Welcome to the new look Cathode Ray Tube. Hope you like it. The boffins are still shifting things around a bit, changing colours and fonts and adding new fangled gizmos but all the posts are back on the site and the actual structure is sorted out. So you'll be able to read new reviews and comment just as you did before.
To get us off to a cracking start here's the official 60 second trailer for the forthcoming 5 part Torchwood story 'Children Of Earth'.
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Director General
- Frank Collins
- Freelance writer and film and television researcher (for hire). He has contributed to a number of books and websites about British archive television and cinema as well as recent television series including work for Moviemail, Frame Rated, Arrow Video and Indicator. Publications include The Black Archive #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).
The Book(s) What I Wrote
"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.
"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
"A worthy addition to serious texts on Doctor Who" - Doctor Who Magazine 431, February 2011
"an impressive work, imbued with so much analytical love and passion, and is an absolute must-read for any fan" N. Blake - Amazon 4/5 stars
"...mixes the intellectual and the emotional very well...it's proper media criticism" 9/10 - The Medium Is Not Enough
"... an up-to-date guide that isn’t afraid to shy away from the more controversial aspects of the series" 8/10 - Total SciFi Online
"...well-informed new angles on familiar episodes... this is a great read from start to finish" - Bertie Fox - Amazon 4/5 stars
"Frank Collins has produced a book that is fiercely idiosyncratic, displays a wide-ranging intellect the size of a planet, but which is also endearingly open and inclusive in its desire to share its expansive knowledge..." 4/5 - Horrorview.com
"The book is great! It makes you think, it makes you work. It encourages you to go back and watch the series with a whole new perspective..." - G.R. Bundy's Blog: Telly Stuff And Things
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Shiny new CRT and shiny new Torchwood trailer... my day is off to a good start!
Could we have the future presentations column in a different place? It sort of... looms.
Looks pretty amazing. It's those damned children being spooky again. Lots of 'they are coming...' but, of course, we don't actually see the aliens nor much of any actual threat (other than the kids stopping).
I wonder how they'll stretch this single story over 5 episodes?
BTW I like the new look CRT. Very... sleek.
Thanks for all the lovely comments on the blog.
Nimbus - 'sleek' is what I was after and your comment has given me hope in that I have achieved that to a degree.
Lucy - I could put the 'Future Presentations' in the space at the bottom of the blog. I'm stuck with that column width at the top simply because that's the way the template works and I wanted the videos to be bigger and to launch in full screen from this site. Let's see what I can do today.
I love the colour/font combo of the title. It's well cool! And your updated profile is the bee's knees.
*wonders when she will get to see Ianto shoot a six-year-old in the head for reasons of gravitas*
Nice new look Frank - 10/10 awesome :)
It looks wonderful. Well done - well worth all the hard work. It's a triumph!
Thanks everyone. Loving your positivity.