The Magician's Apprentice.

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TV Fucking-A! No sober reflection from me here as we embark on another series of Saturday evening ministrations. After last year, my e...

Bye then Jenna.

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TV After days of the media thinking fans would be rioting in the streets about it as though a companion moving on was some new thing aft...

Agent Carter finally reaches UK BD.

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TV Why did we end up with BD as the acronym for blu-ray rather than BR. Yes, I know it's supposed to stand for Blu-ray Disc - in much...

Jimmy Carter's Cinema Choices.

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Film As you know I like a good, massively depthful and time consuming annotation project. So here's a very good, massively depthful a...

Isabel Hardman on the Twitters.

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Social Media I might not agree with everything Isabel Hardman says, but I always find her contributions valuable, at least in terms of off...

In Our Time: The Angry Years.

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Radio Having embarked on a project to listen my way through the In Our Time podcast from Radio 4 the last thing I expected to hear was ...

My Favourite Film of 1981.

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Film With the school exam results released in the past few weeks, I thought again, somewhat wistfully, of those days, though cautiously ...

Dr Hannah Fry on Ada Lovelace.

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Science Dr Hannah Fry has a new BBC Four documentary on Thursday about Ada Lovelace . Which is, well it is, isn't it? "Ada Lov...

Vancouver.

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Film Welcome to the newest edition of Every Frame a Painting , the film essay channel in which @tonyszhou offers incredibly compelling ...

Doctor Who Series Nine: The Prologue.

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TV With my attention elsewhere, I've only just caught up with this. As usual ... (1) Capaldi sounds like the Doctor. Properly t...

Aspect Ratio Explained.

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"My name is Paul, and I was Gordon the Gopher."

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TV The BBC's Head of Editorial Standards has a confession to make : "‘Waggling’ Gordon was just one of the jobs the producer ha...

My Favourite Film of 1982.

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Film Christmas shopping in Chester one year, back when there was an Odeon in the city centre, I noticed they were showing  Blade Runner ...

About Journalism in Comic Book News Sites.

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Comics The Outhousers has a long column from Richard Caldwell about comic book journalism or journalism about comic books which also goes ...

Some of my associates.

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About Associate links. Apparently something people do on their blogs is to add an associate link to the end of a URL when they link to Am...

"It was purple."

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TV Two weeks to go. Meanwhile Wesley Crusher's teaching the "Doctor" how to drive the Enterprise. Three things: (a) Y...

The Problem with First World Problems.

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Philosophy A couple of weeks ago, PBS Idea Channel considered the issue of when leisure becomes work. Here's the original video here ...

Catastrophic.

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Art Yesterday, I finally managed to see the Whitworth gallery in Manchester for the first time since it reopened following a refurbishmen...

Extracting the BBC Genome:
Lost and Found.

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Film Back in 1994 and 1998, BBC Two offered a strand called "Lost and Found", seasons of films described as being "rarely...

The Underwater Menace DVD. Now available to pre-order? Again?

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TV George Bush famously said, "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, ...