TV: Doctor Who returns as BBC Remake

KOS-MOS · Post by **KOS-MOS** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:07 pm

Sci Fi Wire wrote:The British cult SF TV series Doctor Who is on its way back to the U.K. airwaves 14 years after it was canceled, the BBC reported. Writer and avowed Who fan Russell T. Davies (Queer as Folk) is behind the revival, the British network reported.

The new Doctor Who will be produced by BBC Wales, whose head of drama Julie Gardner said that the show is in its early stages and likely wouldn't be on screen for at least two years, the BBC reported.

The first Doctor Who, played by William Hartnell, was first seen on Nov. 23, 1963. He was followed by seven more, before the series was axed in 1989, the news service reported.

Davies told the BBC that the new show "will be fun, exciting, contemporary and scary. ... Although I'm only in the early stages of development, I'm aiming to write a full-blooded drama, which embraces the Doctor Who heritage, at the same time as introducing the character to a modern audience."

Seems a long ways down the road but the original series did serve us in the past. Perhaps it is something to look forward to.

kb7rky · Post by **kb7rky** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 11:48 am

Wow...Dr. Who coming back on after all these years!

Just imagine what they can do now!

mike12 · Post by **mike12** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:15 am

Hi Everyone:

One of my all time favourite Scifi Shows, I so glad to hear it coming back to tv, I just hope they start the series with Paul (8th Doctor) then kill him off and start him a new Doctor.

I just wondering did anyone like 1st Romana played by Mary Tamm?

dale coba · Post by **dale coba** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:17 pm

There have been only SIX doctors since Hartnell, not seven as the article states.

Every true fan knows that no Dr. Who movie has ever counted as canonical.
Paul McGann and Peter Cushing simply don't count.

Dale Coba,
Whovian,
owner of three regulation length scarves (and knitted one myself)
(the more coloful kind, not the simpler red and blue one)

WinterRose · Post by **WinterRose** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:29 am

The point could be argued back and forth really. No the Cudhing movies never were counted as canon, but then the McGann movie did start with a regeneration from the canon Sylvester McCoy. I'd sort of be all for a new doctor, but at the same time, even as strange as some of the fox/bbc movie was, there were parts I really liked. LOVED the inside of the new Tardis. Loved the fact that the doc got to actually KISS someone and be allowed more than just asexually platonic pseudo-paternal relations with his lovely companion Grace. What's it been, 800 years since he got to have feelings for anyone that way?

Actually, I rather entertained fantasies all the way though my youth that I'd someday get to play the next doctor... Cheese and crackers I'd die happy. I'd emigrate for that. Yeah I'm an american and that'd probably go over like a whore in church with most brits having an american in the lead role in an institution like that. But then again, I've a BBC accent good enough to fool any brit I've ever met. Appropriately enough, learned in its beginning stages of my childhood by watching and re-watching all my Dr. Who tapes from Public TV relentlessly.

-WinterRose
Happy Possessor of Every Tom Baker and Peter Davison Episode for at least 18 to 20 years. Great maker, some of these tapes could be high school seniors...

blackice · Post by **blackice** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 11:25 am

and it wasn't from the recent Queer as Folk but two excellent and dark kids serials in early 90's, both with a sci-fi and occult edge too them.

One was called The Dark Season and another Century Falls - both 6 parters on late afternoon. Have all of CF but only 5 of Dark Season.

M

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TV: Doctor Who returns as BBC Remake

TV: Doctor Who returns as BBC Remake

Talking about Doctor Who :)

Knew I recognised the name