According to the Western Mail, who rang me up to get a fan opinion on who should play the Doctor’s companion. The full article, which looks at the odds being given on different actresses by the bookies, as well as quoting Russell T Davies, can be found at Wales Online. I spoke to the journalist […]
My reactions to the news, recorded live, can be heard over at A Podcast of Impossible Things. In-depth discussion from the whole team of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor will follow in the next few days. The new Doctor Who was announced today, and I’ve got two sets of congratulations to make, and one […]
The latest edition of A Podcast of Impossible Things is a Big Finish special, looking in particular at Short Trips: How the Doctor Changed my Life. It includes interviews with some of the writers, including the overall winner Michael Coen, and me, of course, plus interviews with Simon Guerrier, editor of the collection and fan […]
I made the local paper! Last week, Michael Rees and I were photographed and interviewed about winning the Big Finish short story competition. You can read it on the Wales Online website.
Over the many years of Doctor Who, the Doctor has become more and more of a superhero. The First Doctor started off as an old man, a crochety explorer, who got dragged into events and was more likely to be trying to get back to the TARDIS than to save the day. He could be […]
Short Trips: How the Doctor Changed My Life, a collection of brand new Doctor Who short stories published by Big Finish is now available, and it includes The Shopping Trolleys of Doom – my very first piece of professionally published fiction! The theme of the collection is people’s lives who have been changed by the […]
I had a look at the blog’s visitor statistics, and noticed that I’d got a slight bump in hits from one particular site. Investigating further, I found that someone had linked to my post on Fantasy and Imagination from The Comics Journal Message Board, where a very interesting and articulate discussion on Making Superheroes “Mature” […]
The Curse of the Successful Formula Doctor Who’s twenty-first century regeneration has been refined into a well-tuned formula of adventure and excitement. Series 4 saw the show reach new heights of popularity, with its highest ratings and audience appreciation figures so far. But this successful formula is both its greatest strength and greatest weakness. It’s […]
“A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” Journey’s End had explosions, special effects, emotion and punch-the-air moments aplenty. They were all massively entertaining, and I cheered when K9 appeared just as much as the next fan. Who’d have thought that Russell T Davies could have written a finale that […]
Infamous Doctor Who novelist turned blogger and self-styled “uneasy conscience of fandom” Lawrence Miles has a fascinating blog post on the future, both the future as depicted by Doctor Who and “The actual future – the one where we’ll be spending the rest of our lives, unless Bill Gates’ new masterplan to save the world […]