Is it dead? I hope not. The reasons for delaying it – to stop a horror run of preemptions – make sense, but the show, for all its intriguing ideas, has been rather hit and miss. In some ways, it has the Too Many Characters problem of these shows. It doesn’t help when you don’t want to spend time with all of them. For Lost, there are very few characters – surviving, that is – that I don’t like. FlashForward has a bunch of rather dull and uninteresting characters. However, it deserves better writing because the basic ideas are really cool.

It looks like the Sarah Jane Adventures will finally release on DVD in Australia in early January. (I wonder if that means it will show on ABC3 at the same time?)