
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Brisco County, Jr.: How the West was weird (video).
There was a brief, shining moment in the early ’90s when primetime telly let a wise-cracking Harvard man on a horse lasso time…
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The Sentinels: radium, romance & rampaging Retro-Futurism (TV series).
If you thought you knew the First World War—mud, mustard gas, and moustaches bristling like bayonets—then Canal+’s new French science fiction series The…
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Torchwood: Miracle Day (blu-ray review).
Although not noted as such, ‘Torchwood: Miracle Day’ is actually its fourth season, released in 2011. This time, the BBC had financial support…
August 2025
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Fallout TV series season 2: Viva Las Nuclear Vegas (trailer).
If season one of Fallout was all about finding your dad and discovering he’s not only a terrible father but also casually complicit…
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Doctor Who series six: the one where Hitler ends up in a cupboard (retrospective).
Doctor Who series six, the year Steven Moffat decided the show needed fewer Daleks and more trousers-wetting confusion. This was the season that…
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Torchwood: Children Of Earth (blu-ray TV series review).
The third season of ‘Torchwood’ is one 6-part serial, ‘Children Of Earth’. Back in the day, there were already signs of problems with…