It should not be this hot in Birmingham

I think, were I making the Cbeebies Doctor Who, I would use the 1st Doctor and Susan and set it before An Unearthly Child. The grandfather/daughter relationship seems perfect for that demographic and it means they don't have to navigate any subsequent lore

Ncuti Gatwa's exit from Doctor Who has left me really sad, far more than a regeneration normally does. I don't know where the show goes from here. It feels lost in a way it hasn't before

I have no idea where this story is going and I just hope it's more of a Parting of the Ways than an Empire of Death

#WishWorld was a lot of fun, although I'm really not excited about 2 returning timelord villains in the same story, as I doubt either is going to get the focus they deserve. All the connections to the other stories in this era really make this feel like Ncuti's last.

South Gaza: Tents, Cash Aid, Food & Medical **With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

The people of Gaza are desperate for help and if you can afford to spare anything, then you should consider finding a fundraiser to donate to. I used this link but there are many out there that need support: chuffed.org/project/1132...

Why do the callback to The Parting of the Ways and not have The Doctor connect to Kid? I really believed he was going to realise how trauma can lead you to a dark place and that Kid needs someone to help him focus his anger in the right direction

I'm thinking about Andor and #TheInterstellarSongContest and how the former had Mon Mothma stand up in the Senate and call what happened on Ghorman a genocide when Doctor Who didn't even use the word

Anyway, watch Andor, a show about revolutionaries fighting against the system. A show that highlights the terrible things you have to do for justice and how the only way to win against violent oppression is with violence, but that it has to be done to make a better life for those that come after you

I wanted to like this one, but it's left me feeling pretty cold and I'm not sure that ice in my heart is going away any time soon.

I've wanted to see Susan back for a long time, but I need to wait and see what they do with her, before I decide if it's good or not. At least they got The Rani reveal out the way. The new Rani seems to admit that Mrs Flood is nothing like the character, so that's something.

The Doctor is really out of character in this one and I really hoped Belinda was going to step in and sort it, but I guess not. Does The Doctor just torture people now? Even at their lowest, when they think they've lost everything, The Doctor shouldn't torture their enemies.

I was really hoping that The Doctor might have connected with Kid and redirected his anger rather than just echoing Kerblam and going with the 'violence is always wrong' ending. Just using the contest to broadcast the song was a real cop out way to wrap it up.

particularly given that this episode will have been written in early 2023, so there was never much chance of a direct criticism of Israel's participation in the contest.

#TheInterstellarSongContest
I think the episode means well, and I hope it ended up being rather constrained by how it fits into the finale, rather than the plan from the beginning. Highlighting Eurovision's connection to Moroccan Oil was probably the best we could hope for,

Before Andor season 2 came out I was confident it would be the last Star Wars I would watch and now it's got me doing a rewatch because it's actively lifted up everything around it

Andor wasn't just a good Star Wars show, or a good Disney+ show, it was great television. You don't often get shows this consistently well made and I don't know if a 'franchise' will ever do so again

The Story and the Engine is 1 of the most unique Doctor Who stories I've ever seen and is a clear confirmation of the importance of diverse voices on the show. It's thematically rich and a great new direction to take the gods stuff. Jo Martin continues to be criminally underused

The bust of Voltaire at the V&A museum in London

Is it me or does Voltaire look like William Hartnell?

The Empire has never been this terrifying, the Rebellion has never been so layered. Andor is the best thing to have happened to Star Wars in a long time. Thank you Tony Gilroy

Imagine if HBO had released Game of Thrones season 3 in 1 go and nobody got the chance to just take in the Red Wedding before the next episode autoplayed

Episode 8 of #Andor deserves to be dwelt on. It deserves to be discussed and digested and felt. Disney releasing 3 episodes a week has done so much damage to the impact of this show

They push conspiracy theories to further their political agendas and make money, while ignoring (and even condoning) the worst aspects of these organisations.

There's plenty to criticise about UNIT (overly militarised, child labour violations, lying to the public) and the modern media landscape (pushes pro war narratives, contolled by billionaires, slop) but these people don't care about those things.

#WhoSky

I think I have a reading on Lucky Day that I haven't seen anywhere else. UNIT is the mainstream media and Conrad is Ben Shapiro. Conrad wanted to be in UNIT but was unsuccessful, Shapiro is a failed Hollywood screen writer. Both now spend their days pushing conspiracies online.

I think Lucky Day was probably the weakest episode of the season so far but I still enjoyed it. Millie Gibson always gives a good performance and it was nice to see her back. I really liked Pete McTighe's take on the UNIT characters and I'm looking forward to The War Between

Andor just takes over my entire brain for days after I watch it. It's just so incredibly good

Colin Baker should narrate nature documentaries. He has a soothing, yet knowledgeable voice

Introducing Emma D'Arcy as the 16th Doctor?

Could Meera Syal take on the role of the iconic Timelord?

Might Benedict Wong take control of the famous blue box?

If the speculation is to be believed (and you should never believe the speculation) we might be seeing the 16th Doctor sooner than we thought, so who do you think would be amazing in the role?

We will probably never know what was added to make it more of a sequel, what was changed to make it thematically richer and what links were in that original draft, so we probably won't know if it "needed" to be a sequel or not, but I think it's a worthy sequel and that's probably all that matters.