To be taken with a large hill of salt ...

Doctor Who villains Cybermen and Daleks
to get spin-off series in huge Disney deal
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Doctor Who villains like the Weeping Angels and the dreaded
Daleks are as iconic as the time traveller himself and his
police box tardis, and we will be soon seeing more of them,
according to an insider.

Doctor Who adversaries such as the Cybermen and Daleks are
to get their own series, an insider says.

Showrunner Russell T Davies is pushing ahead with plans to
expand the "Whoniverse" with Marvel-style spin-offs.

It comes after the BBC struck a deal with Disney+ worth
"tens of millions"last month.

The Beeb sold the US giant the global streaming rights to
Doctor Who outside the UK. The deal means budgets on the
2024 series starring the 15th Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, could
triple.

A source said: "Fans can expect to see Sontarans, Weeping
Angels and Sea Devils in separate series showing what they
get up to when the Doctor isn't there to stop them, along
with Daleks and Cybermen."

Speaking last year Davies said that these exciting new
projects were part of what lured him back to the BBC -
and he suggested there was even scope for a Doctor Who
dedicated channel.

"There are things coming up that are brand new ways of
telling stories that have never been done before," he
explained. "So it just feels new, I wouldn't have gone
back if it wasn't feeling new."

The showrunner already has form for expanding the Doctor
Who universe - in his first tenure as the re-boot boss
from 2005 he was behind Torchwood, starring John
Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness and The Sarah Jane
Adventures, featuring Elisabeth Sladen in the title role.

"We should be sitting here announcing The Nyssa
Adventures or The Return of Donna Noble," Davies said
last year.

"The whole science fiction world is so creative and so
money-making right now, I think your wildest dreams can
come true."

His ambitions sit well with the Disney strategy of
maximising content within franchises by creating a whole
expanded universe of overlapping characters and
timeframes.

Former showrunner Stephen Moffat expressed concerns after
he left in 2017 that without bigger budgets, Doctor Who
would be left behind by shows like Game of Thrones.

"A show that generates as much money as Doctor Who should
be getting more of it back, frankly," he declared.

Disney Plus has capitalised on Star Wars and Marvel with
spin-off series including Andor, The Mandolorian and
Loki.

The BBC said it was too early to comment on any plans.

<https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-villains-cybermen-daleks-28586897>

On 2022-11-27 19:59:14 +0000, tsbr...@gmail.com said:
> On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 11:38:19 AM UTC-8, Your Name wrote:
>> To be taken with a large hill of salt ...
>
> But it might be true, since we are far away from April Fools Day!

It's from the "Mirror" tabloid rag ... think stories like "an alien ate
my baby" and "I married my haunted car".

>> Doctor Who villains Cybermen and Daleks
>> to get spin-off series in huge Disney deal
>> ------------------------------------------
>> Doctor Who villains like the Weeping Angels and the dreaded
>> Daleks are as iconic as the time traveller himself and his
>> police box tardis, and we will be soon seeing more of them,
>> according to an insider.
>>
>> Doctor Who adversaries such as the Cybermen and Daleks are
>> to get their own series, an insider says.
>
> So we would be seeing Cybermen assimilate people, and Daleks
> exterminate people. How could we possibly root for them?

There would probably be others to stop them, like in the other spin-off shows.

>> A source said: "Fans can expect to see Sontarans, Weeping
>> Angels and Sea Devils in separate series showing what they
>> get up to when the Doctor isn't there to stop them, along
>> with Daleks and Cybermen."
>
> Why not Silents as well?

As with the other spin-off shows, it would likely include various
baddies. They would probably also add more new baddies, who might then
appear in the "Doctor Who" episodes as well.

If Disney *is* really involved / pushing this, then it wouldn't be a
surprise for each set of baddies to have their own spin-off shows, and
cause the franchise to become a heavily fractured, contradictory, and
confusing mess, like Marvel already is and Star Wars is fast becoming.

>> <https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-villains-cybermen-daleks-28586897>
>>

On 2022-11-27 20:16:41 +0000, tsbr...@gmail.com said:
<snip>
> But the original post is under an hour old, so the above paragraph does
> not apply.

The Mirror's news story is dated at "20:00, 25 Nov 2022" (their time).

Your Name wrote:

> On 2022-11-27 19:59:14 +0000, tsbr...@gmail.com said:
> > On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 11:38:19 AM UTC-8, Your Name wrote:
> > > To be taken with a large hill of salt ...
> >
> > But it might be true, since we are far away from April Fools Day!
>
> It's from the "Mirror" tabloid rag ... think stories like "an alien
> ate my baby" and "I married my haunted car".

The Daily Mirror hasn't been too bad with it's Doctor Who stories...
not always 100% correct, but there's generally been something behind
their enthusiastic journalism.

And "An Alien Ate My Baby" sounds more like the efforts of a Sun
journalist than The Mirror's!

On 2022-11-28 00:03:52 +0000, tsbr...@gmail.com said:
> On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 2:07:13 PM UTC-8, netk...@gmail.com wrote:
>> In article <tm0gol$1rab$1...@gioia.aioe.org>,
>> Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>> On 2022-11-27 20:16:41 +0000, tsbr...@gmail.com said:
>>> <snip>
>>>> But the original post is under an hour old, so the above paragraph does
>>>> not apply.
>>>
>>> The Mirror's news story is dated at "20:00, 25 Nov 2022" (their time).
>>
>> 2 days ago!
>
> Far less than the month specified in your spamtrolling specification.
> You keep saying "If the original post is over a month old,
> Tim's desparate spamtrolling, noted!". 2 days is less than a month!

Maybe not if you're a time traveller - you could have been gone 2 days
local time, but in your time it was months or years. ;-)

The Doctor wrote on 28/11/22 7:02 am:
> In article <tm0eb3$qg9$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

<Snip>

>> <https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-villains-cybermen-daleks-28586897>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> VERY large hiils of salt!
>
"hiils"??
--
Daniel

tsbr...@gmail.com <tsbrueni@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 11:38:19 AM UTC-8, Your Name wrote:
>> To be taken with a large hill of salt ...
>
> But it might be true, since we are far away from April Fools Day!

We’re never far from a Fool’s Day while we have you and Dave Yadallee
around, Tim.

In fact, has there ever been a day when neither of you has posted?

--
There are some corners of the universe
which have bred the most terrible things.
Things which act against everything we believe in.

They must be /fought/.

tsbr...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, November 28, 2022 at 7:26:05 AM UTC-8, netk...@gmail.com wrote:
>> In article <747ad6b9-5b43-4818...@googlegroups.com>,
>> tsbr...@gmail.com <tsbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 5:28:31 PM UTC-8, netk...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> In article <27cf7eed-1b3e-4c56...@googlegroups.com>,
>>>> tsbr...@gmail.com <tsbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 12:19:36 PM UTC-8, Your Name wrote:
>>>>>> On 2022-11-27 20:16:41 +0000, tsbr...@gmail.com said:
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>> But the original post is under an hour old, so the above paragraph does
>>>>>>> not apply.
>>>>>> The Mirror's news story is dated at "20:00, 25 Nov 2022" (their time).
>>>>>
>>>>> But the post that started this thread was posted this morning.
>>>> By YN!
>>>
>>> I was going by the timing of Your Name's post (11:38 AM my time on Nov
>>> 27, 2022).
>> And based on GMt ...
>
> 7:38 PM. But still November 27.
>
and a perfect time to take your medicine

The Idiot <idiot@idiot.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>> tsbr...@gmail.com <tsbrueni@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Your Name wrote:
>>>> To be taken with a large hill of salt ...
>>>
>>> But it might be true, since we are far away from April Fools Day!
>>
>> We’re never far from a Fool’s Day while we have you and Dave Yadallee
>> around, Tim.
>>
>> In fact, has there ever been a day when neither of you has posted?
>
> And if Tim leaves ....

Then if you do not post on a day, that will indeed not be a Fool’s Day. But
if you do, it still will be.

--
There are some corners of the universe
which have bred the most terrible things.
Things which act against everything we believe in.

They must be /fought/.

tsbr...@gmail.com wrote on 28/11/22 9:23 pm:
> On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 5:29:03 PM UTC-8, netk...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>> In article <tm100q$1npi$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
>> <Your...@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>> On 2022-11-28 00:03:52 +0000, tsbr...@gmail.com said:
>>>> On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 2:07:13 PM UTC-8,
>>>> netk...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> In article <tm0gol$1rab$1...@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
>>>>> <Your...@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2022-11-27 20:16:41 +0000, tsbr...@gmail.com said:
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>> But the original post is under an hour old, so the above
>>>>>>> paragraph does not apply.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Mirror's news story is dated at "20:00, 25 Nov 2022"
>>>>>> (their time).
>>>>>
>>>>> 2 days ago!
>>>>
>>>> Far less than the month specified in your spamtrolling
>>>> specification. You keep saying "If the original post is over a
>>>> month old, Tim's desparate spamtrolling, noted!". 2 days is
>>>> less than a month!
>>>
>>> Maybe not if you're a time traveller - you could have been gone 2
>>> days local time, but in your time it was months or years. ;-)
>>>
>> Good one!
>
> Are you sating that you are a time traveler?
>
"sating??
--
Daniel

The Doctor wrote on 29/11/22 2:27 am:
> In article <tm2fk3$2003i$1@dont-email.me>, The Last Doctor
> <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>> tsbr...@gmail.com <tsbrueni@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 11:38:19 AM UTC-8, Your Name
>>> wrote:
>>>> To be taken with a large hill of salt ...
>>>
>>> But it might be true, since we are far away from April Fools
>>> Day!
>>
>> We’re never far from a Fool’s Day while we have you and Dave
>> Yadallee around, Tim.
>>
>> In fact, has there ever been a day when neither of you has posted?
>
> And if Tim leaves ....

"And if Tim leaves ....", WILL YOU LEAVE, TOO, asswipe??
--
Daniel