The SF Site: Babylon 5.1 by Rick Norwood

Babylon 5.1
by Rick Norwood

SF on TV

Websites
Other Babylon 5.1 Columns
For more information, you can try the following sites:
Rick Norwood's Website
Worldwide TV Schedule
The Official Babylon 5 Website
The X-Files
Pocket Books: Star Trek
Paramount Star Trek

Ratings
Ratings are based on a four star system.
One star means that the commercials are more entertaining than the program.
Two stars watch if you have nothing better to do.
Three stars is good solid entertainment.
Four stars means you never dreamed television could be this good.

Falling Skies and Torchwood, while not deathless classics, held my interest to the end. Terra Nova did not. It wasn't terrible, it just didn't hold my interest. I'm still watching Sanctuary, but if it wants to keep me as a viewer, it needs to start making sense.

Now that the great Doctor Who is between seasons, I'm rewatching a lot of old television: Earth: Final Conflict, Season One (surprisingly good), The West Wing, Season Four (one of the greatest tv shows of all time), and, next up, 24, Season 7.

SF on TV in November 2011

Thursday, November 3
The Vampire Diaries "Ordinary People", story by Nick Wauters, who has written for The Event, The 4400, and Eureka, teleplay by Julie Plec, and Caroline Dries, who wrote for Smallville.

Friday, November 4
Sanctuary "Resistance"
Fringe "Novation"

Monday, November 7
Terra Nova "Nightfall"

Thursday, November 10
The Vampire Diaries "Homecoming", by Evan Bleiweiss

Friday, November 11
Sanctuary "Homecoming", by Damian Kindle and James Thorpe
Fringe "And Those We've Left Behind"

Fringe Monday, November 14
Terra Nova "Proof"

Friday, November 18
Sanctuary "Icebreaker", by Martin Wood
Fringe "Wallflower"

Monday, November 21
Terra Nova "Vs."

Friday, November 25
Sanctuary "Fugue", by Damian Kindler
Fringe "Back to Where You've Never Been" by David Fury, who has written for Buffy, Lost, and 24.

But by far the best television currently on the air is South Park.

Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. Visit his web site at comicsrevue.com.