The Dr Who thread

anon76235 · Post by **anon76235** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:27 pm 0

The BBC press office have released details of programmes airing week commencing 21st April including the fourth episode of Doctor Who's third series - Daleks In Manhattan.

"It's Thirties New York and, in the midst of the Depression, people are disappearing off the streets, as Russell T Davies's Doctor Who continues.

Savage Pig Men hide in the sewers and, at the very top of the Empire State Building, the Doctor's oldest enemies are at work, preparing their most audacious plan yet.

David Tennant stars as the Doctor and Freema Agyeman plays his new companion, Martha Jones. Miranda Raison and Ryan Carnes guest star."

The episode is currently scheduled to air at the slightly earlier time of 6.50-7.40pm.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:41 pm 0

So. That's 40 minutes late this week. 10 minutes early next week. They really need to stick it on another day. It'll be clashing with Eurovision soon too.

piku · Post by **piku** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:59 pm 0

Daleks?

AGAIN?!

How many times can the Doctor kill them off, wipe them out and then mysteriously find some more?

The eradication of the Timelord species was much more efficient.

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:11 pm 0

piku wrote:Daleks?
AGAIN?!
How many times can the Doctor kill them off, wipe them out and then mysteriously find some more?

"Mysteriously"? We saw the black one and some others escape being sucked into the void at the end of last season.

There will not be any Daleks next season as DW only managed to secure the rights for three years.

piku wrote:The eradication of the Timelord species was much more efficient.

Hold that thought.

Edit: I wonder if the Face of Boe has given birth to his offspring yet.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:10 pm 0

Harlequin wrote:There will not be any Daleks next season as DW only managed to secure the rights for three years.

Assuming the Nation Estate aren't hammering on the BBCs door offering all kinds of deals.

Edit: I wonder if the Face of Boe has given birth to his offspring yet.

Had them ages ago. Already dead. Boekind only live for about 50 years. The Face of Boe is a bit of an oddity.

amanset · Post by **amanset** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:23 pm 0

HGFB wrote: Assuming the Nation Estate aren't hammering on the BBCs door offering all kinds of deals.

My thoughts exactly. If the new Who had been shit then there wouldn't have been much of a chance, but with it being a runaway success and merchandising being very successful they'd be mental not to try and negotiate something with the BBC.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:06 pm 0

F-ZeroOne wrote:
Flabio wrote:But what exactly are they supposed to do here? The BBC has a public remit to show a certain amount of live sport, they're accountable to the government on that issue.

Buit if football didn't exist, then the BBC wouldn't have the problem.

From next season, Football doesn't exist on BBC1 so don't worry

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:08 pm 0

goatboy wrote:From next season, Football doesn't exist on BBC1 so don't worry

It's the season after I thought.

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:09 pm 0

Harlequin wrote:"Mysteriously"? We saw the black one and some others escape being sucked into the void at the end of last season.

Others? I remember The Black Dalek doing an 'emergency temporal shift' but I don't remember any others escaping?

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:23 pm 0

Flabio wrote:
goatboy wrote:From next season, Football doesn't exist on BBC1 so don't worry
It's the season after I thought.

Well, maybe they could adjust the schedule. They're good at that.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:40 am 0

I just rewatched Smith and Jones.

Some observations:

- Mr. Saxon believes in aliens so it seems from the radio interview Martha is listening to.
- The Doctor has a remote control for the Tardis, given that the Tardis faded away instantly after he closed the door. All that fooling around with the bicycle pump, those wheels and the levers is just show for the companians benefit. It takes roughly 10-20 secs for the Tardis to start fading away when done that way being that he first has to walk to the central console and then start operating those "controls". Probably the sonic screwdriver doubles as a remote.
- The Tardis feels like its made of wood, but weren't the original blue police boxes made out of concrete?

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:29 am 0

DutchLlama wrote:- Mr. Saxon believes in aliens so it seems from the radio interview Martha is listening to.

According to Martha's blog, there was an incident within the last few years involving "Saxon shooting down that big alien deathstar thing".

Actually it's a little confusing, as it also mentions the Cybermen incident, which I thought happened in our future.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:36 am 0

Doctor Who present day has been at least a year advanced from ours since Series 1 episode 4. It's entirely possible that they've added another couple since then.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that Who Earth history mirrors ours (With added aliens). It doesn't and never has. It's always close but never exact. The slight jump forward just helps exagerate that a little. Who Earth has a Britsh Space program remember (British Rocket Group. God Bless Quatermass)

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:13 pm 0

The final ratings for Smith and Jones are out

Figures released by BARB make Episode One of the new series the ninth most watched programme of the week with an official rating of 8.71 Million viewers.

As in the overnight figures the programme was only beaten by the soap giants Coronation Street and Eastenders.

On BBC1 the programme was the 4th most watched, beating an episode of Eastenders.

Final figures are much more accurate than the initial overnights and include figures for those who taped the programme and watched it within seven days.

http://www.gallifreyone.com/news.php#ne ... kZxBszUKse

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:50 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Doctor Who present day has been at least a year advanced from ours since Series 1 episode 4. It's entirely possible that they've added another couple since then.

The Martha blog is dated present-day, though.