While watching Battlestar Galactica last night, I saw ads for the new Doctor Who TV series! This is the new series that ran on the BBC (in England) back in early 2005... and that ran in Canada later last year.
The show will finally be seen in the US!

If you have Flash, you may be able to see an announcement on the Sci-Fi Channel's main page. (I don't have Flash installed, so I didn't see anything.)

Doing a search, results in this:
Events Calendar

The 17th is 3 weeks from now... which is the week following the second part of the BSG 2-part season finale. Hmm... will we see Doctor Who instead of BSG for the next 13 weeks? (14 weeks if Sci-Fi shows "The Christmas Invasion" episode from last December.)

In the meantime, don't forget to pick up these freebies from Vanishing Point:

• Doctor Who items (all items, including ones based on the old series)
• The Lady Cassandra (from "The End of the World")
• Dalek (from "Dalek", "Bad Wolf", and "The Parting of the Ways")

Yes, I noticed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;0) So say we all! ;P

thanks for the tip, hoag. they've been showing "dr. who" re-runs in silicon valley (KTEH) sporadically over the last decade IIRC.

Attached Link: http://media.putfile.com/Sci-Fi-Channel-Doctor-Who-ad

Well Don't get your hopes UP to far... If you like Galactica etc etc this Dr Who is in IMHO realy BAD its English SF so that means guys in rubber suits and lots of non good props etc etc. But then again Taste is to the beholder..... Chris

well as someone thats seen it... no. it's not 'bad'.. the effects were done by the Mill (Harry Potter, Gladiator). now, if your're refering to the Old series then yes. but the 2005 Seasons onwards? nope. sorry.. your're wrong...

The special effects and the daleks are the only good things about it, the acting is not good and the dialogue is very bad.

Who cares.

Attached Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/

And even despite the 'rubber suits' in the Tom Baker years, I'd hardly call his acting atrocious or the scripts uninteresting. For a typical scifi 'cliff-hanger' (which always get dumped on for some reason - and quickly dumped it seems), it is one that has been around for over forty years. How many series in all can claim such a long run!

Admittedly, sometimes I watch the older series for the hokiness, sometimes for the story, sometimes for the fantasy. From time to time, personally, an episodic set has been better than most other scifi series out there.

You want hilarious, just watch "Knight Rider". Here they are plodding along with computers that barely compute (1+1) correctly and they have a car that not only has amazing sensors, but is artificially intelligent (when AI was still a far off pipedream - and still is). If one is to get past this, one must accept an implausible premise for the time (early 1980's) as well as Hasselhoff's horrific acting! ;)

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yeah..saw that probably at the same time..;) Wonder if they still use that cheesy old monophonic synth for the theme song..;) effects have improved, I must admit. Last Dr. Who thing I saw done (this is the US, remember), was some 'made for TV movie' about the year 2000..;)

Ah, that. After rewatching it, there is some merit to it, but the format and follow of the story is odd for Dr. Who. Thus, the beginning is a mess, but near the end, it improves (slightly). ;) The theme and effects had improved significantly by Colin Baker's time.

i loved it! i thought the gass mask episode was particularly clever. and did everyone realize lady cassandra was a take off of michael jackson? love esther

The older theme tune was much better than the newer one, it was only the newer dr who that I was talking about earlier some of the jon pertwee and tom baker ones were very good. The newest doctor (after chris eccleston)is not very good, maybe someday they will get someone who is right for the part again?

erm.. he's had ONE episode. you form opinions that fast? you seeing the daily rushes? on set? whatever happened to giving someone a chance?

estherau, shhhhh. Some of us haven't seen any of these yet. :)

don't think it gives anything away. It's very good. Love esther

The 2005 (and currently in-production) Doctor Who completely overwhelmed the other channels in the ratings. It was sort of fun to see the commercial channel struggling to find something people would want to watch. The thing is that Doctor Who has been a part of British life since 1963, and lets not forget the Daleks. And it's still rather British. So there were a lot of people who remembered it, and wanted to see what the new version was like, and they stuck around to watch the rest. They were the people who ran around the schools, stiff-armed, shouting "Exterminate", in 1963, and their kids, grandkids even, were suddenly doing the same. And, very unusually, the BBC announced that they would be producing at least another two seasons, not just 2006 but 2007. Some people have speculated that the American TV networks were scared off by the nudity, the politics, the sexual ambiguity of some of the regular characters, and the inter-racial relationships. Personally, I think the idea of a TV series leaving the Prime Minister dead in a broom cupboard is a refreshing change. Does Dick Cheney fart a lot?

Judging the new series of Doctor Who on what the classic series was like is the same as judging the new Battlestar Galactica with the original. Some people prefer one over the other, some judge each on it's own merits (I like them all). Remember the tv movie was co-produced with an American tv network with American audiences in mind but for the most part it sank like a lead balloon in the States but did pretty well this side of the pond. People who like Doctor Who like it because of its Britishness. It makes it different from all of the other sci-fi shows. And to BAR-CODE, remember; in the seventies when we were dressing men up in rubber suits; Battlestar Galactica was dressing monkeys up as robot dogs!

true..the thing that got the old Battlestar Galactica half the audience it had was

1. Star Trek was off the air
2. at least for part of the season, there were no current Star Wars movies out (and this was before video rentals, so once it left the theatre, you were S.O.L...;)
   I have to admint that BS (79, and '80, which was even worse) were bad, but at the time, that was pretty much it..;)I have to admit that the new one is loads better...
   I kinda lost Dr. Who after the one that followed Colin Baker (the blond with the cricket bat..;), but I think they got up to Dr. #8, so this would be..9? only 3 'docs' left, before they run out of reincarnations..;)

psst - the one with the cricket bat was before colin baker right now, we're on Dr 10. (1: Willam Hartnell, 2:Patrick Troughton, 3:Jon Pertwee, 4:Tom Baker, 5:Peter Davidson, 6:Colin Baker, 7: Slyvester McCoy, 8:Paul McGann, 9:Christopher Eccleston and 10:David Tennant) as to remaining Regens.. who knows? things are kinda changed... can't say - it's a spoiler

see..you don't pay attention to a series for 20 years, and you start misplacing things..comes from old age..;) Well, the one that came after the one with the long scarf..;) Tom Baker was the one I was thinking of..too many Bakers spoils the continuity..;)

*right now, we're on Dr 10.*Don't forget that #13 is the Valeyard from "Trial of a Time Lord". If you haven't seen the episode, I apologize for the spoiler... but that episode was during the Colin Baker era and originally aired about 20 years ago! Some people have speculated that the American TV networks were scared off by the nudity, the politics, the sexual ambiguity of some of the regular characters, and the inter-racial relationships I don't think the American networks were scared off by any of these factors. I believe that the networks won't carry Doctor Who because it's nothing like "Friends" or "Joey" or "Everybody Loves Raymond"... or even "Law & Order" or "ER". Networks want "bankable" series, like the millionth "Law & Order" or "Survivor" spin-off. If we wait long enough, I'm sure NBC will try to make their own version, like they did with "Coupling" and "The Office". Anyway, the new series is very British: many of the episodes are set in Cardiff (which is south of London). And when aliens invade the Earth, they start in London instead of Washington DC. ;) --John

13 may be the Valeyard.. remember.. all Gallifrey bets are off atm ;)

"Cardiff (which is south of London)." Uh-oh, someone is going to be in trouble with the Welsh members

It is south of london if your map is upside down. :)

No wonder those Brit's can never make the Tardis go where it's supposed to go! Sheesh! All their maps must be upside down! ;)

You mean Cardiff isn't south of London? I think I need to smack one of my friends who told me it was! I apologize in advanced to any Welsh members... and I hope that all future Doctor Who episodes are shot in Cardiff and the tourism money doesn't stop flowing. :) --John