Doctor Who Club of Australia

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3896

From the ABC site, the current TV series will debut on ABC2 on Friday February 29 8:30pm beginning with Rose.

g,uest · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 337

g,uest · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 337

g,uest · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 337

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3896

Found out from Optus Magazine that Doctor Who Confidential has been scheduled on UKTV on Tuesdays to Fridays starting on this Friday May 2 6:45am and ending on Tuesday May 20 and they have been scheduled without the corresponding Doctor Who series in sight.

g,uest · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 337

montypython · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

On seeing the ad for Boom Town this week on ABC2, I was baffled by the fact that the trailer included clips from The End of the World, i.e. Earth blowing up. Strange...

montypython · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject:

Someone's a bit confused. On the ABC website, here is the blurb for Bad Wolf on ABC2:

The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack are trapped on the Game Station in the year 202,005 - where game shows and reality television have run wild.

1,905 years off the real date. They must have assumed it was set 200,000 years after the present day (and forgotten that it's set after The Long Game).

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3896

After seeing Afterlife on UKTV hours ago, found out from an ad that like last year there will be again a Doctor Who Marathon this coming Queen's Birthday Weekend on June 7 and 8. From the clips shown it will be from the 2007 season and presumably The Runaway Bride as well.

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3896

I have now have details about the Doctor Who Marathon on the Queen's Birthday Weekend on UKTV which I got from the June issue of Optus Magazine.

Saturday June 7 will begin with the 2005 Christmas Special The Christmas Invasion at 9am followed by the 2006 season episodes and finish off at 11pm.

Sunday June 8 will begin at 9am with the 2006 Christmas Special The Runaway Bride followed by the 2007 season episodes and finish off at 11pm.

Like the marathon on the last Queen's Birthday weekend last year, the cutdown version of the Doctor Who Confidential episodes will be shown after their corresponding Doctor Who episodes.

For The Runaway Bride, the 2007 season episodes as well as their corresponding Doctor Who Confidential episodes this will be the first time they will be shown on UKTV.

In addition to this UKTV is providing during the marathon the Ultimate Doctor Who Interactive Experience courtesy of the red button on the remote.

For the period of June 1-8 Optus Magazine has given the Doctor Who Weekend, the Pick of the Week.

g,uest · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 337

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Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3896

The Doctor Who marathon is now on and the Ultimate Doctor Who Interactive Experience is the following:
Competition
Trivia
Video Extras

I don't know what the prizes are for the competition because to enter is the cost of a local call.

The trivia is 10 random questions about Doctor Who. One of the questions is quite amusing as it asked (with the correct answer of course being 3.)
John Simm (Saxon) also stars in which UKTV drama?
1. Life On Metelis III
2. Life On Skaro
3. Life On Mars
4. Life On Gallifrey

The Video Extras consists of the following:
The Eccleston Era - The first and last Eccleston episodes and the corresponding Confidential episodes

The Infinite Quest - The animated adventure of the Tenth Doctor and Martha. This marks the first time that it has ever been shown on Australian television. This could indicate a proper screening on UKTV in future.

Resistance Is Useless - Old documentary on the classic series with clips from it. It features the narrator Steve Sheen wearing an anorak. Doctor Who fans weren't very pleased with the anorak as that is unwanted image of Doctor Who fans in general. The documentary was originally broadcast on January 3 1992. This means that Paul McGann is unrepresented in the marathon. UKTV could at least have included the 1996 TV movie as an extra as well.

All the extras run on a loop which means that people who not seen The Infinite Quest before would have to jump at the exact time that it starts without knowing what happens later on.

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3896

For the screening of Last of the Time Lords on the UKTV marathon it showed the edited shorter version instead of the full version of 51 minutes.

What's missing, as far as I can tell, from the edited version are the following:
- The warning against coming to Earth at the beginning.
- Martha and Milligan getting into the truck at the beach at night after meeting each other there. It cuts off after Milligan said it was too late to save the world.
- The Doctor coming out of his tent which says "Dog".
- The leadup to the escape attempt at 3pm is cut to just one second to 3.
- The Master letting the Doctor know about knowing about Martha's location.
- Francine holding a gun to the Master before being talked out of it by the Doctor.
- Martha giving Professor Docherty flowers and giving Milligan a call.

The episodes from The Runaway Bride to Last of the Time Lords will be shown again on UKTV this time individually on a weekly basis from Tuesday July 1 7:30pm

g,uest · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 337