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Torchwood is 10

Who’d have thought, it’s almost ten years since Torchwood was first broadcast. The spoof site for the Victorian house / hotel seems to have vanished from the web, and it’s years since the show was on screen. Ignoring the recent Barrowman / Moffat spat, let’s focus on some positives.

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The death knell for the Seventh Doctor

A more sober piece of reading you may have missed this week is the Den of Geek piece Doctor Who: the 1988 report that sounded its death knell. The basic facts are, of course, widely known. The show was less popular, the management lost faith having steered it into a scheduling nightmare and so forth. I was one of…