Doctor Who Spins Off Again With The Sarah Jane Adventures
Daniel Swensen
Following the apparent success of Torchwood (which I’ve yet to see, despite it just having premiered on BBC America), the Doctor Who franchise ventures into more spin-off territory with The Sarah Jane Adventures — a series not about a plucky girl detective tracking down jewel thieves in her cozy little hometown, despite how the title makes it sound.
From scifinews.net:
The new series The Sarah Jane Adventures sees the return of some familiar alien enemies from Doctor Who as the Slitheen are back and out for revenge.
Coming to CBBC on BBC One and CBBC at the end of September 2007, The Sarah Jane Adventures stars one of Doctor Who’s most famous former companions — investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith.
The series is from the same people behind Doctor Who including multi-award winning writer Russell T Davies.
Russell T. Davies’s stint on the first season of Doctor Who was by far my favorite of the new series (he wrote Dalek, my new number one Doctor Who episode ever), so I’m excited to see this… or will be when The Sarah Jane Adventures comes to BBC America, probably sometime in 2010. Sigh.