So the second mini-two parter for Davison. The Awakening. Galloping Horses, and Polly James exploring. A nice confusing meld of two time zones. It doesn’t take long to introduce most of the support cast, and learn these are war games. Perhaps being taken too seriously by some, especially Sir George who is played by marvellous NZ character actor D…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I think you may be over-selling me there, but thanks. 😀

Just before I post my notes, spot on the money with Sapphire and Steel. The Daemons is often cited (evil thing in Church), but I think it draws more from PJ Hammond. The writer, Eric Pringle, has said he hadn’t seen or read Daemons before this.

This was the only s…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I commend you on your spirited and comprehensive sales technique for Mark of the Rani. And it’s certainly gained one supported with @JanetteB. It seems we have a two horse race to come.

@fatmaninabox

Oh – that sounds awful on the Farscape editing. Much worse than when they were shown on BBC2 at six o’clock. The BBC quite l…[Read more]

@JimTheFish @JanetteB

I’m glad you enjoyed it. The main reason for putting it in here I think was just to highlight how much I enjoyed Hurt in that special. The others were quite fun to compile though with lots of uumming and aaahing about order.

Jim, entirely agree about Warner. Marvellous actor in serious roles, but with a really peculiar s…[Read more]

@adt1957

While I agree it’s a nice thought, I think @janetteB has it on the nose with commercial decisions. I’ll also add that from the point of view of the story, having the Moment as a trusted face from the past perhaps wouldn’t have worked so well for the story. I think their scenes have meaning for the audience, because they know the bad w…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I guessed you may be one of the few people who’d seen them shown. I think Oz was one of the few territories that got the lot under the various permissions that were issued.

One of the missing eps, Random Quest, was remounted by BBC4 a few years ago as part of the Sci-Fi Britannia season, but a lot of the permissions for…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox

I hadn’t noticed those repeats, but I have the DVDs so that’s OK. Just to echo you though, with Pick being on Freeview, it’s an excellent chance to sample Farscape (although to be fair – people may be as confused as hell jumping in at this point).

Is this really going to be your first taste of Six? We really have to get this on…[Read more]

As it’s now been well over 7 months since Day of the Doctor, I thought I’d do an extension of views on alternate faces of the Doctor we’d seen/heard over the years. The Almost Doctors, if you will. Just because I thought they deserve a mention. I’ve graded them by how much I enjoyed them, and what I thought they did/would have bought to the rol…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @FatManInABox

It was my immediate thought too on the simulcast/preview idea. Earlier this year in one of the Media expos the G’ covered (sorry, just searched for the link and can’t find it) there was a mention that one of the hot ticket events was a presentation by BBC Worldwide on how they did the digital distribution deal with…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

It’s a difficult one for me as well. In the last few voting sessions we’ve had an outlier come in against nominal choices, but in Season 22 is anyone going to argue that Attack of the Cybermen, Two Doctors or Timelash is better than any of these?! Difficult to see.

@bluesqueakpip

I hate it when that happens. He can lay siege to you…[Read more]

As we continue our look at Peter Davison this weekend with the second short two-parter The Awakening, and dwelling on the short space of time before Series 8 starts in earnest, I’m afraid it’s time.

Time for THE man, THE Myth, THE Legend, THE coat….THE Colin Baker. Yes, the fervent wish of posters such as @TardisBlue, @MonochromeDimension, @marinu…[Read more]

@FatManInABox

Preview or simulcast showings of the first episode in cinemas, do we reckon?

@wolfweed

You pre-empted me, but your link is much more detailed than the G’s little summary of the story. The big news for me are the TV releases (as events in Yorkshire are sparse to say the least). I’ve seen the Out of the Unknown stories that remain, but apparently the prints have been rescanned and cleaned up significantly for this rel…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox

Many thanks for the image. Timely, as it reminds me to launch the vote for Colin campaign.

@craig

Great shots from Burning Man. I don’t know what it is with you Scots – any chance to flash off yer’ kneecaps. 😀

@craig

Yes – it strikes me after looking at a few sites (not at the spoilers, just at relative activity) that I think this has scared people off participating to some extent, because the day after a trailer like that you’d expect a lot more. Of course – it could be the summer holidays as well. 😀

It’s hard to disagree with Kermode on his poi…[Read more]

@Wafflebro

I’m sure it must be frustrating, because I’ve tried to get tickets to these kind of events in the past in the UK. I’ve never been successful because they are usually massively over subscribed, and yes, they do tend to be smaller venues. They are primarily designed for the press, and having some fans enjoy an episode and get invol…[Read more]

Just to add, it looks like someone has been regurgitating spoilers over on the G with abandon. They’ve been deleted, but there are a couple of references still up, so extreme caution advised as ever.

@miapatrick @wolfweed

You know, I meant to say last week that Davison and Dickinson appearing in this was pretty apt, because they actually met on the set of another Sci-fi show, The Tomorrow People.

I’ll post a clip because it’s hilarious. The Tomorrow People made the cheapest episodes of Doctor Who look like Star Wars in comparison.

h…[Read more]