Strangers in Space

We hop back in time twenty years to the first Second Coming of Russell T Davies, to his last TV drama before the announcement that he was to resurrect Doctor Who, and see whether it stands up given all we've learned of Davies' work since The Second Coming This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Dylan Rees

Our thoughts on the new 60th anniversary trailer, and the reveal of Neil Patrick Harris' villain's identity, all digested into a handy near sixty minutes This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Iain Martin

It's been another one of those weeks in politics, so we couldn't go the weekend without putting our thoughts on the record about it This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber

Our conversations about British TV energy industry thrillers turns to the two American remakes released at the turn of the 2010s State of Play (2009) Edge of Darkness (2010) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber

Our thoughts on Wes Anderson's feature debut, Bottle Rocket, in which the Owen brothers play friends who want to be gangsters and there's a large side helping of romcom Bottle Rocket This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Simon Brett

More Doctor Who What Iffery, this time concentrating on the question of whether America should be making, or should have made, the series This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Mark Donaldson

Arriving around the same time as Edge of Darkness, this was another energy industry adjacent conspiracy thriller, albeit more in the classic Hollywood style; but man, the cast and credits Defence of the Realm on YouTube Defence of the Realm on Wiki This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber Mark Donaldson

Ken Stott as a dour Scottish detective solving themed religious murders in a rain-soaked city (for four series, before regenerating into Marc Warren), should be right up our street you would think... We (mostly) watched all of Messiah, so you wouldn't have to Messiah This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber Mark Donaldson

In which we ignore the controversy that is Gareth Roberts, and instead concentrate on the merits of the first series Sarah Jane Adventure which introduces the character and concept of the Trickster Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? This episode introduced by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Jim Cameron

A comparison of the two big Nazi hunter films of the 1970s, each starring Laurence Olivier in very different roles Marathon Man (1976) The Boys from Brazil (1978) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Matt Barber

In another episode discussing a modern TV conspiracy thriller relating to the energy industry, we focus our attention on Paul Abbott's 2003 BBC One series State of Play State of Play (2003) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold

A double helping of Doctor Who What Iffery in this edition, as first one team and then another discuss what might have happened if we'd travelled into the series' past and radically altered the course of its history These episodes presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Simon Brett Iain Martin Dylan Rees

Our review of Jennifer Lawrence's recent romantic comedy, Gene Stupnitsky's follow-up to Good Boys No Hard Feelings This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Mark Donaldson

Fans of 1973's The Wicker Man are divided over its two follow-ons; divided over which is worse, the remake or the sequel. So we watched them again, only to discover that one wasn't as bad as we'd thought it was... The Wicker Man (2006) The Wicker Tree (2011) And our original review of The Wicker Man (1973) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jim Cameron Dylan Rees  

Our August news dispatch, in which we look at the stories behind the stories in the world of Doctor Who this month Our YouTube news playlist This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold

The fans hated one, but audiences ignored the other. So which Judge Dredd film is better - and what would they have needed to start a franchise? Judge Dredd Dredd This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Iain Martin Dylan Rees

In which we take Troy Kennedy Martin's story apart strand by strand, before finally declaring how great we think it is Edge of Darkness This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold

Our Time-Space Visualiser tunes into January 1965 so we can take a look at Doctor Who's first story post-Susan, The Rescue The Rescue This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Dylan Rees

A conversation about Wes Anderson and review of his latest, Asteroid City This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Simon Brett Links page for the podcast: Strangers in Space

It's won multiple awards as a comedy and it's currently one of the most talked about TV shows of the last year or so - but is The Bear really a comedy? Well, here we are, talking about it some more... The Bear This episode presented by: Dylan Rees With: Mark Donaldson J.R. Southall

It's 25 years since the big screen version of The Avengers opened to massed indifference among both critics and audiences, but is a quarter of a century enough time to turn that negativity around? The Avengers (1998) This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Iain Martin Dylan Rees

The nexus point we'll be visiting in this double episode of Doctor Who what iffery is 2005, where we will be removing first one and then another of the icons involved in the series' rebirth and wondering what it might have looked like without them This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber Simon Brett Iain Martin

Author and artist Andrew-Mark Thompson chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet This Is A Fake! A Collection of Unreal Things This episode presented by:  Jon Arnold With: Andrew-Mark Thompson

Our random journey through Doctor Who arrives at the revival in 2005, and Rose's first trip into history; it's the first story of the modern era to be written by someone other than the showrunner himself The Unquiet Dead This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Matt Barber

In which we tune our listening ears into the sounds of Blur's ninth and latest studio album, The Ballad of Darren, and wonder where the sounds came from, and whether we like them The Ballad of Darren This episode presented by: J.R. Southall With: Jon Arnold Simon Brett Iain Martin