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- Bullying: Words Can Kill - CBS News
- Postman Pat to deliver a film - Scotsman
- THE RATINGS RACE: Footy finals filll Fridays - Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
- Doctor Who: Podshock Live Show Reviewing 'The God Complex' Scheduled for Sunday, Sept 18th
- TV THIS WEEK: Sept. 18 - 24 - Los Angeles Times (blog)
- UK's 'Postman Pat' headed for big screen - Reuters
- First 'Postman Pat' Feature Under Way - Reuters
- The AE Agenda! Is "True Blood"'s Jesus Just Another Dead Gay Character? - AfterElton.com
- Fright Night: The vampire strikes back… hunk, horns and all - Manila Bulletin
- Postman Pat Getting the 3D Treatment in Theaters - Moviehole
- Dr. Whooligan: Torchwood Review, Sarah Jane Adventures, Tom Baker Audios, TV ... - Anglotopia.net
- First-class cast for Postman Pat - The Press Association
- Grint Cast In 3D "Postman Pat" Film - Gack Hollywood
- Torchwood - Miracle Day: Episode 10: Barrowman Juice - TV Pixie
- Torchwood: Miracle Day Episode 9 Review - Doctor Who TV (blog)
- The God Complex: More Teasers
- Writer's Guild Nomination 2011
- Dr. Who Season 6 Speculation: How it Might End - TheHDRoom
- As Nerdist Week Begins on Anglophenia, Your Nerdist FAQs - Anglophenia (blog)
- A Companion To The Doctor's Companions: The Brigadier - Anglophenia (blog)
- Sherlock nominated for Writers' Guild prize - Stage
- What was Wrong (and right) with Torchwood: Miracle Day - Huffington Post UK (blog)
- 'Doctor Who' poll: Should the Twelfth Doctor be female? - Digital Spy
- Op-Ed: Torchwood – more convoluted than 'The X-Files' - DigitalJournal.com
- Claire Skinner pictured filming Doctor Who Christmas special - Mirror.co.uk
- Dear Steven Moffat…
- Xmas in the 1900s?
- Torchwood stars sign up for MCM Expo London Comic Con - Coventry Telegraph (blog)
- Brit men spend 18 minutes daily looking handsome - Daily Bhaskar
- DWM #439: Wed or Dead? - Doctor Who TV (blog)
- Christmas 2011 Filming Details - Doctor Who TV (blog)
- Torchwood: The Blood Line - Press reaction
- DWM #439: Wed or Dead?
- The Blood Line : Overnight Viewing Figures
- Benny's Road Trip Revealed
- Preview: Downton Abbey, ITV - Holy Moly! (blog)
- X Factor co-producer: BBC Worldwide distorts the market - The Guardian
- Matt Smith contemplates pork pie hat for Doctor Who - Metro
- The Valeyard Judges: The Girl Who Waited
- Doctor Who: Day Of The Daleks DVD review - Den Of Geek
- 'Torchwood: Miracle Day': Success or Failure? - Digital Spy
- The Girl Who Waited Reaction
- Torchwood: Miracle Day - what went wrong? - Holy Moly! (blog)
- Breathing new life into Doctor Who's oldest foes. - East Anglian Daily Times
- Doctor Who Experience is out of this world - East Anglian Daily Times
- Doctor Who: first images of Christmas special shoot appear - Den Of Geek
- FREE TIX - Who, me - Australian Stage Online
- In pictures: Sneak peak at Doctor Who's festive sidekick - WalesOnline
- British men spend 18 minutes daily looking handsome - iNewsOne
- Christmas 2011 Filming Details
| Bullying: Words Can Kill - CBS News Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:53 PM PDT
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| Postman Pat to deliver a film - Scotsman Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:36 AM PDT
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| THE RATINGS RACE: Footy finals filll Fridays - Sydney Morning Herald (blog) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:19 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who: Podshock Live Show Reviewing 'The God Complex' Scheduled for Sunday, Sept 18th Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:51 AM PDT Doctor Who: Podshock will be once again be taking to the net this Sunday, 18 September 2011 for a live-over-the-net show reviewing episodes of the new series, this time it's The God Complex.
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| TV THIS WEEK: Sept. 18 - 24 - Los Angeles Times (blog) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:05 AM PDT
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| UK's 'Postman Pat' headed for big screen - Reuters Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:47 AM PDT
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| First 'Postman Pat' Feature Under Way - Reuters Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:15 AM PDT
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| Fright Night: The vampire strikes back… hunk, horns and all - Manila Bulletin Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:21 AM PDT
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| Postman Pat Getting the 3D Treatment in Theaters - Moviehole Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:06 AM PDT
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| Dr. Whooligan: Torchwood Review, Sarah Jane Adventures, Tom Baker Audios, TV ... - Anglotopia.net Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:05 AM PDT
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| First-class cast for Postman Pat - The Press Association Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:30 AM PDT
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| Grint Cast In 3D "Postman Pat" Film - Gack Hollywood Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:35 AM PDT
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| Torchwood - Miracle Day: Episode 10: Barrowman Juice - TV Pixie Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:27 AM PDT
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| Torchwood: Miracle Day Episode 9 Review - Doctor Who TV (blog) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:06 AM PDT
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| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:53 AM PDT
Only a day to go until the premiere of The God Complex, so how about 15 more teasers to ponder over. | ||
| Writer's Guild Nomination 2011 Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:44 AM PDT  The shortlist for this years Writer's Guild of Great Britain awards have been announced, and Doctor Who has once again been nominated in the Best Television Drama Series category; this is the third year running for the series, an award it has missed out on both other occasions to Being Human, the supernatural drama from Toby Whithouse (who also wrote this coming weekend's Doctor Who adventure, The God Complex). Writers Steven Moffat, Richard Curtis, Gareth Roberts, Stephen Thompson, Neil Gaiman and Matthew Graham are nominated this time, representing the first half of the series broadcast in Spring. The series is up against The Shadow Line by Hugo Blick, and Accused by Jimmy McGovern, Danny Brocklehurst, Alice Nutter and Esther Wilson. Steven Moffat is also up for another award, along with Mark Gatiss and Stephen Thompson, for the Best Television Short-Form Drama category for Sherlock; the other nominations are for Eric & Ernie by Peter Bowker, and Exile by Danny Brocklehurst. The awards ceremony takes place on Wednesday 16th November at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill. The guild is a trade union for professional writers and the awards are deemed to be special because the work of writers is honoured by their peers and colleagues. | ||
| Dr. Who Season 6 Speculation: How it Might End - TheHDRoom Posted: 16 Sep 2011 03:33 AM PDT
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| As Nerdist Week Begins on Anglophenia, Your Nerdist FAQs - Anglophenia (blog) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:46 AM PDT
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| A Companion To The Doctor's Companions: The Brigadier - Anglophenia (blog) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 02:03 AM PDT
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| Sherlock nominated for Writers' Guild prize - Stage Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:49 AM PDT
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| What was Wrong (and right) with Torchwood: Miracle Day - Huffington Post UK (blog) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:34 AM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' poll: Should the Twelfth Doctor be female? - Digital Spy Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:15 AM PDT
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| Op-Ed: Torchwood – more convoluted than 'The X-Files' - DigitalJournal.com Posted: 16 Sep 2011 01:00 AM PDT
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| Claire Skinner pictured filming Doctor Who Christmas special - Mirror.co.uk Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:49 AM PDT
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| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:40 AM PDT Dear Steven "The Grand Moff" Moffat, @steven_moffat I like you, really I do, and I'm so delighted that you are the current Doctor Who showrunner. I've been enjoying your work since I was at school with Press Gang, since my late teens/early twenties with Joking Apart (one of the few shows I could enjoy with my sister) and throughout the reborn Doctor Who. (I scratched my head at Chalk, however, and didn't really "get" Coupling, but loved Curse of the Fatal Death, so I'm sure we can come to some agreement here.) Over the past few days and weeks it has become increasingly clear that you are doing a massive disservice, not just to the legion of Doctor Who fans out there but to fans of the amazing all-round entertainer, singer, dancer, actor, presenter John Barrowman. To be honest, I'm over-stating things there slightly. I'm only describing him as I hear his fans do. To me he's Captain Jack Harkness and that bloke who suddenly left Live & Kicking, and I can't bear the oceans of cheese I find myself swimming in when he starts to sing. However, he's clearly desperate to appear in the 2013 Doctor Who 50th anniversary special as his endless touting on TV, radio and video clips on websites over the past couple of weeks demonstrates. Here at Kasterborous we love Captain Jack, particularly the version of him that you introduced us to in The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. His Torchwood persona might be a little dark and there may be some accusations that he hasn't been well used in Doctor Who since becoming immortal (except perhaps in Utopia) but Barrowman clearly wants to be a part of whatever you have planned. So we would like to ask you, website to Moff: would you let Barrowman know, one way or the other? We'd like him to appear, as we say, but a "no" is fine, just as long as he SHUTS UP GOING ON AND ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT NOT BEING ASKED! Ahem. As I was saying, it would be best all round if John Barrowman finds out sooner rather than later so he can at least arrange yet another album… | ||
| Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:22 AM PDT Christmas is coming, and sooner than you might be expecting! Although we're yet to enjoy the pleasures of The God Complex, Closing Time and The Wedding of River Song, shooting has commenced on the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas special! Snapped earlier were Matt Smith and Outnumbered's Claire Skinner (not Maxine Peake as Wales Online are claiming) both in costume disembarking from a nice Mercedes, with the Eleventh Doctor actor clutching a thick script… What is most interesting about this, however, is Skinner's outfit, apparently Edwardian England attire, which we hope dates the episode as taking place in one of the typical Christmas nostalgia eras. We've already had the present day throughout the Russell T Davies era as well as the snowbound Victoriana of The Next Doctor and Steven Moffat's tribute to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol set in the steampunk world of Sardicktown… so what could be next? Far be it from us to speculate but with Skinner's prior experience of acting with unruly children and Moffat's previous Christmas adventure being a new take on a season staple, could we be about to see the Doctor encounter a Whoniverse version of Mary Poppins? After all, Matt has the perfect physique for a roof top dance… Schtep in time!
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| Torchwood stars sign up for MCM Expo London Comic Con - Coventry Telegraph (blog) Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:05 AM PDT
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| Brit men spend 18 minutes daily looking handsome - Daily Bhaskar Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:25 PM PDT
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| DWM #439: Wed or Dead? - Doctor Who TV (blog) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:12 PM PDT
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| Christmas 2011 Filming Details - Doctor Who TV (blog) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:10 PM PDT
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| Torchwood: The Blood Line - Press reaction Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:08 PM PDT A roundup of some of the comments in the press for the finale of Torchwood: Miracle Day, The Blood Line. Please note that as these are reviews, spoilers will be present. United KingdomNeela Debnath of the Independent: With twists and turns right up until the last minute, 'Torchwood: Miracle Day' was rounded off in supreme style. 'The Blood Line' mirrored the first episode of this series with continuous, edge-of-the-seat action. ... The other surprising thing about 'The Blood Line' was the hopeful tone. Compared to previous series finales, which have been bleak and desolate, the conclusion to series 4 seemed to suggest that the team will keep fighting to protect the earth. ... The Transatlantic nature of the show gives an all-encompassing feel and is a unique selling point which should be kept if possible. The future of 'Torchwood' looks bright. Let's hope there will be more to come next year. Dan Martin of the Guardian: After 10 often-painful weeks, Miracle Day wheezes to a close. And you know what? It was actually pretty enjoyable. Let yourself go with the nonsense and at its finale this series showed the best of itself, with explosions, bloodshed and forced philosophical standoffs at every turn. Gavin Fuller of the Telegraph: Certainly by going Transatlantic Torchwood: Miracle Day was a distinctly different beast from previous series; it had added production gloss and a more epic scale but did lose something of its distinctiveness in the process. At 10 episodes it was arguably overlong, and the attempt to meld science-fiction with something of a political/espionage thriller wasn't entirely successful either. Nevertheless given that there is little enough drama in this sort of genre on television made for decent enough, if not as spectacular as might have been hoped, viewing. David Brown of the Radio Times: So how's the Torchwood team looking at the end of all this? For starters, I need to put my hands up and admit that I foresaw the demise of the wrong member. Rex did die, but because he had Jack's blood flowing through his veins, he was able to resurrect himself. Thank goodness - he was definitely the most sparky new addition. It was Esther, the agent so fuzzy and disposable that she could have been played by a packet of cotton-wool pads, who made the ultimate sacrifice. We won't be seeing her again, but then will we be seeing any of them again? If Torchwood fails to return, would it be (pardon the pun) something of a blessing? My advice to the writers would be to forget about doing a mini-series and return to episodic, small-scale alien-of-the-week sci-fi tales. But maybe, thanks to this lacklustre offering, there won't be the opportunity to do even that. Simon Brew of Den of Geek: Miracle Day has been a bumpy, but worthwhile ride. It's been an interesting, occasionally brilliant season, punctuated by a bit of overpondering and some strong ideas. Episode seven, in particular, is up there with Torchwood at its very best. The Blood Line, though, isn't, and given that this is the season finale, it's a pity that it couldn't quite rise to the occasion. Dave Golder of SFX: It's all so frustrating, because there are flashes of brilliance, when characters affect you, when dialogue moves you when plot twists surprise you and when explosions dazzle you. But none of that cancels out the huge, great, yawning disappointment that the big revelation is irritatingly vague and amorphous, and that the big resolution involves a lot of nattering and a wearying succession of noble sacrifices (with an equally wearying number of surprise resurrections). Torchwood: Miracle Day, it seems, was never interested in the rich moral, social, economic, political and religious issues of living forever. Shame, really United States / CanadaTodd VanDerWerf of Los Angeles Times: The biggest problem with "Miracle Day," ultimately, is that the premise wrote checks the execution couldn't cash. The idea of a worldwide mystery about just why everybody abruptly turned immortal is a good one, but the actual process of solving that mystery was unspeakably dull and filled with red herrings that didn't amount to anything. For instance: Angelo's story line was undoubtedly moving, but it ultimately had so little to do with anything else that it was obviously a way to kill time before the final two episodes. ... "Miracle Day" is obviously made by people who have interesting ideas and lots to say. But it's also a show that bit off way more than it could chew. Just the central idea could have easily fueled a cool 10-episode story. But that idea had to be mixed with unsubtle politics, largely pointless side trips, and new characters that never took off. In the end, for all the shouting and forced excitement, there was nothing human at the core of "Miracle Day." The best works of Russell T. Davies may be messy and too ambitious, but they also have a recognizably emotional core. "Miracle Day" strived to find that center at all times, but it always fell just short. Charlie Jane Anders of io9: All in all, this was a perfectly solid final episode, with a few standout moments. It only falls flat because of a larger failure on the part of Russell T. Davies to devise a story arc that could sustain ten hour-long episodes, with enough twists and layers of mystery to keep us guessing. In trying to follow up Children of Earth, Davies took away all the wrong lessons — the key element of CoE, it turns out, was not the "something creepy happens all over the world," thing, but the "single unswerving storyline with horrifying villains, in which you can barely catch your breath and the stakes keep escalating" thing. ... Torchwood has reinvented itself before, and maybe it will again. If it does, there are a lot of elements of Miracle Day that I'd love to see the show build on. Like idea-driven storytelling that trusts the audience to grasp some challenging concepts. Like the sparky rivalry between the two alpha males, Jack and Rex. Like the quintessentially RTD misanthropy of exploring the worst and the most self-deceiving elements of humanity. And like the willingness to mine Captain Jack's ever-bountiful past for horror. Miracle Day did a lot of things right, which the show can build on in future versions. Christian Blauvelt of Entertainment Weekly: Based on that globetrotting, apocalypse-flirting season finale of Torchwood, it's hard to believe that this series began as just a Doctor Who spinoff on BBC Three about a black ops unit fighting aliens in apparently extraterrestrial-packed Cardiff, Wales. No, it still hasn't come close to fulfilling its original mandate to give a more "adult" spin to the Who formula. Not by a mile. But what Torchwood still lacks in maturity it almost makes up with sheer expansiveness. ... Torchwood's always been pulled between smart sci-fi and snark sci-fi, and after that promising opening, "The Blood Line" seemed more interested in getting geeks to drool than think. ... I liked the idea that Harkness would have to die and give up all his blood to The Blessing in order to make people mortal again, though, and that dying would literally be the way for him to become immortal again. That led to one of the best moments of the finale, when Capt. Jack confronted Bill Pullman's killer, Oswald, about how he'd deliberately made his life "small." But instead of that being the climax, Harkness and Mekhi Pfifer's Rex had to gush gobs of CGI blood to make mankind mortal again. Good sci-fi should be about inner space more than outer space…but not this kind of inner space. Still, it's a bold series that builds a major arc not around saving lives but preserving the right to die. Brian Lowry of Variety: I won't spoil the finish for those who haven't seen it, but frankly, I'm not sure I could even if I wanted to. "Torchwood" has always showcased cheeky humor and wacky sci-fi concepts, but while "Miracle Day" kicked off with an extremely provocative premise -- namely, what happens when people suddenly stop dying, triggering a global crisis -- the ensuing episodes felt padded to reach its 10-episode length (twice as long, notably, as the tight miniseries "Children of Earth"), and the payoff wasn't worthy of the build-up. Starz and the BBC have pacted to collaborate on future series, but let's hope this isn't a preview of what's to come. Tim Surette of TV.com: Perhaps what's so maddening is all the wasted potential. There was so much to explore thematically that the show didn't cover—or tried to cover, but unsuccessfully. We got early looks at the world descending into chaos when no one died, but as the global situation got worse, the scope of the show got smaller and focused only on the core characters. In short, a great premise was based on was squandered. However, it's still impossible to stay completely upset with the show. Jack and Gwen are two of my favorite characters on television right now, and Torchwood has been very entertaining at times. But am I going to care whether Starz or the BBC renew the series for another season? I doubt it. Sean Elliott of Assignment X: This episode is a pretty satisfying wrap up of the series. As I've said before the plot meandered for me around the middle episodes, but then got back on track as we headed towards the finale. There were some nice moments between Jack and Gwen that we've never seen before in the course of this TORCHWOOD, but perhaps expanding the cast out as much as they did watered it down too much in places for hardcore fans that only really wanted to see Jack, Gwen, Rhys and other familiar faces. Everything is left wide open for a fifth TORCHWOOD series, but I would honestly like to see it return to a more episode by episode style of storytelling instead of a single serialized adventure, or if they need to make it an overreaching serial have the single episodes with more subplots and bang and less of the talking heads we ended up with on this one. | ||
| Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:01 PM PDT The cover for the October issue of Doctor Who Magazine has been revealed and the Series 6 finale, The Wedding of Song, is this month's big highlight. The caption teases: "Is River going to become a Black Widow? Or can the Doctor cheat time itself?" Matt Smith: "Maybe it's time the Read more ... | ||
| The Blood Line : Overnight Viewing Figures Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:49 PM PDT  The final episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day, The Blood Line achieved an average audience of 3.9 million viewers on BBC One and BBC One HD, according to unofficial overnight figures.The episode had 17.1% of the audience share and was the 9th most watched programme of the day. The programme faced strong opposition from Billy Connolly's Route 66, which had 5.4 million watching and which won the timeslot. Final ratings, which include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days,will be released next week. The broadcast of the episode on Starz on 9th September achieved a total of 950,000 viewers over its premiere evening, with 640,000 watching at 10:00pm and 310,000 for the 11:00pm repeat. With the figures of the finale in the United States now in, here is a round-up of how Miracle Day has fared over its ten week run thus far:
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| Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:42 PM PDT Hot on the heels of the recent release of Epoch, Big Finish is pleased to reveal full details for the next Bernice Summerfield box set, Road Trip, available in February. The three brand-new adventures see Benny back in familiar territory, struggling to make a living as an archaeologist in the twenty-seventh century as she begins her quest to find a world called Legion... and hopefully, with it, her son. 'I love deep, connected stories such as we did with Epoch,' says producer Gary Russell, 'but I'm even more delighted to move forward into these more-stand alone adventures for Benny. Yes, there's a thematic link to the stories - they are heading somewhere (quite literally, in fact) - but these three adventures, and the tie-in novel, are absolute standalones that can be enjoyed on their own or as part of the run!' The series kicks off with a rude awakening for Benny in Brand Management by Christopher Cooper, featuring Anjli Mohindra (The Sarah Jane Adventures) as Gabriella Dominicci and Roger Hammond (Rome, The Madness of King George, Mawdryn Undead) as Professor Harry Burtenshaw. Benny's adventure continues in Bad Habits by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris, where sinister nuns and randy bishops seem set to halt her trip to Legion, when a murderer hijacks an intergalactic pilgrimage to the planet Agora. Jacqueline King (Doctor Who) appears as the severe Mother Aurelia, Nigel Lambert (Look Around You, The Leisure Hive) as the fruity Bishop Synesius, with Steps actor/singer Ian H Watkins as Professor Melville Trout, the supposed 'greatest archaeologist in the galaxy'. The Road Trip then reaches its ultimate conclusion in Paradise Frost by David Llewellyn, where Benny finds herself stranded on a long-abandoned, ice-encrusted holiday world on the fringes of the galaxy... with apparently no way out. Assisting her in her exploits are familiar Big Finish voices India Fisher and Alan Ruscoe (The Waters of Mars), newcomer Scott Arthur (Being Human, The Archers) and Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who's Rory, Little Dorrit). 'I think it only fair to warn people that the very end of Road Trip may see a few twists and turns (no road trip is ever that smooth) and one or two faces of the familiar kind may pop up to make Benny's journey more... interesting,' Gary teases. 'And not all of them may be as pleased to see her as she might expect...' Complete cast and story details are now available on the Road Trip product pages, where the box set is available to pre-order on CD and download. It can also be ordered with the brand-new novel to accompany the box set - more news coming soon! If you've already ordered the CD box set for Road Trip or Legion, you can upgrade to a subscription that includes the book by clicking on these Road Trip and Legion links. | ||
| Preview: Downton Abbey, ITV - Holy Moly! (blog) Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:23 PM PDT
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| X Factor co-producer: BBC Worldwide distorts the market - The Guardian Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:43 PM PDT
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| Matt Smith contemplates pork pie hat for Doctor Who - Metro Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:33 PM PDT
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| The Valeyard Judges: The Girl Who Waited Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:05 PM PDT It's not happening. Not this week. I've seen the preview; this is a Pond episode. I refuse to have anything to do with the ginger whinger any more. And you can't make me, Cawley! Besides, I'm in the middle of something really quite important here.
You see over the last few months I've been tracking down the Master. Yes, yes, I'm quite aware that you chronologically challenged buffoons think he's trapped in the Time War with Rassilon. But in my personal time stream he has been free for several centuries. Truth to tell he's been quite the thorn in my side of late. Things weren't so bad when he was played by that Cumberbatch fellow, he brought quite the air of menace and superiority to my oldest enemy. But now he's played by Jonathon Ross, and that just won't stand. "Ah, Doctor, you have stumbled into my cunning twap." Blast, I should not have allowed myself to have become distracted. I seem to be hanging upside down, dangling in front of this would be Master. "I knew you would swip up eventually, Doctor." I do wish he wouldn't call me that. "So, you must be wondering why I've lured you here…" "Not especially, I presume you have some feeble notion of ending my life." That's shut the fool up. It would appear I'm right. "Is there any chance you could cut me down, all the blood seems to be rushing to my head." "Ah ha!" Oh dear, he's had an idea. These never end well for either of us. "You'd like that wouldn't you?" I swear he's some kind of moron. "Of course I would. What kind of idiot wants to be left hanging around?" "What kind idiot, indeed?" He's just repeating me now, he really has grown tiresome. I do hope he has a point to make soon. "How about the kind of idiot that has to work as a weviewer on some two bit website [Hey! – Ed] to make ends meet?" Ah. "It must just kill you to have to sit and watch past glowies and only be able to pass comment on them." The insufferable buffoon is just taunting me now. "So I have decided that the most tortuous thing I could do to you is to ensure that you watch this week's episode, I believe it stars a companion quite close to your heart."
"Like heartburn, you mean?" That's it, keep things jokey and start working on these knots. "Ah, you may mock me now." And for a long time to come I expect. "But let's see what you think of me after this!" He wheels out a television set and leaves the room laughing maniacally. I'd really hoped he'd grown out of that stage. And so I find myself watching the damn episode anyway. It's every bit as Pond obsessed as I'd feared it would be. More so in fact as it seems there are two of her this week, why don't they just give her a spin off show of her own and be done with it? Although just when I fear that I shan't be able to take any more the unbelievable happens; they actually kill one of her. Oh happy day!
And by 'they' I don't mean the script writer, although he played his part I'm sure, I'm referring to my younger self and Rory. They both make the decision to sacrifice one of the Ponds. It has to be said though, they should have sacrificed the younger, whinier model. I was actually growing to like the older version. A bit of steel about her. Not a bad episode all in all. I must confess though that I felt I was watching a Seventh Me and Ace story at points. I do miss that version of me, he knew how to get things done. I'm left hanging, in every sense of the word, long after the episode has finished. Long, long after the episode has finished in point of fact. It would seem that the Master has forgotten all about me. How I miss Cumberbatch. | ||
| Doctor Who: Day Of The Daleks DVD review - Den Of Geek Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:02 PM PDT
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| 'Torchwood: Miracle Day': Success or Failure? - Digital Spy Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:42 PM PDT
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| Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:31 PM PDT It's finally here: you've been waiting for it all week but finally we present to you our massive roundup of reaction and reviews from around the web for the latest episode of Doctor Who, The Girl Who Waited. There were 6 million of you tuned into the episode for its premiere screening on BBC One on Saturday evening, an increase of half a million on the previous week, so clearly there was enough in the promotion to pique interest and make a difference which saw Doctor Who beat Ant and Dec's latest vehicle Red Or Black? by over a million. Once again the episode cut a share of over 30%, maintaining its consistently high audience share. Of course as you know, we don't really care about the overnight figures as they barely mean anything without iPlayer viewings factored in. The critical opinion is far more important… Mez Burdett has picked some great reviews, kicking off with this snippet from The Guardian who rightly praise Karen Gillan for a remarkable performance in the episode.
Assignment X, too, had praise for Gillan, but mainly for Tom MacRae, the episode's writer:
Over at the website of popular UK sci-fi magazine SFX, the focus is on praising the concept of The Girl Who Waited. It's interesting that no episode or even story has really dealt with this particular threat of time travel before.
As you would expect, Flick Filosopher MaryAnn Johanson tells it like it is, highlighting the marvellous dialogue that permeated this memorable episode:
Meanwhile Andrew Reynolds has a few useful snippets which he kicks off with a rather unusual reference to REM…
It somehow seems wrong that now the events of The Girl Who Waited have been erased from history, with Rory reunited with the oblivious younger Amy, that the one defining moment of their relationship, throughout all history will be Rory's 2,000 year vigil. There's no denying that it taps into the same often repressed yearnings explored in The Girl Who Waited: Rory surviving on the sustenance of one day being reunited with his loved one, fighting off those that wish to separate them until that day comes – when called upon Rory becomes more than a man. While Amy never willingly chose to make that same sacrifice her own trust in Rory crumbles far more readily than Rory's steely nerve- where he can see an end in sight, she loses focus and nearly negates letting her older self regain those lost years- as if each passing year had validated that pain to the point where life without it would be worse than enduring it.
A lot has been made of the "Dark Fairytale" world that Steven Moffat has created but here with lovers seperated in two different worlds is where it felt its most magical; it's something that Tor.com felt too:
It is this strength that lead to Newsarama calling the union of Amy and Rory:
This misunderstands what history is about; its not about those great moments that serve as a reminder to a power that has long since begun to fade with repetition but those human moments, where what was expected to happen fails or those moments that succeed but not in expected ways. Instead, it is the emotional pull it has on those key figures and the ability to spin a yarn about what fits the general interpretation; The Girl Who Waited even sounds like a fable. That's why its such a shame that Amy and Rory will only be remember (so far) for the moment the Roman faced down the Cybermen rather than the quiet moment a girl lost her religion. It's that same vulnerablity that makes the Older Amy – forced into a life of hiding in the shadows from the deadly stings of the Handbots – turn on the one man that put them in this test of time. With life onboard the TARDIS becoming more and more bleak it begs the question raised by CraveOnline: Why are Amy and Rory still travelling with the Doctor?
Rory, as has been established, is a man of principle. He will stand up for what he believes in – though often those beliefs are little more than screwing his courage to the sticking place and facing unbelievable odds – could this TARDIS family, who, like life with the Fifth Doctor are at least consider equals, in fact be greater than the man himself? As the Doctor himself has said he is 'tired of running' from those forces that seeking vengence could this all be leading towards the Ponds killing not the Doctor but just what we believe the Doctor to be? Could we be talking about another kind of regeneration? Bleeding Cool have been questioning the same thing:
For more on the reaction to this episode, don't forget to check out our own review and this week's podKast in which Christian Cawley, Brian Terranova and James McLean discuss the episode in-depth! Christian Cawley, Andrew Reynolds and Mez Burdett all contributed to this article. | ||
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