The time has finally come… I’ve now finished university. On Tuesday, I had my last ever exam. How mad is that? Of course, in these days of lifelong learning and the like, I may well find myself behind a desk scribbling furiously against the clock again at some point in the future, but for now […]
The trailer for the film of Northern Lights, the first in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is now online. I’m rather apprehensive about this film. I love Pullman’s trilogy as much as disagree with his anti-God polemic. Any film adaptation would have to be pretty special to do justice to the books. I’m rather […]
Well, when I say exclusive, I’ve just posted this to Outpost Gallifrey, so every Internet-savvy fan will probably know within 24 hours! I was having a look at The Agency website, which has the agents for writers including Russell T Davies, Paul Abbott and many others. It lists their current projects, and according to the […]
Update: PDFs of the interview as it features in Quench are now available to download: Page 1, Page 2 & 3. The latest issue of Quench is out now, and my interview with Russell T Davies at last sees print! The Quench website can sometimes take a while to be updated, so I’ll post the […]
The title of last night’s Doctor Who episode was nothing to do with the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, but instead referred to the amount of time before the spaceship which the Doctor and Martha found themselves on plunged into the sun. Countdowns in Doctor Who are something of a cliché, but I […]
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. So said Marx, and it seems that Russell […]
I went in to the city centre to shop this morning, and what did I see – or rather, who? Updated with more photos below! Feel free to cut them up for internet forum avatars and suchlike, if that takes your fancy! If you want to reuse them wholesale elsewhere, I’d appreciate a link back […]
Some Doctor Who fans over on the Outpost Gallifrey forums have decided it would be a laugh to take advantage of the new chart rules to try and propel a piece of Doctor Who related music into the top 40: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hear a song featured in […]
Continuing a list of 21 things that I’m thankful for… 14. Doctor WhoI’ve waxed lyrical about Doctor Who before, and few things have shaped my imagination more. I love the collision of the fantastic and the everyday, the triumphs of ambition over budget (and occasional endearing defeats!), the sense of humour and optimism in the […]
The Quench website seems not to have been updated lately, which is a pity because my Doctor Who article isn’t online on there. Anyway, I’ve scanned in my article as it appeared. It’s been edited down a little, so I hope to post a super-duper extended edition sometime soon. More articles of mine from the […]