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Why Will The New DR. WHO Rule Real Hard'
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Read and you shall see...
This is a couple of days old but I haven't seen it on your site. You guys may have already heard but just don't care. I kind of get the impression you guys don't like Doctor Who .... anyways the latest news
Bryan Hitch has been hired as the concept artist on Doctor Who. He is in charge of the 'signature look' of the new series. Bryan Hitch is the man behind titles such as The Authority and The Ultimates. He has also done the art on numerous other comics including JLA.
For more detailed news you can link to OUTPOST GALLIFREY right here.I’ll admit. I’m not a big DR. WHO fan, but I know you guys are out there. We get enough mail about the property. And it certainly sounds like they’re going out of their way to make this latest revival something special. Hitch is an amazing artist, and I look forward to seeing his designs realized onscreen, even if it’s just the small screen.
"Moriarty" out.
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Whilst the new show seems to be shaping up nicely, our US cousins should lower their expectations a little. Even with a bigger budget than usual the mark will no doubt fall well short of what is put into a US tv show. It should rock by UK expectations though!
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It's really hard for younger people to get past the cheap sets and special effects. Plus, the use of video doesn't help. But those of us who grew up watching Doctor Who know that the scripts were for the most part really well written, and had some terrific actors working on the show. The scope of the series was much wider than the original Star Trek, and while TNG may reign supreme in terms of character development and "human" issues, Who's movement through space AND time allowed it to do many more things creatively. If the new show's half as good as the old one, we're in for a treat. Whether the U.S. will give it a chance after that abysmal TV movie is another thing.
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Dr. Who is liked *because* it is different. It's an interesting and uniquely non-American property. My "this is gonna be good sensors" are tingling, but only time will tell...
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While I enjoy all news concerning the latest incarnation of the Doctor the only thing I find myself caring about lately is...When and how will it be seen in the US??? On BBC America? DVD? PBS? How? When? Tell me now! Arrgh!
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Jun 07, 2004 5:25:18 AM CDT
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by robinp
The big news for me is that the makers have reached an agreement with Terry Nation's estate paving the way for the return of the Daleks. Yay !
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they should team him up with a writer and get a Dr Who comic going as well.
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Now, if only the rumor that Slipknot of all bands is doing the theme song DOESN'T hold up, I'll be extremely happy with the direction that the new Doctor Who series is going.
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Jun 07, 2004 3:07:11 PM CDT
I just read something that fans of Doctor Who and Harry's Max He
by grillskill
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It's a TV show funded and produced in the UK by the BBC. Would have absolutely no relation in any way whatsoever with a studio produced film in America.
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Anthony Ainley died last month. WTF Herc, doesn't that rate a Coaxial item? Found it out completely by accident when AICN was frozen as usual, and randomly googled Dr. Who news sites.
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Why re do the theme tune when Orbital have been doing a kick ass version live for years, and finally got round to sticking it on an ablum a few years ago (The Altogether).
Those initial bass rumbles at the start still send me hurtling back to my childhood, and when the Theremin kicks in, ooh tingles all down my spine.
Lets just pray they get it right. After all the simple thing would have been to re hash old scripts with a DECENT budget. But sadly, as noted before, while we get the cracking Sci Fi in script terms, the production just can't live up to the kind of money thrown at US TV shows.... -
Christopher Eccelston as the Doc is a stroke of genius. He has been amazing in BBC and ITV (British T.V) Drama's and shouldn't be judged on his poor showing in 28Days Later.
Billie Piper as the Doc's assistant, Rose, is a *BAD IDEA*. This is the girl who's pop career went from worse to worse and in an escape married Chris Evans (A multi millionaire and all together irratating twat). She has featured on Grange Hill and The Bill I think....poor choice! -
Billie Piper was in one of the BBCs Canterbury Tales adaptions and another one off drama and she was actually very good in both.
I think once you get past the awful songs and the Chris Evans thing she is actually a very good actress, and besides she looks right for the part of the Docs imperilled sidekick. So far I reckon that they have got the casting spot on. And with one of the League of Gentleman writing for it as well, a fair chance for some very dark comedy....
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I used to watch Doctor Who when it used to play here (the U.S.) on Saturday afternoons on public television. They also used to play "Blake's 7" but that was real early on Saturday mornings. Anyone here have a favorite Doctor? Mine was Tom Baker.
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Jun 08, 2004 10:10:10 AM CDT
Anyone who has seen Hitch's work on THE AUTHORITY and JLA: HEAVE
by spyguy
As long as there's a hexagonical control station with a central column that moves up and down, I can't wait to see his designs for the TARDIS interior. The problem is, Hitch's designs usually work for projects with an INDEPENDENCE DAY-style budget, not a BBC budget. As for where the new DOCTOR WHO series will air here in the States, www.gallifreyone.com reports that no decision has been made yet, only that it won't air on friggin' PBS stations. (Man, I hated those annoying pledge breaks...) Me, I'm hoping it lands on A&E or Bravo so I don't have to spring for BBC America...
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... better than star wars or star trek? i dont think so.
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Firefly has enough money, I think they said the budget was 60 million dollars.
Give Doctor Who a break, they did wonders with a shoestring budget for nearly 30 years, and some of the episodes were pretty cool. Imagine what they would do with half of the Star Trek Enterprise budget.
Dr. Who seserves to come back more than Battlestar Galactica did, althou Sci-fi did a excellent job with the Galactica remake, it kind of made me almost forget the original. -
Here in the US PBS ran some Dr. Who episodes during the 80s-90s. All we ever saw were Drs. #4,5, and 6. I never got to see any episodes with Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee or the last one. When the SciFi channel started they showed scenes of various shows that were gonna be in the lineup at the startup of the SciFi channel and one they showed was Dr. Who. But the show never made it into the lineup. About 3 years ago I complained to the SciFi channel that they run all kinds of crap but never had Dr. Who. One of the execs at the SciFi Channel wrote and told me that they could not get the rights to show Dr. Who on their channel. They said that the BBC was very aggressive regarding the rights to Dr. Who and wanted such a huge fee for the channel to show Dr. Who that SciFi had to pass on it. As an american that loves the Doctor it was never about the amount spent on the episodes but the writing and acting. Doctor Who was and still is a great show. Hopefully we will get a chance to see the new show when it comes out.
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Hopefully they'll erase some of the damage the FOX movie did, like having the Doctor be half human, making out with his companion, and having a tardis full of granfather clocks.
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Many PBS stations showed all of the Doctor Who episodes (the ones currently existing that is, since many of the early ones were destroyed by the BBC along with much of their TV archives back in the early '70s). There were two stations in my area growing up which showed it for a while, the better one started off in '77 or thereabouts with Tom Baker's stories and gradually began showing his predecessor (Jon Pertwee) and then Peter Davison and then around the time Colin Baker took over they went all the way back to the first Doctor and ran straight through the entire series. But BBC Worldwide in its infinite wisdom, er, greed, did price the show out of reach for most stations.
As for the Slipknot rumor, it is just that; a rumor. Check www.gallifreyone.com/newseriesfaq.php
for a pile of info on the series, including what the new theme will be like. I've been a fan since I was about seven (I'm now 33) and from everything I've read the new series will be just what I've been hoping for since it went off the air in 1989. All I can say, is they'd better be getting the series to TV or DVD Stateside ASAP. Hell, I doubt I'll have the patience and I'll just order the region 2 DVDs from Blackstar like I just did with the uberclassic Who story Pyramids of Mars. SO nice to see it in episode format with cliffhangers again! -----> Lynxpro, I don't know if you picked up the Ancestor Cell yet (the Doctor Who novel I recommended to you a while back on a different talkback) but I meant to mention you should try to pick up the following books first so you have some idea what is going on: Alien Bodies, Interference books 1 & 2, Shadows of Avalon. In that order. There are quite a few others well worth reading, (especially any by Jon Blum & Kate Orman), but I think those are the ones you really need to set up certain elements of Ancestor Cell I won't go into (major major spoilers for the BBC Book line). -
For those of you who don't mind delving in the the murky world of Newsgroups, check out alt.binaries.drwho - every episode in existence gets posted on about a two or three month cycle, as well as the new Dr Who audios from Big Finish. A lot of the "lost" episodes are available as well in audio or telesnap format.
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No Daleks in Doctor Who's return
The Daleks were voted television's most evil villains
The BBC has confirmed the Daleks will not appear in its new Doctor Who series after a failure to agree terms.
Talks between the BBC and the estate of late sci-fi writer Terry Nation, who created the Daleks, broke down over issues of editorial control.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "After lengthy negotiations, the BBC and Terry Nation have been unable to reach an agreement on the terms of the use of the Daleks."
The metal monsters were voted TV's most evil villains in a poll last year.
We are disappointed that the Daleks will not be included but we have a number of new and exciting monsters
Fans had hoped to see the Daleks' return in the series, scheduled for release on BBC One in early 2005, but feared copyright issues might stand in the way.
The BBC spokeswoman said: "The BBC offered the very best deal possible but ultimately we were not able to give the level of editorial influence that the Terry Nation estate wished to have."
Writer Russell T Davies said he was "disappointed" by the decision but it would not affect the success of the series.
He said: "We are reinventing Doctor Who for a 21st Century audience with a fantastic writing team and exciting new challenges.
"We are disappointed that the Daleks will not be included but we have a number of new and exciting monsters.
"And I can confirm we have created a new enemy for the Doctor which will keep viewers on the edge of their seats."
As Doctor Who's sworn enemies, the Daleks were voted the most evil villains on television in a vote by more than 3,000 GMTV viewers in 2003.
Christopher Eccleston, star of films like Shallow Grave and The Others, has been confirmed as the new Doctor Who.
Former pop star Billie Piper has been chosen to play his sidekick Rose Tyler.
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