In Things You May Have Missed, John introduces us to An Englishman in New York, the continuation of the story of Quentin Crisp. We discuss the changes going ahead at the BBC and also look at whether or not the Golden Age of Television has now passed.

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This week was a total mess but we did manage to talk about Human Giant, not buy Optus ads and read out some wonderful letters.

Enjoy the chaos:

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SBSTWO launches tonight. In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the promo they’ve been running:

At least they’re not lying about what it’s going to be. More of the same. How does a television network that is already supposed to be fulfilling a special need, provide more specialised content?
Considering the recent criticism of SBS’s new direction, perhaps SBSTWO will be the channel we all expected SBS 1 to be.

We’ll be discussing this new Freeview ad on this week’s Boxcutters. It launched last night. Watching it is all the homework you need to do this week.

This week, Alexandra Tynan, the designer of the Cybermen, joins us in the studio to talk about costume design and creating a science fiction icon. Also, we have a couple of I Don’ts Buys Its sent in by listeners (see the clips below).

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There’s some great Doctor Who stuff available at Amazon UK:

• Doctor Who Original Series : The Cybermen – Limited Edition 4 Disc Box Set (Exclusive To Amazon.co.uk) [DVD] [1963]
• Doctor Who – The Tomb Of The Cybermen [1967] [DVD] [1963]
• and Doctor Who – Lost In Time [DVD] [1963]

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