Louisa Mellor Jan 26, 2017
BBC Four’s Time Commanders is joyful, nerdy, educational fun. We’d like a million new episodes commissioned please…
1) A dog carrying an unwieldy but clearly excellent stick.
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2) A child being presented with an ice-cream that’s bigger than their face.
3) Me whenever somebody falls into a paddling pool on You’ve Been Framed!
Until December 2016, those were the purest examples of joy I could name. Now? There’s a new addition to the list. Ladies and gentlemen I give you: the joy of BBC Four’s Time Commanders.
Engage skirmish
Time Commanders aired its first sixteen-episode series on BBC Two in 2003. Devised by Adam Macdonald,...
BBC Four’s Time Commanders is joyful, nerdy, educational fun. We’d like a million new episodes commissioned please…
1) A dog carrying an unwieldy but clearly excellent stick.
See related Upstart Crow: Shakespeare sitcom gets a second series 24 great comedy shows that deserve more love Peep Show: saluting a cynical, honest, brilliant sitcom Bridget Jones’s Baby review Raised By Wolves: saluting a witty, hugely likeable sitcom
2) A child being presented with an ice-cream that’s bigger than their face.
3) Me whenever somebody falls into a paddling pool on You’ve Been Framed!
Until December 2016, those were the purest examples of joy I could name. Now? There’s a new addition to the list. Ladies and gentlemen I give you: the joy of BBC Four’s Time Commanders.
Engage skirmish
Time Commanders aired its first sixteen-episode series on BBC Two in 2003. Devised by Adam Macdonald,...
- 1/25/2017
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Dec 20, 2016
It’s hard not to be won over by the enthusiasm of Time Commanders’ presenting team…
This review contains spoilers.
I was wrong to question the wisdom of hiring Gregg Wallace for this gig - it’s all down to love. Wallace loves presenting Time Commanders. He loves it even more than he loves sticky toffee pudding, and he regularly makes the kind of bedroom noises about sticky toffee pudding you’d bang on the ceiling to complain about. Look at his elated face when those French calvary attacks destroyed Wellington’s right flank this week. Hear him “Waaaaaaaaaayy” and “COO-hoo-hooooo” and purr “Gooooood plaaaan, goooood plaaaaan” like a Furby having its tummy rubbed. You’d need a heart of stone to begrudge him this job.
Also in his favour, Wallace offered more in the way of strategic tips in episode two, perhaps because he was faced...
It’s hard not to be won over by the enthusiasm of Time Commanders’ presenting team…
This review contains spoilers.
I was wrong to question the wisdom of hiring Gregg Wallace for this gig - it’s all down to love. Wallace loves presenting Time Commanders. He loves it even more than he loves sticky toffee pudding, and he regularly makes the kind of bedroom noises about sticky toffee pudding you’d bang on the ceiling to complain about. Look at his elated face when those French calvary attacks destroyed Wellington’s right flank this week. Hear him “Waaaaaaaaaayy” and “COO-hoo-hooooo” and purr “Gooooood plaaaan, goooood plaaaaan” like a Furby having its tummy rubbed. You’d need a heart of stone to begrudge him this job.
Also in his favour, Wallace offered more in the way of strategic tips in episode two, perhaps because he was faced...
- 12/16/2016
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Dec 13, 2016
Time Commanders is back! But is the revival a magnificent victory or ignominious defeat?
This review contains spoilers.
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Prior to episode one of the revived Time Commanders, it would have been fair to describe my knowledge of the Punic Wars as ‘not extensive’ and even fairer to describe it as gleaned entirely from this Eddie Izzard routine. Post-episode one, I don’t mind saying that I picked up a few things.
I learned that Carthaginian leader Hannibal, for instance, had the look of Michael Sheen playing the lead in a CG animation biopic about Beppe from EastEnders. Roman general Scipio (pronounced Skippy, oh – the disappointed utterance of someone discovering the famous bush kangaroo pleasuring herself against a Eucalyptus tree) however,...
Time Commanders is back! But is the revival a magnificent victory or ignominious defeat?
This review contains spoilers.
See related Guardians Of The Galaxy 2: James Gunn on Baby Groot Thor: Ragnarok - will John Cena make an appearance? Marvel Studios movies: UK release date calendar
Prior to episode one of the revived Time Commanders, it would have been fair to describe my knowledge of the Punic Wars as ‘not extensive’ and even fairer to describe it as gleaned entirely from this Eddie Izzard routine. Post-episode one, I don’t mind saying that I picked up a few things.
I learned that Carthaginian leader Hannibal, for instance, had the look of Michael Sheen playing the lead in a CG animation biopic about Beppe from EastEnders. Roman general Scipio (pronounced Skippy, oh – the disappointed utterance of someone discovering the famous bush kangaroo pleasuring herself against a Eucalyptus tree) however,...
- 12/13/2016
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Dec 12, 2016
We’ve taken a pen to the UK Christmas TV and radio schedules and circled the shows we’re looking forward to. Add yours below!
Amid the cosy repeats, big movies and inescapable cranberry-stuffed cookery shows on TV this month are a few original gems. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Inside No. 9 festive special The Devil Of Christmas (Tuesday the 27th of December, 10pm, BBC Two) is top of our must-watch list. Hot on its heels is Yonderland’s family friendly Yonder Yuletide (Saturday the 24th of December, 6.30pm, Sky One). Another for families on Sky is the Christmas Day Jasper Fforde adaptation The Last Dragonslayer, while Channel 4 has the non-festive-but-essential-for-fans-of smart-sci-fi Humans series two finale (Sunday the 18th of December, 9pm).
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Not to forget, of course, the Doctor Who Christmas Special, a brand-new series of Sherlock,...
We’ve taken a pen to the UK Christmas TV and radio schedules and circled the shows we’re looking forward to. Add yours below!
Amid the cosy repeats, big movies and inescapable cranberry-stuffed cookery shows on TV this month are a few original gems. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Inside No. 9 festive special The Devil Of Christmas (Tuesday the 27th of December, 10pm, BBC Two) is top of our must-watch list. Hot on its heels is Yonderland’s family friendly Yonder Yuletide (Saturday the 24th of December, 6.30pm, Sky One). Another for families on Sky is the Christmas Day Jasper Fforde adaptation The Last Dragonslayer, while Channel 4 has the non-festive-but-essential-for-fans-of smart-sci-fi Humans series two finale (Sunday the 18th of December, 9pm).
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Not to forget, of course, the Doctor Who Christmas Special, a brand-new series of Sherlock,...
- 12/9/2016
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Jul 26, 2016
A third series of the BBC historical military strategy game Time Commanders appears to be on the way...
Is it your dream to replicate the military achievements of Alexander the Great via the medium of modern games engines, live on TV? Then you, my friend, are in luck.
BBC Four has put out a call for teams of three people to take part in the return of Time Commanders, a "popular historical military strategy series, where teams go head-to-head with some of the greatest generals from history".
During its brief 2003-2005 tenure, Time Commanders saw teams reenact historical battles using a games engine more or less imported wholesale from real-time strategy game Rome: Total War. It was hosted by Scottish broadcaster Eddie Mair before Top Gear's Richard Hammond took over.
The call for participants appears to have preceded an official announcement in this case. The revived...
A third series of the BBC historical military strategy game Time Commanders appears to be on the way...
Is it your dream to replicate the military achievements of Alexander the Great via the medium of modern games engines, live on TV? Then you, my friend, are in luck.
BBC Four has put out a call for teams of three people to take part in the return of Time Commanders, a "popular historical military strategy series, where teams go head-to-head with some of the greatest generals from history".
During its brief 2003-2005 tenure, Time Commanders saw teams reenact historical battles using a games engine more or less imported wholesale from real-time strategy game Rome: Total War. It was hosted by Scottish broadcaster Eddie Mair before Top Gear's Richard Hammond took over.
The call for participants appears to have preceded an official announcement in this case. The revived...
- 7/26/2016
- Den of Geek
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