It's... The 50th Anniversary News!!
More news today on the Scylla and Charybdis of the BBC's impending 50th anniversary celebration plans. Yes, that 50th anniversary special (in nausea-inducing 3D!!!) and Mark Gatiss's much-talked-about drama about the making of the early years of Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time.
First off, we have David Bradley, who since I last posted anything about the drama seems to have gained some measure of notoriety on the interwebz for...something he did at a wedding reception? Not sure what it was, exactly, but it sounded like it ruined the big day a tad.
Anyway, don't hold that against him, because here is a BBC article picturing him channelling the essence of Billy Hartnell.
Pretty rad, heh? Or whatever the cool kids say nowadays. I have to laugh at the Beeb scribe's brilliantly cagey description of the Gatiss film as "one of a number of programmes that will mark Doctor Who's half-centenary later this year." Two, one can't help thinking, is a number.
But wait! There might be more information out there after all. Courtesy of this post on doctorwho, HERE is an interview with international evil mastermind and part-time TV writer Steven Moffat, who lets the following tasty tidbit slip concerning the aforementioned 50th anniversary special:
"I think you could call it movie-length, yeah. I mean, I’m saying that with a slight hint of vagueness because I don’t know the finished running time. It’s certainly well over an hour."
Again, my inner cynic is thinking sixty-five minutes is well over an hour. If you're a particle physicist or something. But enough cynicism. That's your lot for now. Still no news on the missing episodes story, btw. It's gone ominously (embarrassingly?) quiet on that one...
First off, we have David Bradley, who since I last posted anything about the drama seems to have gained some measure of notoriety on the interwebz for...something he did at a wedding reception? Not sure what it was, exactly, but it sounded like it ruined the big day a tad.
Anyway, don't hold that against him, because here is a BBC article picturing him channelling the essence of Billy Hartnell.
Pretty rad, heh? Or whatever the cool kids say nowadays. I have to laugh at the Beeb scribe's brilliantly cagey description of the Gatiss film as "one of a number of programmes that will mark Doctor Who's half-centenary later this year." Two, one can't help thinking, is a number.
But wait! There might be more information out there after all. Courtesy of this post on doctorwho, HERE is an interview with international evil mastermind and part-time TV writer Steven Moffat, who lets the following tasty tidbit slip concerning the aforementioned 50th anniversary special:
"I think you could call it movie-length, yeah. I mean, I’m saying that with a slight hint of vagueness because I don’t know the finished running time. It’s certainly well over an hour."
Again, my inner cynic is thinking sixty-five minutes is well over an hour. If you're a particle physicist or something. But enough cynicism. That's your lot for now. Still no news on the missing episodes story, btw. It's gone ominously (embarrassingly?) quiet on that one...