Klaus

Poor Ireland :(

Am I the only one who prefers Semi 1 to Semi 2 oops

Erm what happened here? People voted for the wrong MK song!

That was a disastrous start as I thought Switzerland and Iceland were absolute non-starters but managed to get 8/10 of my favourites through in the end! I was chanting for Moldova and Netherlands at the end :lol: Especially thrilled for Lithuania who was one of my biggest favourites but thought it might have been more borderline.

Albania 5/10 Latvia 7/10 Lithuania 10/10 Switzerland 3/10 Slovenia 5/10 Ukraine 10/10 Bulgaria 3/10 Netherlands 10/10 Moldova 11/10 Portugal 8/10 Croatia 6/10 Denmark 8/10 Austria 4/10 Iceland 5/10 Greece 9/10 Norway 7/10 Armenia 10/10 Need these through: Latvia Lithuania Ukraine Netherlands Moldova Portugal Denmark Greece Norway Armenia

My bet was on T’Nia Miller which I’d have LOVED but there’s still opportunity for her to be Fifteen :kink: I’m really excited to see his take on it, as it feels he’s going to bring something new to the role. I can’t fully picture it yet, which kinda makes it more exciting, and I really trust RTD as people were saying similar things about Christopher Eccleston. I’m just about recovering from this coming out of NOWHERE, lots of suggestions that it was meant to be revealed at the BAFTAs tonight where both Ncuti and RTD are nominated. There feels a lot of buzz already though, Sex Education is huge and so I’m hoping it helps the show become a larger part of pop culture again. It’s going to be a long wait to November 23…!! Aside from the Fugitive Doctor *.*

@1523263950661775360 Confirmed! :cheeseblock: I NEED TO GATHER MY THOUGHTS BUT LOVE HIM IN SEX EDUCATION

Back & Forth

Absolutely love this show, howling with laughter in every episode! Orla and her mum are my absolute favourites. They’ve just announced an extra feature-length episode focusing on the Good Friday Agreement. Definitely seems a natural end for the show and I’m really excited given how they’ve handled the political issues throughout.

I want a tell-all interview about how much the one side short, one side long hairstyle annoyed her.

Yeah, the only ones that she released herself. It seems that there’s others floating around from the era though!

I’ve got the previous vinyl that was releases which contains ‘Radioactive’ and ‘Sex Yeah’ but doesn’t have ‘Living Dead’, ‘Lonely Hearts Club’, ‘E.V.O.L.’ and ‘Electra Heart’. I won’t be getting this because it’s feels so expensive just for four tracks that aren’t huge faves of mine anyway. Great to see her celebrate the era’s anniversary though and properly release ‘E.V.O.L.’ and ‘Electra Heart’ even if ‘Just Desserts’ was my fave of the extra tracks! It’s onsale at HMV and Rough Trade from what I can see (although for £45!!) so it seems its getting a general release!

Big Finish have announced they’re producing audio drama series for the Fugitive Doctor and the Sacha’s Master!! They’ll be the first Big Finish series starring characters from the 13th Doctor era (they’ve produced like thousands of stuff from 1st-12th Doctor, including with Christopher Eccleston & David Tennant) which is exciting. They’re my two favourite characters from this era with SO much that can be explored (particular with Jo’s Doctor) so I’m really hyped for this!!! (even if my bank balance may not be x) I think it also kinda confirms RTD’s new era will be quite a fresh reboot from this era, if they’re allowing Big Finish to explore the continuity instead.

I can see them try and get some of the names from the past couple of years to give them the proper I’m a Celeb experience. Mixed feelings about this though, all-star series often ends up falling a bit flat for me as it can try and artificially recapture what made the person an ‘all-star’ in the first place but doesn’t work without the same dynamics. It does seem odd to film it so far in advance, although I understand it may be used as a contingency for the main series in the event they’re unable to go to Australia. I’ll bet everything I have that Joe Swash appears :lol: omg we’ll get Paul Burrell as well won’t we :cry: :cry:

It’s nice to see some support for Sam, outside of Scott Mills, but wouldn’t be surprised to see it be one of those songs that remains stuck on the C-list!

The pre-chorus remains by far the best thing about Green Green Grass (Blue Blue Sky). I can’t get past it sounding designed for kids/wedding parties.

Free is INCREDIBLE! Adore it so much already, and the whole meaning behind the song :heart: This album is gonna be competing for the title of her best record which is no mean feat!!

Here For You needs to gooo (La Di Da)

Hunger ‘hung’ around the Top 100 for a few weeks as well, annoyingly peaking at #41 twice. It does show that she can still be a singles artist but most ‘indie’ artists don’t get enough mainstream support for that to happen. Hopefully My Love gets a chance at Top 40 upon album release.

Tegan is one of my favourite classic companions, and definitely my favourite of the 80s ones, with Ace probably a close second so I'm thrilled to see them both back. Certainly not something I'd have ever expected. Slight continuity error though is that Sophie Aldred wrote a book where modern day Ace meets Thirteen, Yaz, Graham and Ryan whereas the trailer states Ace hasn't seen the Doctor for over 30 years. I know the only real 'canon' is the main show but slightly awkward given that it's one of the few Thirteenth Doctor books out there. Vinder has also been confirmed to return in the publicity photos so that's The Doctor, Yaz, Dan, The Master, Tegan, Ace, Kate Stewart, Vinder, the Daleks, Ashad/the Cybermen already confirmed and there was that tease of the Fugitive Doctor returning in the Flux behind the scenes videos. We at least need to get some form of wrap up of the Timeless Child storyline (which I'm more positive we get since it's the Master's first episode since the exposition ep), say goodbye to the Doctor as well as exit storylines for Yaz and Dan. I'm hyped but I can only see it being as messy as Flux was :lol:

It was an underwhelming episode and, at the heart, a VERY bog standard plot i.e. monster turns up and the Doctor stops them. There really wasn’t much more added to it. For the most part though, it looked visually stunning and I particularly liked the TARDIS on the seabed! Costume and sea devil designs also were incredible. The dialogue was drowned out in some parts though by the music. Although I’m not really a Thasmin supporter, I think those scenes ended up being among the highlights of the episode as they were really well acted by both Jode and Mandip and just added something different to such a straightforward story. My only critique is that Yaz is the most special person to her, but I’m gonna take that as the most special person to Thirteen, rather than The Doctor as a whole because the writing of Yaz really doesn’t live up to that x Also not the Doctor criticising them for killing the Sea Devil and then minutes later Dan kills a load in one swoop oops! Also yet another person she lets sacrifice themselves instead of her :lol: Overall, always a nice bonus to have more Who but ultimately very average. Not awful, but nothing special.

omg that trailer :cheeseblock: forget , I’m hyped for Also don’t need to use spoiler tags for this episode itself, just needed somewhere to exclaim my excitement for the next episode and didn’t want someone to accidentally enter the thread without having seen the trailer :kink:

If a deal is agreed, I just hope that they don’t go for the Love Island/MTV casting. The show thrives on a mixture of personalities, backgrounds etc. Surely that’s also the best way to protect both shows as well? Sounds positive though, and the only real available home other than it returning back to Channel 4. I had hoped for a Channel 4 return but I think that had shattered after the recent news.

Poor brave Losing

Series 2 starts 10:40pm on 26 April on BBC One. I was surprised it was renewed for a second series as ratings for the first were quite bad and I guess that’s why it’s got an awful timeslot… but if they’re going to dump it there, surely it’s better to place it on BBC Three to draw crowds back there? At least it would show more purpose for bringing the channel back.