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BBC To Revive Doctor Who Next Year
Jordan writes: "Orange Today is reporting that the BBC has hired a scriptwriter from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to work on a new Doctor Who series, in celebration of the show's 40th anniversary. And Buffy's Anthony Head, who plays Giles, may be up for the role of the doctor." Update: 07/03 12:27 GMT by T : LoadStar writes: "The Beeb has an official denial that a new Who series is in the works with members of the Buffy production team, as reported yesterday on Slashdot. They report 'Whilst the Cult team quite like the idea of Tony Head as the Doctor in a show guided by members of America's finest fantasy production team, the BBC aren't currently making any such plans.'"
I wonder how the dog will look now that we have Battle Bots.... can u say 16" Diamond Chip saw blade ;)....
Gravity!... It's not just a good idea... It's the Law!
What about that other great BBC series, Blakes 7? I'd love to see that revived. Would be very cool with modern special effects.
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This is terrific news - just as long as they don't do a musical episode... :)
K-9 singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" was bad enough...
Exec1: Hey, here's an idea... Let's get George Lucas and ILM to remake Plan 9 From Outer Space. We can get M. Night Shyamalan to rework the script and a get a few big name stars in there.
Exec2: No no no, we need to make another movie based on a comic book.
Exec3: Why don't we come up with something original. Y'know, like a new story, new characters...
[blank stares all round]
Exec3: ...or not. Let's get back to that Dr Who concept.
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Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of Daleks?
In a dark room, from a pile of pizza boxes and makeshift rackmounts, hundreds of nodes start croaking through their motherboard speakers: Exterminate!
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
Will we be seeing any musical Dr Who episodes?
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"Once more (infinitely recurring inside a timeloop) with feeling"
(sung to the tune of "going through the motions")
~/ Every moment is the same arrangement, I go back and forth in time. Still I always feel I'm missing something : nothing here is real (we bought it on a dime). I've been trading blows with salt-shaker foes, just hoping no one knows, that there's no money in the budget - spent it all on booze. A phone box versus Enterprise will lose!
Yeah! Maybe they could call the Doctor's main enemies something cool, like, I dunno...the "Axis of Evil"? And they could all speak with a heavy Middle-Eastern accent! Yeah!!!
And maybe they could give the Doctor a new nickname, something with a bit more punch - how about Doctor W?
I remember seeing the Doctor Who outtakes (a video made by the BBC VT dept and not for public consumption).
Doctor Who (Tom Baker) is in the Tardis and asked K9 a question.
"insufficient data, master" replies the tin pooch
To which Tom Baker quips: "you never do know the fucking answer do you K9?"
They should have left it in the episode!
You're right. Voyager set your standards too low.
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