Well, it had to happen. I won't let it go to my head. Honestly...it won't change me. Jeeves, a glass of champagne and some beluga caviar...and escort these people off the premises.
What am I blethering about? Only getting a citation on bloody Wikipedia for my review of The Writer's Tale by those reprobates Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook. Mind you it was a quote from the abridged version that appeared on Behind The Sofa and not the yawn inducing five day long epic posted here. Can't win 'em all, eh?
Gosh, with this and Stephen James Walker quoting my Outpost Gallifrey review of Daleks In Manhattan in his book Third Dimension I'm all set for a massive career in journalism...NOT!
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- Frank Collins
- Freelance writer and film and television researcher (for hire). He has contributed to a number of DVD and Blu-ray releases, magazines, books and websites about archive television and cinema including work for Moviemail, Frame Rated, Arrow Video and Indicator. Publications include The Black Archives #62: Kinda (2022) and #31: Warriors' Gate (2019), I.B Tauris's 'Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour - A Critical Celebration of the Matt Smith and Steven Moffat Era' (2013) and 'Doctor Who - The Pandorica Opens' (2010).
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"Merits attention from Doctor Who fans interested in the development of a script by going deep into the story’s genesis and shifts in tone, and the infamous production difficulties which plagued it. The glimpses of Steve Gallagher’s original scripts are fascinating, as are the changes made to them by seemingly everyone from directors to producers to cast members." We Are Cult. 17 June 2019.
DOCTOR WHO: THE ELEVENTH HOUR (2014)"Whether you’re a fan of the show under Moffat or not, it offers an intriguing, insightful look at all aspects of the series" 7/10 - Starburst, January 2014
DOCTOR WHO: THE PANDORICA OPENS (2010)"A worthy addition to serious texts on Doctor Who" - Doctor Who Magazine 431, February 2011
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Felicitations, your majesty.
:D xxx
Awright. Yerself?
We bow down!! We bow down!!!
No need for bowing and scraping, Mr. Mount. Just open another bottle of Bolly...