PodKast with a K co-founder Brian Terranova has decided to step down from regular appearances with the Kasterborous team. This week, Christian Cawley remembers some of the high points of his pan-Atlantic collaboration with Brian, covering their work together on Kasterborous.com, the Time Leech comic strip, and of course, theRead More →
There’s a new Star Wars movie out in December… but what the heck is going on with the other two films currently in production? In the past six months, both the Han Solo origin movie and Star Wars Episode 9 have lost their directors. How has this happened? Who isRead More →
Christian Cawley and Gareth Kavanagh look back at the halcyon days of Teletext, and 8-bit computers in homes and schools in the 1980s in this latest Coaxial. There’s even some talk of 16-bit classics like the Amiga and the Atari ST — a must for fans of retro computing, andRead More →
Since the Russell T Davies/Julie Gardner-lead Doctor Who game genre TV a much-needed revival in 2005, producers on both sides of the Atlantic have taken a new interest in genre TV. While the UK had suffered a hiatus of such TV until the “Doctor Who effect” struck, in the US,Read More →
One week on, and we still can’t quite believe it. He’s not an obvious Doctor Who companion, so we have to ask: has Bradley Walsh really been cast in Doctor Who Series 11? Is the production in some sort of bizarre existential crisis? Or will this prove to be excellentRead More →
Well, it’s been a nice summer, but we’re back! James McLean and Brian Terranova are in the hot-seat this week, steering conversation from The X-Files to Star Wars: The Last Jedi via Spider-Man: Homecoming and comedy in order to try to work out why real life keeps permeating fiction. WhyRead More →
Well that was perhaps the worst week in Doctor Who since 1989. Reaction against the Jodie Whittaker news denounced as “sexism”; Peter Davison dragged into a Twitter firestorm by former Labour leader Ed Miliband (who has so far refused to apologise) leading to the former Doctor Who star quitting theRead More →
Christian Cawley and James McLean are back again with a look at YOUR thoughts about the controversial casting of Jodie Whittaker as Doctor Who. Thanks to your comments on our Facebook page, we’re able to spin this conversation off in a whole new direction, while considering the thoughts of PeterRead More →
Recorded prior to the sad demise of Martin Landau, James McLean hosts another conversation with writer and author John Kenneth Muir about Space: 1999, the British cult sci-fi show from the seventies that starred Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. Get in touch Subscribe to our podcast? Then head to AppleRead More →
So, there you have it. The mystery is over. The thirteenth Doctor Who is revealed, and it’s a woman. Jodie Whittaker, best known for Broadchurch, is the next incarnation of the Doctor, who has been successfully male since 1963. Christian Cawley and James McLean offer their thoughts, arguments, and observationsRead More →
Christian Cawley and Gareth Kavanagh join in the 13th Doctor speculation, throwing a number of interesting names into the mix. Could it be Luke Treadaway? Game of Thrones‘ Richard Madden? Or is it Kris Marshall? And is the Phoebe Waller-Bridge story just non-story clickbait? We also find out what GarethRead More →
We’re back! Christian Cawley and Gareth Kavanagh reconvene to discuss the halcyon days of BBC Television Centre, recalling Gareth’s trips to the famous “concrete doughnut”. There’s also an opportunity to discuss one of Gareth’s ongoing productions, Room 5064, where writers Alan Bennett and Dennis Potter regularly locked horns… Shownotes: TelevisionRead More →
