New Doctor – new logo. The BBC are very excited about the fact it’s all change for the timelord, so they’ve whipped up this new logo – logo number eleven – to mark the occasion. And it’s… well… it’s a shimmery, bluey, purple, logo thing.
Are you excited about this, Doctor Who fans? I know you’re quite an obsessive lot. I suppose it looks quite nice. I hope you enjoy it.
But when the new series starts, can you refrain from going on about it? Honestly – I’ve given it a whirl and I still find it as irritating as I did when I was in just the right age-group it’s aimed at.
Not that I’m criticising. I’m sure it’s kitsch and fun and loaded with cheeky social comment and breaks boundaries and is fun for all the family and on so many levels. But I don’t like it, so discuss it amongst yourselves, for the love of God.
Back to the logo – one of the writers, Steven Moffat says:
“The eleventh logo for the eleventh Doctor – those grand old words, Doctor Who, suddenly looking newer than ever. And look at that, something really new – an insignia! DW in TARDIS form! Simple and beautiful, and most important of all, a completely irresistible doodle. I apologise to school notebooks everywhere, because in 2010 that’s what they’re going to be wearing.”
Lovely stuff. Enjoy your logo and enjoy the show. But please don’t go on about it.
100 Comments
Ooh, very shiny.
That quote from Moffat makes no sense.
Good morning.
MORNING.
so, are we expecting hoards of comment from the behind the sofa lot? will their little spidey (snidey, maybe?) senses be tingling at the very mention of the Doctor? Or would they be alerted because their sonic screwdriver starts to vibrate?
Just wondering.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/sathnam_sanghera/article6861895.ece
Might go and see the stage play!
DINLT – I just read that all the time thinking ‘why on earth…’ until all was revealed in the very last paragraph!
I will insist on front row tickets!
To be honest, if Doctor Who fans did come here to complain, it’d be my own fault. I started it. But it’s a slow news day and I didn’t watch anything remarkable last night…
I was wondering if you wanted the traffic.
I will have one for you after the weekend, as i see autumnwatch is back on in a slightly different format. Will be watching on catch up, but it is a bit late for a review this week, i think.
Does Dr.Who ever go abroad? Is he always fighting aliens in this country?
Graham Linehan is looking at a different version to us…
http://twitter.com/Glinner/statuses/4650779957
Any review is welcome at the moment, to be honest. I’m a bit tied up myself, as it happens.
We do always want traffic but the pageview thing isn’t our highest priority. If you look at the ads, you’ll see they’re non-profit at the moment – which essentially means we’re being lazy / have day jobs / haven’t got round to sorting out the advertising.
So page views at the moment = £none.
They should get that Gary Glitter on Doctor Who. He’s looking to relaunch his career, and what better platform to reach today’s kids than … hang on … what? … oh, right …
DINLT – they used to in the 70s, when ‘abroad’ was a quarry in Wales. Now they have simply recognised what migrationwatch have been trying to tell u all – almost 100% of alien invasions will gravitate towards London.
Swines – ok, I will see what I can do tonight, but I make no promises, I am doing a LOT of eveing calls to the states moment, leaving me little time for TV. I am eternally optimistic that these calls will be less than 3.5 hours long, but am yet to be proven correct.
There must be some way of relaunching Glitter’s career. Dr Who may not be it – but the high end marketing agencies would be able to come up with something, surely?
Perhaps they could find a way to make paedophilia ironic.
Fiona – a way to shorten your calls to the USA: get a man to do the ringing for you.
You broads don’t half blather on… and that’s a scientific fact.
The One Show? They could have him on as a roving reporter. ‘Gadd-About!’ or ‘Glitter’s Shitters’?
Wise words Swines…wise words.
Swines – these calls consist of me and three men (one of whom keeps having a wee in middle of them, as discussed yesterday) and I can assure you that I am not the chatty one!
Nappers – i think ‘Gadd-about’ has a certain ring to it. That PC world store that got him into a world of shit was exactly next door to the Comet where I served many a z-lister. Glad he didn’t bring his computer to us to fix!
I look at the ads, Swines. I’m still very confused about the one with the woman wearing the tee-shirt that says “child abuser”.
I’m not going to buy a tee-shirt with “child abuser” written on it.
That new logo is fantastic. I’ve not watched “The Who” since Tom Baker but this new piece of artwork is pulling me in.
I was considering, perhaps taking a look at some of the previous series but their logos look inferior so I don’t think I’ll bother….
Good morning all.
Talking of Borders, I’m playing inside one on Saturday but have no real idea why….
Oh, and I thought Chris Langham had made paedophilia ironic these days, by appearing on Pamela Stephenson’s show? Or was that just that he went on and his entire premise was ‘poor me, it is hard to work in showbusiness now’? I am a woman, and get confused by such things.
The Doctor Who logo is incredibly important, and it’s good to have a forum like this where we can talk about it in all the detail it deserves.
I notice that today’s Guardian gives rather more space to the Seinfeld/Curb mashup than it does to yesterday’s bomb at the UN in Afghanistan. They share the “International” page. I’m very glad we’re keeping everything in proportion.
Computer-rendered text is ‘artwork’ now, is it?
*gives up*
Pilchard – If you replace the ‘d’ in your name with ’se’, you get ‘Pilcharse’.
He he.
Nick – that was part of what i found confusing about the collection of words that were attributed to Stephen Moffat (they were a bit too random to call them a quote). I bet that only a teeny tiny minority (of a number less than or equal to 10) of people in the whole world will have noticed or care about this!
Computer games! You could relaunch all three careers by merging them into a new character in Street Fighter. King Glangham – a giant paedo made off of Jonathan King, Chris Langham and Gary Glitter with a sweets ‘n’ puppies special attack.
He’d wear glasses, of course.
Nap…everything is art these days.
Is it arse, DINLT. Things that aren’t art:
Dog shit
Some letters
The Fiat Panda
The Democratic Republic Of Congo
Noel Edmonds
Everything’s art my foot!
You missed the light on top of the Tardis.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/features/bulletins/bulletin_091005_01
Now Pilch, if the Afghan war had a logo….
Could have saved a lot of money and re-used the Danger Mouse logo. Turn the ‘M’ upside down, bingo.
That video indicates to me that the BBC’s spent some money on a slightly better computer. We could be talking 1993, Jurassic Park-quality effects for the new series of Doctor Who.
Think Merlin + £2.99.
There’s an art to everything, isn’t there?
If I hadn’t angled my hips over the pan just now, there’d have been a pebbledashing nightmare all over the cistern. There’s even an art to pooing out squits.
Fiona – that’s weird, because when I was in the corporate world, male phonecalls used to consist of five minutes of football talk, one minute of business talk, then a swift and unsentimental goodbye.
Eavesdropping on female colleagues, I was amazed to find they managed the same amount of business talk in a one-hour conversation that also comprised babble on such varied topics as
AND STILL THEY WANT EQUAL PAY.
DINLT – I haven’t missed anything out, you bummer.
*hastily changes header pic*
Well swines, maybe I am just not very emotionally invested in the social or toilet lives of my colleagues.
We are in the middle of setting up a Thing, and they like to pick over every single detail, in minute detail.
This is probably a good thing, as my organisation is often open to intense scrutiny and criticism, but it would be nice to have a normal evening once in a while.
Fiona, talk about Sex On The Cities and they’ll soon set about hanging up.
Equal pay? For a set of time-wasting gossips wot fuck off on holiday for the best part of a year every time they pump out a nipper?
OUTRAGEOUS.
I’ve just jizzumed me kecks!
I can;t wait for Stephen Moffat’s revamp of what has become a predictable, lazy show. AND the new Tardis is a lighter blue, the windows are framed with white and it has a St John’s Ambulance logo!
*turns light off and closes curtains*
Dave – That made you sound like a paedophile.
Swines – do you thnk going on about Natural History programming will have the same effect? I am wholly unqualified to discuss SATC, since I haven’t managed a whole episode.
So is Russell T Grant no longer writing for it?
Fiona – probably not, now you put it like that.
*snaps out of stereotyping mode*
So this is the new assistant? That doesn’t seem to be a regulation Police issue outfit. I see. Rather.
Take Leeds. The dinner ladies want equal pay so the council proposes to cut five grand off the bin men’s wages to bring ‘em in line with the dinner ladies. The result? Rubbish piling sky-high on the streets of Leeds, rats everywhere and disease lurking round every corner.
Now what they should have done is tell the dinner ladies to fuck off and let ‘em go on strike. The result of that? Mothers would have had to take ten minutes out of their busy days of watching Jeremy Kyle, drinking cooking sherry and telling the mumsnet community that men should be locked up because we’re all paedos to make a pack-up for their rotten little charges.
The effect? Fuck all.
Equal pay my arse.
Fourstar – It’s not. They all look like American cops now they’ve ditched the white shirts and blue clip-on ties.
SH, you mean Russell T Harty.
hey
I agree with Gemma.
lol x
Hear hear!
is any one talkin lol x
lol
x
………….
?
Hate the light. Hate the DW – too clunky and not needed. Design-wise, it’s two logos together – the TARDIS bit and the title bit. Eh? Why bother? I can’t imagine who signed this off! It looks like a really bad GCSE art project.
One or t’other is fine, but the TARDIS thing is quite embarrassing. Maybe the very young ones will like it but I’m not so sure 11 year olds will. It’s very cutesey. I think the title on its own would have been fine.
I’m laughing my fucking ass off over here!
*laughs ass off*
lol
whilst rolling on the floor, i hope, NC. It would lose auuthenticity otherwise
*rolls on floor, laughing off own ass*
I now have no ass. I’ve laughed it off.
*is assless*
It reminds me of those very old ads for denture cleaners, where they had the word DENTURES made out of denture material. Except that the Tardis dentures look like they’re cut from MDF.
is every one ok in away xx
*runs for the hills to await awful floods*
I’m alright ‘in away’, Gemma. Whatever that means …
Here! I reckon Alexei Sayle murdered Benny Hill.
it don matter lol wuu2 xx
gemma r u Dave?
no marte
Slow news day then this…http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091006/tuk-little-britain-star-matt-s-ex-found-45dbed5.html
No marte? But what will I have for lunch?
Soup Fourstar?
you fuckin mong
I like it when Matt Lucas is in that wheelchair, and then he gets out of his wheelchair every time his carer’s back’s turned. Ha ha! By the eighty-eighth time I saw him do that, I was literally rolling on the floor laughing my fucking ass off.
Have we been invaded?
I think nappers scared them off with his bottom, so we are OK again.
Fancy becoming a couch detective?
Now you can watch CCTV from the comfort of your own home.
Jeesus
haha lol x
I mong, do I? Coo. Who’d a thunk it.
Shaba’s a nice name. Are you single?
DINLT – I am not Gemma.
SH – timelord should be spelleded Time Lord because they are a proud race of ceremonial peace keepers from the planet Gallifrey. Have some respek.
congratulations on your qualification Dave. Now, I have this rash…
Dr. Dave – you are not a real Dr.
Either’s Neil Fox. Dr.Dre got a Doctorate in Having Love For Tha Street from Cambridge though.
Buggeration, now I will have to PAY to get the damn thing cleared up. Bah
Where’s shaba gone? I was in there.
Fiona Mayhem – Your symptoms can only lead me to conclude that you have Female Hysteria. Do you have an egg whisk to hand?
Tescos have put the price of 3 bottles of soda water up to £1.20 from £1.00. Is there some kind of soda water crisis I haven’t been told about?
Shaba = mong
Dave told me that in private…
Dr Dave – erm, hang on a minute, I was , er, using it for another purpose. *shame face*
4*, best left ignored, i think. Soonest bored the better.
I’m going to eat almonds until they’re all gone..
Quick Quid ripoff loans ad on tv quote
2356% APR! Not a typo, 2356%!!!!
Nick, if you don’t pay to they send the heavies around as well?
Probably Mel. For 2356% they’s probably get a limo.
This Kyle could be a classic…
Is Kyle like X Factor for chavs?
Miss DINLT’s going away for 3 weeks from this Friday. This is terrible news.
Poor DINLT, although you will be able to watch non stop football now, i guess.
Miss DINLT’s going away for 3 weeks from this Friday. This is terrible news.
I don’t see how, DINLT. Not now they’ve invented super-fast broadband and the price of tissues has gone through the floor.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6863015.ece
Isn’t that guardianist foodie there? I wonder if he was in the mcdonalds?
You could do a split screen. Part fooball, part cricket, part Ms DINLT.
Result/s…
They smashed the windows of a McDonald’s? How nice of them to help Burger King out like that.
I don’t think the Guardian could comment on that story, DINLT – not unless they could work Radiohead or Twitter into it.
I’m just commenting to make it a nice round 100.
Thanks.
One Trackback
[...] 7 – Like Doctor Who? Like Doctor Who enough to watch an entire video about its new logo? You do? You’re weird – Watchwithmothers [...]