Paul Critoph: From Kinky Boots to The Krankies (In An Era of Nuclear Dread)

Paul Critoph brings his homemade grading system, a Doctor Who credit, and the story of chasing Chiwetel Ejiofor around the set of Kinky Boots — alongside some genuinely unsettling thoughts about 1980s children's animation.

Paul Critoph is an actor, photographer and self-appointed cultural commentator known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of television across the decades and a very particular approach to grading what he watches.

• His Doctor Who role — and the unsavoury character names he's somehow accumulated along the way
• The soothing, almost hypnotic appeal of gentle Japanese television — and why it works
• The surprisingly dark world of 1980s children's animation — cartoons that stirred genuine unease and nuclear dread in equal measure
• Why the Krankies represent something specific about a particular era of British variety entertainment

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