Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

Watching this in the (sold out) cinema with a fannish audience was glorious. A lot of people wore costumes (this despite the fact yesterday night was a rainy November evening, there were several Daleks ad TARDIS-es!) or T-Shirts/Sweaters) , everyone was in a great mood, and during watching, the collective intake of breaths, laughter and cheers at various places was something to be behold. Incidentally, when you watched this at the cinema, you go first Strax the Sontaran giving us a hilarious speech about not texting, phoning or recording during performance and then Doctors Smith and Tennant making fun o the 3 D and each other as well before the proper episode started.

( Onwards! Allons-y! Geronimo! )

..also!

...before I get back to drearly Real Life again.


The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot is a hilarious half an hour RPF special written and directed by Peter "The Fifth Doctor" Davison. Starring just about every surviving Doctor and Companion actor and their relations plus certain show runners and Dalek voices. It's glorious fun, in which everyone is utterly unafraid to take the piss out of themselves - ( spoilery highlights )

- and even funnier when watched after the Anniversary Special and the preceding minisodes (because ( of spoilerly things )

. Peter Davison, you clearly have another calling as a scriptwriter - get on that!

And when I've just stopped laughing, I find that I'll have to watch the American remake of Broadchurch after all. At first I thought, come on, guys, why, the original was perfectly understandable everywhere in the world so really doesn't need an American translation, and while I'm all for David Tennant getting employed, why have him play the same role twice? But just now I found out that the American remake will also star Anna 'Skyler White' Gunn playing Olivia Coleman's role. Which means there will be a show in which I get to watch Anna Gunn next to David Tennant. Curse you, f iendishly clever American producers, now I will have to watch the American Broadchurch after all! British TV, take note of then and hire Bryan Cranston for something starring Olivia Coleman immediately.