Rants & Raves
Inside the SFX hive mind
DARREN SCOTT EDITOR
RAVES
→ Star Trek: Prodigy has a new home! It’s now on Netflix, with season two – thankfully – coming later in 2024.
→ What’s more festive than a pop song about eating babies?
RANTS
→ Why did people assume that because it was an anniversary – which happens every year – that the Doctor Who specials had to be a tsunami of pointless cameos? We had that in 2022!
IAN BERRIMAN DEPUTY EDITOR
RAVES
→ Bleep the Meep! bit.ly/bleepmeep
→ Public service announcement: all of Rentaghost is now on ITVX Premium, and there’s a one-week free trial. Week off work, binge eight episodes a day, sorted.
→ Turns out Peter Strickland is an old-school Doctor Who fan, and would love to work on the series. Just mentioning this in case any showrunners are reading.
→ If you missed it, I recommend Radcliffe & Maconie’s The Wicker Man at 50 special. Hopefully you’ve read this before January and it’s still on BBC Sounds…
RANTS
→ All I want from Doctor Who animations is a rough approximation of what the story looked like when it first aired. Can we go back to doing that, please?
JONATHAN COATES ART EDITOR
RAVES
→ Brian Blessed’s Lord Summerisle in the audio adaptation of The Wicker Man. What a voice!
→ Love the vertigo-inducing titles for new Who!
ED RICKETTS PRODUCTION EDITOR
RANTS
→ In case you hadn’t heard, Sony was recently forced to rem
