Abstract
Recent Doctor Who episodes such as ‘The Name of the Doctor’ (7:13) and ‘The Day of the Doctor’ anniversary special1 suggest that today’s multi-Doctor TV stories seek to avoid audience awareness of actors’ visible ageing, focusing on recent incarnations of the Doctor alongside sampled footage of previous stars. This positions 2013‘s multi-Doctor TV stories within a mode of ‘database aesthetics’ rather than as pastiching the programme’s past. Recombining images from previous Doctor Who could unify the hyperdiegetic ‘Whoniverse’, but I identify a tension between this textuality and licensing strategies targeting fandom. And whilst November 23rd’s episode was designed to be accessible to a mass audience, ‘The Night of the Doctor’ minisode2 and ‘The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot’3 responded to fans’ wishes: contemporary multi-Doctor stories seemingly operate as part of the show’s ‘fanbrand’, incorporating knowledge of fan critique.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 95-113 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Critical Studies in Television |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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