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Taking America By Stormhouse
Bloggery-Pokery &bull Feb 7, 2012
When I think about it, it's pretty unusual for a British horror film to be released in America before all other territories. Still, I'm certainly not complaining. Yes, Lionsgate unleashes Stormhouse today in the good ol' USA, via the media… Full Story »
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How Big Brother Gives Us Drama Fuel
Bloggery-Pokery &bull Jan 5, 2012
An hour ago, I learned that Celebrity Big Brother starts tonight on Five at 9pm. This is worrying, since I'm a fan and had no idea. What chance does the casual viewer have, eh? Now that's stealth programming. Anyway, I wanted to share a thought which I've long held about Big Brother, in terms of how it can help us dramatists. So before you unreservedly sneer at the… Full Story »
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What's Your 60-Second Story?
Bloggery-Pokery &bull Jan 4, 2012
This post contains spoilers for The Evil Dead and John Carpenter's The Thing. Albeit mainly via the medium of clay. Hello! I've only just caught up with Lee Hardcastle's remarkable claymation videos - in particular his web series which presents 60-second versions of horror classics. I've enjoyed them on two levels: namely, being greatly entertained, and having a subsequent think about script-related matters. If you haven't seen it already, give Lee's take on The… Full Story »
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2011: How It Was For Me, Darling
Bloggery-Pokery &bull Dec 30, 2011
Now, then. Having tidied and sorted my office, which had rather begun to take on a life of its own, I'm in a good position to sit down and sum up my 2011 for you. If you like. Your continued reading of these sentences and paragraphs will be taken to signify interest in this proposition. Globally, 2011 was clearly an extraordinary year of unrest, whether natural or social. I won't be writing an incisive essay about world events here, though: this is purely about my year in the altogether more comforting world of fiction. And on that front, 2011 was… Full Story »
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Three Joyously Christmassy Doctor Who Events
Bloggery-Pokery &bull Dec 12, 2011
Mark Gatiss, Terry Burnett and Ralph Montagu at the BFIUntil yesterday, there were 108 Doctor Who episodes missing from the BBC's archives. Now there are 106, thanks to a brilliantly surprising event at the London BFI. The BFI annually shows a Missing Believed Wiped programme, which presents various footage which has been pulled from the jaws of obscurity over the previous year (see, the BBC didn't always safely archive everything - they didn't know video… Full Story »
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Doctor Who Dreams Come Through
Bloggery-Pokery &bull Oct 21, 2011
Turned out I'd had a dream, you see, in which my family crept around our own house, searching for The Master, cowled nemesis of TV's Doctor Who. The Master had recently scared me witless in 1976's The Deadly Assassin, by dint of having bulbous ping-pong ball eyes, the most theatrically malevolent voice imaginable and lurking beneath Gallifrey's political… Full Story »
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Something Writers Forget Every Time
Bloggery-Pokery &bull Oct 14, 2011
I've been beating myself up all week, for seemingly being incapable of starting work on the rewrite of a TV series pilot spec script. It's been at best bemusing, at worst quite distressing. Why the hell haven't I been able to write a single line of script? Ridiculous, right? The script is… Full Story »
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Brilliant Doctor Who Things
Bloggery-Pokery &bull Oct 13, 2011
Good morning. Dark forces are stirring in the Doctor Who universe. And by "dark forces", I mean "things about to be released which I worked on". The Brilliant Book Of Doctor Who 2012 is out today! As with last year's inaugural release, it's a wonderful annual-style affair, officially sanctioned by the BBC and with the participation of… Full Story »
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Brilliant Doctor Who Things
Bloggery-Pokery &bull Oct 13, 2011
Good morning. Dark forces are stirring in the Doctor Who universe. And by "dark forces", I mean "things about to be released which I worked on". The Brilliant Book Of Doctor Who 2012 is out today! As with last year's inaugural release, it's a wonderful annual-style affair, officially sanctioned by the BBC and with the participation of… Full Story »
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Brilliant Doctor Who Things
Bloggery-Pokery &bull Oct 13, 2011
Good morning. Dark forces are stirring in the Doctor Who universe. And by "dark forces", I mean "things about to be released which I worked on". The Brilliant Book Of Doctor Who 2012 is out today! As with last year's inaugural release, it's a wonderful annual-style affair, officially sanctioned by the BBC and with the participation of… Full Story »
