Robin Stevens

TV

The Waters of Mars

Set in 2059, ‘The Waters of Mars’ tells the story of the downfall of the world’s first off-planet settlement. The Doctor appears on Bowie Station One (named, presumably, after that notable glam rock space pioneer) at exactly the moment that the combination of a faulty water filter and a very...
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Posted Nov. 23, 2009
TV

Out of this world

Rob Shearman and Joe Lidster, who have between them written for Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures, recently appeared at Warwick to talk to members of the Sci Fi society about their experiences.
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Posted Nov. 23, 2009
TV

Going to the zoo

_Last Chance to See_ is back after twenty years. Robin Stevens gets all misty eyed.
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Posted Oct. 13, 2009
TV

Bloody good show

Robin Stevens reviews True Blood, a new TV show with a bite. It's Twilight without the chastity belts.
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Posted Oct. 5, 2009
TV

Better off dead

For TV viewers, April really is the cruellest month. Not only is it time for the last of this year’s crop of pilots, the very weakest, nerdliest of no-hopers, to be allowed out into the open for the briefest of flirtations with the public before they’re all cancelled, but it’s...
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Posted Apr. 20, 2009
Film

Watchmen

Schoolboy heroics: Watchmen is certainly faithful to its source material, but whether that makes it a good film is another matter for Robin Stevens.
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Posted Apr. 13, 2009
TV

Ordinary Heroes

Robin Stevens gets tough on the newest incarnation of the show, Heroes: Fugitives.
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Posted Feb. 24, 2009
TV

Mental magic

At the beginning of the year, when I made my picks from 2008’s new US shows, The Mentalist barely made it on to the list. The concept wasn’t promising – after all, who needed yet another procedural drama in which a team of mavericks solve crime using only their intuition...
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Posted Jan. 20, 2009