Category Archives: Television

The Ghosts of Christmas

As I said back in October, my short story, Tell Me You Love Me is going to be included in the forthcoming anthology, Doctor Who Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas.

The Big Finish page for the book now includes an image, as well as a free PDF of one story from the collection — […]

Why write?

It may be a tough question to answer, but I love Neil Gaiman’s attempt:

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why you’re doing it and what […]

Coming soon: The Ghosts of Christmas

I’ve mentioned bits and pieces about getting a short story published, without going into further detail. Now, though, my publisher has announced full details, so I can officially go public. My story, Tell Me You Love Me, is going to be published in Big Finish’s forthcoming short story anthology, Short Trips: The Ghosts of […]

A 100-word biography

As I mention on my About page, I’ve recently been lucky enough to have received a commission for my first professional piece of fiction — a short story for an anthology based around a certain TV show.

The story itself has been approved, is currently being typeset and the (small but historic) cheque has long since […]

Any Dream Will Do

Links to each weekly review I wrote for The Stage’s TV blog, TV Today, of BBC1’s Saturday evening theatre audition show, Any Dream Will Do.

Moths Ate My Mitch Benn

If you’re in Edinburgh this weekend — which, sadly, I’m not — and are in any way shape or form into Doctor Who — which, happily, I am — then make sure you go along to a one-off charity event in aid of ACCORD, the hospice where David Tennant’s mother worked and, recently, passed away.

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Requiem for a Songbird

This was my entry for a recent Big Finish short story open submissions competition. The brief - “Doctor Who changed my life”.

Saturday night reviews: Smith and Jones and Joseph

My review of Smith and Jones, the first episode of Doctor Who’s new series, is now online. A review of Any Dream Will Do is to follow.

In something of a departure for TV Today, we’re going to try and review each episode of these series, along with ITV1’s Grease is the Word, every Saturday. This […]

Short story + 7

Earlier this week, I submitted my entry for Big Finish’s Doctor Who short story competition. The closing date is tomorrow, January 31, and I don’t know how long it’ll be until I hear who beat me (such confidence, I know).

I ditched the original short story I tried writing for the competition, as I realised that […]

The London Nail Bomber

Must do more blogging over here, I really must.

In the meantime, a review of last night’s The London Nail Bomber over on my work blog. It’s pretty much the angriest review I’ve ever done (save for previous drafts of the same review). I guess programmes which wilfully stop short of excellence push those sort of […]