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It was a cold and rainy evening here, perfect for a spooky Halloween but horrible for the little trick or treaters.  While we don’t get a lot of the little weeners here because we live “in the country” we usually get 10 or so. Tonight we had a total of 2 kids begging for candy. One was a scary Micheal Myers  and the other was an 80s girl c…[Read more]

Power of the Doctor

So, Chibnall awakes from the torpor of series 11 & 12. He’s got the (actually quite vindictive) trashing of Moff’s continuity out of the way and created his very own metaphor for the new streaming villains (t’floox). It’s all a bit kerrazy but sometimes acceptable. Not particularly elegant. But certainly not teeth grindin…[Read more]

@whohar @janetteb

Anyone got the low down on Tony Jordan? Obviously there was someone of the same name involved in Life on Mars… not saying there’s necessarily any jockeying for position or strange briefings going on but…

Also… Piers Wenger took over from Ben Stephenson a year after he left in 2015. Stephenson got a lot of flack from the right w…[Read more]

@whohar thanks for the link. It sounds as though the 26 Yule special might be RTD’s swansong. I expect there will be big announcements next year, new partnership,new show-runner new Doctor. Fingers crossed they chose well and realise that it takes more than just a big budget to make good Dr Who.

cheers

Janette

Deadline article on the BBC and D+ fallout.

https://deadline.com/2025/10/why-disney-ditched-doctor-bbc-1236601181/

@iskrat
Well you SAY that. I think three 2,000 word essays are required on each of the show’s many dubious but variedvincarnations. Then… and only then… may you buy me a pint.

Nah… I’m a breather… Well, for now, at least.

@iskrat

Oo r yer oo r yer oor yer oo r yer?

c’along iskrat! You turn up unannounced and disturb my good friend’s generally colonial rest! 4 would call that rude.

Merely a Culture War Bot I suspect. There IS no one out there…

If anyone’s fault it’s The Corp but they’ve only been played like us all. Though they inflicted Chib on us…

How to n…[Read more]

Meanwhile, in The Grauniad:

Doctor Who lives on! But who will be the new Time Lord – and is it goodbye to Russell T Davies? | Doctor Who | The Guardian

@translatorcircuit @dentarthurdent

Happy that we have a show. Quite happy that misinformation stirred up all the trolls and bots. Not that it had that much effect on the ‘where’s the bloke luv?’ brigade.

It IS a long gap. Just realised that 2026 is not just the anniversary of Deadly Assassin and Ultimate Foe but of the first regener…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit    I tend to agree with you that goblins and babies are better left to fantasy.

But ’73 yards’?   Lighten up.  I assume you’re in the UK (correct me if I’m wrong) but don’t they still use Miles?   I’m in New Zealand, we went metric 40 years ago but I’m still bilingual (or should that be binumeral?).   The US and Canada st…[Read more]

I hate this latest plan of a FOURTEEN MONTH GAP until the next Doctor Who episode! I wonder if the World might end or I might die before then. I hope other people on here understand how I feel.

Also, I don’t think Russell T Davies should be allowed to write the Christmas Special for 2026, because he’s made enough mess already! His writing was…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @camdudetenger2018 @translatorcircuit

@ps1l0v3y0u

Who out there could really shake it up? Don’t have to be a fan

I think not being a fan should be in the job description for the next showrunner or, at least, someone who’s not been involved in the show before. Someone who is sympathetic but not overly in thrall of continuity. I don…[Read more]

there are so many theorys now about doctor who 2005 season 16 post disney era like what will happen to the show now who is now the new doctor and does rose really return

@dentarthurdent

Chris Boucher… long time since I’ve seen Blake’s Seven, so I shouldn’t really comment… the dystopian background was refreshing but ‘we’ve found an amazing derelict spaceship’ was dumb.

Chris’ contribution to Who is ‘Face of Evil’ which introduced Leela, ‘Robots of Death,’ exhibiting a Mary Poppins level of perfection, and lastly…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @camdudetenger2018 @translatorcircuit @whohar

major points

1. BP… short term fix? Then why the bi generation? And how did Ecclestone know? It was coming.

2. Did the BBC NEED a streaming partner in the first place? I’ve theorised it was a long term ambition… starting 2015. Maybe they now realise they c*cked up. Or they hope the s…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @camdudetenger2018 @translatorcircuit  @ps1l0v3y0u

‘Going nowhere’ – what a curiously ambiguous turn of phrase

Yes agreed. I think a previous post actually said “Rest assured, the TARDIS is going nowhere” which is even better / worse.

@camdudetenger2018    Yeah, see the link in Translatorcircuit’s post.

@translatorcircuit  @ps1l0v3y0u  @whohar

“However, Kate Phillips, chief content officer at the BBC, previously said the show will continue on the BBC “with or without” Disney.   She said at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival: “Any Whovians out there, rest assured – Doctor W…[Read more]