Everything You Always Wanted To Know About River Song * but were afraid to ask.

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TV Let’s Kill Hitler or and I'll doubtless be the fluftiest person to make this joke or use it as a headline “Everything You Always W...

Bea Arthur and all.

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Film Remember how we've joked for years about George Lucas's Stalinist attitude to the Star Wars Christmas Special? Well, back in...

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"the channel's Army Season in September"

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TV Further to our one-sided discussion about the future of BBC Four, controller Richard Klein has written about that future , about new d...

Did Moffat know this ... ?

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TV Seven-hundred years? Jack is more than seven-hundred years old in 1927? On his first walk through the twentieth century? Did Moffat...

"I won the official name of the Sugababes now!!!"

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Music Well, this is a turn up. Astonishingly, Mutya has won her legal challenge and has appropriated the rights to the Sugababes name whi...

"I'd take two baseball caps"

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The Law Terry Turner in the Sioux City Journal remembers a childhood spent imagining himself as Sherlock Holmes : "As a kid I would...

In time for the anniversary

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That Day Deep breath. In time for the anniversary, The Internet Archive has posted an archive of news television coverage of 9/11 from th...

The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival begins ...

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Since I fear other things could conspire against me attending the Liverpool Shakespeare Festival , I at least promised to run some publicity...

"Even if most of us haven't been married to Penn"

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Music The Guardian's Hadley Freeman on Madonna's Like a Prayer : "But being a nosey sort and someone who likes songs to have...

programmes of any sufficient quality

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TV For all my views on BBC Four's future, I do understand people's fear about the future of the channel should it lose the "b...

"the rabbit is glorping the duck"

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Science Turn out two year old can understand complex language even if they can't speak it : "We tested this theory by showing 2-...

"working pro bono"

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The Law Never mind Mrs Sherlock, the tenacious Mrs. Grace Humiston who helped to convict the murderer of a high school girl has something...

"an issue with the Prequel Trilogy that you may or may not have realized existed"

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Film Well, yes, big things happening in the world, extended episodes of Newsnight, Today programmes all about Libya (as the always nervy E...

super-embargo

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Film Andrew Collins discovers a whole new level of studio paranoia when it comes to preview screenings of films : "Boring detail: th...

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The Tempest (Arden Shakespeare). Edited by Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan.

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Even if, because I’m yet to see a convincing production, The Tempest isn’t my favourite of Shakespeare’s plays, it does contain my favourite...

"the longest running drama series ever"

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TV One of my indulgences during the VHS era was gawping at the massive box sets in HMV, massive boxes filled with video tapes collecting t...

a mass of new Freedom of Information disclosures

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Tea-V The BBC have posted a mass of new Freedom of Information disclosures . Plenty have a whiff of the right wing press about them (...

in footwear William Emms would be proud of

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TV John Caughie author of the excellent BFI Classics volume about The Edge of Darkness has this to say on the subject of The Edge of Dar...