Thursday, April 24, 2008

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News

Doctor Who Adventures - 61

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 02:39 PM CDT

Doctor Who Adventures issue 61, is now out across the United Kingdom.

Fires of Pompeii - Final Ratings

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 12:12 PM CDT

Final figures released by BARB give episode two of Series Four, The Fires of Pompeii, an official rating of 9.04 million viewers. The programme was the 10th most watched for the week on British Television. On BBC1 it was the 4th most watched for the week, beating an episode of EastEnders. On multi-channel television, the Sunday BBC3 repeat was watched by 1.03 million viewers and was the 8th most watched programme for the week. The Saturday showing...

News: Doctor Who Adventures 61

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 11:56 AM CDT

Ood news! This week's issue of Doctor Who Adventures is an really Ood issue… There's a menacing red-eye Ood staring out on the cover and inside we look at our favourite moments of last week's scary episode! You can also test out how well you know the Ood with our tricky quiz. The issue comes with a FREE Judoon notepad, a set of monster tags and there's also the final part of our giant Doctor Who double-sided poster. On one side you get a picture of Donna and on the other you get all the...

Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (April 25, 2008) - AfterElton.com

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 10:18 AM CDT


Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (April 25, 2008)
AfterElton.com - 4 minutes ago
Already suffering Torchwood withdrawal? Good thing the Torchwood convention is coming up! The Daytime Emmy nominees are to be announced on Wednesday. ...

New Edition Music Is Back Story, Lead-In For 'Soul Story: Bobby Brown' - Hartford Courant

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 08:49 AM CDT


New Edition Music Is Back Story, Lead-In For 'Soul Story: Bobby Brown'
Hartford Courant, United States - 15 minutes ago
Comedian Catherine Tate reprises her character Donna Noble as she officially joins the cast of "Doctor Who" (Sci Fi, 9 pm). Earlier, an hour of "The Sarah ...

S4: Episode #6 - Synopsis

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 07:35 AM CDT

S4: Episode #6 - Synopsis
News Dated: 24/4/2008

The synopsis for 4.6: The Doctor's Daughter is now online.

4.6: The Doctor's Daughter

The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life on the distant planet Messaline, in the middle of an endless war, as Russell T Davies's Bafta Award-winning time-travelling drama continues.

But as General Cobb threatens genocide, and Martha is kidnapped by the Hath, the Doctor faces an even greater battle – can he find peace with his own child?

David Tennant plays the Doctor and Catherine Tate plays his new companion, Donna Noble. Freema Agyeman and Georgia Moffett guest star.

4.6: The Doctor's Daughter airs on Saturday 10th May, Time TBC.

[Source: BBCi Press Office - website]

Sonic Screwdriver: What Doctor Who Writes His Shopping List with - Gizmodo Australia

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 06:32 AM CDT


Sonic Screwdriver: What Doctor Who Writes His Shopping List with
Gizmodo Australia, Australia - 20 minutes ago
So, while you may not be able to take a Cyberman to pieces in a schmazillionth of a second, you can write down Rose's phone numberâ€"in normal ink if you're ...

Tristram Cary 1925 -2008

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 06:32 AM CDT

Classic Series composer, Tristram Cary has died at the age of 82, at his home in Adelaide, South Australia. Cary worked on many of the earliest stories of Doctor Who, providing incidental music for some of the most memorable episodes. He scored the very first appearance of the Daleks in 1963 and his last contribution for the programme was for the Mutants in 1972. Cary holds a unique place in contemporary music. While serving as a wartime naval...

Adele: young soul rebel - Telegraph.co.uk

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 06:10 AM CDT


Adele: young soul rebel
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 42 minutes ago
'If Lauryn Hill had said that about me, I'd be very bovvered,' she adds, with an impeccable Catherine Tate flourish. Of her stellar beginning to this year, ...

Back to the future: Blake's 7 ditches the shaky sets for prime ... - guardian.co.uk

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 06:06 AM CDT


Back to the future: Blake's 7 ditches the shaky sets for prime ...
guardian.co.uk, UK - 47 minutes ago
Dalek creator Terry Nation wrote the series, which was aimed at a slightly older viewer than those of Doctor Who. Set in the "third century of the second ...

Avatar of the Week: Perry Thaler - AfterElton.com

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 04:52 AM CDT


Avatar of the Week: Perry Thaler
AfterElton.com - 2 hours ago
This week's winner is Perry Thaler, who takes the prize for his Torchwood-fan avatar that recalls one of Ianto's best snippy comments from this season. ...

Constellation Award nominees announced For 2008 - Crows Nest

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 04:08 AM CDT


Constellation Award nominees announced For 2008
Crows Nest - 2 hours ago
The nominated works cover several sci-fi shows, and feature newer series such as Torchwood and Blood Ties & Chuck running against established fan favourites ...

What a Mess: Poor Amy Winehouse - Anglophenia

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 03:35 AM CDT


What a Mess: Poor Amy Winehouse
Anglophenia, NY - 3 hours ago
Production company Tiger Aspect, which also makes Robin Hood, says, "They're moving away from the Little Britain and Catherine Tate formula where it's all ...

Blake’s Seven Remake for Sky One

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 02:39 AM CDT

Sky One has is developing a remake of '70s classic BBC SF series Blake Seven. Although the broadcaster hasn't committed yet to making the series it has given the greenlight to the development of scripts for two 60-minute pilots. "The time is ripe for a...

Characters Welcomed at the USA Network Upfronts - MediaBlvd Magazine

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 02:38 AM CDT


Characters Welcomed at the USA Network Upfronts
MediaBlvd Magazine, ca - 49 minutes ago
MediaBlvd> You should be on Doctor Who or Torchwood. You'd be a natural and wouldn't have to change your accent! Gabrielle> But that's not what I want is it ...

Being Human Has Been Commissioned

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 01:17 AM CDT

Great news for the hordes of posters on the SFX forum who were raving about BBC's Being Human – the show has been commissioned for a further six episodes, the BBC confirmed today. The original hour-long quirky drama about a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf...

A well good idea: The complete works of Shakespeare re-written ... - Mail on Sunday

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 12:33 AM CDT


A well good idea: The complete works of Shakespeare re-written ...
Mail on Sunday, UK - 1 hour ago
"It is in the language of Ali G or the Catherine Tate character Lauren who says "Am I bovvered? "I intended it for adults, but at my son's school the ...

New Short Trips Announced

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 12:21 AM CDT

Doctor Who: Short Trips – Transmissions is an anthology of brand new Doctor Who short stories, written by: Graeme Burk, Ian Mond, Andy Lane, Mags L Halliday, Lou Anders, Richard Wright, James Milton, Dan Abnett, Pete Kempshall, Dale Smith, George Mann, Kelly Hale, Mark Stevens, Steve Lyons, Dave Hoskin, James Moran and Richard Salter.

The expected release date for this book is the 31st July 2008 and will be priced at £14.99 and can be pre-ordered now.

Synopsis:

If you lost the ability to communicate, what would your life be like? Messages, and the media we use to convey them, surround us every minute of every day. Some are meant for us alone, while others are intended to reach the widest possible audience. Some transmissions are intercepted by unintended recipients and never reach their destination. Others get corrupted along the way.

The Doctor knows how important it is to be understood. Whether he is striving to cure a disease that turns words into gibberish, responding to an SOS from the end of time, or unravelling secret messages encoded into the genetic sequences that make up life itself, this is one Time Lord who always knows how to make himself heard.

Listen up. Get the message. Keep this frequency clear.

Downloads for Subscriptions Go Live

Posted: 24 Apr 2008 12:17 AM CDT

Big Finish are happy to announce that downloads for our subscribers are now available to anyone who has taken out a subscription after 1st February 2008!

If you have a subscrition to the main Doctor Who range, 1st and 2nd Series new 8th Doctor Adventures, Dalek Empire, Doctor Who: Unbound and/or Stargate SG-1 / Atlantis then you will get access to the downloads as soon as your CD's are sent out. No more waiting.

Simply go to the My Account section of the website and click on the "Downloads" area.

Become a Dalek for a day - T3

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 10:35 PM CDT


Become a Dalek for a day
T3, UK - 44 minutes ago
So it's great to turn the tables, take on the role of the exterminator and lose yourself for a few hours in the guise of a Dalek. Crucially, the ability to ...

Blake's 7 takes to the Sky - guardian.co.uk

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 10:27 PM CDT


Blake's 7 takes to the Sky
guardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago
extends very far beyond the frontier of what Russell T Davies rudely calls Ming Mong Land. Doctor Who's iconography was burned onto our national ...

Confirmed: Blake's 7 is coming back to television screens - Times Online

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 09:20 PM CDT


Confirmed: Blake's 7 is coming back to television screens
Times Online, UK - 44 minutes ago
Russell T Davies's popular reinvention of Doctor Who convinced broadcasters that sci-fi was no longer the province of geeks. ...

Thursday Link-a-Mania

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 08:24 PM CDT

No Hellboy 4-Ever Guillermo del Toro tells Sci Fi Wire that he'd like to do a third Hellboy movie if the second is a box office hit, but no more after that. "If there was ever a third one, I would really make sure that we at least sign a contract that...

News: Doctor Who Top Trumps is Here!

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 07:58 PM CDT

The cool portable hardware magazine Pocket Gamer has featured an interview with Eidos' George Wright on the topic of the new Doctor Who Top Trumps, including news of a release date! A full page ad for the game is in the current Radio Times, but that is the first anyone has seen of the game for months - luckily this is due to lots of hard work on the developers part! This interview concerns the release of the Nintendo DS version of the game... which is based on the recent modern series...

News: Toby Hadoke Nominated

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 07:48 PM CDT

Toby Hadoke's one man show Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf was last year recorded as a radio serial, and the BBC Audiobook recording of it has been nominated for a prestigious Sony Radio Academy Award, reports the Official BBC Doctor Who site. An autobiographical walk through time, Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarfmarried the timeline of Doctor Who history with observational comedy and excerpts from Toby's teenage diaries. Who keeps a diary? Apparently the diaries include how Toby coped...

Sky One to revive 'Blake's Seven' - Hollywood Reporter

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 07:42 PM CDT


Sky One to revive 'Blake's Seven'
Hollywood Reporter, United States - 3 hours ago
Revamped television formats have proved a huge success in the UK, with a re-working of "Doctor Who" also generating original spin-off "Torchwood. ...

News: eBay Dalek Suit £3,200

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 07:37 PM CDT

The magic of eBay has allowed a mystery buyer in the USA to pick up an original 1960s Dalek play suit for £3,200! According to The Times, the suit was found after 40 years in a box in an attic, and listed with the hope of making a tenner. While not completely unheard of these days, this suit is the first one to materialise on the web with its original box. This example among the original run of officially licensed Dalek suits to be made as a response to Dalekmania in 1963. The value...

Gavin & Stacey stars James Corden and Mathew Horne given sketch show - Times Online

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 07:31 PM CDT


Gavin & Stacey stars James Corden and Mathew Horne given sketch show
Times Online, UK - 6 hours ago
The show is to be made by Tiger Aspect Production, which counts The Catherine Tate Show and Gimme, Gimme, Gimme among its successes. ...

12.12PM - DR WHO: LATEST PICTURES - thisisgloucestershire.co.uk

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 06:35 PM CDT


12.12PM - DR WHO: LATEST PICTURES
thisisgloucestershire.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago
Large crowds have gathered in the city centre for the last few days to watch actor David Tennant and the rest of the crew at work. Filming on previous days, ...

World Duty Free pumps out One Water campaign – 24/04/08 - MoodieReport

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 06:25 PM CDT


World Duty Free pumps out One Water campaign – 24/04/08
MoodieReport, UK - 3 hours ago
The highly visible Art Wall will offer great publicity for One Water's new advertisement, which features a number of celebrities including David Tennant, ...

Gavin & Stacey stars pen sketch show - guardian.co.uk

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 05:38 PM CDT


Gavin & Stacey stars pen sketch show
guardian.co.uk, UK - 8 hours ago
"They're moving away from the Little Britain and Catherine Tate formula where it's all character-led," Clarke-Jervoise added. "In Gavin & Stacey, Mat and ...

TV classic Blake's 7 set to return - The Observer Blog

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 05:34 PM CDT


TV classic Blake's 7 set to return
The Observer Blog, UK - 8 hours ago
The prospect of a new Blake's 7 follows Russell T Davies's highly successful reworking of Doctor Who for the BBC, and the new Battlestar Galactica, ...

Gavin & Stacey stars write BBC3 show - Media Guardian

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 05:33 PM CDT


Gavin & Stacey stars write BBC3 show
Media Guardian, UK - 4 hours ago
"They're moving away from the Little Britain and Catherine Tate formula where it's all character-led," Clarke-Jervoise added. "In Gavin & Stacey, Mat and ...

TV classic Blake's 7 set to return - guardian.co.uk

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 05:03 PM CDT


TV classic Blake's 7 set to return
guardian.co.uk, UK - 9 hours ago
The prospect of a new Blake's 7 follows Russell T Davies's highly successful reworking of Doctor Who for the BBC, and the new Battlestar Galactica, ...

» Best of British - iAfrica.com

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 04:56 PM CDT


» Best of British
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 1 hour ago
'Torchwood' is the name of an organisation whose job it is to keep track of any aliens and alien technology that find their way to Earth. ...

Eryl Jones: Stock-moving test is just a standing joke - Daily Post

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 04:23 PM CDT


Eryl Jones: Stock-moving test is just a standing joke
Daily Post, UK - 30 minutes ago
The first ones looked as if they had been built from bits found in a skip outside the Dalek factory: and they were beset with a myriad of problems. ...

MUMMY, CAN I HAVE A RIDE? - thisisgloucestershire.co.uk

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 04:22 PM CDT


MUMMY, CAN I HAVE A RIDE?
thisisgloucestershire.co.uk, UK - 31 minutes ago
Fans crowded around the barrier, eagerly waiting for a glimpse of star David Tennant, but sadly for Lucas he wasn't due to film until darkness fell. ...

Farming expertise a boost for Sudan - London Free Press

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 04:13 PM CDT


Farming expertise a boost for Sudan
London Free Press, Canada - 40 minutes ago
Sharing stories of their trips to Sudan and generating excitement for the latest initiative, the Jebel Lado Project, David Tennant Sr., president of the ...

Dalek suit sells for £3201 on ebay - Dalek Links

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 04:02 PM CDT


Dalek suit sells for £3201 on ebay
Dalek Links, UK - 51 minutes ago
A forty-year old Dalek play suit has sold for over £3000 on the on-line auction site ebay. The suit was made in 1964, and, although looking a little worse ...

US Who Fans Ready to Fatten Up on New Season - Wired News

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 02:46 PM CDT


US Who Fans Ready to Fatten Up on New Season
Wired News - 2 hours ago
To reintroduce the chemistry between Tate and David Tennant's Doctor, writer and executive producer Russell T. Davies introduces a deliberately ...

Stock-moving test is just a standing joke - Daily Post

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 02:22 PM CDT


Stock-moving test is just a standing joke
Daily Post, UK - 17 minutes ago
The first ones looked as if they had been built from bits found in a skip outside the Dalek factory: and they were beset with a myriad of problems. ...

Converse: One hundred years young - Press & Sun-Bulletin

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 01:48 PM CDT


Converse: One hundred years young
Press & Sun-Bulletin, NY - 51 minutes ago
Other Converse fans: BBC America's "Doctor Who," played by David Tennant; characters on NBC's "Heroes"; and Shane on Showtime's "The L Word. ...

Artistic Renderings - MU The Parthenon (subscription)

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 01:30 PM CDT


Artistic Renderings
MU The Parthenon (subscription), WV - 1 hour ago
BY BRIAN DALEK The red-brick sidewalks, the painted storyboard murals on what would otherwise be an unsightly flood wall, and the Victorian-style shops and ...

Tristram Cary - 1925 - 2008

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 01:00 PM CDT

Classic composer passes away.

The Dalek Voice Changing Helmet Will Exterminate Your Love Life - Gizmodo Australia

Posted: 23 Apr 2008 05:54 AM CDT


The Dalek Voice Changing Helmet Will Exterminate Your Love Life
Gizmodo Australia, Australia - 9 hours ago
The popularity of the hideous Dalek Sec Hybrid Mask last year proved once again that Dr. Who fans are a loyal bunch. Soon, these fans will be able to strike ...

Dr Who Spin-Off The Regeneration Game Fails To Attract Contestants - The Spoof (satire)

Posted: 22 Apr 2008 09:17 PM CDT


Dr Who Spin-Off The Regeneration Game Fails To Attract Contestants
The Spoof (satire), UK - 23 Apr 2008
The BBC's new family game show inspired by Doctor Who has failed to attract sufficient contestants to make it viable says host Bruce Forsyth. ...

David films 'Dr Who' Christmas special in 'snowy' Gloucester - hellomagazine.com

Posted: 22 Apr 2008 05:35 PM CDT


David films 'Dr Who' Christmas special in 'snowy' Gloucester
hellomagazine.com, UK - 23 Apr 2008
It wasn't a freak change in weather, though, but the Dr Who team hard at work readying the scene for the sci-fi show's Christmas special Fake snowflakes ...

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