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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Friday, September 26, 2003

Dr Who, Dr Who, Dr Who... The Tardis

Tony Smith of The Register reports that Dr Who logoDoctor Who will return to TV in 2005.
Doctor Who is returning to the nation's TV screens in 2005, the BBC said today.

Laid to rest in 1989 - though re-animated in 1996 in a rather naff, 'we don't get it' US TV movie, not considered by many fans to be part of the Who canon - the series still has legions of fans around the world.

Lorraine Heggessey, Controller of the BBC's main channel, BBC One, said a few years back that she would like to bring the family-oriented series back. However, it is believed that contentions over broadcast and other rights were preventing the BBC from making such a move. The rights are thought to centre on the deal struck with Universal Studios to produce the 1996 TV movie, which starred the rather good Paul Withnail and I McGann.

Today, however, Heggessey said all such issues had been resolved and that a series of scripts written by Queer as Folk scriptwriter Russell T Davies had been given the green light.
The Register being a UK publication, the linked article quite naturally centers on the BBC announcement. Hopefully US public television will pick up the new episodes; I shudder to think of the butchery the SciFi channel would perform if Viacom got their gre[ed|as]y corporate hands on it.
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