And the show’s 2005 series might be as much designed for consumption as a DVD boxset as a broadcast TV show. Ghost Light might be the first story designed for the VHS generation, a story you have to pause and rewind to understand. Spearhead from Space may be the first colour story, but it’s not until The Green Death that there’s a story conceived around being seen in colour. Periodically Doctor Who adapts with a change in format. And it’s been specifically designed to be consumed by nerds on tablets hoping to remain uninterrupted. So I keep as quiet as I can, keep physical movement to a minimum and hope desperately to remain unnoticed. If not that, then Little Miss Spandrell might cry out from her bedroom, looking for an early start to the day. If not, Master Spandrell will stumble in and sleepily climb into his parents’ bed and that will be the end of that. If I’m lucky, I’ll get through the whole episode uninterrupted. Can you imagine? I t’s pre-dawn 2017 all over again! You’re hiding under the covers, hoping none of your family wake up! Somehow though, I can’t see Big Finish producing audio promos in years to come harkening back nostalgically to watching the show this way. When I was a youth, it used to be Monday to Friday, 6:30pm, which as I’ve mentioned before, is Australia’s version of Saturday teatime. ![]() ![]() It’s the new way of watching Who, having taken over from Sunday night after the news, or if you could navigate through the ocean full of viruses and malware, bit torrenting. It’s a ritual made familiar over the last few years, since the ABC has been fast-tracking new episodes of Doctor Who as they’re broadcast on BBC1. It’s time for a new episode on Doctor Who, delivered fresh and perky from ABC iView. I sit up in bed, reach for my iPad and headphones. ![]() I am awake, due to my life long habit of waking naturally by the time I know I have to be up.
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