AND so Series 3 of The Walk­ing Dead has shuffled to an end, and what a change from the awful second sea­son. Although there’s been plenty of yap­ping this time around at least it didn’t get in the way of some bloody excel­lent action sequences and even (gasp!) some char­ac­ter devel­op­ment. (Espe­cially in the case of Merle, who developed from a human being to a zom­bie before being face-stabbed to death by his own brother, and unlike T-Dog who was killed off after barely say­ing a word for about 15 epis­odes). The only prob­lem is, this didn’t feel like a finale. […]

HO-LEE shit. Is that Rick slam­ming a machete into a non-zombie’s head without a second thought? Have I tuned into a par­al­lel uni­verse in which The Walk­ing Dead is actu­ally good and people don’t spend 45 minutes sit­ting around a farm talk­ing?

I’d nearly given up on The Walk­ing Dead by the end of last sea­son because watch­ing a bunch of people talk­ing about stuff on a farm instead of, you know, killing zom­bies in numer­ous grue­some ways was becom­ing too much. But I decided to give the third series a go out of what I’m guess­ing is mis­placed loy­alty, or maybe just because […]

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DAMMIT, another Dr Who com­pan­ion has died. Mary Tamm, who played Romana I from 1978-9, passed away from can­cer aged 62. Like Car­oline John she only appeared in one series, from “The Ribos Oper­a­tion” to “The Armaged­don Factor”, the six adven­tures that made up the “Key To Time” story arc.

Mary’s char­ac­ter of Time Lady Roman­ad­vo­tre­lundar was sup­posed to be The Doctor’s equal, but as The Doc­tor at the time was Tom Baker she didn’t really have a chance. She was haughty, sar­castic, aloof and, it must be said, gor­geous. She was a good foil for Baker’s arrog­ant and manic por­trayal of the […]