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Paradise Towers coming to DVD

Piper said:
Shame it didn't end up as a Colin story, your Excelis Rising was superb, easily the best of that trilogy/quartet.
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I'm *told* that Tony Head agrees with you. But the other writers were probably told the same!

Colin's very good to write for - I didn't like his Doctor on TV, but he's easily my favourite audio Doctor. If Unregenerate had had him, it wouldn't have had the "insane Doctor" bit...

Re BF pitching, I believe these days the way it works for the main range is that, as each Doctor gets three stories in a row in miniseasons, the call goes out to writers "do you want to pitch for our Jan-Mar Seventh Doctor/Ace/Hex series?" rather than inviting pitches for random Doctors. No idea how the Companion Chronicles work though.
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I dunno how either of them work now - the twice I've asked since Nick Briggs took over I've just been told "we're commissioned up for the foreseeable future" with an unsaid "so don't fucking bother, OK?"

I did do a Stargate Atlantis that came out last year, but I think really they're ever more in-house, with a little repertory company of writers who've settled in as a staff, rather than a wide range of freelancers. That's how it looks from out here, anyway.
 
Have you had any interest in writing for the current DW books series, or is that the similar old boys club focussed around the spectacularly untalented Gary Russell's group of friends that I assume it is?

Also, when it comes to the BF audios, do you see them as taking place in the same universe as the NAs and EDAs, or is it not worth the bother of trying to reconcile them (presumably the nature of DW means you can reconcile almost anything that way, but it can be tricky)?

(Sorry for being a bother, but you're easily the person with the most expertise regarding DW I have access to. I'll stop short of asking for your page by page commentary of The Ancestor Cell. Unless...)
 
USS Bones said:
Have you had any interest in writing for the current DW books series,
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Shorter, aimed-at-kids... No. I mean, if they asked me I'd do it, cos the money's nice, but otherwise...

I don't even have any DW ideas nowadays beyond "I'd love to write a Dalek story someday" - which isn't quite enough of a pitch to send in.

Really I'd rather move into other franchises, and do more original stuff. There does come a stage at which even a franchise with as much freedom as DW becomes a bit of trap, and you start to feel the limitations more than the freedoms.

(Well, I am contributing to Shelf Life 3 as well as editing this time, but that's with an outline from about six or seven years ago)

or is that the similar old boys club focussed around the spectacularly untalented Gary Russell's group of friends that I assume it is?
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It's a bit more complex a selection process than that (I know Gary likes my books, so if he was in charge in the way you suggest I reckon I'd have been asked!) At first they wanted writers who have experience writing for that age-range, which I haven't, and then ones who've signed NDAs etc with Cardiff and can liaise with them... So by now they've got a pool they can use. And then if they're going to big-name writers from outside the tie-in field for specials (i.e. Moorcock, and allegedly Stephen Baxter next) then I don't qualify there either.

Also, when it comes to the BF audios, do you see them as taking place in the same universe as the NAs and EDAs, or is it not worth the bother of trying to reconcile them (presumably the nature of DW means you can reconcile almost anything that way, but it can be tricky)?
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As long as it *feels* like DW, it's DW. I think most of them take place in the same universe, and if they don't, well... Faction Paradox and/or the Time War are your catch-all explanations. But, even back when there was only the original TV series, there were incompatibilities not easily reconcilable between stories, from one season to the next, so... It's not a new thing, it doesn't really matter.

(Sorry for being a bother, but you're easily the person with the most expertise regarding DW I have access to. I'll stop short of asking for your page by page commentary of The Ancestor Cell. Unless...)
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I've still yet to read that one, so it'd be a pretty short commentary.
 
Sketcher said:
I was referring to this particular story making it to DVD. I've always hated it.
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I wouldn't go so far as to day I hate it, personally. But it's not one that's high on my wants list (ditto Time and the Rani). I thought Delta and the Bannermen was cute, and the idea that one of the characters in that one was originally intended to replace Mel as companion (if you've seen it, you know which one) gives it additional interest. But of that first McCoy season only Dragonfire really interests me and that's mainly because of the arrival of Ace. It's a shame they didn't McCoy's era with Remembrance of the Daleks - I bet it could have been a game-changer.

Alex
 
Funnil enough I rewatched this (on VHS) not so long ago. I think Lonemagpie is pretty much right, nice idea but poorly realised.

That said McCoy is very good in places in it, and you have to love him using the caretakers own rule book against them. Plus Pex is actually quite interesting, more so than the kangs or the oldies.
 
I've had a look through this thread and can find no mention of when, exactly, "Paradise Towers" is coming to DVD. Anyone...? :confused:
 
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