Archive for the TV Category

Sherlock

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Mark

As mentioned in a previous post Sherlock is a collaboration between Mark Gatiss and Stephen Moffat, a reimagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters of Holmes and Watson in a modern setting. So after watching two episodes what did we get? We got an excellent show that stayed true to the spirit and intent of [...]

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Dr Who Adventure Games: Blood of the Cybermen

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Mark

Previously I wrote about playing City of Daleks, the first of the adventure games for PC released by the BBC to accompany the Matt Smith Dr Who series. This is the first of the games to appear after the series has ended and other than a few fleeting glimpses in the final episode the only [...]

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Mongrels (BBC Three)

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Mark

This show has totally came out of nowhere to be my favourite thing on TV at the moment. Its funny, clever and original. It’s laugh-out-loud funny. Mongrels is the story of an inner city Afghan hound called Destiny, a male Spanish/Mexican cat called Marion and a timid fox called Nelson. Also involved is Kali, a [...]

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Dr Who Series Finale

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Mark

A little late but the new series of Dr Who ended with ‘The Big Bang’ following on from ‘The Pandorica Opens’. It brought to a close this series of the show that saw Matt Smith take on the role of The Doctor and Karen Gillan his assistant Amy Pond. SPOILER ALERT. This series began with [...]

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Dr Who: City of the Daleks

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Mark

The BBC has just released the first in its series of downloadable games to follow in the footsteps of Dr.Who. City of the Daleks. The Doctor and Amy (voiced by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan) arrive in London in the 1960’s to discover it overrun by Daleks. As ever the Timelord sets out to fix [...]

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Dr Who – Series 5- Really?!

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Mark

Just over a week ago I wrote with excitement about the new Doctor Who series and how I was warming to the performances of Matt Smith and Karen Gillian. I spoke of how much I had enjoyed the dramatic end of the last episode, unspoiled by Graham Norton, and how I was looking forward to [...]

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