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From Address: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
Subject: Edmonton Journal - Doctor Who fans poised (spoilers )

I Found this in the local newspaper

Writer Alex Strachan of Postmedia News


Doctor Who is the very definition of a cult hit - which means, as one
 veteran industry insider wryly told a group of TV critics recently,
 that hardly anyone watches. Under normal circumstances, that is. Nothing 
about Doctor Who is normal. And when the reimagined, reinvented reboot
 returns tonight for its seventh season with Matt Smith once again at the
 helm of the TARDIS, a potentially vast worldwide audience will be waiting
 with bated breath, in both the U.K. and across North America.

In an unusual move - and a sign of just how big this supposed "cult hit" has
 become - parent company BBC Worldwide has decided to show the first episode
 on the same day, virtually at the same time, on two continents. The decision
 was hastened in part by the explosion in social media and the hard truth 
that spoilers are now a fact of 21st-century existence. If Doctor Who were 
to air even a day earlier in either the U.K. or North America, its secrets
 would be out and the story would be ruined for a legion of fans.

And there are plenty of secrets in the coming season, showrunner 
and Doctor Who guru Steven Moffat teased at last weekend's 
Edinburgh International Television Festival. The coming season will mark
 the end of the Amy Pond era, the Doctor's most recent companion as played
 by Inverness ingenue Karen Gillan. Gillan is poised to take on a 
feature-film career, and Who devotees are already teary-eyed over the 
prospect of her inevitable goodbye - said to be a "blockbuster chase"
 through the streets of Manhattan at the season's end.


The entire season is poised to be a blockbuster, Moffat promised. BBC 
spared little expense, despite budget cutbacks, in backing what has
 become the U.K. public broadcaster's most-watched, highest-rated 
and most profitable export program. Doctor Who is one of those cable 
dramas that produces only a handful of new episodes per season. Last season
 was split in two, with seven episodes at the beginning, six episodes 
at the end and a two-month break in between. The pattern is likely to repeat 
itself this season. That means each episode counts for a lot with Who 
devotees, and Moffat has said his ambition this season is to make every
 episode a standout, stand-alone blockbuster in its own right.

Tonight's season opener finds the Doctor (Smith) kidnapped by an old foe 
and compelled to venture inside "the asylum," an interplanetary prison that
 harbours only the insane and the universe's most desperate. To say 
more would spoil the surprise. And as Doctor Who devotees know, Who is 
all about surprises. The program has survived as long as it has, Moffat 
reasons, because each season it takes a different turn. (Space -7 p.m. MDT)


Copyright Edmonton Journal 2012
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