Stephen Fry on DW and the state of television

[captcalhoun]

Jim Shelley reviews Who today in the Daily Mirror:

There were many intriguing questions raised by this series of Doctor Who.
Could Matt Smith step into David Tennant's plimsolls ?
Did new-comer Karen Gillen have a hope in hell of following such nation's sweethearts like Catherine Tate and Billie Piper as The Doctor's sidekick ?
Would creatures created by the programme's new guru Steven Moffat prove worthy of his show's very own Orson Welles, Russell T. Davies ?
At the end though, only one unfathomable mystery remained: What was Stephen Fry's problem ?
Why would anyone single out a show as imaginative and EXCITING as Doctor Who for criticism as Fry did in a recent BAFTA speech, dismissing it as "a children's show."
You'd have to be tiresomely churlish or a flagrant self-publicist. (Mystery solved !)

Central to this was of course Matt Smith who already ranks as the best Doctor since the halcyon days of Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.

Apart from that, whatever Stephen Fry says, I'd say this series of Doctor Who has been perfect. British television at its brilliant best.

read the whole thing here

 

[Captain Pike]

Just got back from a hugely entertaining evening with Mr Fry. Had a fantastic night out, just awesome really..