Doctor Who
Rose-tinted Doctor Who planning
A separate show based on Rose was scrapped when showrunner Davies decided that would be “a spin-off too far”. So too then, is this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7114699.stm To date, I’ve maintained a cool, ambivalent equanimity to most decisions made by RTD and the Doctor Who team. The hubris with which some decisions — Piper’s casting, the domestic focus in Series 1&2, Doctor-lite …
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I love martha jones
At last a TARDIS companion for the thinking man’s Who fan: Doctor Who has gone middle class again, and all the better for it in my humble, but slightly snooty, opinion. It’s not that I objected to the inclusion of family living in a high rise on a council estate — indeed I was very fond of the Tyler family …
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accessibility reaches DVDs via the Doctor Who Series 2 release
If you’re a young lad (or lass) you may well be hoping for the Doctor Who DVD box-set in your stocking this Christmas. Or if you’re an overpaid dinky like me with cash to burn at the end of the month, you’ve probably gone and already bought it. Whoever you are, I wonder if your favourite feature will be the …
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Happy 43rd birthday Doctor Who!
To celebrate 43 years since everyone’s favourite time traveller first beamed into our living rooms, I thought a few words on show’s recent resurrection would be fitting. As a general rule, I’m a supporter of the new series, changes and all, but am never sure just how comfortable I am with it all. So: I’ve posed myself a short Q&A …
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