# Class - Doctor Who spinoff (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608 "2016-10-24T18:15:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/1 "2016-10-24T18:15:47Z")
Wow, I guess this show is not airing in the US right now\*. What an absolutely horrible decision if they want it to be successful. It’s a Doctor Who spinoff and Doctor Who is pretty big right now, so I don’ t know why they would not air it. Has anyone seen it? Thoughts? I’ve heard the first two episodes were wildly different in tone. \*no announced airdate, I think? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/2 "2016-10-24T18:44:44Z")
BBC America is going to air it sometime [in 2017](https://twitter.com/BBCAMERICA/status/779346351045931008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw/) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/3 "2016-10-24T19:40:10Z")
That link seemed to go to a Dirk Gently blurb. Is Dirk Gently being touted as a Doctor Who spinoff? Or has the link moved on? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/4 "2016-10-24T19:45:36Z")
Perhaps the link is no longer valid. In that case, it reads: BBC America ‏@BBCAMERICA #ClassDW premieres on @BBCAMERICA alongside #DoctorWho in 2017, with Peter Capaldi appearing in the first episode as the Doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/5 "2016-10-24T20:05:58Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Perhaps the link is no longer valid. In that case, it reads: > BBC America > ‏@BBCAMERICA > #ClassDW premieres on @BBCAMERICA alongside #DoctorWho in 2017, with Peter Capaldi appearing in the first episode as the Doctor. Shows that for me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/6 "2016-10-24T22:46:02Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Wow, I guess this show is not airing in the US right now\*. What an absolutely horrible decision if they want it to be successful. _Class_ is made by the BBC, a British public-service broadcaster: its criteria for success do not extend beyond the UK. It does not broadcast in the US, and has very little control over when its programmes are shown there. Even if _Class_ were never shown in the US, it has the entire rest of the world to be successful in. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/7 "2016-10-24T22:52:38Z")
It’s available on the ABC’s\* online streaming service [IView](http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/class/ZW0907A001S00), and I don’t believe that it is geoblocked. Possibly someone in the US could try it and let others know. If you can access, I’d suggest a look at Good Games as well - games review program, and the hosts have good chemistry. \*Australian Broadcasting Corp - Australian equivalent to the BBC and PBS ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/8 "2016-10-24T23:44:55Z")
Sooo…to actually discuss the show… I’ve enjoyed it so far. Could do with less of Tonya’s mom, but I mostly like the main characters (Ms Quill grated in the first episode, but she was more tolerable in the second). Two major thoughts - 1. Not sure why they totally replaced the Coal Hill School with a whole new building. 2. I wonder if Ram getting covered in somebody else’s blood will continue to be a once-an-episode thing. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/9 "2016-10-25T19:00:21Z")
Apropos of nothing, I’m pretty sure Doctor No 9 (Eccleston) asked me for the time in the park yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/10 "2016-10-25T19:04:12Z")
So did you sleep with him? “Excuse me, can you tell me the current time?” is well-known as a pickup line amongst the acting community. Just think, you could (or could have, had you followed through) brag to all your friends that you bedded the doctor. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/11 "2016-10-25T19:09:42Z")
If it had been David Tennant maybe 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/class-doctor-who-spinoff-open-spoilers/769608/12 "2016-10-25T19:17:25Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > _Class_ is made by the BBC, a British public-service broadcaster: its criteria for success do not extend beyond the UK. It does not broadcast in the US, and has very little control over when its programmes are shown there. Even if _Class_ were never shown in the US, it has the entire rest of the world to be successful in. See, there’s this channel called BBC America. It broadcasts in America. I read the OP as meaning successful in America. I’m pretty sure he’s aware it’s not an American show. Although I don’t know if I agree with that. It seems like they are going to bundle it with new episodes of Doctor Who when the new season airs. I think that is probably smart. In the U.S. we used to get the new seasons of Doctor Who months after they are broadcast in the UK but now we get it at the same time.