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The Mathieson Years A (Short) Post-Capaldi Doctor Who Timeline The year 2016 was a demanding time for the United Kingdom and Europe. It had also been a transitional year for Doctor Who as a television series and an overall media brand. The only Doctor Who production to air that whole year...

BBC News - 24th January 2016 It was announced last night that, after five series at the helm, Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat's next series will be his last as lead writer and executive producer. He has confirmed that his successor will be his close friend Toby Whithouse, creator of the BBC...

This is from my own personal alternate timeline called "Timeline-93". In this first post – from a segment involving "Western Animation", Toonami was founded in 1996 – one year earlier than in OTL – but instead of becoming an animation block, it became its own network; think "Boomerang 'from...

POD October 20th 1977 Michael Jackson leaves The Jacksons: Singer Michael Jackson has left The Jacksons after the band's album Goin' Places flopped critically; in an interview Michael Jackson gave to Rai Uno he stated, "It was absolute hell recording that album, everyone was for themselves and...

In OTL, during the early days of television, there had been cases throughout numerous countries in Europe and worldwide, where episodes of already broadcast programmes and series were routinely wiped from the tapes they were recorded on. The rationale was that these tapes were expensive. With...

While many of the most popular movies in history have been adoptions of books, as far as I know, not a single novelisation of a movie has gained popular or critical acclaim. It just doesn't seem to happen. Can anyone think of a way that this might be changed and popular written adaptions of...

I went though my files and found notes on a pop culture timeline based on an earlier and better American Godzilla. Feeling a little inspired, I thought I'd give a go. Also I remembered, another ill-fated American Godzilla proposal from the eighties, one more family oriented but with...

(reposting this thread after a mistake in forums.) So, i am here to admit something. I'm a brony-lite, which means that i like My Little Pony alongside other pop culture stuff such as Star Wars and... Well, this. Alternate history and cartography. So i've been imagining a different world. I've...

Dagger of Ways The Shadowy World of an Unmade Reboot (A computer game popular culture timeline) - - - - Prologue ---- (...) "I often hear this misconception that we or the guys at Eidos wanted to milk the brand name dry, and the subsequent fallout from Dagger of Ways was our comeuppance...

I'm not necessarily interested in a scenario where Cyan Worlds reboots the series themselves, or some developer partnered with them will do the same. I'm just interested in how you'd do a reboot of the original series, a few years after its official conclusion in 2005. I think this series would...

After having seen Tom Riley and co. in the Doctor Who episode "Robot of Sherwood", I really, really sighed that we didn't get this sort of fun-but-respectful interpretation of the Robin Hood legend on TV in the 2000s or this decade. What I'm missing in the modern day is a Robin Hood based TV...

When Group B was cancelled in the mid 1980s due to FIA's growing concerns over the safety record of these rally cars, the eventual replacement/stopgap solution proposed was the introduction of Group S. However, in OTL, while there was some development going into Group S (e.g. 4 car prototypes...

Mensch ärgere Dich nicht is a famous German (and by extension, Continental European) cross and circle tabletop game, somewhat similar to the British Ludo, or the original Indian Pachisi, etc. It was created in 1907/1908 by Josef Friedrich Schmidt of the now-legendary German tabletop publisher...

Just a thought I had after recently coming home from the cinema after seeing the second Hobbit film. What would happen if things escalated back in 2010 and didn't seem to get better, forcing PJ to really move the production to Europe ? How much of a delay would it be ? What country or places...

Yes, that The Dark Dimension anniversary film : http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dark_Dimension How could it survive into production even after the cancellation of the series ? How would it affect DW broadcasting and narrative history ?

Bruce Bethke and William Gibson are still alive and kicking and writing the earliest clear-cut cyberpunk works during the early 1980s. But, in this particular ATL... Blade Runner was never made (or never finished). How will this change the esthetic choices associated with cyberpunk, whether it...

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here... :D OK, let's say that John Boorman, after the success of Deliverance, decides to not make his wacky carte blanche epic Zardoz (depraving us of Sean Connery in nappies and boots, but saving money and director cred) and focuses on getting his LOTR script...

OK, this idea sounds completely stupid, but do you think the analogue of YouTube, BlipTV or other such OTL sites existing in TL 191 hosts "Featherstone reviews", made from clips of a Downfall-style movie drama ? :D Given how TL 191 goes to absurd lenghts at mirroring OTL, I wouldn't be...

How would it possibly look like ? :D