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Things that shouldn't be labelled "special features" on the back of a DVD: interactive menu screens How you spoil us with the ...

The Dr and I have spent Christmas eating too much, drinking even more, seeing some chums and enjoying – for the Dr at least – a busman's...

Christmas was invented 165 years ago with two important inventions. First, on 19 December, 1843, Chuck Dickens published "A Christmas C...

The Dr sends this clip from a 1992 episode of Spitting Image whose time has come again: Speaking of houses, my own Doctor Who & Home Tru...

…is the title of a new book by m’colleague Jonathan Clements , and an accompanying promotional blog . Best Name Of Anything Ever. (And I hav...

Annoyingly, I've already called a post “50s way to leave your lover” . Indeed, that might be useful context before braving the review th...

Took a stroll with the Dr and the Baldrick-in-law to enjoy Blackpool's unprecedented glimpse of Orb. The Dr and Baldrick-in-law. They ar...

Hello from grey, rainy Blackpool. I know, what a turn-up, I can hardly believe it myself. Last night, with the rain bashing the Velux window...

I've scrawled a great long thing for the Big Finish blog on the writing of Doctor Who & Home Truths . I've also seen a more-or-l...

A bloke at work recommended this short, Hungarian film, thinking it might be my kind of thing. And it is.

I've a couple of reviews in the new issue (#257) of Vector , “the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association”. Dalek, I...

I've returned from Chicago with a cold, plus chocolates and Indiana Jones Lego for the Dr. She's also pleased I know the stink she ...

A frantic few days getting everything ticked off in time for jetting to Chicago . I've freelanced for two days, invoiced them, rewritten...

Leslie has produced The Terrible Zodin , a free fanzine to celebrate Doctor Who's 45th birthday. It includes a short story I wrote about...

Surely I dreamt the adverts for the panto in Bromley starring Police Academy's Steve Guttenberg . But no, the "Hollywood idol"...

I’ve been avidly following Lance Parkin’s Eyeless blog , in which he unpicks how he goes about writing a Doctor Who book. Some things I conc...

My clever uncle Bob has updated his website with details of his latest musical choons . We've swapped notes on our current activities, a...

After the not-so-great Moonraker and Diamonds Are Forever , Bond Book 5 is a bit fab. Bond himself doesn't appear until page 78 of From...

This goes on a bit: it’s a book review but also the janglings of my brain in my sparer moments of man flu. Sorry. After the invasion of 1066...

As Herr Arnopp reports, there are now copies out of Doctor Who: Christmas Round the World . My story, "Do you smell carrots?", is...