DreamWatch

Around two years ago, I would never have missed an episode of Dreamwatch. Their news was up to date, their episode guides were good, they had a very funny guy whose name I can't remember writing the column on the last page and their book reviews were second to none. Unfortunately, the magazine has gone downhill since then. Their episode guides have gone from two or three paragraphs on each episode to a one-line summary of the plot with a mark out of 5, the news is all available on the internet sooner and the guy who used to do the last page has gone. That's not to say that it's no good at all any more, the book reviews are still excellent ...

DreamWatch magazine evolved several years ago from dWb, a purely Doctor Who-oriented magazine, into a monthly guide to sci-fi in general, both on TV and in the cinema as well as covering books and new media. For quite some time it became THE rather serious and dry media sf magazine on the market (usually outperforming Starburst which had traditionally ruled supreme in this role), with small print and lots and lots of episode guides filling the pages; this resulted in content not always the most light-hearted and entertaining of the magazines covering media sf, but certainly amongst the most useful with a pile of DreamWatch magazines being as useful in terms of ...

It's amazing what little gems you can find when you're browsing the hundreds of different magazines on offer at your local WH Smith, a couple of weeks ago after I decided to buy myself a copy of 'Psycho' by Stuart Pearce (a great book, but thats a different review altogether) I realised that I should have quite a few loyalty card points stocked up and that I might be able to afford one of the wide selection of TV/Sci-fi Magazines that were on offer, anyway quietly looking around the magazines rack I noticed 'Dreamwatch' had a picture of Alyson Hannigan (Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Be still my beating heart!) and was instantly drawn to the ...