Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News


John de Lancie joins Torchwood: Miracle Day - Den Of Geek

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:37 PM PDT


John de Lancie joins Torchwood: Miracle Day
Den Of Geek
Russell T Davies and his team seem to be having a lot of fun with the casting for Torchwood: Miracle Day, digging into the sci-fi and fantasy back catalogue for some of their guest stars. We already know that Ghostbusters' Ernie Hudson is appearing, ...

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Talent school to get radical new shake-up - Herald Scotland

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:52 PM PDT


Herald Scotland

Talent school to get radical new shake-up
Herald Scotland
ALUMNI: Maggie Kinloch, top left, is proud of the careers of former students (clockwise from left) David Tennant, James McAvoy, Alan Cumming, Ruby Wax and Craig Armstrong. Main picture: KK Dundas Scotland's leading talent school is to embark on the ...

Relief pitcher Joe Nathan might see some setup duty for Twins after all - Pioneer Press

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:11 PM PDT


Relief pitcher Joe Nathan might see some setup duty for Twins after all
Pioneer Press
Mauer meets with specialist: Before returning to the Twin Cities, Joe Mauer made it to his previously scheduled appointment with the Baltimore-based doctor who treated his inflamed sacroiliac joint back in 2009. Mauer, who said Sunday he lost 12 pounds ...

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Your Guide to Doctor Who - Daily Athenaeum

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:48 PM PDT


Your Guide to Doctor Who
Daily Athenaeum
"Doctor Who" is a British science fiction TV series. The titular character of the series, the Doctor, is a 900-year-old Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. He's also the last of his kind. Matt Smith plays the current Doctor, a highly energetic but ...

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From news service reports - Press Herald

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:06 PM PDT


From news service reports
Press Herald
The new season of "Doctor Who" starts at 9 pm April 23. The classic British sci-fi television show, found on the cable channel BBC America and some PBS stations, opens with a two-part season premiere, "The Impossible Astronaut," set in a very unusual ...

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Babes remembered - BBC News

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 02:29 PM PDT


BBC News

Babes remembered
BBC News
We report from the set of the TV drama, in which Dougray Scott appears as manager Matt Busby and David Tennant plays coach Jimmy Murphy. On a park in east London, a group of young men are spending a very chilly Monday morning playing football. ...

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TARDISblend 22: Countdown To 'Doctor Who' Series 6 - Geeks of Doom

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 12:43 PM PDT


Geeks of Doom

TARDISblend 22: Countdown To 'Doctor Who' Series 6
Geeks of Doom
We kick off the show speculating on what can be expected in the opening episode of the season, The Impossible Astronaut, directed by Toby Haynes and written by showrunner Steven Moffat. The first episode is part one of a two-part adventure, ...

CRAZY OVER DAISY LOWE - Daily Star

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 12:19 PM PDT


CRAZY OVER DAISY LOWE
Daily Star
Daisy Lowe, 22, put on a highly-sexed burlesque act for the lucky crowd at The Windmill Club in London's Soho. The foxy model's Doctor Who boyfriend Matt Smith, 28, was watching, as was Little Britain funnyman David ...

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Timey-Wimey Tuesday: Not afraid to use it?

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 11:11 AM PDT

On this day for the last few months, we've been counting down to Series 6 with a featured discussion. Today, for the final time (boo!), we'll be looking ahead to the now very near future in a Timey-Wimey Tuesday! For our final featured image, here's a screencap of Amy taken from the full length trailer. It [...]

Series 6 Character Gallery - Doctor Who TV (blog)

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:57 AM PDT


Doctor Who TV (blog)

Series 6 Character Gallery
Doctor Who TV (blog)
New Doctor Who promotional pics have been released by the BBC. This batch features character pictures from The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon. We've got Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy (Karen Gillan), Rory (Arthur Darvill), River Song (Alex ...

Doctor Who Countdown – 4 days to go!

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:56 AM PDT

As our countdown to the new series continues (4 days to go!), today our attention turns to its fourth episode, which is oh so intriguingly titled… The Doctor's Wife! If the cryptic title wasn't enough to get us excited, it's also been written by Neil Gaiman, who has promised us that the story is "funny and [...]

Series 6 Character Gallery

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:48 AM PDT

New Doctor Who promotional pics have been released by the BBC. This batch features character pictures from The Imp Read more ...


Top 11 Doctor Who Monsters

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:33 AM PDT

BBC America has released another Doctor Who video countdown. This time it's the Top 11 Monsters that the 11th Doctor has faced. With just one series and a Christmas special to pick from, the choices are pretty limited. In fact, it contains the same monster twice, just in a different guise.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj5UlCTz Read more ...


KAREN GILLAN: LOOK WHO'LL BE FUN - Express.co.uk

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:12 AM PDT


KAREN GILLAN: LOOK WHO'LL BE FUN
Express.co.uk
Despite spending much of the first series parading around in a micro-mini skirt Karen says she's covering up second time around in trousers. She tells Radio Times: "I quite like the idea that she's getting a little bit more tomboyish." Has Doctor Who ...

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Doctor Who Experience to Move

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:01 AM PDT

BBC Worldwide is pleased to announce that it is planning to relocate the Doctor Who Experience to a long term home in Cardiff in 2012.

Opening in February 2011 at London's Olympia Two venue, the Doctor Who Experience is an unmissable adventure featuring an exhilarating and unique walk-through experience and an awe-inspiring exhibition.

The Doctor Who Experience allows visitors to join the Doctor on a journey through time and space, encountering some of the best-loved and scariest monsters from the hit international television series. Special scenes filmed with current Doctor Matt Smith combine with amazing special effects and the chance to enter a recreation of the modern TARDIS interior topped off by a breathtaking 3-D finale. The walk through experience is a fully contained interactive Doctor Who adventure, which puts the public at the heart of the action.

New promotional images for the event have today been made public, and you can see them in our gallery below as a Dalek and Max Hardy, aged 6 and his mother Sophie Hardy and various motorists spot new signposting highlighting the location of the Doctor Who Experience.

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Steven Moffat, Executive Producer and show runner for the hit television series comments:

"The Doctor Who Experience is a fan's dream come true – a fully interactive adventure that will allow viewers of the show to get as close as possible to some of the scariest monsters from the series. It will also be the first time that Doctor Who artefacts from all the show's 47 year history – classic and new – will be on display together, many of them being seen for the first time.

"And never mind that, this is the day the Doctor teaches you how to fly the TARDIS through time and space, and takes you into battle with all his deadliest enemies in a brand new adventure.  So steady your nerves and bring your own sofa – the Doctor needs you!"

The move to Cardiff will of course move the event closer to production of the series, which will no doubt have some interesting tourism benefits for the Welsh capital!

If you haven't been already, why not take a look at our review of the Doctor Who Experience, with exclusive photographs!

More pictures from The Impossible Astronaut!

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 10:00 AM PDT

The return of Doctor Who is now just a a stone's thow away, and to tide us over until Saturday night, here's a gallery of newly released images from The Impossible Astronaut! The first four images are publicity shots of the Doctor, Amy, Rory and River in Utah, and if you scroll down further you'll see [...]

Matt Smith: 'We want to get Doctor Who to as many Americans as possible' - Unreality TV

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:59 AM PDT


Matt Smith: 'We want to get Doctor Who to as many Americans as possible'
Unreality TV
Doctor Who star Matt Smith has admitted that he is hoping Doctor Who will continue to do well in America. Some of the upcoming sixth series of the BBC sci-fi show was shot in Utah last year and BBC America will air the show just hours after it is ...

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The Tellyvangelist – Whovian Edition: April 18 – 24 - Anglophenia (blog)

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:24 AM PDT


Anglophenia (blog)

The Tellyvangelist – Whovian Edition: April 18 – 24
Anglophenia (blog)
Following in her co-star Matt Smith's footsteps, Karen Gillan chats with major Doctor Who fan Craig Ferguson on The Late Late Show this coming Friday, the day before Who's BBC America season premiere. This chat promises to be a symphony of dancing, ...

Q for a Miracle Day!

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:20 AM PDT

Star Trek: The Next Generation's John De Lancie – the alien enigma Q – has been confirmed as a guest in Torchwood Series 4, Miracle Day.

The news was revealed on Twitter by Torchwood writer Jane Espenson:

"I just this minute got permission to tell about the Torchwood guest star I was tweeting about," she told her followers. "Two great Sci Fi fandoms collide."

"He's de licious… he's de lightful. He's de lovely … our friend Q from Star Trek: TNG, John De Lancie, is part of the #Torchwood family."

Espenson was at pains to point out that De Lancie would not be playing Q.

De Lancie joins a fascinating cast that includes names as diverse as Bill Pullman (Independence Day) and Lena Kaur (Hollyoaks) alongside John Barrowman and Eve Myles as Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper.

Torchwood: Miracle Day will debut in the US on Starz on Friday, July 8th, with a UK broadcast yet to be confirmed.

(Via Trek Today)

Celebrity hair - new styles - Now Magazine Online

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:00 AM PDT


Now Magazine Online

Celebrity hair - new styles
Now Magazine Online
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan's face is almost completely hidden by her thick red hair in London on 7 April. Now magazine will not publish anything which is defamatory, offensive, or illegal. Email nowonline@ipcmedia.com to complain about any comments ...

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The Impossible Trailers

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 07:34 AM PDT

A week to go until The Impossible Astronaut hits our screens and the BBC have given us a few short hits of joy in what they like to call 'trailers'

For those not in the know a 'trailer' according to Wikipedia is an unpowered vehicle pulled by a powered vehicle (I don't know what they were thinking with that name!)

The powered vehicle in question is the salivation of a thousand Doctor Who fans, clicking there opinions away faster than spellcheck can cope.

The Impossible Astronaut sees the Doctor, Amy and Rory travel to 1960′s Utah, meet the eminently boo-able Richard M. Nixon (Stuart Milligan) in the White House, come a cropper of The Silence and save a a small girl somehow involved in an invasion that time forgot.

Unsurprisingly the unpowered vehicle looks amazing…

You probably shouldn't miss these two either…

The Impossible Astronaut airs 6pm Saturday 23rd April on BBC One in the UK and BBC America!

John de Lancie signs for Torchwood

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 07:07 AM PDT

john_de_Lancie TorchwoodActor John de Lancie has been confirmed as a member of the cast of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

The actor is best known for his portrayal of Q, a recurring character in the Star Trek franchise, He created the role for the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and was so sucessful that he had regular appearances in the series throughout its run as well as episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

He has also appeared in numerous television shows including; The Six Million Dollar Man, Hill Street Blues, The Thorn Birds, Nero Wolfe, The West Wing, Sports Night, Judging Amy, The New Twilight Zone, The Closer, Legend, L.A. Law, MacGyver, Picket Fences, Civil Wars, The Practice, Charmed, Murder, She Wrote, Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica (1978), Emergency!, and Touched by an Angel.

de Lancie's casting in Torchwood was revealed in a tweet by one of the series authors Jane Espenson.

The series is currently in production for transmission worldwide this summer.

Torchwood: Miracle Day casting news: Star Trek TNG's “Q” on the show - Examiner.com

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 06:58 AM PDT


Torchwood: Miracle Day casting news: Star Trek TNG's "Q" on the show
Examiner.com
Look for Torchwood to hit television screens on Starz July 8th at 10pm. Prepare for awesome. Torchwood: Miracle Daystars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Mekhi Phifer, and Bill Pullman. One day nobody dies, thus setting off a chain of events that pits the ...

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Shocking Silence

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 06:20 AM PDT

A slightly tweaked trailer for The Impossible Astronaut can now be seen on BBC1 and it contains a few new clips. The most Read more ...


The Final Curtain Preview

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 06:04 AM PDT

The Classic Whovians at the BBC and 2|entertain have released a few preview clips from The Final Curtain, a DVD extra to accompany the Third Doctor finale Planet of the Spiders, available today.

First, a look at all the factors that led to Jon Pertwee's departure, featuring discussion from script editor Terrance Dicks and Mike Yates actor Richard Franklin, and posthumous interviews with showrunner Barry Letts and Pertwee himself…

The other two clips see modern Who writer and actor Mark Gatiss relate his experiences as a youngster watching Planet of the Spiders on its first broadcast, and the third one includes insight from Dicks and Pertwee on the emotions running behind the scenes, especially from Pertwee:

Watch the rest of this documentary, and Planet of the Spiders itself by purchasing the DVD on Amazon for just £12.93 (RRP £19.99)!  If you still need a little persuasion, our sterling reviewer James Whittington recently gave his full take on the story and the extras.

Doctor Who touches down in North America for a new season - Vancouver Sun

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:50 AM PDT


Doctor Who touches down in North America for a new season
Vancouver Sun
The executive producer, Steven Moffat, also produced "Sherlock," a modern-day reworking of Sherlock Holmes, which was a hit on PBS. For those needing an introduction, The Doctor is a space-traveling alien from Gallifrey with a fondness for Planet Earth ...

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Do You Have a Shada Talent?

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:46 AM PDT

You may be aware of this or you may not, but longtime Doctor Who fan Ian Levine is running a project to complete the unfinished 1979 adventure Shada, which originally starred Tom Baker and Lalla Ward, but was sadly shelved due to industrial action.

The project is of course animated, and Ian is looking for animators to complete the story (considerable work has already been completed).

Speaking about the project, Ian has said:

"Believe it or not, we still need more animators who can work in 2d and flash," he posted. "Opportunity of a lifetime to find some young talented people who can actually get their work seen and used if they are genuinely talented enough. They have to work to our characters and our backgrounds, like this…

"It's an opportunity that could take them ten years if they tried on their own, but I need to find some extra people quickly. Just one more new animator and we can finish it in time."

It also seems likely that Levine is running other projects alongside Shada, possibly with a similar aim of reconstruction on some classic, lost Doctor Who serials.

If you have any talent in this area then you should contact Ian Levine via his Facebook page.

(Via DownTheTubes Forum | Thanks to Matt)

What's New at Big Finish?

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:29 AM PDT

A few new starts are about to take place at Big Finish and so for anyone looking to start listening to the audio adventures of the Doctor (or anyone looking to start listening to them after a period of abstinence) may want to jump on board this year as there are exciting times ahead!

The latest batch of Lost Stories featuring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor will take you up until September this year. Following on from that will see Paul McGann return in the regular rotation on mini season arcs alongside the other Doctors. The Eighth Doctor will have a brand new companion to show the wonders of the Universe to in the shape of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

Mary was last seen boarding the TARDIS at the end of The Company of Friends and now it's finally time to find out how her travels went. This has been something that the eighth Doctor has mentioned from the very start of his audio adventures, way back in Storm Warning so it will certainly be fun to see how Shelley deals with some of the terrible creatures that lie in wait for her. Julie Cox will be reprising her role as the author and if you haven't listened to The Company of Friends as yet then do so-it's well worth your time.

Following on from this in January 2012, there's not only the exciting new run of fourth Doctor stories to anticipate but a new trilogy of plays for the Sixth Doctor as well and he'll also have a new friend aboard the TARDIS, the revelation of whom is something that Big Finish are keeping well under their stovepipe hats:

"We're not revealing which companion Colin is travelling with yet…but brace yourselves for something new and exciting."

Check out this week's BF Podcast where Paul McGann and Julie Cox will be giving a teaser to their new stories together. For more information visit www.bigfinish.com

De Lancie To Appear In Torchwood: Miracle Day - Trek Today

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 05:08 AM PDT


UGO

De Lancie To Appear In Torchwood: Miracle Day
Trek Today
John De Lancie, Star Trek: The Next Generation's Q, will be a guest star on Torchwood: Miracle Day. Torchwood writer Jane Espenson shared the news via Twitter. "I just this minute got permission to tell about the Torchwood guest star I was tweeting ...
Q Flashes into Torchwood: Miracle DayUGO
'Torchwood: Miracle Day' Casting News: John de Lancie Will Guest StarGather.com

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Karen Gillan teases 'Doctor Who' marriage rift - Digital Spy

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:35 AM PDT


Karen Gillan teases 'Doctor Who' marriage rift
Digital Spy
By Justin Harp, Entertainment Reporter Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has hinted that her character Amy's marriage to Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) will be tested during the upcoming sixth series. The Inverness native told MTV News that several ...

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Q Flashes into Torchwood: Miracle Day - UGO

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:13 AM PDT


UGO

Q Flashes into Torchwood: Miracle Day
UGO
Starring Mekhi Phifer, Bill Pullman and Lauren Ambrose alongside original series stars John Barrowman and Eve Myles, Miracle Day sees the duo investigating a mysterious global event where humans stop dying, which causes the population to skyrocket and ...

Best bets: 'Elephants' brings circus to town - msnbc.com

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:32 AM PDT


msnbc.com

Best bets: 'Elephants' brings circus to town
msnbc.com
"Doctor Who" returns this week, with Matt Smith returning as The Doctor. The two-part premiere is set in the US, the first time the famously British show has ever filmed here. Lead writer Steven Moffat tells fans "we're barely 10 minutes into episode ...

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New To Who? 10 Classic 'Doctor Who' Adventures Worth Checking Out - Geeks of Doom

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:23 AM PDT


Geeks of Doom

New To Who? 10 Classic 'Doctor Who' Adventures Worth Checking Out
Geeks of Doom
Indeed, to a generation of Doctor Who fans, there have been only three Doctors since they discovered the adventures of the Time Lord: Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, and Matt Smith. And inevitably, many of these fans find themselves wanting to ...

Doctor Who Insider - Issue 2 - The Doctor Who News Page

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:11 AM PDT


Doctor Who Insider - Issue 2
The Doctor Who News Page
The second edition of Doctor Who Insider will be available in North America from 5 May. In an exclusive interview, Karen Gillan reveals her thoughts on filming in America, Amy's on-screen marriage, and what her hopes are for future episodes. ...

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Learn 47 years of Doctor Who in 6 minutes - ITworld.com

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:05 AM PDT


Learn 47 years of Doctor Who in 6 minutes
ITworld.com
As a sci-fi geek and fan, for some reason I never got into Doctor Who as much as Star Wars, Star Trek and other series - I blame watching some of the Tom Baker episodes on my local PBS channel in the mid-'70s and being freaked out by some of the aliens ...

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Doctor Who Insider - Issue 2

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 02:56 AM PDT

Doctor WhoThe second edition of Doctor Who Insider will be available in North America from 5 May.

In an exclusive interview, Karen Gillan reveals her thoughts on filming in America, Amy's on-screen marriage, and what her hopes are for future episodes.
Everyone was nervous when I got a sword in my hand. I would like to take up sword fighting as a hobby. I really, really loved it.
The magazine also talks to one of Gillan's predecessors: Katy Manning who played Jo Grant opposite Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee in the seventies.

Also in the issue
  • AMERICAN ADVENTURES
  • The opening episodes of the new season are set in the USA and although this is the first time major filming for the series has actually taken place in America, this isn't the Doctor's first visit by any means.
  • I WAS… COLONEL HUGH CURBISHLY
  • Christopher Benjamin reminisces about working with Jon Pertwee in the 1970 story, Inferno, playing Colonel Curbishly in The Unicorn and Wasp in 2008, and creating the much loved character of Henry Gordon Jago in 1977's The Talons of Weng-Chiang – a role he has recently returned to on audio.
  • NEXUS POINT
  • A look back at the moment that the Ninth Doctor confronted the Emperor Dalek in 2005's dramatic season finale, The Parting of the Ways.
  • DATA FILE
  • All the Doctor's greatest foes gathered to entrap him in The Pandorica Opens. The guide shows you who exactly was there for this momentous moment.
  • TIME SCOOP
  • The Time Scoop has collected the Silurians and the Sea Devils this issue. There is a closer look at the Earth's original inhabitants and their encounters with the Doctor.
  • MERCHANDISE
  • Previews of the latest Doctor Who merchandise, including Terror of the Autons and Planet of the Spiders on DVD featuring mini interviews with Richard Franklin who plays Mike Yates in both adventures; the Seventh Doctor gains a new companion in the audio adaptation of Lost Story, Crime of the Century from Big Finish Productions; and author Paul Finch tells how – and why – he gives the Doctor a rough time in his new novel Hunter's Moon.
  • FAN ZONE
  • A selection of photographs of fans and their incredible creations inspired by Doctor Who, including two lady Doctors and a tiki Dalek!
PLUS! The latest official news on the second half of the new series, and a giant, doublesided poster of Amy Pond and the Pandorica alien alliance!

New season of UK's Doctor Who starts in America on April 23 - Kansas City Star (blog)

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 02:44 AM PDT


New season of UK's Doctor Who starts in America on April 23
Kansas City Star (blog)
The executive producer, Steven Moffat, also produced "Sherlock," a modern-day reworking of Sherlock Holmes, which was a hit on PBS. For those needing an introduction, The Doctor is a space-traveling alien from Gallifrey with a fondness for Planet Earth ...

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Doctor Who Insider #2

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 02:41 AM PDT

Doctor Who Insider issue 2 is set for release in the USA on May 5th, timed to coincide with Doctor Who Series 6 on BBC America!

"I would like to take up sword fighting as a hobby. I really, really loved it."

– Karen Gillan on being a pirate in Episode Three of the new season.

In an exclusive interview, Karen Gillan reveals her thoughts on filming in America, Amy's on‐screen marriage, and what her hopes are for future episodes. We also talk to one of Karen's predecessors: Katy Manning who played Jo Grant opposite Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee in the seventies.

PLUS, the issue also includes these great features and previews…

AMERICAN ADVENTURES
The opening episodes of the new season are set in the USA and although this is the first time major filming for the series has actually taken place in America, this isn't the Doctor's first visit by any means, as we reveal.

I WAS… COLONEL HUGH CURBISHLY
Christopher Benjamin reminisces about working with Jon Pertwee in the 1970 story, Inferno, playing Colonel Curbishly in The Unicorn and Wasp in 2008, and creating the much loved character of Henry Gordon Jago in 1977's The Talons of Weng‐Chiang – a role he has recently returned to on audio.

NEXUS POINT
We look back at the moment that the Ninth Doctor confronted the Emperor Dalek in 2005's dramatic season finale, The Parting of the Ways.

DATA FILE
All the Doctor's greatest foes gathered to entrap him in The Pandorica Opens. Our guide shows you who exactly was there for this momentous moment.

TIME SCOOP
The Time Scoop has collected the Silurians and the Sea Devils this issue. We take a closer look at the Earth's original inhabitants and their encounters with the Doctor.

MERCHANDISE
Previews of the latest Doctor Who merchandise, including Terror of the Autons and Planet of the Spiders on DVD featuring mini interviews with Richard Franklin who plays Mike Yates in both adventures; the Seventh Doctor gains a new companion in the audio adaptation of Lost Story, Crime of the Century from Big Finish Productions; and author Paul Finch tells us how – and why – he gives the Doctor a rough time in his new novel Hunter's Moon.

FAN ZONE
A selection of photographs of fans and their incredible creations inspired by Doctor Who, including two lady Doctors and a tiki Dalek!

PLUS! The latest official news on the second half of the new series, and a giant, doublesided poster of Amy Pond and the Pandorica alien alliance!

Don't miss the second issue of DOCTOR WHO INSIDER, out May 5 for just $6.99!

The Hounds of Artemis

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 02:32 AM PDT

Doctor Who - The Hounds of ArtemisThis May, AudioGO are thrilled to be releasing an original Doctor Who adventure starring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.

You might recall The Hounds of Artemis has already been released as a daily newspaper covermount in February 2011; this new version, however, features the benefit of full music and sound design.

Written specially for audio by James Goss, The Hounds of Artemis is read by Matt Smith as the Doctor and Clare Corbett as Helen Stapleton, and features original music and sound design.

The Doctor and Amy visit Smyrna, 1929, in order to investigate a mystery. The Doctor knows that something very bad happened there: something that caused a lot of people to die and an entire, magnificent Temple to be found and then immediately lost again.

But he doesn't know what is picking off the archaeologists one by one, or how it is connected to the terrifying howling in the night. And as he and Amy get closer to the terrible truth behind an ancient evil, he begins to wish he'd never found out…

Running to 1 hour and 10 minutes and available on CD or download, you can purchase The Hounds of Artemis from May 5th, 2011. The CD version has an SRP of £9.25 (just £6.94 on Amazon), while the MP3 download has an SRP of £6.79.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Dubuque Telegraph Herald

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 02:05 AM PDT


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Actor David Tennant is 40. Country musician Marvin Evatt (EH'-veht) is 37. Rock musician Mark Tremonti is 37. Rhythm-and-blues singer Trina (Trina and Tamara) is 37. Actress Melissa Joan Hart is 35. Actor Sean Maguire is 35. Actress America Ferrera is ...

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Win tickets to a Doctor Who party in New York!

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 01:09 AM PDT

Time Out New York and BBC America will be hosting a Series 6 premiere party in New York tomorrow (18th April)! The first two episodes of the new series will be screened at the event, taking place at The Bell House from 7pm. The party will also include a trivia competition, a character impersonation contest (with prizes [...]

The Doctor and Amy on new TV & Satellite Week

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 12:49 AM PDT

The Doctor and Amy Pond are featured on the Easter issue of TV & Satellite Week! The listings magazine is celebrating the start of the new series with an exclusive preview, and inside there's also a new interview with the Doctor himself, Matt Smith, who reveals just what's in store for the TARDIS team. The issue is [...]

New York Times Bestseller!

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:37 PM PDT

Wa-hey! Look at this! The Lex Luthor in Action Comics collection Superman: The Black Ring is at number one in the New York Times Hardcover Graphic Books Best Seller list! It's all down to Pete Woods' art and Matt and Wil's editing, I'll have you know.

And, to stop blowing my own trumpet and, erm, blow someone else's, the London Comics Festival from 30th April features a number of my old cohorts, including several Doctor Who folk. Do pop along.

I shall now go back to gloating. I've ordered some green hair dye for the beard. Only a week to go, but it's going to be a tough one. Until next time, Cheerio!

Today in History, Monday, April 18, 2011 - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:36 PM PDT


Today in History, Monday, April 18, 2011
Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
Actor David Tennant is 40. Rock musician Mark Tremonti is 37. Actress Melissa Joan Hart is 35. Actor Sean Maguire is 35. Actress Britt Robertson (TV: "Life Unexpected") is 21. Actor Moises Arias ("Hannah Montana") is 17. "War makes strange giant ...

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Inferno Audiobook Review

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:31 PM PDT

Doctor Who - InfernoKnown to many as "The one with the eye-patch", Inferno is one of the adventures from Jon Pertwee's era that is seen by some as long-winded but to others as a cracking adventure.

This unabridged edition of the Target novel helps to bring the story into a digestible format and frees it from the restraints of early television special effects.

Inferno is the name of a top-secret drilling project to penetrate the Earth's crust and release a major new energy source. A crisis develops when an obnoxious green liquid leaks out as a drilling progresses – the green poison has a grotesquely effect on human beings. As the Earth's plight worsens, the Doctor is trapped in a parallel world, unable to rescue the planet and its inhabitants from the destructive force unleashed by the Inferno project.

Caroline John lends herself well to this story; her delivery is dramatic and deeply delivered with thought and care. She does well handling the various dialects the story characters posses, her take on the Brigadier is quite wonderful and her upbeat and all-knowing Doctor is excellently thought through. I've always liked the character of Liz Shaw and would love for her to have one last meeting with the Doctor on screen.

It also helps that Terrence Dicks produced a cracking Target novel in the first place which lifts the story from its very dark TV roots and makes it slightly lighterstory. This tale of oppression and fascism was quite a serious story for the show but like much of Season 7 the show was becoming more mature in its storylines.

The score is over dramatic though, often threatening to overpower the dialogue and maybe, for future releases this can be toned down slightly. The effects on the other-hand do their job well and add tension to the already tight story. The concise but informative sleeve notes written by David J Howe (have you bought his rather excellent The Target Book yet?), enlighten the listener.

A great release which reminds us just how great the early Pertwee adventures were.

Released on April 7th, you can purchase the Inferno audiobook read by Caroline John for £13.25, or order from Amazon for just £7.77!

Review: Frontios - DVD

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 10:19 PM PDT

Manufacturer: BBC DVD / 2|Entertain

Written By: Christopher H. Bidmead

RRP: &ound;20.42

Release Date: 30th May 2011

Reviewed By: Dale Who for Doctor Who Online

Review Posted: 18th April 2011

Let's get something straight and out in the open right from the outset... There is a type of creature that is made scarier by making it larger. In Doctor Who's long history, they would be giant maggots and giant spiders. They work with an already present fear or revulsion of the creatures to produce a memorably scary Doctor Who monster. In the not scary bracket are giant ants and butterflies (the Zarbi and Menoptera from 1965's "The Web Planet")... and woodlice. Woodlice are not scary. Not even remotely.

Frontios is a polarised story. Some parts of it work brilliantly, and some parts of it really don't; and this new BBC / 2|Entertain DVD showcases both these aspects and examines them in the special features on the single disc release.

Starting with the story itself, Frontios is a fairly low budget studio bound Doctor Who, coming towards the end of Peter Davison's tenure as The Doctor. The regular cast continue to shine, with Davison and Janet Fielding especially stealing every scene they're in; and there are some brilliant guest stars in Jeff Rawle as Plantagenet and Lesley Dunlop in the role of Norna. There are some great lines and jokes along the way, and the Doctor is in one of those "grouchy professor" moods that suited his young persona so very well.

Sadly for Frontios, that's about where the good ends. The sets - although you can see an awful lot of effort and thought went into them - don't work in convincing that the studio is the surface of an alien planet, some of the performances really aren't great, and then there's the Tractators. Giant flapping woodlice that fail in just about every way possible to be even remotely thrilling.

This story will be remembered for two main reasons; firstly this is the one where the previously indestructible TARDIS was destroyed (albeit briefly!), and secondly for the unpleasant infestation of some particularly large and rubbish woodlice that hung around for two (and a bit) episodes. Its failures certainly aren't for the lack of trying: the direction, the handling and the production all work well with what they've got. However it looks cheap and rushed and all a little too hurried to carry off what still wouldn't have been a great story with a budget ten times larger.

It is also worth noting that several of the concepts shown in this story (the colonists being pulled down through the ground, and witnesses referring to this as the Earth being hungry) were re-used and utilised to much better effect in the 2010 series of Doctor Who, in the Silurian episode "The Hungry Earth"... now where did they get that title from?

Special Features:

Driven To Distractation - There are many reasons to love this half hour featurette; it has a lot of frank honesty, a lot of humour, and gives a robust defence of the story itself. It almost succeeds in making you like the story more. Almost. What it definitely succeeds at is showing the rush-job that the Doctor Who cast and crew faced to get the story in the can, in the face of several tragedies and setbacks; and it shows the thought processes behind the writing of the serial. It's nicely put together, uses relevant footage from the time and is decidedly non-judgemental and supportive in what comes across in quite a sweet way. The writers and stars do admit where there were mistakes made, and it's very brave of them to do so, even if Christopher H. Bidmead neatly places the blame on everyone but himself.

Extra / Deleted Scenes - Minor trims and one or two scenes that play rather well but didn't make it into the final cut of the programme. There's a brilliant bit about the Doctor's spectacles, and Tegan being an android that really should have been aired; they're funny, clever, and give Tegan and the Doctor some great lines.

Commentary - Peter Davison, Jeff Rawle, Dick Mills and Eric Saward sit around a red table and give opinions, anecdotes, memories and an overall view of how the show holds up for them twenty seven years on. It's all quite pleasant and jovial and Rawle and Mills especially give some new angles on how the guest stars, and the "special sound" on Doctor Who were used.

Info Text - The usual trivia packed information is available on this disc as well, although most of it seems obsessed in pointing out where anything over two seconds of cuts were made to trim episodes down from over running. It also points out a couple of continuity errors and the careers and times of the guests stars that appeared in Frontios.

Coming Soon Trailer - The next absurdly themed boxed set: Earthstory, in which William Hartnell's Doctor lands in Tombstone in search of a dentist and gets rather caught up with "The Gunfighters", and Peter Davison's Doctor lands in Little Hodcombe and discovers a centuries old evil lurking in the local church in "The Awakening".

With the usual fripperies as well, such as the Radio Times PDF files, and the Photo Gallery from Frontios, these features help buoy a story that's not as strong as it might have been; however it's certainly not for the lack of trying.

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"This campaign is about so much more than the clothes you wear" - Third Sector

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 08:48 PM PDT


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April Podcast 003 - 18 April 2011

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 08:17 PM PDT

To make up for the lack of 'live' David Richardson and Paul Spragg in this week's podcast, Nick Briggs has packed it with extra content.

As well as the final part of our exclusive Tom Baker interview, there's the pre-recorded Paul Spragg chatting with Valentine Pelka, Kronos from our Highlander 2 Box Set, then there's a special preview of upcoming Doctor Who releases (starring Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy with rats and Robots of Death).

All that, and a sneaky little studio preview with Paul McGann and Julie Cox, the Eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley (pictured here in a fine photo by director Barnaby Edwards).

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Posted: 17 Apr 2011 08:16 PM PDT


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Unreality TV
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'Doctor Who': Who will die? - Digital Spy (blog)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 07:38 PM PDT


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