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- BBC Children in Need Returns on 20 November with a Christmas Special Preview
- I've Signed up!
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- Christmas preview on Children in Need
- News: The Sarah Jane Adventures: The White Wolf
- News: Tamm in EastEnders Return?
- A Tragic Video History Of Male Nudity In Science Fiction [NSFW] - io9
- Children in Need to feature Christmas Special Preview
- New funding for children's television
- 'Masterpiece' thrives as three - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- BBC Planning To Launch Global iPlayer VOD Service - ITProPortal
- Future Echoes
- BBC suggests bespoke iPlayer development - IPTV Watch (blog)
- BBC to launch global, paid iPlayer? - Electronista (blog)
- The Mind of Evil In Colour (Just Not Yet) and More!
- BAD DAY AT THE OFFICE? IRRITATING COLLEAGUES TOP OFFICE HIT LIST - UK Express
- Sarah Jane Ratings - Thursday
- Sonic Newsdriver for Friday, the 23rd October 2009
- GREENWICH: Across the universe at We Are Astronomers planetarium show - News Shopper
- Notes on David Tennant's 'Sarah Jane' stint - Digital Spy
- David Tennant tops 'Most Popular Doctor Who Stars' poll - India Business Blog (blog)
- Doctor Who Adventures 138
- US to get BBC iplayer - T3
- BBC Ups Funding for Kids' Content - World Screen News
- Finding Sanctuary - Jerusalem Post
- Love, lust and life's lessons - Adelaidenow
- News: Halloween Music
- Is the UK still homophobic? - The Lesbian and Gay Foundation
- Beeb plans global Iplayer - Inquirer
- BBC seals £25.5m cash boost for kids - Broadcastnow
- Doctor Who director who put Sarah Jane aboard the Tardis - Brisbane Times
- David Tennant Interrupts Sarah Jane's Wedding. Will V's Morena Baccarin Eat a ... - io9
- BBC considers paid-for iPlayer - PFJ Media Recruitment Agency (blog)
- Top of The Class - Mirror.co.uk
- More Doctor Who tidbits - TV Squad (blog)
- David Tennant tops most popular Doctor Who stars poll - Oneindia
- BBC pledges $41m for children's TV - C21Media
- BBC issues iPlayer guidelines - Techwatch
- Become A Podshock Supporting Subscriber
- Sarah Manners joins 'The Bill' - Digital Spy
- Emmerdale's Lyndon Ogbourne plays down romance - stv.tv
| BBC Children in Need Returns on 20 November with a Christmas Special Preview Posted: 23 Oct 2009 03:41 PM PDT
Among the highlights of the seven hour live show is similar last year, there will be a preview of this year's Doctor Who Christmas special. As you may recall last year, the Doctor Who Christmas special, The Next Doctor was previewed during the BBC Children in Need show by showing the first two minutes of the special. | ||
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| Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:34 PM PDT The Sarah Jane Adventures! Liverpool! Episode screening! With added David Tennant, playing the Tenth Doctor!!! And... breathe.
THE WEDDING OF MR PETER DALTON & MISS SARAH JANE SMITH... Yes, today's the day for us lucky folks, who are heading on down to Liverpool to attend a fancy HD screening of The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith - having either booked tickets online, or been invited to attend a special press showing of the episodes in question. Thanks to cohort Nabu San I've nabbed myself a seat (if you pardon the pun) in one of the press screenings - and together me and Nabu will be representing SARAH-JANE.tv at the event. | ||
| Christmas preview on Children in Need Posted: 23 Oct 2009 07:52 AM PDT The BBC Press Office has published details of the line-up for this year's BBC Children in Need charity appeal, with which Doctor Who has long had an association. This year the programme is once again featured, with what the release describes as "An exclusive preview of the Doctor Who Christmas special." Last year there was a similar preview for the 2008 Christmas special, "The Next Doctor", with the pre-titles sequence for this episode being shown, a month in advance of its broadcast. This year's Children in Need night is takes place on Friday 20th November, broadcasting from 7pm on BBC One. | ||
| News: The Sarah Jane Adventures: The White Wolf Posted: 23 Oct 2009 07:39 AM PDT The new series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is accompanied by a pair of superb new BBC audiobooks - each an hour long, the first of these is The White Wolf, which was released on October 8th. A letter from an old friend she can’t remember sparks off another adventure for Sarah Jane, as she and her friends explore the village of Wolfenden. What is the secret of the white wolf carved on the hillside – and what does it have to do with alien abduction? Available for download... | ||
| News: Tamm in EastEnders Return? Posted: 23 Oct 2009 07:23 AM PDT Mary Tamm - former Time Lady Romana during the Tom Baker era of Doctor Who - has been busy this year, releasing her first autobiography and appearing in EastEnders in the late summer. Speaking to Digital Spy, Tamm - who played Romana during the 1978 Key to Time season - revealed she would like to be asked back to EastEnders, and continue the plot between her character Orlenda and affable Charlie Slater (Derek Martin). "I absolutely loved it. It's the Russian background [that got me... | ||
| A Tragic Video History Of Male Nudity In Science Fiction [NSFW] - io9 Posted: 23 Oct 2009 07:13 AM PDT
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| Children in Need to feature Christmas Special Preview Posted: 23 Oct 2009 06:05 AM PDT Children in Need to feature Christmas Special Preview News Dated: 23/10/2009 BBC confirms Doctor Who preview on this years Children in Need TV show. The BBC has confirmed that there will be a preview of the 2009 Doctor Who Christmas Special on this years Children in Need TV appeal show, on Friday 20th November. The confirmation comes via the BBC Press Office, and would seem to suggest that the next special (The Waters of Mars) should air sometime before then. DWO expect the airdate will be announced very shortly, but could very well be Saturday 14th November. [Source: BBC Press Office] | ||
| New funding for children's television Posted: 23 Oct 2009 04:51 AM PDT The BBC Trust has approved an additional £25.5million investment in BBC Children's programming over three years, in order to secure high quality productions such as The Sarah Jane Adventures, which may have been at risk as a result of pressures on budgets. Jana Bennett, Director BBC Vision, has welcomed the BBC Trust's endorsement of the package of initiatives designed to strengthen the role of the BBC as the cornerstone of home-produced children's output in the UK. The package is in response to the Trust's recommendations laid out in February 2009, and aims to reinforce the creative strength of BBC Children's and help the CBBC Channel maintain its position. Bennett said: "I am incredibly proud of the creative strength of CBeebies and CBBC and the unique value to children they bring. They empower, entertain and reflect the lives of children in this country through consistently high-quality, home-grown programmes." The package includes continued monitoring of the CBBC block of programmes on BBC One together with a development of a daytime show that could play for half an hour at 5.30pm weekdays. If one is found and is successful, over the next two years the BBC will consider reinstating programmes such as The Sarah Jane Adventures, Blue Peter and Newsround to their original times around 5pm. Series One of The Sarah Jane Adventures was shown in this later slot and achieved 50% higher ratings than the shows shown at the current time of 4.35pm. Bennett added: "We are seeking to balance the interests of viewers in supporting a strong 6 O'Clock News and protecting children's programmes." | ||
| 'Masterpiece' thrives as three - St. Louis Post-Dispatch Posted: 23 Oct 2009 02:48 AM PDT
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| BBC Planning To Launch Global iPlayer VOD Service - ITProPortal Posted: 23 Oct 2009 02:05 AM PDT
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| Posted: 23 Oct 2009 02:01 AM PDT Overnight figures are in for the opening episode of The Mad Woman in the Attic and things are... well, pretty much consistent (no dramatic rises or falls...). The episode managed to draw 0.6 million viewers, according to Marcus at the Doctor Who News Page, which was a 5.7% of the television audience available at that time. It's a very similar figure to what last week's episodes scored.
Here are some of your opinions on yesterday's episode: | ||
| BBC suggests bespoke iPlayer development - IPTV Watch (blog) Posted: 23 Oct 2009 01:26 AM PDT
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| BBC to launch global, paid iPlayer? - Electronista (blog) Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:12 AM PDT
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| The Mind of Evil In Colour (Just Not Yet) and More! Posted: 22 Oct 2009 10:15 PM PDT DWIN was pleased to sponsor an evening event featuring Doctor Who Restoration Team maestro Steve Roberts. The discussion with Steve included a demonstration from Steve about the Chroma Dot Recovery process and how it worked on restoring colour to the previously black and white Planet of the Daleks episode 3. Chroma Dot Recovery, or Colour Recovery as it as is called, is a process so fantastic even the Doctor might call it magic. As fans know, many Jon Pertwee episodes only exist as black and white film recordings of colour videotape. What some clever boffins realized though, is that these black and white film recordings still contained the field information for the chroma (colour) signal as a series of dots. Through a highly technical process that I can only barely understand (but you can read about here) they have now figured out how transform those dots into an actual colour signal. The results are remarkable. We were pleased to see Steve demonstrate how this was done with Planet of the Daleks 3 (the episode was already being computer colorized when this process was proved viable—in the end they took the Chroma Dot recovered work and added it to the computer coloured work to provide a near perfect recreation of the colour on this episode). But Steve had one more thing to show us. Steve then showed us a clip of The Mind of Evil. In colour. That CR has been used on The Mind of Evil is probably the worst kept secret in Doctor Who today. But Steve finally had permission to give fans the whole story of what was going on with the colour recovery on The Mind of Evil and the answer is more complex. Yes, they have managed to achieve colour recovery on The Mind of Evil episodes 2-6 (Episode 1 is apparently unrecoverable due to some setting made in original transmission that prevented the chroma information from being recorded). But the result is far from stable. While some scenes, such as one shown to us from Episode 2, are stunning in how well the original colours were able to be recovered, other scenes are much less than satisfactory. We saw a clip from the climax of the story in Episode 6 where the colours bled badly into each other and there was psychadelic strobing effects when characters moved on screen. So the short story here is: yes, The Mind of Evil is now (mostly) in colour through a process that seemed like science fiction even a year ago. No, it's not coming out on DVD anytime soon. Steve Roberts indicated that the story has been pushed back as far as possible to allow for other cost-effective solutions to transpire to stabilize the colour recovery through manual intervention, computer colourization, further enhancements of the Chroma Dot recovery process or some other still-to-be-discovered means. And if nothing can be found it may be released in Black and White. Fans wait and hold their breath until then… Other interesting news from the evening with Steve Roberts:
All in all it was a great evening with the highlight of seeing footage from Doctor Who in colour previously unseen in this format in North America since it aired on PBS in the 1970s. Incredible! | ||
| BAD DAY AT THE OFFICE? IRRITATING COLLEAGUES TOP OFFICE HIT LIST - UK Express Posted: 22 Oct 2009 10:08 PM PDT
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| Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:45 PM PDT Unofficial overnight figures show that the third episode of the series, part one of The Mad Woman in the Attic was watched by 0.6 million viewers, with an audience share of 5.7%. The rating is almost identical to that the series recieved last week, with the first half getting 0.5 million viewers and the second half 0.7 million. Final figures will include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days, and will be released by BARB in two weeks time. | ||
| Sonic Newsdriver for Friday, the 23rd October 2009 Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:39 PM PDT
A Glimpse of the New TARDIS Interior, David Tennant Up for BAFTA Scotland Award, RTD Calls for Champion Children's TV, Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3 Underway, Tennant and Sladen Dumped From Radio Times Cover, Blue Peter Says Design Your Own TARDIS Console, BBC iPlayer Goes International at a Price, Catch Doctor Who: Podshock 165, and Get Your Sonic Gear, plus more! Hosted by Louis Trapani | ||
| GREENWICH: Across the universe at We Are Astronomers planetarium show - News Shopper Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:28 PM PDT
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| Notes on David Tennant's 'Sarah Jane' stint - Digital Spy Posted: 22 Oct 2009 09:05 PM PDT
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| Posted: 22 Oct 2009 08:48 PM PDT This week's Doctor Who Adventures magazine is a bumper Halloween edition taking a look at scary scenes to come in the next Doctor Who special, to be shown on BBC One soon, and comes with a Weeping Angel monster mask and claws. Other features in this week's issue: • Top 10 moments that make you jump • Weeping Angels fact file • A look at the next Sarah Jane Adventures episode • Quiz - How well do you know the scariest Doctor Who monsters? | ||
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| BBC Ups Funding for Kids' Content - World Screen News Posted: 22 Oct 2009 08:32 PM PDT
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| Finding Sanctuary - Jerusalem Post Posted: 22 Oct 2009 07:35 PM PDT
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| Love, lust and life's lessons - Adelaidenow Posted: 22 Oct 2009 07:12 PM PDT
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| Posted: 22 Oct 2009 06:35 PM PDT This weekend the BBC National Orchestra of Wales teams up with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales for an early Halloween event which will feature some of the creepiest music ever written - including pieces from Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Batman and of course Doctor Who, reports Wales Online. Conductor Grant Llewellyn was previously a member of National Youth Orchestra of Wales: “It means so much to me to be involved in the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’ family... | ||
| Is the UK still homophobic? - The Lesbian and Gay Foundation Posted: 22 Oct 2009 06:26 PM PDT
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| Beeb plans global Iplayer - Inquirer Posted: 22 Oct 2009 06:24 PM PDT
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| BBC seals £25.5m cash boost for kids - Broadcastnow Posted: 22 Oct 2009 06:17 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who director who put Sarah Jane aboard the Tardis - Brisbane Times Posted: 22 Oct 2009 06:06 PM PDT
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| BBC considers paid-for iPlayer - PFJ Media Recruitment Agency (blog) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:34 PM PDT
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| Top of The Class - Mirror.co.uk Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:30 PM PDT
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| More Doctor Who tidbits - TV Squad (blog) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:14 PM PDT
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| David Tennant tops most popular Doctor Who stars poll - Oneindia Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:13 PM PDT
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| BBC pledges $41m for children's TV - C21Media Posted: 22 Oct 2009 04:29 PM PDT
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| BBC issues iPlayer guidelines - Techwatch Posted: 22 Oct 2009 03:48 PM PDT
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| Become A Podshock Supporting Subscriber Posted: 22 Oct 2009 03:47 PM PDT
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| Sarah Manners joins 'The Bill' - Digital Spy Posted: 22 Oct 2009 03:31 PM PDT
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| Emmerdale's Lyndon Ogbourne plays down romance - stv.tv Posted: 22 Oct 2009 07:07 AM PDT
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The BBC Press Office announced the line up for the annual BBC Children in Need televised fundraiser which will return this year on the Friday, the 20th of November 2009 at 7pm on BBC One. 

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