Hello, and welcome back to the Independent Culture newsletter – Louis writing this week. The clocks have gone back, there's a chill in the air – the first whisperings of the Christmas season are upon us. I read the other day that streams of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" have already risen to 500,000 per day. In October? Even for someone with a borderline embarrassing amount of Christmas Joy, I find that a little excessive.
We've had some very good features this week on the Indy's culture desk. It was announced a few days ago that the BBC's deal with Disney to produce episodes of Doctor Who was being discontinued: as Fiona Sturges writes in this week's State of the Arts column, it leaves the future of the much-loved sci-fi programme in an all-too precarious position.
Kevin EG Perry interviewed Charlie Kaufman, of Being John Malkovich fame, about his new collaboration with poet Eva HD. I've seen Kaufman be a tricky interview with some people in the past – as you might gather from his films, he has a tendency towards a certain cerebral-ness – and think Kevin got some really good stuff out of him.
On TV, The Celebrity Traitors continues unabated – with just one episode to go! Really enjoyed this piece by Adam White on Traitors' Alan Carr, Strictly's La Voix, and the return of the "chaotic gay funnyman" on mainstream British telly.
I myself wrote about It: Welcome to Derry, and something that's been on my mind, as an lover of good television, for a while: the death of so-called Prestige TV.
More pieces below, including Inside Film and a big Saturday Interview. But first, a brief announcement – from next week onwards, this newsletter will be taken over by Chief Culture Writer Patrick Smith! It's been a pleasure writing these every week, but sure Patrick is going to smash it. Expect fewer Simpsons references and an uptick in talk about Pixies and the French New Wave.
Have lovely weekends,
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