Sunday, July 12, 2009

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News


News: Torchwood: Rift War

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 09:44 AM PDT

Perfectly timed to tie-in with Children of Earth, Torchwood: Rift War is a new graphic novel-formatted release is a collection of the Torchwood Magazine comic strips. Featuring the work of some of the UK's most renowned comic book creators - such as Paul Grist, Ian Edgington, D'Israeli and Simon Furman - Rift War sees Torchwood-3 coming under attack by extra-dimensional shock troopers the Harrowkind... With a deadly rift bleeding through into their own reality, time itself could be...

Torchwood: It's Doctor Who with a gay twist - Cumberland News

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 09:32 AM PDT


Torchwood: It's Doctor Who with a gay twist
Cumberland News
In the fallow wastelands of summer scheduling, Torchwood was supposed to be the BBC's great white beacon of dramatic relief. And what did it turn out to be? ...

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News: BBC Bashes in Spotlight

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 09:25 AM PDT

The expenses row expanded last week beyond the pay deals of vaious BBC production and management personnel and into the realms of functions - and Jane Tranter, the executive who oversaw the rebirth of Doctor Who - has been cited as a beneficiary of such a function. Prior to taking a job with BBC Worldwide's US arm on January 1st, Tranter was given a huge reception at the grade I-listed, 18th-century House of St Barnabas in Soho, central London. The ornate venue baosts library, a chapel and...

News: Doctor Who Ongoing from IDW

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 09:13 AM PDT

Doctor Who Ongoing - the new Tony Lee-penned comic series from IDW - kicks off with the 2 part Silver Scream this week. Newsrama features a selection of excellent preview images (one of which features a Tony Lee cameo...) Art in the first issue - which sees the Tenth Doctor team up with movie legend Charlie Chaplin to thwart an alien invasion in 1920s Hollywood - is provided by Al Davison while the cover is courtesy of Paul Grist. "At long last Doctor Who is an ongoing monthly series!...

2009 Comic-Con: Saturday Schedule - /FILM

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 07:31 AM PDT


/FILM

2009 Comic-Con: Saturday Schedule
/FILM
... Fringe, Human Target, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, The Venture Bros., Myth Busters, Torchwood/Doctor Who, Weeds, Chuck, Eastwick, Lost, Family Guy, ...

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DR WHO GENIUS LEAVES FOR AMERICA - UK Express

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 04:05 AM PDT


DR WHO GENIUS LEAVES FOR AMERICA
UK Express
DOCTOR WHO writer Russell T Davies, regarded by many as the country's best TV dramatist, has rocked BBC executives by announcing that he ...

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SCHOOLGIRL ALOUD - UK Express

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 04:05 AM PDT


SCHOOLGIRL ALOUD
UK Express
She is joined in the sequel, St Trinian's 2: The Legend Of Fritton's Gold, by Dr Who star David Tennant, who plays the film villain Pomfrey, ...

The Comic-Con Saturday, July 25 Schedule! - ComingSoon.net

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 03:07 AM PDT


The Comic-Con Saturday, July 25 Schedule!
ComingSoon.net
Room 6BCF Torchwood: Children of Earth, an epic television event from BBC America's highest rated series, has the Torchwood team facing their fiercest ...

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Doctor Who tops WH Smith DVD Chart

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 02:37 AM PDT

Doctor Who tops WH Smith DVD Chart
News Dated: 11/7/2009

Classic Doctor Who adventure; The War Games, has topped the WH Smith DVD Chart.

The recently released Classic Series Doctor Who adventure; The War Games, has topped the WH Smith Top 35 DVD Chart holding position #1.

The 3-disc set which has been hailed by fans as one of the best releases from DVD manufacturer; 2|entertain to date, hit the shops on 6th July priced £24.99.

This is also the first time that 7 titles have made it into the charts at one time. Below are a list of the titles and their positions:

#1 - The War Games
#3 - Planet of the Dead
#5 - Delta and the Bannermen
#13 - The Deadly Assassin
#19 - Image of the Fendahl
#31 - Attack of the Cybermen
#33 - The Next Doctor

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Discuss this news in the DWO Forums:
http://www.drwho-online.co.uk/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1247322718

[Source: Doctor Who Online]

Parting of the Ways

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 02:10 AM PDT

Children of Earth 'survivors' John Barrowman and Eve Myles are moving away from Torchwood for the time being (?) to head up a couple of individual projects.

Firstly, Eve Myles will be appearing alongside Trevor Eve in a new BBC One drama commission, titled Framed. According to DigitalSpy, "the programme, adapted from Frank Cottrell Boyce's best-selling children's novel, sees a secretive convoy of men invade a Welsh village." It's expected to air this Winter on the BBC.

Also coming up, John Barrowman will be travelling across the globe as part of this year's Children in Need extravaganza Around the World in 80 Days. Various celebrities will be paired up, and travel segments of the world together. John's partner is the ever lovely (if boring...) Myleene Klass. Other celebs taking part include Lee Mack and Frank "I'm funny me, honest" Skinner. ETA - October/November.

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5.8 million viewers (26.7% of the available audience) saw the last part of the Children of Earth serial on BBC One last night, making it the 4th most watched programme of the day.

We'll have a full ratings round-up in a couple of weeks when the full data breakdown is released.

In the meantime you can catch Torchwood: Children of Earth on DVD and Blu-Ray from Monday at all good entertainment outlets.

Why don't you follow this blog for all the latest, up-to-date Torchwood news?

This Week In Doctor Who - July 11, 2009

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 01:45 AM PDT

This Week In Doctor Who
July 11, 2009 - Vol 12, No 28
The weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts worldwide since 1998.
by Benjamin F. Elliott
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The original test post of This Week In Doctor Who went out on July 13, 1998. Happy 11th to the column as of Monday.

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Torchwood This Week - July 11, 2009

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 01:44 AM PDT

Torchwood This Week July 11, 2009 - Volume 3, Number 28 The weekly guide to Torchwood transmissions. by Benjamin F. Elliott

This Week In Doctor Who Spinoffs - July 11, 2009

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 01:39 AM PDT

This Week In Doctor Who Spinoffs July 11, 2009 - Volume 1, Number 28 The weekly guide to Sarah Jane Smith broadcasts, podcasts, and other matters. by Benjamin

Get 'Lost' at Comic-Con Saturday - Zap2it.com

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 01:39 AM PDT


Get 'Lost' at Comic-Con Saturday
Zap2it.com
7:30-10 pm, Room 6DE -- Watch screenings of an episode of "Torchwood: Children of the Earth" and the new Doctor Who telemovie "Planet of the Dead. ...

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This Week In Doctor Who Western Hemisphere - July 11, 2009

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 01:38 AM PDT

This Week In Doctor Who Western Hemisphere July 11, 2009 - Vol 1, No 28 The Guide to North and South American Doctor Who TV Listings by Benjamin F. Elliott

This Week In Doctor Who - July 11, 2009

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 01:35 AM PDT

This Week In Doctor Who July 11, 2009 - Vol 12, No 28 The weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts worldwide since 1998. by Benjamin F. Elliott

Torchwood star excited for new Doctor Who - Coventry Telegraph

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 01:31 AM PDT


Coventry Telegraph

Torchwood star excited for new Doctor Who
Coventry Telegraph
TORCHWOOD'S dramatic Children of Earth miniseries finished last night here in the UK and actor Kai Owen says he is ...

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Torchwood Was Amazing, But What Happens Next? - io9

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 01:18 AM PDT


Torchwood Was Amazing, But What Happens Next?
io9
But does that mean Torchwood should have more "event" miniseries? Probably not. Relatively vague spoilers ahead. "Children Of Earth" was a huge experiment, ...

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The Reader Awards 2009

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 12:30 AM PDT

Now that the show is over for another year (well, potentially forever) here in the UK and Australia I thought now was the ideal time to launch what has become a TORCHWOOD.tv tradition - the end of series Reader Awards!

The Awards are open to all site readers, so I encourage you to copy and paste the below categories, and then email your responses to this email address.

Closing date for entries is noon on Wednesday July 29th - which gives readers in the USA a chance to vote (for the first time) once the series concludes there on the 24th.

The results will be announced on July 31st, in what'll prove to be one of my last posts for the site.

Good luck, and get voting!

RATE THE EPISODES

Give each episode a score out of 10 - with 10 meaning 'exceptional' and 1 being 'abysmal'. Please, don't just pick one episode; make sure you score them all!

1: "Children of Earth - Day One"
2: "Children of Earth - Day Two"
3: "Children of Earth - Day Three"
4: "Children of Earth - Day Four"
5: "Children of Earth - Day Five"

For a complete overview now mark the story as a whole out of 10:

N/A: "Torchwood: Children of Earth"

BEST ACTOR/ACTRESS

Choose from any one of the regular cast:

1: John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness)
2: Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper)
3: Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones)
4: Kai Owen (Rhys Williams)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR/ACTRESS

Choose from any one of the following:

1: Liz May Brice (Agent Johnson)
2: Susan Brown (Bridget Spears)
3: Peter Capaldi (John Frobisher)
4: Lucy Cohu (Alice Carter)
5: Paul Copley (Clement McDonald)
6: Nicholas Farrell (Brian Green PM)
7: Cush Jumbo (Lois Habiba)
8: Tom Price (PC Andy Davidson)

QUESTION TIME

Simple: Just answer the following questions (all YES/NO)

1: Were you happy with the end of Children of Earth?
2: Do you think the show will return for a 4th series?
2B: Should another series return to the 13 episode format?
3: Are you a British viewer?
3B: If 'no' to the above, did you watch the series legally?
4: Would you be interested in an American version of the show?
5: Can the show continue without John Barrowman?

THE CHILDREN OF EARTH HALL OF FAME

Who, from the whole of the CoE cast and crew, most deserves a spotlight of recognition for their work on the mini-series?

MESSAGE FROM THE FANS

Give a five word (no more!) summary of Children of Earth. The ten best will acompany the results when they're published at the end of the month.

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RATE THE AUDIO ADVENTURES

Again, a mark out of 10 for these Radio 4 bound stories:

1: "Lost Souls"
2: "Asylum"
3: "Golden Age"
4: "The Dead Line"

RATE THE (DOCTOR WHO) EPISODES

Last year we asked you to give a score to all the previous Doctor Who episodes featuring appearences by the Torchwood cast. Since then, one further adventure has aired. Give it a mark out of 10, and the results will be collected together and then compared against the other episodes already surveyed.

1: "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" (with John Barrowman, Eve Myles & Gareth David-Lloyd)

BEST TIE-IN BOOK

Choose from any one of the following:
1: "Pack Animals" (Peter Anghelides)
2: "SkyPoint" (Phil Ford)
3: "Almost Perfect" (James Goss)
4: "Into the Silence" (Sarah Pinborough)
5: "Bay of the Dead" (Mark Morris)
6: "The House that Jack Built" (Guy Adams)

ACCESS ALL AREAS - OTHER MERCHANDISE

Give the following marks out of 10 - 10 being the highest; 1 being the lowest:
1: The Torchwood Action Figures (Underground Toys)
2: Torchwood - the Official Magazine (Titan Publishing)
3: Something in the Darkness [Series Guide] (Steven James Walker, Telos Publishing)
4: The official website (www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood)

TORCHWOOD.TV

Leave your opinions of the site here. They won't be published on the main site, but will help me and the site's other writer's understand what you, the reader, want to see more/less of - and how successful a job we're doing!

Again, send your results here.

The closing date is 12pm on Wednesday July 29th.

The results will be published Friday July 31st.

Get voting!

Why don't you follow this blog for all the latest, up-to-date Torchwood news?

Reviews: The Angel of Scutari

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 12:07 AM PDT

Doctor Who has been many things. A Space Adventure Show; a Hardcore science fiction show; an Earth Invasion show; more recently a Love Story from Beyond the Stars show... even a James Bond from Space show. The one that seems to get little attention these days is the "Historical Adventure" show. So it’s at moments like this, just mere seconds after finishing the latest Big Finish play, The Angel of Scutari, that I feel the need to hop onto a computer and put my thoughts down...

General Children of Earth Discussion [Spoilers for all FIVE days ... - AfterElton.com

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 11:02 PM PDT


General Children of Earth Discussion [Spoilers for all FIVE days ...
AfterElton.com
And as you know I have been voicing my opinion on that already. ;) One of theny reasons I ove Torchwood fans. "To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for ...

'Torchwood's Final And Finest Hour

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 10:17 PM PDT

Check out our verdict on the explosive Day Five of 'Children Of Earth' and the series as a whole.

Torchwood A Ratings Smash

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 09:34 PM PDT

Torchwood's BBC1 debut has been a major hit, with every episode easily winning its respective time slot. It was by the far the biggest non-soap drama of the week, with the kind of figures (an average of 5.88 million viewers) that most dramas these days would...

Is Britain Too Meek For Sci-Fi TV? - io9

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 09:02 PM PDT


Is Britain Too Meek For Sci-Fi TV?
io9
And yes, he's including Doctor Who. [W]hereas the US has given us Flash Gordon, The Twilight Zone, many incarnations of Star Trek, The X-Files, Quantum Leap ...

From Deadpool To Green Lantern

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 08:57 PM PDT

Thank God Warners Bros have seen sense and decided against casting goat-haired warbler Justin Timberlake as The Green Lantern. Yes, incredible as it may seem, Timberlake was on of a number of potentials on the shortlist, and actually auditioned (at which point...

TV Poll: 'Torchwood' - was it good for you? - Digital Spy

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 08:38 PM PDT


TV Poll: 'Torchwood' - was it good for you?
Digital Spy
For this week's TV Poll we're turning our attentions to Torchwood: Children Of Earth, which was stripped on BBC One over five nights. ...

BLOG Fan campaigns

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 07:27 PM PDT

Since the 1960s, fans have been able to influence the TV studio execs. Blogger Laura McConnell discusses the phenomenon of those fans who campaign on behalf of their favourite shows and characters: Proving The Pen Mightier Than The Sword ...

'Torchwood's Final And Finest Hour - Digital Spy

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:28 PM PDT


'Torchwood's Final And Finest Hour
Digital Spy
Fortunately that's not a description of Torchwood's resoundingly brilliant final hour, but the reaction to some of the heartbreaking decisions made by ...

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Doctor Who: The War Games - DVDTimes.co.uk

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 04:07 PM PDT


Doctor Who: The War Games
DVDTimes.co.uk
Devious (12:17) begins with a caption that tells us what we need to know: it's an amateur Dr Who video made by Stephen Cranford, Ashley Nealfuller and David ...

Torchwood: It's Doctor Who with a gay twist - News & Star

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:45 PM PDT


Torchwood: It's Doctor Who with a gay twist
News & Star
In the fallow wastelands of summer scheduling, Torchwood was supposed to be the BBC's great white beacon of dramatic relief. And what did it turn out to be? ...

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Summer of Sci-Fi - Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 03:41 PM PDT


Summer of Sci-Fi
Philadelphia Inquirer
Torchwood: Children of Earth Five-part mini- series premieres July 20 at 9 pm Continues daily through July 24. Being Human Six-episode series premieres July ...

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It's Doctor Who with a gay twist - News & Star

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 01:25 PM PDT


It's Doctor Who with a gay twist
News & Star
IN the fallow wastelands of summer scheduling, Torchwood was supposed to be the BBC's great white beacon of dramatic relief. And what did it turn out to be? ...

Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Five - guardian.co.uk

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 01:19 PM PDT


guardian.co.uk

Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Five
guardian.co.uk
And then there were those concerned fans worried that moving the Torchwood they loved to such a flagship slot was a sentence to death by a thousand tiny ...

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News: TARDIS Shed Week

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 08:00 AM PDT

Regular Kasterborous readers will know how we like to champion the Doctor Who fan built projects whether they be Daleks, Cyberman cakes or TARDIS sheds. We featured one or two last year and as we reach the end of National Shed Week 2009 let's spare a thought for the superb TARDIS shed that lost out to what is to all intents and purposes a wooden chalet in the all-important Shed of the Year awards. Featured on WalesOnline earlier this week, Paul Williams's TARDIS shed looks the part and...

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