When the show continues, it's definitely not going to pick up from the Disney season numbering, and for another soft reboot they may want to start at 1 again.

So going by season ones, it'll be "New New New Who”.

Some sticklers might want to go by showrunners instead of formal seasons, which would make it "New New New New New Who". (I'm starting at 2005 for this because the show didn't have showrunners as such before that).

But of course, you could argue every (numbered) Doctor is a fresh start, so it was really "New Who" ever since Troughton. This would make the next series "New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New Who".

Anybody up for a "New Earth" rewatch party?

This past year since the show was last on the air, I've been rewatching a bunch of classic serials, and quite enjoying the longer format. It's delightful to have big chunks of story developing over several episodes, not unlike the double (or rare triple) whammys we've had in the modern show.

It's got me thinking, given the difficulties the BBC seem to have shouldering the expense of producing Doctor Who these days — wouldn't it be feasible to release one or two multi-episode "event" series per year, one finished story each, plus a holiday special?

Altogether they could land at eight or less episodes a year, with lower production costs (say, locations and casting) across each serial. I'm sure there are still quarries and stately manors that weren't used during Tom Baker's stint, or deserve a revisit...

Maybe it will even be more realistic to fit a few blocks of shooting in between the main cast's other engagements, and we could have a steady TARDIS team for (gasp!) three years or more?

Yeah, I'm reaching. Anything would be better than this current "hurry up and wait" BS.

So, this is really only a blip in the current vacuum of Doctor Who news. We're down to second third fourth hand gossip, but at least this is via Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool. Except it didn't seem to meet BC newsworthy criteria, so he posted it to his substack instead. Probably because it's the sort of hearsay redditors tend to spin into wild conjecture.

The basic premise is that somehow, the show runner and production company have already selected the next Doctor, and are in full swing producing the holiday special, scheduled to air on christmas day. And the reason nobody knows about this is, it's all being done in secrecy.

Bear in mind, these are the same powers that be who had huge swathes of the past two seasons' plot points leaked before airing, so how they suddenly became masters of covert production is the main question.

Until we hear otherwise from official channels, though, this is at least a positivist antidote to the inevitable "Doctor Who is DEAD" theorising that has filled online channels for the past year...

As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI.

I'll go first:

The Voyager two-parter "Year of hell" is considered one of the strongest stories in the series, and I'd presume ranks pretty high in the entire franchise. But it's entirely rubbish, of course, because even across 2×45 minutes it only depicts 257 days.

We were promised a full year of hell, where are the last 108 days (109 in case of a leap year)?! Did they plan a three-parter but cut costs to afford an even tighter catsuit for Jeri Ryan?

I'm outraged by this glaring oversight and can never watch another Trek episode with the same suspension of disbelief, [edited for brevity]

Just kidding of course, loved rewatching the EPs the other day 🙂 What absolutely stick-in-the-mud killjoy kvetching can you all think of to ruin a Trek episode?

Bonus points for being more ridiculous than whatever Youtubers du jour come up with 🤣🖖

Rewatched Ready or not (2019) last night to prepare for the sequel. I always enjoyed the coke snorting, incompetent character Emilie, but this time around it was even funnier because I recognised Melanie Scrofano as super capable captain Batel from SNW 🤣

Edit: Batel, not Patel. Didn't say I were capable.

I've had a couple of cloudflare errors logging on today, errors that were supposedly on the server end.

I also notice that my feed hasn't been updated for 8 hours (at least that's the time passed since the latest thread was published). Visiting other instances, it appears there have been several updates to my subscribed communities that aren't federated to KbinEarth. Threads, comments, votes, etc.

Is everything alright over there? Or have I just been shadowbanned 😓

Google has big plans for Android in 2026, and most of it is AI.

I'll be interested to see if and how badly those "features" trickle down to custom ROMs. It's probably all proprietary in one way or other, so independent projects won't have a choice but exclude them 🤞

Bad news for anybody running OEM Android, though.

Latest version of "I for one welcome our algorithmic overlords", via SEO bullshit.

See, according to the "AI" tech bro simps at Search Engine Journal, it's Really To Your Benefit™ that you target your website content to be extracted by search engines' "AI" regurgitation. Rather than, you know, at human readers who might be interested in your work.

Also, nobody writes your website's "job description" but you. Certainly not some search engine marketing sycophant.

Personally? I'd love a how-to on doing the exact opposite, making a website resistant to extraction. Fucking up the algos when they try to harvest your content.

Ouch!

The first season of the Apple TV series paired its kaijū (monster) action with deft character work, making its globe-spanning mystery feel grounded and emotionally engaging. Season Two, which aired its finale on May 1, picks up directly after the first season’s cliffhanger ending, but much of that balance is lost beneath the weight of a sprawling story and the introduction of more characters from the Monsterverse — a franchise that now encompasses six films and two other spinoff series, all based on Toho Studios’ Godzilla IP.

As the world of “Monarch” expands, the series becomes increasingly bogged down by explanations. Two years after the first season premiered, exposition that was once neatly folded into believable dialogue has been replaced with clunky reminders of previous plot points and characters.

I didn't read past this point for fear of spoilers, as I haven't watched S2 yet... but the review isn't off to a good start, is it?

In this text I want to analyze the relationship of fascism and what is called “AI” these days. Is this “technology” that keeps being used to reshape the world around us (for better or worse but dominantly worse) in some way connected to fascism? Or is it just something fascists like to use? Is it neutral?

“AI” is built by scraping the Internet and any other data source one can find and most of that data is heavily racialized, is based on a colonial, sexist, heteronormative understanding of the world and the past. There literally is no police data that’s not racist. If you base your image generator on the images available, LGBTQIA representation, representation of people not conforming to the social expectations of acceptability is lackluster at best for example.

But there is another aspect of “AI” usage that fuels the right’s enjoyment of using “AI”: It hurts the people they want to hurt. “AI” is currently mostly used to generate media (think images, illustrations, music or text). But traditionally people in those creative industries are more left leaning, more inclusive. Fascists just can’t create good and interesting art. Using “AI” to take that groups’ jobs, their livelihood, their creative expression away is exactly why using “AI” to create an image is so enjoyable by right wingers: It’s a vulgar display of power.

The above are just cherrypicked paragraphs from a long and well argued article. Give yourself the gift of reading it in full, rather than having a bullshit generator summarize it 🙂

File under: shitpost

I very much feel that the Doctor should always be played by a British actor, so I struggle to imagine how a "Texas Doctor Who" would be portrayed 😱🤠

That's all, please don't leave comments regarding the actual article. I'm sure it's shared in relevant communities as well 😜

The BBC is planning to cut approximately 2,000 jobs over the next two years. Does that add pressure to find a Doctor Who production partner?

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To add some perspective, the BBC had 21,508 employees in 2025 – the cuts would equate to losing one in every 10 employees across the multimedia company (and also the largest number of layoffs by the BBC in 15 years).

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We know that the BBC, BBC Studios, and Bad Wolf have gone on the record to reassure fans that the series isn't going anywhere, but does today's news of layoffs add more fuel to the fire when it comes to a new production partner? The previous debate was whether the show needed to have a big budget and big effects to succeed. Now, is it more about bringing on another producer to keep it at the level it was at when the show returned.

A while back I decided to upgrade the speaker terminals on my vintage Technics amp. The old ones were the twist lock kind that will grind off strands of copper each time you connect or disconnect the speakers, and I installed new banana plug connectors instead.

As far as I can tell, that replacement went well in itself, but for some reason the amp's protection circuit doesn't go into operation mode when I turn it on anymore. According to the manual, this could be a short circuit between the speaker cables, or DC voltage in the terminals. I've checked both and come up with nothing.

On the advice of a more experienced vintage Technics owner — I'm a complete newbie myself — I tested for voltage at a pair of output resistors, and they were way off. This lead me to replace two pairs of transistors (pre drive and current stabilizer), but the problem persists.

I realise I'm way out of my depth here, and although I have a cheap replacement amp, I miss the beautiful sound of my SU-V4X. Any advice is welcome.

Doctor Who mini-series will see guest Doctors beginning with Rupert Grint.

I dodged most April fool news in the media, so didn't see this until now. And I wouldn't even be that upset if this was a cagey move from the Doctor Who R&D division to test the waters for new directions...