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Wow, today, ten years ago... we all watched Rose, that first episode. Heralded by this amazing trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYIu7Qlqh4M
In celebration, and in the spirit of Birthdays, lets be very positive about the last Ten Years - here's some of my reasons I love the new series.
+ When it's at it's best it's been able to better even the best of the wonderful classic series. Blink, The Doctors Wife, Vincent and The Doctor, The Parting of the Ways, School Reunion, Stolen Earth, Listen - all wonderful work and plenty of others I could mention.
+ It's shown the public how good the show always was or could have been. Do you remember the nineties - when Doctor Who was only remembered as an embarrassment (if you need reminding just have a look at the news report on Pertwee's Death from May 96 - all about shaky sets and rubbish acting - neither of which was true in the main). Now the profile of the new series has strengthened the old and people recall it fondly as a result.
+ It's given us Four amazing new Doctors. We like them all yes? And all really high calibre actors.
+ It's changed the face of UK TV. Doctor Who being back has given shows the opportunity to be more imaginative I think. Before 2004 we would never have got stuff like Primeval, Merlin, Being Human and the like. Even legitimate fantasy shows had to somehow hide their source material in a cop show format or the like.
+ Whatever you think about the spin-offs... I'm just gonna say 'Children of Earth'. Astonishing!
Even at the times I've most struggled with the odd episode, it was still my favourite series and has some great episodes. There's not much TV that does that.
I might also add that another of the things I love about the new series is that it show, beyond all argument, that the BBC controllers of the 'wilderness years', Powell and Shivas and Grade et al were wrong, wrong, wrong - beyond all argument, to cancel and denigrate the show as they did. If they'd have backed it in the eighties and nineties it could have reinvented itself and been the money maker and hub of the beeb that it is today.
And I bet they are glad of the format it has at the moment.
Unlike it's other big properties - Top Gear, New Tricks etc - they don't need to pay the star an inflated salary and it makes them millions in the same fashion, and reinvents itself with a new team every few years without any substantial loss of viewers. Win Win Win.
The great man himself says it all doesn't he? Take it away Peter....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpEBYSM3nE
What do you love about New Doctor Who today?
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