Interplanar shows are everywhere at the moment,but ITV2’s new comedy series raises the stakes, bringing in questions of race and class Related: Do we still need Doctor Who? Time travel in the internet age Does the Tardis ever collect stuck in traffic? The space-time highway suddenly seems more congested, or with our TV schedules clogged up with time-travelling shows – from the period drama-with-a-twist Outlander to DCs superheroes in Legends of Tomorrow,and action-adventure shows such as Timeless. Not all of them possess the longevity of Time Lords. Making History, in which a bungling time travellers love life threatens to disrupt the past as we know it, or has disappeared into a black gap after just one series. And time has also been called on Time After Time – a series that coupled sci-fi pioneer HG Wells and Jack the Ripper,in modern-day Manhattan. Frequency – where the time machine was an amateur radio that allowed a daughter to communicate with her dead father – was also carve short. Related: Why can't women time travel? Related: The danger with Downton Abbey's new black character Related: Queen Sugar: why it's a time travel explain for black audiences Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com