Strangers in Space

The first instalment of a fairly breezy (but nevertheless quite explicit) conversation about how we got to where we are now

A round-up of some of the television we watched over the Christmas holiday, including Inside No 9, A Ghost Story for Christmas, Ghosts and Detectorists. Spoiler warning: we will be talking about plot developments and resolutions

Spoilers ahoy, as we discuss Rian Johnson's second Knives Out Mystery, Glass Onion

Simon and Jon enjoy a leisurely post-Christmas chat about Richard Lester's two Beatles movies from the mid-1960s, by way of a (slightly belated) celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of them releasing their first single

Two films whose reputation has exploded over the years - one an overachieving Will Ferrell Yuletide comedy, the other a Muppet reinvention of a seasonal classic - but which will we choose to talk about in our Christmas Film Club Duet? (Clue: it ain't called a Duet for nothing.)

Matt leads Team B back through the last five years of Doctor Who, as they examine the Jodie Whittaker era

With the Chris Chibnall and thirteenth Doctor era now over, it was time to find out which bits of it you liked the best - and to discuss which aspects of it worked and which didn't. 

Is it really fifteen years since Kylie Minogue helped make David Tennant's third Christmas Special modern Doctor Who's most watched episode? Question is though, was it actually any good?

In this year's TV Club Christmas edition, we talk about the BBC and Mark Gatiss' revival of the M.R. James Ghost Stories for Christmas strand

In our Music Club Christmas Special, Simon, Jon and JR each choose their Top 5 Christmas Songs - or in Jon and Simon's case, each other's. But will Cliff Richard win the day? And what's the difference between a Christmas song and a song at Christmas...?

It's 45 years since Star Wars arrived in the UK, high time we revisited the original trilogy and gave our thoughts on George Lucas' paradigm-shifting films, then and now

There's a new Doctor Who spin-off in the pipes and we're pretty sure we know what it is - what's more, we think they've already been making it for several months, and that it'll be with us sooner than we imagined

Our review of Matthew Jacobs and Vanessa Yuille's film about the legacy of the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie, in terms of Jacobs' personal legacy, and (particularly American) fandom's too

The man who possibly 'saved' the first A Star Wars Story film Rogue One returns to one of that movie's main characters, in the prequel series Andor Presented by Matt Barber, with Simon Brett

Marionettes, mysterious doubles and murmuring hearts; it can only be Krzysztof Kieślowski's 1991 French-Polish drama The Double Life of Veronique, in the latest edition of Film Club Lite

Matt leads the conversation through a review of BBC1's 1992 Halloween special, in which a bunch of unlikely television stars go ghost-hunting

We're going tangential in this edition, turning our attention to the infamous 2008 independent spin-off video Zygon (aka Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough)

Our thoughts on the unveiling of the new Doctor Who companion Millie Gibson, as well as the obligatory Coro vs Corrie debate

Our review of the latest series from Hartswood and Amazon Prime, starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine in The Devil's Hour

Winterhill author and co-host of the All of Time and Space podcast, and venerable member of this very parish, Iain Martin chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet All of Time and Space podcast Iain's books

A lengthy discussion taking in all the latest Doctor Who news, from the Disney+ deal to the DWM comic strip

Misunderstood, or simply a mistake? The second segment of the Trial of a Time Lord has long been one of Doctor Who's lesser regarded stories - but what will the Strangers team make of it?

JR and Ross discuss Francis Coppola's trilogy of mafia epics, and ask if our received wisdom is correct about the order in which we value them

Who do you cast to follow the first Doctor ever to take Doctor Who to number one in the national TV charts? The seasoned pro, or the little known youngster who turns up and wows you during the audition process? Matt leads the conversation through a discussion of the eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith