The Waters of Oz

Upcoming Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars will premier in Australia on ABC1 in the week commencing Sunday, 6th December 2009 reports TV Tonight.

This is three weeks after the UK broadcast and a couple of weeks before the BBC America broadcast, and is the third occasion in which Australian viewers have received new episodes close to their UK premier

The Waters of Mars of course co-stars Australian actor Peter O'Brien who starred in Neighbours and The Flying Doctors in the 1980s and 1990s before moving to the UK and appearing in Casualty and Russell T Davies' Queer as Folk and more recently in the movie Wolverine.

UK broadcast for The Waters of Mars is Sunday, 15th November from 7-8pm on BBC One.

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Waters of Mars US Airdate

As announced by David Tennant on Friday's GMTV appearance, BBC America will be airing The Waters of Mars on December 19th - a chance for some Doctor Who before Christmas on the US anglophile TV network!

Broadcast further afield is as yet to be confirmed, however it seems that not even a month after the UK is enough for some US-based fans.

There's an interesting discussion over at FlickFilosopher about this very topic and the ramifications of filesharing "illegal" downloads of TV content via the torrent peer to peer network.

While Kasterborous.com in no way advocates or condones sharing of copyrighted material cross any medium, it seems odd that The Waters of Mars should be airing on BBC America almost a full month after its UK broadcast. A months delay for scheduling on SyFy would make sense, but four whole weeks for Stateside viewers to wait to catch the show when it is broadcast on a network specifically setup to broadcast British TV?

Bonkers Broadcasting Craziness!

K-9: Waste of Time?

Desperate for a vaguely Doctor Who related fix? Happy to waste time in front of a pointless digital channel watching a pointless spin-off that makes the concept of Rose Tyler: Earth Defender sound like Hamlet?

If so, why not get yourself in front of the box and tune into Disney XD, a channel which over the weekend couldn't make up its mind which episode of the pointless, irrelevant (and as we've seen totally vapid) K-9 spin-off. The premiere of the pilot episode Regeneration was broadcast at 6pm on the subscription channel, and thankfully has gone largely unnoticed.

Sure, the producers might have managed to get John Leeson to voice the tin dog, but then the 2000 version of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) had Tom Baker and that didn't make it must-see TV.

A co-production between Jetix Europe and Park Entertainment, you couldn't even declare that the original creators of K-9 would be turning in their graves - Bob Baker himself has been involved, writing episodes of the series.

Of course, all of this is merely opinion - make your own mind up:

Find out more about K-9 at thedoctorwhosite.co.uk who have remarkably sullied their otherwise impressive website with a K-9 page!