Excellent new Doctor Who podcast. Engaging and charming – check it out!

Bell Plants love it

Now I consider myself a man of the world but I’ve never even heard of that.

I particularly enjoyed The Fantastic Journey edition so anything in that ilk that has a hint of the desperate or deranged about it.

Very good. Keep it simple!

Not on mine…

This side please. Must I wait for everything I want?

Did he navigate with a B to Z.

I viewed a lot of these in Penge during one not entirely fulfilling era of my life.

Unexpected chat-up line received tonight. “You’re a really good dancer. Can I follow you on LinkedIn?”

Niche

Yes, a terrible shame. And the effect sometimes is highly intrusive. Hopefully they can be persuaded to reconsider.

Yes, a terrible shame. And the effect sometimes is highly intrusive. Hopefully they can be persuaded to reconsider.

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

It’s the TJ Jones side so definitely Soviet.

Lewisham Shopping Centre. Where – perhaps uniquely – you can sit and watch a robot pursue a child around a section of the Berlin Wall.

I was quiet for Season 13 as I hoped what seemed a wide and vocal outcry would prompt a change. Perhaps S21 was already largely done by then? I also don’t like being negative on social media so made comment to friends only. But after just a few seconds of The Awakening I felt I had to speak

That Winter Special was so hard to find!

(NB: My sincere apologies to friends and others who are working hard on the documentaries and bonus material – I'll be sorry to miss your excellent work.)

So, until there’s proper transparency about what’s been done to the Season 13 and Season 21 episodes – and a commitment to rethink it – I’ll be voting with my wallet.

For decades, I have been a cheerleader for restoration teams who have have done extraordinary work, almost always within the limits of the original material. But I think we all accept there is a limit to what can be achieved. This crosses a line. It alters the image rather than preserving it.

There’s an unnatural smoothness to the skin, distortion in faces, and weirdly hyper-detailed backgrounds, all of which repeatedly pull me out of the story. I’m not an anti-AI headbanger by any means – I recognise it as a powerful tool that is here to stay – but its use here is clearly deleterious…

I've loyally purchased all the Doctor Who Blu-ray sets so far, but I won’t be buying any more. I collect them because I want the episodes in the best possible quality, but the now immediately obvious use of an AI ‘polish’ tool means these are a step down from the DVDs I already own…

Happy birthday!

The shadows 😢

Yes! Double Christmas! And here’s me sounding like Quatermass talking to Roney in his lab.

There’s something atavistic, almost shamanistic, about the discovery of missing episodes. The realisation that you can suddenly look into the past – hear from the dead and the lost – sends a faint, primal shiver down the spine.

Not more

Having spent time in the company of Gary Downie and JNT, I can tell you it’s exactly the same energy. And hunting pattern.