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I was just looking something else up and ran across this. Thought you guys might like to see this.


from the Tribune...


Date: March 16, 2006
A Doctor, an oil crisis and seven hours of 'Prison Break'

This weekend's best bets:

“Doctor Who,” 8 p.m. Friday, Sci Fi Channel: Despite a few missteps, there’s much to recommend this fast-paced edition of “Doctor Who,” the first brand-new TV season of Britain’s long-running “Who” franchise in many years. As the Doctor, a space traveler who pops all over the universe having adventures and fighting bad guys, Christopher Eccleston has a cheeky, spiky charm and more than a dash of sex appeal. As the Doctor’s companion, Rose Tyler, English pop-star-turned-actress Billie Piper brings a winning combination of dogged sincerity and working-class irreverence to her role. Having said that, it’s a good thing that Sci Fi is running two episodes of this updated “Doctor Who” on Friday: The first episode starts out with promising chills, but the resolution of the paper-thin plot is far too predictable. And though the story in the second episode isn’t terribly complex, the dialogue and pop-culture satire throughout is entertaining (who would have thought Britney Spears’ “Toxic” would ever appear on a “Doctor Who” soundtrack?). All in all, new head “Who” writer Russell T. Davies has done the Doctor a service by making him a multi-layered, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes troubled hero who’s comfortable in modern-day, multicultural London -- and in the rest of the galaxy too, where evil never sleeps.