On the trailer front, it’s actually unusual for the BBC to go outside their guidelines of promoting a show outside of a month of televising it, except for an “event” (which I think this would count as).

I can’t help thinking that the replacement for Merlin – Atlantis is shown on Sat 28 Sep at 20:25. A canny controller may wish to promote t…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip – God bless HDD recorders. It’s worth sticking past the first couple of episodes, as it gets a lot more involved. The G’s other regular genre fanboy Phelim O’Neil put a column up just after I posted. It doesn’t contain any more spoilers than the BBC America promotion, but if you want to remain completely unspoilt, avoid until you’v…[Read more]

I think both @pedant and I have mentioned this in the past, but if anyone wants to watch some BBC America produced content, Orphan Black gets is UK showing starting tonight.

It made one of the Guardian choices, and they say:

A bizarre coincidence leads orphaned hustler Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) to assume what she thinks to be a profitable new…

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@JimTheFish @Shazzbot

It looks like a lot of us are doing extra homework! 😀 I agree with Jims comments about Dougray Scott. Great in Enigma and in Crow Road.

I took the meaning of Hide to be the hidden motivations and feelings with the Professor, Doctor and Clara to be honest. All seem to be hiding behind a facade.

@shazzbot

I don’t know if it was deliberate or not, but I think it’s worth noting the real influence that this period had on the three reboots for the show after cancellation. I think there is a real reason and rationale behind it.

It’s generally known now that the BBC had some thoughts of cancelling the show towards the end of the Troug…[Read more]

I rewatched this recently. Once you know that a lot of the aliens were concept designs accumulated over the life of the show, it can be interesting to see if you can work out what episodes/species they were for.

One that really interested me though was in the Market place, and I wondered if it was a concept for the Ice Warriors before they went…[Read more]

I actually popped in because when I was in York I was reminded of a bit of genius that touches on Doctor Who. So a post with a lot of links, some to do with Who! And a question – Is there a more loveable nerd than Neil Hannon in music?

This is the bloke who wrote the Father Ted theme (remind yourself) and then released a lyric version that turned…[Read more]

Ah @JimTheFish, I missed that reply to me originally. I really must give Six Feet Under another try. I watched a couple of episodes just before my mother died, and it really lost any attraction about that time.

@bluesqueakpip

Indeed – I think that extra element of the “innocent” of the baby being at peril adds the icing to the cake of jeopardy, raising the stakes.

I keep thinking the Crib should have more resonance, but the one thing that really does surprise me about it is that BBC Worldwide don’t market a copy of it, available from all good nerd Ch…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Oooooh – cover envy. That’s new! I had the rather less scary:

Still the same internal illustrations though.

I don’t find Pertwee chimes with much of my ideal of the Doctor, but I think I appreciate him a lot more than others. I think there is at least some explanation that he’s being difficult because he’s in the last place he…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

Gosh – your childhood sounds worthy of a Doctor Who adventure itself!

My introduction to the Master was Deadly Assassin as well, although I’d read at least one book before that was shown (The Daemons) and it didn’t really resonate with me that it was the same person (I was still a bit young). My adventure of discovery with Delga…[Read more]

You know – I’ve seen the Doctor angry and frustrated on many occasions, holding forth on some intergalactic injustice or other. I think, with Doctor 11 and this attack on his friends it’s the first time I really remember absolute incandescent fury, and Matt Smith really pulls it off.

@juniperfish’s comments on the debate on whether he is a good…[Read more]

stevethewhistle

Spearhead was unusual in that most of it was proper film. It’s recently got a Blu Ray release because of that (I think the only BG series that can be upscaled to that quality). Not sure if the transfer will be kind to the tentacle acting at the end of it. Even the bog standard DVD transfer looks great compared to many serials of t…[Read more]

@shazzbot

Just put him down as a general Time Lord jailor. He was the character I mentioned on my Time Lord blog with a natty taste in Savile Row gear and no inclination to help hunt a renegade at all.

I just worked out that I was 13 months old when this was first broadcast, so it is before my original viewing experience. Still loving it though.

We’ve jumped into a couple of Doctors and companions adventures with 4 and 7, and then saw a regeneration episode for 5. Only natural I suppose to cover the introduction to a companion then, and here w…[Read more]

@chickenelly @JanetteB + @wolfweed

IO9 also reported on the “protest” with a couple of videos which might interest you. There is the higher quality film of the 2011 intro (no audience participation), but also the very funny 2010 film which sets up a lot of the jokes, and features a small cameo by the ever awesome Sheridan…[Read more]