Ok, from my last few posts you *may* have guessed I like a bit of the sci-fi. You’d be correct in that assumption. But I fail bigtime because I completely spaced on the premiere (UK) of the new season of Doctor Who on Saturday. I blame that on being so focused on the Big Finale of Torchwood and the ‘is he or isn’t he’ evil of James Marsters’ character on it that the new Who escaped my mind entirely. And for the record, I’m not going to spoil the finale until after it airs in the states. All I’m saying is, “Damn that was a good finale.”)

Back to The Doctor, the premiere was full of surprises. It was funny, endearing, a little melancholy… There was a big ‘Whoah!’ moment towards the end and well, it just delivered. Again, I don’t want to spoil it because I do not know when it will premiere here in the states. But if you’re a fan, or even if you are thinking about checking it out, the new season (the fourth one in the new incarnation of the series) comes highly recommended.

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Sometimes I get hooked on shows outside of the main networks. I speak of Doctor Who and Torchwood which air on BBC America and Project Runway on Bravo.

A friend of mine has been a Who (New Who, btw, not the originals) fan for years and has bugged me tirelessly to check it out.  I always put it off because I have vague memories of the old series that my dad used to watch and back then I wasn’t as into the sci-fi as I am now. I’ve come to accept and embrace my inner geek.  Anyway, the old series never appealed to me so I wasn’t very interested in the new series of Who.

Of course, I’m kicking myself now but what can you do? Anyway, I highly recommend throwing all three series of Doctor Who into your Netflix Queue or borrowing it from a friend, or if you’re independently wealthy, you can buy the DVDs (my one and only complaint is the price of the DVD sets. $60 to $80 for a thirteen episode season? WTF?)

The new series has two new Docs, Christopher Eccleston (who was fantastic in 28 Days Later and is also in “Heroes”) and David Tennant (Whom Potter fans will recognize as the bloke who played Barty Crouch Junior in “Goblet of Fire”) and oh the adventures they have. It’s amazing, bittersweet, hilarious, strange, intriguing, creepifying, and so much fun.
I honestly cannot say enough good things about it.

Same goes for its spinoff, “Torchwood.” The spinoff is darker and sexier - more adult fare rather than the family fare Doctor Who mostly is. Torchwood follows Captain Jack Harkness, a former Time Agent who now heads up the Torchwood Institute, which, according the the IMDb is “…a renegade criminal investigation group founded by Queen Victoria to battle hostile extraterrestrial and supernatural threats.” It’s just as fantastic as Doctor Who although in the first series, it did stumble a bit as they tried to find their footing. But I’m about 3/4ths of the way through the second series and there hasn’t been a single misstep. Both shows are currently airing Saturday evenings on the Beeb.

Finally, I hate to admit that I’m hooked on Project Runway. Something about watching a bunch of catty designers bitch and moan their way through a bunch of weird challenges just floats my boat and I don’t know why. I don’t particularly follow the fashion world - closest I’ve ever been to it was going to a Lexus fashion show in Pebble Beach where I met Malcolm McDonald which thrilled me more than seeing the clothes. But I do really enjoy seeing the final products these designers turn out from seemingly nothing. The season finale is coming up on Wednesday, March 5th. I can’t stand the little weasel but I hope Christian wins.

I’ll probably talk more about these shows in posts to come because I love them so much. Until then, check out Who and Torchwood. You won’t regret it.

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