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Love to see a series of Agatha Christie's Mr Quin stories. The Poirot series with David Suchet is winding up, and they're on to their third time through the Miss Marple novels in 30 years (and even having to parachute MM into some of Christie's non-series-detective novels, to disguise the fact there are only around a

I can't like this suggestion enough. The McDowell film has its moments, but Flash Harry deserves much better than that. I have no idea who I'd cast as Flashy, but it'd have to be someone who could look heroic and dashing, a Douglas Fairbanks type, yet pull off that wonderful air of detached (except when his own tail

Anyone looking for a really lovely Wind in the Willows should find the Cosgrove Hall series made in the 1980s. The first episode was (if memory serves) a pretty faithful adaptation of the book; then there were several series of shows (each episode less than half an hour) which stayed very faithful to the characters

Oh man, that final scene - with John Barry's beautiful score swelling underneath it - gets me every time.

Fortunately, @avclub-ea407c6c8898c300a60b1f84d8f15d80:disqus Cadbury Flake bars are now widely available in Canada (although if you want the actual British Cadbury chocolate ones you'll have to find a British specialty shop). I live in a town of 1500 people in the BC interior and our local convenience store/gas

Looking forward to your explanations tomorrow, as always, ED (if I may be so informal). I didn't figure out 'Molineux' until I met and married my husband, a long-time Wolves fan (now that they've gone down to what used to be the Third Division I try not to mention them, as he just starts to weep silently). The glories

Yes, that's quite notable. Mind you, I don't think Hartnell was terribly well, even in 1963; and I suspect they aged him up, so he'd look more like Susan's grandfather.

One Broadchurch / Doctor Who parallel is David 'Please Accept My Wedding Invitation, Don't Bother Booking A Hotel Room For After' Bradley, who's playing Bill Hartnell in the forthcoming An Adventure in Space and Time, about the creation of DW, written by Mark Gatiss. To say my expectations for this are high is like

They've done the last five (I think it's five) novels that hadn't been filmed, and seem to be set on airing them at odd intervals between now and early 2014. The first of them, Elephants Can Remember, aired back in June; Curtain is scheduled to be the last one shown, and I think I saw January/February 2014 as the air

True Colin Dexter story: my husband and I knew him a bit when we lived in England (we were both in the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, and Dexter came to the odd event, and as my husband's a huge Morse fan they always chatted). Just as we were moving back to Canada the Morse novel came out in which Morse's first

Just watched it myself, and really enjoyed it; edge of the seat stuff, as @avclub-ff3315df974a82424353d399b7a68c07:disqus said, and the actual war sequence at the beginning was gripping, giving a very real sense of how hard they worked, how smart they were, and how vital what they did was (which sold the contrast with

I just watched all three series over the last month, and loved the heck out of the whole thing, even though I'd inadvertently come across a lot of spoilers. 'Welcome to fuckin' Deadwood. Can be combative.'

Oh God, can you imagine EB in the TARDIS? If it could be more than one companion, I'd go with Jane and Charlie; Joanie too, if we could stretch to three.

Lots of writers (including three who've written DW tie-in novels/stories, one who's written one of the NuWho TV shows, and one who's done Big Finish audios) and SF fans among my FB friends, so the feed lit up like a Christmas tree with comments (all massively positive) as soon as it was announced.

@avclub-f073cd45cff903b9a6e8a810ecda129b:disqus : Yes, like @InterplanetJanet:disqus  I feel really badly about that. Tell you what, we'll spend those extra six years trying to eke out the state pensions our government (mostly men, last time I checked) keeps cutting back, while fighting a healthcare system that's

Given the - how to put this kindly - tendency of a certain demographic of SF fandom to react badly to women in anything other than certain rigidly defined roles, I think the reaction to a female Doctor would have been pretty nasty from some quarters.

Really happy about this; loved Capaldi as an actor since Local Hero. And the first Oscar winner to play the Doctor! I think he more than has the acting chops to take on the role, plus I really like that they've gone older. Consider, though, that Capaldi is exactly the same age (55) as Bill Hartnell was when he took on

"It's a man and he's white and married," said my son as we watched; and somewhere Olivia Colman and Idris Elba sighed and ordered another round of drinks.

On Space channel here in Canada, live.

"I’m also sure most of us have, however briefly, fallen in love with
someone from afar. Maybe a glimpse through a store window, maybe across a
hallway. . . . In practical terms, these fleeting infatuations are never meant to
become anything more than that—just a moment or two of wistful
consideration about what might