I was looking for something in the archives when I came across this little snippet, and thought I’d share. It fairly counts as contemporary, since the episode seems to air every other week on ITV3… Of The Cup of Silence, December 23rd’s feature-length Rosemary & Thyme Christmas Special, Victoria Segal wrote in The Sunday Times:…

I’ve put together a second blog in which I’ve pulled together all my material on the Sebastian Becker books and short stories. This is what it’s currently looking like: Click here to go to the Bedlam Detective blog

Most of my background knowledge on Arthur Conan Doyle comes from his autobiography Memories and Adventures, and from the 1949 biography by John Dickson Carr. I haven’t read the 1995 bio by Michael Coren but I understand that it goes further into the Doyle/Joseph Bell connection – the relationship that inspired the Murder Rooms BBC…

Here’s a follow-up to this post from a couple of weeks back, in which discovering the whereabouts of an old colleague inspired me to revisit one of my early projects. During Chimera‘s pre-production and filming I hopped around with my then state-of-the-art camcorder and collected footage which then sat, unshown and unseen, until Revelation Films…

From C21 Media: UKTV has picked up a trio of scripted series from UK-based producer and distributor Power, including NBC drama Crusoe… The 13-part adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s classic novel stars Sam Neil and Sean Bean and was originally commissioned by NBC in the US and produced by Power. Crusoe was last shown on British…

Back in 1990 I drove down to Pinewood Studios for the first of several visits to the workshops of Bob Keen’s Image Animation, a special effects company that had supplied prosthetics and animatronics for Richard Stanley’s Hardware and Clive Barker’s Hellraiser movies. It was all a bit of a scramble. The script of Chimera had…

Starred review from Publishers Weekly for The Doll Collection, edited by the invincible Ellen Datlow and available next month from Tor. PS I’m in it.

Last Summer I discovered a bookshop with a healthy haul of ’60s paperbacks, many of them in great condition for their age and fairly priced at three quid a pop. So of course I kept going back. I put my focus on popular fiction writers that are now forgotten, or had passed me by, or…

In some of the awards-season discussions of The Imitation Game I’ve noticed a subtext in which anything other than support for the film is read as an act of disloyalty toward Alan Turing himself. Much as, once upon a time, thinking The Green Berets an awful movie branded you as anti-American, or finding 12 Years…

They say you should never meet your heroes. I’m here to tell you that it isn’t necessarily true. I’ve written elsewhere of my personal debt to The Avengers and little imagined, as a kid growing up with 60s TV, that I’d someday get to play in the telefantasy sandpit. (Actually, that’s a lie. I fantasized…