David still has the flute, the soft-spoken voice, all the right moves; but this time he is carrying a very big stick and you don’t want to piss him off Beginning Sunday, August 17 at 10:00 PM – Midnight ET/PT SPIKE TV will show its two-part miniseries starring David Carradine and Daryl Hannah, reuniting for the first time since they appeared... 

With “Journey’s End” Russell T. Davies attempts to bring a sense of closure to his tenure as the producer for Doctor Who.  I’ll give him credit for what he tried to do here, even if I found the episode’s execution a bit lacking.  It was an episode that was neither as brilliant as it wanted to be or as it horrific as it... 

And so, here it is.  The episode whose title was kept under wraps for months because it was considered to be “too SPOILER filled.”  The episode that brought back the Daleks, yet again.  The episode that brought back an old enemy.  The episode that would bring together all of the Doctor’s companions (well, at least those seen since... 

Last week we got the Donna-lite episode of series four, so this week it’s time for the Doctor-lite installment of the season. While having the Doctor in a reduced role is certainly nothing new if you’ve watched any of the stories from the early days of the show, watching  the new series work with have a reduced appearance by the title character... 

Reviewed by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director) The new dramedy series “The Middleman” from the ABC Family Network premiered this week on Monday and turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable 1-hr romp into a fast-paced, satiric-laced dialogue reminiscent of the old Mel Brooks days with “Get Smart,” only with... 

Review by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF assistant editor) On a recent podcast commentary for “Silence in the Library,” director Eros Lynn asked producer Phil Collinson an interesting question–”What do you see as the difference between the writing style of Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat?”  If you’ve heard the podcast... 

Fairly or not, there were huge expectations heaped on this year’s Stephen Moffatt two-part story. As the season began, we wondered if Moffatt could somehow top last year’s superlative “Blink.” Then came the news that Moffatt was taking over as show-runner in 2010 and suddenly the pressure on “Silence in the Library”... 

The hardest reviews to write are those for something you love. And I will make no bones about it, I loved everything about Stephen Moffatt’s latest instant classic “Silence in the Library.” If there was one story I was looking forward to this season, it was this one. Moffatt has shown that he has his pulse on what makes a great... 

Review by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF assistant editor) Based on the title and the preview, I went into “The Doctor’s Daughter” expecting to not be pleased.  In fact, you could go so far as to say I hated the entire concept and idea before the first moment of the show flashed up on my screen. So, I have to admit that coming away from... 

Review by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF assistant editor) One of the assets of the Sontarans as a returning monster/villian for Doctor Who is that while they are easily identified with the classic run of the show, they’re not a “staple” of the original series in the same way the Daleks or Cybermen were. I say this because it gives the writers... 

Review by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Assistant Editor) When I was younger, I couldn’t wait for Doctor Who SPOILERs. Of course, in my younger days, in the dark time before the world-wide web, the only real source of SPOILER information I had came from Doctor Who Magazine. And while it was a good source for tidbits about upcoming stories (yes, I am old... 

After a stretch of three episodes that were hit or miss, I have to admit I was staring to lose a bit of faith in Doctor Who. Thankfully, this week’s story “The Fires of Pompeii” while not an instant classic along the lines of last year’s “Blink” or “Human Nature/The Family of Blood” was still enough of... 

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF assistant editor) I have to admit that as series four of the new Doctor Who approached, I was having a hard time mustering up the same level of enthusiasm I had four years ago when we got “Rose” or two years ago for “New Earth” or even last year with “Smith and Jones.” Based on... 

Reviewed by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director) It’s been so long since I’ve watched a fresh episode of “Battlestar Galactica” that I’ve gotten a bit lazy and forgot what great programming this show is. I finished watching the special 2-hr movie “Battlestar Galactica: Razor” last night,... 

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director) “Married With Children” actress Christina Applegate makes her return to the small screen after a lengthy foray into motion pictures and stage work to star in the new series “Samantha Who” for ABC. Like the Alphabet network’s other new series “Pushing... 

Reviewed by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director) Critics that were favored with a pre-launch viewing of the new ABC show “Pushing Daisies,” loved it, said it was the greatest thing since grandma’s home cooking. The hype surrounding the series raised the anticipation of SF fans to frenzied heights. Now that the... 

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (Farpoint Media Executive News Director) I finished watching the NBC pilot episode of the new NBC dramedy “Chuck.” I have to say that, in all of my nerdy geekiness I enjoyed the show a lot. Like any new television show that is introducing new characters and trying to lay a solid foundation it had its awkward... 

I have been reading and hearing allot of negative comments on the new Flash Gordon series and I believe everyone does have the right to their own opinion. However while I may be in the minority (very likely) I was hooked on this show from the beginning. Why I like it is that the hero Flash doesn’t start out as full fledge hero, he has a ways to... 

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (Farpoint Media Exec. News Dir.) I have been eagerly anticipating the return of “Flash Gordon” ever since we first got wind of it going into production early last year for the SCI FI Channel. I say that because then you will understand how disappointed I was in last night’s pilot episode of the new series.... 

Reviewed by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist) After five solid weeks of “Doctor Who” I suppose there was going to be an episode that was a let down eventually. It’s just too bad that episode turned out to be the season finale of series three, “Last of the Time Lords.” Looking at the entire three-part season finale... 

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist) With each passing season of Doctor Who, you can almost feel Russell T. Davies coming more and more into his own as writer on “Doctor Who.” And “The Sound of Drums” is further evidence of just how far Davies has come and how much more comfortable he is telling stories within... 

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist) Heading into this week’s episode, I was prepared for a letdown. The last three weeks of “Doctor Who” had been so great that I figured the series three would come down to earth a bit with an episode that was just good, but no where as good as the past three weeks. And for the first... 

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist) I’m going to make a bold statement here–Stephan Moffatt may be the new “Doctor Who”’s equivalent of Robert Holmes. For those of you who are new to whole “Doctor Who” experience or have only seen the new series, Holmes was one of the most consistent writers... 

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (Farpoint Media Exec. News Dir.) “John From Cincinnati” — A Bizarre, but Enthralling Tale Tony Soprano has sung his swan song and people were wondering what will give them that HBO fix now that the mob crew is no longer a factor on the network. Well, they didn’t have to guess for long. Quickly on... 

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist) Last week, I stated that depending on how the second half of the “Human Nature/Family of Blood” storyline turned out, that “Doctor Who” could have another instant classic story on its hands. Well, I’m here to tell you–the new series has another instant classic... 

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist) Paul Cornell’s “Human Nature” is regarded in “Doctor Who” fan circles as one of, if not the, best New Adventure novel published. I read it back in the day and I have to admit–I really liked it. But then again, I’m biased as I loved all of Cornell’s... 

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist) Stories in which the events that happen on-screen take the same amount of time as the audience spends invested in the film or television program are nothing new. It happened in the classic “High Noon” (the original, not any of the substandard remakes) and viewers can see it unfolding... 

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist) When the one-minute preview for the rest of series three excites you more than the 41-minutes of story leading up to it, you know something’s wrong. It’s not that “The Lazarus Experiment” is necessarily a bad episode of “Doctor Who.” It’s something far worse–a... 

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist) One of the hardest transitions from the classic “Doctor Who” to the new series was the predominence of multi-episodes stories. Having been brought up on 26 seasons of stories with a cliffhanger every 25 minutes, it was hard to get used to the idea of “self contained” stories instead... 

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Journalist) Before the season began, I was talking to some fellow “Doctor Who” fans about what we most wanted to see in series three. Jokingly, I said I’d love to see the series get a new cliffhanger, since for the past two series, every cliffhanger has been the Doctor and/or the companion being... 

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