New [old] Editor For Doctor Who Magazine

Youth of today wrote:I wus given dis task of like listening to summat called a big finish CD. Like, what the fok is a CD? After me gramps gave me dis spinning machine thing, I put it on and like, woooo, music and shit came out.

Dis story, Spare Parts wus supposed to be like about the Cybermen (foking genedification) and stuff, but it had like no pictures and shit, so it was a bit boring. Had Davison in, who me mom wanks to, so she liked it I bet

2/10- Too much talking, not enough pictures

I think the new Time Team works pretty well. A cross-generational thing might be interesting, but I feel that many readers will bring that voice with them as they read the feature. An 'elder statesman' participant might express surprise, for instance, that 'Time and the Rani's first episode gets a more generous reception from this issues's panellists than "accepted classic" 'Spearhead's does: that's what I felt, anyway, so I was pleased to see fresh readings of very familiar stories. Ditto the pointing out of how little Liz gets to do in that first episode, which I've never really noticed before. It's a bit of a shame that this issue's selection means the team saw one full Eccleston story alongside only an individual episode of Pertwee and McCoy apiece, though.

Excellent point! This is just the same as me going through the 1970s and 1980s being told that "The Gunfighters" was awful ... the finally getting to see it properly in 1988 and saying "Hang on, this is meant to be a comedy ... and it's a rather wonderful one!" Having a new perspective to challenge received wisdom is very important.

Yes ... the whole notion of editing an article on editing had echoes of "Castrovalva". And I think the style changes have been very good for me. After 30 years, I'm terrified that I'm becoming complacent or just re-hashing old material. And when I rehash I get bored, and when I get bored I get lazy, and when I get lazy that's not good for me, or my editors and least of all anybody who migh even be vaguely interested in reading the results!

burrunjor wrote:
And yes Iank is right the likes of Gary Russell, Clayton Hickman (who blocked me on twitter. I challenged him to provide a counter argument to me about a female Doctor and not just call me a loser to his sychophants and block me, so he called me insane and then blocked me.)

Private Eye- reprinted from reddit wrote:As Doctor Who fans await regeneration of their hero into a heroine under an all-new production team, similarly epochal changes have been afoot at the programme's official periodical, Doctor Who Magazine, published by comics specialist Panini on licence from BBC Worldwide.

Irked by the increasing independence of the title and its willingness to allow contributors to criticise Worldwide's hunger to cash in on the series with all manner of toys, mugs, clothes and other gewgaws, the corporation's commercial arm seized on anti-Brexit and Trump comments by interviewees as evidence of political bias in the title. This is a strict no-no for BBC magazines, and Worldwide instigated a full inquiry, as well as insisting that all staff and freelancers must undergo a training course.

Editor Tom Spilsbury also had a falling-out with BBC Wales, which produces Doctor Who, after daring to be critical of the little-seen BBC3 spin-off Class, and in the summer he took a pay-off and left the magazine.

While Worldwide hoped to see a young, possibly female editor appointed to bring the title back into tune with the TV series, Panini instead appointed the distinctly retro Marcus Hearn, known for his books on Hammer horror films, Thunderbirds and a history of saucy seaside photographs. The company has also set about slashing the magazine's budget, which means that several long-running columns are being axed.

As a result, the current issue's 87th instalment of "A History of Doctor Who in 100 Objects" will be the last in the series. It does, however, contain an extra-special message for observant readers. Writer and some-time Dalek operator Nicholas Pegg has crafted the entire thing as an acrostic, with the first letters of each sentence forming the words: "PANINI AND BBC WORLDWIDE ARE CUNTS."

might break up with Doctor Who and give my collection to charity. That way kids can start their collection and experience the joys of proper who

How many of you even buy the rag anymore?

Genkimonk wrote:I would pay good money to read a Rob and Rani rant any day. We should do a Hive convention at a pub where the entrance fee is a few pints for our duo and a couple of rounds of pork scratching. It would be more entertaining than anything BBC could shit out, that is for sure.

Be cool if Ian Levine could come too.

Mott1 wrote:If we go the Arsenal Fan TV route do we get to fly a plane towing a fake TARDIS over BBC television centre, with "Chibbers out!" daubed up its side?

burrunjor wrote:

How many of you even buy the rag anymore?

Last one I bought was in 2015, but that was only because they had Ingrid Oliver looking cute as Osgood on the cover (to be fair when does she not look cute.)

I outright refuse to give these cunts any money anymore. They are traitors and sellouts the lot of them.

They aren't even just bootlickers to the new version of Doctor Who anymore. By hiring Claudia Boleyn they've proved that. Claudia Boleyn said some unbelievable things about the entire Steven Moffat era. She accused him of being a sexist, a homophobe, an ableist etc.

You might as well have Rob Filth reviewing New Who LOL. If anything what he's said about it isn't as bad, as aside from calling its makers cunts, all he did was slag its stories. Claudia accuses the show of promoting sexual assault. I mean you're actually going to have this person review your own series in your own magazine that the people who work on the series work on? What happens when they get her to review a Moffat episode? "Here our resident Who expert accuses the show of promoting rape. Now an interview with the man who wrote that episode" LOL.







They don't care however as they are so intimidated by this vile ideology that they will make concessions to it, even when that means shooting themselves in the foot. Its pathetic.