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... that will be because I just sent in a complaint. The Beeb listens to me, you know.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Thomas T

All I know is it scared the crap out of Peter[COLOR="Silver"]

What, The Graham Norton trailer?

I got an e-mail back today about the complaint - its also on the complaints site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/resp...amnorton.shtml

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I got an e-mail back today about the complaint - its also on the complaints site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/resp...amnorton.shtml

Same here. The email pretty much said the same as the Complaints site.

Yep, I got the standard reply too. Unfortunately I think in all the focus on last Saturday's mess, they may miss the important, wider point: that it is incredibly annoying to see promos of this kind on top of any programme, not just Doctor Who. It's just disrespectful of all the people who worked to make the programme and contemptuous of the viewers who tuned in to watch and enjoy the show, not to sit and be advertised at.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Chris

Yep, I got the standard reply too. Unfortunately I think in all the focus on last Saturday's mess, they may miss the important, wider point: that it is incredibly annoying to see promos of this kind on top of any programme, not just Doctor Who. It's just disrespectful of all the people who worked to make the programme and contemptuous of the viewers who tuned in to watch and enjoy the show, not to sit and be advertised at.

Totally

Squeezing the end credits, or simply talking over them, is also extremely annoying, and something I wish all broadcasters would stop doing.

Banners ("IPPs" according to people at DS) like we had on Saturday really are the worst intrusion though. And it is bad enough when the commercial channels do this sort of US-style nonsense, but for the BBC to do it - on anything - is just plain wrong. It's a publicly funded public service broadcaster & should not be doing all this sort of self-promoting commercial rubbish.

When I see these sort of things, I get the impression that the broadcasters consider myself and all the other viewers to be idiots.

I've sent them a follow-up complaint along those specific lines. Let's see what they have to say.

Reminds of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrm2dj6bIU0

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I got an e-mail back today about the complaint - its also on the complaints site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/resp...amnorton.shtml

Excellent result.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Matt D

Banners ("IPPs" according to people at DS) like we had on Saturday really are the worst intrusion though. And it is bad enough when the commercial channels do this sort of US-style nonsense, but for the BBC to do it - on anything - is just plain wrong. It's a publicly funded public service broadcaster & should not be doing all this sort of self-promoting commercial rubbish.

Especially as the sole purpose of the show being trailed is to provide advertising for some west end show, which, IMO, violates the BBC no advertising rule anyway.

[Tezcatlipoca]

A good conclusion to the story, I think.

Nice additions to this series' arc too... More on the crack, with confirmation of earlier fan speculation that Amy is tied to everything somehow. And River... Interesting... I wonder if she "killed" The Doctor?

Excellent line from Amy at the end, when she

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was trying to "get it on" with the Doctor.

Doctor - "I'm 907 years old - do you know what that means?"

Amy - "It's been a while?"

Funny that 26/06/2010 is a Saturday eh?? So that will make is episode 12?

[Raistlin]

I can't believe he was trying to say no to her

[cimt]

Am I the only one who thought Amy sounded like a child when the Doc left her in the forest?

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Doctor: I'll be back soon (or something along those lines)
Amy: But you always say that