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Saturday's Daily Mirror (I only bought it after th barber said I couldn't tear the pic out of his copy, okay?!) had a new publicity pic from the new series of Dr Who, featuring the Doc battling the Autons!



Groovy!

Doctor being taken from behind, by the look of it

Hmmm, he looks more like he's just been out watching a football match than a traveller in time and space.

ADE (favouring the Edwardian look)

Well, incongruous garb is sort of his schtick...

According to The Observer, there are 8,000 'active' fans in Britain...

Is that 'active' as in 'active homosexual'?

Well, if that picture's anything to go by...

Link: Warren Ellis gives his view on new Who

ok thats it im sold

decent actor for the doctor, assistant who is said to be good.
 lots of worlds have norths, douglas adams himslef could not have written a better line.

its a british  sci fi show for adults and children.
and if it was anything else we would all be up in arms.
this is a must get my father to tape and send over.

DD gets the chair pulled off the wall. and some nice cushioins for devon and he to hide behind.

DR WHO. i cant bloody wait.
best decsion BBC have made in years.

Apparently, Ecclestone e-mailed the producers and offered himself for the role - well done that man!

Link: Natty actor mails man ...

Am I the only cynic noting the "leak" of the first episode onto the interweb the weekend before there is a big push of publicity about it?

Both the Grauniad and the Beeb had interviews with Russel T Davies today, before the news of the leak hit.

Not that I'm bitter I missed it on BitTorrent.  Oh no

Dan

Three weeks!
I'm getting rather excited now...

A VCD of episode one is waiting for me to pick it up this evening.  I'll have it in (argh) seven hours.  If my player can handle VCDs, I'll watch it tonight.  :-)

Since it apparently won't be airing in the US, we have to resort to these drastic measures.  Still, it beats running VHS tapes through a dodgy PAL to NTSC convertor or getting a camera copy of the episodes like we had to do back when Sylvester McCoy was the Doctor.

--Grant

Hmmm. I'm a cynic, too, but quite keen to see this now.

Looks, well, better than okay.

- Trout

"getting a camera copy of the episodes like we had to do back when Sylvester McCoy was the Doctor."

...and there are some who'd suggest that was probably the best way to view those particular episodes. That, or with the TV at the bottom of a pit... ;-)

I liked the episode where Sylvester accused Davros of attempting to take over the galaxy so that he could have "unlimited amounts of rice pudding".

Now that blonde bloke from All Creatures Great And Small:  he was a crap Doctor.

There are a full third of those episodes where I'd agree with you wholeheartedly, but there are some I quite like - the productions were pretty poor, but the scripts were much more interesting than Colin's.

Oddly enough, when "Time and the Rani" was shown in the US (in the omnibus "movie versions" we got), the editors were stumped as to what to do with the pre-title sequence to episode one.  So they cut out the opening seconds of silly special effects in the asteroids, and moved the TARDIS scenes after the titles.  So the only way to see those silly special effects in America was via a camera copy, until the story was released on VHS years later.  And who in their right mind would spend $20 for "Time and the Rani" on VHS?

--Grant

I was a huge Baker fan, drifted away with Davison, and only really watched the show again in the early 90s. The first 4 are great, Davison and Colin Baker have their odd moments, and I have tried with McCoy, but theres so much I dislike about those seasons -  the performances, the incidental music, the direction and the general clunkiness of the scripts (either too farcical in s24 or too self congratulatory in seasons 25/26 - there seemed to be a huge gap between what the show thought it was, and what was on the screen).  The McGann thing just didnt work, or for that matter make ANY sense (shame for McGann, who wig aside, did his best).

So I'm looking at this series with the attitude that of Chandler(?) as quoted by Alan Moore -  The books are on the shelf - the first two decades of Who won't be ruined if this doesnt reach me in the same way - its a throw of the dice... There may not be any new classics, and if so, theres the old classics to watch.  On the other hand, there just might be a few more that I'd happily buy on DVD - can't lose really  

Writer Russel T Davies was talking about the new Doctor Who yesterday on Radio 4's Front Row

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/index.shtml

While you're at it here's the link to Is Superman Jewish from Saturday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio4/int/-/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/superman_jewish

Link: Front Row

They played the new theme on Radio One this morning - I was half asleep but it sounded pretty good to me.

There was an interview with Russel T Davies in the Sunday Times magazine on, er Sunday.

I wasnt bothered about this but the interview and photo of a foam rubber midget have dragged me in.

Apparently, the torrented version does not have the "newest" music - what was torrented was the copy sent to the CBC, but a new arrangement has since been finalized.

I watched it last night with the kids and we enjoyed it thoroughly.  It's a nicely paced, good-looking hour of television, and the dialogue is fantastic.

--Grant

Just saw the first teaser trailer for it on BBC1.

The BBC site is full new stuff, go see:

 

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho

Thank Christ they're changing the music.  It really is rather dire, and undermines the show at important moments.
There's potential in it - that's the best I can offer from the dodgy vcd version I saw coughcoughtorrentspycough, but the quirkiness of it is lost when, for instance, a bloke gets eaten by the world's most unconvincing cgi wheelie-bin - and then it burps!  Oh, my aching sides!  I hope the producers of Son of the Mask are watching to see how it's done!  Oh the hilarity! etcetera, etcetera...
And there was some godawful dialogue in there, too.  My brother and I sat making the kind of comments we'd expect from the Simpsons parody of Who, only to have the same dialogue parroted back at us by the screen "The Doctor is making house calls" was the worst.

But like I said - there's potential.  I just hope they iron out the self-satisfied (smug) feel of it all and stop short of producing another Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased), because that's what it most resembles at this point.

I've got it on my hdd but can't decide whether to watch it or not, given the final product is aired so soon..

whos seen the small trailer of the tardis in between the bbc idents

Diddly-dum-diddly-dum...WHAAAA WHAAA WHAAAAA!
;-)
I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to this...

well i watched it last night & it didnt suck totally. good for kids i reckon.  

argh it looks terrible!!!