Tell your friends that you’re attending a talk on Sylvia Plath – In London. As winter approaches. – and they’re apt to shoot you a funny look and start silently monitoring your behaviour for signs of mental distress. Such is Plath’s difficult legacy. Although her status as a major American poet seems at this point assured, it is the tragic circumstances of her death and the tabloid-worthy details of her failed marriage to former......

Magnus Magnusson died. What a great name he had. If only he'd been born in the 10th century his starter for ten would have been a Viking axe to the face. As it was the Reykjavik born Magnusson became the UK's grand inquisitor on the original run of the Beeb's Mastermind (as well as an expert on old Icelandic literature hence the pic). Arguably the most famous winner of Mastermind was a London cabbie......

Steptoe and Son are coming back to London. Not alas to Oil Drum Lane as both Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett went to that great rag-and-bone yard in the sky many moons ago, but the much loved duo are back nonetheless: A stage play based on classic BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son is opening in London's West End. Steptoe and Son In Murder At Oil Drum Lane, written by the series' creator Ray......

The wedding cake isn't yet stale and already plans are underway to bring us a TV friendly version of Charles and Camilla, whether we want one or not. ITV's Granada will be regurgitating the early days of Chuck and his first love in a docudrama entitled Whatever Love Means. Casting begins in May. This could be the perfect opportunity for Christopher Eccleston to get out from under the Doctor Who yoke, but casting Camilla......

Well, we waited all weekend for Christopher Eccleston to tell us that he wasn't really quitting Doctor Who, but when the BBC added the news to the stories that sounded like April Fool gags but weren't we finally admitted that the new Doctor would probably be regenerating before his time. The Whovians seem to have shown their disgust by dusting off their old Tom Baker episodes rather than watching the new series as viewing......

Has Christopher Eccleston really quit Doctor Who? Londonist awoke to this: Actor Christopher Eccleston has quit as Doctor Who after just one episode of the new series has been screened, the BBC has confirmed. We are gutted at the thought of this being true, but are eyeing the date suspiciously. A BBC spokesman said the corporation would issue a formal statement later on Thursday and that it had hoped, rather than expected, that Eccleston......

We caved in. After reading over on the Beeb that the first episode of the new Doctor Who had somehow found its way onto the interweb we tried sitting on our hands for a bit and when that didn't work we took a very long cold shower, but we are weak and the pull of Sci Fi is strong. But how we grinned when the theme tune kicked in and how we applauded at......