Sunday, April 6, 2008

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News

Doctor Who finds lost bride - Courier Mail

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 08:45 AM CDT


Doctor Who finds lost bride
Courier Mail, Australia - 26 minutes ago
... up again with the runaway bride, Donna, who appeared in the 2006 Christmas special. Read Britain's Telegraph story about Catherine Tate who plays Donna.

News: BBC Schedulers Vindicated

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 07:35 AM CDT

Not only have the schedulers been vindicated as Doctor Who drew a superb overnight figure of 8.4 million viewers for the premier of the new series, but Russell T Davies comments about the timeslot have been made to look somewhat silly given the tone of Partners in Crime. This 8.4 million viewers does not include any delayed viewings or videoed viewings, so the figure could prove to be much higher than the 8.71 million who tuned into Smith and Jones. Davies had previously remarked on the...

Welcome Back Doctor Who!

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 06:44 AM CDT

It took us in a wonderful direction with an early curveball, but despite the light hearted tone of Partners in Crime Doctor Who is back for 2008.

I enjoyed watching Tate and Tennant on Jonathon Ross last Friday, and it did seem as though they would make a good team, watching them sat together - and thankfully this feeling was proved right on Saturday evening.

The episode might well go on to be remembered for something else entirely, but that doesn't matter - it brought the Doctor and Donna back together well, and Catherine Tate has certainly (so far) proved this viewer wrong.

Forum Tweaking


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If you do see it is down, try back an hour later as it won't be unavailable for any more than 1 hour at any time.

You'll soon see the benefits...

Doctor Who Videogame - first pics

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 06:26 AM CDT

Doctor Who Videogame - first pics
News Dated: 6/4/2008

DWO have received some images from the new Doctor Who Videogame.

The videogame, which promises to be an electronic re-imagining of the classic Top Trumps card game, will allow players to battle it out in rounds that can last as long as 15 minutes.

The developers (Eidos), have also included minigames that require feats of memory and observation.

Further fanboy thrills are to be had winning and collecting 38 cards for storage in the TARDIS’ data banks. Each of these collectibles profiles a character from the series complete with images from the live-action show.

DWO are expecting more information / images shortly.

[To view images - check out the DWO News page]

[Source: Angus Evans]

Weekend on television: Doctor Who (BBC1) - Melvyn Bragg’s Travels ... - Telegraph.co.uk

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 06:19 AM CDT


Weekend on television: Doctor Who (BBC1) - Melvyn Bragg's Travels ...
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 2 hours ago
As the near-misses continued, Russell T Davies's script certainly wasn't afraid to pile on the sentiment. It even provided Donna with a lovable old Gramps ...

Big game reduced to sick rifle range - Scotsman

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 06:13 AM CDT


Big game reduced to sick rifle range
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 1 hour ago
So after dying once and moaning about it for two dull episodes, zombie doctor Owen finally expired for good in the genuinely surprising finale of Torchwood. ...

Q&A: David Tennant - CBBC Newsround

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 05:59 AM CDT


Q&A: David Tennant
CBBC Newsround, UK - 4 hours ago
We had the return of the Daleks in the last series, what are the Cybermen going to be like in this one? Well the Cybermen are from Doctor Who's past. ...

Doctor Who 2008, Week One: Big Russell's Big Organ

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 05:44 AM CDT

Builds week-by-week into a complete collection of fanboy angst.

Let me just ask… you know that bit at the end of "Partners in Crime", where the little Adipose waves goodbye through the window of the spaceship? I'm not the only one who actually found himself waving back at it, am I…? Early, '60s-age Doctor Who often worked by invoking the country's twenty-year-old memories of World War Two - consider "The Web of Fear", and the instinctive connection it makes between soldiers and underground stations - but this is Doctor Who for a generation that's never known a national trauma. Ergo, it invokes our twenty-year-old memories of watching Rainbow. "Bye-bye! Byyyy-yyyyye!" (On another level, we might like to see this as the counterweight to that shite-awful "Something Borrowed" episode of Torchwood, in which it's okay to kill alien babies if they had a parasitic upbringing. We note that "Something Borrowed" avoids showing us the alien baby in question, so that we don't have to squirm when the hero murders it. The Adipose wisely make themselves visible whenever they can.)

Good, now that's out of the way…

It should be clear to us by this stage that Doctor Who's worst enemy, far more than the BBC schedulers, the Eurovision Song Contest or the estate of Terry Nation, is our expectations of it. The word "our" is used in the broadest, whole-of-humankind sense here, because it should also be clear that the expectations of hardcore old-school fandom are violently different from the expectations of the general public (or even individual slices of the general public… "Fear Her" worked for children, because that's the way they tend to think about the world, but it was anathema to those who believe that proper sci-fi has to involve alien invasions, random Victoriana and very dark sets). The expectations of the media are different to both. This is why the views of the Radio Times never seem to gel with the views of people you hear talking about Doctor Who on the bus, and ultimately, why Catherine Tate was considered a good move. I mention this last fact not to begin another round of abuse, but simply because it tells you so much about the way the series has developed. If Big Russell's idea of "the real world" is now "the real world as people who work in television see it" - and increasingly, it is - then the media can be thought of as his whopping great sensory organ.

Which is a problem, when the views of the media are as smug and misguided as those of fandom. Consider, for example, the opening line from Time Out's preview of "Partners in Crime": "A call centre is the unlikely, earthbound setting for this latest series of time-travelling hi-jinks." Unlikely…? In the BBC Wales scheme of things, as it was laid out right in the very first moments of "Rose", surely a call centre is the most likely, most predictable place in the universe for a new series to start? The real surprise here, and the one that kicks "Partners" into high gear, is that Donna isn't working there but acting as a Doctor-surrogate by trying to infiltrate it. The Radio Times tends to follow the Time Out line - q.v. this week's editorial, and its cry of "take yet another bow, Mr Russell T. Davies", even though most of us are saying "no, please don't, that's part of the problem" - yet there's a terrible sense of self-congratulation here, as if media types who don't normally watch anything more outrĂ© than Holby City think it's somehow remarkable to begin an SF series by showing us a modern-day workplace and then revealing it to be a front for alien invaders.

As anyone who's been watching carefully since 2005 will know, this sort of thing is positively ordinary by now, but what's Davies to think? If this is the only feedback he really gets, then how's he going to work out that he might just be driving the series up a blind alley…? Fortunately, with "Partners in Crime", he's found an approach that stops the episode being a straight retread of "Invasion of the Bane": this is the best screwball romantic comedy that Hollywood never made, presenting David Tennant as a time-travelling Cary Grant rather than a latter-day Tom Baker. Can Russell keep it forever, though? Can the other writers? Can anybody?

Here we should consider the series' other great handicap, the chief writer's bizarre belief that it needs to keep one foot in contemporary London and / or Cardiff if the audience is going to care about it. We can skip over the obvious arguments against this, and merely mention that old-style Doctor Who got its highest ratings during a period when the TARDIS never landed in twentieth-century Britain and there weren't any human characters on board. I've already argued that with the BBC pumping out two spin-off series at once, and thus giving us eighteen "a bit like Doctor Who, but set in 2007" stories since the end of the last season, there's something rather dubious about using the epic budget of Doctor Who itself to do more of the same. The biggest problem with "Partners in Crime" isn't that there's anything wrong with it as 48 minutes of television entertainment, it's that this is what Torchwood and The Sarah-Jane Adventures should be like all the time.

The mother-series has bigger fish to fry, or at least, it should have. When the programme was confined to Earth in 1970, the writers complained that they were stuck with mad scientists and alien invasions, and modern Doctor Who just underlines the point: with so many CGI-and-urban-skyline stories being churned out per annum, the production team starts to rely on showbiz guest-stars ("The Sound of Drums", and this includes John Simm) and unexpected-looking monsters (the Adipose here, bless 'em) to distract the audience from the formula. For the media, which sees Doctor Who as a gimmick-driven adventure serial in the mould of Robin Hood - or, more accurately but less topically, like Bugs - this is fine, since they expect it to be formulaic. For the rest of us, though…?

If we got lucky this time around, then it's because this is about the characters rather than the plot. Whereas "Invasion of the Bane" gave us the sneaking feeling that nobody involved really cared about teenagers in contemporary Britain, and would rather be focusing on the enormously-tentacled aliens, "Partners" assumes that everyone will be tuning in specifically to see how the Doctor deals with his latest, most showbiz accomplice. Again, we have to ask ourselves whether this is exactly what Doctor Who is supposed to be doing, but a bigger question is where the programme can go if the onus is on the stars rather than the stories. With David Tennant now one of the most famous people in the country, and a companion on board who's already a celebrity, the regulars are the selling-points and any further development seems unnecessary. We've got Catherine Tate and the promised return of Billie Piper, plus a clutch of well-known TV faces as Batman-style guest villains. That'll keep the papers happy. Why do more?

Others may be less convinced than the press. Perhaps the greatest single problem with the casting of Tate, even beyond the fact that she can somehow deliver the line "things of metal and fire and blood" as if she's on methodone, is that she's guaranteed to alienate the younger viewer. Steven Moffat was quite right in saying that children prefer to see slightly older actors as point-of-view characters, but a more accurate summary is that they like child-substitutes rather than children, so that they can imagine what they'd do if they were grown-ups. The appeal of Rose, and to a lesser extent Martha, was that she had enough savvy to appeal to teenagers but enough "wow, let's explore the universe!" gumption to appeal to under-twelves. Now consider Donna Noble. In "The Runaway Bride", she'd rather have a high-paid job in human resources than adventures in time and space. In "Partners in Crime", she's depicted as a career woman who's had a mid-life crisis and wants to get out more. In spite of this episode's best efforts, she's grown-up in the bad way. As a result, the series begins to look as if it's an in-joke for adults.

In this light, we reflect on the thought that there's no Totally Doctor Who this year, and ask… can you imagine what it would've been like if there had been? Can you really see Kirsten O'Brien trying to get the Who-sprogs worked up into a frenzy over a POV character who's older than the actor playing the Doctor and treats TARDIS travel as if she's just been promoted to accounts? Can you imagine one of those terrible animated cartoons we had last year, only with Donna instead of Martha? And as I've asked before, how are the authors of the Doctor Who juvenile novels - you know, the ones I wasn't allowed to write for - going to sell this companion to ten-year-olds on the printed page? It still seems odd that nobody at the BBC noticed all the potential problems, but then, nobody there would have bothered arguing. Remember, Davies gets his feedback from the media. Media people think it's a good idea to use an established celebrity as the audience's point-of-view character, because they're the only ones who think celebrities are normal. If Tennant leaves, then they'll probably want to see someone out of Little Britain as his replacement. They're like that.

Or, how about this as a more telling symptom of Doctor Who in the Showbiz Age? Davies tells us in this week's Confidential that if he were teaching a course in scriptwriting, then he'd start by challenging the writers to put the "Doctor and Donna hang off a window-cleaner's platform" sequence on paper, and to make it as unambiguous as possible. Can you see the problem with this, boys and girls…? What he's actually saying here is that it's the first duty of a writer to know how to storyboard an action sequence. This is twaddle, of course: what you should teach a writer, if s/he's writing drama, is how to make sure that the stuff coming out of the actors' mouths is actually dramatic. Now, however, Davies' view seems to be that a scriptwriter's job is to make the finished work look as much like a Hollywood movie as possible. Davies himself can get away with the Hollywood version of Doctor Who because, at heart, he thinks he's a director. "Partners in Crime" works because it's a director's script, and uses rapid-fire cutting as a storytelling device rather than a way of making the episode look slick and fast-paced, but expecting everyone to take the same approach is… well, let's just say "problematic".

When future generations look back in judgement at the era when Doctor Who went to Showbiz Hell - assuming that future generations will be able to make judgements, or indeed, follow any narrative structure more complex than a BBC3 news bulletin - they'll look at the Confidential documentary that followed "Voyage of the Damned", and wonder why nobody realised what was happening. When Russell T. Davies can be seen creaming himself over the presence of an acceptable-but-in-no-way-great Australian actress as if it's the high-water-mark of human culture, and when Kylie's manager seriously tries to tell us that the Doctor's regenerations are comparable to a pop star "re-styling" himself, we should be in no doubt that something's f***ed up somewhere. Even if it does leave us with the image of William Hartnell dressing up like Ziggy Stardust. "Voyage of the Damned" itself was a preening demonstration of How Big This Programme Is, even aside from its mad belief that an "ambitious" television show is one that's got bigger special effects than usual. "Partners in Crime" is vastly better on every level, but ultimately, it's still weighed down by the same obsession with the series' own public image. This is, above all else, a programme which believes that its target audience is Jonathan Ross.

Perhaps there should be a rule by which everyone writing for Doctor Who should be obliged to watch "An Unearthly Child" before starting work, not because the series should actually be like that these days, but just as a reminder of where it came from, where it was supposed to be taking us, and what space it's meant to occupy in the British psyche. Doctor Who was, in a more idealistic age, like children's literature for television. And remember, this was in the days when children were actually educated (just look how much "The Crusade" and "The Reign of Terror" assume the audience to know in advance), so we're going some way beyond Harry Potter here. It's veered a long way from that path over years, sometimes quite successfully, but the original version still reminds you of what the programme's aspirations might be and could be. Meanwhile, the modern version is more like Heat magazine with special effects.

Then again, what isn't these days? At the start of the Eccleston season, Davies poured scorn on the tabloids for suggesting that Jamie Oliver might be the new Doctor, as if a mere TV personality could play the part rather than a serious actor. Three years on, it's as if he's deliberately steering the series towards a point where nobody except a TV personality could possibly be a replacement for Tennant.

This Week's Summary: Mostly bright, but with ominous clouds later in the day.

In brief: Prince Philip leaves hospital; McCann police due to ... - Times Online

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 05:33 AM CDT


In brief: Prince Philip leaves hospital; McCann police due to ...
Times Online, UK - 3 hours ago
The episode featured Catherine Tate as Donna, the Doctor's new companion, and a reappearance by Billie Piper as Rose Tyler. Portuguese police are due in ...

Russell T Davies Interview To Read

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 04:48 AM CDT

This interview with Russell T Davies has some interesting little spoilers and cameo reports that I'm sure will be very interesting to some of you.

8.4 million tune in for return of Dr Who - The Herald

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 04:31 AM CDT


8.4 million tune in for return of Dr Who
The Herald, UK - 3 hours ago
The return of Doctor Who to the nation's television screens on Saturday attracted 8.4 million viewers. The latest series, featuring David Tennant as the ...

Strung out hackers and BBC beanbags - Register

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 03:09 AM CDT


Strung out hackers and BBC beanbags
Register, UK - 28 minutes ago
Also bordering on the lunatic was a Bluetooth-and-accelerometer-based sword fighting game, and a complete high-definition tribute to Torchwood shot and ...

The Reader Awards 2008

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 03:03 AM CDT

Last year, following the conclusion of Torchwood's first season on British television, Torchwood.tv launched a successful "Reader's Awards". This year it's back - bigger and better than ever before, with new categories and a lot else besides!

Send an email to the following address; answering each of the following categories. All the results will be added together after the closing date (April 3oth) - and we'll announce the winners in May!

RATE THE EPISODES

Mark each story out of 10 - 10 being the highest; 1 the lowest. We'll add the results together, and find (based on averages) the highest through to the lowest rated adventures.

1: "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang"
2: "Sleeper"
3: "To the Last Man"
4: "Meat"
5: "Adam"
6: "Reset"
7: "Dead Man Walking"
8: "A Day in the Death"
9: "Something Borrowed"
10: "From Out of the Rain"
11: "Adrift"
12: "Fragments"
13: "Exit Wounds"

RATE THE (DOCTOR WHO) EPISODES

We never got a chance to do this last year. Following Jack's appearence in the 'Master Trilogy' I figure now's as good a time as any! Again, mark out of ten:

1: "The Unquiet Dead" (with Eve Myles)
2: "Aliens of London" (with Naoko Mori cameo)
3: "The Empty Child" / "The Doctor Dances" (with John Barrowman)
4: "Boomtown" (with John Barrowman)
5: "Bad Wolf" / "The Parting of the Ways" (with John Barrowman)
6: "Utopia" / "Sound of Drums" / "Last of the Time Lords" (with John Barrowman)

BEST ACTOR/ACTRESS

Choose from any of the regular cast (although last year's winner, John Barrowman, is excluded - for the sake of giving the rest of the team a chance to shine!!)

1: Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper)
2: Burn Gorman (Owen Harper)
3: Naoko Mori (Toshiko Sato)
4: Gareth David Lloyd (Ianto Jones)
5: Kai Owen (Rhys Williams)

BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS

Choose any of the series' guest performers. Some are listed below, but for a more comprehensive list check out the first post in the comments section:

1: James Marsters (Captain John Hart)
2: Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones)
3: Tom Price (PC Andy)
4: Nikki Amuka-Bird (Beth, "Sleeper")
5: Anthony Lewis (Tommy, "To the Last Man")
6: Bryan Dick (Adam, "Adam")
7: Alan Dale (Copley, "Reset")
8: Richard Briers (Parker, "A Day in the Death")
9: Nerys Hughes (Brenda, "Something Borrowed")
10: Julian Bleach (Ghostmaker, "From Out of the Rain")
11: Ruth Jones (Nikki, "Adrift")
12: Oliver Ferriman (Jonah, "Adrift")
13: Andrea Lowe (Katie, "Fragments")
14: Lachlan Nieboer (Gray, "Exit Wounds")
15: Paul Kasey (Blowfish/Weevils)

BEST WRITER

Choose from any of the following series two writers:
1: Chris Chibnall ("Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", "Adrift", "Fragments", "Exit Wounds")
2: James Moran ("Sleeper")
3: Helen Raynor ("To the Last Man")
4: Catherine Tregenna ("Meat", "Adam")
5: J.C Wilsher ("Reset")
6: Matt Jones ("Dead Man Walking")
7: Joseph Lidster ("A Day in the Death")
8: Phil Ford ("Something Borrowed")
9: Peter J Hammond ("From Out of the Rain")

BEST DIRECTOR

Choose from any of the following series two directors:
1: Ashley Way ("Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", "Reset", "Something Borrowed", "Exit Wounds")
2: Colin Teague ("Sleeper", "Meat")
3: Andy Goddard ("To the Last Man", "Adam", "Dead Man Walking", "A Day in the Death")
4: Jonathan Fox Basset ("From Out of the Rain", "Fragments")
5: Mark Everest ("Adrift")

BEST TIE-IN BOOK

Choose from any of the following:
1: Something in the Water (Trevor Baxendale)
2: Trace Memory (David Llewellyn)
3: The Twilight Streets (Gary Russell)

BEST AUDIO BOOK

Choose from any of the following:
1: Hidden (Steven Savile)
2: Everybody Says Hello (Dan Abnett)

ACCESS ALL AREAS - OTHER MERCHANDISE

Give the following marks out of 10 - 10 being the highest; 1 being the lowest:
1: Anything Goes - John Barrowman Autobiography (CD & Book)
2: Inside the Hub (Steven James Walker, Telos Publishing)
3: Torchwood - the Official Magazine (Titan Publishing)
4: The official website (www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood)

DVD REVIEW

From the season one DVD boxset, pick:
1: Best special feature (Torchwood Declassified, commentaries, featurettes, etc.)
2: Best audio commentary (which specific episode did you enjoy best??)

MESSAGE FROM THE FANS

Give a five word (no more!) summary of the second season. The ten best will acompany the results when they're published next month!

TORCHWOOD.TV

Leave your opinions of the site here. They won't be published on the main site, but will help me and the site's other writer's understand what you, the reader, want to see more/less of - and how successful a job we're doing!

Again, send your results here.

The closing date is 11:59pm on April 30th.

The results will be published mid-May.

Get voting!

Did I tell you that I kent Doctor Who’s faither? - The Herald

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 02:14 AM CDT


Did I tell you that I kent Doctor Who's faither?
The Herald, UK - 21 minutes ago
David Tennant, who was back on our television screens on Saturday, beginning a new series of the longest-running science-fiction programme of all time. ...

The half-pint Parkinson is a lil’ surprise - The Herald

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 02:09 AM CDT


The half-pint Parkinson is a lil' surprise
The Herald, UK - 26 minutes ago
Catherine Tate is sidekick Donna Noble, the runaway bride. She actually resembles a runaway bride's dowdy mum. Or the type of mother-in-law who'd make a ...

Torchwood: Adrift - TV Squad

Posted: 06 Apr 2008 12:09 AM CDT


Torchwood: Adrift
TV Squad, CA - 2 hours ago
As seems to be par for the course on Torchwood, there was at least one ridiculously convenient coincidence that the emotional hook of the episode hinged on. ...

New Timeslot Doesn't Hurt 'Doctor Who' - SyFyPortal

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 11:15 PM CDT


New Timeslot Doesn't Hurt 'Doctor Who'
SyFyPortal, FL - 3 hours ago
The Season 4 premiere on BBC One pulled in 8.4 million viewers Saturday despite showrunner's Russell T. Davies' opinion that airing the show at 6:15 pm was ...

Confessions of a Nettophile - The Observer

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 10:25 PM CDT


Confessions of a Nettophile
The Observer, UK - 1 hour ago
This can of course mean you go out to buy lettuce and return with a bottle of bubble bath in the shape of a Dalek. To join the Netto checkout queue is to ...

Your pictures of April's snow fall - BBC News

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 10:09 PM CDT


Your pictures of April's snow fall
BBC News, UK - 1 hour ago
Stephen Moysey's son Nicholas tries to figure out how to exterminate this Dr Who inspired snow dalek. The snow was no match for the Bluebell railway, ...

Partners in Crime - Overnight Ratings

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 09:56 PM CDT

Unofficial figures show that the first episode of Series Four, Partners in Crime was watched by 8.4 million viewers, giving it a 39.4% share of the total television audience and making it the most watched programme of the day, beating the second placed Casualty by over 1 million viewers.

8.4m viewers see Doctor Who return - This is Nottingham

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 09:05 PM CDT


8.4m viewers see Doctor Who return
This is Nottingham, UK - 5 hours ago
Saturday night's episode included Catherine Tate as the Doctor's new companion Donna, reprising her role from the 2006 Christmas Special The Runaway Bride. ...

Local Dr Who actress attends convention - This Is Lancashire

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 08:39 PM CDT


Local Dr Who actress attends convention
This Is Lancashire, UK - 11 hours ago
By Nafeesa Shan A DARWEN actor has become a fan of Dr Who after starring alongside the current time lord played by David Tennant. ...

Doctor Who attracts 8.4m viewers - BBC News

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 07:48 PM CDT


Doctor Who attracts 8.4m viewers
BBC News, UK - 15 minutes ago
Writer Russell T Davies had criticised the BBC's decision to show the programme earlier in the evening. "It's not a time slot I agree with," he said of the ...

Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 108

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 07:04 PM CDT

Episode 108 of Doctor Who: Podshock is now available.

"You think it'll last forever. The people, and cars, and concrete. But it won't. Then one day it's all gone. Even the sky."

Outpost Gallifrey Presents:
Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 108
Running Time: 1:30:23



The 9th Doctor and his era ...

Catherine Tate's Doctor gamble - Monsters and Critics.com

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 07:03 PM CDT


Catherine Tate's Doctor gamble
Monsters and Critics.com - 1 hour ago
The comic star - who stars as the Doctor's assistant Donna Noble in the new series of the hit TV show - has revealed she uses her spare time to play cards ...

Classic Moment: Raston Warrior Robot

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 07:00 PM CDT

Discover the moment a Cybermen army bites the dust during a special episode of Doctor Who

A funny thing happened on the way to the Tardis - Crows Nest

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 02:35 PM CDT


A funny thing happened on the way to the Tardis
Crows Nest - 58 minutes ago
I remember learning the story of Pompeii at a very young age and being thrilled by it," said head writer Russell T Davies. "You see the shapes of their ...

EXCLUSIVE Oliver! battle favourite's boyfriend reveals.. - Sunday People

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 01:53 PM CDT


EXCLUSIVE Oliver! battle favourite's boyfriend reveals..
Sunday People, UK - 35 minutes ago
Judges of the show, presented by Graham Norton, include TV host Denise Van Outen, Torchwood actor John Barrowman and theatre veteran David Grimrod. ...

Classic Moment: Raston Warrior Robot - Digital Spy

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 01:12 PM CDT


Classic Moment: Raston Warrior Robot
Digital Spy, UK - 14 minutes ago
A number of monsters have been mysteriously summoned to the planet too, including a Dalek, a Yeti and the Cybermen. It's the latter creatures' encounter ...

Comic Rob’sa family guy - ic Wales

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 12:19 PM CDT


Comic Rob'sa family guy
ic Wales, United Kingdom - 1 hour ago
"Along with that, Doctor Who, Torchwood and winning the Grand Slam, I don't think there's ever been a better time to be Welsh since the mid-1970s. ...

Quiz Of The Week - Glasgow Sunday Mail

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 11:54 AM CDT


Quiz Of The Week
Glasgow Sunday Mail, UK - 1 hour ago
Seal. 11. The Royal Infirmary. 12. Nigeria. 13. King Kong. 14. Bruce Forsyth. 15. Tommy Sheridan. 16. I'd Do Anything. 17. 2011. 18. Catherine Tate. 19. ...

S04E01: 'Partners In Crime'

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 11:04 AM CDT

A hilarious and fun adventure kicks off Doctor Who&os;s

S04E01: 'Partners In Crime'

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 11:03 AM CDT

The Doctor and Donna take on an alien super nanny who aims to cash in on the slimming obsession.

S04E02: 'The Fires Of Pompeii'

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 10:54 AM CDT

We&os;re erupting with spoilers this week as The Doctor and Donna visit a volcano.

What Happens Next...?

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 10:26 AM CDT

Although no third season of Torchwood has been officially confirmed by the BBC, it's looking increasingly likely that we'll get another year of Weevil-busting antics - but in what form, we don't quite know... A full thirteen part series, with new recruits joining the team? Maybe. A cut-down five part 'event television' run, like the Daily Star suggests? Maybe. Something else entirely? Maybe!

Come on BBC - confirm the damn thing already, and give us some clues!

In the meantime we have a special adio episode to look foward. It'll be written by writer Joseph Lidster, who scripted "A Day in the Death", and will backdrop the particle accelerator at the CERN physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. It was recorded by the cast back in March, and will be aired as part of a series of programme examining CERN later this summer.

Torchwood: The Official Magazine continues to be released monthly, with exclusive news and interviews and comic strip action! The current issue is on sale now and features an in-depth chat with Burn Gorman, aka Owen Harper. Issue four will be out April 17th.

Another set of three Torchwood novels will be out before the end of the year - though no details are currently known about them! They'll probably be set mid-way through the second series, and you can expect them in shops this coming Autumn.

Script editor Gary Russell has written a new behind the scenes account of the show, in a book - "The Torchwood Archives". Released on October 2nd, it reveals a few of the show's secrets - including case files, character notes, and lots else besides! You can be one of the first to pre-order the book, here!

Another guide to the series, "Something in the Darkness", will be released by Telos sometime in August. It's a companion piece to last year's terrific "Inside the Hub". You can pre-order it here.

Meanwhile, away from book-land, the series two DVD boxset will be released on June 30th - and for a short (?) time only you can pre-order it on play.com for only £14.99! Result!

Don't forget that a series of Torchwood trading cards launches later this month - Torchwood in every newsagents! Let's hope that stray kids don't accidentally pick up the 'Jack shagging Ianto' card from the "Adrift" episode, huh ;)

Finally - Torchwood.tv! Hooray! We'll continue to publish the latest Torchwood related news, in the build up to a potential third season, and, and... well, that would be telling! Tomorrow we're launching the second Torchwood.tv Awards - your chance to spill the beans, and tell it how it is: What did you think of Torchwood's second series?

Join us for the ride - it'll be a rollercoaster!

Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord - Independent

Posted: 05 Apr 2008 06:09 AM CDT


Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord
Independent, UK - 14 hours ago
Since then, Jack has spun off into his own, very adult series, Torchwood, but he is returning (along with former companions Sarah Jane, Martha and Rose, ...

Why Wales is feeling the Dr Who effect - ic Wales

Posted: 04 Apr 2008 10:53 PM CDT


Why Wales is feeling the Dr Who effect
ic Wales, United Kingdom - 5 Apr 2008
Doctor Who, the series which put Cardiff on the world map, is made here, its big boss Russell T Davies is Welsh, and many of our iconic buildings are used ...

Who can resist a dose of the Doctor? - Peterborough Today

Posted: 04 Apr 2008 04:48 PM CDT


Who can resist a dose of the Doctor?
Peterborough Today, UK - 20 hours ago
Last summer, a Doctor Who exhibition at Peterborough Museum broke all visitor records, and saw hundreds of people, including young Mark Robinson, ...

Technical Hitch

Posted: 04 Apr 2008 01:00 PM CDT

Huge demand affects new look website.

Dr Who takes on Forest Of The Dead - CBBC Newsround

Posted: 04 Apr 2008 12:17 AM CDT


Dr Who takes on Forest Of The Dead
CBBC Newsround, UK - 4 Apr 2008
Doctor Who's head writer, Russell T Davies, says that one of the most frightening stories of the new series will probably be the double episode written by ...

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