"Doom's Day" multi-media event coming later this year.

[Rich Watson]

Like Time Lord Victorious but this time you won't have to try and guess what order everything goes in...

Proper details to come later but the general description seems to have leaked early.

"Doom's Day will kick off on Doctor Who digital channels later this year followed by products from Doctor Who Magazine, Titan Comics, Penguin Random House, East Side Games, Big Finish and BBC Audio, each telling a section of Doom's story. Each partner will create their own adventures for Doom's Day, each focusing on one of the 24 hours Doom has left on the clock. The standalone stories will also have an overarching narrative that will play out before the finale which will release on Doctor Who digital channels."

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Meh. Hope it's good, at least.

 

[David cgc]

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[Nightowl1701]

That trailer… could have been better.

 

[Marc]

That trailer… could have been better.

Wow the show had better sets and effects in the 70s then that trailer.

 

[Samurai8472]

Needless to say; the announcement hasn't gone down well through a lot of the fandom LOL

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637810041464975361

 

[Rich Watson]

I was going to say I was baffled by the hostility to this I'm seeing everywhere then I remembered it's Doctor Who fans I'm talking about.

Amazingly enough no one will be forced to watch, read or listen to any of it but apparently if something isn't of interest to you personally than it shouldn't exist.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Needless to say; the announcement hasn't gone down well through a lot of the fandom LOL

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637810041464975361

Ian Levine is certainly taking it well:

WE WANT MORE THAN EIGHT EPISODES A YEAR OF PROPER DOCTOR WHO. NOT SHITTY MULTI MEDIA CHILDREN'S SHIT !!!!!!

 

[David cgc]

Wow the show had better sets and effects in the 70s then that trailer.

The CG and post-production seem pretty good for a Doctor Who tie-in, it's the actual filming that lets it down. It's like they realized, "Oh, nuts, we shot this in front of the weather map greenscreen for the news! Please, post-production, can you save us?" and they were like, "I'll give it a shot, but you really should've had, like, a shadow somewhere on her, and maybe pulled out all the stops and done a camera angle, too."

 

[Rich Watson]

Ian Levine is certainly taking it well:

Every time Ian opens his mouth he reminds the world why he was literally turned into a Doctor Who monster. The saddest part is he's almost 70 and still acting like this.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Every time Ian opens his mouth he reminds the world why he was literally turned into a Doctor Who monster. The saddest part is he's almost 70 and still acting like this.

Yeah. Ian Levine would do well to heed Wil Wheaton's advice: "Don't be an asshole."

 

[Rich Watson]

Because I'm pretty much Steve Buscemi's character from "30 Rock" these days I did not realise that Sooz Kempner was a bit of a big deal casting. She might get some of my fellow kids interested in the show. More smart thinking from Russell.

 

[kirk55555]

Needless to say; the announcement hasn't gone down well through a lot of the fandom LOL

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1637810041464975361

Why do some people bother being upset about some side project? I personally think it looks bad, but that just means I'm ignoring it and going about my day. I'm all for getting angry at certain things related to franchises I like if there is a good reason to, but this is so easily ignored it feels ridiculous to get mad at it.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Why do some people bother being upset about some side project? I personally think it looks bad, but that just means I'm ignoring it and going about my day. I'm all for getting angry at certain things related to franchises I like if there is a good reason to, but this is so easily ignored it feels ridiculous to get mad at it.

Because it means the BBC would rather divert resources on extraneous activities related to the show instead of the main show itself, thus dilluting the franchise with senseless crap.

That said, I just don't see much interest in this but will pick up if there's good word of mouth around the project. But unliike Time Lord Victorious, it doesn't have a hook to interest me immediately.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I never bothered with Time Lord Victorious and I probably won't with this one.

Least of all because I'm way behind on Big Finish audios anuways.

 

[Rich Watson]

Because it means the BBC would rather divert resources on extraneous activities related to the show instead of the main show itself, thus dilluting the franchise with senseless crap.

What resources are they diverting? Not a penny spent on this comes out of the show's production budget. In fact it will make money for them.

And the work is being done by other people and companies so beyond approvals it's not taking any time away from the show either.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Levine’s timeline is redolent of legendary tweeter Dril and his “and another thing: I’m not mad. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I got mad” tweet.

 

[The Wormhole]

Ian Levine is certainly taking it well:

It sure is nice to know in a world filled with increasing unknowns, we can still count on Ian Levine making an ass out of himself. Comforting, in a weird way.

Because it means the BBC would rather divert resources on extraneous activities related to the show instead of the main show itself, thus dilluting the franchise with senseless crap.

Unless I'm missing something, this shouldn't cost the BBC anymore than typical novels, comics and audios cost them.

 

[Starkers]

The number of people saying it's the worst thing they've ever seen. Really? I mean, really?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Unless I'm missing something, this shouldn't cost the BBC anymore than typical novels, comics and audios cost them.

^^^ This.

The licencees -- Big Finish, BBC Books, Titan -- are the ones spending their time and resources. RTD's office and the licensing office at BBC Worldwide have some involvement -- they have to approve the material -- but they would do this for any other project Big Finish, BBC Books, and Titan would produce, and they're already paying the people who approve the material because that's their job.

I wondered when another multimedia project like Time Lord Victorious -- which went down very well with the tie-in producers -- would appear. There were things that worked with TLV, and things that could have been better, and hopefully the Doom's Day efforts will accentuate the good and downplay the bad.