I'm watching Wimbledon. I don't really like tennis, but it's Wimbledon so you have to watch it. I don't watch a lot of sport but, when I do, I tend to notice the commentary more than anything else and the BBC still does sports commentary better than any other channel. I think they have got it a bit wrong with Wimbledon this year though ( Read more... )

I stand by what I said last week. John Simm was rubbish again.

I've just noticed that 'Saxon' is an anagram of 'Axons'. I really, really hope that isn't the big surprise at the end of the series.

I'm still not very good at Doctor Who fandom. After 25 years, I was sort of starting to get the hang of it, then they had to go and change everything. As soon as they let the Doctor be pretty and hold hands with girls, it was only a matter of time before the fanvids started creeping in. The thing is, I never really had much in common with the ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who really wanted to know exactly which seventeen DVDs Sally Sparrow owned? Possibly I am focusing on the wrong details.

I think that might have been my favourite episode since episode five of The Chase... errrm, well for ages anyway. It was scary, clever and pacy. Also, my tea went cold before I could finish it which is usually ( Read more... )

I've just seen Full Metal Jacket again for about the 150th time. It's still good. The one thing that always occurs to me after watching it is: how on Earth did Matthew Modine manage not to become really famous and successful after that? This time I decided to find out ( Read more... )

I take it that now would be a bad time to start writing that Buffy/Dawn fic I've been thinking about then?

Although, I could always play the 'glowing ball of energy and not actually Buffy's underage sister at all' card if the anti-chan crusade ever catches up with me.

Bernard Manning once said that the only problem with alternative comedians was that they didn't know any jokes. I don't have a great deal in common with Bernard idealogically, but I'm inclined to agree with him to some extent on this point. Of course, the comedians who were once thought of as alternative are now the norm and the old school stand- ( Read more... )

I thought they had just remade The Satan Pit, but it turns out it was Planet of Evil all along.

I fucking love Gordon Ramsay ( Read more... )