Ten Days to a Tenth Anniversary, 10: The Big Day
Well, it's here. Ten years ago today, a new Doctor arrived on our screens in a new series after a fifteen and a half year hiatus. And he advised his new companion to run, which is as good as advice as any considering the sorts of scrapes the Doctor regularly encounters.
As I said at the start of this ten-day series of posts, it's a strange and slightly unsettling thing to consider, just how quickly those ten years seem to have flown by. It's also strange, but I think very hopeful to consider that there are young Who fans around today who probably don't even remember a time when new Doctor Who was not on their televisions or other devices, a similar position to that of the young fans of the 1970s and 80s. If Doctor Who is going to continue for another fifty years in some format or medium (and I have no reason to think that it will not), then those are the fans who are going to ensure that it does. And even though the life of any television series is finite, it could be one of them who is the new RTD creating New New Who in whatever form popular dramatic entertainment takes by the middle of this century.
Anyway, according to the the New Who Anniversary Celebration Countdown Challenge posted to the comm by ibishtar - - March 26th: Anything you want! So here goes...
Check out the coverage of the tenth anniversary in the Radio Times, including congratulatory messages from many involved with the show in some capacity or other.
Read this really rather good tenth anniversary write-up on the Doctor Who News site.
Watch this rather wonderful video featuring Peter Capaldi.
And because videos are cool, there's also this great fan-made trailer for the whole of the new series which I very much enjoyed.
So thanks to everybody who's been reading and responding to these posts (I will try to catch up with the comments when I can), to ibishtar for posting the challenge questions, and to Lord Rusty of Davies, I guess, for making it all possible. ;) Enjoy what's left of the tenth anniversary, folks
As I said at the start of this ten-day series of posts, it's a strange and slightly unsettling thing to consider, just how quickly those ten years seem to have flown by. It's also strange, but I think very hopeful to consider that there are young Who fans around today who probably don't even remember a time when new Doctor Who was not on their televisions or other devices, a similar position to that of the young fans of the 1970s and 80s. If Doctor Who is going to continue for another fifty years in some format or medium (and I have no reason to think that it will not), then those are the fans who are going to ensure that it does. And even though the life of any television series is finite, it could be one of them who is the new RTD creating New New Who in whatever form popular dramatic entertainment takes by the middle of this century.
Anyway, according to the the New Who Anniversary Celebration Countdown Challenge posted to the comm by ibishtar - - March 26th: Anything you want! So here goes...
Check out the coverage of the tenth anniversary in the Radio Times, including congratulatory messages from many involved with the show in some capacity or other.
Read this really rather good tenth anniversary write-up on the Doctor Who News site.
Watch this rather wonderful video featuring Peter Capaldi.
And because videos are cool, there's also this great fan-made trailer for the whole of the new series which I very much enjoyed.
So thanks to everybody who's been reading and responding to these posts (I will try to catch up with the comments when I can), to ibishtar for posting the challenge questions, and to Lord Rusty of Davies, I guess, for making it all possible. ;) Enjoy what's left of the tenth anniversary, folks