A Sixth Doctor audio drama with Michael Grade as the villain seems oddly appropriate.
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I would pay real money to listen to that.
I could almost see it happening, but not quite as blatant as using real people's names. Maybe the 6th Doctor could visit Earth in the 80s and find out its essential to save a TV show (maybe called Mr. Mystery, or Doctor Enigma, or something like that) because some warlike alien species is only not invading Earth because they love the show. But, an evil TV executive (better to not mention the BBC, I think) hates the show for no good reason and is trying to get it cancelled.
So, the 6th Doctor teams up with the star of the show (a guy with a name like Cody Farmer or Casey Cooker), also voiced by Colin Baker (he'd be described as a 6th Doctor doppelganger, like Salamander and the 2nd Doctor but without the racist face makeup) to save the show, possibly by rallying the fans and/or finding out some dark secret of the evil TV executive. It would probably be a bit more comedic then action packed, have in jokes and references to the real people/events but no specific names, and end on a happy note with the show being saved.
I don't like Big Finish, but I'd definitely listen to a story like that.
I could see Jonathon Morris or Matt Fitton writing that. Just, um, keep Nichols Briggs away from it (at least the script). 
A comedic adventure for the Sixth Doctor around television as been done, with Beep the Meep, called The Ratings War. It was on a free CD with Doctor Who Magazine but it doesn't appear to be on Big Finish's SoundCloud page. It's available on their site as a download, though, for free (account needed).
If you can get your hands on the CD, it has the full Beep the Meep song heard in the story. A vicious, hilarious take on It's a Small World After All.
If you can get your hands on the CD, it has the full Beep the Meep song heard in the story. A vicious, hilarious take on It's a Small World After All.
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Today's BBC Advent Calendar update is a trailer for the special. Nothing particularly new or interesting, but what the hell? A trailer is a trailer.
It's not very interesting, is it? It also looks very cheap.
I'm glad it's not just me thinking that. Whatever else can be said about the last Series it looked great but all the clips I've seen so far look pretty poor.
Understandable. A single special not attached to a season isn't going to have much of a budget. Still, not a good impression for the only Doctor Who episode of the year to make.
Okaaaaaaaayyyyy...
The 3 minute clip of the Doctor and the Lois Lane analogue in the skyscraper, culminating in the appearance of the Ghost, didn't look bad. It wasn't particularly involving, but it didn't look bad.
The flight stuff in this trailer looked very poor.
I wasn't expecting Supergirl-quality; I know the BBC doesn't have that kind of money to throw around.
But beyond the dodgy effects work, the trailer is incredibly dull. Random people repeating "Doctor" over and over isn't a great hook. For that matter, there really isn't a hook. If you weren't already a Doctor Who fan who would watch the episode anyway, there's nothing in this trailer that would make you want to tune in.
Ah, yeah, I had forgotten about it. It was a pretty light and short story. Nothing bad mind you, but fairly forgettable. But it's also my only experience with Beep the Meep so I don't have any prior emotional connection with the character.
Yeah, the trailer felt like an incoherent mish-mash of clips that didn't really add up to anything. I was quite bored by it.
The premiere screening was tonight at the BFI. Katy Manning loved it.
Yeah....there's no way I believe that hyperbole.
I'm not passing judgment on Manning's review, merely noting that it exists. 
Which means that other reviews may be forthcoming, now that the special has been seen in the wild.
Which means that other reviews may be forthcoming, now that the special has been seen in the wild.
Den of Geek's spoiler-free review is up and the verdict sounds positive!
I'm pretty sure they've never given a bad review to any episode.
It's OK, we still have your relentless negativity to balance it out.
