Sci-Fi gets back in swing in the UK this month, details below.
Sea of Souls
Starts Saturday 7th Jan @ 21:10pm on BBC1
This show about a paranormal investigation team returns for it’s second series.
Invasion
Starts Sunday 8th Jan @ 20:30pm & 22:00pm on Channel 4
US drama which begins with two episodes, following the strange aftermath of a massive hurricane.
Life on Mars
Starts Monday 9th Jan @ 21:00pm on BBC1
Sam Tyler is an ambitious cop working in present day Manchester.His hunt for a serial killer turns into a personal vendetta when he suspects his girlfriend has become the latest victim. Things turn bizzare, however, when he is involved in a near-fatal car accident and wakes up to find himself in 1973. Has he time-travelled? Is he in a coma? Has he gone mad?
Smallville
Starts Monday 9th Jan @ 21:00pm on E4
Season five of the show comes to UK television.
Battlestar Galactica
Starts Tuesday 10th Jan @ 21:00pm on Sky One
Season 2 of this excellent sci-fi show comes to Sky One.
Hyperdrive
Starts Wednesday 11th Jan @ 22:00pm on BBC2
A new space comedy starring Shaun of the Dead’s Nick Frost, about a British spacecraft which cruises the Galaxy in 2151, trying to encourage Aliens to relocate their businesses to Peterborough and take their holidays in the Lake District.
Masters of Horror
Starts Friday 13th Jan @ 23:00pm on Bravo
The 13-part horror series featuring the cream of the worlds horror directors finally comes to UK television.
Surface
Starts Monday 9th January @ 21:00pm on ITV 2
The hit US show comes to the UK.
Also next week…
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Stargate SG-1 & Stargate Atlantis return to their regular Sky One slots (Tuesday, 20:00pm & Wednesday, 20:00pm respectively) after the Christmas break, and the final two episodes of Lost series one air on Channel 4 back to back on Wednesday 11th, starting at 22:00pm.
Meanwhile, in Sweden, the state-owned ad-free channel, SVT, has announced that they’ll show last year’s (new) “Doctor Who” which, together with “Smallville” is the entirety of Sweden’s science fiction TV.
Sigh.
Ah well, at least we have cheap broadband so it’s easy to download illegal copies of TV shows…
Wednesday at 22.00 may just save my life, there doesn’t seem to be much stuff on these days :(
Thanks for the list, but you forgot The Night Stalker, on Bravo at 10pm Friday.
Not that I’ve got time to watch it, what with all the other stuff on…
Hyper Drive was on Sunday 15th at 10pm, not that it matters, I was not impressed at all. It is hard to find the words to explain how unfunny it was.
The humour was of the realistic cringe worthiness that made the office so famous but performed with an almost apathetic disinterest , which unlike the office, made you feel the characters new they were actors and so destroyed any illusions that this was anything but a bad TV show. How they will hang more episodes on the weak hook of selling peterborough as an industrial site to aliens is beyond me. I will watch it again, fairs fair everyone deserves a second chance but I fear my desire to watch again is the same desire that forces us to slow down and look at the remains of a bad traffic accident.