Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner
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Well, I guess the people who thought the best thing to do with Whitaker's Tardis would have been to set it on fire got their wish!
Looks like the Tales of the TARDIS will only be available in the U.K. and on iplayer in the short term at least, according to comments by RTD https://www.instagram.com/p/CzCQUelt9ci/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Hell, yeah! This sounds and looks amazing. I cannot wait!
More photos in the official Twitter post (of Clyde, Jo, Steven, and Vicki).
That's some bullshit. There's zero reason these shorts can't be made available on YouTube and/or Twitter at the same time.
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Svly and Peter are in costume though. I wonder if maybe he's supposed to be The Curator. (Which he's already played a few times for Big Finish).
That’s what threw me too. Are they always on the same set?
Well, I guess the people who thought the best thing to do with Whitaker's Tardis would have been to set it on fire got their wish!
Truly great details in there though. Check out the Eighth Doctor tribute columns and the Hartnell Out Of Order sign.
Hell, yeah! This sounds and looks amazing. I cannot wait!
More photos in the official Twitter post (of Clyde, Jo, Steven, and Vicki).
That's some bullshit. There's zero reason these shorts can't be made available on YouTube and/or Twitter at the same time.
They are showing at an hour an half each on the iPlayer page arent they? Not exactly shorts. Might be a minute and half — which seems far too short.
It’s very close to the box set trailers than inspired those in the first place. This will be the third (or fourth) Pinstriped Ace tale technically.
This article says that it's new footage interwoven with the classic episodes to create feature-length omnibus versions, which would track with each one being about 1.5 hours (though that would suggest some rather severe editing).
I've seen the main six photos pop up all over social media and news articles, but I've only seen this one here. Where did you find it?Well, I guess the people who thought the best thing to do with Whitaker's Tardis would have been to set it on fire got their wish!
(And if I'm still on ignore, can someone else ask?)
It’s reminding me a little of (a) the cut down digest the who channel has on YouTube of classic stories and (b) that time they repeated Evil Of The Dalek… at least I think it was that… with framing narration of The Second Doctor using the Telepathy Circuits and whatnot to show Zoe one of he and Jamie’s previous adventures.
It was indeed The Evil of the Daleks.
This also reminds me of BBC America's omnibus reruns for the 50th anniversary though I'm pretty sure those were unedited aside from chopping the credits and cliffhangers. If these are indeed 1.5 hours including the new footage, it sounds like they're making more substantial edits than BBC America did.
Unsurprisingly, since they're woven into the original stories these won't be (legally) available outside the UK.
Eh, not really that severe. If it's a four parter, all they'd need to do is remove the credit sequences with the exception of the opening credits in Part 1 and the closing credits in Part 4 and not repeating the cliffhanger scenes and paring it down to an hour and a half would be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Is it possible also, I wonder, that they will edit the episodes down only to scenes that the POV characters could have seen or recalled?
They will likely cut out all of the long and drawn out ‘walking down styrofoam corridor’ scenes and all of the other pointlessly long non essential segments of the episodes.
Good luck finding those in Fenric particularly.
Or the old Shada VHS, only presumably staying in character more consistently than old Tom does there.
I'm also sure the running time is approximate not exact; especially since they'll only be on iPlayer.
