Doctor Who

"DrAstroZoom wrote:

Just finished "Forest of the Dead." This two-parter is now my favorite ever. Also found where you're getting the ones that have been released in the UK but not here. :up:

I liked "Forest of the Dead" but my all-time favorite two-part Doctor Who has to be the one with Rose, the Doctor and Captain Jack in which Rose makes Captain Jack immortal in the 2005 season finale.

For the long-time Doctor Fans, a retrospective:

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1368370WyRjQD9a

"Celtkin wrote:

I liked "Forest of the Dead" but my all-time favorite two-part Doctor Who has to be the one with Rose, the Doctor and Captain Jack in which Rose makes Captain Jack immortal in the 2005 season finale.

Ah yes, "Parting of the Ways."

Of course, now the rumors of BBC talks with Robert Carlyle are resurfacing. :rolleyes:

"DrAstroZoom wrote:

Ah yes, "Parting of the Ways."

Of course, now the rumors of BBC talks with Robert Carlyle are resurfacing. :rolleyes:

Seriously, that simply was a brilliant performance by "Rose" when the Doctor transports her off-world to save her.

This news?

The actor Robert Carlyle is being tipped to replace David Tennant as the next Doctor Who.

Bookmaker William Hill is offering odds of 2-1 that the Trainspotting star will become the 11th Time Lord when Tennant steps down from the BBC's hit Dr Who show.
Speculation is rife that the Scottish actor will quit before the start of the fifth series in 2010.

Torchwood info:

Julie Gardner has confirmed that a third series of Torchwood has been commissioned and that it will be unlike anything we have seen before!

Not only will the series air on BBC One, Torchwood will have a brand new format. The series will consist of just one continuous story, delivered over 5 consecutive nights.

That's not the only thing that will be new about the series - Torchwood will have a brand new producer, Peter Bennett, who has previously worked on Torchwood and on Doctor Who as well as 'The Mummy', 'A View to a Kill' and 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'. Euros Lyn will also join the team as Director. Euros has directed several Doctor Who episodes including the 'Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead' two-part story from the current series.

And just to add to the excitement, the show will boast some new arrivals in the cast as well...

Julie Gardner says that she and Russell T Davies "are thrilled to be bringing Torchwood back for a third series. The new series promises to be a gripping and surprising TV event and we're certain the audience will love the team's exciting, roller-coaster adventures."

Production on the new series will start in August.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/education/betsie/parser.pl/0005/www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/sites/news/pages/production_news_40_seriesthree.shtml

Well, what did you guys think of that?????

"ILPhinFan88 wrote:

Well, what did you guys think of that?????

Which one did you just see? The season finale?

"DrAstroZoom wrote:

Which one did you just see? The season finale?

Some of it, the ending.

Wow. That was something else.

"DrAstroZoom wrote:

Wow. That was something else.

Yeah, thats what I thought. This season setup so many story lines and the way everything ties together now with this series I bet we see them all in the near future. :up:

Here is a little info on a show coming to BBCAmerica, some say its better than Torchwood. I put more info in the BBCAmerica thread.

Primeval Is No Who Clone

The creators of Primeval, the British time-travel series coming to BBC America, told SCI FI Wire that they are trying to shake off any comparisons to the wildly popular Doctor Who.

"It's the one question I've been getting asked about the most: people comparing the show to that Doctor," Douglas Henshall, who stars as an evolutionary zoologist who deals with creatures from the past and the future, said in an interview at the Television Critics Association's press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., this week.

Henshall has instead been comparing the show to The A-Team. "I was mainly trying to avoid the comparison of the show we don't want to mention, and so I picked something very different, and our show is more of an ensemble like that show was," he said.

Primeval centers on a team of scientists who battle creatures that have come through unexplained anomalies that are ripping holes in the fabric of time. The show has aired for two seasons in the United Kingdom and debuts in the United States in August. Primeval already has a large following in Australia, South Korea and Germany.

Of course, comparisons with that other British SF series are inevitable: Primeval counts among its writing staff Paul Cornell, who wrote for the new Doctor Who TV series and authored more than a dozen novels about the Doctor and his companion, Bernice Summerfield.

But don't expect any crossovers with Doctor Who. "No, absolutely not will we have a Doctor Who character pop in on Primeval," producer/writer Tim Haines insisted. "They have very different worlds and realities. Anything can happen on Doctor Who."

The world of Primeval is more reality based, said co-creator Adrian Hodges. But he admitted that he was tempted to sneak in a few Doctor references or inside jokes. "Every time I was tempted to even put in a vague Who reference, I stopped myself," Hodges said. "The worlds are very different. ... At one point, we considered a sly Doctor reference when someone got angry at another character and threw a box set of Doctor Who at them, but we thought not."

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=57392

I really need to get BBC America. :(

On another note ... did you get to see MiddleMan yet? I know you DVR'd it.

"DrAstroZoom wrote:

I really need to get BBC America. :(

On another note ... did you get to see MiddleMan yet? I know you DVR'd it.

Yeah I watched it, its a little different. NOt bad, I will keep watching it and see how it goes.

I'm watching Graham Norton show on BBC. His guest is Catherine Tate (Donna) who revealed that the Doctor

"definitely" regenerated in last episode

"Celtkin wrote:

I'm watching Graham Norton show on BBC. His guest is Catherine Tate (Donna) who revealed that the Doctor

"definitely" regenerated in last episode

Have you seen the finale, and the preview for the Christmas special?

"ILPhinFan88 wrote:

Have you seen the finale, and the preview for the Christmas special?

I saw the finale but not the preview for the Christmas special.

"Celtkin wrote:

I saw the finale but not the preview for the Christmas special.

"ILPhinFan88 wrote:

Interesting indeed.

Check this out -- from the finale if you have already watched it -- if not, don't watch the following video.

and next season's teaser:

Time will tell but Catherine Tate did say what I revealed in my spoiler.

"Celtkin wrote:

Interesting indeed.

Check this out -- from the finale if you have already watched it -- if not, don't watch the following video.

and next season's teaser:

Time will tell but Catherine Tate did say what I revealed in my spoiler.

Thats not next seasons teaser, thats the teaser to the finale. Did you see Episode 13 Journeys End?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/episodes/

"ILPhinFan88 wrote:

Thats not next seasons teaser, thats the teaser to the finale. Did you see Episode 13 Journeys End?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/episodes/

Yes, I've finished the entire series this season. I misspoke. I intended to say that the last video in the string was the teaser for the finale. :huh1:

"Celtkin wrote:

Yes, I've finished the entire series this season. I misspoke. I intended to say that the last video in the string was the teaser for the finale. :huh1:

OK, just wanted to make sure :up:, alot happened in the finale.

"ILPhinFan88 wrote:

OK, just wanted to make sure :up:, alot happened in the finale.

Thanks brother :) Yeah, I finished the season a couple weeks ago. I am eager to see where next season takes the series and if Tennant will indeed be back and, if so, how they spin the the last regeneration.

Tennant is definitely back next season. That's one of the reasons they scaled back to four specials in 2009: to allow him to do the show and still do his Shakespeare stint. As for 2010 ... Who knows?

"DrAstroZoom wrote:

Tennant is definitely back next season. That's one of the reasons they scaled back to four specials in 2009: to allow him to do the show and still do his Shakespeare stint. As for 2010 ... Who knows?

I read on a Dr. Who forum that they plan on doing breaks like this in the future also to keep the Dr. Who viewers from getting bored and to keep it going longer.

Guys, what is the common opinion from what you have read about how they salvage the regeneration? Will he come back as Tennent? Will Captain Jack take control of the tardis and go back in time with the Doctor and companions on board to a time just before the Doctor is ambushed by the Dalek? Was it all just a dream sequence? :lol:

This should be interesting.