The first update since the 2005 season concluded is complete (despite the dodginess of the servers during the past week) boosting the image count in the Tour to (just under) 19200. Since we went with only Eccleston images during the spring run, for this update we decided to move completely the other way and do an update on Doctors 1-8 instead. To find out which stories have been updated, you should now go to The Master List.
Okay we weren't going to update quite this quickly but with production underway the BBC site blessed us with some beautiful new images which we couldn't help but integrate into the main page. We quite like the shoes by the way!
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I’ve made it something of a summer tradition the last few years to engorge myself in some vintage British television which I either haven’t seen for a while or which I haven’t seen at all. Last summer I ‘discovered’ The Saint, and I’ve ‘dedicated’ this summer to The Professionals. Produced between 1978-82 by the same team that saw The Avengers through in their heyday in the sixties, the show was an action—adventure series of the highest caliber, which lasted five seasons (roughly 50 50-minutes episodes).
But that’s not the fun part. What’s fun is snatching, from another part of their careers, some of the familiar faces which dotted not only Doctor Who at the time, but many other fantasy series of the time as well. There’s Lalla Ward (as a baddie) in one episode over there, and William Russell (!) as a baddie in this corner. You don’t necessarily watch the programs looking for this kind of stuff, it just sort of sneaks up on you.
Just the sort of summer froth that’ll tide me over until Lost returns in September.
Images for The End of the World are now up and running. These include screen captures. This new series is doing wonder for the overall image count for the Tour. Wish we'd thought of this years ago!
The first images for the new series proper are now on the site, in a style conforming to the rest of the site. Screen captures for Rose are also available. This boosts the Tour's image count over 15000 for the first time.
This week if you snooze you lose. No sooner had Rose debuted to boffo ratings that WHO fans got a double-whammy Wednesday, first that the series had been given a go-ahead for a second series with X-Mas special but also that Eccleston would not be returning.
Chris we hardly knew ye! As this is still developing it would be pointless to speculate further other than to say that having watched last week we have that sinking feeling that as the new series progresses we will be more keenly feeling this loss.