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The BBC Is Heading To Court To Hunt Down a Doctor Who Leaker (gizmodo.com)
After someone leaked an incomplete scene featuring Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor, the BBC headed to court to track down the perpetrator. Gizmodo reports: In fact, the corporation has filed an application in a California court this week in an effort to expose the person who put the leaked footage online -- hoping California's Federal Court would put pressure on Tapatalk, whose messaging service was used to upload and disseminate a non-final, 53-second clip of Whittaker's Doctor in action. The BBC isn't accusing Tapatalk of any wrongdoing; rather, it just wants details on the user that uploaded the clip, so it can attempt to isolate just where in Doctor Who's long line of production the clip got leaked.
In a statement provided to, well, itself sort of, the BBC said that it was taking court action so that fans could "enjoy the final and fully completed version of the episode when it premieres," but it's about more than the integrity of the fan experience here, given that the clip was allegedly pretty clearly unfinished. And while the BBC would prefer that no sneaky footage of one of the most highly anticipated seasons of Doctor Who in a while is out there before it says so, it especially doesn't want it out there if it's footage that's not been edited into the version fans will eventually see on TV.
In a statement provided to, well, itself sort of, the BBC said that it was taking court action so that fans could "enjoy the final and fully completed version of the episode when it premieres," but it's about more than the integrity of the fan experience here, given that the clip was allegedly pretty clearly unfinished. And while the BBC would prefer that no sneaky footage of one of the most highly anticipated seasons of Doctor Who in a while is out there before it says so, it especially doesn't want it out there if it's footage that's not been edited into the version fans will eventually see on TV.
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The leaker was a Dalek.
Just gray bars
Still no official explanation. ae911truth org
They leaked Sherlock early last year, no reason to think they wouldnâ(TM)t do it again.
Not even shoving crim's head up one Trump's ARSE! It's the British thing to do!
No wonder we cant have nice things, this is just a waste of resources.
Could always ask the GCHQ as it is in the nation interest. On the grounds of national security.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I think the BBC is a cum dumpster.
Oh, not that BBC... my bad
Did they ever explain why The Doctor who, as I am given to understand, has never had any control over the body he regenerates, into, nor any idea what it will look like, somehow regenerated like ... a dozen or so times as men, man after man after man, then inexplicably, right around the time of the so-called year of the woman, he magically comes back as a woman? Other, of course, than cynical opportunism, cashing-in on the mood, as it were, and demographic shifts of the audience?
Also, have people started using the expression Nurse Who yet? I do not really care, one way or another, but I know people who are big fans of this sorry excuse for a sci-fi series... and it just seems as if they have simply ruined it.
nice try but i still have zero interest in your show
The Doctor died after that last episode. This idiocy confirmed it. Their stunt is a failure and they're trying to compensate.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
British have a gun held to their heads and are forced to pay BBC subscriptions. So its not just a waste of resources. It's a waste of public money which people are forced to pay whether they want to watch it of it. It's also a waste of the Californian courts time which have more important things to do with their time. I hope the judge appointed to this case teaches the self-entitled twits in the BBC a painful lesson.
> while the BBC would prefer that no sneaky footage of one of the most highly anticipated seasons of Doctor Who in a while is out there before it says so, it especially doesn't want it out there if it's footage that's not been edited into the version fans will eventually see on TV. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Trust me. The fans will appreciated the seeing the snippet and the rest of use who don't give a fuck don't care.
> the integrity of the fan experience here,
Oh for fucks sake.
You assholes erased many hours of old video already, and now you care about a 53 second clip somebody shared online.
Fuck.
You.
Now this is a reason for bothering courts, unleashing lawyers and inquisite online activities: finding out who dared to desecrate a few unfinished seconds of a silly show.
When I first read the title this is what I thought it says: "The BBC is heading to court to hunt down a doctor who leaker". A doctor who what? When I read the summary the correct interpretation turned out to be: "The BBC is heading to court to hunt down a Doctor Who leaker". This is a nice illustration of why I dislike the habit of capitalizing almost every word in a title. The information normally conveyed through correct use of capitals is lost.
The only people who give a fuck to mess with a 53 second clip.
Why does my foot hurt?
"The BBC Is Heading To Court To Hunt Down a Doctor Who Leaker" directly above "Chinese AI Beats 15 Doctors In Tumor Diagnosis Competition ". How many doctors have there even been yet?
From memory (good memories sitting down and watching these every Sunday night as a kid), the original Dr Who had quite a lot of four- or five-episode arcs but NOTHING to compare with the season-long arcs like BadWolf, ClaraImposibleGirl or CracksInTime.
No thank you.
See the previous article - the BBC trying to make out that the new Doctor Who (i.e. anything since Tom Baker) is anything other than shit.
And what a surprise that they changed the SEX of the Doctor, to a female! Because that's not all Bolshevik sexuality, is it...
Quite what the fuss is about Dr Who I have no idea. The storylines are childish (but then it is really a kids show I suppose), overblown and never live up to their promise - the season denouement is usualy more a "meh" that a "wow!", the dialogue is often amateur to say the least, the special effects are dire (and there's no excuse for that in 2018 when even a standard graphics card can do some pretty impressive stuff), and now the BBC have bowed to feminists and made him a woman. Hint - there's a reason he's called a Time Lord and not a Time Lady. I watched a couple of series then gave up.
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A quick sanity check,
Why would the BBC *need* a script, the plotters would never have needed to even risk letting them in on the plot. How could the press have kept it quiet given their competitive nature for news.
I notice there's an attempt to claim the press as fake, and Trump lies as real. IMHO Sinclair Broadcast Group heads, Fox News, Breitbart etc. need to ask themselves if they're really backing America by backing Trump's lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
The problem with little lies, is they need to become ever bigger lies. If he hands US control to Putin, they will have to run with it, because they're so far down that rabbit hole, they think they can't turn around and tell the truth now.
I can type more than that for meine comment.
Capitals Is The First Step Before Unicodization.
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So you're saying the Whos did 911?
Waiting for the next regeneration.
The BBC may not find the leaker, or not find them before the show airs and this particular case becomes moot. This is more about the warning shot across the bow of the next leaker. "We are watching, and when we find you, we will fire you".
Just wanted to add that the episode BLINK was my absolute favourite of the modern Doctor Who series, an absolutely perfect little piece of scary SF.
What says you?
Who Leaked? Yes.
No, Who leaked the Dr.? Yes.
What's on second? Yes.
Third Base!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M
But I had to read the post title twice to figure out it wasn't a grammatical error or an incomplete title with a typo.
Hey guys, WHAT IF they also put this much time and effort into finding an actor to play Doctor Who who takes the role seriously and with respect and doesn't leave after a year or two to "do something else" or "find something better" aka massively disrespecting their role as the lead in one of the biggest and most important and successful TV shows England has ever made?
In Australia the ABC played every available Dr Who episode right from the start. This was back in 2002 IIRC.
Scenario: there were scary aliens outside. The Doctor told his female companion not to go outside. Lo and behold she went outside and uttered the immortal line, "Help! I've sprained my ankle."
I switched off and never watched again. For the record, Dr Who jumped the shark in Series 1, episode 6.
This show is so discontinuous that I do not bother with it anymore. Celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who when they spent much of that time off the air and out of production. Then starting up with a very short lived Doctor, and then having big gaps in production is ridiculous. The fact that it was determined that the next Doctor must be a woman doesnâ(TM)t help. It would have been one thing to find your best choice was a woman, but in this case the gender had been determined before the search began.
It's "highly anticipated" not because it's good, but because between feminism and examples like ST-Discovery and SW- The Last Jedi, all we deduce is a big flaming bag of disaster. Just let them leak it, just let us rip the band-aide off so we can know if they finally made an awful season of Dr Who.