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Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel in March
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on Thu Jan 12, 2006 05:13 PM
from the everyone-fake-your-accent-to-celebrate dept.
from the everyone-fake-your-accent-to-celebrate dept.
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."
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yay! New Who! (Score:4, Insightful)
Sci-Fi has been the pits for a long time, I'm glad to see it.
Re:Been seeing it in the US on CBC (Score:5, Funny)
(http://tumbleweed.smugmug.com/)
And some of us in the US have already watched the first season due to our proximity to the Internet.
I like the new Daleks (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:I like the new Daleks (Score:4, Funny)
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Ha ha, stupid Dalek.
EL-E-VATE.
Oh crap.
Re:I like the new Daleks (Score:5, Informative)
Hence why they still look like they do, HOWEVER.. there are a number of Dalek surprises in the new Dr. Who series, so don't be so quick to knock them. (over.. *cough* sorry)
The special effects as a whole on the Dr. Who series vary from okay to excellent.
Special mention should be made of the episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances", which quite frankly are the best scifi episodes i've seen in years bar none, not only for the special effects but for the incredible writing and directing.
Re:not exactly stairmasters... (Score:4, Funny)
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Don't you know?
Real Daleks don't climb stairs; they level the building.
BitTorrent (Score:4, Funny)
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Cool! (Score:5, Informative)
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(NOW is the Golden Age of Sci-Fi.)
Not sure if it was "a hillarious ad" but... (Score:1, Redundant)
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Badwolf is
soundwarning? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:soundwarning? (Score:5, Funny)
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The national anthem of the USA sung by Dolly Parton is unsafe for work?
Where do you work...?
Re:soundwarning? (Score:5, Funny)
The "Erotic" building in question (Score:1, Informative)
Forget Doctor Who, I want Torchwood (Score:3, Interesting)
SWEET!!!! (Score:2, Informative)
Theme Song. (Score:1)
You know the: base line going ->da-ta-da-ta-da-ta-da-da-da-da-da-da - high pitched melody going whooowooooweeeee. Thinking aobut it makes my hair stand on end.
Re:Theme Song. (Score:4, Informative)
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Good news (Score:5, Interesting)
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Now, will the Sci Fi channel show it properly, or will they chop the sides off to squeeze it onto a 4:3 screen? Perhaps it's time to write to them now, begging...
It's about bloody time!! (Score:2)
Will the US get second season episodes around the same time they're broadcast in the UK (and the rest of the world)?
At least now there's something to watch while we're waiting for Battlestar Galactica at 10pm. OK, something more watchable than that dreck Stargate series they now run at 9pm. Now, put something decent on at 8pm, and you've got me solid from 7 (Firefly) through the end of BSG.
Curse you Comcast (Score:1)
Humour and Sci-Fi (Score:5, Informative)
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Why is it that so rarely, and with US shows almost never, Sci-Fi can contain humour as well as the fantastic? Dr Who, paticularly this new series, has been a superb combination of both the "serious" science fiction combined with the humour of having HUMANS involved in it. This isn't the gag line humour of STNG but the actual real humour of decent TV programmes. The writing in Dr Who is brilliant, the pathos parts are strong, its got the science fantastic and both Rose and Dr Who (as well as Captain Jack) have top moments of both drama and humour.
Series 1 was superb, and Series 2 is shaping up to be even better.
Rose: "But you sound like you come from the North"
Dr: "Lots of planets have a North"
YES!!! (Score:2, Insightful)
Fantastic! ;)
I'd be really excited about this... (Score:2, Offtopic)
(http://www.cygwin.co...999-06/msg00074.html)
Eggleston or Tennat? (Score:1)
In the Christmass Invasion there is a new Dr. (he regenerates).
Tennat = new Dr.
Re:Eccleston or Tennant? (Score:4, Informative)
DVD of series one will be available 14Feb06. go to CBC Dr Who and follow links on right.
What about the old stuff? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://amongthechosen.com/)
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.
Dr Who Porn (Score:5, Funny)
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how nice of them (Score:2, Informative)
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i regularly listen to a stream that has low audio levels, so when i clikced on that link i was blasted by whatever cr?p they were playing.
guess i'll not be finding out about whatever this is from the bbc.
feh
'Sold' to the United States (Score:3, Insightful)
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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.
What I want to know... (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:What I want to know... (Score:4, Funny)
- I dunno, who's on Sci-Fi?
- No, I'm saying Who's on Sci-Fi.
- And I'm saying I don't know!
- No, I mean Doctor Who's on Sci-Fi.
- Who are you talking to? There's no doctor here.
- No, I mean the doctor.
- Doctor? Doctor who?
- Exactly.
- No, I'm asking, who is the Doctor?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, what? I'm asking you.
- Doctor Who?
- Yeah, tell me.
- I told you before, that Doctor Who's on Sci-Fi
- That doctor is on Sci-Fi? Who is the doctor on Sci-Fi?
- Yeah. You've got it right, now.
- But I still don't know who is the doctor on Sci-Fi and frankly I don't care who the doctor is on Sci-Fi. Let's watch the news.
- Watt's on the news.
- NOW DON'T YOU START THAT SHIT
Re:What I want to know... (Score:4, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_On_First [wikipedia.org] Who's On First?
oh really? (Score:2, Funny)
Again. SCI-FI and BBC miss the mark (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
New Who is Pretty Good (Score:4, Informative)
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Eccleston lends his own interpretation to the role, as have all the performers before him, but the resulting character is unmistakably The Doctor. Further, his companion, Rose, is not a ditz (don't let the peroxided hair fool you), but a very capable and driven person in her own right.
They also bring back some old enemies, and they do it very well. You'd think after nearly 40 years, the whole Dalek thing would be worn out. You'd be wrong. With just the tiniest bit of imagination from the series creators, Daleks are damn threatening again. And they don't do it with an excess of outright brutality or graphic violence, just a single-minded, unstoppable efficiency.
About the only thing I don't like about the new series is the newly designed TARDIS. It's too unfamiliar.
Hopefully the SciFi network won't wreck the show by inserting endless commercial breaks. But if you're a Doctor Who fan and you haven't seen these shows yet, you won't be disappointed.
Schwab
K9 is back in new series... (Score:2, Informative)
I have seen BBC trailers that show K9!
And he (she? it?)better be on there or else I'm demanding my license fee back http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/ [bbc.co.uk]
Monsters! SPOILERS (Score:2)
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You guys are going to love the one with the monsters circling the church. Or the skin lady. Or the elephant nose guys.
Brief review of Doctor Who 2005 season (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.ibiblio.org/TH/)
The overall biggest change for me was he pacing of the stories is much, much faster, however, and it took a bit of getting used to. For me, I found the stories closest to old Doctor Who series were "The Unquiet Dead" and "The Christmas Invasion". Aside from the "Christmas Invasion", which is the last story in the 2005 season, the shows are a lot shorter, only 45 minutes.
Technobable is kept relatively low and the acting is first rate. The F/X are what you'd expect from a sci-fi television show today and are mostly first rate. Gone are the days of wobbly sets, but the actor-in-rubber-suit monsters still come and go. Some of the old monsters are back too -- Autons and Daleks.
The series pretty much focuses in on present-day Earth in England. The Doctor and Rose, his new companion, make jaunts to the past and future, but never leave the Earth far behind. There is a bit more "touchy-feely" type stuff than classic Doctor Who, but it thankfully doesn't reach the "soap opera" level.
All in all it was an enjoyable romp through the Whoniverse. It's about time someone in the USA picked up the series.
8th Doctor on DVD (Score:2)
(http://feneric.blogspot.com/)
Hmmm... if the BBC and the SciFi Network are on good terms now, perhaps they can agree to release the lone 8th Doctor [bbc.co.uk] story (sometimes known as The Enemy Within and sometimes less fortunately as The TV Movie) on DVD in the U.S.
The BBC did a non-US release years ago, but since the SciFi Network inherited the distribution rights in the US, there's never been a US release.
iTunes Download? (Score:3, Interesting)
Could someone explain this show to me? (Score:1)
Dr. Who? (Score:1)
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You're going to remind us again, right? (Score:1)
March is just too far off for me to remember.
The DVD Box Set is available Now (Score:2, Informative)
Now, I live in Region 1. If I ordered the region 2 DVD from BBCShop, would I be breaking the law? Would they even sell it to me? I actually prefer the Region 2 625/50 PAL DVDs over the 525/60 NTSC Region 1 DVDs since they are higher resolution.
Too bad they are not making 720p or 1080i High Definition versions available. The Hi Def version will probably be available in another year or two, forcing me to buy a second copy if I purchase the Standard Definition version now. I think I'll just make do with the XVID downloads until the Hi Def DVD version becomes available. Hopefully, the DVD writable media will last till then.
"first season" eh? (Score:2)
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er... wasn't the *first* season aired sometime in 1963, and had William Hartnell as the Doctor [bbc.co.uk]?
history, schmistory...
Dr Who on iTunes? (Score:1)
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