Having discovered a run of form in the latter half of the first season, would Torchwood stick the landing with its first series finale?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

Who Review Extra 53: Torchwood: End of Days

How well would Liam Neeson perform following in the shoeprints of Leslie Nielsen? And could the revival of The Naked Gun live up to the gag-a-minute reputation of the original?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

Film Club Extra: The Naked Gun (2025)

How would you script edit the problematic stories of the past in order to deproblematise them, but without removing the problematic elements? Or: how do you fix a problem like The Talons of Weng-Chiang?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

Blue Box 186: Fixing Doctor Who

Would the Graham Linehan of Doctor Who's first TV story take flight, and would our reviewers bewitched or be what-what-what?-ed?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

Who Review Extra 52: The Shakespeare Code

If you woke up on January 1st and persuaded yourself that what you needed most this year was a further instalment of I Know What You Did Last Summer, then bingo you're in luck. For everybody else, here's our review.

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

Film Club Extra: I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

There's a new Doctor aboard the TARDIS as we enter the fifth season of our imaginary Doctor Who remake - and Mark is here to explain the choice and talk through the stories we've selected for him to experience.

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson

Blue Box 185: Resurrection Who 5. The Firemaker

Dan Jennings of the Paul Weller Fan Podcast joins us to review The Blow Monkeys' new album Birdsong, their first for Alan McGee and Youth's record label Creation Youth

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Dan Jennings

Creation Youth [https://www.creationyouthmusic.com/music] Paul Weller Fan Podcast [https://paulwellerfanpodcast.com/]

Music Club Extra 09: The Blow Monkeys: Birdsong

There had already been three adaptations of Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers by the time Disney's Hollywood Pictures went back to the source, and produced a version of Robert Heinlein's original alien parasite novel The Puppet Masters. Should they have left well alone?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees

Film Club Lite 84: The Puppet Masters (1994)

The quotes coming out of Edinburgh this week might have made it feel like we're stuck in 1989 all over again (or is that 1985?), but this is a different century now - so what did we make of the idea that the TARDIS is "going nowhere"?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Blue Box 184: Chronic Hysteretics

In this edition we're pairing up a couple of very different but equally unlikely vampires; firstly there's David Niven's urbane and terribly British Count Dracula, and then Alicia Silverstone in an undead rematch with Amy Heckerling, her director on Clueless. What can possibly go right?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

Film Club Duets 32: Vampira (1974) and Vamps (2012)

Broader and deeper than just Doctor Who Main episodes: talking about Doctor Who so you don't have to Film Club: reviewing and contextualising a popular movie or film director TV Club: ditto but TV Film Club Lite: focussing on a particular movie for a shorter, more focussed review Music Club: the hosts talk about artists that have been influential in their lives Who Review Extra: choosing an older Doctor Who story for the shorter review routine Desert Planet Picks: once in a while, a special guest chooses the eight items they'd take with them, if they were about to be marooned on a desert planet

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