TV OK, let's get the important business out of the way first. The Pope's emergence during Bill's date is one of the funnies...

Film Almost to the second that I posted this , Star Trek Discovery's trailer was uploaded in different versions, just to show that eve...

TV  For the past ten months, any conversation related to television which began, “Have you seen …” was usually answered with a negative f...

Film The first filmed Shakespeare was a one minute short version of King John , the surviving part of a quartet designed to advertise He...

TV It's Sunday night and I've just finished watching Doctoroo, sorry, Doctor Whoer. Another epoch busted, although I have a str...

Music Last night saw the broadcast of the second semi-final of this year's Eurovision, still uneasily slotted into BBC Four's sc...

Film The Odeon in Chester was always a strange place to see a film, especially the main screen, which had a large projection surface, but ...

TV After accidentally listening to the standard sound mix on Saturday, I promised to provide an update once a gap had been found in my b...

Film Quite recently, I’ve begun to have mixed feelings about Cyrano and its many homages and remakes. For years, two of my favourite fil...

TV Good evening folks. Well, I finally did it. After three weeks of threatening to watch Doctor Who on the iPlayer rather than broadca...

TV Finally, finally, footage from The Defenders and frankly eight episodes isn't long enough. Look at them all talking to each othe...

Life Let's briefly catch up. How are you? Strange weather we're having. ITEM! The new edition of the General Election is th...

Film A bank holiday revised repeat. Here's an account from back in 2008 of seeing Mitchell and Kenyon's Liverpool As Seen from ...

TV Thank fuck for that. After a couple of disappointing episodes and the kind of ennui I haven't experienced for this franchise sin...

TV This blog's so old, I was reviewing episodes of Dawson's Creek during the original broadcast. For old time's sake, here...

TV Having seen Saturday night's episode of Doctor Who a second time, I think I still agree with huge tracts of my Saturday night ins...

Film There is a home video in existence, recorded during my A-Levels, about a quarter of a century ago, in which I’m shown, because it h...

TV Yesterday, for the first time in a hundred and thirty five years, the National Grid was able to deliver enough power to consumers wit...