Category: TV
Doctor Who: Ghost Light by Marc Platt (DVD review).
With only three stories to go in the McCoy era, I suppose it was inevitable that we would finally have a ghost story of sorts with ‘Doctor Who’ and another personal hate for Ace, as she doesn’t like ghosts or ghosthouses. The TARDIS deposits the Doctor (actor Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (actress Sophie Aldred) in […]
Star Trek The Next Generation: the failure that never happened (video documentary).
Many expected a new TV series franchise called Star Trek The Next Generation to bomb and sink without a trace. How dare they make a new series without Kirk, Spock and the regular gang? But history had other ideas! In this hour-and-forty-minute-long video documentary, Rowan J Coleman asks and examines a question we rarely ask… […]
Game of Thrones: saving the TV series with a new ending? (video).
In this short 15-minute-long video piece, the most critical of thinkers – I mean, drinkers – examines the shoddy ending of the Game of Thrones TV series and spit-balls a few ideas of how this rubbish could be rectified, thereby saving the popular fantasy series from its current dry-fizzle of a finale. Another interesting question […]
Intergalactic (scifi TV series: trailer).
It looks like Sky has been feeling left out of the science-fiction goodness going on in the rest of the streaming universe with such rivals as Disney Plus, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and you know, all the usual suspects. What is a fading pay-to-watch video channel to do? Well, they have responded with some right old […]
War of the Worlds season 2 (trailer).
The War of the Worlds TV series – you know, that odd modern French-American co-production, rather than the bad Victorian-set series the BBC did – has been judged at least successful enough to make it to a second season. And here is the trailer as proof of life for you. Good old Gabriel Byrne, he won’t let humanity […]
Invincible: series retrospective (video).
Invincible is the new animated adult superhero cartoon series from Robert ‘Walking Dead’ Kirkman, now streaming on Amazon Prime. Is it any good? Well, if you haven’t seen it then you are in luck, because Andre is here to dish the lowdown on this new show. This is the one with a little father and […]
Firefly: the complete and very true story of the TV show (video documentary).
The science-fiction TV show Firefly was more than just a western in space to many fans. In this fascinating one-and-a-half hour-long video, the Popcast Peeps investigate the how’s and whys behind the rise to fan mega status of this fine series. So short, yet so beautiful. Would it have been perfect any other way?
The Neighbor (season 2: Netflix superhero TV series).
The Neighbor is a Spanish-language superhero TV series appearing on Netflix, and here is the trailer for its second season. If this is news to you, then guess what, it is news to us, too. Has anyone seen the first season, and is it any good?
Jupiter’s Legacy (comic-book retrospective: video).
Ed and Jim are back to bring us a timely look at the Jupiter’s Legacy comic-book series from Mark Millar – just in time for the Netflix TV adapation coming our way at the end of this week.
Star Trek Picard Season 2: Q-tastic rumours (news).
Q might be the god of space malarky in Star Trek, but actor John de Lancie comes close in real life, too. As proof of this thesis, just watch this here video about his upcoming appearances in the next two seasons of Star Trek Picard.
