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- Sherlock: A Study in Pink - The Yorker
- TV Review: Sherlock - The 2010 Super Sleuth - Blogcritics.org (blog)
- No s**t, Sherlock - The Sun
- Matthew Waterhouse in DWM
- 2010 Series DVD Boxset
- Running on empty: culture in the silly season - The Guardian
- 'Doctor Who' thing of the day: “Lost In The Dark Dimension” fan trailer - Flick Filosopher (blog)
- Torchwood Surprise
- A Journal For Who Lovers
- "A Veritable Who-fest" - The Atlantic (blog)
- The Complete Fifth Series
- The Doctor - National Review Online (blog)
- Russell T Davies talks Torchwood in SFX #199
- Fans Must Wait A Year For New Sherlock - OntheBox (blog)
- The Four Doctors - Update!
- Sherlock: The Detective Reborn - Battlemouth
- Cybermen Box Set
- Meet Oliver Harper
- Martin Freeman: 'Doctor Who and Sherlock Homes are the perfect fictional team - Unreality TV (blog)
- Co-Operative to be title sponsor of The Variety Club Showbiz Awards - The Drum
- New Sherlock won't air until 2011 - Unreality TV (blog)
- NewsGush: Moffat In Demand As BBC Requests More Sherlock - Watch With Mothers
- Freeman: 'I'm not passionate about Who' - Digital Spy
- Abbie Wightwick: Mum says - WalesOnline
- DVD Review: Doctor Who - The Horns of Nimon - Blogcritics.org (blog)
- Dalek Invasion: Ewell
- Silences, Rivers and Songs – Series 6 discussion
- John Barrowman 'Close To Glee Deal' - Musicrooms.net
- John Barrowman `close to Glee deal` - Monsters and Critics.com
- › John Barrowman: Jamie Redknapp's got the best bum! - Now Magazine Online
- Barrowman for 'Glee?' Maybe - TVOvermind
| Sherlock: A Study in Pink - The Yorker Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:39 PM PDT
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| TV Review: Sherlock - The 2010 Super Sleuth - Blogcritics.org (blog) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:33 PM PDT
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| Posted: 28 Jul 2010 09:25 AM PDT The current issue of Doctor Who Magazine (424) has an exclusive, rare interview with 1980s companion Matthew Waterhouse, who played Adric.
Waterhouse would later go on to become a TARDIS stowaway companion at the end of Full Circle, travelling with the Doctor until his demise in Earthshock. The interview itself tells us as much about Waterhouse as it does the transition period of Doctor Who that he found himself working on, refers to a (wrongly, according to Waterhouse) rumoured affair with Anthony Ainley, and to be honest it paints pretty much everyone involved in the show at that time in a pretty bleak light. However Waterhouse is refreshingly honest:
This is something that bodes well for Blue Box Boy: A Memoir of Doctor Who in Four Episodes, and this proves to be the magazines best article since the 2009 double-issue interview with Tom Baker. Doctor Who Magazine 424 is out now! | ||
| Posted: 28 Jul 2010 08:26 AM PDT  Details have been released of the 2010 series boxset which will be released in the UK on 8th November 2010 and in North America on November 9, 2010.Branded The Complete Fifth Series the boxset is available in DVD and Blu-ray formats. In the UK, as well as the general release, a number of sets will be available in the form of a specially limited edition. Special features include additional scenes written by Steven Moffat and exclusive to DVD.
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| Running on empty: culture in the silly season - The Guardian Posted: 28 Jul 2010 07:32 AM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' thing of the day: “Lost In The Dark Dimension” fan trailer - Flick Filosopher (blog) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 07:31 AM PDT
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| Posted: 28 Jul 2010 06:39 AM PDT Torchwood creator and former Doctor Who "showrunner" Russell T Davies has spoken about the success of the 2009 Torchwood mini-series Children of Earth, which he says took the BBC by surprise.
It could be said that Children of Earth was regarded as a watershed for Torchwood – for many viewers, the series finally found its feet. For long term fans of the show, however, the serial turned its back on what they feel made the show – the hub, the SUV, inappropriate sexual references and engagements, and the tragic death of Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd). Torchwood returns to TV in 2011 with Eve Myles and John Barrowman reprising Gwen Cooper and Jack Harkness, with a group of new cast members in an international co-production between BBC Wales, BBC Worldwide and Starz. The new issue of SFX is out now from all good newsagents/supermarkets/garages and chemists. | ||
| Posted: 28 Jul 2010 06:12 AM PDT Kick the Internet and chances are, like cockroaches in a rotten skirting board, some fan fiction will tumble out and scuttle across your screen. Pages and pages are devoted to potential mash ups, fantasy stories and explicit sexual fantasies involving the Slitheen and Harriet Jones, PM. So its no surprise that Rock and Rollers, who lets face it have amply time to indulge their hobbies (just last week Roger Waters took up coal mining while Mike Jagger perfected the egg whisk) have had a go. Nicky Wire, bassist and lyricist with agit-prop punks turned daft stadium botherers, Manic Street Preachers recently revealed that he too had been bashing away at his own Doctor Who script called Do Not Go Gently. Disappointingly for a band that tried to combine the punk ethos of the Sex Pistols and the Dirty LA noise of Guns 'N' Roses, the script doesn't see the Doctor trapped in Nikki Sixx's Sex Van but instead sees him hanging around New York during the last days of seminal Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas only with 'a massive F**king monster' So its basically Vincent and the Doctor Mk II or The Doctor and the Whisky Sodden Poet. The title of the script comes from a villanelle (a specific writing style with a rhyming scheme that falls on the first and third line in each stanza) 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' written by Dylan for his dying father. The piece also features an equally famous phrase 'Rage, rage against the dying light' which has been influencing Wire during the recording of their new album Postcards From A Young Man. Wire Tweeted earlier today that the script was in no way a commission, saying;
In November 2009, Wire, like most fanboys listed his top 5 Doctors, in order: Jon Pertwee, Christopher Eccleston, Paul McGann, Peter Davison and David Tennant. The Manics are set to release their new album Postcards From A Young Man on September 22. The Single (Its Not War) Just The End Of Love is released on September 13. (via Digital Spy) | ||
| "A Veritable Who-fest" - The Atlantic (blog) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 03:34 AM PDT
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| Posted: 28 Jul 2010 03:03 AM PDT Details for Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series on DVD and Blu-ray. | ||
| The Doctor - National Review Online (blog) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:12 AM PDT
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| Russell T Davies talks Torchwood in SFX #199 Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:02 AM PDT SFX Issue #199 is released today, and its cover features Captain Jack and Gwen Cooper to mark the issue’s exclusive interview with Russell T Davies - a preview of which was released earlier this week. Inside the magazine, the spin off’s creator divulges new information about the 10-part series. He hints that another dark story is awaiting the team and promises that it will [...] | ||
| Fans Must Wait A Year For New Sherlock - OntheBox (blog) Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:18 AM PDT
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| Posted: 27 Jul 2010 11:58 PM PDT Production is continuing on The Four Doctors, the eagerly awaited special release that unites the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctor in a time-bending battle against the Daleks. The story, which is written by Peter Anghelides and stars Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann and Nicholas Briggs, is released in December and will be available only to subscribers of the main Doctor Who range. Also, in a departure to previous years, there are no plans to subsequently make this story available for sale. The Four Doctors will only ever be available to Big Finish subscribers. For details on how to subscribe, check out the page here... | ||
| Sherlock: The Detective Reborn - Battlemouth Posted: 27 Jul 2010 11:46 PM PDT
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| Posted: 27 Jul 2010 11:33 PM PDT
We've got hi-res images of all both the boxset enclosure packaging and the DVDs themselves – view the boxset cover here, Silver Nemesis here and Revenge of the Cybermen here. Silver Nemesis begins in 1988 on 23rd November. Lady Peinforte and her loyal servant Richard have travelled from the year 1638 for this moment. Herr de Flores' dreams of establishing the Fourth Reich rest on this point in time. The Cybermen's planned invasion of Earth is scheduled for the same time. The link between the three? The statue Nemesis, fashioned from validium – the living metal first made by Rassilon on Gallifrey and capable of bestowing the power of life and death on any individual. Can the Doctor and Ace prevent its awesome power from falling into any of their evil hands? In Revenge of the Cybermen, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrives on the Nerva Beacon, hoping to find the TARDIS waiting for them, instead the intrepid trio find a space station in the grip of a deadly plague that has wiped out most of its crew. But the Doctor soon comes to suspect that the 'plague' is no natural illness – and that some of his oldest and most fearsome foes are behind it…
Without the TARDIS, the Doctor is unable to return Sarah and Harry to the 20th Century. But then Sarah falls victim to the mystery virus, and unless the Doctor can find a cure – quickly – she will never make it home at all… Silver Nemesis
Released on Auguest 9th, 2010, the Doctor Who: Cybermen DVD boxset has an RRP of £29.99 – but you can preorder now from Amazon for just £17.99! | ||
| Posted: 27 Jul 2010 09:41 PM PDT The First Doctor will be getting a new companion in The Companion Chronicles. Tom Allen will be joining the Big Finish fold as Oliver Harper, a city trader from the 1960s who meets the Doctor and Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) in the February 2011 release, The Perpetual Bond. "Oliver is an interesting character," says producer David Richardson. "He teams up with the TARDIS crew when aliens infiltrate the City of London, but he's not exactly what he appears… His story arc will play out over a number of releases, all of which will be performed by Steven and Tom." The second story, Cold Equations, will follow in June 2011. "We've already recorded The Perpetual Bond, and I'm thrilled with it - Peter and Tom shine in some lovely dramatic scenes. Oh, and for those who like to know these things, it takes place immediately after The Daleks' Master Plan…" | ||
| Martin Freeman: 'Doctor Who and Sherlock Homes are the perfect fictional team - Unreality TV (blog) Posted: 27 Jul 2010 09:19 PM PDT
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| Co-Operative to be title sponsor of The Variety Club Showbiz Awards - The Drum Posted: 27 Jul 2010 09:02 PM PDT
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| New Sherlock won't air until 2011 - Unreality TV (blog) Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:41 PM PDT
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| NewsGush: Moffat In Demand As BBC Requests More Sherlock - Watch With Mothers Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:25 PM PDT
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| Freeman: 'I'm not passionate about Who' - Digital Spy Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:05 PM PDT
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| Abbie Wightwick: Mum says - WalesOnline Posted: 27 Jul 2010 06:34 PM PDT
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| DVD Review: Doctor Who - The Horns of Nimon - Blogcritics.org (blog) Posted: 27 Jul 2010 05:55 PM PDT
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| Posted: 27 Jul 2010 05:07 PM PDT Kasterborous has in its hands a dossier, a file stained with the blood of fallen agents whose lives were cut short couriering it to our desk. The warning from history inside chilled our bones; the threat it posed cut right to the quick of Middle England.
A recent case study serves as an interesting paradigm; Surrey was the location. The event: The Ewell Village Fair. The new mayor of Epson & Ewell , councillor Clive Smitheram, was organising a fundraiser for his chosen charities; Dyscover (a speech and language program centre for those suffering with a a brain condition called Aphasia, The Samaritans (a 24- hour support centre for those suffering distress and despair) and Meru (a charity that builds custom made equipment for disabled children and young people.) The Daleks, using their know aliases of Fred and William Clapp, snuck into the event wearing trilbys so not to attract untoward attention, and began to drum up support for the mayor's causes which, if tragedy had not struck this helpless fete, would have been the first of many taking place in the coming six months. Now those collections at Epsom Downs Racecourse on August 30, when racegoers will be invited to donate their winnings to raise funds for the charities will be unmanned. The coach ready to take passengers to Portsmouth harbour on September 11th, for a boat trip around the harbour will be locked in its garage. The Chopin Concert at the Epsom Playhouse on February 1, with a performance from the world-renowned pianist Adolpho Barabino will fall silent. Shortly before she was atomised Mary Dixson, secretary to the Mayor's Charities, said:
Those in need now are the few remaining survivors of Operation: Chuggers. Kasterborous has been these Daleks for sometime; they have appeared at schools, invaded authors homes and fooled Canadians into replenishing their army. With this new evidence; hopefully we can un-spin the tombolas, unhook the ducks and win back the cuddly toys for our village fetes. Join us brothers and sisters: good night and good luck. To donate to any of the charities click on the links above. (via GetSurrey) | ||
| Silences, Rivers and Songs – Series 6 discussion Posted: 27 Jul 2010 09:30 AM PDT It was in The Eleventh Hour we were first told of the mysterious silence, but we’re still no closer to finding out what it is, or, more importantly, what’s behind it… Steven Moffat has promised us that all of our questions will be answered in Series 6, and we’ve been left with plenty of clues to dissect until it hits [...] | ||
| John Barrowman 'Close To Glee Deal' - Musicrooms.net Posted: 25 Jul 2010 08:36 PM PDT
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| John Barrowman `close to Glee deal` - Monsters and Critics.com Posted: 25 Jul 2010 05:58 PM PDT
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| › John Barrowman: Jamie Redknapp's got the best bum! - Now Magazine Online Posted: 25 Jul 2010 05:18 AM PDT
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| Barrowman for 'Glee?' Maybe - TVOvermind Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:50 AM PDT
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Waterhouse is releasing his memoir, Blue Box Boy, and has taken the opportunity to speak with DWM for the first time since 1995. It is a fascinating interview, apparently conducted via telephone by Benjamin Cook late one night in May, and confirms Waterhouse as an avid Doctor Who fan from an early age ("'I was obsessed,' he acknowledges") as well as seeing him recall his early letter to Doctor Who Weekly.
The serial, stripped across 5 consecutive week nights in June, saw Torchwood living on their wits as an alien visitor threatened to rip apart a 1960s government collusion, which Jack Harkness was involved in.
The word has to get out to every cake stand, every coconut shy and every feckless bouncy castle operator; the Daleks are invading our Village Fetes!
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