This is an Outrage!

[kerravonsen]

ABC iView have taken down all the current season of Doctor Who before I had a chance to see the most recent episode. Like, it was available for less than 24 hours! They usually leave things up for a week or more! WHAT!

I suppose it was because it was the last episode of the season, but it's still NOT FAIR!

ETA: It was apparently a bug, not a deliberate action. The bug is now fixed. Whew!

Comments

[deird1]

What??? That's appalling!

My husband is also not going to get a chance to see it. Grrr.



(ETA: I have left them an angry note. Because seriously.)

[deird1]

Good news!

Response from my angry email:

Thanks for the email and for pointing that out.

We are aware that there was an issue with the playback of several programs across iview earlier today where they appeared as if they had expired.

We have made some changes on our end and these issues should now be resolved. You should now be able to view Doctor Who without issue.

Please let us know if you continue to have issues with the playback of iview.

[kerravonsen]

Thank you!
I hadn't realised it was a bug. That makes more sense.

[jhall1]

Phew! I'm glad that you can now watch it.

[thewayne]

We got to see the first ep of the current season and that's it. I think Amazon Prime Video will show the Xmas ep, or maybe BBC America will show it for non-subscribers, but we have no way of seeing it short of pirating or paying outrageous costs, which we can't afford right now.

So either we wait for it to release on Amazon or for the release on DVD and the price to come down.

SUUUUUUCKS. We really like her and quite enjoyed the first ep.

[kerravonsen]

One of the advantages of living in Australia is that we do tend to see TV from both the UK and the US. Mind you, it used to be that we didn't see it until six months or a year later, but at least now with a few things (like Doctor Who) we get to see it the same week as in the original country. yay

I remember back in the 80s-90s, it would be a case of copies of copies of copies of video tapes taped off the TV that would circulate through the fannish grapevine, for US fans of Blake's 7, and Australian fans of Sapphire & Steel. And "screencaps" would literally be photographs taken of a TV screen.

[thewayne]

Unfortunately we live in a VERY remote community: 9,000' up on top of a mountain in the middle of a forest.  There is no fannish community around us.  So piracy would be our only option for immediate gratification, and I'm not keen on that. A couple of years ago BBC claimed they were going to release an Apple TV app that anyone anywhere could subscribe and see the entire BBC TV library, sort of iPlayer outside of UK subscribers, but apparently it has come to naught.  And I can't subscribe to BBC America because we don't have a cable subscription: we had satellite, but cut it and went strictly with Apple TV, paying just for HBO and Netflix, along with Amazon Prime.  Costs a lot less than satellite, but there's so many things we can't get without satellite or cable that it truly sucks. We have a DVD set of Sapphire & Steel, two of my favorite stars.  Still haven't watched it.  I'd so love to get a copy of The New Avengers, but the price is outrageous!

[kerravonsen]

We have a DVD set of Sapphire & Steel, two of my favorite stars. Still haven't watched it.

If you can cope with low-budget 80s special effects, and you like Doctor Who, I think you will love Sapphire & Steel. It has some of the feel of the more creepy Doctor Who episodes. As a friend of mine said "It may look like fantasy, but what they are doing is science, it's just a science we know nothing about."

Of all the adventures, one of them was a clunker, but the others were very good. Do see if you can watch at least one these holidays.

[thewayne]

My wife is working tonight and tomorrow, so maybe tonight.... Tomorrow I'm planning on going to the observatory and doing some star shooting.  I've got my snow suit on the wash right now!  There's currently a comet in the sky, it'd be interesting if I could catch it.  I can't see it, but with lots of 30 second exposures stacked, I have a shot. Oh, I started watching The Doctor back in very late Pertwee/early Baker days, I loved the cheesy effects!  We got them in Phoenix on Public Broadcasting generally about a season after they aired on BBC.  Some friends poo-pooed S&S, but I love Joanna and David, so maybe tonight I'll crack it open.  Interesting story that still slightly ticks off my wife: her dad was a golfer.  They were vacationing in Maine, and her dad went off to play a round of golf.  Came back and said they paired him up with some actor named David McCallum.  My wife freaked - her dad didn't get an autograph!  She's a huge Man From UNCLE fan, at this time it was NCIS or whatever show he was in.  I'm an UNCLE fan, never got in to the whole NCIS/Law & Order stuff.

[kerravonsen]

She's a huge Man From UNCLE fan, at this time it was NCIS or whatever show he was in. I'm an UNCLE fan, never got in to the whole NCIS/Law & Order stuff.

Ha! The first time I watched NCIS, I said "Hey, why didn't anyone tell me that David McCallum was in this? I would have watched this much sooner!"

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

That makes no sense especially with New Year's Day coming up shortly. So, do you have Showbox?