New Dr. Who Episode Leaked

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Posted by timothy on Monday March 7, 2005 @06:43AM from the they-call-it-a-leak dept.

Cougem writes "BBC News is reporting on how an episode from the brand new series of the old science fiction TV show, Doctor Who, has been leaked onto the Internet. 'A 45-minute episode, called Rose, has appeared three weeks before the series is expected to begin on BBC One. Rose is the name of the character played by pop singer Billie Piper, who will be the assistant to the Doctor, played by Christopher Eccleston.' With people saying sci-fi appeals more to the technical minded viewer, will this TV show's release onto the Internet damage the ratings considerably for the BBC? Or is it a minor problem for a corporation whose role is just to provide the public with entertainment?" Maybe it will boost ratings, instead; the public buzz about "leaks" is still far ahead of the average viewer's ability to actually find and download.

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it's on usenet by jo0ls · 2005-03-07 06:45 · Score: 4, Informative

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1. Re:it's on usenet by thinkninja · 2005-03-07 07:32 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  http://www.newzbin.com/browse/post/1063941/
  
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yeah.. right.. by peculiarmethod · 2005-03-07 06:45 · Score: 5, Funny

can anyone say "Promotional Ploy that Slashdot fell for"?

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How this happened... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-07 06:46 · Score: 5, Funny

You see what happened was Dr. Who downloaded the episode legally from BBC's open archives in 2052, as a piece of nostalgia from his earlier days, but forgot to unshare it from Kazaa again when he travelled back to 2005. D'oh!
Wider audience? by DamienMcKenna · 2005-03-07 06:48 · Score: 4, Insightful

Given that the SciFi channel isn't showing it, it can only help the interest within the USA.
Re:it'll bost ratings by shawn(at)fsu · 2005-03-07 06:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Unless the episode sucks. I mean sucks like a hover upright. Then it might hurt ratings

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Har har by rde · 2005-03-07 06:50 · Score: 5, Informative

It's shocking, really. They go to all that effort to keep it secret, and dirty bastards go and ruin it all by watching it months ahead of time. The file-sharing creeps.

Having said that, it's a lot better than I expected. Billie Piper is a much better companion than I though she'd be, and the Doctor is quite credible as, er, a time-travelling alien. No mention of that half-human shite, which is nice.

It'd be injudicious of me to mention that the file is called Rose1.avi, and is 366757888 bytes long, so I won't.
Re:Obligatory Joke by the+phantom · 2005-03-07 06:53 · Score: 4, Funny

He's on first.

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Huh? by SpaceBadger · 2005-03-07 06:53 · Score: 5, Funny

From news.bbc.co.uk: "The BBC was unavailable for comment."

Investigative journalism is truly dead.
Re:Dr. Who sucks by dJCL · 2005-03-07 06:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't worry...

Your alone.

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Re:Billie Piper is a hottie. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-07 06:55 · Score: 5, Informative

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Just a FYI by falcon5768 · 2005-03-07 07:02 · Score: 4, Informative

this is NOT the full pilot, this is 45 minutes of the pilot thats not through being finished and was distrubuted to a few places looking to pick up the series, so its quite a bit rough with the cgi, credits and theme not even being done.
Likewise dont go into watching this expecting it to be the BSG remake others where hoping for, THIS IS DR WHO, like Dr Who of when I was a kid and where watching the 60's reruns. Its campy and funny and ejoyable and a real family show. I know a lot of people where hoping for it to be remade but its not they are making this to be just like the old shows minus the cardbord and celophane sets.

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1. Re:Just a FYI by mbourgon · 2005-03-07 07:12 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  so its quite a bit rough with the cgi, credits and theme not even being done.
  
  Dunno about that... they've already said they're keeping the "classic" theme music, the end credits looked just fine, the CGI is classic "bad-as-in-BBC" bad. And it tells a complete story - it's not like it cuts off at 45 minutes. (Maybe there's extra scenes, after dealing with the conspiracy nut?)
  
  Overall, A-. The comic bits are a bit too frequent, but it felt like The Doctor.
  
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well by mattyrobinson69 · 2005-03-07 07:02 · Score: 4, Insightful

i personally think the BBC should provide free downloads (by bittorrent or something) to UK residents who have a tv license.

They could probably increase revenue if they created a subscription service for non-UK viewers too.
Re:Billie Piper is a hottie. by youngerpants · 2005-03-07 07:08 · Score: 4, Funny

and check out her ex http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/imagedump/6452.jpg

we're all in with a chance!!!
A link to the torrent by bort27 · 2005-03-07 07:09 · Score: 5, Informative

http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrentd etails&id=184585

bort.

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1. Re:A link to the torrent by bort27 · 2005-03-07 07:14 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Seems /. inserted a space in the url. You can either s/\s// or just click here.
  
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They do want this... by lxt · 2005-03-07 07:14 · Score: 5, Informative

The BBC itself does actually want to try something similar, and you might have seen the articles here about the then director general Greg Dyke discussing a "BBC Archive", and I'm pretty sure the R&D dept. was messing around with Bit Torrent.

However, the main problem (as with the BBCs "listen again" radio feature, but far more problamatic for TV) is the Writers Guild of Great Britain, which is extremely upset that the BBC plans to offer these shows without paying royalties to the writers. They have yet to bash out an additional payment to allow this...
The great thing about a DL from the BBC . . . . by Tetsugaku-San · 2005-03-07 07:32 · Score: 4, Informative

No adverts to edit out \o/

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Of course the episode leaked... by Gruneun · 2005-03-07 08:19 · Score: 4, Funny

The plot was full of holes.

Bah-dum Dum!
sans clothing by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-07 08:23 · Score: 4, Funny

For crying out loud, this is the internet; not edition of People magazine! Get with the program.
nipple slip
topless sunbathing
another angle topless
Re:For the love of Derbyshire by mark-t · 2005-03-07 10:10 · Score: 4, Funny

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