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- Alex Karev is a fink - Minot Daily News (blog)
- Doctor Who Episode 6.4 – The Doctor's Wife is a Classic Ep that Exceeds ... - BuzzFocus.com
- Doctor Who really is a love story after all - io9
- Final 'Sarah Jane Adventures' Episodes Will Be Aired - Geeks of Doom
- 'Doctor Who' recap/review: 'The Doctor's Wife' - Examiner.com
- Special Feature: A Visit to the Editing Bay of 'Fright Night 3D'! - Bloody Disgusting
- The Rebel Flesh – new images, clips and teasers!
- Doctor Who 'The Doctor's Wife' Or 'It's Bigger On The Inside' - Starpulse.com
- Doctor Who – The Doctor's Wife review - shropshirestar.com
- Ask Neil Gaiman
- TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “The Doctor's Wife” - Assignment X
- Doctor Who Recap - The Doctor's Wife - Monsters and Critics.com
- Terry Nation Author Appearance
- Fright Night Trailer! - MovieWeb
- Arrr! Final ratings for The Curse of the Black Spot
- The Curse of the Black Spot - Final Ratings
- Have You Been Paying Attention?
- Share This Story - Popzara
- New hidden message – and a hidden video too!
- The Curse of the Black Spot: Australian ratings
- Next Time: The Rebel Flesh
- Doctor Who review: Neil Gaiman delivers a perfect love story - BT Life (blog)
- It's double trouble in next week's Confidential…
- The Doctor's Wife, ratings and reviews round up
- 6.4: The Doctor's Wife - Overnight Viewing Figures
- 6.5: The Rebel Flesh - BBC Preview Clips
- The Doctor's Wife - Overnight Ratings
- The Doctor's Wife
- This Week's Must-See TV: 5 Shows You Shouldn't Miss - Digital Spy (blog)
- The Rebel Flesh Pics
- Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful - Doctor Who TV (blog)
- Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful
- Teasers for The Rebel Flesh - Doctor Who TV (blog)
- Teasers for The Rebel Flesh
- 'Doctor Who' review: 'The Doctor's Wife' - Digital Spy
| Alex Karev is a fink - Minot Daily News (blog) Posted: 15 May 2011 01:58 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who Episode 6.4 – The Doctor's Wife is a Classic Ep that Exceeds ... - BuzzFocus.com Posted: 15 May 2011 12:33 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who really is a love story after all - io9 Posted: 15 May 2011 11:11 AM PDT
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| Final 'Sarah Jane Adventures' Episodes Will Be Aired - Geeks of Doom Posted: 15 May 2011 10:55 AM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' recap/review: 'The Doctor's Wife' - Examiner.com Posted: 15 May 2011 10:03 AM PDT
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| Special Feature: A Visit to the Editing Bay of 'Fright Night 3D'! - Bloody Disgusting Posted: 15 May 2011 08:57 AM PDT
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| The Rebel Flesh – new images, clips and teasers! Posted: 15 May 2011 07:12 AM PDT Another weekend of Doctor Who adventure is drawing to a close (and what an adventure it was!), but fear not, because there's plenty more where that came from on its way! As you'll know, next Saturday's episode is called The Rebel Flesh, and it's part one of a two-parter by Matthew Graham. We've already had a [...] | ||
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| Doctor Who – The Doctor's Wife review - shropshirestar.com Posted: 15 May 2011 05:16 AM PDT
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| Posted: 15 May 2011 04:47 AM PDT  Neil Gaiman, author of Saturday's Doctor Who episode, The Doctor's Wife, will be answering questions on the story, live on the Guardian blog on Monday afternoon.Questions can be left via the comments section on the newspaper's website. The live chat takes place at 4pm UK time, 1500GMT. Gaiman posted on twitter had received around 20,000 tweets after the episode. He said his favourite thing about the day was seeing TARDIS trending in the UK, US & Canada. | ||
| TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “The Doctor's Wife” - Assignment X Posted: 15 May 2011 04:14 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who Recap - The Doctor's Wife - Monsters and Critics.com Posted: 15 May 2011 02:45 AM PDT
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| Terry Nation Author Appearance Posted: 15 May 2011 12:29 AM PDT
Described as a "Clash of the Titans", the event at Waterstone's Manchester 21st May features some of the UK's top indie SF publishers for one very extraordinary day of fantastic fiction. Authors include Andy Remic, Gary McMahon, Ian Whates, Mike Wild and Pat Kelleherm while Big Finish and Dead Ringers maestro Nev Fountain will also be on hand for a discussion of all things Gallifrey! If you haven't got your copy of the Terry Nation biography, please do take this early advice and place your order now (ahead of the book's release on May 25th) whether you can make it to Manchester next week or not. We have a full review of the book and an interview with Alwyn Turner coming soon, and this book is really worth buying if you have any interest in the early years of television comedy, Doctor Who and action adventure television in the 1960s and 1970s.
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| Fright Night Trailer! - MovieWeb Posted: 15 May 2011 12:29 AM PDT
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| Arrr! Final ratings for The Curse of the Black Spot Posted: 15 May 2011 12:23 AM PDT BARB have released the final figures for Series 6 Episode 3, The Curse of the Black Spot! It shows that the episode, in which the TARDIS trio were marooned onboard a 17th century pirate ship whose crew was being attacked by a mysterious sea creature, was watched by an official audience of 7.85million. Not bad! Did the [...] | ||
| The Curse of the Black Spot - Final Ratings Posted: 15 May 2011 12:14 AM PDT  Doctor Who: The Curse of the Black Spot had an official consolidated audience of 7.85 million viewers, according to figures released by BARB.The programme has a 35.5% share of the total audience available at that time. The number includes those who recorded the programme for viewing within seven days of its initial showing. The figure is much larger than the initially reported overnight figure. A full report for the week, which will reveal the shows position in the weekly charts will be released by BARB tomorrow. The figures do not include those watching on iPlayer, where just under 1 million have accessed the programme within the first week of transmission. | ||
| Have You Been Paying Attention? Posted: 14 May 2011 11:29 PM PDT While the majority of viewers sit down and watch Doctor Who, eat their baked beans and meet their future partner's on street corners outside night clubs, the rest of us pay a little more attention to each episod. There was plenty to catch in The Doctor's Wife (and check back later for a full round-up of episode reviews) but you might be interested to know that even more has been going down over at the BBC's Official Doctor Who website. Over the past few weeks we've been jotting down these mysteries and trying to work out something (anything, really) that might make sense, but thanks to one of our readers, we've recently found out that there is a little more to it all following Neil Gaiman's episode. The chaps at the BBC have cleverly secreted some secret messages into some background information on each episode, found in the Episodes section on the official site in a section called The Fourth Dimension, which is listed under each episode. These secret messages take the form of a hidden line of text that can be revealed by picking putting together the italicized words. So far they have read: The Impossible Astronaut: "All The secrets you seek can be found here on the Webb" Pretty cool, huh? But it gets better… at the end of the last paragraph in the latest section is the word "Gallifrey"; by clicking the full stop you are taken here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/videos/p00gygrl Now don't worry, spoilerphobes, the BBC have made this available for you to find for some added enjoyment of Doctor Who Series 6. There is nothing here that will spoil anything, only increase the depth of the mystery! (With thanks to Warren!) | ||
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| New hidden message – and a hidden video too! Posted: 14 May 2011 10:28 PM PDT The official Doctor Who website has been revealing secret messages after each new episode of Series 6, and the mystery continues this week! The Doctor's Wife episode guide includes the cryptic message: "To see what I saw click on the spot beyond the Doctor's home planet". But this time there's more! As we all know, the [...] | ||
| The Curse of the Black Spot: Australian ratings Posted: 14 May 2011 10:14 PM PDT  The Curse of the Black Spot has debuted in Australia to excellent ratings. TV Tonight reports that the episode averaged 837,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. It won its national timeslot, was the top-rating drama of the day and the fourth highest rating programme for the day overall. The corresponding Confidential Cutdown also rated a solid 575,000 viewers in the five major capitals. Meanwhile, the previous week, Day of the Moon averaged 895,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. Again, it was the top-rating drama of the day and the fifth highest rating programme for the day overall. The corresponding Confidential Cutdown also rated an excellent 672,000 viewers in the five major capitals. The Impossible Astronaut averaged 865,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. Again, it was the top-rating drama of the day and the fourth highest rating programme for the day overall. The corresponding Confidential Cutdown also rated a strong 634,000 viewers in the five major capitals. | ||
| Posted: 14 May 2011 09:42 PM PDT The BBC have now released trailers and previews for the forthcoming fifth episode of Doctor Who, The Rebel Flesh, the first of a two-part story written by Matthew Graham. Preview One: The Rebel Flesh, BBC, via BBC Website Preview Two: The Rebel Flesh, BBC, via BBC Website The Rebel Flesh will premiere on BBC1/BBC1HD at 6:45pm, 21st May in the United Kingdom; then follows on SPACE in Canada at 8:00pm ET, BBC America in the United States at 9:00pm ET, and on ABC1 in Australia at 7:30pm on the 28th May. A solar tsunami sends the TARDIS hurtling towards a futuristic factory on Earth, where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid, as the time-travelling adventures continue. A second wave hits and the "Gangers" separate. They can remember every second of their "original's" life and feel every emotion they've ever experienced. But are these memories stolen or have they been bequeathed? Are the Gangers merely faulty machinery that must be shut down or are they living, breathing, sentient beings? Can the Doctor convince the terrified humans to accept these "almost people" and prevent an all-out civil war before the factory explodes? | ||
| Doctor Who review: Neil Gaiman delivers a perfect love story - BT Life (blog) Posted: 14 May 2011 09:40 PM PDT
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| It's double trouble in next week's Confidential… Posted: 14 May 2011 09:01 PM PDT It'll be a case of double trouble in next week's Doctor Who Confidential, as the team go behind the scenes on Episode 5, The Rebel Flesh! The programme will follow the Doctor Who cast and crew as they journey inside a medieval monastery to find out what's going on with the Flesh, and there's a [...] | ||
| The Doctor's Wife, ratings and reviews round up Posted: 14 May 2011 08:57 PM PDT The long awaited episode, The Doctor's Wife, was finally aired last night, and unofficial ratings show that it was watched by 5.9million viewers on BBC One, a 28.6% share of the total television audience. The overnight figure makes Doctor Who the third most watched programme of the day, after the Eurovision Song Contest (1st) and Britain's [...] | ||
| 6.4: The Doctor's Wife - Overnight Viewing Figures Posted: 14 May 2011 08:37 PM PDT The overnight viewing figures are in for 6.4: The Doctor's Wife. The episode achieved a figure of 5.9m viewers, with an audience share of 28.6%. Doctor Who was the third most-watched programme for Saturday, with the Eurovision Song Contest taking the top slot with 9.4m viewers, and Britain's Got Talent taking second place with 8.4m viewers. Final BARB ratings will be available within the next 10 days. + What did you think of the episode? Rate / Discuss in the DWO Forums! [Source: Andy Parish]
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| 6.5: The Rebel Flesh - BBC Preview Clips Posted: 14 May 2011 08:23 PM PDT The BBC Doctor Who website have uploaded two new clips for 6.5: The Rebel Flesh:
[Source: BBC Doctor Who website]
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| The Doctor's Wife - Overnight Ratings Posted: 14 May 2011 07:57 PM PDT  5.9 million viewers watched episode four of Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife, according to unofficial overnight figures.The story, written by Neil Gaiman, attracted 28.6% of the overnight audience and was the third watched programme of the day. The most watched programme was The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with 9.4 million watching which pushed Britain's Got Talent into second place. Doctor Who once more drew many viewers to BBC One with the audience rising from 3.6 million to 5.9 million as the programme started and then dropping back to 3.3 million when it finished. Against Doctor Who, New Animals Do the Funniest Things on ITV1 had 3.2 million watching. Doctor Who currently stands as the twentieth most watched programme of the week. Final ratings should be available next Sunday. | ||
| Posted: 14 May 2011 07:54 PM PDT I feel so justified. Sometimes I talk to my electronics, an eccentric little quirk I picked up from some television show or another (I forget which one) and I am always getting eye-rolls from my fiance, as it is "not normal behavior", apparently. Yet although we have the same model smart phone mine always seems to work better, something I attribute to the affection I give my machinery. This of course is all ridiculous in the extreme, machinery does not talk back and does not perform betteras a reaction to the user's encouragement… or does it? Neil Gaiman would like us to think about such possibility's as we step into the fourth episode of this series, The Doctor's Wife and it has to be one of the better episodes so far this year if not of the whole of the new era of Doctor Who. It was indeed a fan boy's dream wrapped in a simple yet deep plot, one that saw many moments of joy, sadness and fear, and a very special old friend that we have known since the series began. This one goes all the way back to the very beginning and gives more insight inot the mystery of the Doctor's origins. Admittedly I was pretty thrown off about the meaning of the title, never guessed that the Doctor's real wife would be the TARDIS herself, but it makes perfect sense, the TARDIS is the one constant companion in an ever changing universe. Of course once this fact was realized early on I knew we were in for a ride and I was not wrong. If I told you we would have an episode in which the TARDIS gets put into the mind of a woman and can actually speak, we get to see see more of the TARDIS interior, the Ood appear and the Doctor builds a TARDIS console from old cast off TARDIS bits left by Time Lords who were killed after being drawn into a trap devised by an evil Artron eating force, would that get you excited? Well it should do as this one was pure genius and once again shows how a complicated plot that has elements that appeal to both fans and casual viewers alike can also be a viable and emotional story that has impact and depth without losing the non Doctor Who fanatic along the way. It does not even seem to matter that most of the adventure is set in the TARDIS and really the TARDIS is the focus here in all her forms and desktop themes. She is the reason and the drive to the plot. Make no mistake, this is the TARDIS' adventure, the Doctor and company are just along for the ride; she says it has always been that way anyway. Russell T Davies was most likely in tears by the end of this one as The Doctor's Wife flirts with so much of what he did right (and sadly at times did too much) with Doctor Who in his era, building up a relationship between two of the main players so that when a big event happens it really does throw your heart into the grinder. Of course in this case the relationship between the Doctor and his ship has been building for almost fifty years, but really the Doctor's outburst of emotion at the end was so real and inspired that it almost drove me to tears. This is not your grandfather's Doctor Who but it does show that they were all part of a greater whole and it works to perfection. Much excitement was built up going into this episode about Gaiman being in the driver's seat and really much like Steven Moffat's scripts you can defiantly see the quality shining through. Supporting characters are well drawn even in brief moments on screen and every detail is well thought out both in relation to the history of the show through objects like the psychic distress boxes last seen in the 1969 serial The War Games and even the back wall panel in the Doctor's makeshift console room could have been removed off the set of a Peter Davison or Tom Baker era serial.
Rough spots were few and far between in this one but easily the part that was lacking was Rory and Amy running from the House entity through the corridors of the TARDIS. Although I am overjoyed that we finally after six series get to see more of the TARDIS interior (Though to be honest I'm not quite sure if I like the new look), the scenes themselves were odd and disjointed and never really seemed to be as good as what was happening between the Doctor and the TARDIS in human form. It did not really seem to be particularly interesting either and the odd way the House played with the married couple did not interest me at all. They also killed Rory again, even though it was only an illusion. I also have a little issue with a throwaway line that states Time Lords can regenerate into either sex, male or female. The little joke Tom Baker and former producer John Nathan-Turner decided to play at Tom's press conference as he was leaving as the Fourth Doctor has really gone too far. I can only think of what poor Leela would think if Andred turned into someone named Adriana one fine morning or what David Campbell might think when the Doctor's granddaughter Susan turns into a man named Solomon. The Ood also seemed like a throw in at times, but honestly considering this was described as a "sinkhole" outside the universe it is possible that an Ood got there somehow just as much as any other creature, and they do have a history of possession by outside forces. Ultimately though despite small flaws this was an excellent adventure and a great story, one that should fall into the category of an instant classic as both a stand alone event and also as a episode that gave us more clues to the Doctor's past and added more knowledge into the Doctor Who mythos and the mystery of the Doctor's origins. Doctor who? Indeed. | ||
| This Week's Must-See TV: 5 Shows You Shouldn't Miss - Digital Spy (blog) Posted: 14 May 2011 07:39 PM PDT
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| Posted: 14 May 2011 06:46 PM PDT
Doctor Who promo pictures for the fifth episode of Series 6, The Rebel Flesh, have been released by the BBC. We have also included some screen caps from the trailers. See them all in the gallery below.
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| Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful - Doctor Who TV (blog) Posted: 14 May 2011 06:07 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful Posted: 14 May 2011 06:05 PM PDT Weird and Wonderful is our look at the some of the other Doctor Who bits and bobs around the web that caught our attention over the last week or so. This week: Weeping Angels vs The Silence, Tennant is Frightful, Flat-pack TARDIS, Experience the Silence and a Banana Dalek. Weeping Angels vs The SilenceWhat would happen if the Weeping Angels went up against The Silence? Answer – a stare down contest. This great design by Zerobriant will be available on a T-shirt this Tuesday 17th May at teefury.
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| Teasers for The Rebel Flesh - Doctor Who TV (blog) Posted: 14 May 2011 05:12 PM PDT
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| Posted: 14 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT
SFX has posted 20 spoiler-free teasers for The Rebel Flesh. Below are some of the more intriguing ones. Read more ...
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| 'Doctor Who' review: 'The Doctor's Wife' - Digital Spy Posted: 14 May 2011 03:10 PM PDT
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