{"id":249,"date":"2007-11-06T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblankscreen.co.uk\/selfdistract\/2007\/11\/06\/heres-that-cover\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T10:36:00","slug":"heres-that-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2007\/11\/06\/heres-that-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s that cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previously on this blog… I told you I’d seen a draft of a Radio Times cover that I wanted to tell you all about – and realised halfway through the sentence that I was simply not allowed to. If you don’t already know, covers are extraordinarily important. When I was on PC Direct magazine we’d have covers meetings and you’d see that, all else being equal, the cover affected sales by 10 per cent or more.<\/p>\n

Anyway, now read on. Or rather look on. The issue is on sale as of this morning and the cover has been released: Outpost Gallifrey has the largest image of it I could see and that’s here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I told you I’d watched the image be really painstakingly arranged on the page (Peter Davison and David Tennant were shot in front of a green screen; the TARDIS behind them is a separate image). This isn’t the cover I saw, it’s a different shot of the men, but it still makes me think what I did at the time. That it’s weird.<\/p>\n

Good weird, but still. Much as I liked Peter Davison’s Doctor at the time, he looks so jarring now. Hard to believe this is the same show that it was, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

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

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