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The rumor mill: Stephen Fry and Grant Morrison making a scifi show for BBC Scotland?
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The entire, very small post from SFX:
"Stephen Fry And Grant Morrison team Up For TV Show
According to Bleeding Cool the blogtatsic Stephen Fry is apparently joining up with We3 and The Invisibles comic writer Grant Morrison and Push director Paul McGuigan for a BBC Scotland TV show. According to the site, “certain people at BBC Scotland are very jealous at BBC Wales for getting Doctor Who and Torchwood. Grant Morrison has talked about wanting to write for the Doctor Who TV show but that he hadn’t been approached. Maybe this is his way of getting his own sci-fi TV show off the ground.” The show is rumored to be Doctor Who-esque.
Of course, it's very early stages, but it's always exciting to hear that more British SF Tv is being developed, and especially exciting when talent like this is attached. File under, “We hope it's true.”
This sounds, even in vague form, like something that could be really good. Back in the previous heyday of Doctor Who, there were attempts to make other series in the same niche (Sapphire and Steel was actually pretty good, but not really the same, and that's probably why it was interesting instead of knock-off-y, which floats less on TV than it does in movies), but so far, there hasn't been much in this heyday. Primeval was great, and gathered a lot of the same fans, but now it's over and the world wants more.
Stephen Fry is wonderful, intense and funny in rounds, and Grant Morrison is known for unexpected and unyielding story lines, so this could be really fantastic. If it happens. And if we can get it over here.
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