TV GUIDE: The Weekend Playlist: Thrones vs. Dead, BBCA's Dazzling Who-Orphan Combo
Mar 29, 2013
by Matt Roush
... LOOK WHO'S BACK: The good doctor, as in Doctor Who (Saturday, 8/7c), that's who. "I never realized how much I enjoyed hearing that [Doctor Who] said out loud," exults the Doctor (the delightful Matt Smith) as a new season begins with a saucy new companion (Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald) who initially can't remember her past encounters with the Time Lord. But she soon finds him invaluable as she becomes ensnared in exec producer Steven Moffat's latest ingenious sci-fi scenario: a Matrix-like organization that uses wi-fi to harvest living minds, leaving (in the Doctor's words) "human souls trapped like flies in the worldwide web." Clara's response — "Isn't that basically Twitter?" — endeared her to me instantly. Doctor Who turns 50 this year, but hasn't lost any of its giddy exuberance and sense of childlike wonder.
For Who fans, Matt Smith is scheduled to appear as a guest on The Nerdist talk show, which joins the "Supernatural Saturdays" lineup at 10/9c. And on Sunday, the ongoing anniversary tribute series Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited (8/7c) salutes the third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, with a retrospective including the 1970 classic Spearhead from Space...
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