BBC America will take commerical breaks but their initial airings usually don't include edits. The US airings are a bit better about this compared to the early years and the hackjobs that got on Sci-Fi.
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What MightyNine said. You'll be good for the first day/viewing, at least.
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Commercials are a no go for me. Air it as intended, or give the rights to someone who will.
I'll just wait for it to hit Amazon the next day.
Well, one airs on a channel with no commericals and one doesn't - unless HBO or PBS were to pick the show up, there's no real options to air the show without commericals overseas (over a linear network, obviously). And you could argue with cuts to the BBC in recent years, the international money Worldwide brings in from the program is more important than ever to its survival.
I would probably go the Amazon/iTunes season pass route if I didn't have cable honestly, but for now I just DVR the Doctor and skip the commercials.
Check under your couch cushions.
PBS. They have the Sherlock rights, and they don't air commercials, or make cuts.
Back in the day (i.e. pre-revival), some PBS stations did air Who, though it was an individual station effort, so some aired each part of a serial weekdays, others edited them together into a feature-length format that ran on a weekend night - I vaguely remember my local station airing it when I was a kid, but I never really got into it.
Though doing some research into how long PBS stations offered the show, apparently WTTW in Chicago was still airing episodes into Matt Smith's run, going by what's on their website. And they even aired Confidential! And of course, an episode of Doctor Who was on when WTTW's signal was hijacked by someone in a Max Headroom mask...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion
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I can understand wanting to avoid using the official tagline, but "It's About Time" is very good. Or you could possibly expand a little and riff on the TV Movie tagline with something along the lines of "She's here, and it's about time"
Some a little more esoteric:
A few that reference the 'breaking the glass ceiling' teaser
"In case of patriarchy, break glass"
"Oops" (or is it more "Whoops"?)
"Glorious"
"This is gonna be fun!"
"You've regenerated. I like it"
"From Verity to Jodie"
Focussing on the showrunner instead:
"A Chibb off the old Doc"
Simply touch one pen against a contract and that's it, the adverts cease to exist. Hundreds of millions of people, thousands of generations can live without ads, in peace, and never even know the words End Of Part 1..
"It's about time" may be unimaginative but it's also a logical successor to the current title.
Re-watching Who I forgot what an amazing third season the show has. A great opener and season arc, Blink/Human Nature/Family of Blood/Utopia is an amazing stretch of episodes let down by a terrible finale. It's annoying how badly Martha was treated when she's actually quite a great companion.
One of the best things about Martha is that she's the only new Who companion who actually got to leave on her own terms, without some ridiculously convoluted reason that, although they're not dead, the Doctor can never see them again. As in Rose. And Donna. And Amy and Rory. And Clara. And Bill. And then the Doctor just acts as if they died anyway and more or less tells his next companions that they're more or less dead.
It works once. It may work twice. It doesn't work when it's almost every single companion.
I'm watching S10 again now (I really better hurry up) and Bill is great. I really wish we'd had her for more episodes.
I'd mildly prefer "She's here", as I said above, but both are great.
Classy cover, usually there's a ton of text promoting the contents.
Is that an alternate cover or something? Weird to see Radio Times without all the text on front.
That's it. You can't talk about Doctor Who in 2018 without acknowledging that for the first time in half a century she's being played as a woman by a woman. That would be some ridiculous level of denial. She's a woman and in your face. Because women can be shape-changing aliens too.
Martha was my favorite companion for a long time (with Donna in a close second). I haven't revisited many of those episodes in a while, so I'm not sure where I put her versus Bill, who is probably my current fave.
The other nice thing, really, is that Martha is just out there. Jack, too. If, in twenty years, somebody wants to bring them back like Sarah Jane, they just have to ring up Johnny B and Freema and they'd surely do it. I mean, anything can be written around, but it's nice to have characters open like that. (And honestly, one assumes the only reason we've not had Martha & Mickey adventures on Big Finish is because they've been saving her debut for a series with Tennant - and presumably she'll be next.)
I was watching Law and Order UK tonight. Martha is in that, and she pretty much sorted it. She doesn't need any more help.
I think the google automated subtitles spit out pretty much the same thing.
Cool video.
(And I appreciate them not skipping the war doctor, haha)
They got the weirdest eccleston pic
And yay squirrel girl mention =D
Tomorrow! It's all too exciting. As I've said I feel like I've been preparing for the return for ages now, having watched the Twitch Marathon, working through Big Finish and re-watching NUWho.
I forgot to share the intro animation I made a while back:
I made it strictly for fun.
I forgot to share the intro animation I made a while back:
I made it strictly for fun.
I like it, with the hand-drawn elements it looks like a pretty convincing alternative title sequence for a behind the scenes or The Fan Show or something of that type.
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