2MTL 169: BBC Week Finale plus Shaun Lyon of Gallifrey One

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PART THE FIRST: The wrap-up to BBC Week, with a look at the possible global future of Doctor Who. PART THE SECOND: Shaun Lyon, head of the Gallifrey One convention, talks about the new developments for Gally 22 in February — the hotel has run out of convention-rate rooms, but there are plenty of other options if you're heading to Los Angeles.

2MTL 168: Toby Hadoke Knows His BBC (by Simon Harries)

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As we head into the home stretch of BBC Week, TV producer and Tachyon TV contributor Simon Harries introduces you to Toby Hadoke's new one-man show, "Now I Know My BBC." Toby's been a great friend of the podcast, having been interviewed a few times and contributing a review of "The Big Bang" for 2MTL. Be sure to see him perform "Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf" at Chicago TARDIS if you can!

2MTL 167: The BBC from Distant Shores, and That Big SJA Spoiler

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BBC 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 Doctor" Sarah Jane Adventures screening!

2MTL 166: Perryman's Prediction: The Future of Doctor Who at the BBC

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Who 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, the Resident Alien, with an expat's perspective on the BBC and Doctor Who.

2MTL 165: BBC's Under Pressure; How's Doctor Who?

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Today 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 might it mean for the long-term future of Doctor Who? Would changes to the BBC affect its most popular drama?

Find out more about BBC Week on 2MTL on today's podcast, and come back for the rest of the week for thoughts from three guest contributors from the U.K.: Neil Perryman, Mark Goodacre and Simon Harries.

2MTL 164: Censorship and Free Expression in Doctor Who

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A 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 Doctor Who story, how simplistic has it been?

Next week: a special week of programming with some special guests taking different perspectives on a special topic. I think it'll be special. I hope you'll like it.

2MTL 163: Jumping into the Vortex (My Talk With Carolina Who)

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The 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 away, and why Doctor Who is a better Star Trek than Star Trek ever was. But first, there's a quick disclaimer about my thoughts on fezzes and fans in 2MTL 162.