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The Whoniverse comes to iPlayer Nov 1st

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Rich Watson

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Well Russell did it again; he said all of Doctor Who who should be on iPlayer and from the start of November it will be* including all the spin-offs and Confidential (with all the original music) . They even have the TVM and Miracle Day which must have taken some work.

They're also going to be uploading a massive amount of rare audio, clips, photos and documentation to the official website.

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-f...who-programming-will-be-coming-to-bbc-iplayer

*Almost. Be interesting to see what doesn't make it. Anthony Coburn's son has been claiming he's withdrawn the rights to screen "An Unearthly Child".
 
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Rich Watson said:
Well Russell did it again; he said all of Doctor Who who should be on iPlayer and from the start of November it will be* including all the spin-offs and Confidential (with all the original music) . They even have the TVM and Miracle Day which must have taken some work.

They're also going to be uploading a massive amount of rare audio, clips, photos and documentation to the official website.

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-f...who-programming-will-be-coming-to-bbc-iplayer

*Almost. Be interesting to see what doesn't make it. Anthony Coburn's son has been claiming he's withdrawn the rights to screen "An Unearthly Child".
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I wonder whether Coburn jnr has any legal rights.
 
diankra said:
I wonder whether Coburn jnr has any legal rights.
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He has held up the release of a new audiobook novelisation of 'An Unearthly Child' read by William Russell for years. If fact I think it was originally due to come out during the 50th celebrations.
 
Just out of curiosity, where can Who be watched now outside of the UK? Disney+ in America but apparently it's not coming to Disney+ everywhere.
 
Disney+ is the home for new episodes everywhere in the world except the UK and Ireland. It doesn’t sound like Disney has any rights to prior seasons currently, so those will presumably remain where they are (in the US, it’s BritBox for 1963-1989 and Max for 2005-2022).
 
Anthony Coburn's son has been fighting with Ian Levine on Twitter (the rare contest where you don't want anyone to win) and it really does look like he's managed to block any future release of "An Unearthly Child". I'm hoping the very first episode falls outside his control, since the BBC own everything in it.

If you don't have it on DVD, it's out of print individually but I think "The Beginning" box set is still available.
 
diankra said:
I wonder whether Coburn jnr has any legal rights.
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He claims on Twitter that he refused the BBC permission, that the money they offered him was insufficient, and what the BBC did in the 1970s killed his father. (I'm not going to link to his Twitter profile.) Ian Levine is predictably moaning at the awful unfairness of it.

Rich Watson said:
Anthony Coburn's son has been fighting with Ian Levine on Twitter (the rare contest where you don't want anyone to win) and it really does look like he's managed to block any future release of "An Unearthly Child". I'm hoping the very first episode falls outside his control, since the BBC own everything in it.
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I did a retweet reply to Ian, which he ignored. If the son has some sort of legal right (I'm presuming through copyright), and the BBC doesn't meet his price, that's not the tragedy Ian claims it is. That's the way the law works. Money in the streaming era is exactly what WGA and SAG-AFTRA went on strike over.
 
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I did a retweet reply to Ian, which he ignored. If the son has some sort of legal right (I'm presuming through copyright), and the BBC doesn't meet his price, that's not the tragedy Ian claims it is. That's the way the law works. Money in the streaming era is exactly what WGA and SAG-AFTRA went on strike over.
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Well except he says he's doing it for "vengeance" against the BBC and it's not about the money.

And there's more than a hint from him that this attitude has been inflamed by the casting of a woman and then a black man as the Doctor.
 
Rich Watson said:
And there's more than a hint from him that this attitude has been inflamed by the casting of a woman and then a black man as the Doctor.
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Yes, I wasn't going to characterize the politics of someone I don't know, but Coburn the Younger seems, from his Twitter page, to be a thoroughly detestable person. (Which is why I wasn't going to link to it.) But, even the most thoroughly detestable people have rights.
 
He has rights, sure, but the way a person exercises their rights is not immune to criticism. I don’t think the heir of a content creator trying to get more money out of that content being part of a mass rerelease on a platform that doesn’t generate direct revenue is particularly comparable to the causes of the actors’ strike.
 
Well, it's literally just been pulled from all the other streaming platforms it was on, so that answers that question.

Here's a thought; have Russell write a brand new first story and make it with David Bradley. He can't stop them using the main characters or the TARDIS.
 
Good news; he'll sell you a copy of the story on DVD for a mere £500.00

Ironically these are probably the complementary copies he would have received from the BBC when it was released.

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