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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."
...Direct from BBC News
BBC News story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_ra dio/3140786.stm
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BBC News discussion: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3142006.
Persononally, if Paul McGann isn't coming back to play the Doctor then I'd prefer Colin Firth, Sean Bean or Sean Pertwee (Jon Pertwee's, the third Doctor, son) to get the title role.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
And I was just about to submit this too... Still, here are some more links since the BBC and Sky News are covering it too. Looks like they might actually be serious about going ahead with it this time!
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Irrespective of the politics of The Daily Telegraph, the story's quite accurate. So, in the context of this story, your "to be read with a pinch of salt" is as redundant as your lambasting of the paper's editorial slant (and people who rip The Guardian for being a "communist rag" are just as bad, if not worse).
As I pointed out in my other post below, the story's being reported by the BBC too. And given that Doctor Who is a BBC production, that makes it pretty hard to refute.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Russell T Davies also wrote Century Falls and Dark Season, which were pretty good early 90s children's TV series. However, he is a fan of Doctor Who, so as long as he can keep the "fan wank" out of the script, it should be good.
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The Doctor tended to be a nonsexual character, most of the time. I don't think it will be too much of an issue, if Davies is fan enough to stick to that as a vital part of the show. Having the Doctor get involved with his companions would probably screw the plots up something awful, although I expect we will all find something to complain about in the new series. I'm just happy to hear that something is being done at all, for now.
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The cartoon has already been made, and it was in fact a remake of a (partially completed) set of tv episodes. You can watch the anims (dont expect movie quality CGI) here at the beeb.
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The ABC in Australia is currently replaying the entire Dr Who. All of it. It's on Monday-Thursday at 6pm. It started playing on the 15th of September, and should continue for years :-)
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Anyways I remember the first time I watched Doctor Who, which is still on sci fi night on PBS btw, I was like WTF?!, but after watching a whole episode I thought it was the tre magnifique. One of these days I need to find it on DVD as well as the Red Dwarf series.
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We have been hearing this for years. There've been stories of a Dr Who revival cropping up every few months or so. There have been rumours about Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman and others appearing in a new movie/series etc, and nothing has ever come of it. Don't count your chickens till they've hit the small screen. Or something.
No, Hartnell wanted to leave the show for reasons of ill health. Troughton and Pertwee voluntarily retired from the role. Tom Baker got bored with the role. Peter Davidson was afraid of getting typecast. Colin Baker, on the other hand, was essentially fired, but the decision had little to do with saving money. And, of course, McCoy left after the show was canceled.Pity too, as McCoy played a great Doctor.
Doctor Who may have been a low budget show, but the good episodes weren't good because of the low budget. They were good in spite of the low budget, chiefly because the scripts were well written.
Well, the BBC have failed dismally in the last few years to find anything that could count as a fixture of Saturday early evening viewing. So this might be a case of the Beeb thinking 'this used to work, and people keep saying they want it back, so let's give it a go.' So they are hoping it will become a successful programme, rather than just hoping they'll make it this time.
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Well, it was really one BBC management queer. That was John Nathan-Turner, the show's producer from Baker's final season until the 1989 cancellation. Admittedly, the three Doctors he cast were all straight, but it's been a pretty solid assumption among Whovians for a long time now that Matthew Waterhouse and Mark Strickson got cast as Adric and Turlough, respectively, due to casting couch skills rather than acting skills (Strickson was married but bi, so the story goes).
Nathan-Turner completely wrecked the show, but the gay situation was only a minor contributory factor. The fact is that the guy had no sense of what made for good Doctor Who and ended up imposing his own sensibilities at the cost of the show's credibility and creativity. Add to this the fact that certain members of the Beeb's senior management had a hard-on for the show and let him do his crap for eleven years is what killed it, not the fact that he was gay.
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