Typisk dansk tv...

[oneiriad]

I can't quite decide between amazement that DR is for once going to spend the media licence money on something decent and actually start showing Doctor Who again, vague annoyance that it's going to be shown on the one channel of their's I don't get (though if they do like with Walking Dead, it will be available online for a bit, so...) or just plain rolling my eyes at the fact that apparently they are going to skip right past Ten, once again proving that watching series on Danish television channels is not something one should do if one actually likes to, you know, watch television series...

Anyway, I have seen it, so why do I even care?

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[blnchflr]

Is it typically Danish tv - have they done similar before? Either way, it's certainly idiotic!

I'm also less than impressed with how the tv2 article pitches S5 as "a completely new series".

[oneiriad]

Well, I don't know if they have specifically done the start-a-series-then-stop-then-restart-it-skipping-several-seasons thing before (though actually, considering DR's previous history with Doctor Who, I'd be willing to argue that oh yes, they have.

Anyway, seriously, I was thinking more in general terms - of Danish television's general treatment of people who like series - send one season and then never more (for instance Due South and The Sentinel, both from TV2), series shown late, late at night and occasionally the actual time changing without warning, so you get up the next morning and find maybe half the episode recorded on your video, and oh, then there's the bit where DR sent Blake's 7 back in the day (which would be before my time), the first season, and then apparently lied and claimed that that was all there was... (there's a bit about that in the above link too)

So, all in all - typical Danish television. How people managed pre-Internet, I've given up trying to figure out...

[blnchflr]

Definitely many series too late at night for some of us!