2MTL 385: Graeme Burk and Robert Smith? Are In (Time Dilation)

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Graeme Burk and Robert Smith? (his question mark is canon) are back to talk about The Doctors are In from ECW Press, their exhaustive yet reader-friendly guide to each of the Doctors' incarnations. Once in a while, they even agree with each other.

2MTL 383: Pouring One Out for the New Paradigm Daleks

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OK, so that was a great second trailer for Series 9, with loads and loads of Daleks.

Except for those guys introduced in "Victory of the Daleks."

Alas, the New Paradigm.

2MTL 381: BBC Under Attack? Toby Hadoke Helps an American Understand (Time Dilation)

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Should the BBC give up on popular commercial programming like, oh, I don't know, Doctor Who? A "green paper" to be released today reportedly calls for reconsidering the British Broadcasting Corporation's purpose, while the government plans to force the BBC to dig deep into its own pockets to fund license fees for citizens over 75.

Is this the darkest timeline? 2MTL gets a little uncharacteristically political as I talk with friend of the show Toby Hadoke about what's behind these moves and whether Strictly and Sherlock and our favorite television show might be at risk.

(Also, check out Toby's play on BBC Radio Four, The Dad Who Fell to Earth.)

2MTL 380: Throwback Review of "The Age of Steel"

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The Doctor and companions were threatened with maximum deletion last time, which I suppose is worse than simple deletion. I bet the Doctor had a clever way out of this one that had absolutely no deus ex machina involved, right?

Well, at least "The Age of Steel" is a cool name.