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TV Movie to be released to DVD in North America!

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Due to some unpleasantness I've chosen not to post in this part of TrekBBS anymore.

However, this bit of news is worth the exception.

Hell has officially frozen over: the Doctor Who News Page reports that 2 Entertain has announced that, despite years of claims that licensing rights made it impossible for a home video release of the 1996 TV Movie, these issues have apparently been ironed out and the movie is being lined up for release on DVD on Region 1 sometime in the next year! (I think sooner because a special edition is being released in the UK in just a few months).

http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/08/tv-movie-coming-to-north-america.html

Alex
 
What unpleasantness? And ... hell has frozen over, huh? The movie on dvd? And it's not even April 1st.
 
Who has the rights now? I say the DVD will be $10-20 unless BBC has the rights in which case it will be $25-35.
 
That's funny, I just downloaded that like two weeks ago. Oh well :p

I didn't think it was very good at all. Your basic boring generic 90s genre TV show. I felt like I was watching a bad episode of Sliders :p
 
^ Which is funny, because at the time the TV Movie aired, Fox supposedly had a choice between taking Doctor Who to series, or doing more Sliders - and obviously, they opted for the latter. :p
 
Woo-hoo, great news! I think I see a pig flying too! :lol:

I actually have a copy of the TVM, but it's a copy made from an R2 disc I bought from Amazon.uk. It's watchable, but the quality isn't the best and the menus are a bit wonky.

It'll be great to have a "real" R1 copy, hopefully the special edition Alex mentioned. While I'll admit it's nowhere near the best Who adventure around, and it occasionally has that unflattering made-in-Canada vibe, I think McGann is a great Doctor and I really enjoy Daphne Ashbrooke as Grace.
 
Awesome!!

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Fourteen years late to the party, so It's About Time... :p
 
Almost bought an illegal copy at a scifi con early this year, out of curiousity...glad I held out, and can pick this up instead.
 
Worf2DS9 said:
While I'll admit it's nowhere near the best Who adventure around, and it occasionally has that unflattering made-in-Canada vibe, I think McGann is a great Doctor and I really enjoy Daphne Ashbrooke as Grace.
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Hmm. You realise of course that the best seasons of the X-Files were the ones made here right? :p

To me, filming here wasn't the problem. It was the folks at Fox not really knowing what to do with it that was the problem. The best part of the movie for me was the Tardis console room.
 
FOX would have just ruined it if they had opted for Doctor Who.

As if helium daleks and a half human doctor weren't bad
enough.

Mr Light said:
That's funny, I just downloaded that like two weeks ago. Oh well :p

I didn't think it was very good at all. Your basic boring generic 90s genre TV show. I felt like I was watching a bad episode of Sliders :p
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That was my thoughts too and it was filmed in Canada too. FOX and Canada in the 90's were like two peas in a pod

-M.A.N.T.I.S
-Early X-files
-Dark Angel
-Sliders

the list goes on.
 
Josan said:
Worf2DS9 said:
While I'll admit it's nowhere near the best Who adventure around, and it occasionally has that unflattering made-in-Canada vibe, I think McGann is a great Doctor and I really enjoy Daphne Ashbrooke as Grace.
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Hmm. You realise of course that the best seasons of the X-Files were the ones made here right? :p
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Yeah, but I don't recall The X-Files ever "feeling" like it was made-in-Canada. :D

The best part of the movie for me was the Tardis console room.
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Indeed, it was awesome! :bolian:
 
I recentally began taking the plunge and watching Classic Who on DVD, so the timing of this works out perfectly.
 
Samurai8472 said:
FOX would have just ruined it if they had opted for Doctor Who.
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I agree.
It's better that they went with Sliders.
That was their own property to screw up, and boy, did they ever.

26138 said:
USS Bones said:
timelord1010 said:
The TV movie console room was awesome, I'd take it over the NuWho console room any day.
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Definitely. It was exquisite. A real cut above the Fisher Price hammer and silly pump of the RTD-era console.
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Thirded!
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Forthed

If there is such a thing.:shrug:
 
jbny67 said:
Samurai8472 said:
FOX would have just ruined it if they had opted for Doctor Who.
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I agree.
It's better that they went with Sliders.
That was their own property to screw up, and boy, did they ever.
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Here was one version of the season when it was a CBS production.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thebatgranny/mcg.htm

by: John Leeky Episodes: 1 Companions: Barusa Submitted for: CBS Series Story: The Time Lords, led by a dying Cardinal Barusa are under attack from the Daleks whilst the Doctor is traveling the galaxy looking for the legendry Lost Scrolls. On his journey he is attacked by a Spider Dalek and is forced to return to Gallifrey where the Master, Barusa's son, confronts the Doctor. The Master is next in line for succession to the presidency of Gallifrey but many Time Lords want the Doctor, Barusa's grandson, to take leadership of Gallifrey. By eliminating the Doctor there will be nothing to stop the Master. In his final moments, Barusa tells The Doctor that his long lost father was the Time Lord explorer Ulysses and that his mother was a human from the 'Blue Planet'. The Doctor then resolves to find his father and takes off in Ulysses' old TARDIS. As he takes off Barusa's spirit is somehow trapped in the crystals that power the TARDIS and he becomes one with it, able to communicate with and advise the Doctor. Notes: It is plain that Leeky's reboot of the series borrows heavily from the original. The Master, Gallifrey and the Daleks all appear as does Cardinal Borusa (inexplicably renamed Barusa). However, in direct contrast to the original series The Doctor's motivation and origins are explained in detail, leaving you with an eccentric Englishman in space 'quest format' show.
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