In fairness, the Beeb chose to start Doctor Who on Easter Weekend... ITV almost always fills its scheduling with family movies throughout that time, so it's not too shocking... It will be interesting to see where the viewers chose to point their sets, though... and of course, there's always the option of watching one while recording the other...

I fel your pain about Farscape, PJF, although the miniseries 'The Peacekeeper Wars' did something to alleviate my suffering.

Personally, I wouldn't want Doctor Who to have the gravitas of the new BSG (I had managed to excise 1980 from my memory... thanks for bringing it crashing back to the foreground!! ). I'm not ure it would work if it had the same 'out there' feel of Farscape, either. Or the laconic, western feel of Firefly. Or the epic story arc of Babylon 5. That sorts of thing is purely aesthetic, and each series is different. I'm not sure you could put BSG and Farscape together as a comparison on that basis either, other than to say that neither has the long-standing traditions in place that Doctor Who has... here's always a flip-side to everything...

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