Nah, definitely a continuation, but built to stand on its own as well. Apparently people for a long time went out of their way to convince themselves the continuity didn't match up, and took the opportunity to pretend Paul McGann didn't happen and all that jazz, but every past Doctor has been shown on-screen now…

Yeah, he's saying his stance has always been very firmly in the camp of "time lords, and the Doctor, can change genders between regenerations", and the author of that post has totally misinterpreted. There are lots of genuine complaints to be made about the way he handles many things, but I don't know how you could…

I've just seen it and it's definitely set in the present, the protagonists are just really into the nineties hip hop aesthetic. I like your deducing skills, though.

I saw both The Diary of a Teenage Girl and Nasty Baby over the weekend, making it a (somewhat accidental) Kristen Wiig double-feature. Her career choices are kind of fascinating, and I enjoyed both of them for the most part, but for very different reasons. Bel Powley is, quite rightly, a stand out in Diary as the…

He had a pretty bad coke habit during the period he was on the show which culminated in him having a breakdown in the mid-nineties, after which he was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He talks about it in Stephen Fry's documentary The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, which is well worth a watch.

About a month ago Russell T Davies said in an interview that the only reason he'd return to Doctor Who would be if he could write a movie, clearly in the sense of a fan saying, "I'd love to see a movie, but I know it'll never happen!" because he's already worked on the TV show and doesn't want to go back to it, rather…

When asked about it Casey Wilson said that she believes it's a writer's assistant doing it as a joke, and she doesn't know what the countdown's for, but she's not aware of a revival or anything like that. Seeing as she's not only a main cast member, but also married to creator David Caspe, I assume she'd know, but I…

I've always wondered what originally prompted them to miss out on the fourth year at Cackle's Academy and jump straight to college, tbh. Cast members becoming unavailable seems like a possibility, or maybe they just ran out of books to adapt, but it was definitely risky to shake things up so much, especially without a…

I loved those shows when I was a kid! My favourite thing about Felicity Jones' involvement is that she left after one series of The Worst Witch because she felt homesick while making the show, they recast the role with an actress who played the part twice as long as she ever did, but then when they made Weirdsister…

Technically, we never see the Doctor go into the time capsule Clara suggested, so it's not really contradictory. I kind of like the idea the reason the TARDIS doesn't like Clara is because her echo actually suggested the wrong one, but the Doctor ignored her and still went with the TARDIS we all know and love, because…

At a screening of Kumiko the Treasure Hunter I was at the director said that it took so long to get the film actually made that when he first met with her to discuss the script she'd just been nominated for the Oscar and they talked solely through a translator, and by the time they were filming she spoke English well…

I can't believe Jesse Eisenberg didn't win for his performance, either. Colin Firth was solid in The King's Speech, but it felt like a consolation prize for not winning the year before for A Single Man, which he truly deserved.

I mean, he didn't say, "I love all the characters Jim Henson turned down playing," he said he loved all of his characters, which Yoda wasn't. He didn't create, design, or perform him, but sure, he was tangentially involved with his existence. I'm sure that's what Joseph Gordon-Levitt was complimenting him on.

I don't want to ruin his young frisky memories but Jim Henson had nothing to do with Yoda, that was all Frank Oz, although he did recommend Oz for the part.

I definitely had an issue with the reveal he acted mostly the same in flashbacks/the video as he did in court. While we got some darker shades when he offered to let Cindy go, and I understand it's a comedy so ultimately it wasn't going to go too far down that road (and I wouldn't have wanted it to), I feel like it…

When Tina Fey was explaining the character to Jane Krakowski she told her that, at her core, Jenna was a horrible person, whereas Jacqueline isn't. I personally didn't think that they were particularly similar beyond sharing an actress, and thus a face and style of delivery, but maybe that's just me. She's much more…

Because of Sesame Streets' history with the word they have a deal with Disney so that they can still call their characters Muppets, but Kermit (and other Disney-owned Muppet characters) can no longer appear on the show, although they can still use archive material of past appearances. Disney's pretty strict with their…

The impression I got is that Netflix saw the completed first nine episodes before they bought it, and the show was in the last week of filming, so I assume they were still editing this episode at the time and that's why it's the first to go significantly longer than the standard 22.

Well, they established he had to be sixty-two at the very youngest before she was introduced, even if it was only a throwaway gag. Jacqueline was married to Julian for twelve years, and the reason he started cheating on his first wife is because she turned fifty ("I'd never do that to you!").

But the whole theme of the show, if there is one, is that people all have their own hurdles to overcome, and in the case of the women in the show it's usually rooted in a man who has some kind of control over them (Kimmy and the Reverend, Jacqueline and her husband, Kymmi and her father, etc.). Kimmy, despite having…