Listen to Toby Hadoke’s “Absent Friends” for 2024
Yesterday I was musing about how much I still miss people like Paul Spragg, Dan Martin and Paul Condon from Doctor Who fandom, and so it seems an appropriate time to recommend you have a listen to the 2024 edition…
Blake’s 7 and the rare occasion of the internet being lovely
The other day a very rare thing happened, which is I posted something on social media, had a little moan, and then somebody replied politely and changed my mind. I think the last time anybody had a nice interaction like…
Thoughts on … Doctor Who: Redacted (2022)
[This is part of an occasional series where I ramble without much focus about an old episode of Doctor Who what I have just watched on my tellybox or a new one I listened to on my pocket computer device.]…
Complaints about complaints at the BBC
This weekend seems to be a good time to remember that I used to be the new media department producer on the BBC Complaints online website in 2005, and that I do not do that job anymore. Look, if you…
Doctor Who Shada – some other bits and bobs from the press screening
I was lucky enough to be at the press screening for Shada yesterday. There was a Q&A afterwards where a lot of the press quotes you may have seen came from, including in the piece in the Guardian. I felt…
I interviewed Peter Capaldi for the Guardian and here’s the rest of the transcript…
Regular readers may know that I am slightly a fan of Doctor Who, so it has been a great pleasure over the last few weeks to have had the chance to both interview and meet Peter Capaldi as part of…
“It is happening again…” – BBC junking more Doctor Who
I’ve written for the Guardian today about the experience of watching “Power of the Daleks” as a massive, massive Doctor Who nerd who knew nothing about the story and was able to watch the new animation as if it was…
Which Doctor Who story will they animate next after “Power of the Daleks”?
This week I was lucky enough to be at the BBC’s press launch for the newly animated lost Doctor Who story “Power of the Daleks” Inevitable in the Q&A afterwards people’s thoughts turned towards whether they would animate another story…
Why you shouldn’t jump to conclusions about the BBC’s “banned from Google” URL list
The BBC have published a list of their URLs that have been removed from Google search results under the “right to be forgotten”. I’ve seen a fair bit of commentary saying this is brave journalism, and being a bit gleeful…
“We put a lot of effort into designing #GE2015 for mobile” – the BBC’s Steve Herrmann at News Impact Summit
Today I’ve been at the News Impact Summit London, and the first panel session was about coverage of the recent UK General Election, a subject rather dear to my heart. It featured Miranda Green, Buzzfeed’s Tom Phillips, ITV’s Jason Mills…