DOCTOR WHO MARATHON
BBC America, 12:00 a.m. ET
There’s a new Doctor Who special arriving on Christmas Day – and in the meantime, BBC America is filling its schedule, all this week, with a marathon “Doctor Who Takeover.” I mention it in progress because, though BBC America also did this last year, I find myself, and my TV, gravitating that way again. These old episodes from the modern era, working their way through the various Doctors, hold up very well to repeated viewings: As I write this, I’m watching an old episode from the David Tennant era of Doctor Who, in which one of the guest stars, playing a Roman merchant in Pompeii, is Peter Capaldi – who’s now playing the current incarnation of the Doctor.