Strangers in Space

The audio edition of our review of the recently uploaded fully AI-produced fan film that's been piquing people's interest across the internet Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher

Star Wars is back in the cinema, and it's something we've been watching on telly for the last seven years. So in between talking about why this, why now, we try and get to a conversation about the film and whether it's any good Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Simon Brett

A quarter of a century on from the terrorist atrocity that shocked the world, we recount our experiences and review Paul Greengrass' dramatisation of the events on United 93, one of the planes that was hijacked that day Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ian Winterton

The randomiser plonks us ten years in the future (actually six years in our current past) for our second Chris Chibnall story in a row; but does The Hungry Earth whet our appetite sixteen years since it was first broadcast? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

When Tim Curry died, we knew we really had a straight choice between watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show and watching Clue, and we decided to watch Clue. But was it the right choice... Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Our thoughts on Jacob Gentry's 2021 movie about a man whose wife disappears and who becomes obsessed with the phenomena of the Broadcast Signal Intrusion Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

The results of our listeners poll to find the most loved stories of the Tom Baker era Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

Like him a lot or like him a little less, he wasn't very tall and he played a lot of instruments - we sat down to talk about Prince Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass

In which we talk about three movies from the early 1990s, that share a common theme: Barton Fink (1991), The Player (1992) and Last Action Hero (1993) Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett

The randomiser takes us to the finale of Chris Chibnall's first series in charge of Doctor Who, and an episode that infamously underwhelmed on first broadcast. Will it look any better eight years on? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Roger Spottiswoode's 1993 TV movie about the spread and classification of HIV/AIDS in the USA during the 1980s, and the people involved in the research Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ian Winterton

In the first second of our two podcasts marking the passing of Sam Neill, we take a look at Taika Waititi's 2016 film Hunt for the Wilderpeople Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett

In order to mark the passing of Tom Chadbon, we randomly selected an episode of something relatively genre-orientated that he'd been in, and the randomiser said Bugs. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

In the first first of two podcasts recorded in order to mark the passing of Sam Neill, we take a look at his 2000 film The Dish Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett

Andrew Patterson's second film The Rivals of Amziah King is out on limited release today, so we thought we'd head back seven years to take a look at his debut - The Vast of Night - and see how much promise it shows Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Simon Brett

The results of our listeners poll to find the most loved stories of the Matt Smith era Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Ian Winterton

In which Steven Spielberg goes back to the early days of his career and produces a new spin on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Well, we say "new"; he updates it to the themes and concerns of the mid-1990s at least. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ian Winterton

Who Review Extra takes us right back into The Avengers again, and this time into the middle of Season Four to find Mrs Peel settling in nicely and the format fully up and running... Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Christopher Nolan's latest is another updating of the movies he no doubt caught during summer holidays when he was a kid; the fidelity of his vision isn't important, so much as the quality of the outcome Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ian Winterton

Warning: there are big spoilers to significant plot developments in our review of the latest from the MCU, so make sure you've seen Spider-Man: Brand New Day before you listen to this episode Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake and Simon Brett

It's been possibly the cinema sensation of the summer; we finally took a look at Curry Barker's low budget, big box office, high concept horror film Obsession Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ian Winterton

For this year's summer quiz we have invited the Trap One Podcast to join us in our low-jinks, as we once more lean into the House of Games pastiche express Presented by J.R. Southall Representing Strangers in Space: Jon Arnold and Matt Barber And for Trap One: Si Hart, Dan Hollingsworth, Mark McManus and Tom Newsom Warning: the quiz plays better as a visual experience and you can do that here: https://youtu.be/lvSCVP3urUU

A pair of low budget horror films from YouTubers have created a sensation (and upset the box office spectrum) this summer, so in the first of two reviews we take a look at Kane Parsons' Backrooms (warning: contains spoilers) Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ian Winterton

We talk through some of the names who might be expected to be putting in bids to become the new artistic director on Doctor Who, after BBC Studios confirmed its hat would be in the ring Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

You don't have to have watched Citizen Vigilante in order to appreciate our review of it, in fact we recommend you don't Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake

On the day Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister, we go back to his Party Pieces interview with The Quietus in 2022, and ask whether we think the man who chose to be represented by these thirteen records is the right man to represent us in the highest office in the country. Or maybe just give our opinions on his opinions. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Simon Brett and Eric Drass Party Pieces: https://thequietus.com/interviews/bakers-dozen/andy-burnham-bakers-dozen-favourite-music/

In the first half (albeit recorded second) of a Too Hot for TV crossover, we take a look at the ill-fated 1980s TV adaptation of John Christopher's The White Mountains trilogy Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees On tomorrow's episode of Too Hot for TV (recorded first), we'll be looking at the prequel novel and various comic strip adventures: https://linktr.ee/Dylan_Rees

With The Avengers now in the randomiser we take Who Review Extra all the way back to February of 1963, a time before Doctor Who even existed, to check out the Season 2 episode School for Traitors and see how it stands up against the style the series would hit later on Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

In the aftermath of MayGann, we take a look at Smart Money, the 1986 TV movie that predicts the hacker dramas of the 1990s and which is the first collaboration between TV movie writer Matthew Jacobs and Candyman director Bernard Rose Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber You can watch Smart Money here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1wVSRDFWc9E

England's chances in the World Cup, Nigel's farrago in Clacton, Ann Widdecombe's surprising connection to Doctor Who and more in this emergency unstoppable edition of Private Members Club  Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

Paul McGann's very first screen appearance was in a Play for Today written by Wally K Daly (author of the ill-fated Doctor Who story The Ultimate Evil), and so we extended MayGann in order to take a look Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

The results of our listeners poll to find the most loved stories of the Jon Pertwee era Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

The second film in the DC Gunniverse seems to have stalled at the box office, and it can't just be down to embittered Snyder fans casting a hex upon it - indeed, our review team of four shrank to half its promised size when two didn't even bother to go see it. We decided to make up for their absence by talking longer Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake

Films about filmmakers are always intriguing, and back in 1990 the director of The Graduate collaborated with Carrie Fisher to tell a fictionalised account of her relationship with her mother Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Simon Brett

Now that we've hit July, we can no longer claim it's MayGann, and so by way of saying goodbye we join Sylvester McCoy for his 1996 video diary in which we find him Bidding Adieu to the role of Doctor Who Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher

We talk about RTD's latest, with a little bit about Doctor Who at the start Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ian Winterton

Our summer of celebration of the TV movie and the surrounding wilderness years brings us to the last licensed-but-unofficial spin-off mini-movie that was made before Doctor Who returned to our screens in 2005, Dæmos Rising Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees

Now that we're actually in May Week, here's a little bit more MayGann in the form of Geoffrey Sax's 2005 hit horror film White Noise Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

It only took three days from Andy Burnham's election in Makerfield, to Sir Keir Starmer resigning in Downing Street; for the second time in a week, there are too many developments in government for us not to talk about them Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ian Winterton

As May week kicks off in Cambridge, MayGann spreads its wings to include Steven Moffat's first turn behind the Doctor Who TV typewriter, The Curse of Fatal Death in 1999 Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher

The game of Prime Ministerial musical chairs appears to have begun again, and so we've dusted off our politics strand in order to have a conversation about it - once we can get onto the subject Presented by J.R. Southall, with Steve Hatcher

He-Man is once again holding aloft his magic sword and so we thought we would compare the new Masters of the Universe movie with its 1987 counterpart, to see which has the most fabulous secret powers Presented by Dylan Rees, with Ryan Blake and J.R. Southall

We take a look at three TV episodes Matthew Jacobs wrote for television after his work on the 1996 Doctor Who movie, a feature-length adaptation of Lorna Doone, an episode of Wexford and the Screen Two instalment Mothertime Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

The results of our quest to find our listeners' favourite tenth Doctor stories Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

Christmas is cancelled, and so we convened to discuss what this might mean for the future of Doctor Who Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

We catch up with Geoffrey Sax's career a decade after he directed the TV movie, to find him undergoing yet more behind-the-scenes interference on another adaptation of a beloved children's franchise Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

By way of tribute to the recently departed Anthony Head, our review of the early David Tennant story Presented by J. R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

We name the stories we think Matthew Jacobs might have chosen, had he been asked to supervise a season of Paul McGann episodes in the wake of the TV movie Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher

MayGann continues - if May Week hasn't happened yet, then we still consider it May - with our review of Paperhouse, Bernard Rose's beguiling but terrifying fantasy that was written by Matthew Jacobs Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

As the tumbleweeds gather around the forthcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special, and a year passes since the show was last being broadcast on television, we take stock of the situation and the swirling rumours surrounding the lack of production Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber and the ghost of Steve Hatcher