Showing posts with label BBC america. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC america. Show all posts

Saturday, April 10, 2010

All The Doctor's Companions

All The Doctor's Companions

Last Saturday was the premiere of the new season of Doctor Who. Well, across the pound that is. I'll rub it in once more that BBC America doesn't get it till next week. Ha! Good luck waiting that week, I'll be enjoying tonight's episode in a couple of hours!

Any how, if you aren't lucky enough to catch a BBC version of it then you'll get caught up in the following week, but perhaps you should pay some attention to the new companion that is tagging along The Doctor as she's already making some controversy for what she's wearing.



You see, Amy Pond is too damn sexy!

He's spent hundreds of years traveling the universe with rather tomboyish companions by his side.

But when Doctor Who returned to our TV screens on Saturday night, the Time Lord was joined by a new sidekick - a kissogram with an almost non-existent mini-skirt.

The revealing outfit prompted a flood of comments on online message boards, with a section of fans accusing producers of 'shamelessly sexing up' the long-running family show and labeling it 'slutty'.

The reaction threatened to overshadow Matt Smith's well-received debut as the Doctor after taking over from David Tennant. Some 8.3million viewers tuned in. New companion Amy Pond, played by 22-year- old former model Karen Gillan, first appeared on screen in a policewoman's outfit with a tiny skirt. In one scene her character tells the Doctor that her kissogram repertoire also includes nuns and nurses' outfits.

And in another, she watches as the Doctor completely undresses in front of her while getting changed.

As he strips off, Amy's fiance Rory asks: 'Aren't you going to turn your back?' to which she replies, 'No', while running her eyes over the naked Doctor (though viewers saw him only from the waist up).



It was even more surprising given the rather conservative attire worn by actresses who have played the Doctor's companion in the past, including Bonnie Langford and Elisabeth Sladen.

Even her more recent predecessor, former pop star Billie Piper, covered up for the part, preferring hoodies and jeans - although fans with longer memories will recall leggy Leela, played by Louise Jameson in a skimpy animal skin costume, or Peri (Nicola Bryant), who made her debut in a pink bikini.

But Miss Gillan defended the decision to dress in a mini skirt, saying: 'I tried on different things and when it came to the short skirts, I just thought it was right. I mean, look down most high streets and girls Amy's age wear that. It's not that weird. 'Short skirts show that Amy is confident and comfortable about her look. You have to have confidence to wear something like that.'

Doctor Who's executive producer Piers Wenger said that Steven Moffat, the series' new boss and chief writer, had wanted a sexier companion for the Doctor. He said: 'The whole kissogram thing played into Steven's desire for the companion to be feisty and outspoken and a bit of a number.

Amy is probably the wildest companion that the Doctor has traveled with, but she isn't promiscuous.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour

In true Doctor Who fashion I'm coming to you to post this from the future. Specifically April 17th. Why this day in the future? Well, that's because that is when BBC America will be showing the Eleventh actor to play The Doctor's season. Even though it did air back on April 2nd for those in England.. So yes, I jumped in a TARDIS.. or at the very least used my TARDIS USB Hub connected to my computer and came back in time to post this.. a game you can play as you watch the latest episode of Doctor Who.

What is it? Glad you asked. It's Doctor Who Bingo!



Just print those out and play along while you watch the episode on April 17th, cause really, what fun is just watching a new episode that you've never seen and are excited to witness, when you can make a game out of it?!? Why else do you think drinking games were invented? Then again, this is Doctor Who... so chances are you wont have anyone else to play this Bingo card with. In the effort to be an optimist, there's two. Maybe you can sucker your girlfriend into watching it. I mean, what else are you going to watch on BBC America between Top Gear episodes?

Which brings up a bigger point, why did the US get BBC America to agree to play it two weeks apart? What good does that do? I mean, I shouldn't complain. For one reason, with the power of the internet shows are at my finger tips literally the moment they finish airing on the earliest coast they aired on. I could understand the move when Scifi was showing it here in the states a good couple of months before/after the season showed up on DVD and at least 6-8 months after it first aired in England. But two weeks? Seems a little pointless.



You mean to tell me I'm going to have to hold my serious time travel discussion and how hot Amy Pond is for a good two weeks as America catches up?!? How dare they! I know. Then again, that whole "Two bingo cards" theory comes into play and chances are I'll be lucky to find someone else to even talk about Doctor Who with. Though, given my Girlfriend and a close friend both are into the show, you can take that whole paragraph as sarcasm.

Besides that, how many people in the US actually get BBC America? Especially given that the previous seasons were shown on Scifi in the US, which a lot more people get. BBC America is one of those special channels you have to shell out the big bucks for, or at least go beyond non-basic cable.



Driving on Robertson the other night I saw a Doctor Who billboard and was really surprised. Doctor Who, as I've often said it, is the show that even nerds call other nerds nerdy for watching it. It's not the bottom of the totem pole, but it sure is intimidating regardless on whatever it is that I said in the last blog post about this nerd show.

I just don't see people, who don't have BBC America already thinking that after seeing that ad that they got to update their cable plan and get BBC America to watch it. Those folks who like Doctor Who already got it and then again, chances are those folks who live along Robertson already do have it. I mean, it is upper crust and BBC News actually covers stuff on what happens on the Gaza strip.

Well, anyhow, I best be off. Got much fun things to do back in April 17th time line. You know, like enjoy being 30 or something..