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Torchwood: Miracle Day: Episode 4: “Escape to LA” (review)

Fri, Aug 05, 2011
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So many dull yet dreary questions raised by this episode! But perhaps the most pressing one is this: Is Esther the dumbest CIA agent ever?

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Doctor Who thing of the day: yet another Season 6.2 trailer

Fri, Aug 05, 2011
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There’s not much new here that we didn’t see in the first, longer trailer, but that won’t stop us from latching onto the few snippets of new stuff and tearing them down into their component parts.

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question of the day: Which era would you like to see as a setting for a nostalgic soap opera or drama (à la ‘Mad Men’)?

Wed, Aug 03, 2011
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NBC has The Playboy Club, ABC has Pan Am, both set in the 60s. The BBC is a tad more adventurous: its The Hour is set in 1956. Couldn’t we look farther afield, temporally speaking?

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Matt Smith talks to Craig Ferguson (again)

Mon, Aug 01, 2011
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Really entertaining in its wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey-ness…

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BBC iPlayer goes international

Sun, Jul 31, 2011
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Somebody’s been listening to me. Shut up: let me at least pretend as much.

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Torchwood: Miracle Day: Episode 3: “Dead of Night” (review)

Fri, Jul 29, 2011
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Thank you, Torchwood, for sucking so much I can’t even enjoy naked John Barrowman.

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question of the day: What are the makings of a great science fiction hero?

Fri, Jul 29, 2011
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SFX magazine recently conducted a poll to determine the Top 10 Sci-fi Icons Of All Time, and the just-published results are a tad surprising…

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Steven Moffat talks about new exec producer Caroline Skinner

Wed, Jul 27, 2011
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“You have to be prepared to understand that Doctor Who is completely impossible to make and then make it anyway…”

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: trailer for Season 6.2

Mon, Jul 25, 2011
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So much wonderful WTF in the trailer for the second half of Season 6…

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Torchwood: Miracle Day: Episode 2: “Rendition” (review)

Wed, Jul 20, 2011
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I’m struggling here to have some fun with “Miracle Day.” Because otherwise I’d be crying.

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