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- Jingle Bells
- Hot Property: He's set his phaser on 'sell' - yourhome.ca
- Interview: Charles Cecil - Platform Online (blog)
- New 'Torchwood' to follow 'Earth' - The Money Times
- 'Doctor Who' thing of the day: Torchwood news! - Flick Filosopher (blog)
- Moffat: Gambon is "Brilliant" in 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special - TVOvermind
- August’s Fan of the Month interview online
- New 'Torchwood' to follow 'Earth' - St. Louis Globe-Democrat
- New 'Torchwood' to follow 'Earth' - PoliJAM (blog)
- New 'Torchwood' to follow 'Earth' - UPI.com
- It's Official: For Entourage, Eight is Enough - TV.com (blog)
- New ‘Wood Order
- More Details For "Torchwood: The New World" - AfterElton.com
- Rule No. 1: The Grand Moff Lies
- Katherine Jenkins completes Christmas special filming
- Steven Moffat: Michael Gambon wasn't a Doctor Who fan! - Unreality TV (blog)
- 'Sherlock' Moriarty compared to Norton - Digital Spy
- Davies promises new 'Torchwood' humour - Digital Spy
- Moffat Praises 'Brilliant' Gambon In Christmas Doctor Who - OntheBox (blog)
- Captain John Threatens Tickles
- US Torchwood Comic published tomorrow
- 5 reasons to watch 'Sherlock' - Anglotopia.net
- The Four Doctors - Additional Update
- 'Star Cars' at the Heritage Motor Centre - Easier (press release)
- Ask Matt: True Blood, Work of Art, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men and More - Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Tuned In column: HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire' takes on ... - California Chronicle
- Steven Moffat – Game Geek?
- Davies reveals 'Torchwood: The New World' - Digital Spy
- Torchwood's Stateside reboot - TV.com (blog)
- The Inquisitive Genius of Sherlock - Platform Online (blog)
- Smart programming makes up for 'Jersey Shore' - San Francisco Chronicle
- Operation Platinum Age – The Final Word
- Matt Smith – Together
- Sherlock: The Great Game
- Torchwood ‘The New World’ Details
- Rhys “very big part of events” in The New World
- Torchwood’s New World Order
- This Week In Doctor Who - August 7, 2010
- Torchwood: The New World
- A New World for Torchwood
- Cardiff Exhibition unveils new Series 5 displays
- Torchwood: The New World
- Lots of tantalizing Torchwood tidbits from TCA panel
- Kindle Surprise
- Wiped! Doctor Who’s Missing Episodes
| Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:44 PM PDT Having arrived home from Bath at 10pm on Christmas Eve before wrapping my presents I just wanted to say a very Happy Christmas to anyone who is mad enough to want to log on to my blog over the Christmas period!� When I say "mad" - it is a flattering 'madness' that you should even think about me at Christmas!� I have been panto driven for the last two weeks having gone straight from Noises Off, via Chicago, into rehearsals for Jack and the Beanstalk - but I wanted to be sure to thank you all for your support and interest over the last few years and a special thank you to the wonderful, uncomplaining and diligent Rob Cope for keeping this website so informative and interesting even though I am not always that good at keeping him informed. To Rob and to all of you - thanks and have a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Come and see me in Bath until the 25th January if you have the chance - it is a fun panto and everyone in it is both good and lovely! More after Christmas - I promise!!! Colin | ||
| Hot Property: He's set his phaser on 'sell' - yourhome.ca Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:17 PM PDT
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| Interview: Charles Cecil - Platform Online (blog) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:07 PM PDT
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| New 'Torchwood' to follow 'Earth' - The Money Times Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:40 PM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' thing of the day: Torchwood news! - Flick Filosopher (blog) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:53 PM PDT
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| Moffat: Gambon is "Brilliant" in 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special - TVOvermind Posted: 09 Aug 2010 11:16 AM PDT
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| August’s Fan of the Month interview online Posted: 09 Aug 2010 10:00 AM PDT The time has come for Whovians far and wide to send in their applications to be our Fan of the Month for August 2010. It could be your lucky month! All you have to do is head over to our application form and fill in the questions provided. It really is that simple! We’ll be picking our [...] | ||
| New 'Torchwood' to follow 'Earth' - St. Louis Globe-Democrat Posted: 09 Aug 2010 09:10 AM PDT
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| New 'Torchwood' to follow 'Earth' - PoliJAM (blog) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 09:06 AM PDT
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| New 'Torchwood' to follow 'Earth' - UPI.com Posted: 09 Aug 2010 08:09 AM PDT
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| It's Official: For Entourage, Eight is Enough - TV.com (blog) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 07:43 AM PDT
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| Posted: 09 Aug 2010 07:34 AM PDT Excitable Torchwood fans, still vibrating with enough energy to power the village of Stonebroom after this weekends announcements can ease themselves back down to Earth by picking up Issue numero Uno of the Torchwood Comic. Publishers Titan have released this animated trailer to celebrate its launch tomorrow. Artist Tommy Lee Edwards, who's currently working with the chief of chat Jonathan Ross on the hit comic series Turf has teamed up with John Barrowman and his sister Carole E. to bring you Captain Jack and the Selkie which sees (Group) Captain Jack facing a deadly threat on a remote Scottish island. In the second story – entitled Broken - Torchwood Script Editor Gary Russell and Judge Dredd and Doctor Who comic artist Adrian Salmon invite fans into a cosmic hotel (please let that be better than it sounds) where Jack and Ianto are trapped along with an old enemy from the TV series. Whether or not you see Ianto's return as contrition towards fans still weaping into there red ties or as a welcome nod to the past by a licenced comic stuck between old and new potential fans depends on just how much faith you have in the new series (due to hit screens in the summer of 2011.) Both stories have already appeared in Titan's Torchwood Magazine in the UK. Two collectable covers – an art cover and a picture cover – will be available for the issue which goes on sale in the US on 10th August from all good (and hopefully not-so-good) retailers. (With thanks to Ricky) | ||
| More Details For "Torchwood: The New World" - AfterElton.com Posted: 09 Aug 2010 07:06 AM PDT
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| Rule No. 1: The Grand Moff Lies Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:57 AM PDT This is probably less news and more trivia, but Steven Moffat has divulged an impossibly small piece of information regarding the casting of Sir Michael Gambon in the ever-fast-approaching Christmas special (less than five months away!):
But was it a resounding "YES!" or was it a mere "Yes, okay, I suppose I'll do it?" Just what is Gambon's opinion of Doctor Who? Moffat shed some light:
The interviewer, Premium Hollywood's Will Harris, then decided to try and weed out of the Grand Moff some clues as to what we can expect for a plot this 25th December, via the "Orient Express in Space" teaser from the end of The Big Bang. The Exec's response?
Something tells me that Steven may someday appear out of thin air right before our eyes with a vortex manipulator and fake his own death, leaving a fez and a stone Dalek to distract us while he wires himself to a Pandorica. Hey, it can happen! The big question is, will the Orient Express appear at all, now that Moffat has confirmed that he stretches the truth? It seems we'll just have to wait on that one! For the scoop on Gambon's character in Who, check out Mez Burdett's Ssshh… Christmas Special Spoilers. As the title suggests, don't click that link if you want every detail about the episode to be a complete surprise! | ||
| Katherine Jenkins completes Christmas special filming Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:57 AM PDT Katherine Jenkins has revealed that she has now finished filming for this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special. Earlier today the The Welsh opera singer tweeted: “I’ve finished filming all my scenes for Dr Who now… Feel really sad as I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would! Lovely people!” In addition, Danny Horn - also appearing [...] | ||
| Steven Moffat: Michael Gambon wasn't a Doctor Who fan! - Unreality TV (blog) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:35 AM PDT
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| 'Sherlock' Moriarty compared to Norton - Digital Spy Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:57 AM PDT
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| Davies promises new 'Torchwood' humour - Digital Spy Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:56 AM PDT
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| Moffat Praises 'Brilliant' Gambon In Christmas Doctor Who - OntheBox (blog) Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:54 AM PDT
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| Captain John Threatens Tickles Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:05 AM PDT Actor James Masters has spoken to i09.com about the secret to playing a villain convincingly – and references his character Captain John who was a recurring nemesis for Captain Jack and his team in Torchwood series 2.
And what of his Torchwood character Captain John, last seen walking off from the Torchwood hub to explore the world and see what it had to offer? James honestly doesn't know yet but since the show is being made in America, it should be a lot easier for the man himself to hopefully get involved with the role again to cause more trouble for Captain Jack and Gwen Cooper. He does seem very keen to reprise the role and even made this promise to Russell T Davies if he doesn't get a call from him:
We'll keep you updated on that one. When Torchwood comes back it simply has to involve Captain John in a bigger role. Marsters bought a huge chunk of personality to the show which really helped "sell" it to a larger audience. But it all comes down to opinion, what do you think, Kasterborousions (it's a word), should Captain John come back for another showdown? Or should he be one of the new Torchwood team members? | ||
| US Torchwood Comic published tomorrow Posted: 08 Aug 2010 11:47 PM PDT   Titan Publishing release their first Torchwood Comic in the United States tomorrow; as reported in June, the comic features Captain Jack and the Selkie,a story penned by John Barrowman himself with his sister Carole, and illustrated by Tommy Lee Edwards.Issue One features two collectible covers, and also contains a second story, Broken, penned by Gary Russell with artwork by Adrian Salmon. Both stories originally featured in Titan's Torchwood Magazine, published in the UK. Titan have released an animated trailer to promote the comic: � http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com  | ||
| 5 reasons to watch 'Sherlock' - Anglotopia.net Posted: 08 Aug 2010 11:12 PM PDT
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| The Four Doctors - Additional Update Posted: 08 Aug 2010 11:09 PM PDT As previously announced, the 2010 Subscriber Special release The Four Doctors is only being made available to subscribers of the main Doctor Who range. So this story will be included with any subscription that covers the December 2010 main range release. However, anyone who wishes to subscribe from January 2011 onwards but still wants to obtain The Four Doctors will be able to do so by selecting it as their free additional CD when ordering the 12-month option. Although the ordering option for this is not yet online, it is being prepared and will be active within a few weeks. | ||
| 'Star Cars' at the Heritage Motor Centre - Easier (press release) Posted: 08 Aug 2010 10:59 PM PDT
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| Posted: 08 Aug 2010 08:55 PM PDT Does Steven Moffat spend all day playing video games, stopping briefly to issue dicatation via a speech to text app on a nearby laptop? How else do you explain the following?
So – is this why we waited so long for a Doctor Who game – so Steven Moffat could spend a few hours playing it? Doctor Who: The Adventure Games episodes 1 and 2 (City of the Daleks and Blood of the Cybermen) are available free from the BBC for UK viewers; overseas fans should check our news update Geronimerica! | ||
| Davies reveals 'Torchwood: The New World' - Digital Spy Posted: 08 Aug 2010 08:05 PM PDT
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| Torchwood's Stateside reboot - TV.com (blog) Posted: 08 Aug 2010 05:55 PM PDT
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| The Inquisitive Genius of Sherlock - Platform Online (blog) Posted: 08 Aug 2010 01:16 PM PDT
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| Smart programming makes up for 'Jersey Shore' - San Francisco Chronicle Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:23 PM PDT
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| Operation Platinum Age – The Final Word Posted: 08 Aug 2010 08:39 AM PDT Recently, I wrote a two-part observation of Matt Smith and Steven Moffat's first eight episodes of Doctor Who (entitled Operation Platinum Age Part 1 and Operation Platinum Age Part 2). The purpose of the article was to evaluate the season so far, compare it to previous seasons and speculate upon its story arc.
Five stories ago, I was still raving about the new Doctor (and would rave yet more in a subsequent article entitled The Triumph of Doctor Smith). Frankly, my rave looks as if it may never end. From the outset, I have believed – and still believe – that Matt Smith is playing the best Doctor we've ever had – and what a lovely position for those who love him to be in: to know that the current guy is the best. Now I know how those David Tennant fans felt! Of course, many fans continue to adore Tennant, but some take every comparison in Smith's favour as an attack on something they deem unassailable, but when I suggest that Smith is the best, this is not meant as a dig at ten other quite brilliant incarnations. However, this non-prescriptive opinion is offered by one who has seen/heard every episode of TV Doctor Who several times over (and heard/read perhaps 75% of the available audios, annuals, comic strips, novels, etc, etc of the last 47 years). I've loved all the Doctors at some time or other, but Smith seems to offer the most precise and realistic portrayal of the character as set down on paper and pared to its basics. Last time I wrote, my favourite new Doctor moments saw him facing down the new (still gorgeous, sorry) Daleks, jumping out of Rory's cake (again), and telling the Atraxi fleet to run. Now I find myself loving his sermon at Stonehenge, where he seemed to channel both John Lydon and Billy Graham in order to tell an even bigger fleet of ships to run. Add to this his Fez moment and he's beginning to look unassailable himself – and a lot like the Doctor that River Song described in Silence in the Library. He looks great and sounds great, and any doubts about his suitability to the role have now, surely, been set to rest. When I last signed off, my biggest concern about this season was that its middle had been a bit saggy. I suggested that once any given season gets past the premise of the Doctor showing the wonders of the universe to a single, wide-eyed companion, the concept tends to dilute with the addition of multiple companions. Don't get me wrong, Rory is one of the best things about Amy's Choice and Vampires of Venice, but it seems significant that these are perhaps the weakest stories of the season. This has nothing to do with Arthur Darvill (who is sublime), but the show seems to work best – unless there's an epic storyline to be had – with just two leads. There's an exuberant joie de vivre to a Doctor/Rose, Doctor/Donna, Doctor/Martha pairing; but that intimacy and togetherness tends to dissipate when someone crashes the party – particularly if that someone is Jealousy. Maybe the Amy's Choice and Vampires of Venice were just weak stories, but we've seen things fall apart at this stage in previous seasons (The Doctor's Daughter and The Long Game spring to mind). | ||
| Posted: 08 Aug 2010 04:13 AM PDT
Remember earlier in the year when Matt Smith was interviewed at Cannes a few weeks before Doctor Who kicked off? He was in France to promote the short film Together, directed by Eicke Bettinga. Well, the long awaited release of the critically acclaimed Together has been announced, and is available on iTunes. So what's it about? Well with the outline: "Can you handle grief by 'forcing' your affection onto somebody?" the film tells the story of a family grieving for their son…
Featuring Smith alongside John Vine (an actor with a string of TV and movie credits to his name), Guy Flanagan (The Bill, Being Human, Party Animals) and Amanda Boxer (Trial and Retribution, Chalk), Together was written by Eicke Bettinga & Zorana Piggott, who also produced the short. Find out more about the movie via its Facebook Fanpage! (With thanks to Eicke Bettinga) Plot outline: Can you handle grief by 'forcing' your affection onto somebody? Synopsis: | ||
| Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:19 AM PDT The final episode of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss' Sherlock airs at tonight 9pm on BBC1, with The Great Game. | ||
| Torchwood ‘The New World’ Details Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:17 AM PDT Captain Jack, Gwen and Rhys to return with new characters Rex and Ester in Torchwood: The New World. | ||
| Rhys “very big part of events” in The New World Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:06 AM PDT As more Torchwood news from yesterday’s Television Critics Association Starz panel continues to make its way online, fans of Rhys will be pleased to hear that he won’t just be appearing briefly in Series 4! As we reported yesterday, Gwen’s husband will be back in the newly named The New World, and Blastr has posted quotes from [...] | ||
| Posted: 07 Aug 2010 10:18 PM PDT The Hollywood Reporter claims that further details of Torchwood Series 4 have become known – and that the 10 part serial thriller has the umbrella title of The New World.
As revealed a few days ago, a team of writers has already been assembled. With John Barrowman and Eve Myles reprising Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper, and with Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner both on hand as Executive Producers, it finally seems that the BBC Wales/BBC Worldwide/Starz co-production is coming together! Russell T Davies is also quick to placate existing Torchwood fans that like their share of alien bonking in the shape of (Group) Captain Jack Harkness:
So – a new world for Torchwood. Or is it something more? A new world order, perhaps…? (Via TVOvermind.com) | ||
| This Week In Doctor Who - August 7, 2010 Posted: 07 Aug 2010 10:05 PM PDT This Week In Doctor Who - Section A All the known broadcasts of Doctor Who covered weekly since 1998. With the spinoffs too. While TWIDW no longer has podcast listings, most of the Doctor Who podcasts online have united for publicity as the Doctor Who Podcast alliance http://www.doctorwhopodcastalliance.org . The podcasters are doing very exciting things these days. Stay tuned. | ||
| Posted: 07 Aug 2010 06:04 PM PDT Torchwood: The New World News Dated: 8/8/2010 The Hollywood Reporter and USA Today have lifted the lid on the title for Torchwood Series Four (Torchwood: The New World), as well as a few juicy bits of information, courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner. The Hollywoord Reporter: The new story will follow a CIA agent (Rex) and analyst (Ester) who tackle an alien-related global issue. �Torchwood, having been destroyed and disbanded, is "like a legend now ... it's like something that's ceased to exist and is now spoken of only in whispers." Soon, Rex and Ester are on the run and are seeking out the help of Captain Jack and Gwen. "The two teams coming together is a big part of the story -- are they friends or enemies? There's a lot of sparks and excitement." "We definitely have a really big story to tell," added executive producer Julie Gardner. "It's absolutely rebooted to welcome in a new audience." The ten episodes will be very fast paced, telling a self-contained story with the miniseries "Children of Earth" being used as a template. Being on Starz, the show could potentially take advantage of looser standards for nudity and violence. "I've always had loose standards and practices," Davies said. "If the story demands intimacy or savagery, we will go there absolutely ... [but] there's nothing better than a great big global thriller that stops for a sex scene -- it's probably hard to make that happen in a thriller." USA Today: "New" is the operative word. The team has left Wales for America, as creator Russell T. Davies has left Britain for Los Angeles. The case will tie the two remaining Torchwood members (Jack and Eve Myles's Gwen) to the CIA, and will expand into a world-wide threat. And yet, says Davies, it "will be faithful" to the BBC original. Davies says this story, which "had been ticking away in my mind for a long while," had not been planned as a Torchwood story at all. "And suddenly I thought, there's a popular show, there's a great story, let's put them together...It felt like it definitely could move forward and become new again." Though it will be newer and bigger, the tone won't change, says Davies. Barrowman's Jack will still be TV's only bi-sexual hero, character will still be stressed, and humor will still play a large part in the show's make-up. "I sit there in the editing room saying 'Don't cut that joke! Cut the plot, cut the murder, cut the story, but don't cut the joke.'...It will always be a cheeky show." In the meantime, two new posters have surfaced online, produced by Starz, and featuring images of both Captain Jack and Gwen, touting the new title and Summer 2011 airdate. [see right]  � Torchwood: The New World owill air Summer 2011 on BBC One and Starz.[Sources: The Hollywood Reporter; USA Today] | ||
| Posted: 07 Aug 2010 02:52 PM PDT
As reported in Doctor Who: Podshock, the Doctor Who spin-off series, Torchwood is being relaunched in the US on the Starz network. The HollywoodReporter.com has an article reporting that name of the rebooted series in the US is Torchwood: The New World. Like last year's acclaimed Torchwood: Children of Earth I would suppose. It is to be ten episodes which to my understanding are telling a story much the same way as Children of Earth did with its five episodes run.
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| Cardiff Exhibition unveils new Series 5 displays Posted: 07 Aug 2010 08:37 AM PDT The Doctor Who Exhibition in Cardiff has recently welcomed an array of Series 5 monsters, props and costumes to its ever-growing collection! A report in WalesOnline reveals that the Khaki Dalek seen in Victory of the Daleks and a Weeping Angel from The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone are now on display at the exhibition, which is open every [...] | ||
| Posted: 07 Aug 2010 06:08 AM PDT  News sources at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Press Tour are reporting that the forthcoming fourth series of Torchwood will carry the title Torchwood: The New World. A post from The Hollywood Reporter gives details of the series' new characters and quotes from Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner:The new story will follow a CIA agent (Rex) and analyst (Ester) who tackle an alien-related global issue. Torchwood, having been destroyed and disbanded, is "like a legend now ... it's like something that's ceased to exist and is now spoken of only in whispers." Soon, Rex and Ester are on the run and are seeking out the help of Captain Jack and Gwen. The report also contains images of teaser posters which were seen at TCA; the images appear to be previously existing photos of John Barrowman and Eve Myles, with the legend "Torchwood: The New World, Coming Summer 2011.""The two teams coming together is a big part of the story -- are they friends or enemies? There's a lot of sparks and excitement." "We definitely have a really big story to tell," added executive producer Julie Gardner. "It's absolutely rebooted to welcome in a new audience." .... The ten episodes will be very fast paced, telling a self-contained story with the miniseries "Children of Earth" being used as a template. Being on Starz, the show could potentially take advantage of looser standards for nudity and violence. "I've always had loose standards and practices," Davies said. "If the story demands intimacy or savagery, we will go there absolutely ... [but] there's nothing better than a great big global thriller that stops for a sex scene -- it's probably hard to make that happen in a thriller." USA Today also has details on the series' tone, and more quotes from Davies: The team has left Wales for America, as creator Russell T. Davies has left Britain for Los Angeles. The case will tie the two remaining Torchwood members (Jack and Eve Myles's Gwen) to the CIA, and will expand into a world-wide threat. And yet, says Davies, it "will be faithful" to the BBC original. Davies says this story, which "had been ticking away in my mind for a long while," had not been planned as a Torchwood story at all. "And suddenly I thought, there's a popular show, there's a great story, let's put them together...It felt like it definitely could move forward and become new again." Though it will be newer and bigger, the tone won't change, says Davies. Barrowman's Jack will still be TV's only bi-sexual hero, character will still be stressed, and humor will still play a large part in the show's make-up. "I sit there in the editing room saying 'Don't cut that joke! Cut the plot, cut the murder, cut the story, but don't cut the joke.'...It will always be a cheeky show." http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com  | ||
| Lots of tantalizing Torchwood tidbits from TCA panel Posted: 07 Aug 2010 05:45 AM PDT Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner have revealed lots of exciting tidbits about Series 4 of Torchwood during a Starz panel at the Television Critics Association press tour! As we previously reported, the new 10-part series will be titled The New World. Kai Owen will be back as Gwen’s husband, Rhys, and we’ll also meet their baby, however Russell [...] | ||
| Posted: 07 Aug 2010 04:52 AM PDT
Or so the website claims; so being the ever ready consumer watchdogs that we aren't; here's a little test, using Kindle's Marketplace, Apples iBooks, and as a comparison, the online BBC Book shop and Waterstones we took the three newest Doctor Who Books (Nuclear Time by Oli Smith, The Kings Dragon by Una McCormack and The Glamour Chase by Gary Russell) and compared prices to see if Kindle really does provide more Who for less. The most surprising thing is that iBooks do not carry the three novels mentioned above* For the remaining sites here is the run down:
The Waterstones offering is in fact the print version for those of us who still love the feel of a book. The eBook version will set you back £6.75 on their website. So there are savings to be made using the Kindle. In July Amazon launched the 'Kindle Next Generation' device which was both 15 per-cent lighter with 5o per-cent better contrast than the previous Kindle 2. According to Amazon the device is now Wi-fi compatible rather than using the cumbersome 3G network connection to download eBooks. While book prices are low; the device will set you back £109 (about $170). Other manufacturers have jumped on the eBook reader bandwagon; Barnes & Noble sells the Nook at $199 in the US, with a Wi-Fi only version for $149. Borders Group offers the Kobo e-Reader for $149, while the Sony Reader Daily Edition costs $250. So how many Who fans out there would consider using an ebook for the latest novels? How many fans already do? Drop us a line below. Visit Amazon's Kindle page to see the full list of available Doctor Who titles. *I accessed the app using an iTouch and found no links for these three titles; if this isn't the case then please drop a comment in below. Thanks to Andy Scarrott. | ||
| Wiped! Doctor Who’s Missing Episodes Posted: 07 Aug 2010 03:12 AM PDT Richard Molesworth is the author behind Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes, a new release from Telos Publishing this September, the book that tells the remarkable story on how the tapes came to be wiped, and the efforts that went into returning lost copies to the BBC.
In the 1960s, the BBC screened 253 episodes of its cult science fiction show Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell and then Patrick Troughton as the time travelling Doctor. Yet by 1975, the Corporation had wiped the master tapes of every single one of these episodes. Of the 124 Doctor Who episodes starring Jon Pertwee shown between 1970 and 1974, the BBC destroyed over half of the original transmission tapes within two years of their original broadcast. In the years that followed, the BBC, along with dedicated fans of the series, began the arduous task of trying to track down copies of as many missing Doctor Who episodes as possible. The search covered BBC sales vaults, foreign television stations, overseas archives, and numerous networks of private film collectors, until the tally of missing programmes was reduced to just 108 episodes. For the first time, this book looks in detail at how the episodes came to be missing in the first place, and examines how material subsequently came to be returned to the BBC. Along the way, those people involved in the recovery of lost slices of Doctor Who's past tell their stories in candid detail, many for the very first time.
No more rumours, no more misinformation, no more fan gossip. The truth about Doctor Who's missing episodes can now be told in full! Published September 2010, Wiped! costs £15.99 and can be ordered directly from Telos Publishing at www.telos.co.uk. |
James played evil-and-then-reformed vampire Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its LA based spin off Angel. He also played naughty characters in Smallville and Caprica. When asked how he got into the mindset of various nefarious characters, Marsters remarked:
As noticed by 
I concluded that, while the Russell T Davies era had been rightly regarded as Doctor Who's 'golden age', it was becoming apparent that Smith and Moffat were ushering us into something greater. Now this season has come to a spectacular end, it seems only proper that I should similarly evaluate the final five episodes and question whether that conclusion still holds.
According to the popular showbiz trade paper, Torchwood itself is nothing more than a legend by 2011; personnel remembered but never seen or spoken to…
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Wiped! covers a somewhat contentious aspect of the BBC's history, that of their wholescale throwing away of archive television recordings from the sixties, in a period leading to around 1977/8 when it was largely stopped by the intervention of concerned individuals.| You are subscribed to email updates from Kopic's Dr Who and Torchwood News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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