Unreality TV beats Reality TV

SF series are now flavour of the month as a result of the success of Doctor Who (No. 2 on Christmas day with 9.4 million viewers) according to The Times. In 2006, we will see:

• Primaeval on ITV, a £6 million, six-part epic about scientists who travel into prehistoric times through black holes. The team behind Walking with Dinosaurs is creating the graphics.
  

• Hyperdrive on BBC2, follows the spaceship HMS Camden Lock on its mission to protect British interests in a changing galaxy.
  

• Eleventh Hour on ITV, stars Patrick Stewart as a problem-solving physics professor who is called on by the Government to avert disasters caused by scientific developments.
  

• Life on Mars on BBC1, John Simm, a Manchester detective, is catapulted back to 1973 after a road accident.