Thursday 16 November 2023

TV

Doctor Who (1996)
[6th watch]
[#83 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2023]
aka The TV Movie. I didn’t actually intend to watch this this evening — I just put it on because I like the opening, and I was going to leave it playing because I like the idea of it notching up views on the iPlayer charts; but then I got sucked in because I genuinely love it. Also, does it count as a film? Well, that's the kind of thing I've debated on and off down the years on my other blog. But I've counted TV movies there before, so why shouldn't it?
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Taskmaster
4x08 Tony Three Pies [season finale]
Completely forgot that I never finished this series of Taskmaster, which I started exactly six months ago and last watched four months ago. Oops! Normally that would be a revealing insight into what I actually think of it, but I do enjoy Taskmaster, I just kinda forgot that I’d never finished this run.
[Watch it (again) on Channel 4.]

Podcasts

Light the Fuse - The Official Mission: Impossible Podcast
2x19 "Mission: Impossible 8" News Special

Fiction

Doctor Who: Time Lapse by Naomi Alderman

So, as you may or may not remember, the project that began as 11 Doctors 11 Stories in 2013 was extended to 12 Doctors 12 Stories in 2014 after the Twelfth Doctor came along. Five years later, there was a Thirteenth Doctor too, and so they took the chance to republish the whole thing yet again be sure to cover all the Doctors, even the newest (except for the War Doctor, anyway) — and so now we have 13 Doctors, 13 Stories. Maybe they'll expand it again in 2024 for the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors. If they do, it would be nice if they went back and plugged the gaps of the War and Fugitive Doctors, wouldn't it? Though I guess 15 Doctors, 17 Stories sounds a bit weird; as does 17 Doctors, 17 Stories when we're only up to the Fifteenth Doctor.

Anyway, as this is the final story in the series for now, that makes it the end of my celebratory 60th anniversary marathon! ...right? Well, actually, I've got a couple of other things to cover first...