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- Karen Gillian in ShortList Magazine
- The Sands of Time - Documentary
- See the cover for Part 2 of DWM's Series 5 special!
- Bill Pullman, Mekhi Phifer to appear in Torchwood?
- Katherine Jenkins “had a ball” filming Christmas special
- Advent update: Day seventeen
- Christmas TV: The top 20 programmes for the festive season - Independent
- Bill Pullman Cast in Torchwood - BSCreview
- A Christmas Carol: clips roundup
- 'Doctor Who' Roundup: Amy Pond Undressed, 'The Mazes Of Time' Game, And A ... - MTV.com
- BBC America Introduces Supernatural Saturdays - Daemon's TV
- Resurrection of the Daleks Set - Toy Exclusive
- Advent update: Day sixteen
- Mekhi Phifer And Bill Pullman Join Cast of Torchwood - Inside Pulse
- Three Christmas Clips
- Our Favorite Things: Doctor Who Waters of Mars DVD - Comic Vine
- Desert Conspiracies
- Thinking Allowed
- Docteur Who: La Prophétie de Noël
- Bill Pullman Joins Season 4 of Torchwood - Comic Book Movie
- The Mazes of Time - Now Available!
- Doctor Who's woman woes - The List
- Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time materialises on your iPad and iPhone - CNET UK
- Shadows of the Vashta Nerada Images
- Bill Pullman to Join Cast of BBC's "Torchwood" - Playbill.com
- [TV] Bill Pullman Joins Season Four Of Torchwood - 411mania.com
- DWM Companion: The Eleventh Doctor (Vol 2) - The Doctor Who News Page (blog)
- DWM Companion: The Eleventh Doctor (Vol 2)
- What makes a great Doctor Who Christmas special? - The Guardian
- Bill Pullman joins Torchwood - Movies.ie
- Pop Candy's 100 People of 2010: Nos. 1-24! - USA Today
- New BBC Children's Books for 2011
- Matt Smith Interviewed about a christmas carol
- Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time now available!
- Doctor Who Magazine 429 - The Doctor Who News Page (blog)
- Bill Pullman Cast in Torchwood!
- Doctor Who Magazine 429
- Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time Now Available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch!
- Mazes of Time is Out Now!
- Doctor Who Magazine 429
- Ten Teasers Teasing
- TORCHWOOD Gains Pullman - Mania
- The Mazes of Time: Apple version now available
- Doctor Who: Karen Gillan enjoys working with 'focused' Matt Smith - Unreality TV
- Matt Smith's dinosaur dream - The List
- Doctor Who Star Matt Smith Not Feeling Any Pressure To Compete With Last ... - Nerdles
- Bill Pullman Joins Torchwood - OntheBox
- Talk of the Town Susan has got The Gift of the gab - Scotsman
- Three sneak peek clips from 'Doctor Who A Christmas Carol' - Unreality Shout (blog)
- The Twelve Blogs of Christmas: Four
| Karen Gillian in ShortList Magazine Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST Karen Gillan features in more ways than one in the current issue of ShortList Magazine, available online. As well as an interview in which she discusses her career with a focus on Doctor Who, Karen also has a photo-shoot, with some images that are sure to warm the blood of even the coldest snowman this Christmas.
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| The Sands of Time - Documentary Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:01 PM PST As a special Christmas present to all of our visitors at Doctor Who Online, we recently filmed a short documentary in Utah; USA, looking at potential alien landscapes for Doctor Who, as well as some of the states landmarks and places of interest. Inspired by the recent news that the Series Six two-part opener would have scenes filmed in Utah, DWO flew out to the state in October of this year to put together the third in our series of who-inspired documentaries, presented by DWO Site Editor, Sebastian J. Brook, provided free of charge via our YouTube Channel. After a week in the editing studio, we are now thrilled to present to you, The Sands of Time: [youtube:ed5LxRnKmwY] Let us know what you thought of the documentary, by rating the video and leaving your comments on the Channel.
[Source: Doctor Who Online] | ||
| See the cover for Part 2 of DWM's Series 5 special! Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:06 PM PST The cover for the second part of Doctor Who Magazine's Series 5 Companion Special has been revealed! The magazine includes over 100 pages jam-packed with exclusive information and pictures from the second half of the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond's first series, covering Amy's Choice right through to its truly epic finale The Big Bang! The special is due to be published on 30th [...] | ||
| Bill Pullman, Mekhi Phifer to appear in Torchwood? Posted: 16 Dec 2010 11:51 AM PST With filming for Series 4 of Torchwood due to begin in the US in a few weeks, there has been word of two new casting updates recently. Independence Day and Casper actor Bill Pullman has reportedly signed up to play one of the spin off's new regulars, "convicted murderer" Oswald Jones, while Mekhi Phifer - from ER and 8 Mile – is said to [...] | ||
| Katherine Jenkins “had a ball” filming Christmas special Posted: 16 Dec 2010 11:29 AM PST A Christmas Carol guest star Katherine Jenkins has revealed that filming the special exceeded all of her expectations. As the BBC reports, the opera singer, who plays Abigail Pettigrew, has admitted: "Everyone in the whole Doctor Who team was brilliant and so encouraging and supportive that they made me feel like I could do it. I think [...] | ||
| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:02 AM PST You can now check out our seventeenth festive treat by heading over to the home page! Today we bring you the results of our recent Christmas Caption Competition, and we'd also just like to say a big thanks to everybody who took the time out to enter. Unfortunately there could only be one winner, but we received so [...] | ||
| Christmas TV: The top 20 programmes for the festive season - Independent Posted: 16 Dec 2010 10:00 AM PST
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| Bill Pullman Cast in Torchwood - BSCreview Posted: 16 Dec 2010 09:57 AM PST
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| A Christmas Carol: clips roundup Posted: 16 Dec 2010 09:36 AM PST  The BBC's Doctor Who site have made four clips from A Christmas Carol available to watch online. These extracts originally featured during this week's news coverage, but can now be watched independently (and without dialogue intruding over the clips!).The videos feature as Day Fifteen of the site's Adventure Calendar. Other recent calendar treats include an interview with Katherine Jenkins, parts one and two of Matt Smith's Cracking Christmas Challenge, and The Adventure Games edition of The Christmas Questions. Please note that these videos may not play in regions outside of the United Kingdom. | ||
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| BBC America Introduces Supernatural Saturdays - Daemon's TV Posted: 16 Dec 2010 08:20 AM PST
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| Resurrection of the Daleks Set - Toy Exclusive Posted: 16 Dec 2010 08:13 AM PST Forbidden Planet have teamed up with Character Options for another Exclusive Action Figure set. The Resurrection of the Daleks Set features The 5th Doctor with Davros and two Daleks from Resurrection of the Daleks. The TARDIS, with the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough on board, becomes caught in a time corridor. Once freed it materialises in London in 1984 near the exit of the corridor. Upon investigating warehouses nearby, the travellers stumble upon a trap set for them by the Daleks! The Resurrection of the Daleks Set is released January 2011, priced &ound;34.99.
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| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 08:02 AM PST Our sixteenth festive update has now been revealed, and today you can catch up with the Doctor and Amy in the penultimate instalment of our exclusive festive adventure, A Leadworth Christmas! When the Doctor gives Amy a guided tour of the TARDIS library, they discover a book which claims Christmas was permanently cancelled on Earth in [...] | ||
| Mekhi Phifer And Bill Pullman Join Cast of Torchwood - Inside Pulse Posted: 16 Dec 2010 07:05 AM PST
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| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:44 AM PST If you haven't had your fill of hints and rumours and sharks and doppelgangers for one Christmas, why not check these three clips from the Doctor Who 2010 special, A Christmas Carol…? Let's kick off with Amy and Rory (Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill) on a flight deck… And look, it's the Doctor (Matt Smith) on a phone: Finally – wow, she really can act! It's lovely Katherine Jenkins, in a freezer: You may well get sick of reading this, but here goes: A Christmas Carol, by Steven Moffat, is scheduled for broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD at 6pm on Christmas Day! | ||
| Our Favorite Things: Doctor Who Waters of Mars DVD - Comic Vine Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:09 AM PST
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| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:57 AM PST Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith has been chatting with the press lately, and while no there's really no new information to announce, he has discussed his experience filming in the desert areas of Utah in more detail:
Matt does raise a good point – that location filming such as the American shoot for the upcoming Series 6 premiere or the trip to Dubai during production of the Tennant story Planet of the Dead adds a new layer of realism to the show. We genuinely feel like the Doctor has journeyed to some faraway brilliant landscape, rather than bumbled into a video game to stop Bowser's oppressions on the citizens of Mario Land and save the Princess. In addition to once again praising Moffat's mysterious new "better-than-the-Weeping-Angels" monster, the Doctor actor also teased that we're all going to have a lot of typing to do this spring when Who premieres:
Conspiracy theories, a new better monster, and a two-part opener… What's not to be excited about? Doctor Who returns for its 32nd season this Spring, but not before A Christmas Carol airs Christmas day on BBC One at 6PM! (via Digital Spy) | ||
| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 04:15 AM PST  The BBC Radio Four social science programme Thinking Allowed will examine Doctor Who as part of the show broadcasting on 5th January 2011.The show, hosted by Laurie Taylor, will feature the assistant professor of English and Moving Image Arts at Oklahoma City University, Marc Edward DiPaulo, discussing his article, Political Satire and British-American Relations in Five Decades of Doctor Who, which featured in the October 2010 issue of The Journal of Popular Culture. Also on the show is broadcaster, not to mention Doctor Who fan and author, Matthew Sweet (who wrote The Year of the Pig and The Magic Mousetrap for Big Finish's Doctor Who audio adventures). The show will be broadcast on Wednesday 5th January 2010 at 4:00pm, and repeated the following Monday morning at 12:15am. You can read the full article at the Wiley Online Library. | ||
| Docteur Who: La Prophétie de Noël Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:39 AM PST  While many viewers in the English speaking world will be enjoying Matt Smith's first Christmas special as The Doctor this year, viewers in France will be bidding farewell to the Tenth Doctor when France 4 broadcasts both parts of The End of Time this Christmas Day.Docteur Who : La Prophétie de Noël will be broadcast at 8.35. The title translates as The Christmas Prophecy. The story was dubbed into French last March with David Manet making his swan song as the voice of the Tenth Doctor. A full cast list can be found here. | ||
| Bill Pullman Joins Season 4 of Torchwood - Comic Book Movie Posted: 16 Dec 2010 03:17 AM PST
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| The Mazes of Time - Now Available! Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:45 AM PST The new Doctor Who mobile game from Tag Games / BBC Games, The Mazes of Time, is now online. The action / puzzle game can be downloaded from the Apple App Store for &ound;2.39 (iPhone) or &ound;2.99 (iPad), and allows you to play the roles of both The Doctor and Amy Pond. DWO's Verdict With so many games to choose from on the app store, many Doctor Who fans will quite rightly have a critical eye when it comes round to playing a game that's actually based on their favourite TV show. And with the BBC arriving in the app store a little late on the scene, you would think they might have missed the boat. Think again! Its clear with The Mazes of Time, that the BBC have been patiently waiting in the wings, plotting their move into the mobile gaming industry, and what a joy to behold it is! From the crisp graphics, to the addict ive gameplay, right through to the storyline, everything knits together to round off one of the best games we have ever played on the iPhone. This is a game that will appeal to both new series and classic series fans, as one particular level sees The Doctor and Amy travel to the Ice Tombs of Telos - one of the many highlights that are worth the games price alone. Rating: 5/5
[Source: Doctor Who Online]
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| Doctor Who's woman woes - The List Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:33 AM PST
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| Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time materialises on your iPad and iPhone - CNET UK Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:30 AM PST
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| Shadows of the Vashta Nerada Images Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:14 AM PST Boy oh boy, those good people at the BBC certainly know how to treat Doctor Who fans to a Christmas day extravaganza (if you live in the UK that is). Not only do we get the Doctor back in live action form in the Christmas Day special A Christmas Carol but the official Doctor Who website will also be releasing their fourth and final adventure game of the year, Shadows Of Vashta Nerada. That's right, the shadowy (forgive the pun) meanies are back to cause the Doctor more trouble and this time, they're looking even creepier. Events follow on directly from the last game, TARDIS, and see the Doctor and Amy investigating a seabed colony called Poseidon where they suddenly find themselves in a struggle for survival against the Vashta Nerada. The graphics for the game seem to be slightly crisper and Shadows Of Vashta Nerada looks like it will be the creepiest Doctor Who game yet! As always, this free downloadable game will be available to Licence Fee payers in the UK only but as we understand, there are plans to make the games available at a cost to overseas gamers in the future. In the meantime, here's looking forward to Christmas day in the UK, with lots of Doctor Who related goodies coming our way! Doctor Who: The Adventure Games-Shadows Of Vashta Nerada will be available to download for free to Mac or PC on 25th December 2010. | ||
| Bill Pullman to Join Cast of BBC's "Torchwood" - Playbill.com Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:09 AM PST
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| [TV] Bill Pullman Joins Season Four Of Torchwood - 411mania.com Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:32 AM PST
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| DWM Companion: The Eleventh Doctor (Vol 2) - The Doctor Who News Page (blog) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:19 AM PST
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| DWM Companion: The Eleventh Doctor (Vol 2) Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:11 AM PST Details for the second Doctor Who Companion volume covering the adventures of the Eleventh Doctor have been released by Doctor Who Magazine. This edition features the second half of the 2010 series, Amy's Choice to The Big Bang, plus the specially recorded scenes that appear on the Series Five Boxed Set. The magazine will be published on 30th December 2010.  The Doctor Who CompanionThe Eleventh Doctor Volume Two Your complete guide to the award-winning BBC One series! Written and researched by Andrew Pixley. 2010 was a landmark year for Doctor Who. Matt Smith and Karen Gillan appeared on television as the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond for the first time, in a series of incredible adventures. From the Doctor's crash landing in sleepy Leadworth, through to his arrival at Amy's wedding in a rebooted universe, the last of the Time Lords faced many monsters during the course of his travels, including Weeping Angels, Silurians, Autons, Cybermen, Smilers, Venetian Vampires, Prisoner Zero… and, of course, the Daleks! Now, Doctor Who Magazine takes you behind the scenes of the concluding episodes of the Eleventh Doctor's first season with an in-depth episode guide – including original storylines, deleted scenes, media appearances, ratings information and thousands of facts about the day-to-day life of the making of Doctor Who – all illustrated with gorgeous, never-before-seen photographs. This collectors' edition examines Amy's Choice, The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger and The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang, as well as the specially-made Meanwhile in the TARDIS scenes from the DVD box set. This is your essential guide to the worlds of Doctor Who. Get ready to discover a wealth of information – but watch out for the cracks... The first volume may still be found on retailers' shelves until the 29th December. | ||
| What makes a great Doctor Who Christmas special? - The Guardian Posted: 16 Dec 2010 01:05 AM PST
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| Bill Pullman joins Torchwood - Movies.ie Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:54 AM PST
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| Pop Candy's 100 People of 2010: Nos. 1-24! - USA Today Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:35 AM PST
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| New BBC Children's Books for 2011 Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:31 AM PST A new range of books are to be released by Doctor Who Children's Books next year, featuring the current TARDIS crew of the Doctor, Amy and Rory. Aimed at a younger audience, each paperback book runs to around 400 pages and will feature two stories, described as "fast-paced, fun-filled Doctor Who adventures!"  Book 1: Heart of Stone / Death RidersTo be published: 3rd February 2011 Available for pre-order from our Amazon shop Heart of Stone: A monster made from moon rock is attacking an Earth farm. Everything it touches turns to stone – even people. Can the Doctor, Amy and Rory find out what the creature wants before it's too late? Death Riders: The Galactic Fair has arrived on the mining planet of Stanalan and the Death Ride roller coaster is really drawing in the crowds. But there's something sinister going on behind all the fun of the fair. Join the Doctor, Amy and Rory as they investigate…  Book 2: The Good, the Bad and the Alien / System WipeTo be published: 3rd February 2011 Available for pre-order from our Amazon shop The Good, the Bad, and the Alien: Aliens have crash-landed in the Wild West and they're ready for a showdown. Can the Doctor, Rory and Amy work out which are the good guys and which are the bad? System Wipe: The Doctor finds himself trapped in a virtual world. As he tries to save the characters of the virtual world from being destroyed by a deadly virus, Amy and Rory must fight to keep the Doctor's body in the real world safe from the mysterious entity known as Legacy... Book 3: Rain of Terror / Extra Time To be published: 28th April 2011 Available for pre-order from our Amazon shop Rain of Terror: On the planet Tanbrek, terrible tiny creatures swarm down from the sky. Can the Doctor, Amy and Rory help the colonists escape from the alien infestation? Extra Time: The Doctor, Rory and Amy take a trip to the 1966 World Cup. Rory ends up playing a crucial part in this historic football match, while the Doctor and Amy discover that the Doctor isn't the only alien visiting Wembley... Book 4: The Underwater War / Terminal of Despair To be published: 28th April 2011 Available for pre-order from our Amazon shop The Underwater War: The Doctor, Amy and Rory join an undersea exploration ship on the planet Hos. When a virus infects the crew, they discover the ship is hiding a dangerous secret... Terminal of Despair: The TARDIS crew find themselves trapped in a quarantined spaceport where the waiting passengers have lost all hope of ever getting home. Can the Doctor save them? | ||
| Matt Smith Interviewed about a christmas carol Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:26 AM PST | ||
| Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time now available! Posted: 16 Dec 2010 12:18 AM PST The Mazes of Time, the brand new Doctor Who game for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, is now available to buy! Written by Oli Smith, the game features the Eleventh Doctor and Amy as they do battle with Weeping Angels, Daleks, Cybermen and Silurians galore, and can be downloaded now from the iTunes App Store for £2.39 for [...] | ||
| Doctor Who Magazine 429 - The Doctor Who News Page (blog) Posted: 15 Dec 2010 11:26 PM PST
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| Bill Pullman Cast in Torchwood! Posted: 15 Dec 2010 11:15 PM PST Hollywood star Bill Pullman has been cast in Torchwood: The New World! Pullman – best known for his role as the US President in Independence Day (1996) and as Jack Wells in Lake Placid (1999), will play criminal Oswald Jones:
This isn't a cameo part either, but a recurring role. If this doesn't underline the ambition of BBC Wales, BBC Worldwide and Starz for the future success of Torchwood, then nothing will. Great casting news! Meanwhile, Torchwood: The New World has its Rex Matheson. American actor Mekhi Phifer has been cast as devil may care, tough as nails, dedicated CIA agent alongside regulars John Barrowman and Eve Myles for the American incarnation of the Scooby Gang, according to Deadline. Phifer is best known for his role as Dr. Gregory Pratt in long-running medical drama ER as well as an acclaimed debut performance in Spike Lee's Clockers as Strike, a New Jersey drug dealer caught up in the murder of a night watch man. Matheson is described in co-producing American network Starz Character Descriptions as (and its best to adopt a gravely trailer voice-over man voice for this):
He'll be joining Crash star Arlene Tur who has a recurring role as CIA Watch Analyst Vera Juarez. Torchwood: The New World is a co-production between BBC Worldwide in the UK and Starz Network in the US and will air in the summer 2011. | ||
| Posted: 15 Dec 2010 11:12 PM PST   Says Matt on working with his co-star for the adventure, Sir Michael Gambon: Michael is a naughty man, a naughty actor! He's hugely interesting, everyone on set could have listened to his stories all day! And then the cameras start rolling and he's just captivating... In this issue:
Plus, Steven Moffat discusses what kittens, plot arcs and multi-coloured Cybermen (with noses) have in common in his Production Notes, the young Amelia and Rory discover a wondrous bookshop that's bigger on the inside in comic strip The Professor, The Queen and the Bookshop, and the usual news, reviews and competitions. This issue comes with three collectible art cards featuring exclusive DWM cover images. You can also now find DWM on Twitter! Follow them at @DWMTweets. | ||
| Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time Now Available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch! Posted: 15 Dec 2010 11:01 PM PST
As previously reported, there is a new Doctor Who iOS game, Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time. It is now in the Apple App Store as of today. There are two versions, one is for the iPhone and iPod touch, and an HD version for the iPad. Unfortunately, it is not a universal app, so you can either get the iPhone/iPod touch version and upscale it for the iPad, or alternatively get the HD version specifically for the iPad. The prices in the US App store are currently $3.99 and $4.99. Here is the link to the iPhone/iPod touch version: Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time - BBC Worldwide Here is the link to the iPad HD version: Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time HD - BBC Worldwide A screenshot for the iPhone/iPod touch version
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| Posted: 15 Dec 2010 10:50 PM PST BBC Worldwide has announced that the Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app is available now on the App Store! Even better in these days of smartphone platforms, the game will be available on Google Android in 2011! The action puzzle adventure game features the Doctor and his companion Amy Pond travelling through time and space to defeat infamous enemies, solve devious puzzles and restore peace. Featuring Weeping Angels, Daleks, Cybermen and Silurians, the game allows users to play as both the Doctor and Amy Pond, utilizing their unique skills and abilities to solve challenges.
Apple mobile users wanting their copy of Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time should head over to www.itunes.co.uk/appstore where it is available for £2.39 (iPhone and iPod touch) or £2.99 (iPad). | ||
| Posted: 15 Dec 2010 10:25 PM PST Matt Smith speaks exclusively about a Christmas Carol in Doctor Who Magazine 429! The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine features a preview of the brand new 2010 Christmas Special, A Christmas Carol, and talks exclusively to writer STEVEN MOFFAT, director TOBY HAYNES – and the Doctor himself, MATT SMITH! In addition to the image on the right, you can view the cover in hi-res – choose from bagged or bagless! How did Matt find working with the Special's guest star, Michael Gambon? "Michael is a naughty man, a naughty actor," Matt laughs. "He's hugely interesting, everyone on set could have listened to his stories all day! And then the cameras start rolling and he's just captivating…" ALSO THIS ISSUE: FEELIN' GROOVY! IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE? THAT'S GRAND! A LOAD OF OLD BULL? THE MIND ROBBER! THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS! NEWS OF THE WORLD! ART CARDS! PLUS! Treat yourself this Christmas to the bumper-sized, 84-page DWM 429, out in shops 16 December, price £4.99! | ||
| Posted: 15 Dec 2010 10:14 PM PST In what is promised as the first of many christmas treats leading up to the Christmas Day airing of A Christmas Carol (the Doctor Who one, not the Muppet's) Digital Spy have teased ten tinsel cover spoilers for the festive episode. A Christmas Carol sees Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) trapped on board a stricken space liner that's plummeting through banks of thick icy fog to the surface of the planet below. A planet which has the power to clear the fog and save them, if only the Doctor can convince the miserly, heartbroken Kazran Sardick (Michael Gambon) that life is worth living- in his own time hopping, idiosyncratic way.
And if you ever needed a line to sum up what a Doctor Who Christmas Special is all about, number 10 does it beautifully. (via Digital Spy) | ||
| TORCHWOOD Gains Pullman - Mania Posted: 15 Dec 2010 10:05 PM PST
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| The Mazes of Time: Apple version now available Posted: 15 Dec 2010 10:00 PM PST BBC Worldwide have announced that their new game for mobile platforms, The Mazes of Time, has now been released for Apple products. The game can be purchased from Apple's iTunes App Store for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.  Doctor Who: The Mazes of TimeFor the first time on iPhone and iPod, enter the world of Doctor Who in a brand new action puzzle adventure! An intrepid traveller through time and space and the last of the powerful Time Lords, the Doctor is armed only with his incredible intelligence and his sonic screwdriver. Join him and his human companion, Amy Pond, as they race to save an innocent family attacked by a rogue Dalek and hurtled into the depths of history. Your journey will take you from ancient Incan temples, to the frozen tombs of Telos and a stunning finale on a Dalek ship. Defeat your favourite enemies, solve devious puzzles, and restore peace throughout time!
Robert Nashak, Executive Vice President, Digital Entertainment, BBC Worldwide, said: "Coming to the App Store is a landmark moment for the Doctor Who franchise. We look forward to bringing users, and fans of the show, an exciting and interactive experience that they will enjoy." The game is also available as a high definition version, which has been released for the larger Apple device, the iPad. It has also been confirmed that the Android community won't miss out on the game either, with a version for the Google OS due to be released in 2011.The Mazes of Time is one of several mobile games developed for BBC Worldwide (which also includes Top Gear and Teletubbies); the Doctor Who version was produced by Tag Games and written by Oli Smith, who also worked on the recent Nintendo games Evacuation Earth and Return to Earth. | ||
| Doctor Who: Karen Gillan enjoys working with 'focused' Matt Smith - Unreality TV Posted: 15 Dec 2010 09:58 PM PST
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| Matt Smith's dinosaur dream - The List Posted: 15 Dec 2010 09:58 PM PST
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| Doctor Who Star Matt Smith Not Feeling Any Pressure To Compete With Last ... - Nerdles Posted: 15 Dec 2010 09:57 PM PST
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| Bill Pullman Joins Torchwood - OntheBox Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:46 PM PST
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| Talk of the Town Susan has got The Gift of the gab - Scotsman Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:41 PM PST
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| Three sneak peek clips from 'Doctor Who A Christmas Carol' - Unreality Shout (blog) Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:38 PM PST
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| The Twelve Blogs of Christmas: Four Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:35 PM PST Warehouse 13 and the Women of SyFy. Well, our quiz of two days ago seems to have caused quite a stir. Everyone's having a go at it...  And that's just about the level of answers that I've seen in public. In private, however, I've been sent at least one correct answer to every question, but nobody's done hugely well and scored loads. So even if you only know a couple of answers, it's still worth sending in an entry. Asking around a bit or combining forces may prove worthwhile too.I'm pleased to say that I'll be contributing to Voices from the Past, a forthcoming anthology of flash fiction, with all proceeds going to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Other authors involved include Alastair Reynolds, Paul Magrs and Jasper Fforde. It'll be in e-book format, at 59p for twenty stories, and will be out next April. Today I'd like to talk about one of my favourite genre shows right now, Warehouse 13. (And let me just say SPOILERS!) It's The SyFy Channel's highest rated series, which is a bit of a shame in that I'm also a great fan ofStargate Universe, which isn't doing as well, and the fact that more happy go lucky fare is going great guns may pose problems for the grittier show. What unites these two series (and my other favourite, Fringe, Doctor Who, as I always say, looming too large for me to regard as a mere TV show) is an intelligence about avoiding cliche. W13 didn't start out like that, being, in its first season, a bit 'will this do?' like a lot of SyFy's own movies still are. The charming cast and odd sense of humour were present, but some episodes felt lacklusture, and the central bad guy was generically snarling and generically British. But at the start of season two something changed. The premise of W13 is that famous historical objects have the power to alter reality, that we're living in a world where reputation contributes to physics. And someone has to tidy up. The relationship of our heroes to authority is, of course, this being now, a touch incoherent: they work for the government and yet not exactly, rather for an ancient order of 'regents', who are sometimes scarily authoritarian, sometimes just getting the job done. The problem with any character 'going rogue' against this establishment is that, in order to keep the show going, they'd have to take the titular warehouse of artefacts with them. Still, I'm sure any future 'all the Watchers die' moment will be regarded as exciting rather than predictable. However, that business of not knowing how it feels about authority is the only trope where the series falls into the traps of modern television. Consider the matter of 'will they/won't they?', a staple of, well, everything, forever. Will our male and female leads get together? No, says W13, they won't. The affable, enthusiastic Pete has a girlfriend in town who's a meaningful character, and the brittle, rather nervy Myka is utterly happy for him. This seems to also be a feature of Haven, the newest of SyFy's three 'weird precinct' shows. (When one of W13's characters went to visit the oldest show, Eureka, in a crossover episode, she was told outright that everything there works by science, and I'm hoping for similar with Haven, where everything works by slight horror, the three shows being the Towns of Clarke, Bradbury and dilute Stephen King). There, again, lead Audrey is only somewhat romantically interested in the town's roguish rogue who never breaks the law, and not at all in her, again girlfriended, partner. It feels like a memo went round. And it actually makes all these leads more relatable and less defined by others. I think that Fringe doesn't get enough feminist kudos for its inversion of gender types, with it's tough female action hero and soft man who looks after family and test tubes. That goes vastly moreso for Warehouse 13. Of its seven leads this season, five were women. Two of them of colour (though one of those gets nothing to do). When Myka takes hip geek Claudia out in the field, to learn about the business of bagging and tagging dangerous artefacts, they talk about rites of passage, about screwing up, about their age difference, but not at all about men. That an episode that so heartily passes the Bechdel Test feels so weird and interesting because of it says that there's still a long way to go for modern society. This Year's episodes saw a clever use of audience expectations to convince us that, while Pete was indeed hallucinating, he'd uncovered an entirely plausible secret villain, and a body swap episode that just did the fun bits (letting the actors show how good they are, the central motivation of Dollhouse), before realising this was ancient stuff and quickly moving on to something else. I laughed out loud several times (particularly at the quite sad moment where we see that Myka's greatest desire is to be enthusiastically thanked by her boss over some really good coffee) the banter and byplay looking like the product of directors who have time to work up things that play around the dialogue. I was pleased at the way that the gravity of the artefacts allows sudden seriousness in what's generally a bouncy (some would say steampunk, I wouldn't, for this is actually good, hee hee!) atmosphere. An artefact with dour consequences speaks of the tears of history, as when the show touched on Jewish extermination under Stalin. Our mentor hero, Artie, is literally a traitor to his country, for reasons that aren't (completely) whitewashed. His character speaks of the complexities of the past, saying that that wise bearded professor in sandals might have done drugs and bombs, and that now we (sort of, sometimes) forgive that. But the best walking grey area was H.G.Wells, the premise of whom (did for real most of the stuff in the novels, jolly British toodle pip) made me cringe, but who turned out (as the secret female author partner of a front man) to have such layers that when she tries to actually destroy the world, we're just a bit on her side. It's not Kubrick. It's not trying to be. But it's not fluff either. It's thoughtful entertainment of the sort where Jack Kirby's belt can give one super powers. And it's radical, without ever saying so out loud. Hopefully, there'll be something in next season that might attract Hugo interest. Anyway, I love it. Tomorrow: more Paul and Mike, more festive blather, more stuff! Cheerio!  |
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