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If only Colin Baker had something like this!
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2 ... o-episode/Armando Iannucci: “I Want To Write A ‘Doctor Who’ Episode”
By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 4th, 2013
We already know that comedy writers make good Doctor Who writers – Douglas Adams, Mark Gatiss, Richard Curtis, to name but three – so amid all the global hoo-hah over whether Peter Jackson will get to direct an episode, let’s spare a moment to create our own little extra hoo-hah (technically a Who-hah) over the possibility that Armando Iannucci might one day get to write one.
It’s not the worst idea in the world, given his track record at creating realistic situations of political jeopardy in The Thick of It and Veep, that have a strong undercurrent of comedy. And it’s not as if he has no experience of writing words that sound good coming out of Peter Capaldi’s mouth.
Granted, a lot of the words he’s used in the past would be entirely unsuitable for the Doctor, but it’s not as if there aren’t other ones he can use instead. There are a lot of words.
And he’s keen, according to What’s On TV. Here’s how he reacted when the question was put to him:
“I’d love to! Steven Moffat hasn’t asked me, but it would be great because I love sci-fi and I grew up with Doctor Who as well.
“I was so pleased when I heard that Peter had got the role. He had a part in the show a few years back and he told me that when he went on set and saw the TARDIS, he nearly cried! He’s a massive fan.”
sherbetbizarre said:It seems to me the episodes that we're doing now seem more like classic Who. We're going back to that style. But you'll have to wait and see
I watched it again last night. Smith is told an old man his looking for him - Clara thinks he's "the curator". Smith muses to himself that he'd like to maybe one day retire and become a curator. As if by magic, the shopkeeper.. or rather Tom Baker appears and says something along the lines of "As you go on, you may find yourself revisiting some old faces" - implying he could regenerate back into forms he'd had previously. Also allows Baker to imply to Smith that he has more regenerations than he thought. So in fact Baker could actually be the Doctor's very last incarnation, from way into the future - he's retired, to keep an eye on the artefacts. Which is nice.a couple of months ago said:..A friend explained to me how Tom Baker's cameo at the end could make sense, but I wasn't too keen on the idea that other iterations of Who could just go and retire after regeneration. Maybe I misunderstood but that seemed like bending the rules.
And doesn't involve him re-writing his own immediate history every week. Takes away the jeopardy when you know Moffat will just hit reset and pretend it never happened. That just relegates it to uber-lame "It was all a dream" territory - the Doctor's always better when he has consequences to have to live with.Heckler20 said:I do hope so, let's move away from 'A day in the life of the doctor' and return to 'situation that requires resolution and the doctor is there and attempts to resolve it'.
And, indeed, he had a warrant from Liz I appointing him curator.stuneville said:I watched it again last night. Smith is told an old man his looking for him - Clara thinks he's "the curator". Smith muses to himself that he'd like to maybe one day retire and become a curator.
That's pretty much my reading on it, too. Tom was playing a late regeneration of the Doctor, who's taken up his post as curator of the under-gallery to while away his twilight centuries.As if by magic, the shopkeeper.. or rather Tom Baker appears and says something along the lines of "As you go on, you may find yourself revisiting some old faces" - implying he could regenerate back into forms he'd had previously. Also allows Baker to imply to Smith that he has more regenerations than he thought. So in fact Baker could actually be the Doctor's very last incarnation, from way into the future - he's retired, to keep an eye on the artefacts. Which is nice.
DrWhiteface said:Briefly met Peter Davison at the Sydney signing yesterday (got my copy of Castrovalva signed) - they crowd to see him were bigger than the one in Brisbane...
gncxx said:I've been watching the new Web of Fear DVD this week, and though the consensus was that Enemy of the World was the real gem out of the two rediscovered stories, I'm enjoying this one even more. I'm up to episode four, which was really excellent, like John Carpenter's The Thing set in the London Underground. I obviously haven't seen the first story to feature the Yeti, but as that was set in Tibet that might be even more Thing-like.
It's a pity one episode wasn't found because the still photos don't do it justice in the reconstruction, but don't let that put you off getting this if you think you'd like it. It really is great.
DrWhiteface said:Yes, the missing third episode replaced with audio and still pictures threw me off. If they can use animation for The Invasion and The Ice Warriors, why couldn't they have used animation for this one missing episode?
gordonrutter said:One of speed to animate it would have meant a long wait before it would be released. If you believe some of the rumours you just have to wait until the special edition comes out with episode three intact
gncxx said:That would be just typical, wouldn't it?! Anyway, I've just finished the story and it was definitely one of the strongest of the sixties ones, though I'm well disposed towards the Second Doctor.
But what of the rumours still spreading of other stories being "sat on" by the collectors which they also found in Africa? Anything to them, or wishful thinking?
Fluttermoth said:OMG; the Omnirumour has spread here now? It's taking over the internet!
There are a lot of rumbles about Power of the Daleks being one of the recovered stories.
Is a major villain returning to Doctor Who?
Has Sylvester McCoy let slip that a major villain is returning to Doctor Who series 8? Potential spoilers ahead...
Warning: contains potential spoilers for a returning character in Doctor Who series eight.
The whispers about this one have been doing the fan community rounds for a while now, part hopeful wish and part rumour: is The Master returning to Doctor Who in series eight?
Oh yes, says Sylvester McCoy, who was reported to have let the 'news' slip at a recent Newcastle Film and Comic Con panel. And what's more, says McCoy, John Simm's role has already been recast. McCoy didn't reveal who he claims would be playing The Master, save for saying that the actor is "very scary".
Our hands currently overspilling with clutched-straws, could this possibly tally with the rumour that Michael Smiley is to appear in series eight as "Colonel Blue"? Nobody who's seen Smiley's previous work with director Ben Wheatley could deny that "very scary" is well within his wheelhouse. Doctor Who TV has cited Game Of Thrones' Charles Dance as another unsubstantiated possibility.
Without wishing to cast aspersions on the honesty or accuracy of McCoy's words, it's worth saying that he's a man with a healthy sense of humour and at present all this remains firmly in the rumour category. If it were to be confirmed though, and Capaldi's Doctor is due to face The Master in series eight, we hope you'll join us in a mass geek shiver...
Ah! Good point!gordonrutter said:Well it is a thread about Dr Who so it would be a bit strange not to mention it at least in passing...
Yeah, I have to agree; I find 'Nu Who' a great example of style over substance.Good times ahead. Hopefully. And even if they're not we have good times now as we have nine episodes to watch that we didn't have last year.
Don't take this the wrong way - I like and watch new Who but I would rather have a single returned episode than an entire new season.
Gordon
Dr Who: the first 50 years
Wednesday, 16th Apr 2014 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Talk by Andrew Cartmel, former script editor of Doctor Who
Andrew Cartmel, who was the script editor on Dr Who for its last three series, gives his perspectives on the first 50 years of the programme.
Andrew Gardner, whose father worked on Dr Who from 1963 to 1967, will speak briefly on why much of the BBC archive is missing and on efforts to put it back together again.
Islington Archaeology & History Society event