Posted by Phil Reed at 9:56 PM | Music
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There's a valid question lurking at the heart of this release, and it's just begging to be asked: what is it? Is it an album in its own right? A collection? A soundtrack to the television program? Well, it's all of those things...which is part of the problem. Oh, okay...it's the entire problem, because if you disregard its severe lack of cohesiveness and direction, it's everything you hoped it'd be: an almost-perfect mix of great comedy and excellent musicianship.
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Posted by Ian Symes at 10:04 AM | Radio
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Posted by Seb Patrick at 9:20 PM | TV
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I think I might be just about the only person who
wasn’t particularly impressed by last week’s
The Fires of Pompeii - and as such, while many rave about how series four of
Who has so far exceeded expectations, I’ve still been left with a sense that things are far from kicking into gear.
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Posted by Tanya Jones at 7:09 PM | TV
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Crime. One unfortunate side-effect of human society is the desire of some humans to harm others. Societies throughout the ages have devised ways to cope with this, and it probably tells us everything we need to know about today's society that most PIFs concern themselves with crime against property.
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Posted by Tanya Jones at 9:32 AM | Music
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Now, I know remixing is a well established part of dance music, and there are cases where a remix can breathe life into a song (the remix of 'Beautiful Liar' is a case in point), but there's been a couple of cases lately where I've thought "Why?". Take the Utah Saints, who have taken their classic Something Good, which still has the power to make me leap up and down with joy, and turned it into Something Good '08, which, erm, doesn't, because it's covered with a pointless and intrusive bassline.
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Posted by Team NTS at 4:45 PM | TV
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Series 4 of New Who continues apace, with what seems to be almost universally considered a vast improvement on last week's opener. That's not to say it was without its problems, though, so this week Julian Hazeldine and Michael Lacey both take a look at James Moran's first Who effort in this week's double review.
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Posted by Michael Lacey at 1:12 PM | TV
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After watching Torchwood's finale and Who's premiere on subsequent nights, I'm faced with a dreadful reality - Torchwood was waaay better. And it wasn't even that good. It was just exciting enough that you didn't really question the stupidity of what you were witnessing until it was over and had served its purpose, something which Partners In Crime simply didn't manage.
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Posted by Julian Hazeldine at 11:13 PM | TV
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The positive mainstream reaction to this episode is unsurprising. With major changes to the series’ status quo, and the return of a popular guest star, Chris Chibnall’s swan song is a textbook crowd-pleaser. Yet, rather curiously, the consensus in describing this episode reaches for one particular word: shocking. This seems a rather strange verdict. Gripping? Yes. Eventful? Certainly. Shocking? It’s hard to see how. In sharp contrast to End Of Days, the story that unfolds here is the utterly logical conclusion of the events and themes of this series.
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Posted by Julian Hazeldine at 5:35 PM | TV
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