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Charles Hawtrey of the Carry On films had an alcoholic cat. It was, “pampered with port-soaked sugar lumps, its bread and butter sprinkled ...

It's taken some weeks to get through this 16-hour reading of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , which I last read while at university a mille...

This is the third of 12 episodes of Star Trek: the Next Generation recommended to me. First there was 1.13 Datalore , then 2.9 The Measure...

The outrageously named Tobias Winter and Vanessa Sommer are two cops teamed up to investigate a peculiar death - the victim consumed by t...

A few weeks ago, I was being old and nostalgic about the days of Doctor Who fanzines, especially the ones handed round in the pub I used to...

I'm a guest on episode 9 of Paul Cornell's podcast, the Cornell Collective , recorded at the magnificent GallifreyOne convention ...

M'colleague Dr Marek Kukula and I were asked by Ballantine's to describe what it might be like in an extraterrestrial pub - or spa...

The splendid fellows at Big Finish have announced the cast and crew of Graceless 3 , what I wrote. Their announcement goes like this: ...

They say you shouldn't meet your heroes but yesterday at the splendid SWALC do run by Si Spencer , I got to meet David Lloyd - artist...

This week, I finished Dashiell Hammett 's The Thin Man (1932) , a gripping, twisty thriller in which a former detective comes back to ...

On Thursday, the nice people at Virgin Media organised a showbiz soiree and awards ceremony for those of us what got shortlisted in the Vir...

The IVF didn't work. Me and the Dr can't have our own kids. It's not unexpected - the odds were always stacked against us - but...

I don't think I'd ever read Fantastic Mr Fox , though I knew it backwards from an audio version released on tape in the early 1980s....

Have spent most of the last week sheltering indoors, stuffing myself full of food and booze. J. and J. put on a splendid spread for Christma...

Had a fine weekend in Brussels, sampling beer and museums. It was a little odd how quiet the museums were, and how many had bits closed or e...

Watched episode 5.10 of The Wire earlier, and so have finished the series. It's a justly lauded, extraordinary show 'pon which many...

For one reason and another, I've not really been out much over the last few months. But I've been making up for lost time. On Tuesda...

I’ve seen a lot of blue sky in the small hours recently. On Thursday, I was on the 05.44 train into town to get to Watford by half seven. Th...

It has been a weekend of day-trips to far-flung places, when I should have been writing a script. After work on Friday we ventured north to ...

Ooh, I’ve known Nimbos for 10 years. There should be a celebration. But he’ll have to settle for a blog post instead. Nimbos and I both wor...