It was pretty ubiquitous for a while there, but you didn't miss much. He's a rapper. If you watch Silicon Valley he appeared as himself in one episode, with some of the characters appearing similarly confused by who he is. The song incorporated samples from the Dead or Alive song, changing the lyrics to, "You spin my…

She was never meant to be a "send-up"—that would imply a level of parody or insult to her portrayal, which is just that of a competent scientist who happens to like and look up to the Doctor. She's a much kinder portrayal of a Doctor Who fan than, say, the Whizz Kid in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Clive from Rose,…

According to the BBC Doctor Who twitter location work took place in Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands. Presumably they shot those Truth or Consequences exteriors as part of the same trip that took them to Tenerife to film the Spanish square and Skaro scenes for The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar.

I'm choosing to believe that it was Harry who helped develop it, but it was also him who informed the Doctor of its existence when he found out how UNIT planned to use it to take it out of their hands. Some type of research project into Zygon biology that was weaponised by the military side of UNIT without his…

Over the last few days I had plans to watch a bunch of movies about witches because what better way is there to spend Halloween, but I didn't feel too great so I only ended up getting to The Witches of Eastwick. It was good, silly fun, and the central performances were memorable, to say the least. Interesting to read…

If there's one consistent thing about Clara since The Snowmen—and I think there are lots of consistent things about Clara's characterisation, but I know many people disagree—it's that she wants to protect children from harm. It was a feature she shared specifically with the eleventh Doctor when she was first…

I've always been a pretty anxious person so horror films and other scary things aren't really in my wheelhouse, although there are some exceptions, and as a kid especially I had an incredibly over-active imagination so I probably turned off way more movies and TV shows than I could ever recall for being too much to…

Haha, no schooling! Just boringly sharing information I don't really need yet continue to retain, for some reason.

The BBC has nothing to with the TV show or this movie, although they were definitely behind K-9 and Company (which is actually a pretty great pilot, opening titles aside) before a change in management decided it was a bad idea and pulled the plug on a full series. Writers for Doctor Who almost always retain the rights…

I'm really curious to revisit season 7 knowing that the creator of Jane the Virgin wrote for it. The showrunner who took over for Amy Sherman-Palladino is also one of the most prolific Jane writers, apparently. They're two shows with very different tones and voices, but they share a core focus on the bond between…

Yeah, at first I was joking, but I realised how sad it genuinely will be seeing them sitting around that table sans Richard. I was mid-rewatch for the first time in years when Edward Herrmann died and after a few days I thought I could handle it, but the next episode I watched was when Richard had a heart attack and I…

One of the episodes will be a single Friday night dinner shown in real-time. They eat ham. It will be very sad.

Yeah, but who wants to see more of Dean?

Lauren Graham's just wrapped a network acting gig, is writing and producing a movie, and was recently working on adapting her first novel into a TV series for the CW, so I think she's doing okay. Not that I think she'd really hold out on a deal anyway, she and Alexis Bledel seem pretty into coming back, but it's not…

Yeah, it's a little worrying, but I'm trying not to dwell. Ignore it and it will all work out. That works, right?

Are you thinking of Linda Cardellini? I couldn't remember Ellen Page being in the movie so I googled, because what a fun early role to have forgotten about, but instead it came back with quite a few results from people talking about how much the two look alike, and looking at them side-by-side I can totally understand…

Victory of the Daleks wasn't a two-parter, although he was a shadowy cliff-hanger at the end of the episode before, and you're right that he did return twice, briefly in The Big Bang, and much less briefly in The Wedding of River Song. Great performance, though, regardless of your opinion on the episodes, with a bunch…

Jack spends thousands of years buried under Cardiff late in series two off Torchwood, I believe (he was buried in 27AD), so he's no spring chicken. The impression we're given is that he's been physically changed by the time vortex in The Parting of the Ways, which would explain why he doesn't show any of the same…

Every story featuring Clara and the Twelfth Doctor since Deep Breath has had an unspecified gap between them, by virtue of her not travelling in the TARDIS full-time. Only Dark Water/Death in Heaven, The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar, and Under the Lake/Before the Flood lead into each other, and they're…

I don't think Steven Moffat changed his stance on not wanting to do a special episode or anything major to acknowledge the ten year mark, but so far the consistent references to things from the past ten years each episode feels along the same lines as series 7, where each episode had a pointed callback to a classic…