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The Whoniverse comes to iPlayer Nov 1st

Even documentaries aren't safe from Obergruppenführer Coburn's influence, as clips from AUE have been removed from the versions that are up on iPlayer.

Repeat after me: Physical will beat streaming.
 
The Nightmare Doctor said:
As part of the Whoinverse celebration, Toby Hadoke produced this short film about Doctor Who's history on social commentary. I looked for a YouTube posting but couldn't find anything.

Nothing too revelatory and the film demonstrates that Doctor Who, much like Star Trek, has had a long history embedding social commentary in its stories, regardless what certain fans seems to think about either franchise becoming "too woke" now. Still, it's a fun six minutes to watch.
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It was a piece for Newsnight viewers.
 
Rich Watson said:
Although they're not screaming about it online like certain people the estates of some other writers aren't giving permission for their stories to go up either. While there's much more chance of these being resolved, it looks like the following won't be available on Day 1:

Abominable Snowmen, Web of Fear, Dominators, Seeds of Death, Terror of the Zygons and Seeds of Doom.

Not a complete shock, as the estates of Robert Banks Stewart and Haisman/Lincoln have caused problems with using their creations in the past.
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All those except the animated Abominavle Snowmen are there, and the surviving episode of that is too- I suspect there's some variation with the animated stories in terms of when they hit blu-ray or something. Can't be Lincoln as Web is there with Abominable episode 2.
 
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Rich Watson said:
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It's actually not free, for a gallimaufry of reasons. :guffaw:
 
Allyn Gibson said:
He claims on Twitter that he refused the BBC permission, that the money they offered him was insufficient, and what the BBC did in the 1970s killed his father. (I'm not going to link to his Twitter profile.) Ian Levine is predictably moaning at the awful unfairness of it.


I did a retweet reply to Ian, which he ignored. If the son has some sort of legal right (I'm presuming through copyright), and the BBC doesn't meet his price, that's not the tragedy Ian claims it is. That's the way the law works. Money in the streaming era is exactly what WGA and SAG-AFTRA went on strike over.
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Speaking of Ian...man, this guy's "funny". Slightly off topic, but his politics kinda broke his brain. Who woulda thought he'd actually be a happy Islamophobe racist himself?
 
For the record: I asked him, point blank, if he think Palestinians are all Hamas and if he think innocent Palestinian kids should be killed by Israel. He flat-out blocked me, never even answering me.

This situation showed how frickin clueless he is. So openly RACIST. Hell, he even asks "am I a racist for hating all Muslims" which just hilarious, if not absolutely sad. How is this guy a lifelong Doctor Who fan? Did he not watch the show, ever?

From now on, my opinion on Ian Levine is this: fuck him, the racist, Islamophobe, genocide-denier. I get it - antisemitism is scary. I am afraid of it too. But I'm also afraid of Islamophobia, which is WAAAY on the rise. We don't need hatred in this world, and he stands for hatred, and evil.
 
Classic Who is going to Tubi in the US. (Whatever that is.) So I guess that answers the question of whether Disney want anything pre this year.
 
Rich Watson said:
Classic Who is going to Tubi in the US. (Whatever that is.) So I guess that answers the question of whether Disney want anything pre this year.
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Tubi is a "free" internet based streaming service (funded by advertising revenue) similar to Pluto TV. I've been watching Gerry Anderson's "UFO" upon it recently. Pluto TV has been running "classic" era Doctor Who for the last few years.
 
Emperor-Tiberius said:
From now on, my opinion on Ian Levine is this: fuck him, the racist, Islamophobe, genocide-denier. I get it - antisemitism is scary. I am afraid of it too. But I'm also afraid of Islamophobia, which is WAAAY on the rise. We don't need hatred in this world, and he stands for hatred, and evil.
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Levine is asking on Twitter for a Gallifrey Base poster to be doxxed. I believe the poster in question wrote one of the Lethbridge-Stewart novels, so it's not like his identity is secret, but even so, in any just world, that should get Levine banned from the forum.

He has, to borrow Harvey Dent's phrase, lived long enough to become a Doctor Who villain. It's like he wateched and lived and breathed sixty years of Doctor Who and spectacularly missed the point.
 
Allyn Gibson said:
Levine is asking on Twitter for a Gallifrey Base poster to be doxxed. I believe the poster in question wrote one of the Lethbridge-Stewart novels, so it's not like his identity is secret, but even so, in any just world, that should get Levine banned from the forum.
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He has no right to do this, and its something he does frequently. Its patently immoral.

He has, to borrow Harvey Dent's phrase, lived long enough to become a Doctor Who villain. It's like he wateched and lived and breathed sixty years of Doctor Who and spectacularly missed the point.
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Like, if you check his twitter feed, fans who follow him have tried to calm him down with his excessive Islamophobia, but he simply refuses to listen and bans all. Is that what the Doctor would've done?
 
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