The Who pattern

The current series of Doctor Who is the last ‘officially’ confirmed series, with four one off specials taking th eplace of a full series in 2009. Although I’m sure a Series 5 and more will be confirmed eventually. Read more

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Playing in the snow + Torchwood

You may have noticed a complete lack of posts over the last few days - well that’s because I’m on holiday visiting my parents in England.

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Two weeks to Doctor Who

There are just two weeks left until the new series of Doctor Who kicks off - it will be on Saturday 5 April the day after the final episode of Torchwood series 2 airs on BBC TWO.

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Doctor Who: Series 4

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Torchwood embed

I wrote a post a few days ago looking at a few of the BBC sites that are switching to Flash Video and allow embed - all I could find at that time was music related embed.

Torchwood has flash video but didn’t allow you to embed the clips on another site. Well now they do. Once you accept the terms and conditions it lets you embed video from the vast majority of clips - the exception seems to be the ones where there are other copyright issues.

Although embedding isn’t as clever as the way it works with You Tube - it takes you to another page with a textarea box and a load of code - including div tags and all - not nearly as easy to use but a great leap forward for the BBC.

The clip above is a general Torchwood trailer and this one is a preview of the series ahead.

NOTE: I had to remove the second < /div > tag to get the embed to work without messing up my blog page.

All the clips on bbc.co.uk/torchwood have social links (del.icio.us, digg etal), e-mail links and a link to watch the Real/Windows Media version of the same clip.

I imagine the site will also include the iPlayer stream of each episode as it airs as well - the Doctor Who version did so I don’t see why this shouldn’t.

The embed code they give you is still a little ropey - the video could be a little smaller, or at the very least the border around the edge could be a little bit smaller.

As for the first episode - Kiss, Kiss Bang Bang - it was top SciFi - it was an example of taking humour, dark elements and an improving show concept, mixing it all together and coming up with something pretty special.

I really enjoyed it and thought it was a LOT better than series one (I have all of series one on DVD and enjoyed it a lot) and is set to continue to improve throughout the next twelve episodes.

There’s some really good stuff on TV right now.

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Torchwood Season 2