Back to black: how ITV2´s Timewasters is subverting the time-travel genre
(The Guardian Culture News)

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 get stuck in traffic? The space-time highway suddenly seems more congested, with our TV schedules clogged up with time-travelling shows - from the period drama-with-a-twist Outlander to DC´s superheroes in Legends of Tomorrow, and action-adventure shows such as Timeless. Not all of them have the longevity of Time Lords. Making History, in which a bungling time traveller´s love life threatens to disrupt the past as we know it, has disappeared into a black hole 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 cut short. Continue reading...