Well I did try to tell people, FFS no one wants to listen either on GB or here.

Sheesh why do I bother.

Like I said over there I haven't seen it this time but I have the info first hand, as you see the twitter promo bears me out.

*cough*

We have been pondering over your words for many hours - days, even- in the case of the strictly tease. Though your credibility tends to take on the Levine effect when you come in afterwards with that attitude. You caught it - congrats.

Yes you did, well done for spotting a genuine nugget, but doesn't it irk you when some people start shouting it down?

Ooh *holds handbag up*

Good job.

Now about those missing episodes...

Well, since you put it like that it all seems fair enough to me

I would go further and say that I would have preferred to have had a full series of NuWho leading up to the anniversary ep, rather than however many months it's been waiting between The Name of the Doctor and The Day of the Doctor.

I also would have put a teaser trailer at the end of the Next Doctor Live show, and/or the recent BBC3 repeats of series 7 (in the same way that they included a teaser for the next series of Sherlock after the recently aired repeats) because that seems like a wasted opportunity when you have a captive audience.

For what it's worth it's not so much a case of being happy with how things have gone this year but rather a case of letting go of what we didn't get. Otherwise I know I for one would just make myself miserable for the main event and tarnish what is to come.

But I'm happy with my stamps so I don't care what anyone says about them

That twitter post is funny. A couple of people were happy then some people moaned, then someone moaned about them moaning

Such is life I guess...

But of course.

Two stings in quick succession and the continuity announcer stating it's a very special year for Doctor Who.

Strictly audience reminded.

Why show classic Who for free if another station is willing to pay for the privilege or fans are willing to buy the DVDs, or have already done so?

Web of fear available on iTunes for £9.99. Why give things out for free if you can make money out of it?


If they did show some, where would they put in the schedule?

Would New Who fans watch and, if they did, what would they think of it? Especially if some was shown in black and white.

Older fans might reminisce, newer fans might just find it crap when compared to modern productions.

See that's all well good and would be fantastic for us as fans, the problem is that you don't make trailers for fans. You make them for everyone else except fans.

We are all going to watch it anyway, regardless of what they do to promote it, so their target is bringing the general public in.

However the general public would very quickly burn out with a solid month worth of trailers and a full years worth of specials, documentaries, re-runs on BBC One/BBC Two and it would actually start hurting the show. People get fed up easily with over saturation.

I agree they have underplayed BBC3 and BBC4 though, that would be prime for re-running episodes and features, classic or new series. We never know though, we are still over a month away, they might use these in the weeks leading up to the special.

The bigger picture is that the BBC need to play to the wider audience to build the viewership, which is exactly what they are doing, marketing wise they are being very clever drip feeding it rather than letting everything all out before the episode, they just need to build it up now.

I think it also doesn't hurt to remember that for the 30th and 40th we had nothing at all in the way of new serious content and that we would have been thrilled with just one episode planned. More will always be welcome but let's be thankful for what we have now when we look back at what situation we could be in.

so the trailer indicates that the Doctor has been running all his life... indicating that he is the original, first Doctor... but his outfit suggests he fits in the time war and regenerated from PM and into CE.

So what if Hurt is the Time War Doctor but had to deal with the reason he stole the Tardis in the first place, and things got out of hand and led to him doing something bad then? Stringing together both theories?

Also in the original series why did the Doctor end up in a kind of Galifrey Court/trial and get sentenced to Earth? as wouldn't he have got done for stealing the tardis then? (which blows my theory out the water!)