DOCTOR WHO (Sat July 20, ABC – 8pm): Third series of the ‘New WHO’, featuring the hottest Doctor ever, David Tennant as Who #10, as well as Freema Agyeman as new Companion, Martha Jones. This season, the Doctor will be swapping sonnets with a bisexual William Shakespeare, facing a deadly new form of the Daleks in New York City (watch for a cameo from DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES’ Ryan Carnes as a real pig of a character!), fending off a nice little old lady with a bloodsucking habit and witnessing the long-awaited return of one of his oldest and deadliest foes, I won’t say who, but let’s just say this looks to be a Masterful season!
THE CIRCUIT (Sun July 21, SBS – 9:30pm): Hunky Aboriginal actor Aaron Pedersen (DEAD HEART) plays an ambitious city lawyer who is sent to help sort out the legal system of the remote Kimberley, where there is an uneasy truce between indigenous and white law. Two individuals who’ve managed to secure a lasting peace are Archie and Clarry, who, if I’m not mistaken, are the first inter-racial gay couple recurring characters on Aussie TV!
DRAWN TOGETHER (Mon July 22, SBS – 9pm): Continuing animated spoof of BIG BROTHER, in which 9 different animated characters share a house. You’ve got your superhero, your Pokemon, your mystery-solving musician, your Sponge Bob thing, a Betty Boop clone, a Disney Princess…and gay video-game elf Xandir, who tonight seems to be having trouble with his gag-reflex that no amount of…swordplay… is going to fix.
THE NATION (Tues July 24, Nine- 9:30pm): Aussie ‘Slacker Comedian’ Mick Molloy (a perfect epithet in my opinion, as he’s too slack to be funny) takes on current affairs with a team of similarly-talented comedians in what seems to an attempt to do a laugh-free version of THE CHASER’S WAR ON EVERYTHING.
NIGHT STALKER (Wed July 25, Seven – 11:30pm): Remake of the Cult 1970’s horror series KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER that directly inspired Chris Carter to unleash Agent Fox Mulder on the world in general and my loins in particular with THE X FILES. NIGHT STALKER features Stuart Townsend taking over from the original actor, the late Darren McGavin, as newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak. Kolchak’s covers vampire attacks, cannibal mutants eating people in the sewers and ordinary people becoming hideous, unholy monsters. In other words, he’s more like a parliamentary reporter.
