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BBC apologises for Doctor Who gaffe

May 2, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The ending of The Time of Angels was rather ruined by an animated trailer for some non-geek TV program of mind numbing doom. Actually, up here in Scotland we didn’t suffer such a fate (score one for BBC Scotland) but I gather the English and Welsh suffered (anyone from Northern Ireland able to comment?) In […]

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Doctor Who computer games are on the way

January 30, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The BBC’s turning the corner on two fronts; it’s getting back into games production and its going to allow Doctor Who to be included in the new generation. The Beeb canned their game making multimedia division in 2005 and haven’t done anything since. They’ve also been extremely protective of the Doctor Who license and we’ve […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: bbc, doctor who, top trumps

Cause for concern? BBC backs Doctor Who

January 6, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Here in the UK whenever there’s a political storm the Member of Parliament knows they’re in trouble whenever the Prime Minister is forced to publically back them. It usually means the tide has turned against the errant politician and very soon they’ll be forced to step down. Hopefully there’s no parallel here but the BBC […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: bbc, David Tennant, doctor who, matt smith, Russell T Davies, steven moffat

The BBC teases us with three Day Of The Triffiids clips

December 21, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Oh my gosh. Sometime on TV to look forward to this Christmas! Of course; what will happen now is that that Doctor Who will turn out to be better than I fear and this will turn out to be worse. Or did the BBC line this up to keep ‘us lot’ happy after reviewing the […]

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