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- Top Ten 2010: TV Moments - The Daily Athenaeum
- 12 Days Of Christmas: The Sonic Screwdriver - Kotaku Australia
- "Torchwood" Casting One Night Stand for Captain Jack - AfterElton.com
- DVD Deals: Hundreds of BBC Produced Shows - Collider.com
- 'Lennon Naked' lays bare legend's flaws - PUC Chronicle
- Graham Crowden - Telegraph.co.uk
- Go Back In Time With LOVEFILM!
- Catherine Tate on Season's Greetings
- Do You Want Doctor Who in 3D?
- I Bid You Welcome
- ‘Hello? This is the Doctor Speaking!'
- Doctor Who (3D) Is Required
- Christmas Theatrics
| Top Ten 2010: TV Moments - The Daily Athenaeum Posted: 12 Dec 2010 01:28 PM PST
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| 12 Days Of Christmas: The Sonic Screwdriver - Kotaku Australia Posted: 12 Dec 2010 01:01 PM PST
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| "Torchwood" Casting One Night Stand for Captain Jack - AfterElton.com Posted: 12 Dec 2010 12:31 PM PST
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| DVD Deals: Hundreds of BBC Produced Shows - Collider.com Posted: 12 Dec 2010 11:37 AM PST
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| 'Lennon Naked' lays bare legend's flaws - PUC Chronicle Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:42 AM PST
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| Graham Crowden - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 12 Dec 2010 05:19 AM PST
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| Go Back In Time With LOVEFILM! Posted: 12 Dec 2010 04:33 AM PST If you’re looking for a great way to make sure that you haven’t missed a moment of the Doctor’s adventures, and want to go back and relive your favourite episodes over and over again, all without having to stray too far from Doctor Who Online, then you’re in luck. LOVEFiLM have joined up with Doctor Who to provide dozens of old episodes which LOVEFiLM will kindly deliver straight to your door, visit the site now. They have cut out the need for purchasing DVDs – or even the time usually associated with the old methods of renting – and brought the Doctor right to your doorstep, and all without the help of a TARDIS! LOVEFiLM have a selection of DVD deals which are much cheaper and more convenient than having to go to a rental shop and will give you easy access to the most recent episodes – watch them at your leisure and then just pop them in the postbox and LOVEFiLM will send you the next episodes straight away! You can enjoy all of this alongside the rest of the LOVEFiLM catalogue, which is growing by the day, so there are plenty of other science fiction adventures you can catch up on too. For us, the move comes at just the right time, as it’s been almost 6 months since the Doctor has been on our screens, and what better way to whet your appetite for the inevitably brilliant Christmas special than with a marathon session with all of Matt Smith’s run, perhaps you could even directly compare him to David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston’s efforts since the 2005 relaunch – only if you suspect that he stands up to them though. But one of the extraordinary aspects of the past few series’ has been the depth of story that has rewarded repeat viewing, and Steven Moffat has well and truly picked up where Russell T. Davies left off, so you’ve got no excuse not to enjoy the Doctor at the click of a mouse button.
[Sources: Doctor Who Online; LOVEFILM] | ||
| Catherine Tate on Season's Greetings Posted: 11 Dec 2010 11:58 PM PST Playing Belinda Bunker on stage in Alan Ayckbourn's Season's Greetings has brought former Doctor Who companion Catherine Tate back to our screens today – the actress was interviewed by another former cast member, Andrew Marr! To complete the link, Tate appears in the play with a couple of other actors with strong links to the show – not other than Mark Gatiss and David Troughton. In the interview, Tate talks about her character in as well as her unusual, Donna Noble-esque ignorance about the inner workings of Daleks and Sontarans. The chat opens with a clip from 2006's Christmas episode The Runaway Bride, in which Donna Noble was first introduced to David Tennant's Tenth Doctor. You can catch a clip of the interview on the BBC News pages. | ||
| Posted: 11 Dec 2010 10:40 PM PST According to a recent survey carried out by Japanese TV manufacturer Panasonic, British TV viewers want to see Doctor Who in 3D. The poll results saw the Time Lord topping a list that also featured plasticine animation Wallace and Gromit and pistonhead-fest Top Gear. Really? You want to sit there with a stupid viewing apparatus in front of you to watch your TV in 3D? Wouldn't you rather view everything naturally and prefer that the show was made to affect the characters in the episodes and by extension the viewer rather than draw you in directly? Modern 3D is something made possible by high definition – but it is as much a fad as the old anaglyph images (drawn in red and blue/green) or polarizing filters as used in 1993's Dimensions in Time. 3D really only has a place in a world that you can truly become immersed in – such as those offered by virtual reality. Movies and TV have a strict narrative, something that casts the viewer strictly as an observer and therefore with no claim to be part of the action. I'll concede that there are certain scenes that might work in the last series of Doctor Who – the first full run to be recorded in HD – such as the "Spitfires in Space" sequence from Victory of the Daleks or the Doctor walking through a projection of his former selves in The Eleventh Hour. But these are exceptions, not reasons. In fact, if anything, 3D adds a layer of distraction (not to mention hardware) between the viewer and the drama, rather than making to story more inclusive. Sure, this is a particular point of view, but the current fad for 3D is just as likely to fail to fully take off as the previous attempts in the 1950s and 1980s. Although, of course, a far more pertinent point would be: do you want to risk another Dimensions in Time debacle? Seriously, though, this all sounds like fluff from the electronics giant, who have tied in the poll to coincide with their new range of Panasonic 3D TVs Perhaps when 3D can be realised withouth headwear the situation might change. Until then… | ||
| Posted: 11 Dec 2010 10:03 PM PST When out looking for Christmas presents recently I stumbled across a Dracula triple bill DVD in Asda of all places. This is one of the previously released Universal Collection, but here is was £5 ... so I snapped it up. The collection contains the original Universal Dracula with Bela Lugosi, the 1931 Spanish version of the same film, then two other films: Dracula's Daughter and House of Dracula. I'd not seen the latter three at all, and so we were set for a few evenings entertainment.  In reverse order, House of Dracula is a curious beast. Not quite a horror film but also not quite a comedy - that would come later when Abbot and Costello got in on the scene. But the set-up is distinctly farcical. Count Dracula visits a Professor to try and find a 'cure' for his vampirism, and the Professor and his beautiful hunchbacked nurse set about helping him. Then Larry Talbot arrives seeking a cure for his lycanthropy, and, when it's not forthcoming, jumps off the cliff into the sea ... the Professor goes down the cliff and they find a cave wherein lies the Frankenstein monster ... as well as some sort of fungal spores which will cure Talbot. Dracula is however trying to trick the professor and passes some of his blood into the human, so the Professor turns, Jekyll and Hyde-like into a human/vampire hybrid ... Honestly if you submitted this as a plot for a film or book then you'd be laughed out of the office ...It's all very hokey, but all played straight, and this helps matters. The cast are all pretty good and make the most of the ludicruous script, and the whole thing is entertaining in its own way.  Dracula's Daughter is pretty dire though. Lacking the real thing, the plot is about Dracula's daughter and her attempt to ressurect her father ... it's slow and tedious and has comic characters inserted for no good reason. Not the best thing I've ever seen by a long shot. Then we come to the two Draculas. I'd always been told that the Spanish version was superior to the American one, but I beg to differ. The Lugosi version is far far better, with more atmosphere and character. That Lugosi was very comfortable in the role of the count is obvious, and he takes it all very seriously, wheras in the Spanish version, Carlos Villarias is something of a ham, playing it much like generations would spoof the character later on - all expressions and raised cloak.  It is interesting to compare the two versions though as they both used the same script and were filmed on the same sets - but with different actors and directors, the end results are quite different. I preferred Dracula's appearance from his coffin in the Spanish version - wreathed in smoke and mist, but the general settings are better in the American one. I think that perhaps the cinematography just has the edge in the Spanish, but Tod Browning is a better director with more interesting ideas as to how it should all come together ... it's a fascinating exercise and I'm aware of only one other film which has two versions, both from the same script - though in this case filmed on entirely different sets. This is Psycho, where the 1960 Hitchcock version is reportedly vastly superior to the colour 1998 Gus van Sant version. | ||
| ‘Hello? This is the Doctor Speaking!' Posted: 11 Dec 2010 09:41 PM PST If you were in a charitable mood earlier this week you might have had the opportunity to speak to David Tennant! The man who will forever be known for his pinstripey goodness in the latter half of the last decade spent a day answering phones on a London trading floor for the 18th annual ICAP Global Charity Day. Other famous names present on the phone lines included Princes William and Charles, Daniel 'James Bond' Craig, and Geri Halliwell, while former US President Bill Clinton and Sarah Jessica Parker helped out from New York. Tennant and everyone else involved with the Charity Day helped brokerage company ICAP rake in a total of £12.1 million that was dispersed to over 200 charities. All in all, it's just another brilliant way for the Doctor to save the world! | ||
| Posted: 11 Dec 2010 09:19 PM PST  Doctor Who is the most wanted programme to be transformed into 3D, according to a recent poll by television manufacturer Panasonic. The survey asked which shows the public would most like to see made in the growing format, with the Doctor proving most popular, followed by animated heroes Wallace and Gromit and the anarchic car show Top Gear. The poll also revealed that the 3D viewers would prefer reality show The X-Factor over Strictly Come Dancing, and soap Eastenders over Coronation Street.Both Doctor Who and Eastenders have already tasted the 3D effect, of course, back in the cross-over special Dimensions in Time for Children in Need in 1993. And for the lead-up to the 2010 series the BBC released the 3D trailer into cinemas, introducing us to the new Doctor, Amy and their enemies. | ||
| Posted: 11 Dec 2010 07:37 PM PST Three actors from Doctor Who past; Catherine Tate, Mark Gatiss, and David Troughton, are appearing in the holiday-themed theatrical production of Alan Ayckbourn's Season's Greetings this winter, running in London from this month until March. Tate, who played the first long-term companion since 2005 to possess zero fantasies of snogging the Doctor, has landed the role of the main character, Belinda, a housewife who has a thing for her sister's fella. Gatiss, who regularly writes for Who and was seen as Professor Lazarus in The Lazarus Experiment and a spitfire pilot in Victory of the Daleks takes on an unsuccessful medical practitioner who loves puppets. David, son of Patrick, who's been in in The Curse of Peladon, The Enemy of the World, The War Games, and Midnight, portrays a gun-toting hater of Gatiss' character. And apparently children and elderly folk have fallen through a crack in time and space, and never existed in the first place. So it's an un-family-friendly family show about young to middle-aged adults. You might find that the preceding sentence makes more sense once you've read the review of Season's Greetings at The Stage. If you don't care about anyone's opinion and just want to see three Doctor Who actors live and in person, you can book seats with Ticketmaster. Incidentally look out for Catherine Tate, The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood's Meera Syal and and Death Comes to Time's Stephen Fry in Sky One's Little Crackers series starting Sunday, 19th December. |
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