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Orb Will Soon Show Him How It's Done (EarthWorld)
I’ll Explain LaterEarthWorld is the first book after the stuck-on-earth cycle, and features a futuristic earth colony, a museum, and some evil princesses. It’s the second book featuring Anji Kapoor,...
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Time Can Be Rewritten 35 (Fear Itself)
This isn’t quite the last Time Can Be Rewritten entry, but it’s getting there. All that’s probably left after this are the two Lucie Miller audios we’re going to cover and The Gallifrey Chronicles, and...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 56 (The West Wing, 9/11)
How to handle 9/11 is, from a writerly perspective at least, a tricky business. It’s too big to shove into an “oh yes, this happened too” paragraph in another story. We’re not doing City of the Dead,...
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Time Can Be Rewritten (The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
We should begin with context. The Adventuress of Henrietta street was released in November of 2001. Songs to reach number one in the charts that month included Afroman’s “Because I Got High,”...
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You Can Never Go Back. That's Your Tragedy (Invaders From Mars)
It's January of 2002. Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman are at number one with "Something Stupid." Daniel Bedingfield unseats them a week later with "Gotta Get Through This," then Aaliyah's posthumous...
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So Many Ideas. So Much Darkness. (The Chimes of Midnight)
It’s February of 2002. Enrique is at number one with “Hero,” which lasts the entire month. Britney Spears, George Harrison, Pink, Ja Rule, No Doubt, Alien Ant Farm, Brandy, S Club 7, and Victoria...
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The Nimon Be PRAISED! (Seasons of Fear)
It’s March of 2002. Westlife are at number one with “World of Our Own,” which goes a week before Will Young takes over with “Anything is Possible/Evergreen.” This lasts almost to the end of the month,...
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Then Why Is It Dark? (Embrace the Darkness)
It’s April of 2002. Gareth Gates is at number one with “Unchained Melody,” which lasts almost the whole month before Oasis unseat them with “The Hindu Times.” Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, Nickelback,...
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This Is Just a Theatre (Time of the Daleks)
It’s May of 2002. Sugarbabes are at number one with “Freak Like Me.” That lasts a week before Holly Valance takes number one with “Kiss Kiss,” followed by Ronan Keating’s “If Tomorrow Never Comes,” and...
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With You Behind The Mirrors (Neverland)
It’s June of 2002. As it feels so empty without him, Eminem is at number one. Things empty fast, as Will Young takes over with “Light My Fire.” Two weeks after that is Elvis vs JXL with “A Little Less...
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You Must Have Been Like God (Camera Obscura)
It’s August of 2002. Gareth Gates is at number one with “Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake).” That lasts a week before Darius’s “Colourblind” unseats it for two weeks followed by Sugababes’s “Round Round,”...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 57 (Firefly)
The argument for Firefly’s influence on Doctor Who is marginal at best. Moffat hadn’t seen the show until a year or two ago, and while Davies might well have, there’s nothing obvious about his Doctor...
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Chronic Hysteresis (Zagreus)
and continuity, everyone at least got to do celebrated party pieces. Were they pale imitations of what they had actually meaningfully accomplished in the past? Yes, but at least it was celebratory....
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Better With Two (Scherzo)
It’s December of 2003. Will Young is at number one with “Leave Right Now,” which lasts for half the month at which point Ozzy and Kelly Osbourne take over with “Changes” for a week. The Christmas...
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It Was Too Late, And Therefore Necessary (The Creed of the Kromon)
It’s January of 2004. Michael Andrews is at number one with “Mad World.” After two weeks Michelle takes over with “All This Time.” Black Eyed Peas, Victoria Beckham, Atomic Kitten, Kelis, Franz...
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Time Can Be Rewritten 36 (The Girl Who Never Was)
It’s a fair question why this exists. The continuing adventures of the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard, long after their quasi-era had ended. Really, the entire existence of Big Finish as the last...
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Book Launch From Space
The Girl Who Never Was is discussed in the entry immediately below this. But I'm knocking that off the top of the post order because, well, this is more exciting. Slightly later than hoped for, but...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 58 (State of Play)
As we’ve noted previously, Paul Abbott was one of Russell T Davies’ primary mentors in television. And State of Play remains his big prestige project, making it a useful thing to look at as we try to...
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Time Can Be Rewritten 37 (Human Resources)
Sorry I'm late. Was up late chasing a deadline on the Flood book and forgot to queue anything here. In any case, Human Resources. The cheekily-named Eighth Doctor Adventures line from Big Finish is an...
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Time Can Be Rewritten 38 (Lucie Miller/To the Death)
By the end of the Lucie Miller run, of course, things had changed somewhat. The audios were no longer being made for first transmission on BBC 7, although they still got around to being aired there...
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