BBC Radio 4 is replaying the three Torchwood episodes that preceded Children of Earth this week in their Afternoon Play segment. That means that on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 14:15 GMT (that’s 2:15PM London time) you can listen to them in real time, and probably play them back for the 6 days after that. Note that this is on BBC Radio 4 proper, rather than BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC Radio 7). Over on that channel we have Arthur C Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama on Sunday, and another brand new Doctor Who story, The Whispering Forest, with Tegan, Nyssa, and Turlough joining Davison’s Doctor. That one started yesterday, but you have 5 more days to listen to the first episode, with the story continuing Monday.
SFX just uploaded this teaser trailer; no info yet on if the tour will be coming to the US or just Europe. If the Torchwood trailer doesn’t work, try watching on YouTube.
When they run Doctor Who on the BBC, they always have that companion piece; Doctor Who Confidential. Finally they have it on BBC America, although it is not on the channel proper, but relegated to their web site. Still, it means those of us in the US have access to it the same day as the new episode, and now that the episode airs here the same day it does there, I feel quite a bit better about how my Doctor fix gets delivered.
Upcoming on NBC, Awake looks like one of the more interesting new TV shows. While the shrinks from both universes are voting for a psychiatric episode of some flavor, it looks like good old fashioned Paratemporal Displacement to me.
The first trailer for the new J. J. Abrams show Alcatraz just put this one on the must-see list. OK, it was already just because it is J.J., but now it is serious. They had me at: time traveling bad guys working for a mysterious organization.
This weeks winner has to be Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, a mix of the brilliant Tim Powers book with the Disney Pirates franchise. So far every film in this series has been top notch, and I really hope they keep up the quality with this one. When I first read the book a bit over two decades ago I was sad at the time that it was a story that could never make it to the big screen, and I am now happy to have been proven wrong.