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Topic History of: Dr Who new series - very good
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Pru |
steveimp wrote:
Pru wrote:
Underneath the obscenely OTT hype it's a throwaway kids' show. I don't mind throwaway kids' shows, but this nonsense about this show is really laughable. Put it on at tea time, where it belongs, stop mentioning it in NEWS bulletins, for god's sake, and get some perspective. Look at the figures - most of the nation ignores the show. BBC Publicity Dept, get a life.
Never a kids show Pru, never made by the childrens department, always been a mainstay of BBC Drama output since 1963 and created by some of the best minds around at the time - Sydney Newman, Verity Lambert.
In essence it's the most simple yet versatile idea going - go anywhere, anytime, do anything. No other drama like it.
Yes, yes, I know all about its history. But it was scheduled as a kid's show in spite of all that, and as far as I'm concerned for good reason. The depressingly intense geekdom this show has created is one of the great bores of the age - masses of forty and fifty year old overgrown boys obsessing about the minutiae, and, what's worse, often arguing and raging about it. And while in a way I admire the slick way the BBC re-launched it, I find the hype about it embarrassing. |
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JK2006 |
Well I thoroughly enjoyed both this first episode of Dr Who and last night's Maigret, Atkinson's best. |
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andrew |
Pru wrote:
Underneath the obscenely OTT hype it's a throwaway kids' show. I don't mind throwaway kids' shows, but this nonsense about this show is really laughable. Put it on at tea time, where it belongs, stop mentioning it in NEWS bulletins, for god's sake, and get some perspective. Look at the figures - most of the nation ignores the show. BBC Publicity Dept, get a life.
Annoys me when BBC use the news as an excuse to promote their own shows me...ITV you did it with Downton Abbey. |
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steveimp |
Pru wrote:
Underneath the obscenely OTT hype it's a throwaway kids' show. I don't mind throwaway kids' shows, but this nonsense about this show is really laughable. Put it on at tea time, where it belongs, stop mentioning it in NEWS bulletins, for god's sake, and get some perspective. Look at the figures - most of the nation ignores the show. BBC Publicity Dept, get a life.
Never a kids show Pru, never made by the childrens department, always been a mainstay of BBC Drama output since 1963 and created by some of the best minds around at the time - Sydney Newman, Verity Lambert.
In essence it's the most simple yet versatile idea going - go anywhere, anytime, do anything. No other drama like it. |
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steveimp |
Pearl impressed me more in 45 minutes than Jenna Coleman did in 20 odd episodes. A very good find by the production team. |
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