Season 5 of Primeval kicks off on Watch on this Tuesday, the 24th, but I can not find a start date on BBC America. Watch is digital satellite channel 109, but the UK satellite is too low in the sky from the US to be able to lock a dish on to it (as in, below the horizon).
Terrestrial Human
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.