The Last Anniversary is another long-drawn-out Aussie import, filling out the bare cupboard that is the weekend evening schedule on terrestrial TV. ITV currently also has the same thing happening with Fake. For the family …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DOCTOR WHO: WISH WORLD (Season 2 Episode 7)
Wish World is the seventh episode of Doctor Who Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45. I don’t know why this goes back to Bavaria, 1865, but as for the Rani, Kate O’Mara’s …
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The Bombing of Pan Am 103 – The DVDfever Review – Connor Swindells
The Bombing of Pan Am 103: Like a bus, you wait ages for one, and then two come along at once. Amongst countless examples, in 1991, we had Patrick Bergin’s Robin Hood, followed a month …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DOCTOR WHO: THE INTERSTELLAR SONG CONTEST (Season 2 Episode 6)
The Interstellar Song Contest is the sixth episode of Doctor Who Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45. It’s time for another episode of Queer As Who, as this Doctor gets his gay …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DOCTOR WHO: THE STORY AND THE ENGINE (Season 2 Episode 5)
The Story And The Engine is the fifth episode of Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45. Oh, where to begin with this one? Doctor Who is massively tanking in the ratings, and …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DOCTOR WHO: LUCKY DAY (Season 2 Episode 4)
Lucky Day Lucky Day is the fourth episode of Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45. It opens with a CGI New Year’s Eve, and Not-My-Doctor picking up someone’s 50p off the ground… …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DOCTOR WHO: THE WELL (Season 2 Episode 3)
The Well is the third episode of Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45. Being deaf is this month’s token disability highlight at the BBC, and their doyen is Rose Ayling-Ellis. She was …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DOCTOR WHO: LUX (Season 2 Episode 2)
Lux is the first episode of Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45. The episode opens in a 1952 cinema, long before the days of IMAX 1.43:1 films (the aspect ratio for Sinners, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DOCTOR WHO: THE ROBOT REVOLUTION (Season 2 Episode 1)
The Robot Revolution is the first episode of Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45. Ah, Russell T Davies… The man who both resurrected Doctor Who AND killed it off, 20 years later. …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of REUNION on BBC1!
Reunion sees Daniel Brennan (Matthew Gurney) leaving jail after a 10-year sentence for murder, so it marks rather a change that a deaf actor and character takes the lead in a prime-time drama. He’s initially …
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