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- SPACE Viewership Rockets to New Heights - Channel Canada
- The Saturday interview: Anne-Marie Duff - The Guardian
- Karen Gillan Says She Was Bullied Over Her Red Locks - Anglophenia (blog)
- Donmar Warehouse Appoints Josie Rourke as new Artistic Director - Broadway World
- Sebastian Coe proves he's game for a laugh in BBC Olympics spoof - The Guardian
- Interview: Sylvester McCoy on Hobbit, Minister Of Chance, Who - Shadowlocked (blog)
- Doctor Who Leads BBC's 2011 Red Nose Day Line Up - Suite101.com
- Karen Gillan said she was badly teased at school - Monsters and Critics.com
- Gillan suffered 'ginger' taunts - The Sun
- Sylvester McCoy talks The Hobbit and Doctor Who projects - Shadowlocked (blog)
- Video: A Tribute to David Tennant's Left Eyebrow - Anglotopia.net
- And the Donmar goes to... - The Arts Desk
- Josie Rourke Named Artistic Director of London's Donmar Warehouse - Broadway.com
- Barrowman and Pullman
- Josie Rourke: one of the nicest people in the business - Telegraph.co.uk
- One-Third Agrees: Time Travel is Real!
- Smith 'hopes to do Comic Relief challenge' - Digital Spy
- Doctor Who: Karen Gillan was bullied for being ginger! - Unreality TV
- Series 5 reaches its epic climax in France this weekend
- Doctor Who's Karen Gillan: I was bullied because of my red hair - Metro
- Knight & Squire Preview/The Friday Beard
- Dark Shadows Download Sub
- Friends Reunited
- Doctor Who's Matt Smith banned from getting naked in 'Christopher And His Kind' - Unreality TV
- When fandom goes sour
- Matt Smith 'told not to strip in drama' - Digital Spy
- Matt Smith banned from baring all - The List
- A Design for Sheen?
- Hang on Dr Who, they are coming with you - WA today
- National Space Centre: BritSciFi charity event
- The God Complex Hint
- Sheppard's Delight
- Whithouse’s God Complex
- Celebrating the Series: Vincent And The Doctor
| SPACE Viewership Rockets to New Heights - Channel Canada Posted: 11 Mar 2011 07:43 PM PST
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| The Saturday interview: Anne-Marie Duff - The Guardian Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:08 PM PST
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| Karen Gillan Says She Was Bullied Over Her Red Locks - Anglophenia (blog) Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:34 PM PST
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| Donmar Warehouse Appoints Josie Rourke as new Artistic Director - Broadway World Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:34 AM PST
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| Sebastian Coe proves he's game for a laugh in BBC Olympics spoof - The Guardian Posted: 11 Mar 2011 11:13 AM PST
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| Interview: Sylvester McCoy on Hobbit, Minister Of Chance, Who - Shadowlocked (blog) Posted: 11 Mar 2011 10:24 AM PST
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| Doctor Who Leads BBC's 2011 Red Nose Day Line Up - Suite101.com Posted: 11 Mar 2011 07:51 AM PST
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| Karen Gillan said she was badly teased at school - Monsters and Critics.com Posted: 11 Mar 2011 07:48 AM PST
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| Gillan suffered 'ginger' taunts - The Sun Posted: 11 Mar 2011 07:40 AM PST
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| Sylvester McCoy talks The Hobbit and Doctor Who projects - Shadowlocked (blog) Posted: 11 Mar 2011 07:40 AM PST
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| Video: A Tribute to David Tennant's Left Eyebrow - Anglotopia.net Posted: 11 Mar 2011 07:35 AM PST
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| And the Donmar goes to... - The Arts Desk Posted: 11 Mar 2011 07:22 AM PST
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| Josie Rourke Named Artistic Director of London's Donmar Warehouse - Broadway.com Posted: 11 Mar 2011 06:54 AM PST
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| Posted: 11 Mar 2011 06:22 AM PST It's funny, but you don't actually believe certain things until you see them with your own eyes. Timothy Dalton as Lord President Rassilon (James Bond is in Doctor Who!), young Matt Smith replacing David Tennant as the Doctor (How?! How?! Oh…he's actually brilliant!), The Mutants getting a DVD release before any other Third Doctor story still in line (ok then…) To add to the list of strange "believe it to see it" things is a picture that's recently surfaced of John Barrowman and Hollywood star Bill Pullman, in costume and posing and smiling for the camera, as they film Torchwood: Miracle Day, which you can find at www.billpullman.org. Now, Doctor Who has had some absolutely amazing guest stars during its forty eight year run and the show continues to attract a vast quantity of wonderful guest stars but the credit extends to its spin off show Torchwood, as the show is able to get Hollywood's casting list to star in it. For those of you unfamiliar with his work, Bill Pullman has starred in films such as Casper, Independence Day, Wyatt Earp, Lost Highway and The Grudge. In the newest series of Torchwood, Pullman plays a shady character called Oswald Danes who is described as a "former school teacher and convicted child killer". In other words, a clever and very nasty piece of work for the Torchwood team to take care of! The new series is shaping up to be the best yet and quite frankly, can't come quick enough… Torchwood: Miracle Day will be air this year on BBC One in the UK and the Starz channel in the US. | ||
| Josie Rourke: one of the nicest people in the business - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 11 Mar 2011 05:33 AM PST
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| One-Third Agrees: Time Travel is Real! Posted: 11 Mar 2011 05:22 AM PST Have you ever dreamed of soaring through time and space with the Doctor and visiting all your favorite moments in history? You're reading a Kasterborous article; of course you have! An article in the Queensland Times (for all you thirty-year-olds who are still in primary school because you keep failing geography, this is an Australian paper, oddly enough) has revealed that 30% of 3000 (for all you thirty-year-olds who are still in primary school because you keep failing maths, that's 900) people surveyed across the UK believe in the extremely truthful fact that time travel is possible and that a TARDIS is just a few scientific advances away (for all you thirty-year-olds who are still in primary school because you keep failing Doctor Who class, go back to your EastEnders fan site). We're going to repeat most of what we've just told you in this quote from the Queensland Times article, because we've got a bone to pick with them:
Now wait just a minute (and then time travel one minute into the future to further prove our point) – did they just say "mistakenly"? Is it WRONG to believe in the Hollywood-proven concepts that a couple of minor adjustments to the wiring of a phone booth or a DeLorean can send you anywhen? Doctor Who is apparently to blame for all this truth-spreading:
What lines? I ain't seein' no lines! Admittedly, this 30% could be the same one-third of Britons who are prone to stand on top of tall buildings when activated by the Sycorax, but can't A+ blood types have feelings too? Other surveyed beliefs (that are also true) included human-memory-wiping technology (44%), hoverboards (44%), teleportation (24%), and lightsabers (22%). Many of the non-believers were asked to indicate which technology they didn't believe in that they would most like to see made possible. 21% of men desired time travel while 19% thought teleportation would be pretty cool. The fusion of the two ideas would more or less make a TARDIS. Meanwhile, 26% of women wanted a universal cure for all diseases (yawn). Now, really, ladies. Think about it. If time travel existed, we could just hop over to the distant future, when such a cure has already been devised, and bring that information back to the present day! Time machines are much more useful. Make sure you participate in a similar poll at the Queensland Times and indicate your belief in the truth of time travel! | ||
| Smith 'hopes to do Comic Relief challenge' - Digital Spy Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:34 AM PST
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| Doctor Who: Karen Gillan was bullied for being ginger! - Unreality TV Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:15 AM PST
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| Series 5 reaches its epic climax in France this weekend Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:11 AM PST The Eleventh Doctor and Amy's first series will reach its dramatic climax on France 4 this weekend! Both parts of La Pandorica s'ouvre will air tomorrow, 12th March, from 8:35pm, and will be followed by repeats of La bête des bas-fonds, La victoire des Daleks, La Loi des Judoons and Peines d'amour Gagnées. You can watch the trailer for the finale [...] | ||
| Doctor Who's Karen Gillan: I was bullied because of my red hair - Metro Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:07 AM PST
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| Knight & Squire Preview/The Friday Beard Posted: 11 Mar 2011 03:04 AM PST The total cash raised for Shelter by A Beard For Lent is, well, as shown on the widget top right (you can go see who's left comments by hitting the 'donate' button, it doesn't suck the cash out of your wallet), but as of the moment I'm writing this, it's £551.00. That's fantastically generous of you, thanks very much, that's great going for three days. Among the lovely people to have left comments are comic scribes Greg Pak and Leah Moore and John Reppion, authors John Scalzi and George R.R. Martin, and editors Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Nick Lowe. To answer some of the questions: no Nick, no way is this beard staying put after Lent; yes, I do think I look a bit like the actor Kevin Eldon now; Liz, it's all coming off at once, no, not like that; and George, thanks for your very generous donation, and when there's enough beard I'll provide photographic proof of dyeing it green. Some people have asked if the site takes dollars: as far as I can make out, you just enter the sum you want to donate in pounds, and if your account is in another currency, the site does the math(s). Let me know if that's not the case. Thanks should also go to Neil Gaiman, Tom Brevoort, and the many others who sent the link far and wide. If we go over £1000, we keep going, and all the more for Shelter. Cheers, everyone! Here is the first Friday Beard Proof Picture:  Bloody hell, I'm scared of me. I think I may, erm, have been working a bit too hard this week. On another subject entirely, Knight and Squire #6 is out next week, and you can see the first five pages of it on DC's news page, The Source. Jimmy's art has never looked better. The first episode of my friend Helen Keen's new science-friendly BBC Radio 4 comedy series It Is Rocket Science is on the BBC IPlayer here. And yes, you can access the radio version of that from outside the UK. Jokes about Soviet rocket pioneers! And speaking of beards, specifically one I'll never be able to live up to, last time out I forgot something I promised to link to, namely A Moment of Moore, a blog which publishes something related to Alan Moore every day. Excellent! I can't post today without saying something about the Japanese earthquakes and tsunami. But it's hard to say anything meaningful. We loved what we saw of Japan and the people we met when we toured there. In such terrible circumstances, the kindness and diligence we encountered will go a long way. I've asked after some folk, but have no reason to particularly worry about them. I'm sure they're fine. I'd be pleased to see an internet response that was focussed on donation, and didn't involve using a random force of nature to justify one's point of view. That's it. Until next time, Cheerio! And remember: a beard is a terrible thing to waste.  | ||
| Posted: 11 Mar 2011 02:14 AM PST Big Finish is pleased to announce that a download-only subscription is now available for the next six Dark Shadows releases. For only £33, you'll receive The Blind Painter, The Death Mask, The Creeping Fog, The Lost Girl, The Poisoned Soul and The Carrion Queen. Click here to order. The six stories are available to pre-order on CD here for £45. We're also pleased to reveal further details about July's release, The Poisoned Soul which stars Nancy Barrett and Roy Thinnes. Written by James Goss, the story sees uptight schoolteacher Charity Trask having to deal with the spirit of a music hall star that possesses her as well as a strange creature that's attacking her schoolgirls. Roy Thinnes, most famous for his role in the Sixties cult classic television series The Invaders, guest stars as fellow teacher Patrick Llewellyn. The story also features Nicola Bryant as the matronly Mrs Gibbs. We've also recently updated The Blind Painter and The Death Mask with both covers and trailers. | ||
| Posted: 11 Mar 2011 01:49 AM PST Doctor Who filming continues on episode 12 of Series 6. Scenes shooting last night appeared to be from early on in the story and featured the Doctor and Craig's (James Corden) reunion. The TARDIS lands on a street at night. The Doctor emerges, he's alone…
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Fans of Big Finish were likely saddened to learn that the company was forced to suspend its discussion forum "indefinitely" due to the behaviour of a few members. The announcement, issued yesterday, can be found here. What's doubly sad is this forum - of which I was not a member - provided direct links between fans and not only Big Finish, but remembering many Big Finish personnel are also involved with the TV series itself, such as Nick Briggs and numerous writers, it was probably the closest many fans got to having a direct connection to the TV show. Big Finish's announcement doesn't go into detail as to what sparked the decision to close, but I've seen this song and dance played out before, in Who fandom and in other fandoms. Star Trek fandom became absolutely toxic a decade ago as infighting between fan factions reached new heights over Enterprise. One of the major fan clubs devoted to The Prisoner collapsed a few years ago due to infighting. And as for Who fandom, those who were members of the former Outpost Gallifrey discussion forum in 2005 might recall when it was shut down for several days because of fan infighting over the announcement of Christopher Eccleston leaving the show. The Doctor Who Restoration Team's forum was shut down in 2009 due to a toxic atmosphere being created by some fans, too. And now Big Finish has had to either throw in the towel or, more hopefully, has called a temporary time out. Part of me wants to blame the Internet. It's so easy, hiding behind the anonymity of a nickname, to say whatever comes to mind, good and bad. And no matter how hurtful to either other posters or, as is more likely the case, the people making the show. Russell T Davies, who for much of his tenure had to face accusations of installing a "gay agenda" on Doctor Who and "ruining the show", writes about this in his book The Writer's Tale. He writes about how negative comments on the now-defunct Outpost Gallifrey affected one of his writers, Helen Raynor, comparing it to a physical assault. When you enter the public eye, you expect you're not going to please everyone. You develop a thick skin - you have to. But for a writer it can be tougher because the usually aren't. We're lucky Raynor came back to write for the show again, delivering the well-received Sontaran two-parter of Season 4. I wish I could say this was new. But if John Nathan-Turner were alive today he'd probably be able to talk about how nasty Who fandom got towards him in the late 1980s, with one well-circulated publication, DWB (the initials were first for Doctor Who Bulletin but it later became Dreamwatch Bulletin) mounting a campaign calling on him to quit or be fired. It got so bad, the BBC's lawyers were even called in. And some of the same rhetoric, almost word for word, would be levelled by Trek fans against its production regime during the Enterprise era. Stories like Raynor's and now with Big Finish shutting down its forum, should serve a cautionary tales for all of us. It's fine to criticize. It's fine to complain. But there needs to be a line of civility in the discussion. Fortunately, from what I've seen in my relatively limited experience, DWIN members fall on the good side of the line. So I hope I'm preaching to the converted. Now if only contributors to other forums would also get the message that there are real people at the other end of these bits and bytes. | ||
| Matt Smith 'told not to strip in drama' - Digital Spy Posted: 11 Mar 2011 12:31 AM PST
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| Matt Smith banned from baring all - The List Posted: 11 Mar 2011 12:10 AM PST
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| Posted: 10 Mar 2011 11:58 PM PST They might have sung about loving Richard Nixon but it seems what Nicky Wire wants more is David Frost – Frost/Nixon star Michael Sheen is the actor Manic Street Preacher's bassist and lyricist Wire could see playing drunken poet Dylan Thomas in his Doctor Who script. Speaking on Radio 2 Wire confirmed that, like every other writer, he's still working on his Doctor Who script and is full of excuses about why its not finished:
Pah, touring with a trad-rock band. Rubbish excuse. I've been maintaining a life of a writer and that of Charlie Sheen's self awareness and i've been doing pretty well at both…oh. Wire also confirmed that the script features a uniquely casked dilemma for the Doctor as he hangs out with Thomas in New York during his last days :
It's "the Doctor"! Not "Doctor Who"! Grrgh… I know… but if we tolerate this then our children will be next. Sheen has prior experience with the Manics, he's appeared in the video for single "(It's Not War) Just the End of Love "and has asked the band to contribute towards a passion play he'll be directing an appearing in this April in Port Talbot. (via Digital Spy) | ||
| Hang on Dr Who, they are coming with you - WA today Posted: 10 Mar 2011 11:53 PM PST
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| National Space Centre: BritSciFi charity event Posted: 10 Mar 2011 09:42 PM PST   Guests at the event include Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet) and Gareth Thomas (Blake's Seven), plus special effects duo Matt Irvine and Mike Tucker will be presenting talks and displays on their careers at the BBC Visual Effects Department, which of course covers Doctor Who. The press release also promises: An amazing display of original props and costumes will be guarded over by an invasion force of Daleks, who are out in force to raise money for Children in Need… and you thought they had no heart! Many other guests and activities are expected to take place over the course of the weekend - you can find full details via the National Space Centre.Never fear though as the original K9 will be joining Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks and Primeval writer James Moran, for some cozy chats on writing science fiction. | ||
| Posted: 10 Mar 2011 08:37 PM PST Details of the eleventh episode of Doctor Who's sixth series have started surfacing and by the looks of things, it's going to be a cracker! Written by Toby Whithouse (who was responsible for 2006's School Reunion and 2010's The Vampires of Venice), the episode, entitled The God Complex, finds the Doctor and his friends:
This is the plot according to SFX.com. This story was originally meant to be scheduled for the 2010 series of Doctor Who but got pushed back in favour of The Vampires of Venice instead. Featuring in this episode will be comedian David Walliams, who is no stranger to the world of Doctor Who. Not only has appeared in a comedy sketch as an "evil" alien battling against Mark Gatiss' version of the Doctor for 1999's Doctor Who night, he has also been in several Doctor Who Big Finish plays including Phantasmagoria (written by Mark Gatiss) and The Mutant Phase. Whitehouse's new episode looks set to be a corker but can it top the scripts he's provided in the previous years? If the new Doctor Who production team has anything to do with it, the answer is probably yes! Doctor Who returns to BBC One this Easter, The God Complex will be shown in the second half of the 2011 run. | ||
| Posted: 10 Mar 2011 06:56 PM PST Guest star Mark Sheppard (Warehouse 13, Chuck) has revealed that he hates Doctor Who and wishes it would go away… only kidding, ha ha! I'm such a kidder, I really, really am… Anyway Sheppard unsurprisingly loved filming his role in the Series 6 two-part curtain raiser. Sheppard twitted to his protected followers (seriously his Twitter page is protected) that he loved both the show and his co-star Matt Smith:
See, I didn't make it up. Sheppard will appear as the fancifully named Canton Everett Delaware III in the USA set 60′s adventure along with regulars Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvil and some bloke called Alex Kingston. While on procastination on twitter Sheppard also jobbed former employer Steven Moffat for a role in another one of his TV gems Sherlock. Doctor Who will return this Spring on BBC1 for a change. (via Digital Spy) | ||
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| Celebrating the Series: Vincent And The Doctor Posted: 10 Mar 2011 10:00 AM PST Every episode in the last series drew praise from many of you. Sometimes it was the humour or the monsters or the dramatic moments that stood out, but no adventure seemed to touch so many people as Vincent and the Doctor... |
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