A bit of a round-up of things I've been watching. And not watching in one case.

In Doctor Who, I've been working my way through The Key to Time and recently finished The Androids of Tara, which was okay but not particularly exciting. But, there was fencing at the end. Some of which was actually proper fencing, even if they were just playing about with parrying and riposting at one point. And their moves were all far too big. But, it's still a lot more realistic than a lot of the sword fighting you see on TV.

I'm sure amazon changed my rental DVD list around, but it meant I got to see Revelation of the Daleks, which was my first Sixth Doctor story. I haven't been putting him off for any reason, I just haven't got to him. I liked the Doctor and Peri and the interactions between them. I hated the story, but then I'm not that excited about Daleks and I haven't really been that keen on any Dalek story.

After that I went back to the Second Doctor. I listened to The Moonbase while I was away, which I enjoyed - not least because I had no idea it would have Cybermen in it. I'm three-quarters of the way through The Tomb of the Cybermen now. The Cybermen don't look scary, since they're obviously just wearing material. And some of them don't have chest plates. But I love their voices, their appropriately horrible. I'm really liking Jamie so far, and Two. Jury's still out on Victoria since this is only the second story I've seen her in and I don't feel like I know her yet.

There was SJA on TV yesterday. My PVR decided not to record it though. It did that once before with Life on Mars. The BBC iPlayer, which doesn't quite work anyway last time I tried it, only has the BBC1 episode on. So next week I'm going to watch the BBC1 episode followed by the CBBC episode - so both parts of Warriors of the Kudlak in one go. Which I was considering anyway because I hate cliffhangers.

Then tonight there was Spooks. And another Harry, they're breeding like Jacks. I wasn't convinced at all about them doing one 10 week story, rather than 10 (or however many episodes they usually have) stories. So this one did take a while to start up but it was exciting once it had. How on earth they're going to come back from that I don't know. The strangest thing, though, was the Glenister brothers between them being in all Kudos productions - Philip Glenister is in Life on Mars & Ashes to Ashes, and Robert Glenister is in Hustle and Spooks.

I know the next episode starts soon, but everyone at work just watches the BBC1 one because the BBC3 one is too late at night. And since I'm out most Tuesdays, I'm taping it to watch Monday (plus if the PVR decides not to tape it again, I have the BBC1 one to fall back on, since the BBC hate repeating things).

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