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Nanner Split said:

Well, TV in the UK isn't like TV here. Over here, by the time a show gets to it's 100th episode or its 3rd or 4th season, it's just getting going. In the UK, though, it's pretty commonplace for a show to have only two or three "series" of about 6 or 7 episodes, and then that'll be the end of it. Take "The Office", for instance. Thanks to the US version, it's one of the best known British shows over here (even if people haven't seen it, they still know about it), but it still only has 2 series of about 7 episodes each, along with 2 Christmas specials.

Doctor Who has always been an exception to the rule though. It ran from 1963 to 1989, then there was a TV movie in 1996, and then they revived the show in 2005. I guess really it'll be something like season 28 or something like that, but it's labeled Series 4 of the "new" series.


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It only ran for 4 series.


Although what Nanner said is right, it's not always the case. We have some real dog shit comedy shows on here that seem to go on forever (My Family & My Hero for instance) that the BBc seem to love..as well as the old folk I guess.

To be honest most of British TV is pretty shit with a few exceptions in the Drama department. All the best shows are from the other side of the pond. Lost, Battlestar, Heroes, Prison Break, Nip Tuck (My missus' fave)

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http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/06/01/doctor-who-to-end-in-2008/

Can someone, anyone confirm or deny this rumor? I'll be heartbroken if its true.
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Crygor64 said:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/06/01/doctor-who-to-end-in-2008/

Can someone, anyone confirm or deny this rumor? I'll be heartbroken if its true.


Don't worry. that was a totally made-up rumour by The Sun newspaper. There won't be a new series in 2009, but instead 4 specials, then a new series will return in 2010. This is because David Tennant will be doing a season playing Hamlet so would be unable to film a full series.

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adywan said:

Crygor64 said:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/06/01/doctor-who-to-end-in-2008/

Can someone, anyone confirm or deny this rumor? I'll be heartbroken if its true.


Don't worry. that was a totally made-up rumour by The Sun newspaper. There won't be a new series in 2009, but instead 4 specials, then a new series will return in 2010. This is because David Tennant will be doing a season playing Hamlet so would be unable to film a full series.


Thank you adywan. That's great news. I've really grown attatched to David. I wasn't ready to let him go yet. Losing a Doctor was always so traumatic for me when I was growing up. *chuckle*

So David is playing The Prince of the Danes. I would enjoy seeing that. His performance in Human Nature/Family of Blood really blew me away. I always liked Christopher but David has truly earned my respect.
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Ha! Nice comic. You know when I mentioned the trauma induced by the death of former Doctors? Tom Baker's demise effected me the most. It was so dramatic. And Tom was my favorite. I was horrified when he fell/died.

Anyone else got a favorite? If I had to rank the top 3 I'd go with Tom, Peter Davison, and Jon Pertwee.

David and Christoper Eccleston have exceeded my expectations. Maybe I prefer Christopher. David's material has been at times inconsistent. (I hated Love & Monsters. And I've never hated a Doctor Who episode before)

Still the two episodes I mentioned earlier are probably my favorites of the new series.

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HotRod said:

We have some real dog shit comedy shows on here that seem to go on forever (My Family & My Hero for instance) that the BBc seem to love..as well as the old folk I guess.

Yeah, what a load of crap those shows are!

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Tom Baker's demise effected me the most. It was so dramatic. And Tom was my favorite. I was horrified when he fell/died.

So... If Doctor Who fell into a really big hole and died... what would happen? He'd regenerate... but he'd be stuck down a hole. Does the Doctor need to eat/drink? Because if he does he'd be screwed because he'd die again and again until he ran out of regenerations... He'd also be really bored.

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Hahahaha. Yeah actually, it's my last day at work so I'm doing some hardcore dossing... then I'm off to the pub at about 4.

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Crygor64 said:

Ha! Nice comic. You know when I mentioned the trauma induced by the death of former Doctors? Tom Baker's demise effected me the most. It was so dramatic. And Tom was my favorite. I was horrified when he fell/died.

Anyone else got a favorite? If I had to rank the top 3 I'd go with Tom, Peter Davison, and Jon Pertwee.



My favorite would have to be Patrick Troughton, but all the rest are pretty much interchangeable (with Tom Baker being slightly higher than the rest, and Colin Baker slightly lower).

I actually really liked Paul McGann as the Doctor. Would've been nice to have seen more of him.

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I actually really liked Paul McGann as the Doctor. Would've been nice to have seen more of him.


McGann is probably my favorite, but then I was 13 when the TV Movie was made so he was the first Doctor I really remember seeing, but his Big Finnish audio stuff is also pretty good.

I probably prefer Eccleston from the new series, but that is largely due to the more consistent writing in the first series, series 3 was so inconsistent it mixed some of the very best episodes (blink, Human Nature, family of blood) with some of the very worst (dalek two parter and final 2 episodes). I'm just hopping for some improvement in series 4, although to me signs do not look good, but at least Moffat is writing a two parter, his episodes are always good.
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Are all the Tom Baker episodes going to ever be remastered and released?

That was the Doctor Who i loved as a kid, the one they used to show on pbs around the mid to late 1980's.

Yes he wears a funky scarf and is dressed like a hippie, but this show was really cool when i was a kid. I used to pretend time travel based on this show, using a telephone booth because that is what the doctors time machine looked like, lol.

I still find it funny that Peter Cushing aka governor tarkin played dr who in a movie. Which i read somewhere not entirely sure that it was not canon.

Cushing is awesome in those old hammer horror films as DR Frankenstein, Van Helsing etc. Also funny how Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) played Dracula.

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skyjedi2005 said:Are all the Tom Baker episodes going to ever be remastered and released?

That was the Doctor Who i loved as a kid, the one they used to show on pbs around the mid to late 1980's.

Yes he wears a funky scarf and is dressed like a hippie, but this show was really cool when i was a kid. I used to pretend time travel based on this show, using a telephone booth because that is what the doctors time machine looked like, lol.

I still find it funny that Peter Cushing aka governor tarkin played dr who in a movie. Which i read somewhere not entirely sure that it was not canon.

Cushing is awesome in those old hammer horror films as DR Frankenstein, Van Helsing etc. Also funny how Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) played Dracula.

The DVD releases have been through various restoration processes (as were the VHS ones back in the day).

http://www.restoration-team.co.uk

They are released in a rather piece-meal fashion (you can't get all of any of the Doctor's adventures yet other than McGann and Eccleston).

There are still many missing episodes (sadly most of them from the Patrick Troughton era and I love Pat's Doctor) some of them turn up now and then.

Here is a list of what is missing (as original video though some has since been returned in other formats) :

http://www.lostshows.com./default.aspx?programme=d6488108-4abb-42c8-810e-8f98536258e5

The soundtracks for all of them exist (thanks to fans who taped them of the television back in the day) so there are fans working on animating the missing episodes :

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/09/who-recon/

The DVD set for The Invasion was completed with animation from Cosgrove Hall (of Dangermouse fame) and works really well.

There have been some fun attempts to add colour to some of the monochrome episodes :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YhTGyfLDU4&feature=channel_page

 

 

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Whoa, he looks like a younger Peter Davison in that one! Awesome!

 

When I first saw his picture I wasn't sure how I felt about him in the role, but then I watched an interview with him, and his mannerisms gave me the impression that he was just right.

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Nuts! I used to wear an outfit just like that (I just sent the jacket and waistcoat off to the charity shop where no doubt some nuWho fan will construct an 11th Doctor costume).

The TARDIS has had a make-over too (no pictures of the inside yet but the exterior looks more like a Police Box now) :

http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/2009/07/series-5-filming-begins.html

I'm looking forward to the Moffat/Smith era, I've not really enjoyed what RTD has done since 2005 on the whole (the odd moment of brilliance surrounded in a sea of hmmm...with the occasional turdberg of awfulness).

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Who is the actress in these pictures?  Haven't been following the show for a while.

The newer doctor whos are some of the best new science fiction that has been on television.  Amazingly well written and casted, well most of the time anyway.

Too bad they could not have given the same love and attention to detail to star trek on tv.

They half assed enterprise all the way up to the final episode.

Restoring or reshooting these missing episodes and sequences of doctor who reminds me of the lost spider pit sequence in king kong being recreated on the dvd.  Also reminds me of serial squadrons reshoots of a lost movie serial,lol.

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Karen Gillan is the actress, Amy Pond is the character, we don't know anything about her yet because she's the 11th Doctor's companion and we still have a bit to go before the song for ten ends. Here's the wiki article about her (sorry that as much as I have) :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Gillan

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skyjedi2005 said:

The newer doctor whos are some of the best new science fiction that has been on television.  Amazingly well written and casted, well most of the time anyway.

 

Well, pretty much all the ones that Russell T. Davies DIDN'T write were awesome. :P

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Nanner Split said:
skyjedi2005 said:

The newer doctor whos are some of the best new science fiction that has been on television.  Amazingly well written and casted, well most of the time anyway.

 

Well, pretty much all the ones that Russell T. Davies DIDN'T write were awesome. :P

I have to agree with you there Tooth And Claw, Turn Left and Midnight were great and the recent Torchwood thing was good too even if it was largely pinched off The Space Traders and The Quatermass Conclusion.

He does write nice little character moments but give him anything that requires Science Fiction ideas or an epic finale and he gets lost, most of those stories seem to based on playing early platform games, only Russell can take a joke from Galaxy Quest and take it seriously.

Basically he is John Nathan Turner with too much money to spend and the BBC behind him, not trying to trip him up.

Hopefully a change of lead writer will herald a higher level of story telling.

I'm just hoping that Moffat isn't going to be Gordon Brown to RTD's Tony Blair.

 

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Of ALL the writers to work on the new Who, Moffat has most consistently demonstrated that he understands what the show is about - the pathos, wit and great science fiction ideas in his episodes have been pitch perfect throughout.

He'll do ok.

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Agreed but he does have a very recognisable formula that could become a bit stale if he sticks to it too rigidly.

I hope that Moffat is a bit more daring and open with chosing stories from other writers than RTD was.

RTD tended to pick a writing team (who were much of the same mind as him or they didn't last long) and if they didn't tow the line he freely admits to rewriting the whole episodes (we may never know how many he actually did write).

The show used to be at it's best when it had an open house style and picked stories rather than writers.

And I wish they would drop the Doctor in love thing, he's a bit old for all that hair pulling and running around.