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Only Connect

This review refers to series 9, episode 12: Europhiles v Software Engineers. What connects a 1947 Agatha Christie radio play, a variant of solitaire, assassins in Dr. No and a nursery rhyme? Self-defined as the hardest quiz show on television, Only Connect is a BBC4 hit. The premise is fairly...
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By , Jul. 18, 2014

Extant: will it survive?

Joe Baker considers CBS's new series Extant, and finds that while it doesn't bring anything exceptional to the table of sci-fi or online streaming, the story of an outerspace miraculous conception does have enough to keep you intrigued
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By , Jul. 16, 2014