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EMMERDALE
WRITTEN BY JANE PEARSON
07 September 2023
It's all happening in Jane Pearson's latest hour long episode of EMMERDALE which broadcasts on Thursday 14th September at 7.30pm on ITV1 and available on ITVX. Cathy takes her anger out on her family. Things aren't looking good for Bob as he feels a twinge in his chest. Chloe is thrilled when Mack suggests going out on a date.
NATIONAL TELEVISION AWARDS congrats!
EASTENDERS Team Writers: LYNNE DALLOW and KIM REVILL
06 September 2023
EastEnders was the big winner at the National Television Awards last night (Tuesday). It scooped the prestigious Serial Drama award. It also picked up the Rising Star and Serial Drama Performance awards. Congrats to Team Writers on the show Lynne Dallow and Kim Revill!
MR MAJEIKA / T-BAG
The Guardian list of "the best shows CITV ever made"
01 September 2023
We're delighted to have two original entries in The Guardian's list of CITV's "finest" shows - MR MAJEIKA based upon Humphrey Carpenter's best-selling Puffin Classic series of books and T-BAG which was co-created and co-written by Lee Pressman. Lee also scripted on CHILDREN'S WARD which appears in the list too.
DOCTORS: "Identity Crisis"
WRITTEN BY KEITH TEMPLE
30 August 2023
Catch Keith Temple's latest episode of daytime drama, DOCTORS, on Thursday 7th September at 1.45pm on BBC1 and available on iPlayer. In "Identity Crisis", Bear tries to keep the peace when Frankie returns. Will Scarlett open up to Rob? And Jimmi is concerned about his latest counselling patient – but all is not what it seems...
EASTENDERS
WRITTEN BY LYNNE DALLOW
30 August 2023
Lynne Dallow's next episode of EastEnders broadcasts on Wednesday 6th September at 7.30pm on BBC1. Ian's business lunch with Suki and Nish doesn't go to plan. Meanwhile, Peter tries to make amends with Gina and Anna.
DOCTOR WHO:FOUR FROM DOOM'S DAY released 24 August
FOUR NEW ORIGINAL AUDIO ADVENTURES WRITTEN BY DARREN JONES
14 August 2023
BBC Audio release Darren Jones' DOCTOR WHO: FOUR FROM DOOM'S DAY on CD and download on 24th August. Read by Sooz Kempner, Jaye Griffiths and Silas Carson, these four original stories form part of the multi-platform Doom's Day adventure to celebrate Doctor Who's 60th anniversary. Hired assassin Doom is on a mission to save her own life before Death catches up with her. If she can find the Doctor they might be able to help her - but where in Time and Space are they? These four missions - The Steel Cascade, The Martian Dilemma, An Ood Halloween and Dark Space - take Doom to a Mediterranean cruise ship in 1966, the planet Mars in the distant past, San Francisco in 1999, and finally a desolate planet in a dying solar system. Along the way she meets former TARDIS travellers Ian and Barbara, the mighty Ice Warriors, and Brian the Ood. But when a mysterious stranger with silver hair and sunglasses turns up, will he be Doom's salvation?
ANYMORE FOR ANYMORE: THE RONNIE LANE STORY
BY CAROLINE & DAVID STAFFORD - PUBLISHED on 17TH AUGUST
08 August 2023
Caroline and David Stafford's highly anticipated biography of Small Faces/Faces musician, Ronnie Lane, is published in hardback by Omnibus Press on 17th August. This from the review by Max Decharne in The Spectator: "Caroline and David Stafford display the same dry wit and careful research that informed their previous excellent biographies of figures such as Lionel Bart or Kenny Everett. They trace Ronnie’s life from East End beginnings to stardom in the mid-1960s beat boom, and the decades-long progress of the hereditary multiple sclerosis which eventually claimed him." .......... Ronnie Lane’s story is that of a working-class kid who started his musical career busking a ukulele at the age of eight. As a young man he signed with legendary manager Don Arden, who paid him in paisley shirts. He then enjoyed a phenomenal 17 consecutive Top 40 singles, womanising and LSD, and fell under the spell of a mystic before joining forces with Rod Stewart. Ronnie was later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, moved to America, went broke and died far too young. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with friends and family, Caroline and David Stafford unearth the truth and talent of the man behind the music.
THE CITY OF GOD by MICHAEL RUSSELL
Published in hardback and ebook on Thursday 3rd August
31 July 2023
The eighth book in Michael Russell's Stefan Gillespie series, THE CITY OF GOD, is published in hardback and ebook by Constable/Little Brown on Thursday 3rd August. Italy, 1943. Irish detective Stefan Gillespie leaves the chaos of Nazi-occupied Rome for neutral Switzerland on a mission his government knows nothing about. Waiting for a late-night connection in Zurich he sees a train that shouldn't be there. The train's SS guards, who shouldn't be there either, beat him to within an inch of his life. But Stefan's perilous journey begins in Rome with the barbaric murder of an idealistic young Irish priest. The Eternal City is a place of vengeance, duplicity and betrayal that has even infected the City of God itself, the Vatican. In a war that is everywhere, not even neutrals, can escape the surrounding darkness.
5-star review for DOCTOR WHO: PLANET OF THE OOD
NOVELISATION BY KEITH TEMPLE PUBLISHED TODAY
13 July 2023
Happy Publication Day to Keith Temple! His Target novelisation of his classic DOCTOR WHO episode "Planet of the Ood" is published today (13th July) by BBC Books and available in all good bookstores. And the first of what we hope will be many 5-star reviews - "the perfect Target book. Highly recommended" - is in from Critical Popcorn: THE PLANET OF THE OOD With the Doctor and Donna returning to our screens later this year, it’s great to see another Series 4 episode get the Target books treatment. In a series filled with great stories, it’s easy to forget just how good Planet of the Ood is, making this expanded novelisation from TV scribe Keith Temple a welcome addition to fans’ bookshelves. This new Target novelisation of Planet of the Ood delves into the psyche of the Ood themselves, making them even more sympathetic and exploring their telepathic abilities further. Keith Temple expands on the world and characters, including the backstory of Ood Operations (with a sneaky reference to The Robots of Death), as well as Halpen, Solana and the sales reps. Some scenes deleted from the TV episode are incorporated, with the Doctor and Donna confronting Halpen earlier on (previously only seen in the Deleted Scenes on the DVD), while an entirely new scene towards the end at Ood conversion adds some more closure to the narrative. In many ways, Planet of the Ood is the perfect Target book: taking an already great story and expanding it in interesting ways into a new format, not limited by budget or the series’ 45-minute time-slot. Highly recommended. PM https://criticalpopcorn.com/2023/07/06/book-review-doctor-who-the-target-collection-2023/
EMMERDALE
WRITTEN BY JANE PEARSON
11 July 2023
Start the week with Jane Pearson's latest episode of EMMERDALE on Monday 17th July at 7.30pm on ITV1 and available to catch-up via ITVX. Manpreet urges Rishi to give his son the full story. Gaby tries to come up with a plan for revenge. Meanwhile, Mary gets a mysterious message.
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