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TV Review: OUTCASTS – Series 1 – “Episode Two”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 06/26/2011
Eric Mabius in OUTCASTS - Series 1 - Episode 2 | ©2010 Kudos/BBC

Stars: Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Daniel Mays, Amy Manson, Ashley Walters, Eric Mabius, Langley Kirkwood, Michael Legge, Jeanne Kietzmann, Jessica Haines, Laura Greenwood, Rory Acton-Burnell Writer: Ben Richards Director:  Bharat Nalluri Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: June 25, 2011 “That’s all it’s ever been about – human life.” So says President Richard Tate (Liam Cunningham) as the second episode of OUTCASTS throws the already fragile Forthaven community for a loop when new survivors from a downed transport ship challenge the delicate balance of life on the planet Carpathia. A subtle but very real power play begins between […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: OUTCASTS creator Ben Richards on his brave new world

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/25/2011
OUTCASTS - Series 1 | ©2011 BBC

In BBC America’s new science-fiction series OUTCASTS, the Earth of the future is more ecologically messed up than it is in our present, especially following a catastrophic war. Seeking a better environment both physically and psychologically, humans settle on the planet Carpathia, but they are in for some surprises from within and without. The show stars Liam Cunningham, Eric Mabius and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s Jamie Bamber. Series creator Ben Richards, who wrote all the scripts for OUTCASTS (he was previously a writer on MI-5) gives us some exclusive insights into his brave new world. ASSIGNMENT X: How did you go from […]Read On »


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TV Review: OUTCASTS – Series 1 – “Episode One”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 06/19/2011
Liam Cunningham in OUTCASTS - Series 1 - Episode 1 | ©2010 Kudos/BBC

Stars: Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Daniel Mays, Amy Manson, Ashley Walters, Eric Mabius, Michael Legge, Jamie Bamber, Jessica Haines, Patrick Lyster, Teague Bidwell, Mélodie Abad, Denzil Thompson, Jonathan Hearns Writer: Ben Richards Director:  Bharat Nalluri Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: June 18, 2011 In the premiere episode of OUTCASTS, the short-lived BBC series that has already been cancelled over in the UK even as it premieres on BBC America for a single eight-episode run, tensions are rising at the fledgling colony town of Forthaven on the planet Carpathia. A planet in a “Goldilocks zone” that suitably replicates […]Read On »


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TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “A Good Man Goes to War”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 06/12/2011
Neve McIntosh and Catrin Stewart in DOCTOR WHO - Series 6 - Episode 7 | ©2011 BBC

Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston, Frances Barber, Charlie Baker, Dan Johnston, Christina Chong, Joshua Hayes, Damian Kell, Neve McIntosh, Catrin Stewart, Richard Trinder, Annabel Cleare, Henry Wood, Dan Starkey, Simon Fisher-Becker, Danny Sapani, Hugh Bonneville, Oscar Lloyd, Nicholas Briggs Writer: Steven Moffat Director:  Peter Hoar Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: June 11, 2011 In the DOCTOR WHO Series 6 mid-year cliffhanger, the Doctor (Matt Smith) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) rush to save Amy (Karen Gillan) and her newborn baby Melody, walk right into a secret base and rescue them immediately, but whoops! The […]Read On »


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TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “The Almost People”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 06/05/2011
Raquel Cassidy and Matt Smith in DOCTOR WHO - Series 6 - Episode 6 | ©2011 BBC

Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Mark Bonnar, Marshall Lancaster, Sarah Smart, Raquel Cassidy, Leon Vickers, Frances Barber, Edmond Moulton Writer: Matthew Graham Director:  Julian Simpson Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: June 4, 2011 In the sixth episode of DOCTOR WHO Series 6, “The Almost People,” the Doctor (Matt Smith) and the Other Doctor (Smith again) must manage a volatile situation between humans and Gangers as fear threatens to plunge everyone into war. But as tensions rise and two Time Lords may only serve to exacerbate the problem, there’s a bigger mystery lurking in the shadows. […]Read On »


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The X List: The Five Best DOCTOR WHO Doppelgangers

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 05/28/2011
Tom Baker in DOCTOR WHO - Season Eighteen - "Meglos" | ©1980 BBC

Viewers that sat down to watch last Saturday’s new episode of DOCTOR WHO, “The Rebel Flesh,” might have been shocked when the final frames revealed a clone Doctor spouting his usual rapid-fire dialogue from behind an Odo-like mass of featureless flesh. On the other hand, since it was a story all about clones (or Gangers), how likely was it that we weren’t going to get a double Doctor? This isn’t the first time we’ve met a twin of the Time Lord. In fact, it’s happened quite a few times over the years, with everything from robot and android doubles in […]Read On »


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TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “The Rebel Flesh”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 05/22/2011
Sarah Smart in DOCTOR WHO - Series 6 - Episode 5 | ©2011 BBC

Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Mark Bonnar, Marshall Lancaster, Sarah Smart, Raquel Cassidy, Leon Vickers Writer: Matthew Graham Director:  Julian Simpson Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: May 21, 2011 Cross a Second Doctor “base under siege” story with a dash of Seventh Doctor chess playing and some excellent atmospheric set and makeup design and you have the fifth episode of DOCTOR WHO’s Series 6, “The Rebel Flesh.” After a slightly creepy, slightly goofy pre-credits teaser and a wonderful opening TARDIS scene that shows the crew relaxing with music and darts, our heroes are drawn into […]Read On »


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The X List: Five Best DOCTOR WHO Stories About the TARDIS

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 05/21/2011
Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and Peter Davison in DOCTOR WHO - Season Nineteen - "Castrovalva" | ©1982 BBC

She’s the most consistent star in the history of the series, appearing alongside her beloved Doctor even when dozens of other companions have come and gone. She’s the blue box with the infinite universe of rooms and corridors within, the last child of Gallifrey, the dimensionally transcendental Type 40 time-and-space machine known as the TARDIS – and she’s sexy too. From the SIDRATS of “The War Games” to the solo flying of the console in “Inferno” and “Day of the Daleks;” from glimpses of control rooms and wardrobes in “The Masque of Mandragora,” “The Twin Dilemma,” “Time and the Rani,” […]Read On »


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TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “The Doctor’s Wife”

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 05/15/2011
Suranne Jones in DOCTOR WHO - Series 6 - Episode 4 | ©2011 BBC

Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Suranne Jones, Michael Sheen, Paul Kasey, Adrian Schiller, Elizabeth Berrington Writer: Neil Gaiman Director:  Richard Clark Network: BBC America, airs Saturday nights Original Telecast: May 14, 2011 Summarizing this one just seems so useless since it encompasses ideas so much grander than any paragraph could contain, but here we go. DOCTOR WHO Series 6 makes a successful grab for greatness with “The Doctor’s Wife,” a love letter to the show penned by none other than celebrated fantasist Neil Gaiman. The Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) respond to a […]Read On »


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The X List: Five DOCTOR WHO Pirate Adventures

By ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG 05/14/2011
William Hartnell and George Cooper in DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - "The Smugglers" | ©1966 BBC

Although “The Curse of the Black Spot” was only the second full-fledged period pirate tale featured in DOCTOR WHO, there have been  other televised adventures in which the TARDIS has landed in the middle of swashbuckling, sea- or space-faring scurvy dogs in full eye-patch and parrot-y regalia. Let’s take a look back at the other times the Doctor and companions shivered their timbers! (Note to the dedicated fans: I’ve automatically discounted Blackbeard’s brief appearance in “The Mind Robber” because it’s not a major part of the story, and we’re only doing actual TV WHO, not the novels, audios or what-have-you.) […]Read On »


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