Two-minute Time Lord

Graeme Burk and Robert Smith? (his question mark is canon) are back to talk about The Doctors are In from ECW Press, their exhaustive yet reader-friendly guide to each of the Doctors’ incarnations. Once in a while, they even agree with each other.

It’s time for a post-Sasquan look at the 2015 Hugo Awards and Doctor Who’s place in them…

OK, so that was a great second trailer for Series 9, with loads and loads of Daleks.

Except for those guys introduced in “Victory of the Daleks.”

Alas, the New Paradigm.

It’s been a couple weeks of highs (Doctor Who) and lows (politics) for the BBC. Last time I dwelled on the lows. Let’s turn it around this time.

Should the BBC give up on popular commercial programming like, oh, I don’t know, Doctor Who? A “green paper” to be released today reportedly calls for reconsidering the British Broadcasting Corporation’s purpose, while the government plans to force the BBC to dig deep into its own pockets to fund license fees for citizens over 75.

Is this the darkest timeline? 2MTL gets a little uncharacteristically political as I talk with friend of the show Toby Hadoke about what’s behind these moves and whether Strictly and Sherlock and our favorite television show might be at risk.

(Also, check out Toby’s play on BBC Radio Four, The Dad Who Fell to Earth.)

The Doctor and companions were threatened with maximum deletion last time, which I suppose is worse than simple deletion. I bet the Doctor had a clever way out of this one that had absolutely no deus ex machina involved, right?

Well, at least “The Age of Steel” is a cool name.

If you were a classic fan who was on Team Cyberman rather than Team Dalek, this episode was long overdue. But was “Rise of the Cybermen” a proper re-introduction of the classic villains? Or were there too many stompy missteps out of the gate?

2MTL comes out of a weeks-long retirement at a time when it would appear it would be easy enough to bring back the Third Doctor…

Why would a man-child geek culture hound, who has immersed himself in your Star Treks and Star Wars and Jason of Star Commands as a child, dreaming of being those characters and living in those worlds, become obsessed to the point of podcasting about a character, the Doctor, whom he absolutely cannot imagine being?

Asking for a friend.

It was big news, even for Big Finish: Torchwood and Captain Jack Harkness are back. The producers are holding their cards close, so you know what that means: rampant speculation and bucket-listing from your humble host!