In fact, I enjoyed this even more than the first time. Possibly because a cartoon Graham Norton didn’t wander onto the screen during the gripping final scene of the first part.

Anyone remember that one? I […]

OK I re-arranged things to take in this two parter and watch Ghost Light tomorrow I think.

For me, after Beast Below, this is Moff on confident form and I quite understand @bluesqueakpip here in saying this is […]

@bluesqueakpip

I agree with you on McGann perhaps having the potential for a physical appearance in the 50th. One thing that struck me was that there is no audio adventure for Eight to follow Dark Eyes (which […]

@Fatmaninabox

Just in case you think I’m a bit mad, SherriffFatman is a Guardian commentator and Dan misattributed a theory of his to me. We later started to have ideas pretty much at the same time. It was all […]

I was actually considering doing an attempt at a Guardian “Live Blog” on the Next Doctor forum by using one post and updating it a lot. It may depend on how much I drink.

@craig

I think I heard them say it was all @Phaseshift ‘s fault

I may need TARDIS translation circuits to understand what you’re getting at here. 😉

I’d completely forgotten we were doing this as a two […]

@scaryB @Bluesqueakpip @shazzbot

To put that interview into some perspective, I think it’s wise to remember some of the reporting that arose around it. A couple of days beforehand McCoy, Baker and McGann were […]

@thekaled

Thank god for TARDIS translation circuits. For a moment I thought you may have a couple of wits about your person. Sadly – you’re unarmed.

@JimTheFish

It was something I was mulling on, and I think would really be worth exploring in an intial blogpost. I think it may be good with a launch blog and a general forum, like the Music, Film, etc that we […]

@curvedspace

On the one hand, I think that “shipping” — trying to figure out who will get with whom, and who we’d prefer to end up together — is something endemic to television. I think that watchers have been […]

The reason I did the intro to the last clip tangents into @pedant s excellent blogpost on trolling. Man – he can drive some fans nuts.

He is polite and enthusiastic with fans at conventions, but he’s honest in […]

@fatmaninabox

Many thanks for that link to http://www.vpforums.org/, I think I may spend a happy couple of hours over the weekend exploring that. You actually reminded me that we haven’t explored a general […]

@HTPBDET @Shazzbot @Fatmaninabox

John Barrowman

I may have to consult with my fellow creative (this must be a partnership forged in TV Hell) @FatManInABox, but my inner commissioning editor is still screaming […]

@JimTheFish @FatManinabox

Ahh.. @Fatmaninabox beat me to it. I was about to post:

They’d have been as well doing it like the voice — having half a dozen of the main contenders audition live on TV in front of […]

Well let’s look at the positive.

That format sounds bloody awful and has the potential to be cringemakingly embarrassing. This can only be alleviated by pre-emptively drinking copious amounts of alcohol, which […]

@wolfweed

I love The Wicker Dalek (OK – I know it’s straw). Who are we going to burn?

On your second link I take it that what all the Spoiler action is about?

Just to introduce this clip – Doctor Who at 40 – Doctor Eight.

Just before this was filmed the BBC had announced the Doctor would be returning. Paul McGann turns up to talk about the film and his audio work. […]

@janetteB

As a Babylon 5 fan of some note in these parts, I think you’d like the Eighth in novels and audio work beyond the Movie.

J. Michael Straczynski really drew on his love of Brit sci-fi for that […]

@bluesqueakpip

and it really doesn’t fit with the ‘man and his time machine’ format that is Doctor Who.

Well congratulations on making it through. Just consider in the preceding months I’ve sat through Twin […]

@shazzbot @chickenelly

It’s similar in style to Nines coat, but is a bit longer to reflect some elements of Eights old coat in leather form. As @Chickenelly said, this range of dramas were intended to dovetail […]