Run for your life!

[altariel]

An evening spent catching Dr Who trailers and squeeing like a thing that makes a lot of a squeeing noises. BBC Wales Tonight had a cool little clip and an interview with a squiffy RTD which our Sky box pretended to tape and then helpfully lost. Excited enough to forgive. Seem to be humming the theme tune a lot. In between all this and a trailer for The Two Ronnies, it's like some weird timewarp thing is going on, taking us all back to some platonic Saturday evening in 1977, only with better special effects and somehow less damp and chilly.

I'm aware the episode is out there. I don't want to know a thing.

Edited to add: Licence fee payers make their views on the new show heard. My favourite comment: "It's a dream come true and amply compensates for never having had a girlfriend."

Comments

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

Just heard that Rita and John have downloaded episode one and a round shiny thing is on its way to me.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Don't want to know a thing about it.

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

I'll post any spoilers behind a cut tag thingy

[altariel.livejournal.com]

You're a star :-)

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Have they revealed the Big Secret, the thing that is actually really, really tempting me to watch the bootleg episode?

When is it on?

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Well, it's on starting April 5th in Canada, so the Beeb ought to get crackin' if they want their precious world premiere.

(I loved that first ep.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

March 26th seems to be the date (Easter Saturday, I think? I can never keep up with when Easter is.)

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

So I've heard. The Beeb's website isn't as helpful with its TV schedules as the CBC's, though.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

March 26th, so far as I can make out.

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

I own no tv, so I shamelessly downloaded and watched last night: my second ever exposure to Dr. Who, the first being a two minute clip from God-knows-what that scared the willies out of me when I was eight. For now, I am ... bemused, but willing to keep watching out of enthusiasm for the theme song alone. :) I'm most eager for your expert opinion.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The reworking of the theme tune is great: it keeps so much of the original version, but it's a new version for this show.

The single clip I saw was very encouraging: I'd had a couple of reservations about whether Christopher Eccleston could pull off the humour of the part, but he's a brilliant actor and I shouldn't have worried. Just over two weeks to go! No doubt I'll blather at length here. I think the first transmission date in Canada is 5th April.

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

which our Sky box pretended to tape and then helpfully lost

I'm glad to hear that new technology is no more reliable. My video clicked on for Dan Cruikshank's Around the World in 80 Treasures last Saturday, whirred for an hour, then clicked off. And what do I have for it? 60 minutes of snow. It seems it "forgot" where BBC1 and BBC2 were in its tuning settings. Funny that the PDC control worked, though.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It hardly ever does this kind of thing - normally it's completely reliable. I have a feeling it might be flakier over the Really Important Things, but that could just be cynicism.