And not wanting to feel left out, I'm also continuing to post reviews of Series 6 and Who DVD releases over at http://www.cathoderaytube.blogspot.com You'll also find lots of television and film goodness there as well as competitions to win books and DVDs.

Just to add that I'll (hello) also be posting reviews to my own blog. I have an RSS feed, but if you just want the Whoniverse, bookmark this page:

http://feelinglistless.blogspot.com/search/label/doctor%20who

I've just finished reviewing the Eccleston era again, or at least the episodes I didn't get to here the first time around. Which was most of them.

Goodbye Liz x

Shucks - I've come to this news really late and I'm really sad. The BTS gang have been a great delight over the years and I really hope that at least the archives can stay alive. I'd hate to lose access to all the chuckleworthy and thought provoking commentary you've all provided. May the Tachyon force live strong though.

im that kid he was talking about

Well dammit. I will really really miss this site. Thank you for what you've done, and good luck to you in the future!

Well all the best for the future - I stumbled onto the site just as the 2005 series began and it quickly became the first place I'd visit after the episodes had screened. Thanks to all the contributors for keeping me entertained over the past six years/series!!

Devastating to hear this. This was, hands down, my favorite place for really intelligent discourse on DOCTOR WHO. None of that "Matt Smith will suck as the Doctor/DAVID TENNANT FOREVER!!!" crap that stank up the internet months before Smith even took to the screen. Just thought-filled and insightful commentary and analysis. I didn't always agree but that's a component in the discourse. I'll truly miss this singular resource for post-show reflection. Cheers!

The reviews here of Doctor Who were the most thoughtful & interesting I found anywhere. Thanks for the good times, good luck with Tachyon.

As a regular reader (although not a commentator until now) I shall be very sorry to see BTS come to an end. Your reviews and those of your contributors have been consistently amusing and knowledgeable and I loved the tone/voice of the writing.

Thanks for making the Doctor Who experience even more enjoyable.

Good luck with your future projects.

And that's why I'll be turning the comments off soon!

This was discussed but we couldn't make it pan out. Sorry.

Eh, why not just pass it on to the contributors, assuming they are keen to keep it running?

Good times had. Many thanks!

Really good review! I definitely think this is one of the better New!Who examples of the Doctor trying to help and ending up making things worse.

Blimey.

After reading this news, I've just been reading some of Volume 1 (2005 - 2007) of the blog, thinking how BTS became more and more a part of the weekly (when it was on) Doctor Who experience - from 2005 (though I wasn't quite reading from "Rose" onwards), to being a regular reader for the 2006 season, to being a regular reader-and-commenter for the 2007 season.

Of course it wasn't just TV Doctor Who - the Torchwood and BBC7 reviews between the 2006 and 2007 DW seasons were particularly amusing.

With BTS Volume 2 (more Torchwood, DW 2008 then the DW "gap" year, then Moffat Season One) I've continued with the reading and the commenting.

Thanks Neil (and the rest) for all the reviews to read and comment on!

It was always a pleasure, never a chore, even with all the debts you saddled me with...

Let's not say au revoir. Let's say, goodbye my dears!! xxx

Very sad news indeed. I was another silent-but-loyal reader. Thank you for years of excellent and amusing reviews, and good luck to you all.

I'm so sad to hear this. I haven't been a commenter in the blog, but I've been a regular reader. You've done great work, and best wishes to everyone involved.

See you in 16 years? :(

Really though, I'm glad the archives remain. After watching classic Who, this is the first site I visit to check up on reviews :)

Great team, great work, so long and thanks for all the fish.

Thanks Neil. It has been a pleasure to contribute to BTS over the last three years and I've thoroughly enjoyed getting to know you, John, Damon, Stuart, Iain, Tom and Paul.

I appreciate the link back to Cathode Ray Tube and I certainly hope I can contribute to Tachyon TV. Good to see it back again!

Nice to know the archives will remain.

Cheers to you all!

A great shame - I hadn't read it much for a while, but I really enjoyed being part of things back in the day when it all started, in the build-up to the launch of the 2005 series. When the world was young and all things seemed possible!

I am very pleased to have been a part of it all, and I wish you all well for the future. Great to see Tachyon TV back, too!

Gone but not forgotten, BTS has been a consistently great site. Good luck in all your new ventures.

Kev

Well thanks very mu...oh, the other Damon.

I hopped on board here just after the show relaunched 6 years ago. The early horror towards Aliens in London, the Cyberwoman commentary, Reichenbach Balls...

I'm glad the archives will remain. Thanks for all the hard work, reviews and laughs over the years. Splendid fellows, all of ya.

A real shame, this was always one of my favourite sites and I always enjoyed the episode reviews.

At least there seems to be life in Tachyon TV, as someone once said where there is life there is hope.

Best of luck with future projects

Paul
www.who-news.com

I love this new doctor and his crazy attitude. . . .
David tennant was my all time great but john comes very close. Looking forward to the new season and the new darlicks. .

Good review Frank.

You said:
"As the Mill's CGI gives way to a plunge (rather Citizen Kane-like) through the girders and construction of Sardicktown and settles in the bustling streets, Moffat immediately makes a connection with us, here and now in post-Coalition government Britain, briefly reminding us with the newspaper headline 'Spending Plummets, Tax Soars' that his revisiting of Dicken's own Carol is as much about the haves and the have-nots of Cameron and Clegg's Britain as it is about Ebenezer Sardick's cruelty and soullessness."

I was also thinking Citizen Kane - though the "El Rancho" scene and the start of this DW story - in my review.

Kane and the Sardicks do have certain similarities I suppose.

"Cameron and Clegg's Britain" - I realised why the currency is "Gideons" and wrote about that too...

Click here for planetzogblog review of A Christmas Carol.

***Classic FM to Radio 3, Classic FM Magazine to BBC Music, Pip and Jane Baker to Robert Holmes, David Gooderson to Michael Wisher...***

...Stuart Ian Burns to Frank Collins? ;)

One could argue that the true distinction between the fans of Classic FM and those of Radio 3 is that you never hear the former defining themselves as not the latter. How far up their own arses would they have to be?

The only thing stopping Radio 3 fans from being superior to Classic FM fans is their smug certainty that they are.

Me, I never progressed beyond Blondie.

That Christmas special was so good it's only just now I've realised the whacking great plot hole in it.

Abigail's voice resonates with the ice crystals and disrupts the charge in the clouds which enables the fish to fly. They later beam this through the broken halves of the sonic screwdriver, thus parting the clouds and allowing the ship to land. But since the other half is inside the shark and that's at the epicentre, wouldn't it just make the shark fall out of the sky? You might distract everyone on board from imminent death with an amusing splat, but not much else.