Torchwood met an early demise, but could the series have been saved and go onto live a full life? A spin-off of the BBC’s Doctor Who, Torchwood follows the activities of a branch of the Torchwood Institute, a highly secretive agency that aims to protect Earth from an alien invasion…

‘Angel One’ is one of the worst episodes in series one of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’. I thought even I could do better and highlight the women of the Enterprise-D while I was at it. In Angel One, the 14th episode of the first series of Star Trek: The…

Star Trek Enterprise was a great series with a terribly botched finale. I disliked it so much I decided to write my own. I was an avid fan of Star Trek Enterprise until its last episode. The series finale was so disappointing I could only reconcile myself to the series…

In anticipation of a second season that never happened, ‘Ringer’ left a few loose ends. Here I try my hand at tying them off. The 2011 thriller, Ringer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as identical twins, told a convoluted tale of love, revenge, deceit and betrayal, but the series was axed…

I was disappointed in the gay romcom ‘Bedrooms and Hallways’ so I decided to try my hand at writing a version I would enjoy. In an earlier article (see Sexual Politics v. Artistic Integrity) I expressed my disappointment in the British gay romcom Bedrooms and Hallways. However, while I thought…

The most popular and most highly paid author of the late Victorian age was someone you may never have heard of. The most popular writer of late Victorian age was not Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells, Rudyard Kipling or H. Rider-Haggard, but a woman whose name few of us would…

Can an English author really understand the Italians? I sometimes wonder if it is safe for a novelist to attempt to portray cultures other than her own. Sarah Dunant is an English writer who now divides her time between London and Florence (half her luck!) I daresay she feels that…

Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton’ might be the latest Regency Romance hit, but how well does it represent the genre? In a previous article (see A Bridgerton Too Far) I expressed my reservations about the Netflix series Bridgerton and why I object to this kind of ‘historical’ fiction. My main objection to it…

In which I revisit historical novels that made a lasting impact on an impressionable teenage girl. As I related in Part One of this article, I was inspired by my own venture into historical fiction, The Slave, to revisit the authors that nurtured my love of historical fiction: Georgette Heyer…