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If Chibnall is working up to a Gallifey IS in Ireland, I will be smashing my screen Ian Levine style! 

He's not.

Caught up with this season. Great fun.

Learning today that the sumptuous Mandalorian locations were all achieved in a studio gives me hope that anything is possible.

That's impressive but allegedly th budget was $15 million per episode.

Depends what they're going for. You can do a lot with sound-stages and greens-screen. But also, if you don't have high-profile stars and keep expectations realistic, you can do plenty with real-world sets. (See the Dredd movie, for which Garland repeatedly said the $45m budget was bullshit for marketing, and was in fact much lower. Urban claims $30m.)

I guess but I thought they were going for a look closer to the comic.

I still feel dirty for watching it though.

I don't. Alan Moore has used pre-existing characters plenty of times. He is a hypocrite & this show was great!

I don't see why not. TV shows and movies often spend years in pre-production. There's no reason this one would be any different.

I look at shows like The Mandalorian, the budget on that. Can Rebellion compete? If Mega City One is to be made it can't be on the cheap.

This isn't going to happen is it folks. Let's all be honest now.

Doesn't seem like we have had an update on this in ages.

Digital copy on my commute. Always save Dredd to the end as it is my favorite strip.

Just discovered this podcast. Really enjoying it sending my down memory lane.

Has anybody watched this yet. Despite me being a bit bored of Star Wars I thought it was quite a good opening episode.

Just binged on the first 3 episodes. This is great stuff. Far better than I thought it would be.

John's said a few things - he's talked about 70 being the new 50 in the future.

He's also said that by the time it needs to be addressed he'd be retired.

At the Dredd panel yesterday, he did talk about switching Dredds with a younger clone taking over and it being a challenge, but Dredd wouldn't be killed off as Rebellion wouldn't allow it.

I don't know if there's any option that would satisfy everyone.

I'd quite like a bumper prog with various Dredd writers and artists doing a 'Death of Judge Dredd' just for fun.

Brain transplants are a thing in the Mega City. A couple more disasters and there won't be enough Judges left to hold the city. A Justice Dept policy of forcing older experienced Judges to take new cloned younger bodies so they can continue to provide service to the city would be an interesting path to go down. Or, the use of seized stookie being authorised by Justice Dept. Basically, older Judges forced to carry on whether they wanted to or not...especially with Dredd's own misgivings about the system as it is. Plenty of scope there for drama.

Yes. Imagine him finding himself in a younger body, forced to continue being a Judge & how he deals with that. Going on more & more dangerous assignments etc

OK another obvious newbie question but realistically (if that is not a silly thing to say) how long can Dredd continue to patrol the streets of Mega City 1 & how do you think John Wagner will address this. Dredd must be in his 70s now?

He seems like a good fellow but is sadly very underrated in the history of comics. But I thing 2000AD is as a well, deserves to be seen as more important in the history of comics.