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By Ryan Fleming. Watchmen: The Deluxe Edition cover, image courtesy Amazon. Hollywood loves to throw around the word ‘unfilmable’ for any work they can’t quickly turn into a motion picture for immediate profit. One such ‘unfilmable’ work was Watchmen  – past tense, because like many works at one point considered ‘unfilmable’ like The Lord of the Rings  or Dune , it was only ‘unfilmable’ until it was filmed. Although it lingered in development hell for more than two decades, W

By Paul Hynes. The Wehrmacht bring Marshall Foch's mobile headquarters to Compiegne, a deliberate humiliation for the French. Public domain photo from Wehrmacht archives, courtesy Wikimedia Commons. On the 22nd of June 1940, history repeated itself in a tragic manner. The location was a train carriage in the French forest of Compiegne. At the end of the First World War this wagon had served as the mobile headquarters of the Supreme Allied Commander, Marechal Ferdinand Foch. I

By Matthew Kresal. Copyright Big Finish Productions The making of a television series, like any creative endeavour, is not without its difficulties. Pitches that don’t quite work out and scripts that aren’t up to scratch are part of that experience. Doctor Who  was no exception to that. Indeed, some eras being notable for their production woes and the latter part of Patrick Troughton’s tenure as the Time Lord was such a period with at least one serial being abandoned so late

By Gary Oswald. The London Illustrated News depicting "General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed". Defeat portrayed as a heroic stand - something the establishment would to want to rectify. Public domain, courtesy Wikimedia Commons. William Ewart Gladstone, four-time Prime Minister of the UK, was an imperialist. He oversaw the largest empire to ever exist and that empire expanded during his time in charge. In particular he made the c