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2006 Series - WARNING: May contain spoilers (April 2006)

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tightrope78
Rob Del Monte posted:
I think shows get worse when they get popular. The writters become slightly cocky. Russel T. Davis, is a brilliant writter, but I think the current two havn't been so good. The plots havn't been clearly explained. I hope the next episode is good.

Sort of like how he managed the second series of 'Queer as Folk'. The first series was brilliant, and an unexpected hit. He just ruined the second series. almost on a whim, thought he could get away with making the viewer believe anything.
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Johnny83
Just watched it & IMHO it was a great episode, the chase scenes were brilliant. I think David Tennant is a great Doctor. It's wrong really to compare him to Eccelstone.

Nice also to see that the BBC Three announcer DIDN'T talk over the credits so they could be heard completely without ANY whittering on Very Happy
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Bail Moderator
Asa posted:
Can't say I've been particularly impressed with the first two to be honest. Today's was better than last weeks but there's something still not quite right IMO, and it's not just the fact it's a new doctor.

I'm not keen on Russell T Davies style they're all the same: Something back happens, 5 mins before the end it magically gets fixed/goes away. The daleks vanish, The cure for the zombes works instantly, The moon beam is ready just as the wolf enters. It far to "and then we won" nothing ever goes wrong, or the Doctor even having to do anything remotely clever anymore...

I think there should be a huge team of writers behind Dr Who, not just 2 or 3.
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Neil__
Bail posted:
I think there should be a huge team of writers behind Dr Who, not just 2 or 3.


For reference, there are 7 writers for this series:
RTD
Toby Whitehouse (ep 3)
Steven Moffat (ep4)
Tom McRae (eps 5+6)
Mark Gatiss (ep 7)
Matt Jones (eps 8+9)
Matthew Graham (ep 11)
MI
Michael
Sorry but I fell asleep in this ep, don't know why. Yawn.
LO
LONDON
Jane Hill's a fan. She just said on News 24, while talking about the BBC cutbacks to drama, "as long as Doctor Who is safe we will be happy."
PT
Put The Telly On
Which episode is Peter Kay in?
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Psythor
Has anyone else seen this [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4939144.stm]other new Doctor Who spin-off[/ur[]?

Aparently it's going to be on Jetix, so me tedious question is: assuming the BBC own the rights to the Doctor Who brand, why have they licensed it to a "rival" children's channel? Why would they agree to something like this when they've got their own kids channel to fill with programming?
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davidhorman
The BBC don't own the rights to K9 - his creators do. They (the Beeb) were given an option on this show, but they passed.

David
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Neil__
I suspect K9 is owned by Bob Baker, much as the Daleks are owned by Terry Nation (or rather his estate) and (I think) the Cyberman are owned by Gerry Davis, rather than the BBC. This gives the creator/owners more control over how they can be used.
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cylon6
nok32uk posted:
Which episode is Peter Kay in?


The one called Love and Monsters which I think is episode 10.
NU
The Nurse
Johnny83 posted:
Nice also to see that the BBC Three announcer DIDN'T talk over the credits so they could be heard completely without ANY whittering on Very Happy


Indeed, also they rather kindly removed the DOG too, are BBC3 starting to do this more nowadays?

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