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| Moffat arrives, Russell departs, Brian sells out Posted: 20 May 2008 05:50 PM CDT Just a quick post to herald the announcement of Steven Moffat as the new showrunner on Doctor Who. He is, of course, going to be fabulous. I await the announcement of the first script of next season as 'Lesbian Spank Inferno'. It's about time we had a sequel to 'Inferno'. I'll be blogging at length about Russell's contribution to Doctor Who history at the end of this season. I think the blog | ||
| Russell steps down from Doctor role - Lancashire Evening Post Posted: 20 May 2008 11:37 AM CDT
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| Dr Who's boss quits - Mirror.co.uk Posted: 20 May 2008 11:28 AM CDT
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| Posted: 20 May 2008 11:24 AM CDT Well, it is official. Steven Moffat will be the new Doctor Who show runner. And really, it could never be anyone else -- he's more than proven his capabilities with his previous Doctor Who contributions. With Curse of Fatal Death he managed the best televised Doctor Who of the 1990s without even having official status, and The Empty Child, Girl in the Fireplace, and Blink have all been highlights of the revived series. It has been apparent that we were heading to the end of an era for some time now -- and it is a statement to Russell T Davies contribution to the series that his replacement is taking the same sort of recognition that a change of cast would have. Obviously, there are people that have had criticisms of Russell's era of the show -- but it is undeniable that he's made Doctor Who more successful than anyone could have reasonably managed. Thanks to everyone involved with the current era of Doctor Who -- Russell, Phil, and Julie. It's been a fantastic run, and one everyone can and should be proud of. And the best part is, we know that there will be great Doctor Who in the future -- it is a format bigger than any one person behind or in front of the camera. It's always capable of changing -- but still having that continuing thread. Congratulations and good luck. The moment has been prepared for. | ||
| AfterElton Briefs: More trash-talk from FOX, the next "Dorian Gray ... - AfterElton.com Posted: 20 May 2008 09:49 AM CDT
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| Russell steps down from Doctor role - Deeside Today Posted: 20 May 2008 09:17 AM CDT
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| Posted: 20 May 2008 06:45 AM CDT News of Steven Moffat's role as Doctor Who Executive Producer and chief writer has spread beyond The Guardian, with the BBC confirming the news and websites breaking the news in a wholly positive light. Russell T Davies complemented his replacement - writer of The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink and The Empty Child - noting: "It's been a delight and an honour working with Steven, and I can't wait to see where his extraordinary imagination takes the Doctor. Best of all, I get to be a viewer... | ||
| Steven Moffat to succeed Davies as Executive Producer Posted: 20 May 2008 06:22 AM CDT The BBC Press Office and various media sources (originally broken by MediaGuardian) have announced that Steven Moffat is to succeed Russell T Davies as the chief writer and executive producer of Doctor Who when it returns for its fifth series. The article states that Moffat will replace Davies in 2009, taking over as "showrunner" for the fifth series in 2010. Moffat has been responsible for several episodes of the revived Doctor Who to date, including... | ||
| Eurovision Puts DW On Hold Again - UPDATED MAY 20 Posted: 20 May 2008 06:22 AM CDT The Series Four run of Doctor Who will take a break for one week on Saturday, May 24 because of the Eurovision Song Contest. The Radio Times listings for that day show I'd Do Anything from 6.50pm to 7.50pm, the National Lottery draws at 7.50pm and Eurovision following from 8pm until 11.15pm. Episode eight, Silence In The Library, which is the first instalment of a Steven Moffat two-parter, will air on Saturday, May 31 instead, as confirmed by the... | ||
| Posted: 20 May 2008 05:49 AM CDT Excellent news from the Guardian website... Scriptwriter Steven Moffat was today named lead writer and executive producer on hit BBC1 drama Doctor Who. Moffat, who has written a number of episodes of the show - including the acclaimed Blink episode which won him the writer prize at this year's Bafta Craft Awards - will replace Russell T Davies. Davies, the key creative figure behind the Doctor Who revival in 2005, stands down next year. The appointment makes Moffat Doctor Who's... | ||
| Russell T. Davies to leave 'Doctor Who' Posted: 20 May 2008 05:46 AM CDT Russell T. Davies, who was behind BBC One&os;s revival of Doctor Who, is stepping down for the fifth series. | ||
| Torchwood: The Complete Second Season DVD Announcement - IGN Posted: 20 May 2008 05:45 AM CDT
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| Steven Moffat to be Executive Producer and Head Writer Posted: 20 May 2008 05:40 AM CDT  BREAKING NEWS: We have been expecting this announcement for some time now. Today the BBC has announced that Steven Moffat will be taking the reins from Russell T Davies becoming the Executive Producer and Lead Writer for Doctor Who starting with the 2010 series (what they are calling "series 5"). This announcement comes right... | ||
| Steven Moffat to take over as Doctor Who producer Posted: 20 May 2008 05:10 AM CDT The BBC has confirmed that Hugo-hoovering Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat will be taking over as the showrunner for the fifth season of the show, after Russell T Davies stands down (after 2009's series of Who specials). Quelle surprise . Moffat wrote... | ||
| Russell steps down from Doctor role - Crawley Observer Posted: 20 May 2008 05:05 AM CDT
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| World’s lowest vehicle unveiled - Metro Posted: 20 May 2008 04:41 AM CDT
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| Posted: 20 May 2008 04:27 AM CDT "I didn't need drugs to be transported away from the mundanity and frustrations of life – I had the Mind Robber on VHS" | ||
| Posted: 20 May 2008 04:21 AM CDT The Gaurdian has announced that Steven Moffat will take over as Doctor Who lead writer and exec producer from 2010 (series 5) when Russell T. Davies steps down. Yay! Congratulations, Steven! | ||
| Russell T. Davies Out, Steven Moffat In at Doctor Who - Anglophenia Posted: 20 May 2008 04:19 AM CDT
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| Russell steps down from Doctor role - Wrexham Leader Posted: 20 May 2008 03:31 AM CDT
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| Gavin and Stacey boost iPlayer numbers - Broadcastnow Posted: 20 May 2008 01:20 AM CDT
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| 54 memorable sci-fi robots - Slippery Brick Posted: 20 May 2008 01:17 AM CDT
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| BBC needs to get real over Eurovision - Famagusta Gazette Posted: 20 May 2008 01:02 AM CDT
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| EXCLUSIVE Meet the new James Bond Posted: 20 May 2008 12:40 AM CDT Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig... The list of men who've played Ian Fleming's most famous creation is going to get one longer this weekend, as Toby Stephens (no stranger to the Bond universe, having... | ||
| Moffat takes over from Russell T Davies as Dr Who's lead writer and executive producer Posted: 20 May 2008 12:37 AM CDT Bafta and Hugo Award-winning scriptwriter Steven Moffat is to succeed Russell T Davies as lead writer and executive producer of the fifth series of Doctor Who, which will be aired on BBC One in 2010. | ||
| Moffat takes over Russell T Davies as Dr Who’s lead writer and ... - Stage Posted: 19 May 2008 11:47 PM CDT
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| Steven Moffat New Showrunner For 'Doctor Who' - SyFyPortal Posted: 19 May 2008 11:46 PM CDT
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| Posted: 19 May 2008 10:30 PM CDT Are you a member of the SFX Book Club? If so, why not? It's open to all, and it doesn't cost anything. Here's how it works: every month we pick a classic SF or fantasy book. You lot read it and post your comments. A couple of months later we run a feature in... | ||
| Steven Moffat to be Doctor Who Lead Writer and Executive Producer Posted: 19 May 2008 10:20 PM CDT BBC Wales and BBC Drama has announced that BAFTA and Hugo Awardwinning writer Steven Moffat will succeed Russell T Davies as Lead Writer and Executive Producer of the fifth series of Doctor Who which will broadcast on BBC One in 2010. | ||
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| Author interview: Liz Williams Posted: 19 May 2008 08:00 PM CDT Need more advice as you finish your Pulp Idol story? To help you on your way we spoke to a number of people from the SF publishing world to get their insight into the business. What are their tips and tricks for writing fantastic stories? Even if you're not... | ||
| The monster from the campus - Bolton News Posted: 19 May 2008 06:43 PM CDT
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| Alien landing! - Liverpool Echo Posted: 19 May 2008 06:29 PM CDT
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| Doctor doctor, I'm overwhelmed by clues - guardian.co.uk Posted: 19 May 2008 05:31 PM CDT
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| Review: 'Doctor Who' - The Unicorn And The - SyFyPortal Posted: 19 May 2008 02:41 PM CDT
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| BBC America brings the Megan Dodds, Lee Mack comedy to the US - Los Angeles Times Posted: 19 May 2008 02:24 PM CDT
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| Doctor Who: The Time Warrior - PopMatters Posted: 19 May 2008 02:01 PM CDT
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| Posted: 19 May 2008 01:00 PM CDT Acclaimed writer to succeed Russell T Davies. | ||
| Posted: 19 May 2008 12:00 PM CDT  Steven Moffat, who has written some of the most acclaimed episodes of the BBC&os;s Doctor Who, has been named the lead writer and executive producer of the hit SF series, replacing show runner Russell T. Davies, the British Guardian newspaper reported. | ||
| Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream: dark delights in the ... - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 19 May 2008 06:06 AM CDT
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| 'Not Going Out' - Los Angeles Times Posted: 19 May 2008 05:49 AM CDT
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| Daleks vs Burkas and up in arms over Passport Office fiasco - The Spoof (satire) Posted: 19 May 2008 03:12 AM CDT
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| Unicorn and the Wasp - AI and Digital Ratings Posted: 19 May 2008 02:25 AM CDT Episode seven of series four, The Unicorn and the Wasp, achieved an Appreciation Index of 86. It was the highest score for Saturday on the two main channels. With overnights now available for the whole week, Doctor Who is currently the 8th most watched programme of the week. Final figures will be released by BARB in 9 days time. Saturday's edition of Doctor Who Confidential was watched by 0.63 million viewers, according to unofficial overnights.... | ||
| 'Dr Who' ratings leap in later timeslot Posted: 18 May 2008 10:49 PM CDT A return to the 7pm timeslot prompts Doctor Who&os;s ratings to soar. | ||
| Denise & Lee reject reality show offer - Available For Panto Posted: 18 May 2008 10:10 PM CDT
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| Kendal hails impact of 'Doctor Who' role Posted: 18 May 2008 09:15 PM CDT Felicity Kendal reveals that her Doctor Who role has brought her new acclaim. | ||
| TV ratings - May 16 Travel insurance show claims 4m viewers - guardian.co.uk Posted: 18 May 2008 08:21 PM CDT
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| Posted: 18 May 2008 08:04 PM CDT In the interests of editorial balance, it would be unfair of us to report (early last week) that the BBC Licencing people were preventing the creator of various knitting patterns from selling her patterns without informing our readers of this follow up story. Newsround have reported that the witty knitter concerned hasn't in fact been threatened with court action, with a BBC spokesperson adding: "While we don't have any plans to offer any knitted toys, in the future, who knows? They've... | ||
| Scarecrows a success - This is Wiltshire.co.uk Posted: 18 May 2008 07:48 PM CDT
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| Scarecrows a success - Gazette & Herald Posted: 18 May 2008 07:38 PM CDT
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| The home stretch...week 6 edits Posted: 18 May 2008 06:24 PM CDT We're nearing the end of the first season here in the States! (awww...) What Ever Happened to Sarah Jane, part 2 1. It might be just me, but I think bits from the conversaton between Maria and the young Sarah Jane and Andrea were snipped out... 2. After the Graske snatches up Maria again, Sarah Jane and Andrea reach the gate to the pier- Sarah Jane turns around and notices that Maria has disappeared. She tells Andrea that Maria is gone, and Andrea shrugs it off. Sarah Jane says that Maria looked really scared, and that she kind of believed her. Andrea sniffs and basically says that Sarah will believe anything, like she believed the Trifids really existed (or something...) 3. After the first scenes with Sarah and Maria in limbo, it cuts back to a scene where the young Sarah Jane and Andrea first get onto the pier-they are running around and having a good time when Andrea runs to the edge and falls through the gate. 4. Sarah Jane asks the Trickster where Luke is. He tells her that Luke is more lost than she is. In the alternate timeline the Trickster created with Andrea, he turned the Bane away from Earth. She mentions the other alien invasions that she helped prevent-the Slitheen, the Gorgon...the Trickster said he prevented all of that from happening. 5. The scene where Clyde rides his skateboard up to Andrea's house for her party was snipped. 6. Clyde tries to change Andrea's music at the party. Andrea tells him to leave it alone, and he says 'but it's all 'old' stuff'. She tells him that it reminds her of her youth. (the song that was playing was "always something there to remind me..."). 7. After Alan ties up the Graske, he asks him how to use the device to bring Maria back. 8. After Andrea discovers Sarah Jane in the attic mirror, she tells her that she always did look younger than her years. (How true, how very, very true!!) 9. Maria tells Andrea that she was meant to die. Andrea turns around angrily and says, 'Meant to die? Who says I was meant to die?!' Sarah says no one was meant to die, and that it was a stupid and pointless accident. 10. Sarah Jane, with tears in her eyes, begs Andrea to find Luke-she says he's lost somewhere out there in limbo, and she wants Andrea to find him so that he may live. (Awww...she really has gone all mumsy!) The Lost Boy, part 1 1. Luke is sitting on the couch, reading a book with the tv on. Sarah Jane comes into the room, waving a bunch of papers around and says, "You know Luke, if the world is going to survive global warming, you have to give it a helping hand. Not to mention my electricity bill." (LOL, ahh, life at home with the Smiths). 2. Is it just me, or was Sarah Jane's goodbye to Luke in the house cut short? 3. The Chief Inspector looks at Sarah Jane's file-what you don't see is the picture that is attached to it. The picture is taken from the Monster of Peladon when she was in Aggedor's temple. This is another one of those incidents that make me chuckle...how did UNIT (her 'friends in high places') get a hold of a picture from Peladon? Who took the picture? I don't remember the Doctor having a camera... (yes, yes I know that was only a promo shot from MoP, but I can still have fun with it, can't I? ;) ) 4. Luke...errr...I mean, Ashley's 'real' parents take him home and show him around-we find out Luke doesn't like football (soccer, for us here in the U.S.), but not only did Ashley love football, but played it as well. We also learn that Luke's not too fond of green peppers on his pizza, but Ashley was. He tells his 'parents' that he's not hungry, then asks to be excused to go to his room. 5. The beginning of the scene where Clyde and Maria are having lunch-Clyde says to Maria, "So we are just supposed to forget about Sarah Jane, Luke, and everything else?" 6. The beginning of Sarah Jane's tour of the Pharos Institute was snipped-when she first arrives, they are setting up the telekinetic test that she observes. Special note: Last week I mentioned that they cut out the bit where Luke was unsuccessfully trying out Clyde's skateboard from the first part of What Ever Happened to Sarah Jane?-it showed he had no sense of balance. I felt that little bit could have been kept in, especially when SciFi left the following two scenes in this episode: When Luke's fake mom says they gave him a skateboard: Clyde: Good was he? Fake Mom: Brilliant! Later Clyde tells Maria that she saw Luke on a skateboard-he had no sense of balance (referring back to the scene that was cut from last week's episode.) Oh, well! That's it for this week-as always, if you've notice something I missed, mention it in the comments! Don't forget-there will be no new Sarah Jane this week on SciFi due to Memorial Day Weekend-Sarah Jane returns Friday, May 30th with both parts of the Lost Boy. Have a great week! | ||
| Freema Filming in Kent for Little Dorrit Posted: 18 May 2008 05:00 PM CDT Freema Agyeman has been spotted filming for Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit" at Deal Castle in Kent this past week with Matthew Macfayden. Freema plays Tattycoram in the BBC1 produced costume drama adapted by Andrew Davies, which will be shown in autumn as 14 half-hour episodes. The scenes shot ... | ||
| 'Dr Who' ratings leap in later timeslot - Digital Spy Posted: 18 May 2008 04:59 PM CDT
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| Doctor Who exhibition comes to Spaceport - Liverpool Daily Post Posted: 18 May 2008 04:57 PM CDT
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| Gavin and Stacey fans flock to town - The Press Association Posted: 18 May 2008 04:46 PM CDT
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| Doctor Who series 4 episode 7 review: The Unicorn and the Wasp - Den Of Geek Posted: 18 May 2008 04:31 PM CDT
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| Doctor Who's Week Off Has Fans Looking Ahead - Wired News Posted: 18 May 2008 03:51 PM CDT
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| Why periods are no joke - Guardian Unlimited Posted: 18 May 2008 03:21 PM CDT
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| How they measure consumer confidence - Belleville News Democrat Posted: 18 May 2008 03:10 PM CDT
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| Is it ever right to wear runners with a suit? - Irish Independent Posted: 18 May 2008 01:47 PM CDT
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| Posted: 18 May 2008 01:00 PM CDT Reminder of remaining episode titles. | ||
| Doctor Who - The Unicorn and the Wasp Posted: 18 May 2008 08:30 AM CDT  After last week's promising episode which turned out to be somewhat light on plot, this week we get something that is so full of plot it's positively groaning at the seams.Much to my surprise, I really enjoyed 'The Unicorn and the Wasp'. Yes, it's lighthearted, yes it has too many characters, yes it reads more like a story from a Doctor Who Annual, yes it should probably have had two parts ... but the breadth and scope work well, and the plot unfolds neatly, with pretty much all the loose ends tied up, albeit at a tearing pace. The TARDIS arrives at a country house in the year 1926. Professor Peach arrives and heads for the library where he discovers something in some papers and is promptly killed by a giant wasp with a lead pipe ... This sets the scene for the tale which unfolds. Full of allusions to Agatha Christie's own writing, the titles of which litter the dialogue. This opening is from the game Cluedo (called Clue in the USA) of course, but the sheer fun of having a professor killed in a library with lead piping by a giant wasp (how *did* it hold the piping anyway?) just seems right in context. Our suspects arrive: There's Lady Eddison, a woman with a hidden secret; Colonel Hugh Curbishly, her husband; Roger Curbishly, her son; society beauty Robina Redmond; and the Reverend Arnold Golightly. Then there's the staff: Miss Chandrakala is Lady Eddison's constant companion and maid; Davenport is a servant boy who is enjoying a secret relationship with Roger; there's Greeves the butler ... even Mrs Hart the cook might be a suspect ... and of course Agatha Christie herself, on the very day of her disappearance for 10 days in 1926. This would place the date as being 10 December 1926, however the weather is anything but! According to internet sources, the maximum temperature in Oxford in December 1926 was 6.9 degrees C - hardly the weather we saw. I'm not going to go through the plot here for once, as it is so complex and convoluted that I would end up just retelling it with little space for comment. All of the characters have secrets, and as the story unfolds they are each revealed. I liked the way that the flashbacks were handled, with the on-screen image showing the 'truth' as the person narrated their version of events. For once, the music was excellently handled. Not intrusive or wrong, but subtle and perfectly in tune with the period and the action. I was very puzzled as to why 'The Unicorn' was called that ... there seemed to be nothing about the thief that suggested this moniker. But this is about the only thing that didn't make sense. All the secrets meshed together and the revelations were spoilt only by Catherine Tate's Donna being just obnoxious with interjections and statements which were meant to be funny (I assume) but which just came over as crass. There was a repeat of the Doctor telling Donna not to talk in the posh voice (as the Doctor told Rose not to try speaking in a Scots accent in 'Tooth & Claw') more of the Doctor and Donna denying being partners, more Doctor and companion snogging action - and there is no way that Donna would kiss him, even to shock him ... this whole poisoning scene was just a step too far into silly, with Donna clowning and talking rubbish while the Doctor was to all intents and purposes dying in front of her. There was a level of gravitas missing here I felt, and I was reminded more of an Abrahams/Zucker film (aka Airplane or The Naked Gun) than of something which was meant to be a little scary. The villain of the piece is revealed as ... well maybe I should leave some secrets. But it's an alien vespiform from hives in the silfrax galaxy and looks like a giant wasp. The CGI is quite impressive and the creature looks real and effective on screen, even if it's not possible to just shine sunlight through a magnifying glass to burn something - you have to focus it, and it needs to be fairly close to the lens to work. Even the revelation that a human/vespiform relationship can result in a baby which turns into a wasp when it gets angry sort of works ... I think you really have to leave your disbelief at the door with this one. Strange and daft though it all sounds, the show rattles through at such a rate that you tend not to notice the somewhat ludicrous elements. Amongst all the fun and games, there are a surprising number of Christie's own book titles scattered throughout. It's a shame in a way that Doctor Who Confidential gave a large number of them away, but I managed to find three which they didn't list. If I remember, when the season is ended, I'll pop them all in another post so as not to spoil the fun for anyone trying to spot them. There's a handy checklist list of titles online at http://www.davros.org/misc/agatha.html, a URL which amused me as well! Next week we're at the biggest library ever (hopefully with no lead piping) with a spooky kid, spacemen, infected darkness and a warning to stay out of the shadows ... Steven Moffat's back ... and it's hopefully going to be terrifying. | ||
| Collins praises 'charming' Tennant Posted: 18 May 2008 01:56 AM CDT Joan Collins praises David Tennant after visiting the Doctor Who set with her grandchildren. | ||
| Doctor Who: The Doctor's Daughter Posted: 18 May 2008 12:53 AM CDT  This was an episode that I really don't know what to make of. Doctor Who can sometimes fall between two stools, and it can run the danger of being caught between a rock and a hard place as far as what it is trying to achieve and how people want or expect it to play out.On the one hand, the episode was enjoyable and rattled along nicely. I liked what Georgia Moffett did with the part, and she was perky and prancy and fun. The monsters were cool and I even liked how they gurgled instead of speaking. On the other hand, it had no discernable plot, Martha was wasted in it, the characters were all from central casting, and it had more than a few elements which niggled and grated. We open with the TARDIS out of control. Now this was a great cliffhanger from last week, and I am a massive fan of this sort of lead in from one story to the next, but it has to be carried through ... and this wasn't. We do eventually learn why the TARDIS was out of control, but the explanation makes no sense ... more of this later. So the Doctor, Donna and Martha arrive in a tunnel and Donna utters something about swallowing a hamster! I had to stop the recording and watch this a few times. Did I hear it right? She's swallowing a hamster ... and yes indeed that is what she says. So maybe Donna has been replaced by one of those reptile aliens from V, and has been snacking just before she leaves the ship ... not sure ... Before we can worry about this too much though, the Doctor's party is set upon by some soldier types, and the Doctor's hand is shoved into a tissue sampling mcguffin machine and before you can shout 'Clone!', there's a mega-cute blonde babe emerging from a smokey doorway, dressed in leather trousers and a tight fitting vest. She smiles perkily (and 'perky' is about the only description which fits this character) and says 'Hello Dad!' to the Doctor. Okay. So this is a story predicated on a title. It's a great title. 'The Doctor's Daughter'. Gets the imagination firing and anticipation high. So what do they do? Fumble it in the first minute and reveal that this girl is not the Doctor's daughter at all but a clone grown from his cells ... conveniently dressed and with hair and make-up all perfect. What a let down. Rather than a story about the possibilities of the Doctor having a daughter, we now know from the outset that he doesn't. Except of course that all the characters, including the Doctor himself who should know better, think that she is actually his daughter ... crazy. The other problem, which I will discuss at this point, is that the Doctor is the last Time Lord ... well, maybe not the last, as the Master was around as well ... and perhaps others as well ... but he has spent some time telling this to everyone he meets, agonising over being alone. Now here is a machine which can make Time Lords, and the Doctor even has a spare hand in the TARDIS. He could single handedly (excuse the pun) recreate his own race! But this possibility is not even mentioned. One of the tenets of an ongoing series is that it should have some sort of internal consistency, and when a story like this comes along, which contains elements which actively impinge upon that internal consistency, then the writers and producers cannot just ignore any potential that might exist. The Time War and its effect and impact have informed the Doctor since the series returned, and yet here he ignores a technology which could make such a difference. Back to the plot. On this planet there are two races, humans and the dolphin-like Hath. They have been at war for generations, and are looking for 'the source' which the believe will give them supremacy in the battle. In charge of the humans is General Cobb, who speaks like he's from the Westcountry, and is an embittered man, seeking to win the war with whatever means he can. Martha ends up trapped with the Hath, and strangely she seems to understand their gurgling although we the audience are not privvy to the translation. This is not commented on, even though in 'Fires of Pompeii' we got the TARDIS' translation function rammed down our throats. Kids have good memories and I'm sure several were questioning why we didn't have the Hath's speech translated for us. Fixing a wounded Hath's shoulder - lucky they have a bone structure which is similar to humans - Martha befriends them and, when the Doctor uses his handy all-purpose Sonic Screwdriver to reveal the location of the Source on an electronic map, she and the Hath see it too. So they all trot off to find it. In a puzzling and confusing series of events, everyone seems to leave at different times and yet all arrive at the same time at the end. The Doctor, Donna and Jenny (as Donna names the perky clone) are locked in a cell but escape when Jenny snogs the guard. The Hath set off immediately, while Martha and another Hath (they all look the same and are not named on screen so I have no idea which one this is - the credits reveal Hath Peck and Hath Gable as two of them - named after Hollywood stars then!) make their way over the blasted surface of the planet as it's apparently quicker ... while General Cobb decides to wait until the next day before he and his troops leave - strange sense of urgency there. Along the way, Donna gets intrigued by numbers stamped onto the walls. Given that she's not been too interested in anything like this before, this is more of a plot convenience than anything else. Jenny meanwhile skips along like a puppy, smiling and grinning and perkily loving the running down corridors. We learn that Jenny has two hearts, and is a soldier adept at killing and doing backflips through lasers. The Hath with Martha drowns in a pool while rescuing her (how can a dolphin drown? No idea. But we don't see this Hath again ... or maybe we do ... they all look alike!) and eventually, after much running up and down corridors, everyone seems to arrive at 'the temple' at pretty much the same time. Except it's not a temple, it's a spaceship, and it's all still working and powered up. Now comes the infodump - robot drones from the ship built the city (so where are they now?) but the commander died and the crew split and turned on each other. Quite why this happened is not clear, but there are definite shades of the earlier Doctor Who story 'The Face of Evil' here, as well as bits of 'The Ark' with the humans and Monoids turning on each other. But ... the shocker is that the city was built over the last 7 days. The war is only 7 days old. Apparently the humans and Hath create 20 generations a day and as each has been wiped out, the truth has passed into legend. What? This makes no sense whatsoever. 20 generations a day? That's about one an hour? So how do Cobb and co manage to make it to the end of the day? Why aren't they all wiped out and the army which arrives at the end of the story be a totally different one to that which set off? Why do they power down the machines overnight? Surely they'd be churning out clones 24 x 7? Why does Cobb wait overnight before setting off? That's something like 7 generations he's waited? All this is inexcusable really. It doesn't make sense however you try and read it, and is sloppy writing and plotting. It's a nice idea, but if the idea doesn't work in the final teleplay, then maybe it's not the right idea. So we get to the end and we know that Jenny is not going to make it as the Doctor told her that she could come with them (cue bright-eyed perkiness). Cobb decides to shoot the Doctor after he explains the plot - probably in exasperation as he can't make any sense of it either - but Jenny takes the bullet and dies. Why Cobb has a old fashioned revolver when everyone else has gas machine guns is anyone's guess. Cue tears and the Doctor pontificating. Meanwhile the 'Source' is revealed as a planetary terraforming device which the Doctor activates by smashing it on the floor. Now I'm sure that's the best way to make it work properly. The planet is then converted into somewhere that is habitable (whether by humans or Hath or both is also unclear). The soldiers all lay down their arms, moved by the Doctor's appeal to make theirs a society based on someone who never would, or perhaps they wanted to put their fingers in their ears ... and the Doctor, Donna and Martha return to the TARDIS to be on their way again ... seems that they arrived because the Doctor's spare hand was drawn to Jenny, except that the TARDIS arrived before she was created, thus bringing her into being in the first place ... a classic paradox. But actually just more rubbish plotting. An excuse to try and explain something which was poorly conceived in the first place. We actually didn't need this at all, the TARDIS could have arrived, as usual, by accident, the Doctor then setting off the chain of events. So why doesn't the Doctor stay for Jenny's funeral? He has done for several other characters over the series' history, but not for his own daughter (even though she wasn't, but we covered that above). Of course the real reason is more plotting of convenience as perky Jenny isn't dead at all! She returns to life, full of vim, nicks a spacecraft and heads off for her own series of adventures on CBBC (or novels, magazines, audio, DVD ... take your pick). I've watched the episode a couple of times now, and aside from generally strong performances from the cast, it has little to get your teeth into. Georgia Moffett is good as Jenny, but it's a very generic part and her tight leather trousers could equally have been filled by any rent-a-babe actress from Hollyoaks or Emmerdale. Moffett, I am convinced, got the part because she is fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison's daughter ... and that this appealed to the sense of fun of the production team and also provided far more publicity and PR than any other actress would perhaps have been able to bring. That she is also a pretty decent actress was a distinct benefit, but I would love to see the list of who else was actually auditioned for the part. Overall then, disappointment on several levels. If only the script had been better, and the plot more cohesive then this could have been the episode which defined Tennant's Doctor, which provided dramatic interplay between characters who may or may not be related ... the end result to have been a thought provoking commentary on genetic research and cloning, providing insights into the pros and cons and ethical arguments which surround it. Instead we got a dog's dinner of a plot, lots of running around, actors struggling gainfully with two dimensional characters, and Georgia Moffett shining as Jenny, not necessarily because she was that good, but that she was the best thing on offer this week. Next week ... Agatha Christie? A giant wasp? demons? Thunder and lightning ... and some sort of murder mystery. | ||
| In Praise of Wives, Paramedics and the Ford Focus Posted: 18 May 2008 12:15 AM CDT So, we were heading home from Oxford on Tuesday night, on the way back from me addressing the C.S. Lewis Society. They were a lovely bunch, and a number of the university's Doctor Who Society came along as well, and I managed to vamp around my theme to reasonable effect until I ran out of words and became possibly the only speaker in the Society's history to confess to not much liking Lewis' | ||
| How Dr Who Became a Real Time Traveller - RedOrbit Posted: 17 May 2008 10:34 PM CDT
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| Unicorn and the Wasp - Overnight Ratings Posted: 17 May 2008 09:56 PM CDT Unofficial figures show that episode seven of Series Four, The Unicorn and the Wasp, was watched by 7.7 million viewers, giving it a 36.1% share of the total television audience. The programme was helped by a later start and wet weather across much of the United Kingdom and achieved an increase of over a million on last weeks figures.. The top rated programme was still ITV1's Britain's Got Talent with 8.6 million. Doctor Who was the highest rated... | ||
| Showbiz: Chelsea Will Never Be a Daddy's Girl ; The Big Interview ... - RedOrbit Posted: 17 May 2008 09:16 PM CDT
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| Collins praises 'charming' Tennant - Digital Spy Posted: 17 May 2008 08:08 PM CDT
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| Watch movie trailers online [NEW] Posted: 17 May 2008 08:00 PM CDT Some new film trailers available for you to watch on the internet right now! Current favourites... The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor The X-Files: I Want To Believe ... | ||
| MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU - Hackney Gazette Posted: 17 May 2008 06:32 PM CDT
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| Chelsea will never be a daddy's girl - Glasgow Sunday Mail Posted: 17 May 2008 03:19 PM CDT
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| welsh brunettes we lovE - ic Wales Posted: 17 May 2008 12:18 PM CDT
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| ALEX SALMOND isn't the first politician with dreams of starring in ... - Glasgow Sunday Mail Posted: 17 May 2008 12:05 PM CDT
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| Quiz Of The Week - Glasgow Sunday Mail Posted: 17 May 2008 12:01 PM CDT
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| Posted: 17 May 2008 11:35 AM CDT In which Doctor Who destroys history. This week's question... who gets to be a genius? The irony, from my point of view, is that this subject is raised by a script with Gareth Roberts' name at the top: as you'll know if you've ever seen the "What Some People Have Said" column on the right of this page, Gareth has publicly described me as "probably a genius". Or at least, this is what I've been told. He ostensibly says it in Big Finish's forthcoming Bernice Summerfield - The Inside Story, although this may well be his way of apologising for dropping my first submission to Virgin Publishing down the back of some shelves (where it stayed until he thought to fish it out, a year later). Nevertheless, I like the use of the word "probably" in this context. You're only definitely a genius if you create something of obvious, undeniable importance. Since I've never been able to do better than a couple of TV spin-off novels and a comic-book that folded after two issues, I'll have to remain "probably" a genius until I can prove myself one way or the other. This takes on a new significance for me, however, when we discover that in the Doctor Who world - at least, the Doctor Who world according to Gareth - Agatha Christie is also a genius. We know this for a fact, because the Doctor and Donna spend much of the episode telling her / us how great she is, and there's even a gushing tag-scene in which we're told that she's going to be remembered five-billion years in the future. I should, presumably, be flattered. Except… …was Christie a genius? We've touched on her corpse in this column once before [see …Of Death, below], but we should remind ourselves that her greatness is by no means accepted as a universal truth. Many critics have pointed out that she turned detective fiction into what one writer called "a series of arid crossword puzzles", and anyone who tries to read her prose in the twenty-first century might be forgiven for feeling that… well… that the Fenella Woolgar version knows what she's talking about when she describes her work as 'not great literature'. "Beauty of language" isn't a term that ever seems to have crossed her mind, and nor is she a close friend of Mr Characterisation: her books tend to supply characters with introductions along the lines of "he was the type of gentleman who could only have been a retired army colonel", which is effectively a writer's way of saying "this is an easy stereotype, but I know I can get away with it, so f*** you". You could argue that the characters in "The Unicorn and the Wasp" are deliberate pastiches of the kind of people you find in Christie's work, but you could just as well argue that this is exactly what Christie did all the sodding time. Ah, but. Her real success was in the way she stripped down the murder-mystery until it was almost a form of engineering, and in the process, provided us with all the most basic Big Twists as if they were standardised machine-parts. Look away now if you don't want to know the results, but it was Christie who gave us the story in which the detective turns out to be the killer (The Mousetrap), the story in which all the suspects turn out to be the killer (Murder on the Orient Express), the story in which the only character who couldn't possibly have been the killer turns out to be the killer (Death on the Nile), the story in which the narrator turns out to be the killer (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), the story in which the intended victim turns out to be the killer (Peril at End House… geek-trivia fans will note that like Murder in the Clouds, which the Doctor waves around in the final scene, this also features a wasp as a plot-point), and numerous variations thereof. Consider this possibility, then: the people we remember as the all-time greats aren't the innovators, but the ones who boil things down to their simplest possible ingredients for mass consumption. You could make exactly the same argument about the Beatles. Nothing they did in their entire gestalt existence was genuinely new, certainly not the supposed "revolution" of Sergeant Pepper, yet they displayed an astonishing ability to take other people's music and make it so straightforward - you might even say banal - that everybody on Earth could understand it. No wonder they ended up bigger than Jesus. Ergo, we're happy to accept Christie's status as "the best-selling novelist in history" as proof that she was intrinsically great, even though we'd never dream of using the same logic to prove that Ronald McDonald is the world's most talented chef. The most obvious modern example of this phenomenon would be Harry Potter, and I was about to say "and you wouldn't seriously call J. K. Rowling a genius, would you?", but then I remembered "The Shakespeare Code". Oh yes, "The Shakespeare Code". You may recall that in Week Two of this correspondent's course, we discussed the relationship between Doctor Who and big-H History. We reached the conclusion - well, I did, but you were watching - that the modern Doctor Who historical is a form of time-tourism, in which the past is nothing more than scenery for CGI aliens and dead celebrities. "Gee, honey, look! Doctor Who and William Shakespeare are fighting some monsters with a spell from Harry Potter. Have you got the camera?" And the most important thing to remember about tourism is that it never, ever shows you the actual territory, just your own preconceptions about what's supposed to be there. In modern Doctor Who, the Elizabethan era is "about" the Globe Theatre, so 1926 is obviously… "about" a murder mystery. We won't dwell on the thought that the series tried exactly the same schtick in 1982, because there's a more important issue here, and it's this: if history is now just tourism, then we're never going to be asked to question it. Agatha Christie is a genius. Why? Because we say so, that's why. This seems a curious development, when you put it in the context of the (small-h) history of Doctor Who. Think about "The Crusade" for a moment. Generations of children were brought up to believe that Richard the Lionheart - a mass-murdering war criminal of the worst order, whose actions were repellent even by the standards of the twelfth century - was England's greatest and most majestic hero, however much he may have detested this country. Yet "The Crusade" doesn't quite play ball with this idea, and presents him as an intolerant, self-obsessed opportunist. In About Time, my former albatross Tat Wood reached the conclusion that although an audience raised on tales of the Great Man would never have accepted a TV version of Richard who was as thoroughly awful as the real Richard, it was "a bold move" to show a less pleasant side of his character in 1965. All true enough, but the interesting thing is that twenty years later, Robin of Sherwood (being the first ITV show which thoroughly, resoundingly defeated Doctor Who on a Saturday night, and which remains so superior to the BBC's twenty-first-century disembowling of Robin Hood that it's almost enough to make you demand a license-fee rebate) did exactly what David Whitaker couldn't. The Robin of Sherwood version of Richard is an out-and-out villain. By the '80s, we were allowed to poke at these sacred cows as much as we wanted, even on children's telly. Can you see what's gone wrong here…? Mid-1960s: historical adventures can question things, a little. Mid-1980s: historical adventures can question anything. Mid-2000s: DO NOT ASK QUESTIONS NO MATTER WHAT. Charles Dickens was a genius: everybody knows it, don't argue. Shakespeare was a genius, and therefore in the same bracket as J. K. Rowling: this is common knowledge, don't argue. Agatha Christie was a genius, and therefore the Doctor will need her help to solve an alien murder mystery: this is obvious, don't argue. And, perhaps the worst offender of all… Mme de Pompadour was one of the most accomplished women who ever lived, but the episode isn't even going to tell you why: she just was, don't argue. Still, at least "The Girl in the Fireplace" gives us a cross-section of the subject's century, which is more than most neo-historicals have got to offer. And "neo-historical" seems the most appropriate term, since these stories demand the same ignorance of actual history as every other daft idea that begins with "neo" (neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism… neo-Nazism, obviously, although that's a rather harsh comparison to make if we're talking about BBC Wales). The Confidential accompanying "The Unicorn and the Wasp" goes out of its way to celebrate this kind of non-history, and proudly shows us archive footage of "The Crusade" back-to-back with clips from "The Shakespeare Code", without noticing any contradiction there at all. It's like putting I, Claudius next to Carry On Columbus, and thinking they're examples of the same thing. This isn't Gareth's fault, of course. Consumerism, and the cult of now that's promoted by most of our society's media interests, has guaranteed that the younger generation is incapable of grasping any form of history unless it involves celebrities on some level. We recall that the winner of last year's Big Brother had never even heard of Shakespeare when he entered the house, and this is by no means a freak occurrence (whereas if he'd been watching BBC1 on Saturday nights, then he'd know that Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century rock star). The question is whether Doctor Who should be pandering to this world-view quite so much. It's not an issue of the series being "educational", because even in the early '60s, it never really ended up working that way. It's doubtful that any of the children who watched "Marco Polo" made notes en route to Peking, or took heed of Ian's TV-for-schools speech about the Hashishin, which is historically dubious anyway. But what the programme did do was prime its audience to think about the way other societies might work, and the way other people might think, rather than playing up to the viewers' expectations or claiming that the past is just like the present with different hats. The time-tourism model of the series can only reinforce and / or parody, never change our minds. Also in this week's Confidential, the sales-figures of Christie's books are presented as evidence that she's one of history's great figures, which is about as consumer-obsessive as this programme can get. Is it too much to hope that Doctor Who might, if only in the broadest possible sense, still have a duty to make its audience ask questions? Or are we now so mired in the filth and ringtones of consumer non-culture that the very idea of television having a "duty" is alien to us, even when we're talking about a supposedly public-service institution like the BBC? Certainly, I seem to be one of an increasingly small number of people who think this way. And what do I know? My idealism is all too obvious. I'm peculiar enough to think that if an SF series is broadcast shortly before a general election in which race-baiting has become a key issue, and at a time when violence against immigrant communities is on the rise, then doing a story about evil alien asylum-seekers is a really bad idea. Clearly, I'm hopelessly naïve. (Oh, actually, on the subject of politics… despite writing her best-known works in the socially-charged climate of 1920s / 1930s Europe, Agatha Christie's novels are so dismissive of people with political opinions that she doesn't seem to be able to tell the difference between left-wing radicals and Nazis. I'm mentioning this not to start another fight, but because it demonstrates just how weak a grasp she had on anything beyond the purely abstract constructions of her own plots. Yet according to the Doctor, only her mind can unravel this mystery, as she 'understands' people. Because she's a genius. Riiight.) And if you consult the copy of About Time Volume One that you should own by now if you want to pass this exam, then you'll see that Tat has also reminded us of the origin of the word "charisma". It dates from the seventeenth century, and it didn't mean what it means now. Its Greek root suggests "grace" or "divine favour", and in the beginning, that's exactly what charisma was: a God-given blessing which marked certain people as special, and which allowed these chosen individuals to alter fate or re-shape history. During the Enlightenment, this seemed like a decent enough idea. In modern times, it sounds like the kind of adolescent bunk that leads monomaniacs to commit acts of genocide. Good history should teach us that there's no such thing as grace, and that individuals become important through social circumstance rather than some Inner Light (unless you want to believe that John Lennon was created by divine intervention). Even David Whitaker, who took the "Web of Time" approach to Doctor Who, never claimed that the big figures of the past had some innate magical quality which made them greater than ordinary mortals. The historical stories made on his watch show us the world, not the individual. Marco Polo isn't the be-all and end-all of "Marco Polo". By contrast, one of the side-effects of the Cult of Celebrity is that it leads the population to take the "charisma" idea literally. If you're brought up to believe that such-and-such a historical figure simply is a genius / hero / god amongst men, without any context and without any understanding of the world he or she inhabited, then history becomes a collection of star names who exist solely because God has decreed that they had to exist. There's no meaning, no comprehension, no sense of consequences. There's just a collection of familiar faces who all float around in a nebulous grey void called The Olden Days. Effectively, then, the modern generation's view of history sets our culture back by about three-hundred years. That isn't Gareth's fault either, but he doesn't have to encourage it, does he? If nothing else, then it'd be nice to see a Doctor Who historical that's actually about the era in which it's set. Oddly, "Human Nature" is the latter-day story which comes closest to this, "oddly" because it's ostensibly about the Doctor rather than his environment. But the fact that it's set in 1913 is actually important to the themes of the story, whereas the fact that "The Unicorn and the Wasp" is set in 1926 is irrelevant, apart from providing us with the ideal opportunity to meet someone famous. The counter-argument here is that this isn't a "historical" at all, but a parody of a different form of television (and let's be under no illusions, this is modelled on the TV adaptations of Christie's work, not on the original texts). The trouble is that if you take this view, then "Wasp" slits its own throat even faster, because the net result of stuffing Doctor Who full of stereotypes from Poirot - a series which is now showing every weekday afternoon on ITV, as all-purpose filler - is an episode of Poirot with a dodgy CGI monster pasted into the middle of it. But as you'll know if you've bothered watching ITV's effort, only the two-part Poirot stories really work. Fifty minutes simply isn't long enough for a competent murder mystery, since our introduction to the characters will inevitably be so brief that we don't give a Belgian's goolies who did it. So it is here, and the rest is mainly in-jokes, leaving us with the impression that the whole thing is a massively expensive piece of fan-fic in which British Legend "A" meets British Legend "B". Sad to say, an awful lot of Poirot episodes are actually better than this. If anything, it's more like Midsomer Murders with special effects… although in all honesty, you could say that about most of Doctor Who in 2008. Of course, the really big irony here is that although I'm probably a genius, I have absolutely no charisma. | ||
| Showbiz: Chelsea Will Never Be A Daddy's Girl - Glasgow Sunday Mail Posted: 17 May 2008 11:18 AM CDT
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| TV REVIEW: Doctor Who 4.7 "The Unicorn and the Wasp" Posted: 17 May 2008 07:45 AM CDT Written by: Gareth Roberts Directed by: Graeme Harper Rating: THE ONE WHERE It's 1926, and the time travellers are embroiled in a country house mystery with crime queen Agatha Christie. Naturally, there's a sting in the tale... ... | ||
| S04E07: 'The Unicorn and The Wasp' Posted: 17 May 2008 07:45 AM CDT Whodunnit? Find out the verdict in our review of this classy murder mystery with a giant wasp. | ||
| S04E07: 'The Unicorn and The Wasp' Posted: 17 May 2008 07:45 AM CDT The Doctor, Donna and Agatha Christie tackle a murder mystery and a giant wasp. | ||
| The Unicorn and The Wasp: 17 May 08 Posted: 17 May 2008 07:40 AM CDT Episode commentary from writer Gareth Roberts, director Graeme Harper and actor Tom Goodman-Hill. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| TV Review: Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp, BBC One, Saturday ... - TV Scoop Posted: 17 May 2008 06:52 AM CDT
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| Girls Aloud, Brighton Centre, Brighton The Ting Tings, Radio 1's ... - Independent Posted: 17 May 2008 06:08 AM CDT
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| ITV’s Ant and Dec vote-rigging fine to be ‘derisory’ - Times Online Posted: 17 May 2008 03:06 AM CDT
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| Posted: 17 May 2008 02:16 AM CDT Where would Red Dwarf have been without the genial - and possibly senile, despite having an IQ of 6,000 - shipboard computer Holly? The role was famously played by two actors over the show's eight series run, Norman Lovett as the initial male version, and... | ||
| News: Tennant Set to be Mr Joan Collins 10? Posted: 17 May 2008 01:31 AM CDT Well not quite! But he has been impressing the grand lady of trans-atlantic showbusiness with his manner during a recent trip to the Doctor Who set by Collins and her grandchildren. The Dynasty star was persuaded (with some doggedness, it seems) by her grandchildren to arrange a tour of the BBC show's set at Upper Boat in Wales, and went fully expecting to be bored by the backstage activities. However Ms Collins soon became enamoured with Scottish actor and Doctor Who star David Tennant,... | ||
| News: Bernard Archard Guardian Obituary Posted: 17 May 2008 12:27 AM CDT The Guardian has published an obituary to the late Bernard Archer, the British character actor who appeared in the classic Tom Baker era adventure Pyramids of Mars. Archard was also known as/credited as Archer, and enjoyed a prolific career as a guest/character actor from his first television appearance in 1957 throughout the 60s and 70s. His role of Professor Marcus Scarman in Doctor Who is one that is overlooked in the Guardian obit, however, but it is an appearance that viewers of the... | ||
| This Week In Doctor Who - May 17, 2008 Posted: 16 May 2008 11:47 PM CDT THIS WEEK IN DOCTOR WHO May 17, 2008 - Vol 11, No 19 The weekly guide to Doctor Who and Sarah Jane broadcasts worldwide. by Benjamin F. Elliott http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho http://groups.yahoo.com/group/torchwood Section A - Everything But The PBS Stations Upcoming premiere broadcasts: Saturday 17 May: LaDeux Belgium 5PM CET - Love And Monsters (French) LaDeux Belgium 5:50PM CET - Fear Her (French) BBC One 7PM BST - The Unicorn... | ||
| Torchwood This Week - May 17, 2008 Posted: 16 May 2008 11:33 PM CDT TORCHWOOD THIS WEEK May 17, 2008 - Vol 2, No 19 The weekly guide to Torchwood transmissions. by Benjamin F. Elliott http://groups.yahoo.com/group/torchwood | ||
| This Week In Doctor Who B - May 17, 2008 Posted: 16 May 2008 11:29 PM CDT THIS WEEK IN DOCTOR WHO May 17, 2008 - Vol 11, No 19 The weekly guide to Doctor Who boadcasts worldwide. by Benjamin F. Elliott | ||
| This Week In Doctor Who A - May 17, 2008 Posted: 16 May 2008 11:27 PM CDT THIS WEEK IN DOCTOR WHO May 17, 2008 - Vol 11, No 19 The weekly guide to Doctor Who and Sarah Jane broadcasts worldwide. by Benjamin F. Elliott | ||
| John Barrowman Mulls Possible Barnum and Phantom 2 Roles - Broadway World Posted: 16 May 2008 11:21 PM CDT
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| Corden, Horne want Tate for sketch show - Digital Spy Posted: 16 May 2008 10:16 PM CDT
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| Posted: 16 May 2008 10:09 PM CDT DWO WhoCast - Episode #70 Episode #70 of the DWO WhoCast is now online! In this week's episode of the DWO WhoCast... Find out the importance of the most recent entry into Doctor Who canon as the 2T's review the latest episode; 4.6: The Doctor's Daughter. The boys also journey through the wonderful submissions and fan creations from the listeners, as they look at two websites; Farmergeddon71 and Sean's Doctor Who. Also reviewed is the latest audio release from Magic Bullet Productions; Faction Paradox: Body Politic. Together will the latest News & Feedback - the DWO WhoCast is just what The Doctor ordered! The DWO WhoCast is FREE to download, and contains all the latest from the world of Doctor Who. If you are an iTunes user, make sure you vote and post your comments; the more people that vote and leave their comments the higher up the rankings we go and the more successful we are. Also if you have any feedback let us know, and of course suggestions are always welcome. You can also email us an mp3 comment to: feedback@thewhocast.com and we can play it on the show. SUBSCRIBE to the DWO WhoCast: DOWNLOAD the MP3 version of the DWO WhoCast - Episode #70: Rate / Discuss this episode in the DWO Forums: [Source: DWO] | ||
| The 30 best books festivals in the British Isles: the definitive ... - Times Online Posted: 16 May 2008 08:40 PM CDT
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| 'Gavin & Stacey' boosts Barry economy - Digital Spy Posted: 16 May 2008 07:40 PM CDT
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| Banned Dr Who aliens could return - CBBC Newsround Posted: 16 May 2008 06:17 PM CDT
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| Collins interested in surprise 'Doctor Who' cameo - Ireland Online Posted: 16 May 2008 05:57 PM CDT
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| Posted: 16 May 2008 04:45 PM CDT Ode Ood To The CeeBeeCee. by Rod Bloggerstaff There once was a show I called mine, I even built a wee shrine, And now try and remember, Come the 19th of September, That Doctor Who is back @ 9! That... | ||
| SOUTH WOODFORD: Barman gets acting big break in tonight’s Doctor Who - Epping Forest Guardian Posted: 16 May 2008 03:28 PM CDT
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