TOTP debacle aside, the BBC knows full well you don’t need viewers to have a successful brand, especially if said brand is cheap as Mars Bars to make.
The BBC’s longest running programme celebrated its 50th birthday last night in typical […]

The furious Who Whype spinning around us throws up a gem from the Radio Times. RT asked their readers to vote for their Coolest People on Telly and guess who came top:

Doctor Who (David Tennant)

Jack Bauer in 24 (Kiefer Sutherland)

The Fonz in Hap[…]

Century Falls was one of the children’s drama series that kicked off Russell T Davies’ career: I’ll come clean and say it’s unlikely I’d ever have watched it if not for this connection to Doctor Who – I was curious which of Davies’ c[…]

Maybe many brits aren’t aware, but thems ‘mericans start DST early from this year. At work, our New York office has only been four hours behind for the last few weeks. Finally this monday we get that all important fifth hour of peace befo[…]

“I eat prosecution lawyers for breakfast! I eat them also for lunch! And for tea! And elevenses! And midnight snacks!”
No, ITV have decided that their plan to run inferior reality TV shows against Big Brother this year was, well, a bit st[…]

Following Freaky Trigger’s favourite show, House, Five has decided to schedule a new US import called SHARK! Which stars James Woods as a maverick lawyer, who is CROSS! A little like House, he shouts at a team of minions a lot! A little like H[…]

I’m still laughing at it months later. (From 3m 54s)[…]

“…And America launches the last of NASA’s deep space probes…”
Of the two US space operas available to me as a child, and then again as an “ironic” Def II viewing late teenager, I always much prefered Buck Rog[…]

There was a time when you knew a trend, a craze or band was naff because they started be referenced in adverts. In the heady days of the eighties, when Studio Line adverts were on rotation during The Tube and The Chart Show, it became painfully obvio[…]

Dreamwatch interview with PJ Hammond about his return to writing fantasy telly. Actually scratch ‘return’ – Midsomer Murders is total fantasy innit. OK, call it scifi then, bah. Hmm, Inspector Barnaby Fights the Aliengs… GET THE C[…]