Weeeeeeuhhhhwooooo! New Dr Who starts 19 September!

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Hooray! Let's hope that this series is better than the last.
Oh look it's Arya Stark! And more Missy!
And PC's hair is madder than ever!
(And I've found the box of exclamation marks!!!!!)
Let's see

I should learn not to listen to DS. DT is coming back for an audio series.

They are doing some audio books. DT used to do them with his wife as a new character.

Dd2 yesterday omg omg muum Dt is going back to Doctor who eeeeek aw wait never mind its audio books

was watching 'The Daemons' this week, Jon Pertwee.

In UNIT theres an officer, a Sargeant Osgood.

Any relation to the current Osgood does anyone know? he was a scientist guy in this story. .

and yy agree about the writers/producers not knowing their viewers/ age group anymore.

Ooh that's interesting. Wonder if I've got that one.

"The Doctor just does not seem warm or funny anymore" - the first doctor wasn't particularly warm or funny - in fact in the first story, he tried to kill a wounded caveman who was delaying their escape...

Yes but times have changed. Doctor Who was designed as a low budget educational children's programme. Now it is a massively expensive flagship show. It needs to appeal to a wide audience to justify the cost of production and to sell overseas. DT and MS were able to do that and still do. PC is apparently lovely off screen and not at all grumpy.

If it wasn't for the 'middle-aged fanboys' (and fangirls; I know exactly how old I was when I first started watching it, I was 7 years and 3 months old in November 1963) it would never have been revived, so I reckon we deserve the occasional nod to the past...

I appreciate that . It's part of what I love that I can remember watching Peter Davison and my son watches the same show. It just seems to want to relate more to the past than to move on, which will be bad for us all. You can't spend £1m+ an episode just for a niche show which it was in the '80's.

Looks interesting

It seems a bit daft so far.

yawn

More hybrids...

I have to say I didn't rate last night's at all. The red things were just so predictable and stereotypical, even the way they spoke.

I also thought it very misjudged to have the shoulder launched missile at a plane given the news events of the day

Crappy show, BBC

I agree Peter Capaldi is spectacularly good.

It's just the rest of it.

Plus he's married so I can't even get legitimately excited about him.

I did snort at the benefits line.

The rest of it - meh. Felt like a mid-season monster-of-the-week creature-feature man-in-a-rubber-suit space-filler.

i never thought i would say it but im bored of the doctor

and the guitar playing nonsense has to stop seriously

It is such a shame i really was excited about Pc but his stories are just shit givehim a sonicscrew driver and let him get on with it stop messing withhim, and hasnt that monster been in it abillion times before but in different colours

He is its bloody tragic.

PC is excellent but this entire series has just been a bit meh and I can't even pinpoint why. . .

Its just meh you are right.