Sunday Star-Times

Zeit-bites: Get your fill of sci-fi TV

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What better way to nerd out than by sci-fi horror trilogy, swaps the worst of the horror watching a show that’s being beamed factor for more family-friendly action.

straight to your TV/phone/laptop/tablet The latest season of Doctor Who is also on TVNZ by science? OnDemand. (For previous seasons, hit Netflix. And it’s never been easier to do. There are more Doctors nine through 12 exist in that Time And sci-fi TV shows streaming right now than there are Relative Dimension In Space.) TVNZ also has five lumps of rock in an asteroid belt. seasons of the criminally underrated Fringe, the TVNZ OnDemand has a heap of fresh sci-fi TV: noughties’ answer to The X Files.

Reboots Project Blue Book and Roswell New Neon has three seasons of iZombie, starring our Mexico come at the 1940s alien phenomenon from own Rose McIvor, two seasons each of Westworld

very different angles. While The Orville offers live (a must watch) and Legion. It also has a bevy of action Star Trek spoofing hijinks from the geeks recent sci-fi films, including the ultimate sci-fi fan’s behind Family Guy. fantasy, Paul, about a couple of geeks who rescue a The Passage, an adaptation of Justin Cronin’s fast-talking, pot-smoking alien.

As for Netflix: Annihilati­on, Lost In Space, Altered Carbon, Travellers, Io, Interstell­ar, Black Mirror, Star Treks TNG, Voyager, Enterprise,

Discovery, and Mars. And that’s just for starters. Lightbox is all about the sci-fi classics: There’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, featuring David Bowie as a nipple-less alien castaway, and ultra violent classics Escape from New York, starring Kurt Russell as the renegade’s renegade, Snake Plissken, and 1980s satirical masterpiec­e Robo Cop.

Also available: Two seasons of The Outer Limits, and the poor man’s Black Mirror, Dimension 404, most notable for the appearance of geek comedian Patton Oswalt in an episode entitled Cinethrax.

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