One Day

I suspect that this will be the last time I'll be able to write before Doctor Who premieres on the Sci Fi channel.

First of all, touching on our Torchwood heritage, <Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood star John Barrowman is interviewed in Eclipse Magazine. It'll be a couple of weeks until American Sci Fi channel viewers meet John Barrowman's character Captain Jack.

Scripps Howard News Service has an article about the new series.

iFMagazine gave Rose an A- -- and if they give Rose an A-, what will they think of The Empty Child in two months!

If you're having a gathering of people to watch Doctor Who tomorrow, you could try for a Chocolate Dalek. (I won't have one, as there's no time or talent for such things!)

One thing that is interesting as we're getting the American launch of the series is how there are differences in how the series is viewed in the UK contrasted with an American view. The Behind the Sofa blog interpreted this article from the Mercury News as a sign that the series wouldn't do well, where I read it as quite a positive article, and one saying that this new Doctor Who still has the British charm that was always part of the American appeal of the series.

Obviously, the new Doctor Who won't be proportionately the same sort of success in America -- it would have to be more successful than Lost or Desperate Housewives for that to happen. But almost all of the reviews I've seen so far have been at least generally favorable in this country.

It's taken almost exactly a year, but at last, Doctor Who returns to national American television. For only the second time, after all...

A Trip of a Lifetime....