{"id":458,"date":"2005-06-24T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=458"},"modified":"2005-06-24T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T16:51:00","slug":"on-stephen-fry-and-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"On Stephen Fry and Doctor Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/tv_and_radio\/4620407.stm\">Stephen Fry is in talks to write an episode of <i>Doctor Who<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Intriguing news, this is.  I&#8217;ve enjoyed Fry&#8217;s novels.  He&#8217;s clearly a science fiction fan to judge by <i>Making History<\/i>, and he&#8217;s certainly a fan of <i>Doctor Who<\/i> in particular.  He gave a fantastic performance in the <i>Doctor Who<\/i> audio, <i>Death Comes to Time<\/i>, and my fervent wish coming out of <i>Death Comes to Time<\/i> was that the spin-off series based on his character, the Minister of Chance, would happen.  Sadly, it hasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;d love to see Fry appear in the program, reprising his role as the Minister perhaps, I can only wonder what tricks Fry might have up his sleeve as a writer.  Might the Doctor encounter Professor Trefusis?  Or knowing of Fry&#8217;s love for Sherlock Holmes, might the TARDIS pay a visit to 221B Baker Street?  Hopefully we&#8217;ll know, but likely not until 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Fry is in talks to write an episode of Doctor Who. Intriguing news, this is. I&#8217;ve enjoyed Fry&#8217;s novels. He&#8217;s clearly a science fiction fan to judge by Making History, and he&#8217;s certainly a fan of Doctor Who in particular. He gave a fantastic performance in the Doctor Who audio, Death Comes to Time,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=458\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Stephen Fry and Doctor Who&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4082,107,281],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-doctor-who","tag-stephen-fry","tag-tenth-doctor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}