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Mitchell and Webb: Many favourites. The post apocalyptic game show, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar… most all ‘Get Me Hennimore’… just a bog standard parody of 70’s sitcoms and then one week they utterly subverted it… something to do with the Klan… I can’t remember now. It’s up there with the Shaun The Sheep when Shirley ate the I…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I love “Brain Surgeon”, along with many of their other sketches. We saved a handful of Mitchell & Webb videos and, when we’re looking for comedic relief, we turn to them. Other favorites include “Moon Landing” and “Homeopathic A&E”.

(Sorry, back to the episode topic.)

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Yes… I have started it.

This IS a harder watch than I remember first time.

1. Good points…

the sense of foreboding over the Toymaker.

The CGI… you couldn’t do that 10 years ago.

The ‘net’ madness… everyone has to be right and no-one is an expert. I have talked about ‘noises off’; it is unbearable. My impression is, ne…[Read more]

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Image of the Fendahl.

Reference points: The Stone Tape; Lovecraft; Quatermass and The Pit; it’s horror.

And it’s well done. It’s Chris Boucher. A loss to Who. He went to Blake’s 7 and The Corp wouldn’t allow writers on two simultaneous broadcasts/productions.

They like making things hard for themselves don’t they? I am reminded…[Read more]

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Yeah time for us to bury PotD not damn it with faint praise.

BUT… things DID get slightly better. My current theory is that Chib was initially under quite heavy manners from head of drama, especially over continuity. He may or may not have blamed Moffat for this but, nonetheless, mortal damage was done to ‘the original one mig…[Read more]

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Happy that we have a show. Quite happy that misinformation stirred up all the trolls and bots. Not that it had that much effect on the ‘where’s the bloke luv?’ brigade.

It IS a long gap. Just realised that 2026 is not just the anniversary of Deadly Assassin and Ultimate Foe but of the first regener…[Read more]

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Who out there could really shake it up? Don’t have to be a fan

I think not being a fan should be in the job description for the next showrunner or, at least, someone who’s not been involved in the show before. Someone who is sympathetic but not overly in thrall of continuity. I don…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Chris Boucher… long time since I’ve seen Blake’s Seven, so I shouldn’t really comment… the dystopian background was refreshing but ‘we’ve found an amazing derelict spaceship’ was dumb.

Chris’ contribution to Who is ‘Face of Evil’ which introduced Leela, ‘Robots of Death,’ exhibiting a Mary Poppins level of perfection, and lastly…[Read more]

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major points

1. BP… short term fix? Then why the bi generation? And how did Ecclestone know? It was coming.

2. Did the BBC NEED a streaming partner in the first place? I’ve theorised it was a long term ambition… starting 2015. Maybe they now realise they c*cked up. Or they hope the s…[Read more]

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‘Going nowhere’ – what a curiously ambiguous turn of phrase

Yes agreed. I think a previous post actually said “Rest assured, the TARDIS is going nowhere” which is even better / worse.

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Just started this… the fateful figures ‘1hr 28 mins’ flashed up. Ooh, I know I said late Chib was a bit of an improvement but that’s a tall order. About 1/2 hr in at the mo.

Also reviewing the work of the mighty Chris Boucher. It is much easier.

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Sorry, the 40th anniversary of UF, and 50th anniversary of DA, is NEXT year of course. Maybe we’re gonna be inundated with rumour and bitchin for the whole of the coming year.

Though 29th Nov and 6th Dec are Sundays. If they did feel up to springing a pre xmas short season.

Ruby Sunday anyone?

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I forgot about Shrewsbury… that’s off the beaten track. The rest are in ‘far-back brokerland’: all well attended provincial theatres. I only mentioned Woking to further possible Dorks vs Wokes humour. Though Woking also has a nice theatre.

But they are real shows. So yes, lots of coincidences happening. Now it’s the National…[Read more]

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The Christmas Carol tour of southern Britain is real! Both Bakers & Peter ‘kid show’ Purves. But I’m sure none of them object to plugging their show…

But both the Shearman and Ford stories… and Millie Gibson too? Is this all actually the ultimate tease?

Bear with me… some bonkers theo…[Read more]

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re Dorking… the place name is ancient and distinctive, indicating the Anglo Saxon settlement of Dork’s people which, as I have explained to my daughter on Wimbledon Station, should not be confused with the place of Woke’s people, or you will find yourself on the wrong train.

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Welcome back!

This is one of several links to the story

https://cultbox.co.uk/general/carole-ann-ford-describes-unused-doctor-who-finale-scene

all these seem to come with their own interpretations.

I just note there seems to be a lot of activity. Presaging an announcement perhaps?

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The Star (UK) has been trashing credulity whilst exhibiting female anatomy since 1978.

Paul McGann had a go at Tennant as well recently.

I suppose we need the War Between Land And Sea before we can really judge what’s happening. Is there a delay there… any news?

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This is the problem when there is no real news from the BBC, or anyone y’know actually connected to the show, something always steps in to fill the void.

Nature Journalism abhors a vacuum.

“Peter is teaming up with fellow Doctor Who legends Colin Baker and Tom Baker for his next project. The trio are st…

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I think we’re in agreement! But this WAS in The Radio Times… which may be nominally independent of The BBC but I haven’t really absorbed that erm fact (ie I don’t believe it).

The Daily Star is an actual… comic! Um… Red Top. I thought of looking up ridiculous headlines created by them (celebrities e…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Would like to know how Star Beast was chosen as an intro to the Mouse era… but, we’ll probably never know. It entertained enormously, almost effortlessly, in a manner Chib could only ever dream. What I shall do is watch the transition from Chib back to Russ together I think…

1. there must have been some Russ input into Chib’s…[Read more]