Dr Who - Rumors (Daleks) and Dr Who named!

[Hand of Evil]

As reported on Sci-Fi Wire...

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-03/19/11.45.tv

The BBC is in talks to resurrect the Daleks on its new Doctor Who series, the BBC reported. The fan-favorite villains have to clear copyright problems between the BBC and the estate of late SF writer Terry Nation, who created the Daleks, the BBC said. "We are negotiating to feature the Daleks in the new series, but no deal has yet been made," a spokeswoman for the network said.

Meanwhile, the spokeswoman denied that any actors had been cast to play the new Doctor Who and his assistant, Rose. Filming for the new series is due to begin in Cardiff this spring, for transmission on BBC One in early 2005.
Actors Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Richard E. Grant and comedians Alan Davies and Eddie Izzard have been linked to the new Doctor Who role, the BBC reported.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Doctor Who Named!

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-03/22/10.00.tv

Eccleston Is Doctor Who
Christopher Eccleston (Shallow Grave) will become the ninth Doctor Who in the upcoming BBC update of the classic SF TV series, the BBC News Web site reported. The cult BBC show returns next year.

Eccleston, who starred alongside Nicole Kidman in the horror movie The Others, will be the ninth TV Time Lord to control the Tardis in a 13-part series, the BBC News reported. The BBC said the British-born actor would take "a fresh, modern approach," the site reported.

Doctor Who has been played previously by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann. Doctor Who originally ran for 26 years, from 1963 to 1989, and the new series will be filmed in Cardiff later this year.

 

[Mark]

Looking forward to it! I wonder how much they'll plunk down for special effects?

 

[Viking Bastard]

Oooohhh.. Major Henry West!

 

[Umbran]

I wonder how much they'll plunk down for special effects?

Hopefully not too much. Doctor Who has always gotten by on things other than special effects budgeet. I'd prefer they plunk down the dollars (or shillings) on good writing and cast, and allow the effects to be slightly cheesey.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Hopefully not too much. Doctor Who has always gotten by on things other than special effects budgeet. I'd prefer they plunk down the dollars (or shillings) on good writing and cast, and allow the effects to be slightly cheesey.

Strong stories / writing and low tech, that is the way to go.

 

[James Heard]

Hopefully not too much. Doctor Who has always gotten by on things other than special effects budgeet. I'd prefer they plunk down the dollars (or shillings) on good writing and cast, and allow the effects to be slightly cheesey.

They could always have the effects done by cheap Bollywood effects houses. If A&E can produce series with good special effects occassionally I'd hope the BBC could as well. Besides, Dr Who writers probably are lining up for underpaid wages since you'd be on a series that was almost guaranteed to provide a stepping stone to greater things if you could manage to resurrect the franchise. I'd rather they ditched effects more or less entirely than do a poor job of them.


Oh, and they have to send us poor Americans episodes immediately. I don't need any more shows that I have to download on my schedule!

 

[buzzard]

They could always have the effects done by cheap Bollywood effects houses. If A&E can produce series with good special effects occassionally I'd hope the BBC could as well. Besides, Dr Who writers probably are lining up for underpaid wages since you'd be on a series that was almost guaranteed to provide a stepping stone to greater things if you could manage to resurrect the franchise. I'd rather they ditched effects more or less entirely than do a poor job of them.

Now I wonder... do you consider the orginal seriers to have:
A) Ditched effects entirely
or
B) Done a poor job of them

I would say the latter myself. Though I always found the cheesy effects amusing and par for the series. I mean, what would a Dalek be without a plumber's helper as an arm?

buzzard

 

[Morrus]

Hopefully not too much. Doctor Who has always gotten by on things other than special effects budgeet. I'd prefer they plunk down the dollars (or shillings) on good writing and cast, and allow the effects to be slightly cheesey.

Shillings? I know the show's about time travel and everything, but I don't think that applies to the production itself!

 

[Olive]

Interestingly enough, the daleks negotiation seem to be a bit... fraught. In Australia, they have been reshowing Dr Who fromt he begining, and they are coming up to the first dalek episode ('The Day of the Daleks'). The channel that's showing them said in today's paper that that episode won't be aired, or any other dalek ones, because the BBC didn't have the right to sell them!