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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jul 20, 2019 20:47:27 GMT
From the Livestream
More 4th Doc news in next weeks DWM
Future 4th Doc Companion Margate from Ravenous Companion piece Debut scene!
War Master Only the Good was the best selling DW Range Boxset of last year
Future DW St Regeneration Impossible is 12th/13th as performed by Jacob Dudman
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mark687 Interesting. Maybe I'll wait on ordering the Donna Noble until Friday so I can combine them.
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Post by Digi on Jul 21, 2019 22:24:12 GMT
From the Livestream Day 2 Greatest show in the Galaxy will get a Prequel AND a Sequel written by Stephen Wyatt 7th Doc will meet Churchill Regards mark687 Oooh! I hope that means they're getting Ian McNiece to come back! I quite enjoyed the Churchill Years sets and would be happy to see him reprise the role, even if it's just an appearance in another range rather than a new box set of his own.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jul 21, 2019 22:46:45 GMT
From the Livestream Day 2 Greatest show in the Galaxy will get a Prequel AND a Sequel written by Stephen Wyatt 7th Doc will meet Churchill Regards mark687 Oooh! I hope that means they're getting Ian McNiece to come back! I quite enjoyed the Churchill Years sets and would be happy to see him reprise the role, even if it's just an appearance in another range rather than a new box set of his own. At this point I can't imagine them getting anyone else but Uncle Ian.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2019 22:59:44 GMT
Oooh! I hope that means they're getting Ian McNiece to come back! I quite enjoyed the Churchill Years sets and would be happy to see him reprise the role, even if it's just an appearance in another range rather than a new box set of his own. At this point I can't imagine them getting anyone else but Uncle Ian. Agreed - they're not going to replace someone who's done the role on telly and had his own boxsets - he's got the role as long as he wants it. I could see though, and maybe this is what Digi means, is a different era Churchill, say when he was a reporter during the Boer War. There are a lot of periods of Churchill's life that would make great drama (some quite dark ones that I doubt BF would touch) that could need a younger man in the role. Ian's great but I'm not sure he could pull off the 20-something Churchill! Didn't they do a younger Winston? I've only heard the first box and may be making this up!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 11:07:40 GMT
From the Livestream Day 2 Greatest show in the Galaxy will get a Prequel AND a Sequel written by Stephen Wyatt 7th Doc will meet Churchill Regards mark687 Am in two minds about this... On the one hand, a prequel/sequel could be good and interesting - allowing Wyatt to flesh out the origins of the Psychic Circus and the aftermath of the story in the sequel. As Greatest Show was quite a good TV story (beginning of an improvement for the TV show in the 1980s I think - Season 25 is generally of a better standard), these could be quite good releases. On the other hand, I am concerned about 'sequel-itis' - there is more than a whiff of the Missing Adventures approach here with trying to 'revisit' TV stories (sequel to the Web Planet anyone?!) Surely, there is enough ideas out there for some new stories? I might be unduly pessimistic (and hope I am proved wrong) but it does worry me slightly when I see announcements like this... I liked Return To The Web Planet. And Return Of The Krotons come to that. I really kinda miss the BF subsribers Christmas specials. I've just never been sure Greatest Show is quite as good as some say. I think in context of the first two years of McCoy it's better than anything in S24 but that's not really saying much. I didn't like the sneering look at fandom in Whizz-Kid (which, if it was based off contemporary Who fandom could theoretically be a direct parody of Chris Chibnall given his TV appearance the year before!). Mags was so under-developed BF may as well have had a new character as there's so little to tie her down. And is the Ep 1 cliffhanger the worst one the show has ever done? People moan about the "cliff" in Dragonfire....Greatest Show has The Doctor asking Ace "Well, shall we go in?" as an actual cliffhanger. Exciting! The idea has promise though so a prequel and sequel, especially if written knowing the other is coming, could be special. Wyatt's Target versions of Show and Paradise Towers give the idea he's not someone who struggled with premise, but the team struggled realising his ideas. Paradise Towers should have been JG Ballard meets 2000AD...we all know what happened.
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Post by number13 on Jul 22, 2019 12:10:35 GMT
Am in two minds about this... On the one hand, a prequel/sequel could be good and interesting - allowing Wyatt to flesh out the origins of the Psychic Circus and the aftermath of the story in the sequel. As Greatest Show was quite a good TV story (beginning of an improvement for the TV show in the 1980s I think - Season 25 is generally of a better standard), these could be quite good releases. On the other hand, I am concerned about 'sequel-itis' - there is more than a whiff of the Missing Adventures approach here with trying to 'revisit' TV stories (sequel to the Web Planet anyone?!) Surely, there is enough ideas out there for some new stories? I might be unduly pessimistic (and hope I am proved wrong) but it does worry me slightly when I see announcements like this... I liked Return To The Web Planet. And Return Of The Krotons come to that. I really kinda miss the BF subsribers Christmas specials. I've just never been sure Greatest Show is quite as good as some say. I think in context of the first two years of McCoy it's better than anything in S24 but that's not really saying much. I didn't like the sneering look at fandom in Whizz-Kid (which, if it was based off contemporary Who fandom could theoretically be a direct parody of Chris Chibnall given his TV appearance the year before!). Mags was so under-developed BF may as well have had a new character as there's so little to tie her down. And is the Ep 1 cliffhanger the worst one the show has ever done? People moan about the "cliff" in Dragonfire....Greatest Show has The Doctor asking Ace "Well, shall we go in?" as an actual cliffhanger. Exciting! The idea has promise though so a prequel and sequel, especially if written knowing the other is coming, could be special. Wyatt's Target versions of Show and Paradise Towers give the idea he's not someone who struggled with premise, but the team struggled realising his ideas. Paradise Towers should have been JG Ballard meets 2000AD...we all know what happened. I see your 'circus tent entry' bad cliffhanger and raise you the 'it's a patterned floor' bad cliffhanger from 'Death to the Daleks'! (As a loyal Pertwee fan, I'd like to claim that all over the country we were afraid to walk on mosaic lino for weeks afterwards, but there are limits to my loyalty! )
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 12:28:32 GMT
I liked Return To The Web Planet. And Return Of The Krotons come to that. I really kinda miss the BF subsribers Christmas specials. I've just never been sure Greatest Show is quite as good as some say. I think in context of the first two years of McCoy it's better than anything in S24 but that's not really saying much. I didn't like the sneering look at fandom in Whizz-Kid (which, if it was based off contemporary Who fandom could theoretically be a direct parody of Chris Chibnall given his TV appearance the year before!). Mags was so under-developed BF may as well have had a new character as there's so little to tie her down. And is the Ep 1 cliffhanger the worst one the show has ever done? People moan about the "cliff" in Dragonfire....Greatest Show has The Doctor asking Ace "Well, shall we go in?" as an actual cliffhanger. Exciting! The idea has promise though so a prequel and sequel, especially if written knowing the other is coming, could be special. Wyatt's Target versions of Show and Paradise Towers give the idea he's not someone who struggled with premise, but the team struggled realising his ideas. Paradise Towers should have been JG Ballard meets 2000AD...we all know what happened. I see your 'circus tent entry' bad cliffhanger and raise you the 'it's a patterned floor' bad cliffhanger from 'Death to the Daleks'! (As a loyal Pertwee fan, I'd like to claim that all over the country we were afraid to walk on mosaic lino for weeks afterwards, but there are limits to my loyalty! ) OK Number 13, you've convinced me, finally wore me down....I'm ready to admit it now - The Pertwee Era isn't that great after all At least there with the floor of Doom*, The Doctor seemed to sell us on the idea *something* was wrong. It's crap as a cliffhanger, but at least Pertwee tried selling it! We're through the looking glass here, you arguing against a Pertwee and me sticking up a defence! * One day, speaking of floors of doom, I'll find out what the "Easy as pi(e)" floor" rules are in the Five Doctors. Ainley seems to pick random tiles, completely different ones on the way back (including going over the edges) and then Hurndall and Fielding go on different ones again when they cross! It's almost like it seemed a clever idea on paper then Peter Moffat thought "Well, what does that actually mean outside of a bad pun.....OK, I'll just make it up" when actually filming it.
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Post by dorney on Jul 23, 2019 11:39:24 GMT
It’s true - the episode lengths in the Pertwee years struggle quite a bit - there’s about three cliffhangers that got altered in Planet of Spiders for example.
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Post by dorney on Jul 23, 2019 12:30:31 GMT
It’s true - the episode lengths in the Pertwee years struggle quite a bit - there’s about three cliffhangers that got altered in Planet of Spiders for example. Related to this - the Letts/Dicks years have some insanely long cliffhanger reprises (top of Robot 3, Sea Devils 3) to get the episodes to length. They really struggled with that, I think!
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Post by mbt66 on Jul 23, 2019 20:27:59 GMT
It’s true - the episode lengths in the Pertwee years struggle quite a bit - there’s about three cliffhangers that got altered in Planet of Spiders for example. Related to this - the Letts/Dicks years have some insanely long cliffhanger reprises (top of Robot 3, Sea Devils 3) to get the episodes to length. They really struggled with that, I think! Fortunately Big Finish have no such restrictions! At least since Nick Briggs relaxed the 25min per episode requirement.
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Post by lidar2 on Aug 1, 2019 8:42:49 GMT
AUGUST VORTEX LETTER PAGE
- More Classic Doctors, New Monsters on the way in some shape or form - Nick makes positive noises on the possibility of the War Master encountering the War Doctor - They are "making some plans" for River to meet One, Two, Three and Ten - Next Holmes series into production later this year (did we already know that?)
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Post by frisby78 on Aug 1, 2019 8:51:32 GMT
AUGUST VORTEX LETTER PAGE - More Classic Doctors, New Monsters on the way in some shape or form - Nick makes positive noises on the possibility of the War Master encountering the War Doctor - They are "making some plans" for River to meet One, Two, Three and Ten - Next Holmes series into production later this year (did we already know that?) Hmm, I'm ambivalent about CDNM, and really think that they need to do something new with River. I'm not sure about war master meeting war doctor especially if it involved a recast as I think it may be a wee bit too soon. Also this whole crossover thing I'd getting a bit tedious, it's not obligatory that everyone has to meet each other. Personally I don't think it will be long that a dead horse will be flogged in regards to the time war.
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Post by lidar2 on Aug 1, 2019 9:11:27 GMT
AUGUST VORTEX LETTER PAGE - More Classic Doctors, New Monsters on the way in some shape or form - Nick makes positive noises on the possibility of the War Master encountering the War Doctor - They are "making some plans" for River to meet One, Two, Three and Ten - Next Holmes series into production later this year (did we already know that?) Hmm, I'm ambivalent about CDNM, and really think that they need to do something new with River. I'm not sure about war master meeting war doctor especially if it involved a recast as I think it may be a wee bit too soon. Also this whole crossover thing I'd getting a bit tedious, it's not obligatory that everyone has to meet each other. Personally I don't think it will be long that a dead horse will be flogged in regards to the time war. The letter to which Nick was responding seemed to be suggesting a Chronicles-style narration
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Post by lidar2 on Aug 1, 2019 9:14:25 GMT
AUGUST VORTEX LETTER PAGE - More Classic Doctors, New Monsters on the way in some shape or form - Nick makes positive noises on the possibility of the War Master encountering the War Doctor - They are "making some plans" for River to meet One, Two, Three and Ten - Next Holmes series into production later this year (did we already know that?) Hmm, I'm ambivalent about CDNM, and really think that they need to do something new with River. I'm not sure about war master meeting war doctor especially if it involved a recast as I think it may be a wee bit too soon. Also this whole crossover thing I'd getting a bit tedious, it's not obligatory that everyone has to meet each other. Personally I don't think it will be long that a dead horse will be flogged in regards to the time war. They should put your words up in big letters on the wall in the BF office
I like a crossover as much as the next fan, but if they happen too often they cease to be "something special". A bit like chocolate cake is a nice treat, but you'd soon get sick of it eating it every day.
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Post by sherlock on Aug 1, 2019 12:55:20 GMT
AUGUST VORTEX LETTER PAGE - More Classic Doctors, New Monsters on the way in some shape or form - Nick makes positive noises on the possibility of the War Master encountering the War Doctor - They are "making some plans" for River to meet One, Two, Three and Ten - Next Holmes series into production later this year (did we already know that?) More CD, NM could be good. As for River meeting every single Doctor, I was kinda hoping Big Finish could move River on from her meeting every Doctor under the sun, there must be more to do with the character.
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Post by lidar2 on Aug 1, 2019 13:28:14 GMT
AUGUST VORTEX LETTER PAGE - More Classic Doctors, New Monsters on the way in some shape or form - Nick makes positive noises on the possibility of the War Master encountering the War Doctor - They are "making some plans" for River to meet One, Two, Three and Ten - Next Holmes series into production later this year (did we already know that?) More CD, NM could be good. As for River meeting every single Doctor, I was kinda hoping Big Finish could move River on from her meeting every Doctor under the sun, there must be more to do with the character. I like the character of River, but I'm not THAT big a fan, so I'd prefer her meeting Drs. Or, at the very least, to complete the full set before moving on to her own adventures. Having said that, I'd still buy it with no Drs or some Dr Who link, but maybe BF fear some customers wouldn't
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Post by mark687 on Aug 10, 2019 11:12:23 GMT
Oh I wonder if its Re-Casts or even an all British version
Also BF Plugged TV Years but gave the News to SFX
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2019 11:43:45 GMT
Oh I wonder if its Re-Casts or even an all British version
Also BF Plugged TV Years but gave the News to SFX
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mark687 I'm guessing recasts is going to be the way they go with Space 1999. rather than an all new version. And considering they've worked with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain's daughter before, I know who would be top of my list for fantasy casting for Dr. Helena Russell..
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Post by mbt66 on Aug 10, 2019 15:18:50 GMT
How can you bring back Space-1999 in the year 2019?
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Post by axelotl38 on Aug 11, 2019 8:35:30 GMT
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