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."
More info... (Score:5, Informative)
Also on BBC News (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Some more links... (Score:3, Informative)
Let's keep the politics out of it please... (Score:5, Informative)
As I pointed out in my other post [slashdot.org] 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.
Russell T Davies (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Eeek! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:possible cartoon .. (Score:3, Informative)
Entire Dr Who currently on Air in Australia (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:His assistants weren't (Score:2, Informative)
Doctor Who Comeback... (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Time and Time Again (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Cheap cheap cheap (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Not again... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:His assistants weren't (Score:3, Informative)
Re:His assistants weren't (Score:3, Informative)
Re:this DR. Who fan wishs it would not come back (Score:2, Informative)
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.