Having just watched the super-awesome finale of Season 2 (or 28, depending on your perspective) of the BBC science fiction adventure show Doctor Who, it seems a good time to post this bit of news.
Doctor Who’s success around the world continues, with the news that the programme will soon be showing on Japanese television.
The series has been sold to BS-2, one of three cable and satellite services run by NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster. Series One will go out in Autumn 2006, with Series Two going out on the same channel next year.
No word yet on whether the Japanese translation of the Daleks’ famous battle cry of “Exterminate!” will sound as awesome as the Korean one.
shouldn’t it be docta dare?
誰博士 would be more appropriate (dare hakase – we assume he’s not a medical doctor. Or perhaps Sui Hakase using the rather rare on-yomi). Or we wanted to be really silly, 胡博士 (Doctor Hu, as in Hu Jintao…. Or in Japanese, 不博士, the ‘non-doctor’, might be appropriate. But so long as it isn’t something like なぞの身元不明の超次元宇宙博士….