DOCTOR WHO

[Deuce Bigolo]

Likewise Caractacus...Re-RUNS of Dr Poo are enough for me

cheers
B....OZ

[chapel]

Try using Winmx to download it. A p2p but unlike Kazaa no shitty spyware. As for the new doctor who, where the fucks the million an episode coming from or indeed going to? To me this whole things sounded like an cop out to save them buying the rights to imported sci fi and just churn out cheap tat as usual from the start.

[chatterji]

I wish to fuck that more people in the film and TV industry had your attitude.

I write for a living, and I've never understood why actors, directors, and producers, in the film world, get paid so much more than the person who's conceived the idea and made it live. They're just interpreting, or organising, someone else's creativity. Often the actors have nothing to add to the process, but because they're 'faces' they get the biggest wedge.

T.V. is slightly different. So much crap is made because writers are forced to write vehicles for 'stars', or some producer has come up with a 'project' that a writer subsequently develops for them. It's all very Nathan Barley.

Rant over.

[steve56]

mc coy was the worst dr who;tom baker was the most believeable.

[Deuce Bigolo]

It just stands to reason that good writing determines wether a series has longterm success or not

Sure you need evrything else to be of a high standard but without the base
its bound to fail no matter which big name celebs come through the door

Plenty of examples of bad writing that overpaid actors have accepted just for the money

You can see the signs of shows with bad writing clearly
Over reliance on sex & violence ie...The Bill
Inevitably you end up going down a one way alley

I'd expect if Dr Who doesn't rate straight away then the above(God Forbid) will probbaly enter the plot

cheers
B....OZ

[Lizard]

My Lawers are watching, anyway why cant there be a Scottish Dr Mc Who!

[Deuce Bigolo]

So a lawer is an understudy to a lawyer?

A Scottish Dr Who.....thered be a name change within an episode I'd expect...for marketing puposes...Dr W.H.O. Mc Donald

Great marketing chance and those golden arches are just screaming out to be the Dr Who Logo

cheers
B....OZ

[The Last Word]

Deuce Bigolo wrote:

> It just stands to reason that good writing determines wether a series has longterm success or not

Maybe true, but that only comes after the initial short term success, and there's been many well-written series that have failed this first hurdle due to being pitched wrongly, scheduled badly etc.

The one problem I can see with Who is that they are trying to aim the show at its original core audience, i.e. both children and adults, which it achieved pretty much by accident. Surely there is an enormous audience already waiting who are entirely grown-up now, so why bother with the kiddies (to whom Who means nothing) and risk an imbalanced show that satisfies no-one? Let's hope they've taken a leaf out of the American's book - whenever they get a crossover escapist hit they play it with an admirably straight bat - Star Trek etc. However, the news that the new Who 'plays it for laughs' at times has me dreading it, frankly. We'll have to wait and see.

(Personally I would've liked to have seen Who taken in a darker, classier direction - a bit like the late seventies Quatermass perhaps).

[Hitman]

There will be a Dr Who cast reunion at Collectormania 7:-


Also some Dr Who guests at Memorabilia:-


For those interested.