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So… you want to watch The Pitt? Here’s all you need to know…

March 25, 2026 Iain Hepburn Comments Off

After more than a year’s wait, the most highly acclaimed drama of recent years is finally, officially, coming to UK screens this week.

Building and rebuilding Metropolis

December 14, 2025 Iain Hepburn Comments Off

It’s a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl across the class divide. Boy falls for girl. Girl falls for boy. Girl gets abducted by mad scientist and replaced by robot duplicate designed to ferment a failed revolution to crush the working classes…

The saga sell remembered: the lost art of TV’s opening narrations

September 27, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

“Theorising that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett stepped into the quantum leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were

Star Trek: The state of the Federation

September 8, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

As Star Trek Day 2024 arrives (that’s the day that the first episode of Star Trek aired on NBC back in 1966) we take a look at the state of the franchise and it where’s

Buck Rogers Burger Station: remembering Glasgow’s lost restaurant

June 23, 2024 Iain Hepburn Comments Off

Did you know that Glasgow once had a restuarant based on Buck Rogers? Buck Rogers Burger Station opened on Queen Street in 1982.

Steven Moffat interview: ‘Nine and a Half Months’ – Coupling’s finale at 20

June 17, 2024 Andrew Moir Comments Off

Coupling, the popular BBC Two sitcom written by Steven Moffat, came to an end 20 years ago with the 28th and final episode, ‘Nine and a Half Months’ airing on 14th June 2004. The show

A montage of Davros throughout the years with the current incarnation front and centre.

We need to talk about Davros

November 20, 2023 Dav McKenzie Comments Off

The surprise return of Davros and actor Julian Bleach – who has played the so-called Dark Lord of Skaro in the modern era of Who – seemed to delight viewers,

Steven Moffat interview: ‘There Are Crocodiles’ – Press Gang’s finale at 30

May 21, 2023 Andrew Moir Comments Off

Press Gang’s final episode ‘There are Crocodiles’, written by Steven Moffat and directed by Bob Speirs, first aired on CITV on 21st May 1993.

Coming to terms with Star Trek’s visual reboot

May 7, 2022 Andrew Moir Comments Off

Can you ever really go back? No, seems to be the answer according to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, but is that a bad thing?

No, your favourite Star Wars film is not underrated

April 9, 2022 Andrew Moir Comments Off

Rogue One was trending recently. This is probably an evergreen statement. Rogue One trends every 15 days or so. And while James Gunn’s tweet wasn’t the cause of the trend (no one ever knows the