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- News: Dalek Auction!
- News: Second Companion?
- Where is The Next Doctor? - TV Squad
- New Canadian Home for Doctor Who Confirmed
- Star Wars fans, how much would you pay for a working R2-D2 unit? - Examiner.com
- News: Model Companion
- Doctor Who and Torchwood Return Dates - IGN
- BLOG In Semi-Defence Of The Phantom Menace
- The Prisoner Teaser Trailer
- Sci-fi shows returning to BBC America for summer lineup - PennLive.com
- Canada's SPACE & BBC Worldwide Ink Sci-Fi Deals - World Screen News
- BBC America goes HD July 20 with lots of SF, including 'Torchwood ... - Paste Magazine
- Wedding storylines for 'Doctor Who'? - Digital Spy
- Gallifreyan Embassy Website 3.0 Unveiled
- Dirty Dancing is the Number One Stage Show in the UK - NewDesignWorld (press release)
- Dirty Dancing is the Number One Stage Show in the UK - PR-USA.net (press release)
- Tennant films three 'Doctor Who' weddings - Digital Spy
- Natalie Portman to play warrior princess; 'American Idol ... - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
- Dirty Dancing is the Number One Stage Show in the UK - Free press releases (press release)
- Quentin Cooper: Why Dr Who beats Einstein these days - Telegraph.co.uk
- Doctor Who - 10 Companions Younger Than Karen Gillan - Den Of Geek
- Dirty Dancing is the Number One Stage Show in the UK - Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung)
- 'HAMLET' HEADS TO THE SMALL SCREEN - Ok! Magazine
- BBCWW takes Doctor Who to Space - C21Media
- Sci-Fi Shows Drive BBC America into HD Universe - Wired News
- Best bets: 'Camelot', Gospel Music Fest - Chicago Daily Herald
- Grand Guignol
- Is Content King? - Hydrapinion
- BBC Worldwide content coming to US Xbox Live, Zune Marketplace - Engadget HD
- BBC Worldwide and Space Wrap Up Sci-Fi - Channel Canada
- Dr Who's three I dos - The Sun
- BBC America plans high-def Sci-Fi Week - RedOrbit
- Torchwood Children of Earth to Air in HD - SF Universe
- TORCHWOOD Returns! - Mania
- Susan Boyle Was Set Up To Fail - Anglophenia
- Yet even more David Tennant news (and Patrick Stewart too) - TV Squad
- James has Billy-ful of laughs - The Sun
- More details on 'Torchwood' and 'Doctor Who' specials - The Watcher - Chicago Tribune Blog
- New Guests for Who Party Toronto
| Posted: 02 Jun 2009 07:34 AM PDT A hand-made Dalek found hidden away in the stock of a closed craft shop in Stokesley, North Yorkshire is up for auction tomorrow, with the sellers hoping Yorkshire and Teesside-based Doctor Who fans will be placing bids. The guide price for this non-genuine golden Dalek is between &ound;500 and &ound;1,000. Auctioneer Richard Storry reports that around 30 phone calls have enquired about the lot. "There's obviously been a lot of time and work gone into it because the standard of... | ||
| Posted: 02 Jun 2009 05:48 AM PDT Rumours sweeping the Doctor Who-themed corners of the web suggest that Steven Moffat is looking for a second companion to join Karen Gillan's character in the TARDIS in 2010! The Doctor and his unnamed friends are set to begin their adventures in Spring of next year, and io9.com have picked up on some rumours on the Outpost Gallifrey forum... Supposedly Sam Troughton auditioned for the role and didn't get it — but now it's narrowed down to Dean Kelly (who played Shakespeare in season... | ||
| Where is The Next Doctor? - TV Squad Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:15 AM PDT
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| New Canadian Home for Doctor Who Confirmed Posted: 02 Jun 2009 12:14 AM PDT The Doctor Who Blog is reporting that Canada's Space channel is now the home of Doctor Who in Canada, officially ending the series time with former co-production partner the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Space will air Planet of the Dead on Saturday July 25th. Waters of Mars and the two other specials to follow will air on Space in late 2009 and early 2010. Beginning in March 2010 Space will have the rights to show Series One to Four of the show as well as The Christmas Invasion and The R | ||
| Star Wars fans, how much would you pay for a working R2-D2 unit? - Examiner.com Posted: 02 Jun 2009 12:08 AM PDT
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| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 11:26 PM PDT New Doctor Who co-star Karen Gillan has had quite a career so far, playing nuns, teenagers and making a good fist of comedy - and it seems she's also been a model. In 2007 the actress - who is a a statuesque 5"11 in height strutted her stuff on the catwalk at London Fashion Week for designer Allegra Hicks. "It's something I was doing as a hobby... I really enjoy it," she told Highland News at the time. With her striking looks and fiery red hair, Karen could well see... | ||
| Doctor Who and Torchwood Return Dates - IGN Posted: 01 Jun 2009 11:04 PM PDT
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| BLOG In Semi-Defence Of The Phantom Menace Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:50 PM PDT We all remember the excitement that heralded The Phantom Menace's launch back in May 1999. Were you one of those camped out for days at the cinema beforehand, eager to be one of the first to see it? Blogger Laura McConnell was, and having seen the movie... | ||
| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:38 PM PDT AMC has released a teaser trailer for its upcoming reboot of The Prisoner, starring Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel. And it looks worryingly… meh. Okay, it's a teaser. They're not supposed to give much away. Maybe if Doctor Who hadn't just done the whole... | ||
| Sci-fi shows returning to BBC America for summer lineup - PennLive.com Posted: 01 Jun 2009 09:24 PM PDT
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| Canada's SPACE & BBC Worldwide Ink Sci-Fi Deals - World Screen News Posted: 01 Jun 2009 08:38 PM PDT
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| BBC America goes HD July 20 with lots of SF, including 'Torchwood ... - Paste Magazine Posted: 01 Jun 2009 08:25 PM PDT
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| Wedding storylines for 'Doctor Who'? - Digital Spy Posted: 01 Jun 2009 07:20 PM PDT
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| Gallifreyan Embassy Website 3.0 Unveiled Posted: 01 Jun 2009 04:49 PM PDT  Preview the new Gallifreyan Embassy website 3.0 today! June marks our 24th anniversary. As we head into our 25th year, we will do it with a new website. Although there's much content from this existing site on it now, it is a completely new site from the ground up. This means you will have to re-register on the new site as your cu... | ||
| Dirty Dancing is the Number One Stage Show in the UK - NewDesignWorld (press release) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 04:00 PM PDT
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| Dirty Dancing is the Number One Stage Show in the UK - PR-USA.net (press release) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 04:00 PM PDT
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| Tennant films three 'Doctor Who' weddings - Digital Spy Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:46 PM PDT
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| Natalie Portman to play warrior princess; 'American Idol ... - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:11 PM PDT
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| Dirty Dancing is the Number One Stage Show in the UK - Free press releases (press release) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:57 PM PDT
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| Quentin Cooper: Why Dr Who beats Einstein these days - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:50 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who - 10 Companions Younger Than Karen Gillan - Den Of Geek Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:35 PM PDT
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| Dirty Dancing is the Number One Stage Show in the UK - Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:33 PM PDT
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| 'HAMLET' HEADS TO THE SMALL SCREEN - Ok! Magazine Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:03 PM PDT
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| BBCWW takes Doctor Who to Space - C21Media Posted: 01 Jun 2009 01:59 PM PDT
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| Sci-Fi Shows Drive BBC America into HD Universe - Wired News Posted: 01 Jun 2009 01:02 PM PDT
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| Best bets: 'Camelot', Gospel Music Fest - Chicago Daily Herald Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:41 AM PDT
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| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:30 AM PDT A minor tele-historical footnote, which probably fits this page better than it fits the Randomness Times. Since nobody else I know seems to have asked this question, I'll ask it myself: are any of you watching the late-night repeat run of The Grand on ITV3? Because this isn't simply an early TV work by Russell T. Davies, but (according to his own testimony) the series which allowed him to find his "voice" as a writer. It's therefore of great historical interest to gits like us. In itself, it's a good-but-not-great period drama, no I, Claudius but certainly well above average for a prime-time ITV series made in 1997. More interesting are the things which, with hindsight, will become standards of modern-day Doctor Who. Indeed, many of the same telly-techniques are used here, and a lot of similar character-relationships present themselves. Most noticeably, we can see Little Big Russell's interest in using class as a way of drawing the lines between different narrative strands, so keen-eyed viewers will not only notice the origins of "The End of the World" but the whole black-tie-hero-makes-friends-with-the-staff ethos that'll eventually lead to "Voyage of the Damned". For better or worse. Yet as the author himself has since admitted, the most striking point is how horrid this is. Remember, we're talking about the blood-and-guts Damaged Goods-era Davies, before he learned the benefit of the occasional happy ending. When ITV commissioned a gloss-heavy historical about a luxury hotel, complete with lilting major-key theme music, they must have been imagining something as gentle as Heartbeat with perhaps a few class-struggle elements in the style of Upstairs, Downstairs. They presumably weren't anticipating a first episode in which a shellshock casualty blows his own head off with a service revolver, or a six-episode story arc in which the "spunky" POV character - a girl who shows premature signs of feminism, mentored by a distinctly open-minded female guest who turns out to be a high-class prostitute - ends up being gang-raped and brutalised to such a degree that she beats her persecutor to death with a poker. The sixth episode chronicles the day of her execution. There's no last-minute reprieve. She swings. Of course, given that we know Big Russell (and that we remember the way he intercut "Pyramids of Mars" with the most explicit sex scene in Queer of Folk), it shouldn't surprise us that the aforementioned first-episode suicide is a man called "Scarman". Or that the music-hall owner in Season Two is blatantly Henry Gordon Jago with differently-hued sideburns and a sex drive. But even we might be startled to find that the doomed POV girl is named "Jones"; that her rapist and victim is named "Tyler"; and that the courtesan who (unintentionally) leads her to her death is named "Harkness". So, as ever, it turns out that members of the Harkness family will sleep with anything. Most peculiar is that The Grand doesn't yet have its own Wikipedia entry, which surely makes it unique amongst British TV dramas. Any of you feel like filling this gap in our cultural history...?  | ||
| Is Content King? - Hydrapinion Posted: 01 Jun 2009 08:07 AM PDT
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| BBC Worldwide content coming to US Xbox Live, Zune Marketplace - Engadget HD Posted: 01 Jun 2009 07:25 AM PDT
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| BBC Worldwide and Space Wrap Up Sci-Fi - Channel Canada Posted: 01 Jun 2009 07:08 AM PDT
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| Dr Who's three I dos - The Sun Posted: 01 Jun 2009 04:49 AM PDT
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| BBC America plans high-def Sci-Fi Week - RedOrbit Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:16 AM PDT
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| Torchwood Children of Earth to Air in HD - SF Universe Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:03 AM PDT
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| Susan Boyle Was Set Up To Fail - Anglophenia Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:20 AM PDT
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| Yet even more David Tennant news (and Patrick Stewart too) - TV Squad Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:06 AM PDT
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| James has Billy-ful of laughs - The Sun Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:02 AM PDT
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| New Guests for Who Party Toronto Posted: 01 Jun 2009 01:06 AM PDT Who Party Toronto - Doctor Who Convention Best Western Primrose Hotel Downtown Toronto Cost: $30.00 (in advance or at the door) Colin Teague (the first person to direct for Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood, will be making his Doctor Who... |
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