Doctor Who Comeback 538
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."
Eeek! (Score:5, Funny)
No lead actor yet (Score:3, Funny)
If it is not cheap then it is not Doctor Who.
YES!! (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds like... (Score:0, Funny)
I'll get my coat
BitTorrent (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Special effects? (Score:1, Funny)
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?
Re:Sounds like... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Eeek! (Score:3, Funny)
I saw the 'behind the series' program about Queer As Folk UK last week, and your nerdgasm takes on a whole new meaning (shampoo, err showergel?).
In the interview though, Russell Davies is a huge fan of Dr Who... if there was ever someone who could have used their work to say 'I Love Dr Who' in giant pink neon lights, then Queer As Folk would be it.
Quote (Score:3, Funny)
Dr: "Aren't you going to say it is bigger on the inside and on the outside?"
Colonel: "I believe that is bloody obvious!"
But if it's written by . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Hang on .
PS Hurrah! Dr Who is back in 2005!
Re:See it in the US (Score:-1, Funny)
It's got Charlie Dimmock.
How many redhead babes in America don't wear bras on prime-time national tele?
Didn't think so.
I'll stick to Charlie, thank you very much.
Re:Special effects? (Score:1, Funny)
Most rediculous show ever (Score:1, Funny)
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.
Re:Special effects? (Score:2, Funny)
Too busy (Score:3, Funny)
Doctor Who is far too busy making prank phone calls [bbc.co.uk] to make a new TV series.
Re:His assistants weren't (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yay (Score:2, Funny)
"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_
Re:His assistants weren't (Score:2, Funny)
But not since 1970 was there a regular companion running around in a skirt.
Oh, alright, kilt, if you insist
Re:Cheap cheap cheap (Score:3, Funny)
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...
Re:See it in the US (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's about time ! (Score:2, Funny)
> idiot beating up on the brilliant weakling
But what about the Tom and Jerry cartoons?
Re:Oh come ON! (Score:3, Funny)
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...
Not Tom Baker! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's about time ! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:His assistants weren't (Score:4, Funny)
Romana: never
Leela: Yes, often. She was great in the sack.
Teegin: once when we were drunk
Re:His assistants weren't (Score:3, Funny)