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From the archive, 28 February 1985: Doctor Who fans upset as BBC postpones new series

Originally published in the Guardian on 28 February 1985 The controller of BBC 1, Mr Michael Grade, may well be longing by this morning to step into the Tardis and whisk himself beyond the range of the outcry stirred up by his decision yesterday to postpone the next series of Dr Who. Work on the new series, originally scheduled for January next year and starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant, was due to begin in a month’s time. But Mr Grade has decided that the money would be better spent on other drama projects and that the Doctor must be ...

BBC Calls the Midwife for a second series

Hit Sunday night drama starring Jenny Agutter and Miranda Hart gets recommissioned after just two episodes The BBC has commissioned a second series of hit Sunday night drama Call the Midwife, which stars Jenny Agutter, Miranda Hart and Pam Ferris, after airing just two episodes. BBC1′s six-part drama, which grew its audience by 600,000 to average 8.6 million for its second installment on Sunday night, is based on the late Jennifer Worth’s trilogy of memoirs about life and midwifery in London’s East End in the 1950s.

Cable girl: Little Crackers

The series of festive vignettes based on household names’ real-life experiences exuded Christmas spirit This has been Sky1′s second year of Little Crackers, a series of shorts written, directed and/or starred in by various household names and this time round it has truly lived up to its name. Just about every one has burst upon the screen to reveal a little televisual that has added to the gaiety of the day. Each one has been based on a real experience of the actor or performer in question.

Mark Lawson – what TV to watch in 2012

From Julian Fellowes’ Titanic to US import Homeland and a new Sherlock in January, 2012 has treats in store The TV hits of any year are often unexpected (The Choir, The Great British Bake Off) but in Donald Rumsfeld’s category of what we know we know about, I’m most looking forward to a series the former American defence secretary would not like. Homeland, imported by Channel 4 from the US cable network Showtime, has Claire Danes as an intelligence officer investigating a rumour that a marine (Damian Lewis) is an al-Qaida double agent.

Mad Men scoops top prizes at inaugural Critics’ Choice TV awards

Other winners at Beverly Hills ceremony to Emmys included 30 Rock’s Tina Fey and Cougar Town’s Busy Philipps The Emmy-award winning series Mad Men has continued its run of awards success after winning the top prize at the inaugural Critics’ Choice Television Awards in Beverly Hills. Although the Critics’ Choice awards are the new kid on the entertainment awards circuit, organisers stated they hoped victory here would prove an indication of further success at the Emmys. While Mad Men, the series set in the heady days of a 1960s New York advertising agency, has an impressive track record, winning the ...

Kraftwerk appear on Tomorrow’s World

1975: Number 1 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music The germinating moment for British dance music occurred, strangely, in a 1975 edition of Tomorrow’s World, which featured four young Germans dressed like geography teachers, apparently playing camping stoves with wired-up knitting needles. This was Kraftwerk performing Autobahn. “The sounds are created in their studio in Dusseldorf,” presenter Raymond Baxter explained, “then reprogrammed and then recreated onstage with the minimum of fuss.” Here was the entire electronic ethic in one TV clip: the rejection of rock’s fake spontaneity, the fastidious attention to detail, the ...

Salman Rushdie states TV drama series have taken the place of novels

Booker-prizewinning novelist to write sci-fi drama for television, citing The Wire, The Sopranos and Mad Men as an inspiration Salman Rushdie is to make a sci-fi tv series in the belief that quality TV drama has taken over from film and the novel as the ideal way of widely communicating ideas and stories. “It’s like the ideal of both worlds,” stated the novelist in an interview with the Observer. “You can work in motion picture style productions, but have proper control.” The new work, to be called The Next People is being made for Showtime, a US cable TV network.

Your next box set – Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Forget noble Kirk Douglas in the motion picture – this Spartacus is all about mindless sex and violence If you have fond memories of Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 epic, starring Kirk Douglas, then Spartacus: Blood and Sand is probably not for you. From the opening sequence of the first episode to the final moments of the 13th, nearly nothing in the first series, now out on box set, is granted to get in the way of mindless sex and even more mindless violence, much of it in slow motion to a sub-Enya soundtrack.

Taylor: This is the ideal I’ve ever felt

This is the ideal I’ve ever felt: Rachael Taylor on her new-found happiness. Picture: Sam Ruttyn Source: The Sunday Telegraph Taylor reveals her love for actor Josh Lawson Films and Charlie’s Angels reboot in the bag “I am in a good spot. Twenty-seven feels good” THE future could not be brighter for Rachael Taylor, who’s madly in love with fellow actor Josh Lawson. Not only is her Hollywood career soaring, but the stunning blonde reveals she is madly in love with fellow actor Josh Lawson.

Your next box set: Spiral

Gritty, grimy and Gallic, the endlessly twisting police procedural Spiral is every bit the equal of The Wire or The Killing Spiral is France’s answer to The Wire – with extra barbs. Set in an utterly unromantic Paris of grotty estates and soulless suburbs, the series is a gritty, grimy, endlessly twisting police procedural that simply refuses to let you go to bed at a sensible hour. First aired in a graveyard slot on BBC4, and then bumped up to Saturday-night primetime, Spiral has Captain Laure Berthaud as its star, essentially a shoutier, poutier version of tough cop Sarah Lund ...