New Doctor Who to be announced tomorrow

Not much more to add about this story on the BBC site… Read more

2008 in review

It happens but once a year (thankfully). As 2009 arrives, OTT publishes its review of the last – in this case – 366 days of telly.

When TV pundits of the future look back at 2008 (a process that is sure to start in earnest in just over 12 months time as we begin the second decade of the 21st century), what will they make of the year just gone? Read the story »

Christmas 2008, logged

As we wave goodbye to 2008, there’s still one last opportunity to cling on to the magic of the festive season. Yup, we’ve got Christmas 2008 logged.

This was the year Wallace and Gromit returned to the BBC after a 13-year teabreak, and the soaps finally gave ground in their domination of the TV landscape. 

So how exactly did the 25th play out this time around? Read the story »

2008

When TV pundits of the future look back at 2008 (a process that is sure to start in earnest in just over 12 months time as we begin the second decade of the 21st century), what will they make of the year just gone?  2008 brought us Rock Rivals, The One and Only, The Invisibles, Harley Street and The Duchess in Hull - five utterly forgettable series destined for curiosity status almost straight away.  Yet wasn’t this too the year of Lark Rise to Candleford and a resurgent The X-Factor?  Viewed in the context of the decade as a whole how will 2008 fare? Will it be seen as a significant year or 12 months that slipped through the cracks of television’s wider historical development? Read more

Doctor Who

This year’s special ends with the Doctor accompanying a new friend to The Traveller’s Halt. Read more

Merry Christmas!

It’s long overdue, but OTT’s Christmas Logs have now been added to the site.

What are they? Our guide to Christmas Day telly, from 1970 to the present day (2008′s log will go online January 1 2009).

So find out who said: “I’ve never known a year like it. Talk about hectic … To be honest, the fuss that is sometimes made when we’re playing the theatres scares me. It’s like The Beatles” or “People actually send spies to the rehearsal rooms”.

Oh, and a Merry Christmas to everyone who’s written, commented on or even just read the site in 2008!

Heroes without hope?

With Heroes now on a break, it’s time to ask if the show is finally beyond all hope. Read more

Doctor Who’s ‘Next’ generation

Thursday 18 December 2008, and a pointedly low key press launch for Doctor Who‘s Christmas episode, ‘The Next Doctor’ held at London’s Soho Hotel.

Jane Tranter, the BBC’s outgoing Head of Drama, warned the assembled: “‘The Next Doctor’ – for the next 60 minutes or so, make of that what you like. And I’m absolutely not going to tell you anything. But by the time you’ve got to the end, you’ve got to promise not to tell anyone else what to make of that. The ability of Doctor Who is to ask big questions and keep everybody guessing. Please enter into the spirit of that, and allow everyone to keep asking questions”. Read more

Up the Creek again

After nearly five years off our screens, Jonathan Creek is poised to return for a one-off, two-hour episode scheduled for New Year’s Day.

So why has the duffle coat-sporting sleuth been resurrected now?

OTT asked the series’ creator David Renwick.  “It’s a kind of boring answer,” he said. “I had nothing else to do! I wasn’t bursting with any other bright ideas after we finished Love Soup, which I’ve been doing for the last two or three years. And, erm, it was sort of a safe decision.”
Read the full interview »

The Next Doctor at Breakfast

David Morrissey materialised on Breakfast  this morning. Read more

Grot beckons for Clunes

On a hiding to nothing (surely!): Martin Clunes is Reggie Perrin! Read more

Spooks recommissioned

The BBC has announced Spooks will return for an eighth series next year. Read more

2008 – hate or rate?

As ever, OTT intends to publish its review of the year’s telly come the end of December.

And we’d really like you to be part of that. Jack Kibble-White will be doing the honours, weaving contributions together – so please send him your thoughts on any aspects of the last 12 months of TV. 

His address: jack@tvcream.co.uk

The deadline for submissions is December 15.

And Richard & Judy’s new position is…

…back at teatimes. Read more

Front Row with ‘The Next Doctor’

David Morrissey is on Front Row tonight. Read more

Paterson Who?

Will it be Paterson Joseph? One Doctor Who fan site seems utterly convinced. Read more

BBC1 and BBC2 go live online

Today’s news confirms the BBC is the most switched on broadcaster when it comes to the web. Read more

Totally viral

The BBC’s new take on Terry Nation’s Survivors starts this Sunday and it’s actually really good. As per Little Dorrit we’re getting a bit of scheduling madness in that it then continues on Tuesday, where it’ll stay for the rest of its run.

OTT was fortunate enough to talk to Adrian Hodges, the Primeval supremo who’s penned this revival. 

“I can very, very clearly recall watching the first episode [of the original series].” he says. “And I can remember the impact it had, and the shock that was felt by everybody who saw it. Subsequently, when I became a writer, that was the kind of thing I was always looking to create. Sometimes you do and sometimes you don’t. That’s the way it goes.”

Read the full interview here >>

Chalk dusted off

Craig Robins’ admirable one-man-band DVD company, Replay, is releasing a third Steven Moffat production. Read more

Gently does it (again)

The BBC has confirmed a second series of Martin Shaw’s 1960s cop drama George Gently. Read more

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