It’s been a terrible week in a terrible year, but sometimes distractions can be a good thing, and today we believe we’ve come up with one that will rank with the best:
Doctors Assemble is a new episode made by fans of Doctor Who, co-starring not one or two or even three, but thirteen different Doctors, and you don’t have to feel guilty about watching and enjoying it because it’s legally licensed from the BBC.
Here’s how the folks at the Doctor Who: LOCKDOWN YouTube Channel put it:
A website devoted to coming up with Doctor Who Things to Do while we’re hunkered down to survive the current pandemic? Sounds just fine to us. Here’s what’s happening on that very website as of Week 5.
Welcome to Staying in the TARDIS. There’s amazing things out there in the universe, but life at home can be an adventure too. Here inside the TARDIS each week we’ll have fun challenges to do at home – activities such as recipes, printable colouring sheets and word searches from the vortex. There’ll even be some special treats too! Get exploring, it’s bigger on the inside after all…
Make Your Own TARDIS
…Even if you’ve never been arrested!
Thankfully, screenwriting isn’t just about “writing what you know.” It’s obviously also about creating and recreating worlds that you might have zero experience of.
NOTE FROM LB: This strip from Thursday, May 7, 2020’s Funky Winkerbeat, may appear to be just another showbiz cliche, but in fact you’re looking at ans absolutely real, non-apocryphal situation.
I know because I’ve lived through at least half a dozen similar meetings, all with the same punchline.
Watch and listen and learn from the pros. And if you’re one of “those writers,” the kind who disdain actors, this should be an eye-opener.
We need to see more videos like this…but without the coronavirus in the forefront of our fears as we watch.