Welcome to the decade in which UK sci-fi TV regenerated.
The 21stcentury is when everything changes.
British science fiction has been a lot of things.
And then something major happened:Doctor Whocame back.
It was always going to happen eventually just look how many timesThe Tomorrow Peoplehas been remade.
And websites like this one sprang up to write about it all.
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It all started with a collaboration between Russell T Davies and Christopher Eccleston.
No, not that one.
Its predictions are a mixed bag television transmitted exclusively through the internet?
Yeah, pretty much.
The UK becoming absorbed into a European superstate?
Opening narration that explains the premise of the show every week.Life on Marsoffers a classic of the genre.
It would later have an 80s spin-off inAshes to Ashes, by which time Hunt was positively cuddly.
The series quality level was a rollercoaster.
But then in 2009 the series launchedTorchwood: Children of Earthand blew everything away.
Maybe you just need dinosaurs.
Eventually we would also see future lifeforms such as giant, blind bat-like predators.
It also saw a reimagining of Terry NationsSurvivors, which wehave covered before.
A strong supporting cast and the previous years Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreak gave the series an added edge of relevance.
Yet somehow it never quite managed to hit the same peaks of glorious bleakness that Terry Nations show achieved.
The plots were episodic.
It ended up feeling like a member of that most damned of British sci-fi subgenres; the cosy catastrophe.
