> Happily, journos often get their SF references wrong. From a Daily Mail sketch about tracking that elusive politician John Prescott: "Like Doctor Who, I could sense the Force was nearby. But where?"

Excuse me while I gouge my eyes out with a soup spoon.

Nice to see Louis Barfe's rather more tongue-in-cheek comparision being quoted in As Others See Us. Actually, Louis brings up a very good point. At least SF has its own magazines: comedy has never been able to achieve this in the UK.

I don't think people playing down the importance of science fiction in the new Battlestar Galactica is purely down to snobbery- it's more to do with differentiating it from the (mostly justified, especially if you look at e.g. the Star Trek franchise over the past decade) clichés which most people would think of when told to imagine a TV science fiction show. I haven't seen any statistics but it strikes me as a series which at least has the potential to reach a different demographic. But let's not bother trying to unpack or analyse why Ron Moore might have said that, let's make a weak joke about adult=sex! Ho ho ho!

Anyway, Mark Lawson talks bollocks about everything.