Gareth Roberts
News Editor at Commercial Fleet
News Editor at Fleet News
News editor for Fleet News, although views here are my own and not those of my employer. A mention does not equal an endorsement.
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4 days ago |
spectator.com.au | Gareth Roberts
Twenty years on from its spectacular revival it looks like Doctor Who might not be returning to our screens again in the immediate future. I haven’t actually watched Doctor Who for a long time, but because I wrote an awful lot of it for years – on TV, but also books, comics, radio plays, yogurt pot labels, you name it – people always ask me what I think should become of it.
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4 days ago |
spectator.co.uk | Gareth Roberts
Twenty years on from its spectacular revival it looks like Doctor Who might not be returning to our screens again in the immediate future. I haven’t actually watched Doctor Who for a long time, but because I wrote an awful lot of it for years – on TV, but also books, comics, radio plays, yogurt pot labels, you name it – people always ask me what I think should become of it. My answer? I’d cancel it and flee for the hills.
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4 days ago |
thespectator.com | Gareth Roberts
Is Pride flopping? This parti-colored celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march for lesbians and gay men. Then it became a day, then a week, then a month, and now it spreads throughout the summer, accompanied by all manner of feast days and “visibility” events. Its expansion coincided with the addition of all the letters after the first three.
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6 days ago |
theculturebunker.substack.com | Gareth Roberts
And on to the trial, the sentence and its aftermath. Perhaps oddly, there’s not a great deal to annotate about these proceedings. The screen version follows the script, and it’s performed and realised very nicely. The central trio of McGoohan, Morris and West are spectacular, with Number 2’s poetic plea for mercy a particular highlight. Aubrey Morris is silkily, sibilantly sinister in his second costume as the Nero Judge.
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6 days ago |
theculturebunker.substack.com | Gareth Roberts
The credits roll on Doctor Who on May 31st 2025 - then suddenly - - the 1986 title sequence breaks in! INT. TRIAL WAITING ROOM. DAY. Suddenly twin effulgences of argent light strafe down - they blink off just as suddenly, revealing DOCTOR WHO - the quirky sixth persona of the venerable Time Lord - and MELANIE, exactly as we last saw them in Part Fourteen - DOCTOR WHO: By all the stars and planets - He shakes his tousled fair curls - Melanie blinks and staggers - MELANIE: What …! What’s going on … ?
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