Robin Day is important because he transformed the style of political interviewing in the UK. Prior to Day, political interviewers had been very deferential, allowing their subjects to say pretty much anything they liked without challenge. Day introduced a much more abrasive, confrontational style, forcing politicians…

Robin Day is important because he transformed the style of political interviewing in the UK. Prior to Day, political interviewers had been very deferential, allowing their subjects to say pretty much anything they liked without challenge. Day introduced a much more abrasive, confrontational style, forcing politicians…

I think the name's easier to make sense of once you understand that the Doctor wasn't originally the show's central character. As originally conceived, Doctor Who was the story of two school teachers having historical and sci-fi adventures. The TARDIS and its pilot were just plot mechanisms to get the teachers into…

In the parallel world of book continuity, it been established for decades that the Doctor has a real Time Lord name that he's for some reason keeping secret (I think that was originally stated in Terrance Dick's "Making of Dr Who" back in 1972). I think it's only recently that that's been discussed on the TV show…

Moonrise Kingdom's playing the multiplex chains here in the UK. I saw it in a Cineworld in Didsbury, a nice but fairly average suburb of Manchester. It was good.

Moonrise Kingdom's playing the multiplex chains here in the UK. I saw it in a Cineworld in Didsbury, a nice but fairly average suburb of Manchester. It was good.

I don't know if I would call "It Felt Like A Kiss" a 'production'. It was a strange immersive-experience kind-of-thing. You wandered around an empty office building where each room had been dressed up as a set - a 60s suburban home, a nuclear lab, a military torture chamber, a TV studio - looking at the props and…

And for that matter, what's she doing in a department store in Colchester? I thought Leadworth was near Gloucester, nearly two hundred miles from there…

And the British readers of this piece all rise up as one and say "Prime Suspect was an ITV show, not BBC".