2024 Christmas Special – Full Trailer

@winston,

Sorry to hear about your daughter’s house losing power. Glad to hear she has got the power back. The west coast of the island, while beautiful, does tend to bear the brunt of weather events like this, unfortunately.

@winston, Thanks for asking about the storms. Winter is definitely coming to the island, as the link below indicates. But so far, we have escaped the worst.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-fall-storm-nov22-1.7390478

Wallace and Gromit: “Vengeance Most Fowl”

New trailer

BBC APPROVED SPOILERS...

ps1l0v3y0u

Damn! I can never get it right!

Been hovering around the site for a while (life demands attention occasionally), but had to say: ps1l0v3you

That was hilarious. “oh my giddy aunt”. And as you point out, with Who, consistency  and coherence is often in in abeyance, particularly when the showrunners areChibnall and RTD2.

new trailer

coming this Christmas in the UK and Jan 3 everywhere else.

Coming for Christmas!

Same trailer, but with new photos.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17163970/?ref_=tt_mv_close

@janetteb

I immediately thought of you when I saw  this, remembering your response when I posted the trailer a while back.

@dentarthurdent

The first Who western was a 4 episode Hartnell story called “The Gunfighters” fr0m 1966. I can remember watching it as a nipper. It was cringingly bad.

The combination of The Doctor with a toothache, Steven and Dodo in laughable costumes, all ending up at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. It was…embarrassing. And I loved the H…[Read more]

Nicola Coughlan with a clip from the up-coming christmas special:

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/get-an-exclusive-look-at-nicola-coughlan-in-the-upcoming-doctor-who-christmas

The RTD2 spinoff is coming:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jul/26/russell-tovey-and-gugu-mbatha-raw-to-star-in-doctor-who-spin-off

Have now finished watching “The Web of Fear” with the Troughton Doctor. A really brilliant story. It features the introduction of Leftbridge Stewart (as an Army Colonel, before they thought of UNIT). A riveting story, with a huge amount of both action and paranoia.

The third episode (of six) is reconstructed using stills-in a really effective…[Read more]

Started re-watching the Troughton story “Web of Fear” last night. So far, just the first two episodes. For those who have seen it, you will recall that it is set in the London Underground, that has been closed off due to unknown malevolent forces. The Monsters are, of course, the Yeti, deployed by the Great Intelligence. The military are sent into…[Read more]

@janetteb

As @nerys said, thanks for asking. And as @nerys noted, western Canada has suffered quite a lot. I am off the coast, on Vancouver Island (and while I say island, it is quite large, with almost a million people). Parts of the island have also borne the brunt, but where we live, on the southern tip of the island, we have had better luck,…[Read more]

@whohar, @janetteb

That piece in Deadline was very interesting. When it comes to the long-term members of this forum, one of the things we all exhibit is loyalty to Who, and we always try and see the positive in each new show even when we feel a bit of disappointment . But an American audience with no real commitment to Who (particularly a young…[Read more]

@whohar

Yes, I feel the same way. At the moment, there seems to be more stories on the web featuring RTD2 than stories about the show itself or the actors, or writers, or, well, anybody beyond RTD2.

The latest one I came across this morning. It was about how Who and the TV version of Star Trek are collaborating for some event or other, and the p…[Read more]

@ps1lOv3yOu

Champion bonkerising!

Am I correct in thinking that the length of the Martian day is one earth day plus 37 minutes?

37…73?
Nah, I am sure I am wrong.

I don’t think this classifies as a spoiler

https://screenrant.com/doctor-who-mrs-flood-fourth-wall-unresolved-davies-response/

I do think RTD2 is using Mrs Flood merely as a device; she is just there to make us sit up and ask…”Why?”

@nerys, @ps1lOv3yOu, @dentarthurdent,

Part of the problem with retirement, is one falls into the trap of reading far too much about current politics on one’s iPad. And what one currently reads is too depressing for words. As I read about Project 2025 it not only evokes The Handmaid’s Tale as you have noted, but, in a bizarre way, also conjures u…[Read more]