By which we mean the bombastic overexposure of the show in honor of its upcoming (2013) 50th anniversary. The 2012 season still hasn’t begun, nor has the start date been pinned down beyond “Fall of 2012”), and we’re already feeling assaulted by:
- THE WOMEN OF DOCTOR WHO
- THE SCIENCE OF DOCTOR WHO
- THE TIMEY-WIMEY STUFF OF DOCTOR WHO
- THE DESTINATIONS OF DOCTOR WHO
Plus – of course – a plethora of interweb posts guessing/gossiping about what’s going to be happening after the 2012 starting gun goes off and how it will relate to the Anniversary Celebration.
The latest special is a DOCTOR WHO 90-minute drama called (maybe) AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME. Written by SHERLOCK, BEING HUMAN, and WHO writer (and actor) Mark Gatiss, who’s been tweeting away about it, this “long-cherished drama about the creation ofDoctor Who (Gatiss’ tweet-words), seems to be a sort of docudrama.
