Something I like doing in my spare time is figuring out where expanded universe adventures take place for revival TARDIS teams. When are the Eleven/Amy novel/Adventure Game adventures? Most place them post-Cold Blood. How many 2011 expanded universe stuff has Flesh Amy?

Right, here's my top 50 revival Doctor Who episodes - 50. Arachnids in the UK According to all known rules of television, it should be impossible for this episode to be good. Its premise is too basic for it to take off. The episode, however, is good. Because Chibnall doesn't care what you think.

This is such a gold standard of Doctor Who trailers that even now, every single trailer is compared to it. Literally nothing came close to the level of hype that this created.

Wait, WHAT? Holy shit! Let's find that lost Hitchcock film and London After Midnight next!

I'd do the "About Me: TV shows" thing but most of them would be Doctor Who. I don't even know if I've watched enough TV! My movie and music tastes are far more diverse. My TV is mostly Who and Britcoms, with the occasional streaming show.

Peter Capaldi: Jodie and Ncuti are great, it's just a show, chillax and stop taking everything so seriously Doctor Who fans: THIS LIST RANKED NIGHT TERRORS OVER LAST CHRISTMAS, THIS AUTHOR MUST DIE DON'T YOU KNOW THERE ARE ONLY THREE DOCTOR WHO SEASONS

My dad just got the complete Blake's 7 and before we start watching, I probably need to prepare my Terry Nation bingo sheet. Won't bother with the Doctor Who drinking game, I expect it's blackout by Episode 1.

I find the Girl in the Fireplace backlash very odd, it’s never really been for me either but there seems to be a loud vocal dislike of it now compared to just a few years ago. Why is it being someone’s second favourite revived Doctor Who story so provocative?

Fun fact: numbered lists are usually just random in terms of the rankings except for what the author thinks is number one or maybe the top ten or so. Numerical order is just for variety and neatness of reading. It's not a big deal!

INetflix are releasing all of Stranger Things as a giant collector's edition. Between this and the Criterion for KPDH, it seems they're changing their tune - to extortionate amounts, but changing it regardless. Physical media is more important than cinema releases for the average consumer anyway.

Someone: Hey, I like Doctor Who, here is a ranking of some of my favourite episodes 😊😊😊 Doctor Who fans:

“See it first bank holiday weekend” BAAAAA-NK HOLIDAY! YOU HAD ONE JOB! YOU MADE A JOKE ABOUT SHEEP BREED BUT NOT B-AAAAANK?!?!?!?!

At school in I think Year 7 the music teacher decided, for some reason, that the end of year movie for a bunch of 11-12 year olds should be Amadeus. The only available version was the director’s cut. With a topless scene. We never got to that scene but still… lol?

A four episode (75-80 mins each) run of Spare Parts, Scratchman, The Cruel Sea and Touched By An Angel.

Can’t speak on this regarding Star Trek but no one citing Doctor Who as having a similar situation is providing any actual examples. Most of the “I am the Doctor and I am awesome” bits are subversive.

So I want to watch Exit 8, I have four local cinemas to choose from - So it's not at the indie cinema It's not at the other indie cinema It's not at my very local chain It's only playing at 11 on the other chain. I don't live there. I have to commute.

I'm sorry my brain saw the words "Park Chan-Wook" and "doctor who" and my brain temporarily broke and I immediately started imagining some high intensity, darkly humorous and satirical TV and holy shit yeah actually, do it. It'll be Paradise Towers with a budget and wait sorry I may have drifted.

Bluesky's new horizontal photo change -

Not using the Nestene in Closing Time is one of the biggest WTF question marks in Doctor Who history. It's in a department store, from a modern audience's perspective they were the first villain (so it's a "last adventure" bookend) and it just makes more sense.

TBF he could’ve switched from anti to pro EU in 20 years, it’s the random sidequest into Welsh politics that’s sending me. This guy makes Richard Franklin’s attempts at politics look comprehensible.

A very odd list, can’t say I think everything should be here but once again if you’re this mad at one person’s ranking, make your own list (which I might, but for the whole show).

I propose we send FiF into the WB vaults to heist Batgirl out of Zaslav’s ass, with their current hit rate it’ll be successful.

Who is your birthday twin*? *Scheider, not the shark Also Richard Burton, Hugh Bonneville, Ennio Morriconne and, most historically significant, Martin Luther.

Really does feel like the Jackson estate have Streisand Effected his remaining legacy with the movie. By avoiding controversy and with knowledge of what they deliberately wanted to hide, it’s all anyone is talking about. What a shambles.

So I think the Doctor Who/Pixar cast crossovers are - Graham Norton Shirley Henderson (Elio) Timothy Dalton (Toy Story 3/4) Is that it? Feels like there should be more, they've cast a LOT of British actors who somehow have bypassed the show.

"Oh, there's a Pixar film I haven't seen yet, let's watc - GRAHAM NORTON IS IN THIS?????" He's THIRD BILLED? What the hell? Are there a whole generation of kids who only know him as "that guy from Soul"?

I know the "revival Doctor Who copies the Classic eras" thing is mostly a joke, but it's very funny how the last two eras have mirrored Five/Six -

Should - Sam Neill Michelle Yeoh Percy Kent-Smith Should not - Anyone who’s already played the part Steven Moffat Myself

Universal seem to be the only Hollywood studio left just chilling and releasing things normally, so whatever their TV division is, Doctor Who should ally with that.

I still think Pixar is great overall but I wish they were allowed to take story or tonal risks and variety like Ghibli. Pixar does not have a Princess Mononoke for adult audiences or Whisper of the Heart which is firmly in the real world. They have a brand to stick to.

This AND the Michael Jackson film in one week? Crikey, I thought we had it good when Morbius and the Slappening happened around the same time.

Ricky September vs Ricky October.

Tooth and Claw is 20 today, which means I have been a Doctor Who fan for 20 years - certainly my first tangible memory of the show. I was at my friend’s house. The Host’s eyes suddenly blacken. I was terrified and hooked. Never looked back.

So given this has Tom Rhys Harries in it more than the Doctor, and Callie Cooke also seems to be in everything, it appears my prediction/observation about Dot and Bubble might be more correct than I thought. It's a standalone so I can imagine folks checking it out before Clayface.

So the current DCU team have prepped, cast, filmed and release dated Clayface in six months time, making three shared universe movies in 18 months, meanwhile The Batman 2 will be out, eventually, when the lead actor is maybe released from one of his 12 projects.

This is, what, the fifth attempt a reboot/legacy sequel? I think there’s enough proof that new horror icons attract new audiences. No more expansions! You can’t beat the original!

There’s been quite a few interesting deep dives into what went wrong with the MCU post-Endgame and some factors were out of their control (pandemic, Boseman dying), others were (cranking out stuff 24/7, no central theme). Regardless, whilst Spidey 4 will probably be fun, Doomsday will be a mess.

It should've been released in a cinema wide release and been the nuclear bomb that killed the music biopic genre like Airplane did the disaster film and Austin Powers did for goofy spy films. It would've also given Radcliffe a shot in that weak Best Actor race.

OK, I think this is the impotus I need to watch Colombo.

It seems that the Lee Cronin Mummy is named such to avoid a copyright battle with Universal for the other Mummy series but, The Mummy is not a concept owned by anyone. There's like 5 different takes on the mummy concept, there's no source. Bizarre scenario. Maybe do another title?

👀👀Congrats to Inua Ellams and Makalla McPherson! I just doubled checked and The Giggle, 73 Yards and Dot and Bubble were all nominated as well but this feels extra special cause it's a new creative team. Seems like stiff competition so good luck!

Bohemian Jacksody 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 That movie caused untold damage to cinema. When was the last time one of these biopics both did well *and* received critical acclaim?

The BBC were happy with Sydney Newman’s suggestion that the way to save Doctor Who was bring Troughton back for a season and were ready to fire JNT with some scripts all ready to go before Troughton’s health concerns scuppered that plan. This explains Season 24 and early McCoy characterisation.

SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT! Also Justice League Dark using a custom team combined from all runs. And I’d waste a studio’s money doing more Primeval.

I think adding new scenes is awkward and not a good look, and this is clearly a way to try and make it number one again… but Cameron also re-releases Avatar to hold the record so eh, whatever.

Being There is a *perfect* film, holy shit, thank you iPlayer! What a find!

I'm a simple man, I see The Rescue, I like. Quietly the most important 50 minutes of Classic Doctor Who. The show *does not exist* without this. Everyone who wants to get into B&W Who needs to experience it in some form.

Carey Mulligan reveals that the “David Tennant” scene in 'BLINK’ was filmed during reshoots. “That was a new addition right at the end… they forgot to put the Doctor in Doctor Who. It was my episode until they put him back. Fucking amateurs" Source: (www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmUx...)

One of the funniest BBC interventions in Doctor Who is that they had to clear Extremis due to the Pope being a religious leader and concerns about international broadcast. The compromise was that the Doctor couldn't mock him and he had to be "generic Italian" Pope, not based on Francis.

I simultaneously think we should stop asking actors just about one or two nerdy roles they played for clickbait forever but also feel a twang of disappointment every time Doctor Who alumni don’t discuss their one off appearance lol.