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Screenwriter, radio dramatist, novelist, comics writer Bleeding Cool correspondent

It's obvious, but it's funny that in Apple TV shows, Android phones and PC computers don't exist in their universe. Literally everyone has an iPhone, iPad and MacBook. Except FOR ALL MANKIND and its spinoff STAR CITY. Apple might not exist there.

Disclosure Day makes more sense as a secret Doctor Who movie: Joseph O'Connor's character is really the companion and Emily Blunt is a woman whose identity is slowly stripped away until she turns out to be The Doctor, in time to bring the revelation of aliens' existence to Earth.

I’m losing count of the number of TV series, US, UK, European, Australian and New Zealand, that feature a policewoman who goes back to her hometown and then the body of a woman is found. POLICEWOMEN, DON’T GO BACK TO YOUR DAMN HOMETOWNS!!

Was talking about HAMNET with a friend and said, “I don’t have a problem with Jessie Buckley winning Best Actress, but really, she’s playing the mother who discovers her son is dead in every ITV crime drama.”

Watched the Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint movie. Utterly mid and pretty pointless beyond a mediocre cash-grabz And I’m caught up on the webtoon.

I think WEAPONS will be a hit in Japan and possibly Korea, because they’re already primed for this kind of intimate apocalyptic horror of the irrational. The societal anxiety of insane, malicious evil exploding the stability of the community is a common theme in Japanese and Korean pop fiction.

Know what would be funny about the Legebd of Zelda movie? If Link never says a word and everyone else talks in that Charlie Brown “wahwah-wah-wah-wah-wah” language like in the games.

I don't get why gamers are whining about AI being used to make THE ALTERS. Don't they realise that every NPC in every game they ever played has been an AI for over the last twenty years?

How many people can say they spent an afternoon in a meeting helping their cousin develop a whole comic book publishing venture, and then end the day writing about how Doctor Who can be a blonde woman? All while in Thailand? My life has become low-key very strange.

So is the Apple TV+ adaptation of MURDERBOT an allegory (accidental or otherwise) about the joys of buying a refurbished iPhone instead of a brand-new one?

Today’s episode of DOCTOR WHO on Disney+, "The Well", is an homage and partial remake of Mario Bava’s PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, which is an inspiration for Ridley Scott's ALIEN.

What happens when you ask an AI to write an episode of Doctor Who? The results are surprisingly professional, competent, coherent and derivative of elements from Davies and Moffat's past episodes, but entirely plot-driven and lacking in any emotional development. bleedingcool.com/tv/doctor-wh...

Doctor Who: We Had AI "Write" an Episode; The Results Were Telling

We asked an AI to "write" a Doctor Who episode. The result? It depends on what you're looking for - but it's lacking one essential element.

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The whole plot of Taylor Sheridan's 1923 is Homer’s THE ODYSSEY, which is all about waiting for the hero to return in the final act of the story to kill all the bad guys. One of my least favourite plot structures.

Tsui Hark's LEGENDS OF THE CONDOR HEROES: THE GALLANTS is a rushed and imperfect adaptation of the most frequently adapted wuxia novel of all time, breathlessly lurching from one major plot point to the next, grounded by Xiao Zhan's performance. bleedingcool.com/movies/legen...

Legends of the Condor Heroes: Xiao Zhan Grounds a Rushed Wuxia Epic

Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants is Tsui Hark's blockbuster adaptation of a huge book whose rushed plot is grounded by Xiao Zhan

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I hate James Bond, but this is how Amazon could make a really good TV series - by faithfully adapting the original Ian Fleming books with a layer of social and political commentary already hidden in them: as desperate expressions of Britain's waining power. bleedingcool.com/tv/james-bon...

James Bond 007 Series License to Kill the Franchise? Not Necessarily

Amazon MGM Studios has everything it needs to make a prestigious and acclaimed James Bond 007 TV series right in front of them - here's how.

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