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There will be an official watchalong of all 14 hours of the previous Doctor and Donna Noble episodes on Saturday November 4th. There will be a screening of the espisodes at the Genesis Cinema in London.
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Elsewhere, some more casting announcements for Series 14. There's also suggesting that Series 15 begins filming imminently.
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Classic series moving to iPlayer, along with all of the modern show's spin-offs. They were previously on BritBox.
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From November 1st, every available epsidoe of Doctor Who will be on BBC iPlayer. That includes all existing classic episodes, all of the revival, spin-offs Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures and Class and Doctor Who Confidential. There will also be a massive expansion of the Doctor Who website to include an archive featuring over 25 000 images and 100 000 documents related to the show.
I know RTD has wanted to get Classic Who on iPlayer, but it is fantastic for him and all fans that this will happen. I'd presume all Classic stuff will leave BritBox/ITVX Peemium in due course.
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Maybe the deal for those expires on Halloween? Britbox must've had a time limit for BBC content once the BBC sold their share to ITV and it was merged into ITVX. I imagine everything else will also move over to iPlayer in the next few months.
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Apparently all Classic stuff will remain on BritBox non-exclusively, and will also remain on iPlayer indefinitely.
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(10-10-2023, 03:49 PM)RhysJR Wrote: From November 1st, every available epsidoe of Doctor Who will be on BBC iPlayer. That includes all existing classic episodes, all of the revival, spin-offs Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures and Class and Doctor Who Confidential. There will also be a massive expansion of the Doctor Who website to include an archive featuring over 25 000 images and 100 000 documents related to the show.
I know RTD has wanted to get Classic Who on iPlayer, but it is fantastic for him and all fans that this will happen. I'd presume all Classic stuff will leave BritBox/ITVX Peemium in due course.
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This is a long time coming - as a licence fee payer, I feel this decision should have been made years ago - we pay for Doctor Who through the licence fee and BBC iPlayer should be packed full of archive shows, instead of them selling them to Amazon Prime, BritBox etc
I have noticed on BBC iPlayer, some shows have a date of when it expires to watch it on iPlayer - for example Hustle, a show I love last week said it only had 4 days left to enjoy it, but today all of the series are back as available for over a year - why then do they give us a countdown, when they probably know it will remain on iPlayer?
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(10-10-2023, 04:47 PM)JMT1985 Wrote: This is a long time coming - as a licence fee payer, I feel this decision should have been made years ago - we pay for Doctor Who through the licence fee and BBC iPlayer should be packed full of archive shows, instead of them selling them to Amazon Prime, BritBox etc
Firstly who (no pun!) is to pay the rights for this? as the standard BBC deal is for a number if airings (and the window on IPlayer that was allowable at the time)
To pay those up front is a drain on the LF for everything not shown.
(The fact that with indies there are few rights with the BBC has kept the LF down as the BBC cannot buy them )
Secondly to have all this archive material on IPlayer is a “gross abuse of market power “ with CC CMA OFCOM etc ..
an issue which has and still plagues the BBC generally and the whole history of IPlayer if not to say a dead Kangaroo….. that is why IPlayer started of with a very short window…. While other non PSB catch up could do what they had the rights to,do. (Like all4)
Only few more people watch BBC1 than itv (1) so why is there itv+1 whist BBC ONE +1 is not allowed because of the effect on itv. (actually IMHO, it was a bad idea in any case but in part brought about by the effecient use uf the airwaves which no other broadcaster has imposed other than pure spectrum. (Ref David Mellor in 1990s when he tried to seek off BBC space))
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I’m not convinced that it’ll be every episode of the classic series on there. The way that the BBC press release describes it suggests that the “800 episodes of Doctor Who programming” includes Sarah Jane, Torchwood, Class & Confidential.
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(11-10-2023, 08:53 AM)WhoOdyssey Wrote: I’m not convinced that it’ll be every episode of the classic series on there. The way that the BBC press release describes it suggests that the “800 episodes of Doctor Who programming” includes Sarah Jane, Torchwood, Class & Confidential.
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It can’t ever be *every* episode; a large chunk of 1960s episodes are still missing.
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(11-10-2023, 03:30 PM)Rdd Wrote: It can’t ever be *every* episode; a large chunk of 1960s episodes are still missing.
Well no, but it sounds to me that it won’t be every surviving episode either.
