Set your DVRs, gang, because the word’s come down from those who really know: Here’s the tweet from The Official Doctor Who Website:
#DoctorWho Asylum of the Daleks premieres on BBC One, Sat 01
Sept 7.20p.m. New mini-adventure – #PondLife – begins online on Mon, 27th Aug.
— Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) August 22, 2012
…Bad Wilf, a UK site that, like TVWriter™, is pretty much crushing on The Doctor, has a transcript of comments he made recently to “an acting master class at the Theatre Royal Haymarket”:
I left Doctor Who because I could not get along with the senior people. I left because of politics. I did not see eye-to-eye with them. I didn’t agree with the way things were being run. I didn’t like the culture that had grown up, around the series. So I left, I felt, over a principle.
I thought to remain, which would have made me a lot of money and given me huge visibility, the price I would have had to pay was to eat a lot of shit. I’m not being funny about that. I didn’t want to do that and it comes to the art of it, in a way. I feel that if you run your career and– we are vulnerable as actors and we are constantly humiliating ourselves auditioning. But if you allow that to go on, on a grand scale you will lose whatever it is about you and it will be present in your work.
The good folks at HOMELAND are working desperately to make the show interactive (or at least seem interactive) and therefore attract young gamer-types to its bosom. On the one hand, this could be a way to make the show hipper. On the other hand, it could be because somebody at the network is terrified that the “all-important youth demographic” won’t show up. On the third hand, it could be both. Or something we haven’t thought of yet.
Yeah, we’ll go with the third hand. Makes controlling games much easier anyway. More importantly, how do you react to this attempt to earn your viewership/love? Let us know!
Not only is LeVar a fine actor, he’s also a hell of a tweeter…and he makes us feel so damn cared for, maybe even loved:
Admit it. You feel all fuzzy inside now, right? Right?
…Making our boss very happy because, well, maybe we shouldn’t say this, but because he identifies with all the psycho series leads. Bobby Goren. Gregory House. Monk. And now Eric McCormack’s Daniel Pierce.
(EDITED BY LB TO ADD: FTR, I’ve never identified with Monk, munchman. With me, it’s all about the hard cases.)