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Class Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart’

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Alex Moreland reviews the fourth episode of Class, ‘Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart’… “You remember what I told you, about being at war with myself? I’m losing.” Once again, Doctor Who forms a useful counterpart to contrast Class against, as we have our first two-part story of the series – interestingly, it’s exactly halfway through […]

Class Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Nightvisiting’

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Alex Moreland reviews the third episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class… “I’m not made of glass.” This week’s episode of Class touches on a theme that was in fact dealt with extensively during Doctor Who’s last season: grief. It’s a common theme in sci-fi, and the aforementioned Doctor Who episode ‘Hell Bent’ was widely […]

Class Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo’

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Alex Moreland reviews the second episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class… “When did you know when you were ready to talk?” One of the advantages that Class has over Doctor Who is its ability to explore consequences. Following ‘For Tonight We Might Die’, Class continues the story of Coal Hill – where Doctor Who […]

Class Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘For Tonight We Might Die’

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Alex Moreland reviews the first episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class… “You can’t seriously expect these juveniles to deal with whatever’s going to come through these tears in space and time?!” Class starts as any typical Doctor Who episode might: someone’s running from a monster in a darkened corridor. In beginning this way, there’s […]

Comic Book Review – Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen #3

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Tony Black reviews Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen #3… Witness the birth of the new Cybermen invasion, as the history of this aggressive Cyberiad is at last revealed! The Tenth Doctor takes a titanic machine into combat. The Twelfth Doctor finds an unlikely ally. The Ninth Doctor loses one of his own. And the […]

Doctor Who spinoff Class gets premiere date, guest appearance from Peter Capaldi

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The BBC has announced that its upcoming Doctor Who spinoff Class will premiere on BBC Three online next month, with the first two episodes arriving on October 22nd. And that’s not all, as it’s also been announced that Peter Capaldi will make an appearance as the Twelfth Doctor in the opening episode, titled ‘For Tonight […]

Lost Doctor Who serial The Power of the Daleks to receive animated remake

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The BBC has announced that is has commissioned an animated remake of the “lost” Doctor Who serial  ‘The Power of the Daleks’, which featured the regeneration of William Hartnell’s First Doctor into Patrick Troughton’s Second, with the Time Lord then battling his arch-enemies across a six episode serial. The entire serial had been lost, with the […]

Comic Book Review – Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor – The One Vol. 5

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Tony Black reviews Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor – The One Vol. 5… The Doctor struggles to clear his name, and rediscovers more of what his War Doctor incarnation got up to during the Time War! Plus: the Squire uncovers her true past, and Alice cracks a temporal mystery. (While Abslom Daak uses his chainsword […]

Comic Book Review – Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor – Arena of Fear Vol. 5

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Tony Black reviews Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor – Arena of Fear Vol. 5… The Tenth Doctor’s star-crossed epic continues, as allies become enemies in an interstellar arena! Plus – the Doctor, Gabby and Cindy face off against the terror of the Wishing Well Witch: Gabby and Cindy’s first trip to the UK turns deadly in […]