TimeWarden’s Journal

I couldn’t bring myself to call this post “The Death of Sarah Jane Smith” as death is too final a word but I’m saddened to report that actre...

Despite the four decades that separate them, Anneke Wills and Billie Piper would have rather a lot to talk about if they ever met. For star...

British television is in a terrible state! Michael Grade recently claimed TV to be no worse or better than in the supposed golden age but I ...

Nicholas Courtney, aka Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, is sadly no longer with us… at least in person. But he has left behind ...

“Primeval”? Unbelievable! Very watchable but totally unrealistic. It’s not the idea of a horde of rampaging deadly therocephalians breaking ...

I’d like to take the opportunity to wish readers of this journal a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous, or perhaps in the current economic...

It hasn’t been a particularly memorable year for those of us interested in brilliantly-crafted television drama. The fifth series of new “Do...

Actor Sylvester McCoy has said he would be keen to return to “Doctor Who” for its fiftieth anniversary. McCoy, who played the seventh Doctor...

Hammer horror actress Ingrid Pitt, best known for starring in cult classics such as “Countess Dracula”, has died at the age of 73. The Polis...

A US man has been arrested after an armed stand-off with police - which began when he shot his TV set because he did not like what he saw on...