How about that new Doctor, eh? I loved the first new series Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor and I’m already incredibly fond of David Tennant in the same role. “Series 1″ is now available on DVD, though I’ll admit it’s fairly expensive at $90. It has a ton of great extras though, and the series is excellent for kids and adults.
You’ve got to love Doctor Who with an actual effects budget. Hooray for CGI prices coming down to the point where TV shows can have cool scenes like that.
Some day soon we’re going to have to do a truly Canadian sci-fi show. Sure there are sci-fi shows shot in Canada like Battlestar Galactica and Stargate, but they’re all quite American, much like Doctor Who and Red Dwarf are British.
Anyone else up for it? We can make it ourselves, like a modern day Our Gang putting on a show. I don’t have an old barn, but I do have a web server and BitTorrent can supply the means of distribution.
I’m up for that (and have a digital camcorder), but Canadians aren’t all THAT different from Americans, except for the lack of easy guns.
You can tell a show is British because of the accents. I guess someone non-Canadian would also be able to tell a Canadian production for the same reason, but to us we’d just be talking normally.
which is what the British do on British shows…
Yeah! Star Trek the Canadian Generation! Babylon V6H1N1! Canuck Rogers in the 25th Century! Lost in Arctic Space!
I’m in. We could just set it in Yellowknife, then everyone would know it’s Canadian.
TARDIS looking a little slanty there.
It’s not just the accents, it’s the settings and sensibilities. Red Dwarf goes on about lager and curry and makes distinctively British jokes.
BSG and other American sci-fi shows are quite gun-centric and typically have very American military slants to them.
We need something like “Corner Gas In Space”.
But curry is Indian!
What makes Corner Gas so Canadian? vs say…that show that with the moose in Alaska.
ps We Want Eddie Izzard as Dr Who! We = me.
ps this article on Blu-Whatever made me think of you: http://www.ayearatthemovies.com/kwm_writings.htm
Finally, let me know when you get Mirrormask
I got Mirrormask… uh… a long time ago.