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Doctor Who: what is Trenzalore?

Andrew Blair Feature May 15, 2013

What do we know about the mysterious Doctor Who planet Trenzalore? Andrew gives us some serious, and non-so-serious, suggestions...

Doctor Who: who is Clara?

Andrew Blair Feature May 9, 2013

Andrew looks at some likely (and unlikely) theories to answer the question running through Doctor Who 7b: who is Clara Oswald?

Doctor Who - Inferno Special Edition DVD review

Andrew Blair Review May 8, 2013

A classic Doctor Who story gets another re-release. But is this newly-minted Inferno DVD a worthy purchase? Andrew takes a look...

100 Greatest TV Themes Volume 3 review

Andrew Blair Review Apr 25, 2013

How many telly tunes does a geek need? Andrew delves into the 100 Greatest TV Themes Volume 3, and likes what he finds...

Doctor Who: The Krotons soundtrack review

Andrew Blair Review Apr 12, 2013

Some fine Doctor Who work from Brian Hodgson gets a CD release in May. Here's Andrew's review of the soundtrack to The Krotons...

10 things we'd like to see in the Blake's 7 reboot

Andrew Blair Feature Apr 11, 2013

Andrew talks us through ten things he hopes to see in Syfy's in-development reboot of Terry Nation's Blake's 7...

10 screenwriters we'd like to see Doctor Who episodes from

Andrew Blair Feature Apr 2, 2013

Andrew offers up ten screenwriting names on our wishlist for appearing on the front of future Doctor Who scripts...

5 fantasy series for A Song Of Ice And Fire fans

Andrew Blair Jonathan Taylor Feature Mar 28, 2013

Here are 5 great fantasy novel series that share A Song Of Ice And Fire's portrait of murky politics and violence...

Game Of Thrones: where fantasy and soap opera meet

Andrew Blair Feature Mar 26, 2013

Andrew argues that HBO's Game of Thrones shares more in common with soap opera than you may have thought...

Doctor Who: The Spear Of Destiny review

Andrew Blair Review Mar 24, 2013

Andrew takes a look at the third of Puffin's Doctor Who eshort stories, this time from Marcus Sedgwick, taking us up to Jon Pertwee's era...

Celebrating Stingray: Barry Gray

Andrew Blair Interview Mar 13, 2013

Andrew salutes seminal TV theme composer Barry Gray, whose work with Gerry Anderson became the earworm of a generation...

Doctor Who: The Nameless City review

Andrew Blair Review Feb 28, 2013

Andrew checks out the second of Puffin's Doctor Who 50th Anniversary year ebooks, The Nameless City by Michael Scott...

Doctor Who: The Silurian Gift book review

Andrew Blair Review Feb 28, 2013

Looking for a short, sharp and fun Who adventure? Then you could do a lot worse than Mike Tucker's The Silurian Gift, Andrew writes...

Ray Cusick 1928 – 2013

Andrew Blair News Feb 24, 2013

Production designer Ray Cusick, who numbered the design of Doctor Who's Daleks amongst his career achievements, has died at the age of 84...

Doctor Who: The Ark In Space - Special Edition review

Andrew Blair Review Feb 18, 2013

A classic, Alien-like Doctor Who story gets another DVD release. Here's Andrew's review of The Ark In Space - Special Edition...

Doctor Who: Shada review

Andrew Blair Review Feb 14, 2013

Based on the unaired Douglas Adams Doctor Who 1979 serial, Gareth Roberts' novelisation of Shada is a brisk, entertaining read...

Doctor Who: A Big Hand For The Doctor review

Andrew Blair Review Jan 24, 2013

Andrew takes a look at the first of the eleven Puffin Doctor Who eshort stories, from Artemis Fowl's Eoin Colfer...

Celebrating Stingray

Andrew Blair Feature Jan 23, 2013

Andrew salutes the barnstorming matinee adventure that was Gerry Anderson's Stingray...

Revisiting Torchwood: what is its legacy?

Andrew Blair Feature Jan 15, 2013

It's the last in our Revisiting Torchwood series, so Andrew considers what legacy the show has left TV sci-fi...

Revisiting Torchwood: James Moran interview

Andrew Blair Interview Jan 10, 2013

It's the penultimate entry in our Revisiting Torchwood series, and how better to mark it than a chat with writer James Moran...

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