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Maybe it’s just me, but amidst the applause (and the odd tear - that hasn’t happened in a long time!) in the latest Doctor Who episode, The Doctor’s Daughter, did I spot a few echoes of what used to go on with ye olde Doctor Who? To whit…

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By any stretch of the imagination, Stephen Fry is one of the very few people who totally understands and gets the digital revolution ™, and also has the eyes and ears of most of the population. More importantly, people like him and he is inherently likeable.

So it’s interesting that in a recent speech on the future of the BBC, he apparently declared that:
- the BBC should not be ghettoized
- he regularly breaks the digital lock on the BBC’s iPlayer
- the very existence of the iPlayer is making a lot of enemies for the BBC

It would be very interesting to find out whether he thinks the iPlayer lock should be beefed up (thus perpetuating the digital arms race), or whether he (as a rights provider of some considerable length) would be prepared to let his content loose online. Or whether it should be shut down entirely.

If there’s one wish I’d had for the forthcoming season of Doctor Who, it would be: ‘No More Daleks please’.

Yes, I appreciate they are definitively the most famous of foes, and guaranteed good viewing figures. But when you’ve reduced the kind of enemy who can obliterate an omnipresent God-like Time Lord race to a snivelling sobbing half-human hybrid wrapped in chains running at the first site of a brown raincoat, maybe it’s time to give them a bit of a rest, eh?

Throughout all the sneak peeks of season 4 thus far, there’s been nary a site of a pepperpot or an eyestalk. Which was a good thing. (The hint of the ye-olde companion-in-love-with-the-Doctor subplot is not a good thing. Even if it has the suddenly easy-on-the-eyes Catherine Tate).

However, amongst the mini teasers for the new season, there’s one for the Dalek. Harumph.

For the last three years, I’ve been comfortably able to figure out when Easter is, for one simple reason - Doctor Who usually starts on the Easter Saturday. At least it has since its relaunch way back in 2005.

However, it’s only suddenly dawned on me that this year’s Good Friday - and the chance for two days of rest! - is next Friday. And no Doctor Who in sight. And because there hasn’t been any pre-publicity or previews for Doctor Who, I haven’t noticed it’s nearly Easter and consequently, it’s a wee bit late to book a quick getaway holiday somewhere I can mostly sleep and avoid people.

Where is my Doctor Who? Have the production team been beavering away on it all year and decided not to show it? Did they not notice it was Easter? When is it coming ?!

An Australian gay site has produced the top fifty gay songs of all time, and it’s quite interesting/scary to see the songs I like/love on the list…

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