Liverpool Soun and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Paul McGann, Hattie Moran, Nicola Walker, Mark Bonnar, Ewan Bailey, John Banks, Robert Bathurst, Gunnar Cauthery, Matthew Cottle, Esther Hall, Caroline Langrishi, Sylvester McCoy, Lizzie Mounter, Harry Myers, Ramon Tikaram, John Voce, Bethan Walker, John Woodvine, David Yelland.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Alex Kingston, Alexander Vlahos, Alexander Siddig, Imogen Stubbs, John Voce, Letty Butler, Samuel West, John Banks, Aaron Neil.
Murder has to be inventive to keep the interest of those who delight in such anarchy, however, the reasons for murder have become entangled in reasons to which have become ever murkier, more salient, less transparent as they have ever been. It is no longer enough to kill a character on the basis of greed, gain or for the love of someone, now there must be complexity, there must be retribution for the act in which the victim surely deserves to die. It is in this realm of vengeance that the merest sleight becomes weaponised, the act of ecocide is met with the fullest support of death to the perpetrator by all concerned. It is no longer enough to see someone brought to justice, tried by a jury, now there must be blood.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan, Caroline Langrishe, David Yelland, John Voce.
Sometimes all a Timelord needs in life is a little mystery, a little horror to stir their blood. It is what makes life that little more spark filled, a little more intriguing and whilst it is only a handful of Timelords hold fast to this ethos, for the everyday, for the ordinary person, it is a staple of life that makes the heart race and pump faster, it is the human factor that makes life so sweet.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Peter Capaldi, Maisie Williams, Rufus Hound, Ariyon Bakare, Struan Rodger, Jenna Coleman, Gareth Berliner, Elizabeth Hopper, John Voce, Gruffudd Glyn, Reuben Johnson, Daniel Fearn, Karen Seacombe, John Hales, Will Brown.
How would it be if you could be immortal? That every single ripple of Humanity’s suffering for ever would in some way touch your heart and then corrode it, tarnish it against the pain and eventually leave you cold and as unfeeling a rock in the baked and merciless deserts. Immortality comes at a price, life is something that no longer becomes precious and the cost to the soul can be devastating.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Mark Strickson, Alastair Mackenzie, Catherine Skinner, Robert Duncan, John Voce, Chris Finney.
Decay is a state of mind for which even The Doctor struggles to hold back at times, the sheer weight of history acting as a melancholic anchor for him to grasp hold of when all is against him. His collection of travellers past and present, those he has lost, those he has loved, all acting as the living embodiments of the Memento Mori he carries around with him in his little blue box; decay is something he runs from, never looking back, never going back for old companions in case he sees the futility of life. Entropy in the end is the toughest enemy The Doctor has and one that he cannot hope to defeat forever.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Fiona O’ Shaughnessy, Neil Maskell, Adel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Alexandra Roach, Nathan Stewart-Jarratt, Oliver Woollford, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Ian McDiarmid, Paul Ready, Ruth Gemmel, Emilia Jones, Steven Robertson, Sacha Dhawan, Jennifer Hennersey, Emil Hostina, David Calder, Ansu Kabin, Bill Nash, John Voce.
It might take Channel 4 a decade or more to get involved with another story-line as riveting as Utopia has been for the last two series, if it does it will be well worth the wait, for Utopia has been so powerful, so seismic in its delivery that it stands shoulder to shoulder with other titans that went before it, such as Black Mirror and A Very British Coup. .
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 71/2/10
Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Gareth Thomas, Jane Goddard, John Voce, Jessica Martin, Blake Ritson.
The last of any species is one that surely deserves to be preserved for as long as possible, especially when they are the cause of the extinction of their entire race.
The Doctor and Leela arrive on the planet Colophos, a dead, seemingly barren world which is just dust and sand. The chance to relax is offered but there is something deadly lurking in the background and the Doctor and Leela, along with the crew of the survey ship The Oligarch have to fight for their lives against an enemy who revels in being unseen.