First Picture Of The New K9
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The snout is glowing blue! The left ear should be blue and the right ear should be pink. Also, I think Tom Baker should play the left ear. And is there any way we could get k9's nose to look more like a sombrero? or maybe replace it with a sombrero?
All joking aside, it looks alright, but I still prefer the original at this point. It better be voice by John Leeson, I don't want to hear David Brierley!
All joking aside, it looks alright, but I still prefer the original at this point. It better be voice by John Leeson, I don't want to hear David Brierley!
Unless he's planning to do it FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, I think you're safe there.
I dont trust the current K9, not to be a hidden Cyberman, be taken over by an alien intelligence, or if ever he starts to float turn out to be a Dalek agent.
Not what i was expecting but hey, look what they did to the Enterprise.
Bob Baker offered some further comments about the new series at his forum. He doesn't say it in so many words, but it sure sounds like John Leeson won't be providing K9's voice, which is disappointing. He also confirms an earlier implication that this K9 will be Mark 1, who had stayed with Leela on Gallifrey in "The Invasion of Time." The first few scenes will feature a replica of the Mark 1, which eventually is rebuilt in the new form.
Also, the production company's website has some details on the series' premise (scroll down a little), and there's a partial list of episode titles here.
Also, the production company's website has some details on the series' premise (scroll down a little), and there's a partial list of episode titles here.
Hm, that's a different premise than we heard earlier, where all the action took place in space as I recall. The Whoniverse really doesn't need another defending-the-Earth series right now.
NO JOHN LEESON.
NO JOHN LEESON.
Yeah, the originally announced premise for the series was pretty different:
Okay, I feel pretty stupid right now... But hey, if they did manage to resurrect him to play K9, it'd be one hell of a publicity stunt, eh?
From the Wikipedia entry:
After production started, the Park Entertainment website was updated to say that the series was set in Future London, with 14-year old characters Starkey and Jorjie, alongside a Professor Gryffen, who is experimenting with a Space-Time Manipulator, and an "artful dodger" 15-year-old Darius who runs errands for Gryffen. K9 Mark I follows the villainous reptilian warrior Jixen who come through a space-time portal created by the professors experiments and saves the Londoners. While protecting them, K9 is forced to self-destruct, but is able to give Starkey instrucions to rebuild and regenerate himself into a more futuristically designed form. K9 and the humans then form the front line defense against alien menaces from outer space and other times.
This all seems strangely familar somehow...
After production started, the Park Entertainment website was updated to say that the series was set in Future London, with 14-year old characters Starkey and Jorjie, alongside a Professor Gryffen, who is experimenting with a Space-Time Manipulator, and an "artful dodger" 15-year-old Darius who runs errands for Gryffen. K9 Mark I follows the villainous reptilian warrior Jixen who come through a space-time portal created by the professors experiments and saves the Londoners. While protecting them, K9 is forced to self-destruct, but is able to give Starkey instrucions to rebuild and regenerate himself into a more futuristically designed form. K9 and the humans then form the front line defense against alien menaces from outer space and other times.
This all seems strangely familar somehow...
So it would appear. Looking at that info, and the list of episode titles, it seems possible that the old K-9 will appear for quite a bit - maybe the first half of the opening two parter, with his apparent destruction and regeneration ending part one.
Also... it might be a bit of a '2+2=5' to assume that this K-9 is actually Leela's one because Bob Baker says they've built one 'identical to the one Leela had on Gallifrey'; About Time volume 4 speculates that while Professor Marius says he had K-9 made up from spare parts on the Bi-al asteroid, he might have been 'kit-bashing' a design available back on Earth.
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Stand by to be surprised then, to judge by this quote from a posting by Bob Baker:
"We have built a copy of old K9 for the opening scenes, identical to the one Leela had in Galifrey."
Well, of course they want it to be as much like a legitimate Who spinoff as they can without pissing off the BBC. I assume there's been some agreement for limited use of the BBC-owned original design, possibly as a quid pro quo for K9's appearances in SJA and "Journey's End."
There are mulitple K-9's. Leela has/had the first one. Romana has/had the second one. Sarah had the third and has the fourth one. I don't see a problem if they want to take the Leela version (having somehow escaped the destruction of Gallifrey) and do a kiddie spin-off...
