As 2015 draws to a close, television is falling into a bit of a lull, between shows taking their midseason breaks or wrapping up their short seasons. In January, programming will resume with crowd...
Doctor Who is back with ‘The Magician’s Apprentice,’ part one of a double episode series opener, and it’s clear that this season, like the last, is going to be pure Moffat. The showrunner is...
The countdown to a new season of Doctor Who has begun with the announcement of a 19 September premiere, and while we’ll be seeing the usual suspects, Moffat has once again recruited some famous...
Russell T. Davies may be particularly famous for his revival of Dr. Who and spell as showrunner from 2005 to 2010, but before then, he made the shortlived series Queer as Folk, chronicling the lives...
Reunions are an inevitable theme of December holidays, as families get together to bicker over meals, cringe when ignorant distant relatives make irritating comments, and attempt to replicate...
With the revelation of Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor, I was deeply skeptical, and a bit dismayed: Yet again, the series had gone with a white man, refusing to buck a long tradition in which white...
I was a little young to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it first hit our television screens back in 1997, although it finished up in 2003, when I was heading headlong into adolescence and...
We bade Matt Smith a maudlin and schmaltzy goodbye on Christmas day with ‘The Time of the Doctor,’ the long-awaited Christmas special where we finally got to meet the Doctor’s next incarnation,...
For the first time in Steven Moffat’s run on Doctor Who, I found myself actually enjoying one of his episodes, even if it was marked by his usual tendency to radically rewrite history, canon, and...
The world tuned in with bated breath this Sunday to find out who would be the next Doctor, after weeks of speculation and the bandying of names from Helen Mirren to Chiwetel Ejiofor. With Steven...