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patentdragon) wrote2007-09-03 09:20 pm
patentdragon) wrote2007-09-03 09:20 pm
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Oh great - HERE WE GO AGAIN.
BBC reveals Doctor Who 'gap year'
Well, that's 2009 knackered then. Closely followed by the future of the series - 'cause the BBC have done this all before, this "resting the series" crap. Impressed? Me?
Like fuck I am.
-quote- BBC Fiction controller Jane Tranter said: "Doctor Who is one of the BBC's best loved and most successful dramas." -end.quote-
...and you're prepared to basically surrender Saturday nights between March and June 2009 to whatever SHIT is on ITV? Or have you both agreed to put on two different "takes" on the same pseudo-reality fuckwit fodder? "Three specials", eh? Christmas, plus probably some jokey crap for Children In Need / Comic Relief / some other charity spree, probably to earn cash for the Olympics...?
At least one of these specials is GUARANTEED to feature the much-desired (by The Management) replacement of David Tennant by somebody fashionable, or "cool", such as:-
- (P)Ricky "As funny as The Hindenberg crashing into an orphanage" Gervaise
- Johnny "Possibly the only person less funny than Gervaise, and he's drunk all the time" Vegas
- Peter "Oh sorry, there's him too, and he was shit as a monster in Season 2" Kay
- Some "edgy English actor more used to playing drug addicts"
- Dawn French (they're desperate for a woman Doctor...)
- That blonde one out of The New Avengers
- Jo Brand
- Eddie Izzard (well, actually that might work)
At least by this time, Amy Winehouse should be dead, so that should be her out of the running.
I should be commending "The Beeb" for securing three whole years of Heroes, ensuring it WON'T be grabbed by Sky (like 24, Lost and Prison Break) - but nooooo, they just have to drop the frickin' ball.
No - correct that; hand the ball right into the hands of the opposition, and stand back cheering and applauding while they run the ball the full length of the field and score the winning touchdown. Yeah, great.
Also... "The Helfyre Legacy" continues its development cycle, although the lead-in to the body of the story is growing and growing. By the end of the night, however, the "launch-pad" should be clear, and the story proper underway.
There could be a chapter posted this weekend, but I want a decent chunk of the story written by then, and the whole thing thoroughly "sketched out".
*...and relax...* That is all.
Well, that's 2009 knackered then. Closely followed by the future of the series - 'cause the BBC have done this all before, this "resting the series" crap. Impressed? Me?
Like fuck I am.
-quote- BBC Fiction controller Jane Tranter said: "Doctor Who is one of the BBC's best loved and most successful dramas." -end.quote-
...and you're prepared to basically surrender Saturday nights between March and June 2009 to whatever SHIT is on ITV? Or have you both agreed to put on two different "takes" on the same pseudo-reality fuckwit fodder? "Three specials", eh? Christmas, plus probably some jokey crap for Children In Need / Comic Relief / some other charity spree, probably to earn cash for the Olympics...?
At least one of these specials is GUARANTEED to feature the much-desired (by The Management) replacement of David Tennant by somebody fashionable, or "cool", such as:-
- (P)Ricky "As funny as The Hindenberg crashing into an orphanage" Gervaise
- Johnny "Possibly the only person less funny than Gervaise, and he's drunk all the time" Vegas
- Peter "Oh sorry, there's him too, and he was shit as a monster in Season 2" Kay
- Some "edgy English actor more used to playing drug addicts"
- Dawn French (they're desperate for a woman Doctor...)
- That blonde one out of The New Avengers
- Jo Brand
- Eddie Izzard (well, actually that might work)
At least by this time, Amy Winehouse should be dead, so that should be her out of the running.
I should be commending "The Beeb" for securing three whole years of Heroes, ensuring it WON'T be grabbed by Sky (like 24, Lost and Prison Break) - but nooooo, they just have to drop the frickin' ball.
No - correct that; hand the ball right into the hands of the opposition, and stand back cheering and applauding while they run the ball the full length of the field and score the winning touchdown. Yeah, great.
Also... "The Helfyre Legacy" continues its development cycle, although the lead-in to the body of the story is growing and growing. By the end of the night, however, the "launch-pad" should be clear, and the story proper underway.
There could be a chapter posted this weekend, but I want a decent chunk of the story written by then, and the whole thing thoroughly "sketched out".
*...and relax...* That is all.