http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-167.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBBC Week continues, with five-year expatriate professor Mark Goodacre, the Resident Alien, talking about his concern over the BBC and drawing a parallel with those dark Doctor Who years that began in 1989. PLUS: A bonus spoiler section at the end, regarding certain revelations from the "Death of the …
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http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-166.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWho Fix co-founder, Tachyon TV co-conspirator, and video and new media professor (wait, that sounds terribly legitimate) Neil Perryman fixes blame for Dimensions in Time while making some best-case and worst-case predictions for Doctor Who's future. This is Day 2 of BBC Week on 2MTL. Next up: Mark Goodacre, …
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http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-165.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadToday kicks off a one-week series of Two-minute Time Lord Podcasts exploring the relationship of Doctor Who and the BBC, an institution with an increasingly cloudy future. While Doctor Who is in no immediate danger, BBC budgets continue to be cut and the license fee is under attack. What …
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http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-164.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadA few days after the U.S.'s Banned Books Week, I explore the ways censorship and free expression have been tackled within the range of Doctor Who video, audio and print, with the help of many suggestions from my friends on Twitter and Facebook. When censorship's come up in a …
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http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-163.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe lovely folks at the Raleigh Doctor Who Meetup Group invited me to speak at their third annual banquet last Saturday, and co-organizer Brad Gillespie kindly recorded it on his Flip camera. I talk about why I started 2MTL ("shiny, happy spite"), returning to Doctor Who fandom after falling …
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http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-162.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn which I explore my misgivings about the Fezzing of Los Angeles, with a carefully applied corrective.
Sorry for not mentioning this here earlier, but perhaps I was trying to wipe my brain of the memory. Unlike Tom of The Doctor Who Podcast, whose opinion of "Victory" soared after his initial skepticism here on 2MTL, my initial lukewarm-favorable opinion declined over time — especially under the withering gaze sitting in Warren's commentary …
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http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-161.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadA little while back, I noticed a flurry of activity in the ol' Twitter feed, campaigning for Paul McGann's return as the Eighth Doctor in the new series. If it could be done, should it? I think so, because there's one completely unique quality to the Eighth Doctor that …
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http://twominutetimelord.com/podcasts/2mtl-160.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadShall we take a moment to revel in, or even squee over, the news that we're getting accelerated and synchronized classic Doctor Who DVD releases in North America, Australia and New Zealand? Indeed we shall. Ahem. Squee!
I borrowed Warren's chair for Radio Free Skaro's commentary of Series 5 Episode 2, "The Beast Below," available now!
