The two finalists will be judged on how well they can rewrite their ending when faced with the final judge - Stephen Berkoff, who WILL make it hard for them.

You could never make Some Like It Hot today in our sensitive society. Conservatives would go MAD. Men dressed as women!? This is, believe it or not, my first Marilyn Monroe film (I think).

More and more, I am convinced that a large percentage of Doctor Who fandom don't actually understand Classic OR revival Doctor Who. They just fundamentally get what any of it is doing, they have an image in their heads of what the show should be, even though it has never been any of it.

"RTD should've never modelled Doctor Who off Buffy, he should've copied Classic Who", an actual thing I saw. WHICH Classic Who? Classic Who was about four or five shows, none of which resembled each other. The only difference between Survival and Rose is a slight increase in production values.

The histrionic postmortems of the entire Doctor Who revival are so over the top lol. The only postmortem necessary is the last few years. The show was doing fine for nearly two decades until it hit a brick wall and now we are here. What happened to RTD2 is the only necessary question.

Really not a bad choice at all. I’d be happy with that!

Genuinely the biggest sign this version of Doctor Who is over. Every episode from Rose to Reality War, longest tenure of any crew member, perfectly cast Doctors, companions, secured huge guest stars and gave many now big actors an early career break. Total legend.

Uh oh, we've broken containment.

- The second finale of the sixth distinct Doctor of the show - Mel is in it - It goes totally off the rails - There is a hasty rewrite of the last act - The show is put on hiatus shortly after - It is in close proximity to the Rani - Be Reality War - Pic unrelated

I'm seeing a lot of people insist that the next production team has to pick up on the BillieDoc bit. To me, it's literally just Ultimate Foe again. It wasn't addressed in 1987, it still isn't addressed now. The Valeyard has been mentioned once as an off-handed bit of continuity. All you need to do.

It's a shame Bad Wolf is literally NAMED after Doctor Who, one of the show's crowning successes on top of that, and have not only screwed up but also now pulled out entirely from making the show. I'd have liked to keep them around, just not the bosses, which I acknowledge is impossible.

This was the approach Cartmel did when recruiting McCoy era writers. These were all young guys (and one woman) who'd grown up with 60s and 70s Who, thought the show had become too bogged down in its own mythos, and wrote the show as if it was rebooted from Troughton. It worked wonderfully.

Among many other things, the fact we will never see this TARDIS interior is *heartbreaking*. They really did spend millions on making the GOATest of all GOAT TARDIS rooms and barely ever filmed it. And now we'll never see it again.

If I was approached to give my take on Doctor Who, right now it's this - make four feature length episodes a year, the Doctor is a Benoit Blanc-esque figure in them where (preferably) she is the only returning element. A few runs of these and we can switch to a serialised arc to finish off. Job done

My guess for CMIYC being one is that more people do DiCaprio completionism than Hanks completionism, and Hanks is in more Spielberg films so they are spread out views wise. That and pre-21st century films never being as popular on the app as 21st.

Guys the solution to fixing Doctor Who and moving it forwards in a modern TV environment is not "go back to the way Classic Who did it". Nothing on TV in the last nearly 40 years has resembled how Classic Who "did it", it is insane to think or suggest that.

I for one am heartbroken we're not getting more TV about the most Christmassy Christmas ever where the message is the power of fucking Christmas which doesn't do anything except embarrass the Doctor Who brand on the biggest night of the year One more of those would've turned me into Scrooge I swear

YOUNG ADULT DOCTOR I am not even kidding. What other direction can we go? What would change the conceit of the character on a *fundamental* level the way making the character young, working class or female did?

There are many factors behind Doctor Who’s current state, absolutely none of them can be blamed on Chibnall who left the show having given the next team a literal free, open pass and moved on to other things. Yelling at him is silly.

The next iteration of Doctor Who, whenever it is, will probably be the most radical reinvention ever. We need a ground up reinterpretation. And what’s the harm in letting young people control the show? Look at the box office, or the Cartmel years. Let’s open the sandbox.

The most depressing “I knew it” ever. See you in three/five/ten/sixteen years when the BBC magically find that money they apparently don’t have. I think this is mostly Bad Wolf cocking up, Beeb and the state of the UK TV industry minor factors, Disney broadly misblamed but still a guilty party.

King frequently goes online, stirs up shit, refuses to elaborate then goes offline for two weeks. The guy's old and I still don't think quite gets social media. And generally I am in agreement with him! He's crusty hetrosexual RTD in that regard - bro, step away from the phone

Stephen King and Hugh Laurie both providing excellent examples in the last 24 hours why if you're a famous person you should leave the social media stuff to a team.

MFW the new headphones prioritise the bass in songs -

Wild Blue Yonder, Backrooms and Obsession are probably the best pieces of fiction since the AI boom to comment on the limitations and horror of it. Fake worlds, fake people, trying to mould things to your desires but it not understanding.

Matthew McConaughey winning Supporting Actor 2013 for Wolf of Wall Street would have resolved three key issues - 1. Leo could’ve won Lead for the right movie 2 McConaughey STILL gets one 3. Jared Leto doesn’t I know he only has 7 minutes, don’t care, still should’ve won.

Burger King/Pringles - Still a more successful collaboration than Bad Wolf/Disney lol

I think 80s nostalgia largely died during the pandemic but because Stranger Things stayed popular studios didn’t realise that benefitted from the Grandfather Clause. Now it’s over, there’s no nostalgia anymore. No attachment among younger audiences.

It is extremely funny how most American reviewers who tackles The Hobbit is very, very, very confused by Radagast and who Sylvester McCoy is. Fun fact - he wasn't given a script, he just went to New Zealand and wouldn't go away, so they stuck a hat on him and filmed him.

OK so Battle of the Five Armies is Jackson and co giving up and smashing things together for two hours. I mean, it’s entertaining. Not really The Hobbit though.

I'm sure, like everything, these films will get revisionism, not entirely without argument. Beautifully filmed, perfectly cast and scored, the first film is a lot of fun, lots of great isolated moments... but you can see Jackson lose the will to live in real time. BOTFA insists upon itself.

Smaug dies *ten minutes* into Battle of the Five Armies. I was genuinely surprised we didn't hear more about the Great Cinema Burnings of Christmas 2014. You wait a year for THAT.

It’s not a Great Dane because the length of time between filming the seasons is the lifespan of a Great Dane and they can’t keep replacing the dog in-between.

I know we’re not in award season yet but there seems to be so little enthusiasm in the film industry and demographics/audience metrics changing so rapidly away from typical fare I might pre-emptively predict Project Hail Mary for Best Picture. Dune 3 might box office shattering.

The Desolation of Smaug is half of a very good film about Laketown, Smaug and Bilbo, then there's random elf shit and Gandalf is Glupp Shittoing with Radagast for the other half. How odd. It's clearly Jackson trying to emulate Two Towers, but the soul of the first film is already vanishing.

No actress or male actor of colour would be allowed to have as many flops as Jared Leto has had in a row.

The Hobbit films are broadly good when they are about The Hobbit and begin to suck when they are about The Lord of the Rings.

If I was around in 1989 my defence for why Keaton would be a good Batman is that you wouldn't cast him as Batman in a film. Because you're not supposed to figure out this guy is Batman, and that's why he's the best. I could possibly figure out Bale is Batman, could DEFINITELY figure out Pattinson is

MrTARDIS recently did a video on "fixing" the latest Doctor Who series and he suggested making Al and Conrad the same person, something that never occurred to me until it was pointed out and yeah, do that. What the hell? Why WASN'T this the story arc.

I will say that I’m only one film in but immediately this is better than the Star Wars Prequels because they feel like the same series as the originals and don’t fuck with timelines and continuity and aren’t cripplingly dated.

Alright, as they're all on Netflix, sure, why not... THE HOBBIT TRILOGY.

It's great we are seeing horror/horror performances enter the award conversation in recent years, now we need the same to happen for the GCP - Great Comedy Performances. Long overdue, even more historically snubbed. Case in point, Timothy Dalton in Hot Fuzz. Perfect performance.

Arrow's recent 4K restoration of Hard Boiled is the greatest physical media release of all time. About the third time I've watched this now and this might be my favourite action film, just totally unhinged.

FYI before people get mad at next year's ceremony it's unlikely Anthony Head will be in the Oscars In Memoriam as he wasn't a film actor. Leaving him out of BAFTA TV or Emmys though, then we riot.

The Rolling Stones have a new album out this year. Their first album came out during the broadcast of Marco Polo. Their recording career has spanned almost the entirety of Doctor Who and given has spanned multiple breaks in production, outliving Classic, BBC Wales and Bad Wolf era Who.

The Shining, but actually good.

OK, so the only Spielbergs I have left are - Always (the last of the really infamous ones) Schindler's List (avoiding cause I like being happy but after Hook I think it'll be a breeze) The Post (I think he made this in two weeks?) West Side Story (truthfully I have never been interested in this)

A performance so good it almost upstages and overshadows the return of Elisabeth fucking Sladen. Whenever Finch is on screen, it is ALL you watch. Commanding and constrained but also campy and over the top when called for. *loud bat screeching noises*

Gordon Brown or bust.