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   From Address: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)   
   Subject: Edmonton Journal - Doctor Who fans poised (spoilers )   
      
   I Found this in the local newspaper   
      
   Writer Alex Strachan of Postmedia News   
      
      
   Doctor Who is the very definition of a cult hit - which means, as one   
    veteran industry insider wryly told a group of TV critics recently,   
    that hardly anyone watches. Under normal circumstances, that is. Nothing    
   about Doctor Who is normal. And when the reimagined, reinvented reboot   
    returns tonight for its seventh season with Matt Smith once again at the   
    helm of the TARDIS, a potentially vast worldwide audience will be waiting   
    with bated breath, in both the U.K. and across North America.   
      
   In an unusual move - and a sign of just how big this supposed "cult hit" has   
    become - parent company BBC Worldwide has decided to show the first episode   
    on the same day, virtually at the same time, on two continents. The decision   
    was hastened in part by the explosion in social media and the hard truth    
   that spoilers are now a fact of 21st-century existence. If Doctor Who were    
   to air even a day earlier in either the U.K. or North America, its secrets   
    would be out and the story would be ruined for a legion of fans.   
      
   And there are plenty of secrets in the coming season, showrunner    
   and Doctor Who guru Steven Moffat teased at last weekend's    
   Edinburgh International Television Festival. The coming season will mark   
    the end of the Amy Pond era, the Doctor's most recent companion as played   
    by Inverness ingenue Karen Gillan. Gillan is poised to take on a    
   feature-film career, and Who devotees are already teary-eyed over the    
   prospect of her inevitable goodbye - said to be a "blockbuster chase"   
    through the streets of Manhattan at the season's end.   
      
      
   The entire season is poised to be a blockbuster, Moffat promised. BBC    
   spared little expense, despite budget cutbacks, in backing what has   
    become the U.K. public broadcaster's most-watched, highest-rated    
   and most profitable export program. Doctor Who is one of those cable    
   dramas that produces only a handful of new episodes per season. Last season   
    was split in two, with seven episodes at the beginning, six episodes    
   at the end and a two-month break in between. The pattern is likely to repeat    
   itself this season. That means each episode counts for a lot with Who    
   devotees, and Moffat has said his ambition this season is to make every   
    episode a standout, stand-alone blockbuster in its own right.   
      
   Tonight's season opener finds the Doctor (Smith) kidnapped by an old foe    
   and compelled to venture inside "the asylum," an interplanetary prison that   
    harbours only the insane and the universe's most desperate. To say    
   more would spoil the surprise. And as Doctor Who devotees know, Who is    
   all about surprises. The program has survived as long as it has, Moffat    
   reasons, because each season it takes a different turn. (Space -7 p.m. MDT)   
      
      
   Copyright Edmonton Journal 2012   
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