TV Crumbs. It's the late eighties, it's six forty-five on a Wednesday night and I've just seen a Borg ship smash through t...

Elsewhere The inevitable . And I don't mean England going out on penalties. Again. Funny how they started playing really well when ...

Age: 31 Location: Liverpool. Earliest Dr Who memory: I have a very vivid memory of Leela with knife in hand picking her way through a...

Blog! Somehow I've missed that writer Paul Cornell has a blog , and that he's writing an episode of the BBC's new Doctor Who ...

Photography Not too long ago I was invited to take part in a project, but as usual time put paid to my participation. But the results are...

Shakespeare So I'm looking at this news story , and I'm thinking, yes Sean Bean as M-A-C-B-E-T-H and guess that the film will look...

TV ... oh ... too much. As I think happened last year, the cast list for Saturday' s episode is a spoiler fest from top to bottom, s...

Film "his, then, is as it should be: An icon brought from the printed page to the big screen by talented people who respect the chara...

Life My dissertation got all on top of me. Even though my back's working again, as usual with any of these things I reached a point w...

Video People Falling Down . All it lacks is the 'You've Been Framed' music and an annoying voiceover by Beadle, Riley or Hill...

More people watching tv last night. I think it was raining… 6.6 million (39.7% share) Time ......BBC1...............ITV.............BBC...

TV Behind The Sofa 's gone into meltdown . Again. I decided to throw a positive review of last night's Doctor Who episode Fear ...

TV After the open warfare that pretty much broke out online after last week's episode (which I loved but won't mention the name ...

Life My back's still achey but the last couple of days have still been work, work, work as I start the first chapter of my dissertatio...

Food "The small container of spreadable Havarti cheese was like the movie Big Momma?s House 2 . I would never spend eight dollars for...

Travel "In the 60s, no one ever spent winters in Kathmandu. Everyone went south to Goa to catch some rays," he says. "The f...

Life I appear to have put my back out. I was up for an hour and half in the night unable to move into a position were I didn't get so...

RSS "Worse than the BBC is Google News. By it's very nature, Google News is all about change, but by god that screws with your RS...

TV Do take a look at the Behind The Sofa reviews of Saturday's Doctor Who and you can actually watch fandom splitting itself right d...

Music I've been marinating on Jewel's new album Goodbye Alice In Wonderland for a few weeks. It's a return to the form of Thi...