Newsday.com has a review (for tomorrow's edition) of the new The Night Stalker series that mentions DC and DS:
'ABC has even retained the services of Dan Curtis, legendary producer of the original "Night Stalker" (as well as the classic spook-soap "Dark Shadows"), just to make sure his "Stalker" isn't transmogrified into slop.'However, the review isn't exactly what one might call favorable:
'The Jan. 11, 1972 movie, "The Night Stalker," in which Kolchak tracked a vampire, was a huge hit - it's still ranked 13th in TV history in total viewers. Although a 1973 sequel, "The Night Strangler," didn't fare as well and the 1974-75 series, "Kolchak: The Night Stalker," lasted a mere season, the ghost of Kolchak has lingered many years. "The X-Files" was directly inspired by "Night Stalker," but not until tonight has a network been brazen or foolish enough to attempt an actual exhumation.
Based on the first two episodes, this is a ghost best left moldering in the grave.'That sure makes it seem as if the retainment of DC didn't quite prevent the series from being "transmogrified into slop" in the reviewer's opinion. But then...
It will certainly be interesting to see what the series is actually like. And even more interesting to see how long it actually survives on the air because, as I've noted before, it's in a killer timeslot that even an amazing series will have tough going in. But if Newsday's review is an accurate take, it looks like the going may have just gotten a hell of a lot tougher.
Read the full review:
Kolchak, why'd they dig you up?