From Fun House to Mr Majeika: the best shows CITV ever made – before closing forever (www.theguardian.com)
I mean yes Fun House, but Knightmare for the win surely... Also does anyone else remember Round The Bend? I used to love that!
Takeshi’s Castle is back! UK television gets its best ever version of the Japanese gameshow (www.theguardian.com)
Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis host a fun, refreshing reboot of the classic show. Expect charm, dodgy sets and ludicrously difficult challenges
Doctor Who Season 14 Is Already Continuing A Tired RTD Obsession (screenrant.com)
When Russell T Davies brought back Doctor Who in 2005, it was grounded with a contemporary Earth setting, from which the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose (Billie Piper) would travel across the planet’s past, present, and future. RTD’s ban on alien worlds in Doctor Who did cause consternation among old-school...
Doctor Who regeneration wins TV Moment of the Year at Edinburgh TV Awards (www.radiotimes.com)
In the only award voted for by the public, the scene in Doctor Who that saw Jodie Whittaker regenerate into David Tennant – from the episode The Power of the Doctor – was crowned TV Moment of the Year.
Doctor Who Christmas special confirmed – new season to air spring 2024 (www.radiotimes.com)
Aside from the anticipated Doctor Who 60th anniversary episodes set to air this November, Whovians have been eagerly awaiting confirmation of what a special of the show ‘over the festive period’ could include, as previously stated....
BBC releases first photo of Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile in harrowing new series (www.independent.co.uk)
BBC has unveiled the first official photograph of Steve Coogan in character as Jimmy Savile....
In Good Omens, diversity is divine (www.theverge.com)
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Paranormal: The Girl, the Ghost and the Gravestone (www.bbc.co.uk)
Did anybody else watch this? It’s about a creepy haunted farmhouse in Wales. What I find a bit odd was there was no mention of when the hauntings stopped or what might have triggered that. The new owner was rather relaxed about the whole thing, even digging up the gravestone which apparently kicked the whole thing off!
THE DAY TODAY (thisisyesterday.org)
The Day Today – The satire of news which will continue to be relevant for as long as news programmes think they’re more important than God....
‘I made as much from one episode of Blackadder as from all of The Young Ones’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)
How did you end up in The Young Ones?...
The New Statesman (1987) (onion.tube)
Seems like it is increasingly relevant again....
Even the over-60s are abandoning broadcast TV - and I fear for the future of pop culture | Scott Bryan (www.theguardian.com)
The best cult TV moments are the ones we watch together, says television critic and broadcaster Scott Bryan
UK traditional TV viewing sees record decline, Ofcom report says (www.bbc.co.uk)
David Tennant praises Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who performance "What a force of nature" (cultbox.co.uk)
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Cillian Murphy Says Tom Hardy Is ‘One of the Best Actors in the Business’: “There’s a Nice Kind of Chemistry Between Us. I’d Love to Work with Him Again. Maybe There’ll Be a Peaky Blinders Film” (www.ladbible.com)
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David Tennant defends Good Omens after show was hit with furious blasphemy claims (www.independent.co.uk)
He said that those who suggested that the show glamourised the devil had not really understood the series. “It’s not an irreligious show at all,” he said. “It’s actually very respectful of the structure of that sort of religious belief. The idea that it promotes satanism [is nonsense]. None of the characters from Hell...
Netflix axes its $10 ‘Basic’ plan in the US and UK (www.engadget.com)
Alien and UFO 'Bermuda Triangle' explored in new Netflix documentary (www.bbc.com)
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