Comments on: Doctor Who Journey’s End Edited by CBC in Canada

By: Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:38:35 +0000

If you guys are getting 20 minutes of commercials per hour of programming on your state-funded broadcast, somebody’s getting screwed.

By: CMJ

CMJ — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:54:55 +0000

I thought that was one of the best episodes I’ve seen of Doctor Who ever! Very very good. I have the DVD set. I haven’t opened it yet, but I assume the full length episode is on there.

I didn’t see the edited version that aired on CBC, but I think that if it’s any redeeming factor, they aren’t the ones who did the editing. I recall that with season three’s finale, the pod commentary from BBC’s site had Jukie Gardener mentioning the bit where the Master is pushing the aged Doctor around on the Valiant with some music playing, and she said something to the effect of, “Oh, but if you’re in Canada or the US, I’m sorry, you won’t see this bit. We have to edit these longer episodes to air over there in yoru time slots.”

So I suppose at least they’ve been edited in the best way they could possibly be, and not randomly chopped up without thought.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:08:53 +0000

Ahhh, thanks… and I’m guessing then that only the doctor was off planet at the time?

By: tombakeristhebestdoctorevaaaaah

tombakeristhebestdoctorevaaaaah — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:01:20 +0000

because of the destruction of Gallifrey by the Daleks and they can’t go back in time to fix it because its a ‘fixed point’. I think it was before the current version of Doctor Who. The not-very-good 1996 TV movie, perhaps?

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:50:41 +0000

Someone explain something to me… If Time Lords can regenerate, why is the Doctor the last of his race?

By: Visitor

Visitor — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:06:02 +0000

“Editted?”

WTF

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:55:36 +0000

Yeah, it was a miserable end indeed. Davies will resign, so there’s hope that at least some credibility will return.

By: John Thomas

John Thomas — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:28:28 +0000

Hopefully you were spared the inanely stupid ending where Donna starts spouting rubbish at double quick speed and throws switches on Davros’s own equipment to defeat the Daleks and the less said about the TARDIS dragging the Earth through space the better!

By: blagh

blagh — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:37:57 +0000

That’s funny, ’cause you can stream the uncut episode on the CBC website: http://www.cbc.ca/doctorwho/#clipId=961275034

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:17:58 +0000

Fortunatly, this british icon is available on every respectable bittorrent tracker, as well as usenet. Dr Who just shouldn’t be cut, ever – it’s too detailed. Even a few minutes missing is sure to cut something important.

I think this happens a lot to BBC programs – we show them without adverts, so they don’t fit within the much shorter timeslots of commercial broadcasters. A typical commercial channel spends about 25% of it’s time showing advertising.

By: Kyle Lahnakoski

Kyle Lahnakoski — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:57:22 +0000

That explains why the show seemed to move at a much faster pace than the previous ones.

By: Grandt

Grandt — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:38:59 +0000

The last ep. was that long, because it was essentially 1 1/2 episode, running a total of 1:02:47, without the commercials as opposed to the normal 45 minutes (again without the commercials).

By: None

None — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:45:08 +0000

I can’t recall for certain but I think the episode that aired on Sci Fi in the US was aprox. 1 1/2 hours with commercials. This is quite unusual for most shows in general. Cutting 20 minutes of show to get it into an hour timeslot was a bad judement call, especially with this episode.

By: zen

zen — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:34:04 +0000

dr who is already formatted that way, unless they need to ad more commercials than the shows editing supports?

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:04:15 +0000

“Paranoid theories aside, I think the only reason it was chopped up was to fit it within the one hour time slot and include commercials.”

20 mins of commercials on a state funded Station, so where does that money go?

If it has any edits you are being short changed, and losing the plot…literally, these stories spin together, are these the idiots who butchered firefly on US TV, or did they all get there Advanced degrees together.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:45:27 +0000

Unwatchable? I think that’s an unfair statement. I’ve already watched it and enjoyed it and wouldn’t even have known about the cut scenes had I not found an article about it on Slashdot. It didn’t seem like there was something missing.

Paranoid theories aside, I think the only reason it was chopped up was to fit it within the one hour time slot and include commercials.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:19:41 +0000

Why the outrage? Everyone in Canada already knows if it isn’t hockey, you don’t watch it on CBC. They have always ruined anything worth watching by editing, skipping, and rescheduling episodes. Not to mention the average 2 year wait for new episodes whenever some US station decides they want to pick something up.
If it’s on CBC I rent or download it.

By: ndt

ndt — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:11:50 +0000

That’s why I illegally download the UK versions instead of watching it on Sci Fi. Who knows what those network idiots edit out of the American version.