Friday, April 29, 2011

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News

Dylan Thomas volumes are given away as centre bookshop closes down - WalesOnline

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:01 PM PDT


Dylan Thomas volumes are given away as centre bookshop closes down
WalesOnline
Swansea-born Dr Who writer Russell T Davies, singer Cerys Matthews and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy are among those who have opposed the council proposal. Mr Towns, who deals in Dylan Thomas memorabilia as well as books, said yesterday: "I have to be ...

No Royal Wedding for me, give me Sarah Jane Smith any day! - ABC Online (blog)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:34 PM PDT


No Royal Wedding for me, give me Sarah Jane Smith any day!
ABC Online (blog)
She was the only companion from the original BBC series of Doctor Who to appear in the new series and was even set to record a whole new set of audio adventures next year with Tom Baker. As a child Sarah Jane Smith represented everything I aspired to ...

I'm just not interested in doing someone else's dirty work - Herald Scotland

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 01:11 PM PDT


Herald Scotland
I'm just not interested in doing someone else's dirty work
Herald Scotland
His voice, remarkably like that of the actor David Tennant, trails away to be replaced by an enigmatic smile. Out on the stump, canvassers report that the LibDems could be knocked into fifth place by angry, deflated followers turning to the Greens. ...

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Doctor Who Confidential Episode 3 title and details

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 12:02 PM PDT

Details have now been released regarding the third episode of Doctor Who Confidential, which will accompany The Curse of the Black Spot by Steve Thompson. In the episode, entitled 'Ship Ahoy!', the Confidential team sets sail for a VIP journey on board the Doctor Who pirate ship, and Karen Gillan explains how she got to [...]

Doctor Who aids Lowe-07 - The Sun

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 11:48 AM PDT


Doctor Who aids Lowe-07
The Sun
DOCTOR WHO'S MATT SMITH has been giving girlfriend DAISY LOWE acting lessons - because she wants to be a Bond girl. The couple have been performing passages from classic books and watching old films in a bid to get the model up to scratch. ...

Preview of BBC America's ‘Doctor Who in America'

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:48 AM PDT

BBC America have released a preview of their 'Doctor Who in America' special which will be aired this weekend. The special will be shown on the channel this Saturday at 10/9c, straight after their premiere of Day of the Moon. As its title suggests, the programme ventures behind the scenes as the Doctor Who team heads [...]

Digital Spy and SFX share some Episode 2 teasers!

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:32 AM PDT

Some new teasers for the next episode of Doctor Who – Day of the Moon – have appeared online courtesy of Digital Spy and SFX! Firstly, Digital Spy have shared 10 interesting tidbits from the episode, while SFX have posted 20 of their very own "incredibly vague hints". In the episode, which will air tomorrow night [...]

Could Captain Jack be back on Doctor Who? - Examiner.com

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:10 AM PDT


Could Captain Jack be back on Doctor Who?
Examiner.com
One way that could bring old fans enthusiastically back to Torchwood, is the possibility of bringing Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) back in an episode or three of the still popular-with-most-fans, Doctor Who. In a recent interview in The ...

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DOCTOR WHO: DOCTOR IS ON SONG - Daily Star

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:09 AM PDT


DOCTOR WHO: DOCTOR IS ON SONG
Daily Star
Fans think she could be the Time Lord's future wife or even the future daughter of his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan, 23). Viewers will finally discover River's true identity later in the series. Doctor Who airs tomorrow on BBC1 at 6pm.

BBC America's 'Doctor Who in America' Special Sneak Peak [VIDEO]

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:45 AM PDT

A preview of BBC America's new original special DOCTOR WHO IN AMERICA which goes behind the scenes with Doctor Who shooting in the U.S. Featuring interviews with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan plus Executive Producer and Lead Writer Steven Moffat. DOCTOR WHO IN AMERICA premieres this Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 10/9c, immediately following "Day of the Moon" at 9/8c on BBC America. Be sure to catch Doctor Who: Podshock live on the net on Sunday when we review "Day of the Moon" as well as "The Impossible Astronaut" - See details here.

Curse of the Black Spot Prequel Soon

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:38 AM PDT

The official website has confirmed that a prequel for Curse of the Black Spot will be re Read more ...


What I bought – 27 April 2011 - Comic Book Resources

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:24 AM PDT


What I bought – 27 April 2011
Comic Book Resources
If I can keep it, I swear I'll watch Doctor Who while I tape a photograph of Karen Gillan to my Wookie statue and pretend she's sitting right next to me! I SWEAR!!!!!! Warlord of Mars #6 by Arvid Nelson (writer), Lui Antonio (artist), Adriano Lucas ...

John would “love to have a go” at Eleventh Doctor

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:57 AM PDT

Life of Wylie has a new interview with John Simm, in which he admits that he would love to return to Doctor Who for the opportunity to "have a go" at Matt Smith's Doctor. The actor, acclaimed for his portrayal of the Master, has said that he would "seriously consider" reprising the role if he were [...]

An Ood Presence

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:47 AM PDT

That's right: everyone's favourite singing man-servants are back to soothsay and do that glowy eye thing for Neil Gaiman's hotly anticipated episode The Doctor's Wife – and the storyteller extraordinaire  has been speaking to SFX about them, budgets and just what is lost inside the TARDIS.

Giving us a sneak peak of whats in store in SFX #209 (on sale next week) the bods behind those precious words have given us a sample of Gaiman chatting about the constraints of television budgets. And it appears the old adage that limitations breed creativity:

"I tried to create a completely new monster. But shortly before shooting it became very apparent that given the incredible amount of money they were going to have to spend on my episode – they were taking other episodes behind the bike sheds, beating them up and taking their pocket money – there came a point where they said, 'Look, we cannot stretch to doing this prosthetic stuff that you wanted, would you like a classic monster?'

"And I said, 'Well, actually you have this thing that would fit perfectly there, and we could do this to it, and it would make it work…"

This being Neil Gaiman though they won't be the same, no they'll be slightly (snigger!) Ood!

"It was a nice link between the Tennant era and the current era, and it was nice to bring it back and do something very different with it, turn it upside down."

For more revealing details from the grandmaster of the macabre and mysterious  pick up SFX next Wednesday

Steven Moffat says he would love Jack to return

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:36 AM PDT

Steven Moffat has revealed that he isn't completely against the idea of bringing former companions back to Doctor Who. During a recent interview with Gothamist, the showrunner admitted that he'd particularly like to write for Captain Jack Harkness again, explaining: "Jack, who I wrote in the show, I'd love to have him back. I was [...]

Split Screen: Terrible time and again - Sydney Morning Herald (blog)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:21 AM PDT


Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Split Screen: Terrible time and again
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
These games were released for PC and Mac last year, to promote Matt Smith's first series in the role of the Eleventh Doctor. They were certainly made with Who fans in mind. "The BBC tried to create value-added interactive experiences for Doctor Who ...

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Rock And Chips: The Frog And The Pussycat review - Den Of Geek

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:06 AM PDT


Rock And Chips: The Frog And The Pussycat review
Den Of Geek
Del's relationship with Barbara Bird, a nicely judged performance from Jessica Ashworth (young Sarah Jane in The Sarah Jane Adventures) provides the light relief to Joan and Freddie's problems. Del tries to impress upon the art-loving, ...

Coming Soon: The Curse of the Black Spot Prequel

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:39 AM PDT

Following on from the first "prequel" for The Impossible Astronaut, the BBC have announced the second of their mini-episode preludes, this time providing an introduction to episode three, The Curse of the Black Spot, due to be broadcast on 7th May.

The full prequel will be available from here and the BBC website on 6:45pm Saturday, straight after the conclusion to Day of the Moon.


Coming Soon: The Curse of the Black Spot Prequel, BBC, via BBC iplayer


The Doctor Who News Page

Torchwood Teases a Miracle

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:15 AM PDT

Miracle Day is coming. This year sees the return of Torchwood after a two year absence and things are looking good.

Movie-like posters have been released by the BBC and Starz and they make the show look more epic than ever. But now we start getting to the real meat, if you will as the two channels start to launch the very enigmatic trailers that they have prepared for all you Torchwood fans out there.

Nothing is spoilt by watching this and absolutely nothing is given away. In fact, not a single member of the cast is shown and neither is a single piece of footage from the upcoming drama. But that's exactly what you want, to have your appetite whetted and your anticipation built up.

The teaser trailer itself has a voiceover of various news channels reporting the phenomenon that is "Miracle Day" in which none of the population of Earth dies for the entire day. And then the next and then the next…

It's a great concept which raises the terrifying point: If no one were to die, just how overcrowded would the Earth become and just how quickly?

We're about to find out this year as John Barrowman, Eve Myles and a star-studded supporting cast show us just how high the stakes are about to get for not only team Torchwood but also for the entire planet!

Torchwood: Miracle Day will be airing in the middle of this year on BBC One in the UK and the Starz channel in the US.

The Master Will See You Now…

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 06:32 AM PDT

John Simm made an appearance on The One Show this week, where he revealed that he would "certainly consider" returning as the Master in Doctor Who.

Simm was last seen in The End of Time Part Two, where he sent Rassilon and the Time Lords back into the time-locked Time War where they rightly belonged. But what became of the Master after that? Well, in all honesty no one knows.

The Master has always found a way back into the Doctor's life, evading a natural death in The Deadly Assassin and The Keeper of Traken, inexplicably evading his crispy doom in Planet of Fire and even evading total extermination by the Daleks on Skaro in the TV Movie. So logically it would not be that hard to bring him back to menace the eleventh Doctor and his friends.

Simm revealed that:

"There seems to have been a lot of talking about it recently, but I haven't spoken to anyone about it."

Now, if there's talking about it, it looks like it may be all the more likely. Matt Smith revealed that he would like a rematch against the Master and it's definitely something that Steven Moffat could write a beast of a script for.

But the real question is how much more of the Simm model do we want to see? Certainly his portrayal of the psychotic Time Lord was fantastic but it was paired evenly with David Tennant's Tenth Doctor. So is it now naturally time for the Simm model to regenerate into a Master that reflects Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor?

We'll just have to wait and see….

The Curse of the Black Spot prequel teaser online

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 06:29 AM PDT

The official site will be revealing the prequel to Episode 3, The Curse of the Black Spot, after Day of the Moon on Saturday, and you can watch a teaser of it below! The TARDIS trio find themselves marooned onboard a 17th-century pirate ship in the episode, where they discover that its crew are being [...]

Poll: The most memorable Doctor Who wedding

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 06:05 AM PDT

Prince William and Kate Middleton will be getting married tomorrow, and to celebrate the historic day, we want to know what you think has been the most memorable Doctor Who wedding of recent years! The Doctor has been to many weddings over the course of his travels (and, for all we know, several of his own…), [...]

The Goof-off Complex

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:59 AM PDT

This just in from BBC America – Inside Doctor Who clip number five!

Entitled "On the Set," this latest installment in BBC America's series of Doctor Who behind-the-scenes promotional segments depicts Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill having the time of their lives doing anything in front of the camera except actually filming their scenes, with commentary from producers Beth Willis, Piers Wenger, Steven Moffat, Marcus Wilson, and others.  Judging from the set's hotel-like corridors, there's a very high probability that the majority of the video below was recorded during production of Toby Whithouse's episode The God Complex, which we won't be seeing until autumn.

Frankly we can't help but notice that Karen Gillan, like David Tennant before her, is a Scot who can pull off a fairly decent English accent, but not such a fantastic American one. No harm done though, because like fangirls watching the Tenth Doctor, the male Kasterborites among us still can't get enough of her!

Doctor Who will be back again in TWO DAYS (Saturday) at 6PM on BBC One, 9/8 central on BBC America, and 8/7 central on Space!

6.3: The Curse of the Black Spot - Prequel Teaser

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:52 AM PDT

The BBC Doctor Who website have uploaded a teaser to their prequel for Episode 3 of Series 6.

The teaser offers a short 30-second insight into the full prequel which will air after 6.2: Day of the Moon, exclusively on the BBC Doctor who website at 6:45pm.

You can view the teaser video below:

+ 6.3: The Curse of the Black Spot airs on Saturday 7th May 2011 at 6:15pm on BBC One.

[Source: BBC Doctor Who website]

The Game of Rassilon!

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:02 AM PDT

The BBC's Doctor Who website have launched a new quiz, entitled The Game of Rassilon.

Legends tell of a Time Lord challenge that would test the guile, intelligence and fortune of those brave enough to step forward. The challenge was known as The Game of Rassilon.

The Time Lords may be near to extinction and Gallifrey consigned to history, but after centuries in abeyance the game will be soon be resurrected...

The quiz features clips, images, exclusive new footage with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, plus other members of the cast and crew. It is aimed to test the player's knowledge on Doctor Who, with different questions every time, and themed around the episode on television that week (currently The Impossible Astronaut).

The game can be played here.


The Doctor Who News Page

Steven Moffat wants Captain Jack back in Doctor Who - Musicrooms.net

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:56 AM PDT


Steven Moffat wants Captain Jack back in Doctor Who
Musicrooms.net
For those who believed the departure of Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies also meant the loss of the popular Captain Jack Harkness, all may not be lost. Current head writer Steven Moffat has said that he really hopes John Barrowman (pictured) could be ...

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Timeout: Easter Collectible Cover Offer

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:32 AM PDT


To celebrate the return of Doctor Who, last week's Timeout London (21-27 April) published six different covers depicting the characters from The Impossible Astronaut - previewed in that issue - plus interviews with the stars and head writer Steven Moffat.

The magazine is now offering all six covers online worldwide as a collectors set, which can bought via their Timeout Shop.



Previously, the magazine celebrated Doctor Who in December 2009, when it published covers for each the ten Doctors that had played the role to date.


The Doctor Who News Page

The Game of Rassilon

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:18 AM PDT

The BBC Doctor Who website have added The Game of Rassilon to their Games section.

Legends tell of a Time Lord challenge that would test the guile, intelligence and fortune of those brave enough to step forward. The challenge was known as The Game of Rassilon.

The Time Lords may be near to extinction and Gallifrey consigned to history, but after centuries in abeyance the game will be soon be resurrected…

This is not an Adventure Game but a series of games that test your knowledge of Doctor Who. Featuring clips, images, exclusive new footage with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill plus other members of the cast and crew, the games are not to be taken lightly. You'll be able to challenge your friends or take the test in solitude.

For centuries the mighty Time Lords played The Game of Rassilon. Now it is your turn...

+ Play The Game of Rassilon.

[Source: BBC Doctor Who website]

Official synopsis for ‘The Doctor's Wife' released…

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:08 AM PDT

The BBC Press Office has today released the official synopsis for Episode 4 of the new series, The Doctor's Wife, which will air on BBC One on Saturday 14th May (time to be confirmed). The episode is written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Richard Clark and guest stars Surrane Jones as Idris, a character "who may [...]

New puzzle game, The Game of Rassilon, launches

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:52 AM PDT

A new puzzle game has been launched on the official Doctor Who website today! 'The Game of Rassilon' gives fans the chance to test their knowledge on the latest episode with clips and images as well as exclusive contributions from the cast. You can play The Impossible Astronaut puzzle now, and once you're done there's the [...]

Who to Watch tomorrow!

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:47 AM PDT

Tomorrow sees several channels dedicated to coverage of the Royal Wedding; however, as an alternative, you could always experience the first few adventures of the Ninth Doctor instead, with digital channel Watch broadcasting Rose, The End of the World, Aliens of London/World War 3, The Long Game and Father's Day from 10:00am!


The Doctor Who News Page

New limited edition Doctor Who Monopoly game!

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:38 AM PDT

A brand new Doctor Who themed edition of Monopoly is to be released in the summer! The board game – featuring all of our favourite heroes, villains, monsters, planets and places from the series – will be available to buy from 1st August, however it will be limited to just 5000 sets, so if you want [...]

6.2: Day of the Moon - DWO Spoiler Free Preview

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:33 AM PDT

DWO have seen 6.2: Day of the Moon and have put our spoiler-free preview together:

It's been 7 days and the nail biting can finally end as the resolution to last week's cliffhanger is finally here…

6.2: Day of the Moon, doesn't immediately pick up from where last week left off, however. The final moments of the previous story are revisited in a fragmented form which feels more like a stylistic resolution than what we have come to accept from traditional cliffhangers.

We're also treated to one of the longest pre-title sequences in the show's history - over 6 and a half minutes in total!

As with our previous preview, it's an incredibly difficult episode to describe without giving too much away, but we can tell you that it's set 3 months after the events in The Impossible Astronaut, there's another prison with The Doctor's name on it and there are more shocks here than the previous episode.

Day of the Moon actually feels a little more complex than The Impossible Astronaut, even with a couple of answers to some niggling questions (no, not THAT question…yet) - your brain will literally hurt after the 45 minutes are up.

Moffat displays once more just how talented he is on every level, delivering a story that takes the show to new exciting levels and possibilities.

But the cherry on this proverbial cake of an episode comes in the final minute - in a scene that will have you screaming through your television set in a way that makes Maureen Lipman's portrayal of 'The Wire' look diluted.

May the nail biting begin…AGAIN!

Five things to look out for...

1) Rory's addiction to a little red light.

2) A certain picture in a frame.

3) 2 body bags filled with people The Doctor cares about.

4) River makes a splash!

5) Video Phone.

[Source: Doctor Who Online]

'Doctor Who' exec wants Captain Jack return - Digital Spy

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:29 AM PDT


'Doctor Who' exec wants Captain Jack return
Digital Spy
Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat has revealed that he hopes John Barrowman's popular character Captain Jack Harkness will return to the sci-fi series. The showrunner first introduced Captain Jack in the ...

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Definitive Linear DOCTOR WHO, TORCHWOOD, SARAH JANE Timeline - Newsarama

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:06 AM PDT


Newsarama
Definitive Linear DOCTOR WHO, TORCHWOOD, SARAH JANE Timeline
Newsarama
Due to popular demand, here is a linear timeline concerning the adventures seen in Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Concerning the criteria: this timeline mainly focuses on the 9th, 10th and 11th Doctors. ...

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Review: Planet of the Apes #1 (AKA – POTA goes BOOM!) - Inside Pulse

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:00 AM PDT


Review: Planet of the Apes #1 (AKA – POTA goes BOOM!)
Inside Pulse
Let's try to get beyond all of the "timey wimey stuff," as David Tennant's Doctor would say. The opening sequence continues out of Battle with the murder of the Lawgiver by an unknown ninja-garbed human assassin. Things actually progress quite far and ...

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Sarah-Jane Lehoux; accomplished author and EHS alumnus - Midnorth Monitor

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:57 AM PDT


Sarah-Jane Lehoux; accomplished author and EHS alumnus
Midnorth Monitor
Sarah-Jane Lehoux has always had a passion for storytelling. From grade school tales of cannibalistic ghosts to teenaged conversations with God to her latest fantasy adventures, she's attempted to share her love of the quirky and unconventional with ...

Doctor Who: Day Of The Moon spoilers, video and pictures - check out Matt ... - Unreality TV

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:57 AM PDT


Doctor Who: Day Of The Moon spoilers, video and pictures - check out Matt ...
Unreality TV
Doctor Who: Day Of The Moon spoilers, video and pictures – check out Matt Smith's beard! The Doctor is locked in the perfect prison while Amy, Rory and River Song are being hunted down across America by the FBI, as the time-travelling adventure series ...

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Doctor Who Experience: Royal Wedding Offer

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:42 AM PDT

The Doctor Who Experience have made a special offer on tickets available in celebration of the Royal Wedding taking place tomorrow - for Friday 29th April only, tickets can be purchased for just £4.29 (plus fees)!


Tickets may booked from the Experience website, and are subject to availability.


The Doctor Who News Page

Torchwood: Miracle Day poster, promotional pictures and spoiler video! - Unreality TV

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:29 AM PDT


Torchwood: Miracle Day poster, promotional pictures and spoiler video!
Unreality TV
Teasing the season première, due to air on July 8th, creator Russell T. Davies said the show will centre around "a crisis [that is] affecting everyone on the planet". "Not a single person on Earth dies," he added. "The old stay old. ...

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British TV Podcast Show #81 - Paul Kaye, Reviews, News - Anglotopia.net

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:07 AM PDT


British TV Podcast Show #81 - Paul Kaye, Reviews, News
Anglotopia.net
Reviews of Doctor Who: The Impossible Astronaunt, David Tennant in United, and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. In the news, the BAFTA nominees are announced, John Sullivan passes away, Joanna Lumley says AbFab is coming back, and we explain what ...

Picks of the week: Outdated GPs, Doctor Who and a pub-crawling duck - WalesOnline

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 01:28 AM PDT


Picks of the week: Outdated GPs, Doctor Who and a pub-crawling duck
WalesOnline
Matt Smith became the first Doctor Who to be nominated for a Bafta. The series is filmed in Cardiff and we've had loads of great content about the series over the years, the most recent one was our reporter Clare Hutchinson trying out the Doctor Who ...

Book shop at Dylan Thomas Centre gives stock away - BBC News

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 12:48 AM PDT


BBC News
Book shop at Dylan Thomas Centre gives stock away
BBC News
Dr Who writer Russell T Davies, Cerys Matthews and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy are among the names calling for it to be run by a trust. Mr Towns, also an expert on Dylan Thomas, said to mark the closing of his shop he had decided to give his second ...

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Super mum Doreen is on song - Ayrshire Post

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 12:36 AM PDT


Super mum Doreen is on song
Ayrshire Post
She revealed: "I get quite a lot of work as an extra and appeared in the last episode David Tennant did as Doctor Who. "I also had quite a prominent role in Casualty the other week where I played a psychiatric nurse. "My kids, Lewis and Julia, ...

The Doctor's Wife - Press Details

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 12:07 AM PDT

Doctor Who: The Doctor's WifeThe BBC have released press details for episode four of the current series, The Doctor's Wife, written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Richard Clark
The Doctor receives a distress signal from an old friend. Could there really be another living Time Lord out there? Hopes raised, he follows the signal to a junkyard planet sitting upon a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble universe, populated by a very strange family, as the time-travelling drama continues.

The Doctor, Amy and Rory are given the warmest of welcomes by Auntie, Uncle and Nephew. But the beautiful and insane Idris greets them in a more unusual fashion – what is she trying to tell the Doctor? As the Doctor investigates, he unwittingly puts his friends in the gravest danger.

The Doctor is played by Matt Smith, Amy by Karen Gillan, Rory by Arthur Darvill and Idris by Suranne Jones.

The programme is due to be broadcast in the UK on Saturday 14th May at a time to be confirmed next week.

Meanwhile it has been confirmed that the UK Broadcast of Episode Three: The Curse of the Black Spot will be at the slightly later time of 6.15pm. It will again be sandwiched between Don't Scare the Hare and So You think You Can Dance. ITV1 will show New People Do the Funniest Things.


The Doctor Who News Page

'The Impossible Astronaut' - your verdict is... - Digital Spy (blog)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 12:06 AM PDT


'The Impossible Astronaut' - your verdict is...
Digital Spy (blog)
We've been going poll crazy this past week, opening not one but two polls surrounding Steven Moffat's much-hyped Doctor Who series premiere, 'The Impossible Astronaut'. First of all, we opened the doors on Saturday night to ...

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ungodly numbers of people watched the 'Doctor Who' premiere last weekend - Flick Filosopher (blog)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 12:03 AM PDT


ungodly numbers of people watched the 'Doctor Who' premiere last weekend
Flick Filosopher (blog)
On a sunny day in parts of the UK, that was down from the eight million recorded by overnight figures on Matt Smith's show debut in April 2010. While final consolidated viewing figures - which include playback on recording devices - will push ratings ...

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Early Buzz: 'Office' goodbyes, 'Torchwood' and more news - USA Today

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 11:13 PM PDT


Early Buzz: 'Office' goodbyes, 'Torchwood' and more news
USA Today
Good morning, friends! I'll admit I slept in a little because I was out last night watching a washboard/kazoo player until way past my bedtime. Those guys seem to really have it together. - Select theaters will be ...

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The Doctor's Wife Synopsis - Doctor Who TV (blog)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 11:02 PM PDT


Doctor Who TV (blog)
The Doctor's Wife Synopsis
Doctor Who TV (blog)
As the Doctor investigates, he unwittingly puts his friends in the gravest danger. The Doctor is played by Matt Smith, Amy by Karen Gillan, Rory by Arthur Darvill and Idris by Suranne Jones. It is penciled in for a 6pm start on Saturday 14th May. ...

Space (And Time) 1969

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 10:58 PM PDT

Time travel is an unbalanced and, some would say, unfair proposal. As we saw Saturday when out of the great blue came a homicidal astronaut to blast our hero to death mid-regeneration: was he invited? Did the Doctor know he would be there? Had the Doctor been there before and now knew what was to come?

Taking the fun out of everything, Physics would decry this as stomping merrily over the consistent histories approach, where even in a universe that allowed time travel you still have to abide by the laws of physics.

This is mostly a concession to free will: how exactly could the 1103 year-old Doctor interfere with his own time line, while remembering what had happened, and thus not be able to break with events that he had already seen?

Breaking it down further, it means Baby Hitler won't be smothered in his cot and your Great, Great Granddad will be spared a nihilistic death by 'curiosity'.

Of course, the caveat here is that this is human free will, not Time Lord free will… well that and "it's a TV show!".

There consistent history seems a little vague. The Time Wars are a no-no for meddling but then again so was Pompeii.

So what is Space: 1969? An ancillary event to the fixed point of the Doctor's Death? A warning from a dead man to his younger self to see what is happening around him, to stop The Silence from doing whatever evil they have planned?

And just who gave him that slender warning, one that he knew the TARDIS couldn't resist?

Let's back up a bit. Amy Pond is certainly a free spirit as your granddad or Jerry Garcia might call her. While questioning why the Doctor would recruit himself her first reaction is, he wants to save himself. Amy imposing her free will on the Doctor (though free will is just a fancy way of saying 'those humans… they'll do anything!')

A Time Lord, despite the ponderous piety, is a noble creature. We've seen the lengths the Doctor will go to, to save our humble blue planet. So, being that he knows how Amy is going to re-act and his own apparent apathy over saving us once again ("Humans, I thought I'd never tire of saving you") what are the Doctor's motivations for sending his younger self back?

Did he even do it? But then again who else has the power to unite all of the Doctors friends and himself together…could it have something to do with The Silence's TARDIS – last seen squatting on the roof of Craig's house in The Lodger?

Does he want to save himself? Avenge himself or simply correct the mistake of an old man who missed what was right in front of him?

Does this mean the man regularly seen wearing outdated headgear is in fact vain or like Time Crash he knew to send himself back because he remembers himself being around Washington in 1969?

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