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Last month this year’s series of Doctor Who arrived at one hum-dinger of a mid-season cliffhanger.

So you wanna see some of where the rest of the season is going? Check this out, courtesy of the BBC…

Doctor Who returns on August 27th. And I can’t wait!! Well, I guess I’ll have to but, you know… šŸ˜›

Speaking of the Whoniverse, I haven’t watched the rest of them yet but I did catch the first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. Am waiting for my girlfriend to come over some weekend so we can watch the rest together (no, not gonna take a peek at them without her to share it with :-). But I have watched that first episode a number of times now and, it’s some of the best Who-ish material that Russell T. Davies has done since he was the revived series’ first showrunner in 2005. Looking ...

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The last episode of Doctor Who until September aired just over an hour ago on BBC America. Titled “A Good Man Goes To War” and…

GREAT GOOGLEDY MOOBELY that was six scoops of crazy with sprinkles on top!

This show, might be finally coming into its fullest potential after nearly half a century since it premiered. This one hour of Doctor Who had more mythology packed into it than any episode in recent memory. Hey, it even had the classic Cybermen: as in the Mondas originals, not those stoopid Cybus Industries brand-name losers from the other universe.

And then, the real intensity got poured on and ratcheted up a notch or twenty.

Sooo now we know more about River Song than we’ve ever learned about her to date. But I get the feeling there’s way more to her… and I even have a pretty neat theory about it. Don’t wanna ...

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I mean that in a good way…

The one bit of British television that I had my DVR set to record this week (and I mean that in a good way too), tonight brought the second episode of the sixth season (or the thirty-second season, if we’re counting to the show’s very beginning in 1963) of Doctor Who. Picking up from “The Impossible Astronaut”, “Day of the Moon” continues the first Doctor Who story to be filmed in the United States. I watched “The Impossible Astronaut” twice more over the past week and had my expectations set high for Part 2.

I don’t know what precisely to say but, alternatively, “WOW!” and “HUH?!?”

The episode picks up three months after last week’s episode, still in 1969 and on the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, with Amy Pond fleeing across the Utah desert. Her pursuer? None other than Canton ...

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Okay, that was off the chain, folks!

The first ever episode of Doctor Who to be filmed in the United States (the show began in November 1963) had Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor ummm… killed by a spacesuit-clad assailant before the horrified eyes of Amy, Rory and River Song, in the middle of American desert. Then a stranger (played by William Morgan Sheppard, who’s done a lot of great work over the years) shows up with a can of gasoline for the Doctor’s body to be given a makeshift Viking funeral.

Then the scene shifts to a roadside diner and the Doctor coming out of the men’s room looking fine and dandy.

Then the Doctor and crew flew the TARDIS to the Oval Office of President Richard Milhous Nixon in 1969.

And for reasons which are not immediately clear, President Nixon has been getting a mysterious phone call from a ...

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I’ve been in a horrible funk the past few days. Related to my having bipolar disorder? Yeah. But also, quite a bit spiritual. Depression and oppression together are a terrible, terrible thing…

But you know what cheers me up? And maybe this’ll help cheer others up too if they need it: two new trailers for the coming season of Doctor Who!

And if these are any indication… well, good lord this next season is going to be EPIC!

“This is the day he finds out who I am.” That line, spoken by River Song, gives me shivers. That and the “Fear me, I’ve killed hundreds of Time Lords”, “Fear me: I’ve killed ALL of them” exchange between the Doctor and some new foe, and the Doctor saying “I’ve been running my whole life. Now it’s time for me to stop”…

April 23rd can not get here soon enough!...

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“There are no monsters in the Oval Office.”

Last season I didn’t post a single review of any Doctor Who episodes. That was all my fault: had some things I was dealing with at the time and couldn’t commit to giving this show the respect that it deserves.

So… what do I think of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor? He’s become my favorite incarnation of the Doctor since the series was revived in 2005… and right up there with Tom Baker’s and Jon Pertwee’s versions as my all-time favorite Doctor ever. Smith has been a sheer hoot to watch in action! And this past season was the best yet since Doctor Who was brought back into production. Steven Moffat has not disappointed since taking over as showrunner.

The next season begins on Easter weekend. Supposedly this season will see the return of the Daleks, the return of the original...

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Somewhere this afternoon, William Moulton Marston is spinning in his grave.

Courtesy of the Entertainment Weekly website, here is our first look at Adrianne Palicki in costume for NBC’s upcoming Wonder Woman series…

Bind me with the Golden Lasso of Truth: that looks HORRIBLE!!! It’s like a cheap-o costume that you can find at those seasonal Halloween stores instead of… GEEZ IT JUST SUCKS DONKEY BALLS TO NO END!

I was kinda hoping for an interpretation of Wonder Woman like what Alex Ross and Mark Waid came up with for Kingdom Come. That Wonder Woman boasted all her Amazonian power but tempered with all-too-mortal failings and frailties. It’s my personal favorite version of Wonder Woman ever. Heck, any previous version of Wonder Woman has got to be better than this… thing.

I don’t know when the pilot episode airs. And based on this photo, I’m not caring to ...

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So one of the bigger stories this past week has been IBM’s supercomputer Watson beating all-time champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter during a three-game series on Jeopardy!. Watson’s final haul was $77,147, with Jennings coming in second with $24,000 and Rutter third with $21,600. During Final Jeopardy! on the last night of the contest Jennings wrote “Who is Stoker?” and in parenthesis added “I for one welcome our new computer overlords”.

I thought Watson’s performance was… impressive. But, I’m not too terrified about a droid uprising just yet.

For one thing, Watson is not much more than a glorified search engine. IBM’s engineers assured the Jeopardy! audience that Watson could not access the Internet: that “he” relied entirely on his oodles of terabytes of storage, containing (it is thought) every iota of trivia that has possibly been digitized. Clearly, an advantage was held by Watson.

And yet, even ...

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Before today, Elvis Presley held the record for most singles on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, since it began keeping track of the most popular since in 1958. The King of Rock and Roll boasts 108 entries on the list.

But now, no more. Elvis has been dethroned by something that has 113 singles on Billboard’s Hot 100.

Y’know… this is the kind of thing that typified the decay and fall of the Roman Empire, when you think about it.

What has the most singles to make the top one hundred?

Fox’s hit show Glee: which has not produce even ONE original song! They’ve all been covers and “redone” versions of original songs by real musical artists!

(No, I haven’t watched Glee except for this season’s Christmas episode. But too many trusted sources have told me that it’s true: ALL of Glee‘s songs are re-recordings of songs that were ...

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Two months ago I discussed some reasons why I wasn’t particularly led to jump aboard the 3D television fad just yet. The most prominent among them was my understanding that we could fairly soon expect 3D teevee technology that worked without those clunky glasses (which many are now saying not only induce headaches but are just a plain ol’ nuisance to deal with).

Welcome to the future.

Toshiba is set to be the first manufacturer to roll out glasses-free 3D television, according to news site Breitbart citing a Japanese newspaper. The electronics and entertainment giant “has developed a new system that emits a number of rays of light with various angles from the screen so that viewers can see stereoscopic images without glasses”. It’s added that “People can enjoy images in three dimensions from various positions and suffer less stress.”

If true, this will be the big breakthrough that ...

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