Once again, YouTube brings the funny

It's a regular topic of horrified conversation in Doctor Who fan circles: what would the show look like in american hands (besides that mid-90s TV movie we don't talk about.)

As usual, YouTube has the answer:

Doctor Who opening in the styles of both Dallas and Arron Spelling.

This post inspired by the rumor that for next season, new show-runner Stephen Moffat is going to be replacing the existing opening credits with one that has a classic show style "face in space". As long as they get rid of that awful remix of the theme with something better, they can do whatever they want as far as I'm concerned.

(There's actually a very easy test to tell if a version of the Doctor Who theme is good or not: if you can identify a single instrument being used, they screwed up.)

Also, to wash that down with, check out Star Trek as the A-Team (whomever made that gets a FONTS WEEK thumbs up for the font in the title there.)

Also: Tennant's Hamlet on BBC2

Warm up the bittorrent client, everyone. The David Tennant / Patrick Stewart Hamlet is being filmed for BBC2.


This concludes your British entertainment news for the day.

....And we have the other new cast member!

The Doctor's new assistant is a British actress you've never heard of named Karen Gillan.

All is right with the world.

This is everything a Doctor Who monster should be

Right here.

K-9 and Company?

They're making a K-9 spinoff show.

Some background, to get everyone up to speed. K-9, of course, was the robot dog on the original Doctor Who, and who's had the occasional cameo shot on the New Who and The Sarah Jane Smith Adventures. Thanks to the wild and wonderful carnival that is British IP law, the writers of the script that K-9 originated in own the rights to the character (while the BBC owns the physical design.)

What that means is that Bob Baker gets to make his own K-9 show whether the BBC wants him to or not. Which, really, is pretty cool, all things considered.

Where am I going with this? I'll tell you: they've released an image of what the new K-9 prop will look like. And I'll just say this: I'm no great fan of the old look, but man, how did they manage to find something that looks worse?

The latest Who Rumor

Word on the internet street is that the new Who, Matt Smith, is signed for three years with an option on a further two.

Here's hoping both that that's true, and that he's that good.

(Did everyone catch that I just used the word "that" four times in a sentence - that was grammatically correct?  Crazy times!)

An another thing...

For the first time, the actor playing Doctor Who is younger than I am. This was sure to happen someday, but I am only thirty. I figured I had a few more to go....

And the New Doctor Who is...

... a British character actor no one has ever heard of. All is right in the world.

Also, happy new year.

And a Happy Christmas to all of you at home!

45 Years

It's the 45th anniversary of Doctor Who today.

Who'd have thought 45 years after starting, it'd (still) be one of the most popular shows in the UK?

Today's Wiki article of the day

Doctor Who Missing Episodes. Nice!

Well, damn it.

David Tennant is stepping down as Doctor Who after next year's "not-a-season":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm

Damn, damn, damn.  I was really hoping he was going to give Tom Baker's "longest running" title a run for it's money.  And the thought of a full season script-edited Stephen Moffat with Tennant in the lead?  Bliss.

Still, not to be, I guess.  Well, time to roll out all the Eddie Izzard / Bill Ningy / David Bowie / Ian Richardson / James Nesbitt / Richard Griffiths rumors.

"If you could touch the alien sands and hear the cry of strange birds, and see them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?"

Youtube: every single Doctor Who Episode. 45 years in eight minutes.