Doctor Who (2018 onwards)

That's odd. An American thing I assume?

Initially, I thought this would be for the West Coast audience. However, even for the East Coast it was shown at 13:45, which isn't prime time. At 10:45 on a Sunday morning for the West Coast, that was even worse.


I don't blame them for trying to rebroadcast it to capture a larger audience.

The last two series of the classic version (i.e. most of McCoy’s run) had only one interior TARDIS scene as the set had been damaged whilst in storage. In the one scene where it did appear they conveniently had the lights down for some plot reason.

Not quite - as well as the aforementioned scene from Battlefield, there was also a normally-lit console room scene in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy in the season before. So presumably the damage happened between filming for season 25 and season 26.

No plot reason was given for the darkness - the Doctor more or less just shrugs off the question when Ace asks why it's so dark.

Now here's an oddity: last night's episode doesn't seem to have been broadcast in 5.1 surround sound, which I'm pretty sure it always has been since it went HD. Does anyone know any different?

I know some actors don't stick around for too long for fear of typecasting, but in a weird way I couldn't shake the feeling of The Chase every time Bradley was on screen, to the extent when the monster took his mask off I was half expecting Shaun Wallace to be underneath!

I don't see Graham I just see Bradley Walsh in alien situations lol

Bradders Bangers (on his insta) is hilarious. Genious casting.

As I've only watched Bradley Walsh in The Chase for 30 seconds, I don't have the game show comparisons to make about him.

ITV have spoiler scheduled Celebrity Chase against Doctor Who next week, and no, it's not a repeat. So Bradley Walsh will be on two channels at the same time!

If only there were catchup services or timeshifted channels.

I think Bradley Walsh is one of the great things about the new series. In my opinion, he's a genuinely talented actor and it's good to see him in this capacity again. I think it's too early to say that I see him as his character since we've only had an hour of him playing Graham.

Think the first episode was very well done. Jodie fits the role and many of her mannerism and lines are for me reminiscent of 10. I would say I think the episode as a whole felt more like Torchwood than Doctor Who.

Visually, it looked fantastic. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of series not least the new titles and of course hearing some more of what seems like a really nice rendition of the theme.

Having rewatched all nu-who post-regeneration debut episodes since The Woman Who Fell To Earth, it has surprised me how unimpressive Capaldi's was. I think Jodie's debut is on par with The Christmas Invasion and is equally as good. The Eleventh Hour is okay but somewhat lacklustre by comparison.

Saw a lot of criticism of this on Twitter but to be fair to ITV, Celebrity Chase has been in that timeslot running into the X Factor results show for years now. If it works for them should they be obliged to move it?