Music Thanks to my nearly total obsession with the Sugababes reunion and lack thereof, it's impossible not to also be taking a sideway...

TV Let's mark some time. Doctor Who spin-off Class is officially cancelled which was somewhat expected given show runner Patrick Ness...

TV Last week, nostalgia website TV Cream celebrated its 20th anniversary birthday, which I planned to mention here but entirely forgot ...

TV While some of us still have nightmares about the furnaces the BBC employed to cremate old episodes of Doctor Who, if reports are to be ...

Music This extensive interview with composer David Arnold manages to include a question about his work on the Eighth Doctor theme which h...

Film Here's the short review of Cinema Paradiso after a couple of weeks. It's worked well enough so far that I've decided to ...

Life Over the past month, I've been busy with some things, primarily a life laundry in which, for various reasons, I've had a reth...

Life Back in the naughties when blogging was still a thing and phrases like "digitally artisanal" weren't being thrown aroun...

History The Guardian asks, Where were you when Diana died? I was in bed. For some reason I'd woken up very early that morning, per...

Film Sometimes the ponies run free. Here's David Bordwell, just as I'd hoped, analysing the narrative structure of Christopher No...

TV Good grief, the BBC have announced a classic theatre broadcast for BBC Two. Oh, yes, it's Andrew Scott's recent Hamlet which i...

Film In case you were wondering this gap between blog posts is because I'm having something of a life laundry, deciding which books I ...

TV  This morning Jodie Whittaker gave her first broadcast interview since the news to 6 Music's Shaun Keaveny while publicising her new...

TV In a break from tradition, the BBC have bothered to release the San Diego Comic Con trailer for the next bit of Doctor Who without us...

TV Samira Ahmed writes for The New Statesman on the talismanic nature of lanyards : "Two 1990s television shows gave us our figureh...

TV The Guardian recently published a brief but excellent piece from an academic about the implications of Doctor Who companion Bill's ...

Art Next year, Tate Liverpool celebrates its thirtieth anniversary and this morning held a press launch in one of the handling rooms, with...

Audio Now that the Capaldi era is almost done bar the shouting from manbabies about his replacement, it's time for me to catch up of t...

Music Hermione Hobby of The Guardian on her brush with celebrity as she held hands with Taylor Swift on leaving a restaurant interview : ...

Music Tom at Freaky Trigger's Popular section has a brilliant excavation of the "Sugababes" Freak Like Me, from its sample...