Well, that's irritating

Yesterday when I got home from work I was excited to find that Netflix had sent me not one, but both discs of Dante's Cove. Because really, what better way is there to spend your Friday off than by watching a soft core porny, supernatural gay soap opera with Tracey Scoggins? So imagine my chagrin when the disc labelled disc 2 actually turned out to be another copy of disc 1. I've reported the problem to Netflix and they'll be sending me a replacement, but not until after I send them the offending disc. Unfortunately the mail has already gone out today, so I probably won't get it until Tuesday (though they can be surprisingly fast, I'm not really holding out for Monday).

grr


ps. the first episode was just as wonderfully bad as I hoped it would be. Also hot. I want a Toby of my very own.

Doctor Who series 2 DVDs coming in January

From scifiwire:

The complete second season of the BBC's new Doctor Who series will be released on DVD in the United States on Jan. 16, 2007, BBC Worldwide Americas executives told SCI FI Wire. "We're over the moon with Doctor Who," said Megan Branigan, vice president of BBC video marketing, in an interview. "We're really pleased with the results this year. We're very excited to continue the momentum with [season] two as we did with [season] one." (The second season of Doctor Who will air in the United States on SCI FI Channel, starting Sept. 29.)

The six-disc set will feature a lenticular cover depicting David Tennant, who takes over the role of the Doctor from Christopher Eccleston, and Billie Piper as his traveling companion, Rose Tyler. Bonus features will include video diaries from Tennant and Piper, as well as episodes of the behind-the-scenes series Doctor Who Confidential, which ran concurrently with the show when it aired in the United Kingdom. The date of the release, and future releases, was timed to fall on the Tuesday following the airing of the second series finale, "Doomsday," on SCI FI Channel, Branigan said.

The content on the U.S. release will be identical to the version available in the U.K., which is due in November. "It's done that way on purpose, because it really is a global program," Branigan said. "We've agreed with the BBC that our fans in the U.K. would notice tremendously if the content was different, and we did actually do that with some of the classic Whos. And we got some feedback that people were upset because they had already bought the U.K. edition, and then all of a sudden ours got put out, and we had added value. So we decided as a global company to do [just one version]."

Like the program itself, the DVD is designed to appeal to longtime fans of the franchise, as well as to those whose familiarity with the Doctor is limited to the new incarnation. "It's the best of both worlds, because we're appealing to both the core fans and to this new audience," Branigan said. "I mean, the program does that all on its own. And SCI FI does that for us, too. Because it's more mainstream, maybe it brings more of an audience to SCI FI that they didn't have as well. But certainly the people who are watching the SCI FI Channel are a perfect target for the program." —Cindy White

Gah! My eyes!

Oh God. Kill me. Kill me now! I just saw someone refer to K/S as Spirk. It's all over. I can't go on after seeing something so horrific. I pray someone will end my suffering soon.