Power of the Doctor

So, Chibnall awakes from the torpor of series 11 & 12. He’s got the (actually quite vindictive) trashing of Moff’s continuity out of the way and created his very own metaphor for the new streaming villains (t’floox). It’s all a bit kerrazy but sometimes acceptable. Not particularly elegant. But certainly not teeth grindin…[Read more]

@whohar @janetteb

Anyone got the low down on Tony Jordan? Obviously there was someone of the same name involved in Life on Mars… not saying there’s necessarily any jockeying for position or strange briefings going on but…

Also… Piers Wenger took over from Ben Stephenson a year after he left in 2015. Stephenson got a lot of flack from the right w…[Read more]

@iskrat
Well you SAY that. I think three 2,000 word essays are required on each of the show’s many dubious but variedvincarnations. Then… and only then… may you buy me a pint.

@iskrat

Oo r yer oo r yer oor yer oo r yer?

c’along iskrat! You turn up unannounced and disturb my good friend’s generally colonial rest! 4 would call that rude.

Merely a Culture War Bot I suspect. There IS no one out there…

If anyone’s fault it’s The Corp but they’ve only been played like us all. Though they inflicted Chib on us…

How to n…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit @dentarthurdent

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]

@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]

@dentarthurdent @camdudetenger2018 @translatorcircuit @whohar

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]

@translatorcircuit

Yeah. Obvs I (faintly) hoped they’d banked some extra stuff for something sooner… or that there might be some anniversary for 2026. Just my 27-28 and 30-31 season theory left. 26 would be better for DA & UF anniversaries. But the actual dates might work for 31.

Yes, McGann, Gibson, Ford, Shearman and Purves had been roped in…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit

OK. A similar gap to that between Hell Bent and Mysterio. Without Husbands. Better than an inbox full of trolls. Maybe we’ll get a proper 12 ep season to follow!

Homer: ‘Maybe there’ll be ice-cream!’

Also… last thoughts… wishful thinking… Carol Ann Ford’s description of these unused scenes… do you think there’s any chance at all another episode was recorded back to back with ‘Reality War’?

@dentarthurdent

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.

@camdudetenger2018

Does the apparent negativity from Shearman, Purves, Gibson & Ford indicate something’s about to be announced…? I suspect so.
If Carol Ann Ford is harking back to unseen clips from Reality War, and Gibson grousing about spoilers, while Shearman and Purves make… uncharacteristically unclassy comment, is this actually the troll…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

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?

@dentarthurdent

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]

@dentarthurdent @blenkinsopthebrave @whohar @janetteb

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]

@dentarthurdent

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.

@blenkinsopthebrave @whohar @dentarthurdent @janetteb

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?

@dentarthurdent @whohar @janetteb

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?

@dentarthurdent @janetteb @janetteb

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]

@janetteb @whohar

On the face of it, it’s SO ridiculous, you might think it’s noise or a wind up.

Then you remember: Greenland, ‘Dictator’ Zelensky, Gaza Vegas On Med… Piers Morgan on BBC Breakfast explaining why everyone who disagrees with him is s fascist. Cheers Piers, the scales have well and truly fallen from my eyes.