Remember that More4 promo from a while back that featured Jon Snow, Kevin McCloud, David Starkey and Tony Robinson as a pub quiz team? Well, it’s been so popular, More4 have actually put together a pub quiz web site so you can play against them. Fancy a go?
UPDATE: They’ve just produced a new promo to advertise it
UPDATE 2: They’ve sent me a video link now: here you go
The ‘Doctor Who Unbound’ range of Big Finish audio plays is probably its most interesting. Essentially, each asks a ‘What if?’ question and then, with the assistance of a brand new Doctor and usually one of the TV companions, answers it. Sometimes the questions have been quite simple ones about events having taken a different path, while others have been more philosophical.
So we’ve had Geoffrey Catweazle Bayldon and Carole Anne Ford answer the questions, "What if the Doctor and Susan never left Gallifrey?" and "What if the Doctor changed history?"; David Collings, in possibly the most interesting play, tackled "What if the Doctor believed the end justified the means?"; controversially, Arabella Weir’s Doctor escapes the Time Lords – in the shape of David Tennant in a medallion – by getting a job in a supermarket; Derek Jacobi may or may not have been the Doctor but he was certainly the writer of some of the worst Juliet Bravo scripts ever made and might have been famous if his TV show, Doctor Who, had ever been made; while Michael Jayston reprised his TV role of an evil version of the Doctor to answer the question "What if the Valeyard had beaten the Doctor?" – well, only Bonnie Langford would be able to challenge him, apparently.
The most conventional of the plays was probably David Warner’s appearance as an alternative version of Jon Pertwee’s Doctor, exiled to Earth a few decades or so after all those alien invasions that UNIT faced, thus answering the question "What if the Doctor turned up late?" with the short response "Not much, thanks to Nicholas Courtney’s Brigadier, and the Master would have regenerated into Mark Gatiss."
Now, here he is again, partnered with his new companion The Brigadier (still played by Nicholas Courtney), answering the valuable and vital question, "What if the Daleks were, erm, reasonable?"
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Look at him. Look how hurt Richard Armitage is.
Why is he hurt? Because despite pleadings, requests and God knows what else, Armitage’s Army has failed to produce a new picture of his head in weeks. After swearing – swearing, I tell you – that they would faithfully support ‘Dick Heads’ and even voting for its inclusion on this ‘ere blog, we’ve heard not a Dicky bird from them in weeks.
What can we conclude?
I’m not sure which. What do you think, dear reader?
But, despite Jane Henry’s desperate attempts to fan the embers of Dick Heads, I’m afraid that unless we get a few other people ferreting around for photos or captioning these lovely pictures, we’re going to have to phase Dick Heads out in favour of an apparently more popular actor with an apparently more dedicated following. Or just the usual rubbish that I churn out – I’m not decided either way.
Let’s see what happens, anyhoo. Until then, haiku, love sonnets or whatever you like for the ‘crying on the inside’ Richard Armitage picture above, please.
Got a picture of Richard Armitage’s head, preferably wearing a hat? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Dick Heads” gallery.
To tide you over for another week until there’s a new episode of Heroes, here’s another NBC promo. Since they can’t say “It’s by Bryan Fuller. You know that guy who used to write for Heroes but left to write that other show that no one watched on another network altogether and has come back now it’s been cancelled” and expect normal people to care or be excited, they’re now trailing it as “a classic”. A tad pre-emptive, but let’s hope so. Interesting to see who’s in it and what the focus is
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