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Circuit Breaker - The Black Archive Files: What's the deal?

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I often talk about how much care and attention to detail goes into the Classic Series releases to convince us fans to shell out on something a lot of us have already bought at least two or three times. Then comes along a random release out of the blue that makes you ask who does this appeal to? But some unexpected new bonus material alongside some unusual and rare episode variants perhaps gives enough value to justify buying.    Circuit Breaker is the latest multi-platform event from BBC Studios, following on from Time Lord Victorious (2020) and Doom’s Day (2023). This time focusing on the mysterious Fugitive Doctor as played by Jo Martin, who has refreshingly been heavily involved with the entire range. I’ve personally not been following the story that closely, but the premise involves the Doctor teaming up with Osgood who is now working in the Black Archive as objects from the Doctor’s personal timeline have gone missing. This new Blu-ray release features 10 Doctor Who stori...

The Series 9 Steelbook - Should it get a new release?

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In 2016 the very first Doctor Who steelbook came out.   After years of exclusive/limited box sets consisting of weirdly tall books, protruding Silence and Cybermen faces and bulky packaging, BBC Worldwide decided to do an extremely limited release (or at least more limited and sought after than any other Doctor Who steelbook) of Series 9 on Blu-Ray as an exclusive to Amazon. This came with unique, beautiful artwork by Alice X . Zhang, as opposed to the standard release which was just reusing the basic publicity photo for the series.   Steelbooks were fast becoming a standard form of release in the home media industry, aimed at collectors who care about such things as packaging.    The Series 9 steelbook. Probably one of my biggest regrets as a fan was not purchasing Series 9 in steelbook form.   I was going to. I even had it on order with Amazon.   But then just before BBC Shop closed, they offered 25% off all products except pre-orders, but they forgot ...