Doctor Who - Empire Of Death

The Mummy, The Last Jedi and Infinity War all get nods as Empire Of Death throws everything at the screen for Doctor Who's season finale #Review

And Su could have it all, my empire of dust Previously on Doctor Who… The Doctor and Mel were trapped with a zombified Susan Twist! Kate and the rest of UNIT were trapped with a TARDIS-clutching Sutekh and Ruby was trapped in The Volume…er, I mean the Time Window. The Legend Of Ruby Sunday sure did try and juggle a lot, but let’s see if Empire Of Death can catch everything that’s been left up…

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Doctor Who - The Legend Of Ruby Sunday

Doctor Who: The Legend Of Ruby Sunday attempts to pay off the season's clumsy and rushed set-ups with mixed results and mediocre wordplay. #Review

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Doctor Who - The Giggle

Once again, David Tennant and Catherine Tate come together to bring us much ado about nothing in #DoctorWho: #The Giggle

Once again, David Tennant and Catherine Tate come together to bring us much ado about nothing in The Giggle. Nothing so far in Davies, Tennant and Tate’s return has flattered to deceive as much as THE GIGGLE does. It starts full of promise, trips itself up over its own overabundance of underdeveloped ideas and ends up falling flat on its face just at the moment when it should soar. SPOILER…

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Doctor Who Season 24: Delta And The Bannermen Review

Doctor Who Season 24: Delta And The Bannermen #Review

The third serial of DOCTOR WHO’s redefining Season 24, DELTA AND THE BANNERMEN, may suffer from a clumsy and largely unsuccessful attempt to pun the all but forgotten pop group Echo And The Bunnymen, but it’s also the serial that’s surprised me the most on reappraising it. Oh sure, it still has some of the hallmarks that classic Who is often derided for (some of the make-up effects are truly…

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Doctor Who Season 24: Paradise Towers Review

If the Chief Caretaker had been doing his job, Paradise Towers would have been chucked in the garbage before it made it to TV screens. #DoctorWho Season 24 #Review

Having opened the new era and series of DOCTOR WHO with the reassuringly familiar presence of a quarry, PARADISE TOWERS provides a similar comfort factor of that time-honoured Whovian trope of endless, conspicuously similar corridors, plus the inevitable return of the Doctor’s perennially ill-fated attempts to take a holiday. Beguiled by the sales brochure, Mel (Bonnie Langford) persuades the…

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Doctor Who Season 24: Time And The Rani Review

Leave the girl, it's the man I want! #DoctorWho: Time And The Rani introduces the Seventh Doctor in an explosion of glittery pantomime camp! #Review

Before it was the social media battle cry of an embittered faction of Whovian fandom railing against the casting of Jodie Whittaker, “Leave the girl, it’s the man I want!” was the portentous opening line to DOCTOR WHO’s latest narrative – and real-life – regeneration as the series exploded back to life in 1987 with TIME AND THE RANI after a nail-biting nine months off-screen during which the…

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