Doctor Who = Buffy?

Hannah Betts over at the Times Online compares the modern Doctor Who with Joss Whedon’s “Buffy”, looking at Russell T. Davies ’sexing up’ of the series. Mr. Davies has previously expressed his admiration for Joss’ work, and it certainly shows in the latest installments.I for one am really enjoying the current series of Doctor Who, though I would still sacrifice it for more Whedon.

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clipped from entertainment.timesonline.co.uk The Doctor’s recreator, Russell T. Davies, has expressed his admiration for Joss Whedon, the genius behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the series gets Buffier by the moment: witty, literate, sophisticated, and revelling in postmodern panache. Blink, the episode preceding this trilogy, was awesomely terrifying in the manner of Whedon’s Emmy Award-nominated silent episode of Buffy entitled Hush. There’s another pleasing aspect to all this Buffiness: a certain – let us express it in Blair terminology – sexing up of proceedings.