{"id":207,"date":"2008-04-26T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblankscreen.co.uk\/selfdistract\/2008\/04\/26\/doctor-who-live-blogging\/"},"modified":"2008-04-26T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T18:53:00","slug":"doctor-who-live-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2008\/04\/26\/doctor-who-live-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who: Live Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently there are sports blogs where the writer is not at the match, he or she is just plonked in front of a telly. <\/p>\n

I mock these people.<\/p>\n

Only…<\/p>\n

I think I’ve just done the same. For the first time, my Radio Times Doctor Who blog<\/a> has gone live the moment the show finished airing, and I know this because I put it live.<\/p>\n

I have to be conscious that Helen Raynor writes a cracking hour’s TV and I do – hang on, counts on fingers – 433 whole words, but I’m not comparing, I’m celebrating. When Doctor Who works now, it’s a hurricane and I love it. The exuberance in it, there can’t be a harder show to write.<\/p>\n

Mind you, I learnt a lesson tonight: if you or I ever get to write one, we need to comb our hair and dress smartly: Helen is the first writer this series, besides Russell T Davies, to get interviewed on camera for Doctor Who Confidential. <\/p>\n

William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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