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Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel in March
Karl J. Smith writes "Dr. Who will be airing on the Sci-Fi Channel in March The DVD release has been moved from February 14th to July 4th (although it's still Feb 14th in Canada).
Be sure to check out the hilarous announcement from the BBC."
What the heck, I'm watching the old ones on 20 yr old VHS.
Sci-Fi has been the pits for a long time, I'm glad to see it.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
could you PLEASE give us a frickin' sound warning for such links? this is defiitely not safe for work!
Fantastic! ;)
> Face it guys, to the rest of the world, patriotism is funny.
Well, we (in the UK) have patriotism too, obviously, but there's something about American patriotism... I guess it's because it's stripped down to the basics without any pretension or subtlety, and appears so obviously false it becomes like something you're expected to sort of `believe in` like Father Christmas or God or something without thinking about it.
There's 26 seasons of Oldskool Who in the BBC archives.* You're lucky if you can find anything other than Tom Baker (fourth doctor) on PBS or BBC America (and the BBCA Who is seriously {edited|eviscerated}- there's lots of Who available to the enthusiasts - would it hurt 'em that much to get it on the air?
Yeah, some of it's Bad, but a lot of it's pretty damned good.
* More like ~26. Several Hartnell and Troughton episodes are missing.
Well, in that case BBC, can I have a cut of the profits — what with my license fee paying for it in the first place.
Consider it a shareholder dividend.
First, calling the recent resurrection of Doctor Who the first series and noting an option for series two is sacrilege and spits on the work done by thousands of individuals over more than thirty years. THAT was the first series. This is just the latest continuation.
Second, there should have been a deal for the entirety of the series from Hartnell onward.
Third, SCI-FI knows as much about science fiction as USA Network does and it constantly shows with their killing of Farscape, stuntcasting on SG-1, showing The Flinstones, and so forth.
I'll be very resistant to applauding this until SCI-FI shows they can stick with anything longer than it takes for them to be distracted by something shiny like a child with ADD.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
Remember that this is a continuation of the *same* series as the original Doctor Who, not a reinvention of the series in a new form.
And, given that the Doctor is a time traveler, he's already encountered Daleks in their future forms. BBS can't just go and say they've "redesigned themselves" without pulling a George Lucas on the old episodes.
And that would be silly...
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
Wait till you see that baby in action. Then laugh. In drama, really, the prop doesn't matter, it's how it's used that counts. But when you see how that thing is used, you'll agree it's a very effective bit of design.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
That was probably the worst episode of the new series in my opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who
Might help explain things.
There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes.
"The new series is absolute crud, go rent some of the classic episodes and find out for yourself why it ran for so long." Classic episode? Like the Colin Baker years?
Because the BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation. They're funded by our license fee and produce content for the uk. The US doesn't come into it. Hey, great if they can sell their productions on to the US for re-broadcast (which they have, so more funding comes their way).
Who cares if some US geeks have torrented it, they're not making it to get prophit (theoretically) they're doing it to produce quality television for the UK public. As soon as they start having to try and pander to prophit, the whole point of the BBC is missed. They'd just churn out a million "I'm a Celebraty..." programmes (although there has been one or two this year).