From Flickr-ing to the Doctor...

[dewline]

Uploading some new photos taken this afternoon to Flickr tonight after having watched "The Next Doctor" on Space.

A confession: I'm of mixed feelings about the change of venue for Doctor Who tonight. On the first hand, it's genre-appropriate. On the second, considering that the whole franchise in question was begun by a public broadcaster - the BBC - the last four years' worth of participation in and broadcast of the revival by the CBC - our own public broadcaster - was also very fitting in my mind. I would prefer that the relationship continue, but given the sense of fiscal siege "Mothercorp" finds itself under these days, I'm saddened and not entirely surprised to see that relationship imperilled if not at an outright end. I'll be keeping a watchful eye on CBC-related blogs as well as dwin.org for further developments.

More on other subjects to come...

Comments

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know there was the possibility that Space had acquired the rights to any foreseeable Doctor Who in Canada, to be honest, although I can see where the CBC might have dropped out of contention on the show, given their swing in policies and all these days.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

My sense in recent years has been one that informs me the CBC is being compelled onto paths not intended to be the best for its future. This may well be one more symptom, if I understand the situation correctly.

Here's the dwin.org blog posting dealing directly with that particular installment. (http://www.dwin.org/expressionengine/index.php/site/comments/space...the_final_frontier/)