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...and if anybody has any suggestions on how to pronounce polyptych I'd be happy to take it on board!  I'm hoping there's a youtube interview with Scott where he says it out loud...

Pol-Ip-Tick. Simple.

Will this feature 'America 2' as well, or just the original story?

Just the original story.

Oh dear I wished I knew this before. I threw mine in the bin it was rubbish.

Not something I'd watch but quite well done.

So this is never going to happen. Never. It was an interesting idea & may have been good.

Not sure what to do. I have relatives in their 60s about 200 miles away was planning to visit?

Starting this in the full knowledge that this isn't going to be funny, and people you love are probably going to die before this is over. So I apologise for offence in advance.

WTF? You know this for a fact. What a morbid little soul you are.

Why would a popstar paedophile be part of a superhero team?

I don't see the point of these Regened progs. If young readers enjoy it then next week they pic up the prog & it's completely different. They should just be specials or a separate prog running alongside the real one.

It's been discussed before but it's enormously (prohibitively so) expensive to create a brand new comic and distribute it to newsagents, if it was as simple as just printing it they'd do that, but it's not. You'll hit inertia with the distributers and the newsagents, and newsagents - let's remember - frequently charge for magazines to be located in prime spots - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/14/wh-smith-moves-telegraph-titles-to-magazine-section ) so I suspect (and I have zero inside knowledge) the hope is they can get these on the shelves in place of regular progs and build the momentum to have the readers/distributers/newsagents ask for more...

(It may be pure wishful thinking to hope we'd get a weekly regened, it could be the fact they're specials is what's making them ...uhm./.. special)

I see. But is there any evidence that these Regen progs increase readership in a significant sustained way? If younger readers pic up this prog do they go on to read it on a regular basis?

I don't see the point of these Regened progs. If young readers enjoy it then next week they pic up the prog & it's completely different. They should just be specials or a separate prog running alongside the real one.

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!