New Who is coming to the US

[PointyHairedJedi]

Just for those who were unaware, the first/twenty-seventh season of Doctor Who will be hitting screens stateside in March on the Sci-Fi Channel, and they've taken an option on the second season (no mention of the Christmas special, but I expect we'll hear soon enough). The bad news is that anyone who was hoping to buy the DVDs of the first season will have to wait a little longer as it's been set back from February to early July.

BBCi News item
Sci Fi Wire item

Of course, there's no mention of anything happening with the classic series, but hopefully if the new series proves a hit it won't be away from US screens for too long.

[Derek]

Excellent. I might be able to watch Doctor Who now.

[Scooter]

Moreover, they've scheduled on their Sci Fi Fridays after the very popular BG redux -- so it may actually build an audience. As with anything on Sci Fi, though, it depends partly on how much the network bothers to promote it.

Outpost Gallifrey story

[Zeke]

I've only seen four new Who episodes so far, but I love it. (Hence my disproportionate referencing of "Rose" in 5M.net stuff.) I have the Christmas Invasion on tape, but I'm not going to watch it till I've seen the rest of S1. Which I have NOT by ANY MEANS downloaded.

[Scooter]

Originally Posted by Zeke

till I've seen the rest of S1. Which I have NOT by ANY MEANS downloaded.

Well, you live in Canada so you'll get the season one DVDs 5 months before we do

[PointyHairedJedi]

Zeke, "Dalek" is going to blow you away. It's kind of a nice reward after sitting through "Aliens of London/World War 3" anyhow.

[Scooter]

Originally Posted by PointyHairedJedi

Zeke, "Dalek" is going to blow you away.

I agree. It's almost as good as SCMoll's fiver of it

And hey, I thought "Aliens/WWIII" was funny. Silly, but funny. I loved the idea that the Doctor was forced to watch an alien invasion on BBC News.

[Zeke]

I've seen "Dalek." (Did I say I'd seen the first four episodes?) I agree, it's awesome.

[Scooter]

Originally Posted by Zeke

I've seen "Dalek." (Did I say I'd seen the first four episodes?) I agree, it's awesome.

"Dalek" is a good reminder that they're the only aliens the Doctor himself is genuinely afraid of. The scene where he's trapped in the room with the Dalek and trying to get out connects well with the last time we saw him face a Dalek -- trapped at the top of the stairs in "Remembrance of the Daleks", with a lone Dalek ascending toward him. That scene convinced me that the new series was going to be a continuation as well as a departure.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by Zeke

(Did I say I'd seen the first four episodes?)

I did actually, as it happens, use my ouija board to try and divine if you'd meant that or not, but the damn thing just kept giving me messages like "Undead Pharmacy - Get Ectoplasm For Less $$$" and "Increase Your Aura Size". Stupid spirits, stop clogging up my ouija board with your psychic spam!

[Burt]

Personally I think this topic should have been named ‘New Who is coming to you!’ I think it has some nice rhyming to it.
I did toy with ‘New Who coming for you.’ But that might scare the paranoid….

[Burt]

Oh and to Scooter and others not in Britain? Please take this, not the wrong way, but it's so nice that everyone else in the world has to wait for the Doctor Who DVD's except England. You guys get everything good first! Star Trek, House, Scrubs. I may just explode if I have to wait much longer for the new 24 series.....
The Republic of Congo gets quicker DVD releases than the UK!

[Xeroc]

Originally Posted by Burt

Oh and to Scooter and others not in Britain? Please take this, not the wrong way, but it's so nice that everyone else in the world has to wait for the Doctor Who DVD's except England. You guys get everything good first! Star Trek, House, Scrubs. I may just explode if I have to wait much longer for the new 24 series.....
The Republic of Congo gets quicker DVD releases than the UK!

And we here on the internet with ridculously fast broadband connections (like me ) get movies and TV shows before they come out on DVD!


Oh, and welcome to the fora, Burt!


Hope you like it here, and be sure to come to the chat this Weekend!

[Scooter]

Originally Posted by Xeroc

And we here on the internet with ridculously fast broadband connections (like me ) get movies and TV shows before they come out on DVD!

What now? I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Hejira]

Originally Posted by Xeroc

And we here on the internet with ridculously fast broadband connections (like me ) get movies and TV shows before they come out on DVD!

[old person who lived in the black and white ages]Slow down there, sonny. My little 56k ain't much, but it gets from Point A to Point B if you give it time.[/old person who lived in the black and white ages]

Of course, I mean that in the sense of downloading Halo: Custom Edition or the Quake 4 demo or something legal like that.

Yeah.

[Burt]

So as a question then, how much Doctor Who do you guys get in your different places around the world? When did you first watch it?
I remember first watching Pyramids of Mars and being utterly spooked. Giant walking robotic mummies? Who wouldn't be?!
But still total bloody first class television!

[Scooter]

Originally Posted by Burt

So as a question then, how much Doctor Who do you guys get in your different places around the world? When did you first watch it?
I remember first watching Pyramids of Mars and being utterly spooked. Giant walking robotic mummies? Who wouldn't be?!
But still total bloody first class television!

In the 70s and 80s Doctor Who was available on some public (noncommercial) television stations, but randomly from city to city. WNJB in New Brunswick, NJ used to carry new episodes in the 80s around 6 months after transmission in the UK, and classic episiodes in between. So I saw "The Two Doctors" and "Remembrance of the Daleks" not long after they came out. But all that petered out in the 90s and now Classic Who is not available here (with one or two cities excepted), and until recently New Who was not in sight either. So the choice was either to wait over a year for the DVDs, or download em.

(I'm not looking forward to the broadcasts on SCI FI channel, to be honest -- SCI FI shows looots of commercials.)

Let's see -- the first episode I remember seeing is "Earthshock" -- Cybermen marching up iron staircases. Out of context I was impressed but a little lost. But later in Boston I was able to see the whole thing from the beginning practically. And then I was hooked. I used to have videotapes off the air of every episode broadcast; now I just have a slew of DVDs. And a new Doctor to enjoy (if I can).

[Chancellor Valium]

Ger-reat. Someone pass me the hemlock, please? Ta.

[Burt]

Not a Doctor fan? Can that be? Doesn't everone love the Tardis? Surely K9 melts even the hardest of hearts?

[whoiam]

You may have gone a little far with that last statement. We'll see when he makes his one-off reappearance this season.