Oh, hello! Looks like this has been officially announced at last!

After it was mentioned in the episode I had to share this - a highlight of my 2000 AD collection - prog 232 with Bubbly gum still attached and with greasy stain.

"James Bond? But you're dead!" <looks to camera> "Something happened to the other fella."

Buy magazines.

'Death of a Judge' 6.1.26 Subscribe now: https://bit.ly/2Ws04uc

Poor @mikecollins99.bsky.social - I nearly broke him with this one, I think...

Just been watching a Cathy Gale Avengers, written by John Lucarotti, with Henry "Haisman and" Lincoln made up as an Arab sheikh and... oh dear.

We’ve teamed up with @arrowvideo.bsky.social to give away three sets of: – In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane (hardcover) – Arrow’s new UK 4K bluray To enter, it's maddeningly simple… like and share this post by 26 Oct, 5pm GMT. The winners will be chosen at random and contacted directly.

Enjoyed listening to The Iron Legion from @bigfinish.bsky.social adapted by @senrabnala.bsky.social. Thought the added elements worked really well (particularly enjoyed Doug and Viv) and Tom Baker seemed to be having a good time. tardis.guide/story/doctor...

I'm afraid I've been writing things again.

Anyway, Rosalie Craig as Doctor Who.

So I went for my usual weekend 12k round Oxford this morning. Listening to a podcast about Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast himself. You know, just because. Coming out of Uni Parks, there's a humpback bridge you can't run up or down, so I pause there. And I swear, I swear this is how far I'd run:

Excited that my new book got into this Waterstones promotion. 25% off til midnight tonight. www.waterstones.com/book/new-you...

Dance off! Dainty vs Gaga!

Stranger Things. People keep telling me it's absolutely my sort of thing and I'd love it, which automatically trips my contrary switch.

Eight word horror story.

Hand Held in Black and White is, in many ways, the record that determined the course of pop music for the following four years. It is AMAZING. #totp

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

Riverside Studios doing a New Avengers 4K/blu-ray launch on 9th November. I shall be making the pilgrimage riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/e...

What a cast!

Absolutely fascinating thing here.

Lovely Chris Achilleos covers!

Hadn't realised that my fall on Monday left me with a bit of a shiner, chiz

As times get weird, there's a Doctor Who audio drama from 2002 that I think about a lot called Neverland. In it the Doctor discovers that his own people, the Time Lords, used to have a method of execution called "the Oubliette of Eternity" which erases the convicted person from time completely.

My Australian The Keep box set just turned up, months after I preordered it. It is huge, and very heavy, and comes with a metal cross, and so much STUFF and oh God I love it

A lovely quote about their debt to Delia Derbyshire here...

Tripped on the pavement, by a crossing. Flat on my face. Shoe came off, hit my knee, grazed my hands, cut my forehead. Cyclist rode to a stop at the crossing... and ignored me. Lying there. On the ground. Dazed. Cyclists. The worst.

Heartbroken. RIP Stephen. Love you forever.

Reading the 2011 edition of Christopher Priest's notorious 1971 novel Fugue For A Darkening Island - near future England, boats, refugees, you get the picture - and on page 13:

Chris Bidmead. I script-edited him on Renaissance of the Daleks. He didn't disappoint. Hugely smart, of course, and testing, but also charming, flattering, and kind. His work was inspirational; so was he. I promised him I'd read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I never did. Sorry, Chris.

I have a vivid memory of seeing *this exact week's* editions at the newsstand at the Portsmouth Harbour ferry terminal, because I was bought the Star Lord issue (unusually) for the ferry journey to the Isle of Wight (I already had the 2000 AD, obv). Can I remember anything about last Thursday? No.

Someone's sent me a DM but I can't be arsed getting certified to read it, soz. :)

Awful news about Dave Taylor. I snapped him up for the Megazine, years ago. I thought his Moebius-like Mega-City 1 was one of the best ever. The Anderson Psi story Big Robots was his concept, IIRC. What a star. Vale.

"Not easily forgotten". Last performance tonight. loureviews.blog/2025/08/21/c...

The first episode I watched all the way through (I'd caught a bit of the unscheduled Sea Devils repeat the year before). The writhing thing in the solar stacks is what hooked me, I think. I hated it. But I wanted to see it again.

Three shows remaining.

London people! A certain Miranda Barnes (my "progeny", hem hem) is playing Edgar in this, at the Old Red Lion in Islington for four nights, Mon to Thurs this week. Tickets still available. It's very good. The author shows promise. camdenfringe.com/events/king-...

London people! A certain Miranda Barnes (my "progeny", hem hem) is playing Edgar in this, at the Old Red Lion in Islington for four nights, Mon to Thurs this week. Tickets still available. It's very good. The author shows promise. camdenfringe.com/events/king-...

Coming 28th August Doctor Who Magazine Special: Gothic Horror DWM celebrates the Blu-ray release of Season 13 with a special issue about the show’s classic Gothic horror episodes. Every copy includes a new & exclusive compilation CD from BBC Audiobooks www.panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/d...

Well, I'm in receipt of a load of wonderful, never-seen-before private BTS photos of Virtual Murder. Thanks to their respective owners, I can't WAIT to share them with you!

A Fifteenth Doctor comic strip collection of ‘The Monster Makers’, from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine, is available to preorder for an August 19 release. www.panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/d...

More stuff what I thought up.

The fantastic @hamishhawk.bsky.social does PSBs and Eurythmics. Marvellous. open.spotify.com/album/5fg6yH...

This Sunday, a chance to bid on some signed memorabilia from my lovely mum. All money raised will be split between The Princess Alice Hospice, who cared for my mum so brilliantly, and The Anthony Nolan Trust. Please help raise some money for two brilliant causes!

This month's issue of Dr Who Magazine 619 (@DWMtweets) features a full page article on Virtual Murder, in particular former Dr Who Jon Pertwee's role in A Torch for Silverado, with a brief review of the series. You can buy it in good newsagents or order from Panini for £7.99

So a wasp stung my neck and some wazzock spilled champers all over my jacket, but that was still the best day. Lifetime ambition fulfilled.

Unbelievably... we're on Centre.

Ooh dear. Madge really wasn't very good, was she? As a horny 15 year old I completely failed to notice.

Me: I've been working my butt off all day, let me walk away from my computer, eat lunch and take some breaths My brain 5 minutes later: omg you know that section of your article you had writer's block on, here it is, better grab that napkin and pen, it's all here, in 10 seconds it'll be gone

Lovely Kirsty. ❤️