The interview is from 2017 but I thought I had to share some of the information from the Essential DWM special about Robots…
This is Paul Tams explaining things that happened with making K9…
And a bonus bit on the Omega movie…
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Amazing!!! That’s so interesting. Thanks for sharing. The “two writers being imposed” was new information for me.
Did I ever share the original DWM promo articles for the show? I can fish those out for this thread.
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Oh yes please.
So they had some writers imposed, did they also have terrible actors imposed on them? 
Is the movie never going ahead?
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I think the movie dreams have since died I’m afraid.
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Watch Along Alert!
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Here are some photos from DWM #419, which I think represents the most promo the show ever got. I’ve taken some wider shots, then others that are zoomed in so they are easier to read.
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It’d be great if they actually did something with that catastrophe, wouldn’t it
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What even was the catastrophe? I totally missed that.
Thanks @15thDoctor for posting this, I’ve bookmarked to read later when I have time
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The dystopian vibe that was forced upon the show?
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Filming the show in Australia with mostly Australian actors and pretending it was set in the UK with British characters and hoping that nobody would notice?
I’m not a native, and even I noticed. That’s how bad it is!
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I got jump scared every time they mentioned London cause I just totally forgot it was set there 
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Probably so much of the reason all the acting was bad was because they were all trying so hard to put on British accents, also it may be why there’s hardly anything set outside.
Basically if they had just set it in Australia it would have probably been 100% better!
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100% the London setting is a major contributor to the show struggling - the accents, the thoroughly out of place shots of the London skyline, the odd architecture of the buildings in studio, most of the exterior filming clearly not being even in the UK let alone London.
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I was going to read those and the realised I can just find the issue upstairs and read it far more easily - which is what I’m going to do - but thanks for the screenshots @15thDoctor .
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The exact same establishing shot for london every time, and the same shot of K9 flying over it
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Really needed just some dumb fun today, and K9 delivered more on the fun side than I expected
The Cambridge Spy - 6/10
A fairly tropey time travel story, complete with Marty McFly-esc dissappearing, overall this really was just some dumb fun.
I like that it’s 1963 for the fun little Classic Who reference, and everything that this is setting up actually seems pretty intriguing with them recognising one of the spies looking familiar (sidenote - most obvious spies I’ve seen, even in Kids TV), and the russian spy stuff seeming like it’ll have an impact on the present day of the story (is the reason the present day stuff is like it is because of USSR Spies???)
I like the kids not knowing about the past so they’re learning as they’re there, I like the opening scene with Starkey being serious talking about needing to destroy K9 and then pulling back for it to be a chess match, I like the misdirect where you think they’ve send Darius back and then find out that it’s his great granddad (spatial genetic multiplicity?), and I like Gryphen and June’s interactions back in the future.
There’s some things that don’t really make sense: If the people they proved Darius’ Great Granddad’s innocence to were both Russians, why did they let him go after they left? How did they not have any impact on the future with everything they did? But eh, it’s small things I’m not too fussed about and could be explained away easily, doesn’t take away too much from an episode I really enjoyed
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Lost Library of Ukko - 5/10
It seems to me that the library isnt’ really all that lost?
Some very fun sci-fi concepts in here though, almost reminds me of Braniac and The Phantom Zone from DC comics. Thorne’s first real appearance is a suitable one for his level of villainous bureaucracy, the idea of turning this library card into a new kind of prison is an idea that’s very believable, and I like his bouncing off the main cast. He’s not got the camp of Drake, but he’s more than a worthy replacement.
The alien design is fun if a bit weird, the makeup and headpiece look like they’re meant to match but it’s absolutely not seemless, mostly I was making negative comparisons to Chantho with it. It’s also a bit strange that they showed up there but not to the department, and the romance(???) with Gryphen was a bit out of nowhere, but hey, those can be easily forgotten or handwaved away.
They also seem to be just pretending that Thorne was here the whole time, and no acknowledging that this is is real introduction, but I can definitely accept off-screen adventures having happened.
Overall… I think I’m actually starting to really enjoy watching K9
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Hooray! You’ve hit the point of no return slash madness where you actually weirdly start enjoying yourself! Don’t worry, the finale will let you down and you’ll still miss it when it’s over for some reason
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I expect nothing less!!
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