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Pepperpot Team report the French version of #TWBTLATS has been recorded, suggesting Disney+ will release it soon…but also the usual translation team who've brought #DoctorWho to the French audience were dumped without being informed.
Disney trying to cut its losses? Je ne suis pas d'Accord avec ça.
We have the beginnings of a Starter Pack (thanks to @emma.best for the suggestion!)
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Screen from The Lenny Henry Show series two, episode five (1985) showing the Doctor (Lenny Henry) telling Peri (Jadie Rivas), "Thanks, I feel better now!"
Thanks, I feel better now!
Screen from The Lenny Henry Show series two, episode five (1985) depicting a UB standing in front of the TARDIS and asking, "Oi, oi, oi, what about me?"
Screen from Pierrot le fou (1965) showing Anna Karina as Marianne and Jean-Paul Belmondo as Ferdinand. Marianne is waring a green jacket and green cap over her brown hair. Ferdinand is wearing a grey hat and holding an open bande-dessinée. They are both looking to their right and Ferdinand is saying, "Allons-y, Alonso".
Screen from Doctor Who : Voyage of the Damned (2007) showing David Tennant as the Doctor at the wheel of the Titanic, facing towards Midshipman Alonso Frame, to whom he is saying "Allons-y, Alonso!" The picture is captioned "Let's go, Daddy-O!"
Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou (1965) has a couple of uses of the phrase "Allons-y, Alonso!" Turns out this is a mid-twentieth century rhyming idiom like "See you later, alligator" or "Let's go, Daddy-O!"
The influence of Godard and the Nouvelle Vague on Russell T Davies remains an open question.
In a screen from The Muppet Show (2026), the Beautiful Day Monster, a grey muppet with blue nose and lips, appears unimpressed.
Screen from Doctor Who (1996), showing Paul McGann as the Doctor and Daphne Ashbrook as Dr Grace Holloway, both smiling and looking in the same direction.
I get that all taxonomies, like the neurodivergences that produce them, are compromised attempts to order a chaotic world, but when the latest episode of The Muppet Show isn't listed on Serializd, and yet is listed on Letterboxd…
"I love humans, always seeing things that aren't there in patterns."
I've worked for a few aeromedical retrieval services. The nature of the work being similar to firefighters waiting at the station house for a fire, often retrieval clinicians experience downtime.
Just imagine the downtime at Stoke Air Ambulance, which has no helicopter!
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Surely it's only a matter of time before Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who: The Audio Adaptations Vol. 1…
Screen from One Way Passage (1932, directed by Tay Garnett) with Aline MacMahon as Betty and Frank McHugh as Skippy, looking out a window at the film's doomed protagonist. Betty is telling Skippy, "It's just a ghost."
Getting complimented in the final week of my current job…
The Warner Archive Collection blu-ray of Edge of Darkness.
Screen from Edge of Darkness (1943) showing Walter Huston as Dr Martin Stensgard facing Ann Sheridan as his daughter Karen Stensgard, who is telling him, "Someone has to fight the Nazis."
Edge of Darkness (1943, directed by Lewis Milestone).
For some reason, it felt like the right time to watch a film about the people of an Arctic country fighting back against fascist occupiers…
Gowns by Orry-Kelly.
Screen from I Thank You (1941) with singer Charles Forsythe performing alongside Arthur Askey.
At the end of the 1941 film I Thank You, Charlie Forsythe sings "Let's Get Hold of Hitler" in front of an engaged and enthusiastic audience of Londoners sheltering from the blitz.
But if I posted a clip here, I'd likely get banned from re-entry to the United States… and from bluesky for incitement.
This is a great place to start. Casablanca came out in 1942. When they filmed this, they did not know how the war would end.
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Colin Jeavons as the Atlantean fish-person-creating surgeon Damon in a telesnap from Doctor Who - The Underwater Menace episode two.
“What do you mean they just… they just kiss! That’s all it takes? Was my whole career for nothing? Did I go to underwater medical school for nothing? Just a snog! No xenotransplantation surgery? Not even a big hypodermic needle? Ah. All right. There’s still a hypodermic needle, at least.”
#TWBTLATS
Screen from Pluribus (2025) season one episode seven. In big close up in the right foreground is a bunny. In the background, Carol Sturka is seated in a golf buggy.
Screen from Doctor Who : Mission to the Unknown (2019 remake) with two deadly and spiny Varga Plants.
I do wonder what the people who say "nothing happens" in Pluribus would like to have happen that isn't.
Take this week's episode … #spoilers Carol bathes in a hot spring. Carol has a nice meal in a restaurant. A man gets stung by a Varga Plant from the planet Skaro. Carol plays golf. That's plenty.
The Sea Devils IN COLOUR!
A veganised version of Sylvia Noble's tuna madras from Doctor Who: The Star Beast (2023).
I tried the #DoctorWho tuna madras recipe, though for tuna I substituted jackfruit seasoned with kelp salt 🌱. I enjoyed it, as I like all the ingredients, though I did just make it the once.
Congratulations to these young actors on their casting… in a download-only release.
My First Question is: as Big Finish moves more and more towards ephemerality, when Miles Taylor and Jasmine Bayes go to events, what do #DoctorWho fans ask them to sign?
Perhaps, just like Rob Shearman cogently observed that a 3 second smile and a hello is not much of a basis on which to imagine new stories, that sense of foreshortened future has made fans uncomfortable enough to avoid the subject? “What was your favourite facial expression? Bewilderment or wonder?”
I was in the audience for a Q&A with Billie Piper earlier this week. Astonishingly, no one asked about her appearance in the most recent episode. No vetting of questions or restrictions on what could or couldn't be asked. It just simply never came up.
Billie Piper at a question and answer session in Adelaide.
Saw Billie Piper's question and answer session at the Adelaide Showground today. She was aksed about I Hate Suzie, Wednesday, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Penny Dreadful, working class representation in media, and Austin.
Nobody asked about The Reality War nor the 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special.
Public transport poster with the advertising copy “a new beaut work commute? well yello there! Your Armadale Line and schmick new Byford Station are now open.”
On the train I overheard a French couple debating the meaning of the word ‘schmick’ they’d read on a poster advert.
They eventually settled on ‘élégant’. I didn’t interrupt their evening, but surely ‘chic’ is right there? Le Freak, c’est schmick.
When 45 was pushing the false idea that hydroxychloroquine treated COVID-19 a patient came to ED with a severe allergic reaction after taking hydroxychloroquine.
I'm really not looking forward to the downstream harms of 47 incoherently declaring babies and pregnant people should avoid paracetamol.
Bluesky post by Kevin M Kruse reposting a bluesky post by Team Canada Forever showing a recent fall in Disney stock value.
Somehow I don't think it's likely we're getting Disney money for #DoctorWho Season Three: The Search for Susan.
#DoctorWho unfolding text rule: If an actor makes an appearance but isn’t referred to by name, the actor is playing their Doctor.
Good old Sylv!
Sometimes, despite all the everything, I'm reminded that something I wrote a very long time ago (before Millie Gibson even existed…) still finds and entertains listeners.
I've always preferred to let it speak for itself, but I will say: thank you.
Double #SFDFWho ...Ish
In keeping with the theme of the story, I find new meanings in this pretty much each time I listen! Episode 2 has a discussion about the limitations of LLM AIs, so it's definitely not topical at all. It's a story that pretty much ONLY sixie could carry and it definitely
Requires full attention whilst listening to it to keep track of what state some characters are in. The beeping joke in part 4 always makes me smile and whilst some bits are a tad predictable, I still always find this a very relaxing and warm story to listen to. A thoroughly charming 8/10
The Doctor Who novel Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook.
Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook is an excellent #DoctorWho adventure, a different kind of celebrity historical. It left me thinking about fame as an ouroboros, and using history and genealogy to rewrite generational trauma. It also has a reference which brought a smile to this old timelashologist…
Some panels from the untitled Fourteenth Doctor and Donna comic from Doctor Who Magazine issue 598, the panels spread continuously across two pages. Panel one: the Doctor Who logo above Donna and the Doctor with the caption "A lost world... on Earth!" Panel two: the Doctor and Donna in the burning TARDIS. Caption: "The wild ride continues." The Doctor says, "Oww! Consoles' got too hot to touch!" Donna says, "Huh. Your TARDIS has got a laundrette, a disco, a library -- but not a fire exxtinguisher?!" Third panel: A Victorian colonialist talking to other Victorian colonialists. Caption: "The Royal Geographical Society, 1878!" Man: "I, Roxton Vincey, explorer, have discovered something to give Mr Darwin second thoughts -- a lost tribe of missing links, alive in the present day!" Caption fiour: close up on Roxton Vincey, who says, "Save your haw-haws 'til you've observed my magic lantern slides! Last year, I located an uncharted plateau east of Venezuela, unchanged for hundreds of millennia..." Panel five: Stereotypical cave people in animal skins holding bones. Caption: "200,000 BC -- and Ig the Scrawny has offended tribe head Og by eating a coveted papaya! They duel with dinosaur bones -- but the outcome is never in doubt!"
How do they present the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna comic? When originally published in Doctor Who Magazine 598, it was printed as two-page spreads. If they've found a way to print it legibly here it gives us hope for future comic anthologies of 60s and 70s comics printed in similar two-page layout.
