It's a slight surprise that she's coming back in a Moffat episode instead of an RTD one.
Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner
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According to RTD, the use of Richard E Grant's Shalka Dr was just a joke.
RTD- It was a joke!
Galifrey Base- Do you have any idea how much pain you caused us?!
RTD- It was a joke!
Galifrey Base- Do you have any idea how much pain you caused us?!
A joke they got him in to do a special photograph for.
At this point it’s really just high-grade trolling.
Mind you, I recall watching Time and the Rani 1. A few minutes in mum cam in and said "Oh, I wanted to watch Corrie." I said "Watch it. Got to be better than this."
GallifreyBase deserves it. Without lube. Humourless twonks.
I was at after school things for season 24. I don’t think I missed much. But had to rely on people taping season 25 and 26 for me, and missed chunks as a result. (Corrie vs kiddo.) I didn’t see the opening scenes of Battlefield until its DVD release, because the timer was off. And I didn’t see the middle episodes of Remembrance or Happiness Patrol until VHS release (I think I was banned from watching it as a punishment at one point.) For years I basically had episode one of Greatest Show —because the eps were taped over after viewing that year — and all but those ten minutes of Season 26 taped off the telly, and the Five Doctors (taped in 83) as my screen Doctor Who fix. Didn’t have any of Survival either, because we were away from home one way or another for that entire serial.
Basically, until the repeats and affordable VHS releases, the target novels were my thing. Which really fixes most of the worst bits of eighties who tbh.
I probably wore those tapes thin though (still have them, with chunks of Bergerac afterwards, and sometimes careful finger-on-the-button edits to cliffhangers between episodes) and therefore it gets the last laugh over corrie. Whoever keeps those?
You never know, one of these days I might just start that marathon Corrie rewatch. Looks like every episode from 1960 on is floating around. ITV never deleted years worth of the show, unlike the BBC with Doctor Who. Just watching episode 11282 right now, though I've mainly seen it from some point in the 1990s, due to my wife being a fan.
Not quite. One episode was damaged just after TX, so for export it was combined with the next, using some reshot scenes and the surviving film footage (which was a lot of the episode, as it was about a coach trip away).
Wow. I don't remember hearing about that before. Still, one out of more than 11,000 isn't too bad a loss rate.
Honestly, I'm just disappointed. I want more Shalka Doctor, damnit!
Ι'm sure BF is working their way through getting him for some releases....
There is a Twitter account that shows old Corrie clips and, I swear, some of the writing from the 1970s would put Alan Bennett and other acclaimed playwrights to shame, while the acting is effortlessly good.
I think it’s a toss up over whether Alan Bennett really like corrie, or the writers of corrie really liked Alan Bennett.
The line between TV and Theatre was much smaller back then.
Oh fuck that. He legitimately just doesn't give a shit about the show or character, its his plaything and fuck everything and everyone who actually cares about it. Why should anyone give a fuck about anything related to the show if the person in charge obviously doesn't?
I hope some group like Big Finish comes in and makes some story that fits the Shalka Doctor in just as a "screw you" to that whole attitude. Then again, thats just better writers having the clean up after RTD, at this point I think he's legitimately a liability to the entire franchise.
I recently read a comment online saying that cancelled Doctor Who would be better then what we're getting, and while I liked the last season in a general sense I can't stop thinking that having Doctor Who off TV and back in the land of just Big Finish audios, with maybe occasional books and comics, might actually just be the best thing for the franchise, at least for a few years.
If nothing else, I've certainly lost any enthusiasm for this run of Doctor Who. I'll still watch it and I'm sure occasionally enjoy episodes, but at this point my expectations for Doctor Who under RTD are in the gutter. In some ways the whole thing feels worse now then it did under Chibnall. I didn't like Chibnall's work, but at least I thought he actually cared about what he was doing, I just didn't agree with his ideas about what the show/character should be and thought he wasn't great at being a showrunner/writer in general. I'll take a failed earnest attempt instead of a smug troll job any day of the week.
Several episodes of Eastenders are 'missing' as the digital transfer messed up (reading between the lines, the first episode of the week was transferred twice and the next missed). But all exist on off-air vhs.
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My copy of the League of Gentlemen script book is signed by him. But tiny in the margin, because while he was a fan and at the launch, he pointed out that he had nothing to do with it, so felt embarrassed about being spotted.
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ITV as such didn't exist till about 2000 (until then it was an umbrella title for many regional companies who had the local licence). Retention varies from companies. Granada kept pretty much everything, others less so (TVS stuff is pretty much unreleasable as the paperwork was dumped, so no way of knowing who needs to be paid).
I had Dewie Humphreys and David Roden sign my copy of the Ghost Light script book (along with Sylvester and JNT) and only Dewie was fussed that he had nothing to do with Ghost Light. I explained that it was part of the experience at being at that specific event that mattered. Roden Co-wrote Dimensions In Time, so if I ever find my book again (it’s vanished between house moves) it’s probably quite the curio.
I didn’t get to chat to Sylv much, but JNT, David and Dewie were nice chatty people, and we walked and talked for a good twenty minutes. I was all of thirteen or fourteen.
JNT seemed… sad more than anything. This was a few years after Who had gone off air, seemingly for good.
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Doctor Who boss says Mrs Flood breaking fourth wall "might never be explained"
"Night-night!"
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For those expecting an explanation for Mrs. Flood it might never be explained.
I imagine the only stuff lost was filler scenes "Don't miss the coach. But don't forget your coat!" That sort of thing.
