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[Mike]

Ha! I totally called this the second Jon and David 'had a little something at the BFI' to go to!

Ok, I didn't get the details, but...

[Scott Wilkinson]

Big Spoilery for Amy and Rory next season . . .http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-16207688

Spoiler

Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill - who play Doctor Who companions Amy Pond and Rory - are to leave the show during the next series.
Doctor Who boss Steven Moffat made the announcement at a screening of the Christmas episode at BBC TV Centre in London.
"The final days of the Ponds are coming," Moffat said.
"I'm not telling you when or how, but that story is going to come to a heartbreaking end."
He said the Doctor, played by Matt Smith, was going to meet "a new friend". It is believed that role has not yet been cast.
On the departure of Gillan and Darvill, Matt Smith said: "We had the most incredible journey. We took over the show and we've really had to hold hands and help each other through it.
"So it's very disappointing, but one has to remember that this show is about change and regeneration, and that's what galvanizes it and pushes it forwards."
The Christmas Day special - titled The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe - sees the Time Lord go on an adventure with Madge Arwell (Claire Skinner) and her two children, Lily and Cyril, when they are evacuated from London to Dorset during World War II.

Apologies I made an arse of that and did a quote instead of spoiler . . .

Edited by Scott Wilkinson, 15 December 2011 - 10:29 PM.

[Mike]

Given it's all over the news I don't think it's a spoiler really.

Are they announcing the follow-up tomorrow?

[Martin Smith]

Not totally unexpected really either.

Let new companion speculation begin!

[Scott Wilkinson]

Given it's all over the news I don't think it's a spoiler really.

Are they announcing the follow-up tomorrow?

I don't think it'll be that big a news story in the colonies, better safe than upsetting our cousins . . .

[Mr Whyte]

I live in England and hadn't seen that

[The Lorcan Nagle]

Not totally unexpected really either.

Let new companion speculation begin!

I think the new companion will be a Spice Girl.

[garjones]

Joanna Lumley

[The Lorcan Nagle]

I thought Scary looked familiar.

[Scott Wilkinson]

I thought Scary looked familiar.

Aren't they all Scary now?

[Dave Wallace]

Keith Chegwin.

[Arcadio Bolaños]

I don't think it'll be that big a news story in the colonies, better safe than upsetting our cousins . . .

The colonies don't include South America, right? Because I'm all the way here in Peru.

[Scott Wilkinson]

The colonies don't include South America, right? Because I'm all the way here in Peru.

Well, I have Spanish family, so . . . the Spanish colonies?

[Paul F]

That was mostly good, if a bit light. There wasn't much of a threat or anything. I wish we got a bit more of Bill Bailey and his crew.

[Steve Sensible]

About a tenth as good as last years Christmas episode in every respect.

[John Mosby]

That was appallingly sentimental ... in all the right places

[Scott Wilkinson]

Kept waiting for Xander "Isn't it though, like totally . . ."

Dissapointed that there were no clues as to when "The Doctor will return . . .".

Edited by Scott Wilkinson, 26 December 2011 - 02:03 AM.

[brucegray666]

My three year old nephew was apparently scared by the tree people statue things - job done Dr Who!

I liked it ok, the very end was full of cheese though.

[David Chapman]

I take it you all missed the reference to The Caves of Androzani, then?

I too thought it was limp and overly sentimental. Last year's Christmas Special is an example of how to write a Who story about saving one person instead of saving the world.

[Ogul]

I liked it. The tree statue things were slick, the forest suitably magical, the plot was kinda thin, but had a lot of emotion to it, and the ending was a real kicker.