ABC's fall show Pan Am cuts smoking, alters racism to vie for 1960s nostalgia market. Is this selective clean-up a recipe for mediocrity? [Continue]

Mad Men's Sally Draper watched spies on tv, and so did I - same shows, same year, same kind of tv. And that's where Forbidden Planet's Anne Francis first inspired me: as the kick-ass P.I. Honey West in 1965. [Continue]

Are you a black-and-white person, or a grey area person? How do these attitudes affect characters and readers' relationship to them? Some thoughts on the subject in this post. [Continue]

Torchwood's matter-of-fact use of gay sexuality this science fiction drama sets the bar for how mature entertainment should handle the subject. Why don't we see this in American productions? [Continue]