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Doctor Who Comeback
ElGuapoGolf writes "According to the Daily Telegraph, Doctor Who is set to return to the airwaves. According to the article, it's going to be written by the same guy who created the series 'Queer As Folk'. Not sure if we'll get to see it in the US, but I guess it's a good time to start bugging your cable company to carry BBC America if they don't already."
My god, I think I just had a nerdgasm. I've been waiting to hear this for years. :)
-1, "1337" speak
If it is not cheap then it is not Doctor Who.
Dr. who is comng back, kill the fatted calf, fetch our finest wine, Horray! I's about time this happened.
Queer eye for the timelord guy
I'll get my coat
I hear with this magical thing called The Internet, you can download TV shows and give those who want to control viewership, demographics, audience, and timed 'rollouts'(ie, UK now, US 4 months later, or vise-versa) a conniption.
I've been watching the BBC's (unedited, ie, stupidified-and-more-commericals-for-us-market) Spooks, aka MI-5. I watched the start of season 2 while A&E was still running teasers for the previous show.
I've also managed to watch Enterprise about 6 hours before it airs- and I can skip the #$@!ing annoying theme song. They should look on the bright side- with the commercials, I'd loose motivation after the first commercial break.
Please help metamoderate.
I remember the Dr. Who of old and the amazingly horrible special effects. I mean, they were bad..
However, even cheezy Fox series have pretty decent (by 1970s standard) special effects.
Will the new (gay?) Dr. Who take advantage of these?
Will we finally find out how the Daleks climb stairs?
Considering the writer's past...
Dr: "Aren't you going to say it is bigger on the inside and on the outside?"
Colonel: "I believe that is bloody obvious!"
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
But if it's written by a gay guy, then we could have a camp Doctor, who dresses is really stupid clothes and doesn't seem particularly interested in women . . .
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Hang on .
PS Hurrah! Dr Who is back in 2005!
It was the least realistic show in history! I mean what was with the spaceship design? A Blue box? Rockets are meant to be streamlined. Something that shape wouldn't be able to get anywhere. And how is it that nobody noticed that the inside couldn't have possibly fitted inside the box. Clearly stuff inside the spaceship were filmed in a studio.
Worse that that though, the sense of history was daft. Sometimes he was in ancient Rome, other times he was on a different planet. How does that happen? The romans only had rudimentary space capability, that could barely manage a low earth orbit, let alone get to another planet.
Doctor Who is far too busy making prank phone calls to make a new TV series.
One word. Adric. How gay was he?
"Information wants to be paid"
You remind me of an American tourist I saw in Scotland recently:
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"Yeah, Larry Jr's a big Dr Who fan so I bought him a TARDIS!" she squawked, clutching a model of a red public telephone box. Poor Larry Jr, kid must be so disappointed...
Ade_
Big Bubbles (no troubles) - what sucks, who sucks and you suck
About 7.3% as gay as Turlough.
;-)
But not since 1970 was there a regular companion running around in a skirt.
Oh, alright, kilt, if you insist
>>Everything should be done low-budget.
Come on, this is the BBC we are talking about.
When creating the first series:
Director: We want to do a space-sci-fi-time-traveling show. We need a big spaceship, with lots of flashing lights, and fins and things.
Props man: This is the BBC, scale it down a bit.
Director: OK, we need a cheep plastic model spaceship that hangs on wires that we can do cheesy fly-by shots with.
Props man: This is the BBC, scale it down a bit.
Director: Well, we need something. What have you got?
Props man: Well, we have this old police phone box from "Dixon of Dock Green.", it needs a lick of paint but...
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Oh I thought all the TV in that country was BBC. Then I guess there's no chance of seeing Benny Hill either.
I've hit Karma 50 and gotten a Score:5, Troll... I win!
> idiot beating up on the brilliant weakling
But what about the Tom and Jerry cartoons?
this does NOT mean Dr. Who is going to be gay all of a sudden.
Too bad. I'd like to see how a suddenly gay incarnation of the Doctor would gussy-up the Tardis. Can you imagine a Doctor dressed head-to-toe in Ralph Lauren's latest, sipping cosmopolitans after two hours in the gym? Queer Eye for that Timelord Guy...
So long, michael. Don't let the door hit you...
Although he's definitely my favorite. I propose Rowan Atkins!
Debunking the "59 Deceits"
Isn't Tom Baker something like 150 years old by now?
OK Maybe I should clarify things:
Romana: never
Leela: Yes, often. She was great in the sack.
Teegin: once when we were drunk
Well, I had some stuff to do in this timestream, so I thought I'd hang around a bit for this slashdot article to come by. Still, I am not sure I am in the correct time stream or not. If the Red Sox actually do win the world series, then I had better get ready to skip into a different timestream to avoid catastrophe.