COMPANION PIECE

WRONG NUMBER has been away. Perhaps mourning the departing Ponds. Perhaps recalibrating Observer tech. No matter. I'm back now. 

So here's an unnecessary second instalment of what is rattling around inside the WRONG NUMBER brain pan. 

• FRINGE nearing the exit sign - still the finest science fiction show currently on television

• Heartbreaking SF scores by Michael Giacchino (Super 8) and Chris Tilton (FRINGE)

• Unreliable narrators, Benedict Cumberbatch and Parade's End

• Doctor Who audio dramas from Big Finish: Orson Welles meeting Eight in Invaders from Mars; Bernice Summerfield meeting her maker Paul Cornell (sort of, not really) in Love and War; teasing The Time War and delivering something even more compelling in Dark Eyes (with added Toby Jones)

• Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer bumping egos with Orson's Citizen Kane

• A solid friend, a trustworthy friend - Bristol's Cary Grant statue

• The Seventh Doctor, Ace and noting Perivale on the Central line map of a morning

• 1950s affairs in The Hour

• Understanding that Steven Soderbergh's version of Solaris is superior to Tarkovsky's

• Star Trek - TOS, TNG, the JJ Abrams one - cities on the edge of forever; tea, Earl Grey, hot; channeling DeForest Kelley

• Iris Murdoch's deliciously unlikeable characters

• Lost and found - Air Lock, BS Johnson, Reginald Perrin continuity

• Veruca Salt - and if she doesn't get the things she is after, SHE'S GOING TO SCREAM

• Abstract hip hop jams from Mo Wax

• Over a decade of Rival Schools - United By Fate

• The Pastels collaborating with The E Street Band (in dreams)

• A fly in the meth lab 

• Unprecedented levels of excitement brought on by the first Star Trek Into Darkness trailer 

• Silas and Bad Robot guarding the Zone

• LOST, The End