Pilfering other websites

A few things that caught my eye recently:

Joss Whedon is no longer writing the Wonder Woman film, a movie he’s been trying to script for months now. I can’t say I’m devastated since Wonder Woman is not the most exciting character in the world, but I feel reasonably certain that Joss’s take on her would have been more interesting than the alternatives.

The Buffy: The Vampire Slayer comic overseen by Joss Whedon as a hypothetical eighth season of the TV Series is due soon. He talks about it (with spoilers) on the extremely hyperactive MTV.com. The comic artwork at darkhorse.com looks rather nice, including this lovely painting of Willow.

Meanwhile Outpost Gallifrey have reported a couple of pieces of Torchwood ‘news’ recently. One is the potentially good news (on the relative scale of “good” in which Torchwood operates) that Sapphire and Steel creator PJ Hammond is writing another episode next year, following up on “Small Worlds” last year. Disappointingly he also mentions that talks with ITV about a new Sapphire and Steel series broke down, so I’m sure we can look forward to more of Jack and Gwen wandering around pretending to be David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. More bizarrely, there are proposals afoot to name Cardiff’s new Shopping Centre after Torchwood, a move that wouldn’t make the organisation noticeably less secret.

On the Doctor Who Audio Drama front the site also reports that: “The 100th Release of the Big Finish Doctor Who range is Earthstorm by award-winning author Stephen Baxter, which features the Sixth Doctor and is due to be released late September. Baxter is one of Britain’s most respected hard science-fiction novelists, his books include The Time Ships, which was an authorised sequel to H.G. Wells’ influential classic The Time Machine.”

In what I’m sure is a very patronising attitude to Doctor Who I find this slightly incongruous, not least because I’m currently reading Baxter’s Coalescent. No, not that Coalescent.