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question of the day: Which era would you like to see as a setting for a nostalgic soap opera or drama (à la ‘Mad Men’)?

Wed, Aug 03, 2011
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NBC has The Playboy Club, ABC has Pan Am, both set in the 60s. The BBC is a tad more adventurous: its The Hour is set in 1956. Couldn’t we look farther afield, temporally speaking?

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BBC iPlayer goes international

Sun, Jul 31, 2011
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Somebody’s been listening to me. Shut up: let me at least pretend as much.

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor now on Facebook

Wed, Jul 20, 2011
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The Doctor himself isn’t on Facebook — I doubt he has time to update his status when he’s running from Daleks — but Doctor Who the show is, streaming over your computer for 15 FB credits apiece.

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Torchwood: Miracle Day: Episode 1: “The New World” (review)

Thu, Jul 14, 2011
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No spoilers here, if you’re in the U.K. and you’ve been good and won’t see this episode till tonight, when it finally airs on BBC One. There are no spoilers because there’s pretty much no way to spoil this episode: it’s all setup… all the setup we’ve already heard about.

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: in which we see the violence inherent in the system (re ‘Torchwood’: “Miracle Day”)

Tue, Jun 28, 2011
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There’s a lot of disturbing news about Torchwood: “Miracle Day” in recent days, and all of it is connected to the fact that this season, the show is a joint production with an American network.

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: already there’s a teaser for “Let’s Kill Hitler”

Wed, Jun 15, 2011
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Take a look at the 12 seconds of actual content in this BBC teaser video. Now let’s spend the next three months debating what it means.

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: nobody knows what the hell is going on with Season 7, not even Twitter

Tue, Jun 14, 2011
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If only we had a TARDIS and could pop ahead to see what we’ll get, Doctor Who wise, in the next year or so. But we don’t. But have only Twitter…

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Amy’s voiceover intro for the international episodes — good or bad?

Mon, Jun 13, 2011
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I was a little upset to hear from friends and fellow Doctor Who fans in the U.S. that the BBC America versions of the episodes in the current season have been opening with a voiceover by Amy, setting up the scenario. It makes it sound as if the show is all about Amy, which it isn’t…

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: seventh season a go, with Matt Smith (but maybe not till 2013?)

Wed, Jun 08, 2011
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Hoorah! More Doctor Who! Even if we might have to wait a long while for it…

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: 50th anniversary ideas, please…

Tue, Jun 07, 2011
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I think it might be nice, as a nod to the original conception of the show as educational, to do a purely historical story: one with no SF elements whatsoever. A story set in 1963 that highlighted how the world has changed in half a century could be really interesting…

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