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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...
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Doctor Who New Series Commentary Guide

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I was looking around online for an update list of the commentaries available for modern Who having discovered the original podcast commentaries were still available hidden away on the BBC website. For the ones on DVD, the contributors weren’t listed in the booklet. To make things easier for me I decided to write up who’s on them and with links to the podcasts and iPlayer commentaries to make things easier.   Series 1 Rose DVD / Blu-ray - Russell T Davies (Writer), Julie Gardner (Executive Producer), Phil Collinson (Producer) The End of the World DVD / Blu-ray - Phil Collinson (Producer), Will Cohen (VFX Producer) The Unquiet Dead DVD / Blu-ray - Simon Callow (Charles Dickens), Mark Gatiss (Writer), Euros Lyn (Director) Aliens of London DVD / Blu-ray - David Verrey (Joseph Green), Julie Gardner (Executive Producer), Will Cohen (VFX Producer) World War Three DVD / Blu-ray - Annette Badland (Margaret Blaine), Phil Collinson (Producer), Helen Raynor (Script ...
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Doctor Who Series 1-4 Blu-ray Box Set - What's the deal?

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 UPDATE 05/02/24 - Replacement discs are being issued for The Specials Disc 2 (The End of Time disc) to correct the wrong screengrabs on the scene selection menu and subtitles.    2023 saw another new release of Series 1-4 in the UK on Blu-ray. Containing new upscales of the standard definition episodes (this time at the correct speed!). Some fans have asked me is this release worth getting? That’s a very tricky thing to answer. In truth (with the exception of The Next Doctor, I’ll get on to that), this is the best release this of these episodes hands down - but there are some caveats. I’ll attempt to answer the question in more detail.   Now we have had a bit of time to digest this release, (there was far too much going on in November and December in the Whoniverse to look at this properly) I thought this package could do with a proper write up explaining my thoughts.   The Packaging In terms of how box set is laid out, it was definitely the right ap...
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