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- The Gratuitous B-Movie Column 9.05.11: Issue #172: Fright Night (2011) - 411mania.com
- Par for the course Ducking and diving A touch of sunstroke All white on the ... - Herald Scotland
- Doctor Who Season 6 Episode 9 Review: Night Terrors - BuzzFocus.com
- Colin Baker elected President of DWAS
- TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “Night Terrors” – Review #1 - Assignment X
- 'Doctor Who' blogging: “Night Terrors” - Flick Filosopher (blog)
- "Doctor Who" Recap Tick-Tock Goes the Clock, Even For the Doctor - AfterElton.com
- Doctor Who, "Night Terrors": out of place, out of time - TV Geek Army
- DOCTOR WHO 6.09 'Night Terrors' - Crave Online
- Review: 'Doctor Who' - Night Terrors - Monsters and Critics.com
- TV Review: Torchwood: Miracle Day – “The Gathering” - Blogcritics.org (blog)
- Next Time: The Girl Who Waited
- Movie Review - Fright Night (2011) - Flickering Myth (blog)
- High Ratings for Doctor Who's Berlin Adventures - ATV Today
- Doctor Who Series 6 Ratings Accumulator
- 6.8: Let's Kill Hitler - Final BARB Viewing Figures
- Sarah Jane Adventures Series 5 – A Very Short Teaser Trailer - Bleeding Cool News
- Doctor Who Season 6: 5 Questions About “Night Terrors” - Comic Book Resources
- Casting Catch Up – Hannah Murray, Lucy Punch, John Boyega, Harry Lloyd, Steve ... - Britscene
- 'Welcome to Smyrnings' - Con Fab - Patch.com
- Shut up, Hitler! Final ratings for autumn premiere
- How do you rate Doctor Who: Night Terrors? (5=Fantastic)
- Wedding of a Time Lord?
- Torchwood: Miracle Day recap/review: Episode 4.9 “The Gathering” - Examiner.com
- Torchwood: Miracle Day preview: Episode 4.10 “The Blood Line" (finale) - Examiner.com
- Fright Night (15) - Sunday Herald view - Herald Scotland
- Tick tock goes the clock
- Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful - Doctor Who TV (blog)
- Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful
- Series 4 Box Set
- Don't run away, we just want to play… or do we?
- Fright Night review - Fangs Neighbour - The Economic Voice
- Let's Kill Hitler: Australian ratings
- The Jonathan Ross Show launch helps ITV win Saturday night ratings war - Metro
- Dr. Whooligan, On The Road: Dragoncon Day 2! - Doctor Who Invasion - Anglotopia.net
- Let's Kill Hitler - Final ratings
- MTV Geek
- Syfy, What Are You Doing?
- Night Terrors: UK overnight viewing figures
- BBC defends raunchy Torchwood scenes criticised as 'gay porn' - WalesOnline
- Jamie Oram joins the cast of The Gunpowder Plot
- 6.9: Night Terrors - Overnight Viewing Figures
- David Tennant talks vampire slaying - Sunday Mercury
- Queenie's TV Highlights: Shameless, Mount Pleasant, Doctor Who and Torchwood - ATV Today
- End of the Road
- Torchwood star John Barrowman subject of tongue-in-cheek new musical - WalesOnline
| The Gratuitous B-Movie Column 9.05.11: Issue #172: Fright Night (2011) - 411mania.com Posted: 04 Sep 2011 03:01 PM PDT
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| Par for the course Ducking and diving A touch of sunstroke All white on the ... - Herald Scotland Posted: 04 Sep 2011 01:07 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who Season 6 Episode 9 Review: Night Terrors - BuzzFocus.com Posted: 04 Sep 2011 11:55 AM PDT
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| Colin Baker elected President of DWAS Posted: 04 Sep 2011 11:49 AM PDT  Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, has been elected honorary president of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.The Society, DWAS, is the longest running Doctor Who fan club in the world, founded in May 1976. The election of President was conducted through a survey of members and announced at the Day of the Daleks event at Riverside Studios on Sunday. The role has previously been held by third Doctor Jon Pertwee and by Nicholas Courtney, who held the role from 1997 until his death earlier this year. | ||
| TV Review: DOCTOR WHO – Series 6 – “Night Terrors” – Review #1 - Assignment X Posted: 04 Sep 2011 10:13 AM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' blogging: “Night Terrors” - Flick Filosopher (blog) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT
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| "Doctor Who" Recap Tick-Tock Goes the Clock, Even For the Doctor - AfterElton.com Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:11 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who, "Night Terrors": out of place, out of time - TV Geek Army Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:02 AM PDT
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| DOCTOR WHO 6.09 'Night Terrors' - Crave Online Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:59 AM PDT
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| Review: 'Doctor Who' - Night Terrors - Monsters and Critics.com Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:49 AM PDT
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| TV Review: Torchwood: Miracle Day – “The Gathering” - Blogcritics.org (blog) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:31 AM PDT
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| Next Time: The Girl Who Waited Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:16 AM PDT The BBC have released the first part of an introduction to next week's episode of Doctor Who, The Girl Who Waited, featuring Karen Gillan and writer Tom MacRae discussing how the story develops her character Amy: The Girl Who Waited: Tom MacRae introduction (pt 1), BBC, via the BBC Doctor Who site - may not play outside of the United Kingdom In addition, the trailer for the episode is also available to watch online: The Girl Who Waited: Trailer, BBC, via the BBC Doctor Who site - may not play outside of the United Kingdom The Girl Who Waited will premiere on BBC1/BBC1HD at 7:00pm, 10th September in the United Kingdom; it then follows on SPACE in Canada at 8:00pm ET, on BBC America in the United States at 9:00pm ET, and on ABC1 in Australia at 7:30pm on the 17th September. The BBC synopsis for the episode follows, which might be considered a spoiler:  Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague – a plague that will kill the Doctor in a day – as the time-travelling drama continues.The Doctor can use the TARDIS to smash through time and break in, but then Rory is on his own. He must find Amy and bring her back to the TARDIS before the alien doctors can administer their medicine. Rory is about to encounter a very different side to his wife. Can he rescue Amy before she is killed by kindness? | ||
| Movie Review - Fright Night (2011) - Flickering Myth (blog) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 06:17 AM PDT
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| High Ratings for Doctor Who's Berlin Adventures - ATV Today Posted: 04 Sep 2011 05:49 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who Series 6 Ratings Accumulator Posted: 04 Sep 2011 05:30 AM PDT
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| 6.8: Let's Kill Hitler - Final BARB Viewing Figures Posted: 04 Sep 2011 05:20 AM PDT The final BARB viewing figures are in for 6.8: Let's Kill Hitler. The episode achieved a final figure of 8.10m viewers, with an audience share of 33.3%. This is compared to the overnight's which reached 6.2m viewers, with an audience share of 28.7%, meaning a total time shift of +1.9m viewers - one of the largest the show has ever had! Figures do not include BBC iPlayer downloads for this episode, which have over a million downloads so far. + What did you think of the episode? Rate / Discuss in the DWO Forums! [Source: Andy Parish]
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| Sarah Jane Adventures Series 5 – A Very Short Teaser Trailer - Bleeding Cool News Posted: 04 Sep 2011 05:18 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who Season 6: 5 Questions About “Night Terrors” - Comic Book Resources Posted: 04 Sep 2011 03:50 AM PDT
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| Casting Catch Up – Hannah Murray, Lucy Punch, John Boyega, Harry Lloyd, Steve ... - Britscene Posted: 04 Sep 2011 03:43 AM PDT
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| 'Welcome to Smyrnings' - Con Fab - Patch.com Posted: 04 Sep 2011 03:39 AM PDT
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| Shut up, Hitler! Final ratings for autumn premiere Posted: 04 Sep 2011 03:04 AM PDT Final ratings show that Let's Kill Hitler was watched by an official audience of 8.1million viewers. The mid-series premiere achieved a 33.3% share of the total TV audience when it was broadcast on Saturday 27th August, making it the most watched on BBC One that day. It currently stands as the second highest rated episode of Series [...] | ||
| How do you rate Doctor Who: Night Terrors? (5=Fantastic) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 02:58 AM PDT 5 TARDIS Groans 0% (0 votes) 4 TARDIS Groans 100% (2 votes) 3 TARDIS Groans 0% (0 votes) 2 TARDIS Groans 0% (0 votes) 1 TARDIS Groan 0% (0 votes) 0 TARDIS Groans 0% (0 votes) Total votes: 2 | ||
| Posted: 04 Sep 2011 02:49 AM PDT It was the wedding to end all weddings. Or it will be…. it might be? It's always so hard to tell when Gallifreyans tie the knot. This one however proved (will prove? – Ed) more complicated than most given the trans regenerational issues involved. As per ancient Gallifreyan custom the wedding of Presidents (current, past or otherwise) of the High Council of Time Lords is required to be an Affair of State. And no-one does does Affairs of State better than the Time Lords. The road to matrimony has not been easy for the Doctor. Special permissions had to be sought from the Celestial Intervention Agency to allow for multiple versions of him to be placed on the guest list, a consequence of him being the 407th, 409th, 411th and 415th President of the High Council. Further complications arose when current President Rassilon refused to oversee the ceremony. When asked for a comment on the matter he had this to say "I'm not having anything to do with this. He tried to shoot me and then exiled me back into the Time War! I'd sooner crush the spikey haired interloper than see him wed! Gallifrey Rises!!!" Rassilon's refusal to conduct the ceremony meant the happy couple had to call on the services of the prior President, the Lady Romana. At first it seemed as if her unhappy marriage to the fourth regeneration of the groom might stand in the way of her participating, thankfully last minute talks between her and the 407th President of the High Council cleared the air. Giving an impromptu press conference outside the TARDIS afterwards, dressed only in a large white shirt and an overlong scarf, President Romana claimed she was thrilled to play her part in proceedings. Several members of the High Council of Time Lords have been quite vocal in their objection to the Doctor's marriage. This reporter spoke at length to a member of the Council who has asked not to be named.
However, one of the privileges of having been President so often is the ability to brush little things like temporal incest out of the way using the Broom of Rassilon. Once all the red tape was disposed of the wedding itself nearly went off without a hitch, the only slight hiccup being when a curly haired earth woman wearing a leather cat suit burst into the hall just as President Romana was asking "if any Time Lord has any reason why these two cannot be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace". Her objection was hastily withdrawn and she ran from the hall muttering something about being too early. Time Lords all over the universe held their breath as they watched the Father of the Bride hand over his daughter to her new husband, after all many of them speculated that the Blinovitch Limitation Effect might have prevented this from happening. All the guests were in good spirits afterwards, especially Jamie McCrimmon who was now able to relax after executing his duty as Best Man. He was seen talking to various woman at different points of the evening, all of them ginger. Which one joined him back in his room after the reception remains a mystery for another day. | ||
| Torchwood: Miracle Day recap/review: Episode 4.9 “The Gathering” - Examiner.com Posted: 04 Sep 2011 02:49 AM PDT
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| Torchwood: Miracle Day preview: Episode 4.10 “The Blood Line" (finale) - Examiner.com Posted: 04 Sep 2011 02:25 AM PDT
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| Fright Night (15) - Sunday Herald view - Herald Scotland Posted: 04 Sep 2011 02:02 AM PDT
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| Posted: 04 Sep 2011 02:02 AM PDT As Night Terrors writer Mark Gatiss revealed in an interview beforehand, his episode contained a rather haunting nursery rhyme containing a warning for our favourite Time L Read more ...
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| Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful - Doctor Who TV (blog) Posted: 04 Sep 2011 01:00 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:45 AM 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: Tennant gets slapped by a fish, More Simpsons Who, Pixel Doctors, Tennant & Piper reunited, Doctor Who theme A capella. Tennant vs FishDavid Tennant gets slapped around the head by a Rainbow Trout!
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| Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:37 AM PDT The DVD box set for series 4 of The Sarah Jane adventures, due to be released October 31st by 2|entertain, will include the classic Doctor Who story, Pyramids of Mars, in the extras as a tribute to Elisabeth Sladen.  Pyramids of Mars sees Sarah Jane Smith and the Doctor arrive at an old priory in the year 1911 where the owner, Marcus Scarman, has been excavating ancient tombs and soon becomes possessed by the spirit of Sutekh, bringer of 'the gift of death to all mankind'. Will Sutekh the all-powerful be freed from his bonds and destroy the world, or will the Doctor manage to bring about his destruction? If that's got you excited, then hold your breath, CBBC have been showing a sneaky little preview of series 5 to whet your appetite! Series 5 will air some time in October, although dates are still to be confirmed.  | ||
| Don't run away, we just want to play… or do we? Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:36 AM PDT The chilling Night Terrors were unleashed on BBC One last night, as a young boy was terrorised by the monsters in his bedroom cupboard. The makings of a classic! According to the overnight ratings, 5.5million people tuned in for the episode, a 25.9% share. It was just beaten by Red or Black? on ITV1, which averaged [...] | ||
| Fright Night review - Fangs Neighbour - The Economic Voice Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:30 AM PDT
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| Let's Kill Hitler: Australian ratings Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:18 AM PDT  Let's Kill Hitler has debuted in Australia to excellent ratings. TV Tonight reports that the episode averaged 792,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. It won its timeslot, was the top rating drama and was the fourth highest rating programme for the day overall (after the major news bulletins). The corresponding Confidential Cutdown also rated a respectable 553,000 viewers in the five major capitals. These overnight figures, however, do not include regional, rural and time-shifted viewers and hence significantly understate the actual national ratings. | ||
| The Jonathan Ross Show launch helps ITV win Saturday night ratings war - Metro Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:05 AM PDT
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| Dr. Whooligan, On The Road: Dragoncon Day 2! - Doctor Who Invasion - Anglotopia.net Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:04 AM PDT
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| Let's Kill Hitler - Final ratings Posted: 03 Sep 2011 11:51 PM PDT  Let's Kill Hitler had a final consolidated rating of 8.1 million viewers.The programme had a share of 33.3% of the total TV audience and was the most watched programme of the day on BBC One. The nearest programme on the channel was Casualty which had a final rating of 5.19 million. Consolidated figures include those who record and watch the programme within seven days. The final rating is much more accurate than the initial overnight figure and is based on the actual broadcast time of the programme rather than its scheduled time. The figues do not include those watching on iPlayer, where Let's Kill Hitler has already been accessed over 1 million times. The final figure for Let's Hill Hitler is the second highest of the series so far, The Impossible Astronaut had 8.86 million watching. It is the highest ever ratings for the eighth episode in a series since the show returned in 2005. A chart position will be released later this week when final figures from the whole week are available. | ||
| Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:23 PM PDT Taken at Bubonicon in Albuquerque, at the end of our New Mexico holiday, as you can see from the beard and lack of jacket! (By which I mean, yes, I look a mess, sorry.) It's a series of snippets. Me on the New 52 DC titles: Stormwatch: Demon Knights: And on the forthcoming novel, Cops and Monsters: Big Worldcon report soon. Until then, Cheerio!  | ||
| Posted: 03 Sep 2011 08:43 PM PDT Sometimes, science fiction and fantasy shows are mistreated. The past is littered with casualties of war that have been scheduled badly or cancelled abruptly. Doctor Who in 1989, Firefly in 2002 and Angel in 2004 (which creator Joss Whedon astutely likened to "a healthy guy dropping dead of a heart attack"). It seems that the problem can stem from a lack of faith in the program in question, plenty of channels are guilty of jettisoning what they feel is a dead duck but this week the channel that has caught the attention of i09 is Syfy. Formerly the Sci-Fi Channel, it has been partly responsible for keeping an interest in the genre and also for making some "odd" decisions. Some of these errors of judgement include not picking up Firefly when it was on offer, cancelling Farscape and Eureka and not picking up the revived series of Doctor Who as quickly as possible. The last one is surely the worst of the crimes! For those of you that haven't seen Firefly, Farscape or Eureka, you are nicely but firmly asked to go and seek out the DVD's. These shows were bright and original and should have been given greater room to grow. The real oddity is what seems to be the lack of faith that the channel first seemed to have when Doctor Who returned to the screens on 2005. The channel only managed to start showing the Ninth Doctor's adventures from 2006. Even then, they were heavily cut down. Then they let it go off to BBC America where it's gone from strength to strength. Odd behaviour for a channel that launched itself with repeats of classic Who. Where's the love? A full list of Syfy/ The Sci-Fi Channel's atrocities can be found at io9.com… | ||
| Night Terrors: UK overnight viewing figures Posted: 03 Sep 2011 07:58 PM PDT  5.5 million viewers tuned in to watch Night Terrors, according to unofficial overnight figures.The eighth in the current series has a share of 25.9% of the total TV audience as it faced its toughest opposition for some time. On ITV1, Red and Black, the new game show with Ant and Dec had an average of 6.6 million watching. Doctor Who was the most watched programme of the day on BBC One and fourth overall for the day. ITV1 took the first three places with The X Factor on top with 11.1 million, followed by the two editions of Red and Black. Doctor Who's audience was steady throughout the episode, with a peak of 5.6 million viewers and nearly 2.7 million leaving BBC One as the show finished, boosting Red and Black in its final half hour. Doctor Who currently stands at 21st for the week. Final figures, which will be released in 8 days time, should see the final total rise considerably, when those who record the episode and watch it later are factored in. Doctor Who is likely to have a much higher percentage of people watching on a delay and could overtake Red and Black on the final ratings. | ||
| BBC defends raunchy Torchwood scenes criticised as 'gay porn' - WalesOnline Posted: 03 Sep 2011 07:56 PM PDT
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| Jamie Oram joins the cast of The Gunpowder Plot Posted: 03 Sep 2011 07:47 PM PDT It's been confirmed on the official Doctor Who website (see the Fourth Dimension tab!) that Jamie Oram will appear in the forthcoming Adventure Game, The Gunpowder Plot. Jamie played George in last night's episode, Night Terrors, however it is unknown whether he will be back as George or voicing a new character in the game. The [...] | ||
| 6.9: Night Terrors - Overnight Viewing Figures Posted: 03 Sep 2011 07:38 PM PDT The overnight viewing figures are in for 6.9: Night Terrors. The episode achieved a figure of 5.5m viewers, with an audience share of 25.9%, and Doctor Who was the fourth most-watched programme for Saturday: Top Overnights - Saturday 3rd September: 1 - 11.1 - (43.4%) - The X Factor - 20:15 - ITV 1 2 - 7.2 - (30.1%) - Red or Black? - 21:15 - ITV 1 3 - 6.6 - (29.9%) - Red or Black? - 19:00 - ITV 1 4 - 5.5 - (25.9%) - Doctor Who - 19:00 - BBC One 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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| David Tennant talks vampire slaying - Sunday Mercury Posted: 03 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT
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| Queenie's TV Highlights: Shameless, Mount Pleasant, Doctor Who and Torchwood - ATV Today Posted: 03 Sep 2011 07:23 PM PDT
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Episode 8 of Torchwood: Miracle Day already! It doesn't feel like two-plus years have passed since we witnessed the awe-inspiring Children of Earth miniseries and pondered just how the fourth series might top it. While it may be too early to judge, as we still have yet to see the finale, we pretty much have our answer now: Miracle Day is superior to its predecessor in precisely zero ways. But let's not argue that it was a total let-down, because Torchwood's fourth run is still a smashing piece of television, and End of the Road continues to demonstrate this. I was prepared to start this review with an entirely different argument, that the series was destined to stew in the purgatory of mediocrity, when I saw Wayne Knight's face at the beginning of the episode; you may recall that I had a bit of a problem with his performance way back in Rendition. But uh-uh-uh, he said the magic word… on live television in front of tens of people. Doesn't sound like much, but apparently it was enough to blow his cover and blow him up. The Torchwood team united with the CIA this week, properly this time, to mope around in the mansion of some bloke who'd just kicked the bucket. If this sounds to you like just another day on a cop show, you've probably not been watching at all this year, so it's time to fill you in – people can't die. So why did Jack's ex-boyfriend Angelo Colasanto do just that? But of course, a mysterious alien floor panel resting underneath him that was recovered from the Torchwood Hub. Just make one of those things the size of, say, Earth, and everyone can die again! There, problem solved! Pace-wise, the story slowed down a tiny bit in the middle during Jack's scene alone with the still-living Category One Angelo. The whole sequence could have been cut down to maybe Jack sitting at Angelo's bedside holding his hand, followed by the elderly fella's death. Not so, we had to sit through several minutes of the plot that could have been used for rising action or, better yet, more exploding vehicles, just to see Jack talk to the air for a while, throw in a Ianto reference, and mouth-kiss an old person. Ah, old-person kissing, now there's something controversial! Jack and Angelo are like Harold and Maude if Harold was a dashing mortal/immortal ex-Time Agent and Maude was a man.
Gwen's brief phone call home reminded us that she has a family, and specifically, that she has a husband. For someone who's got his name in the opening credits I really hoped we'd be seeing a lot more from Kai Owen (as Rhys Williams) this season; he really added to Children of Earth's splendor in 2009, but in 2011 he seems to have been demoted to something less than a Mickey Smith Tin Dog role. On the bright side, it appears he'll be playing a larger part in the final two installments, because Gwen's been deported, and she's going back to Wales. Again. Seriously, when this is all over, her airline bill's going to take a massive bite out of Anwen's diaper funds.
Surprisingly, the most engaging part of the story this week was the Oswald Danes subplot. After a two-week hiatus, it was interesting to see Ozzy and Jilly end up in Texas, which may be the closest a televised Whoniverse story has ever come to my own house. Speaking of Jilly, and Lauren Ambrose who plays her, she's still growing on me. Originally I didn't like her. Then I did. Now I think I might be developing a small crush. Just a small one. Really though, last time we saw her, in The Categories of Life, she was practically insane with happiness about Oswald's rise to "popularity" and her connection to it. Now she's physically attacking Oswald (though technically he started it), threatening to have him arrested (because, well, he started it), and calling him I'm not sure where the writers are going with this Danes thing though. Are they trying to get us, the viewers, to feel sorry for his character? The escort-rejection scene would almost suggest that this is the case, and I'm not sure I like that. I'm almost offended, actually. It was a nice throwback to see the undercover agent try to out-Kitzinger Kitzinger, following her around obsessively and fetching meals and prostitutes before she ended up shot by a member of "the family," who seems to be related to/in cahoots with the CIA blonde, who we saw video-chatting with Esther Drummond, who was/is frightened for her sister but is presently concerned about the croaking Harkness in the back of her van. See how complex and intertwined this plot is? Because I sure don't. Will Jack die? Will Jill turn evil? Will Gwen get a frequent flyer plan? All will be revealed in the next two weeks! | ||
| Torchwood star John Barrowman subject of tongue-in-cheek new musical - WalesOnline Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:45 PM PDT
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Below you will find the finalised UK BARB ratings for Doctor Who Series 6. Unlike the overnight ratings (which certain newspapers 
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