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== Doctor Who == | == Doctor Who == | ||
Starting 29 May 2018, Twitch ran a marathon of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' from the classic era starting with the 1963 episode ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' on the TwitchPresents channel. The marathon began at 7pm UK Time/11am Pacific Time and ran for a seven week period from Monday to Friday. While watching, people could speak to fans all over the world who were also watching.<ref>https://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/classic-doctor-who-comes-to-twitch-for-seven-week-marathon</ref> | Starting 29 May 2018, Twitch ran a marathon of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' from the classic era starting with the 1963 episode ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' on the [[TwitchPresents]] channel. The marathon began at 7pm UK Time/11am Pacific Time and ran for a seven week period from Monday to Friday. While watching, people could speak to fans all over the world who were also watching.<ref>https://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/classic-doctor-who-comes-to-twitch-for-seven-week-marathon</ref> | ||
This led to new evaluations of many stories with previously bad reputations.{{fact}} It also at one point caused ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'' to be the #2 trending topic on [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] [[Twitter]].{{fact}} Interestingly, the serial's original airing of episode 1 had 13.5 million viewers, the highest rated [[1960s]] ''Doctor Who'' episode. | This led to new evaluations of many stories with previously bad reputations.{{fact}} It also at one point caused ''[[The Web Planet (TV story)|The Web Planet]]'' to be the #2 trending topic on [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] [[Twitter]].{{fact}} Interestingly, the serial's original airing of episode 1 had 13.5 million viewers, the highest rated [[1960s]] ''Doctor Who'' episode. | ||
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The start of each [[The Doctor|Doctor]]'s era was preceded by a twenty-minute "pre-show" interview segment hosted by Yogscast members Mark "Turps" Turpin and Matthew Toffolo. Each episode featured a panel of guests introducing each new Doctor with stories and anecdotes. Guests included [[Katy Manning]], [[Paul Cornell]], [[Tom Spilsbury]], [[Bob Baker]], [[Beth Axford]] and [[Billy Garratt-John]].{{fact}} | The start of each [[The Doctor|Doctor]]'s era was preceded by a twenty-minute "pre-show" interview segment hosted by Yogscast members Mark "Turps" Turpin and Matthew Toffolo. Each episode featured a panel of guests introducing each new Doctor with stories and anecdotes. Guests included [[Katy Manning]], [[Paul Cornell]], [[Tom Spilsbury]], [[Bob Baker]], [[Beth Axford]] and [[Billy Garratt-John]].{{fact}} | ||
During the break in the middle of the episodes, a trailer for the era of the show that was currently streaming was | During the break in the middle of the episodes, a trailer for the era of the show that was currently streaming was shown. Many memes came from those trailers, most memorable was [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]] saying "London, 1965!". The meme encouraged the official ''Doctor Who'' [[YouTube]] channel to change the name of the clip of Ian and Barbara leaving the Doctor to "London 1965".{{fact}} | ||
== Torchwood == | == Torchwood == | ||
Starting on the 15th July, 2018, Twitch started streaming all four series of [[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]], with each episodes streaming every Sunday beginning at 10am PDT/6pm UK for the next 4 weeks until the 12th August, 2018.<ref>https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=torchwoodseries-is-coming-to-twitch</ref> | Starting on the 15th July, 2018, Twitch started streaming all four series of [[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]], with each episodes streaming every Sunday beginning at 10am PDT/6pm UK for the next 4 weeks until the 12th August, 2018, like with Doctor Who, also on the TwitchPresents channel.<ref>https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=torchwoodseries-is-coming-to-twitch</ref> | ||
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