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The Best of Fiends

Back in 2013 I wrote a piece for the Collinsport Historical Society on how I fell in love with (and ended up writing for) Dark Shadows, which was published as part of their 50th Anniversary Celebrations. It’s now the 60th anniversary, and the CHS website is offline, but Wallace kindly said I could republish it here. So here it is…

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Juvenilia: Red Dwarf VIII – A Curate’s Smeg

Here’s a very early piece of what might be called Juvenilia: a distinctly vicious review of the eighth series of Red Dwarf published in TV Zone magazine issue 122 in 1999. It’s clear than I didn’t think much of the show after Rob Grant’s departure, and I’m afraid to say I’m a little bit savage to it, in that regard. Still very proud of the “Curate’s Smeg” slugline, though…

Wolfblood – Unused 1001 TV Shows Review

Here’s a previously unpublished entry for 1001 TV Series You Must Watch Before You Die for the series Wolfblood. Originally it was one of the publisher’s choices to be covered and I gladly leapt at the chance as I thought the show was great. They then changed their mind about including too many “kids’ TV shows” and dropped it after I’d written it. (Thankfully I got paid anyway, so I still win.)