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| Posted: 25 Sep 2008 02:05 PM CDT Doctor Who Adventures issue 83, is out now across the United Kingdom  | ||
| Two Tivos To Paradise 09.26.08: There's No Debating That This Is ... - 411mania.com Posted: 25 Sep 2008 10:14 AM CDT
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| N96 users to be offered free season of popular BBC shows - PC World Magazine Posted: 25 Sep 2008 09:08 AM CDT
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| Nokia launches N96 - Australian Techworld Posted: 25 Sep 2008 07:19 AM CDT
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| Posted: 25 Sep 2008 06:43 AM CDT A warning straight away, that the initial part of this post will very likely contain SPOILERS regarding plot elements from Torchwood's upcoming third season, so you've been warned! Look away if you don't want to know... Last chance... I'm telling you, shoo - or those SPOILERS will bite you on the ass! ... ... Right, you're still with me. Good! Means you're crazy enough to read what follows!! Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook's book of email corrospondence - "The Writer's Tale" - finally saw its official release today, and I can confirm (having read the book earlier this week... hooray!) that RTD talks about Torchwood at great length - including this juicy titbit of information... Right, the back story: Davies has chicken pox, at the same time he's supposed to be writing Doctor Who 4.13 "Journey's End". He's up to the scene on Bad Wolf Bay where the Doctor and Donna bid farewell to Rose Tyler, and the newly born 'second' human Doctor. Only things aren't clicking as well as Davies would like, and he doesn't know why. Then he figures; he can't understand why Rose (after searching for him for so long) would choose to stay on the parallel Earth, when the chance to travel with the real Doctor is open to her... Davies wants to give Rose a sort of inter-reality 'virus' that means she can't travel to our Earth, or she'll die. Of course, as Davies figures, this then hampers Mickey - who'd have to suffer a similar fate. A dilemma, when a promise has already been made... "I just realised," Davies writes, "My plan to make the Bad Wolf scene work - the one involving the Voidstuff - won't work, because I'd forgotten that Mickey has to be free to stay in our universe. Bollocks. Julie [Gardner]'s upset. She's saying, 'Leave Mickey in the parallel universe,' and I'm saying, 'Too late! We promised Noel that we'd bring him back in Torchwood series three.'" So... there we have it. Semi-confirmation (of course, plans could have changed since Davies wrote this on February 9th... but I think not!) Earlier in the book, Davies also discusses his aborted plans to write Torchwood 2.1, which would have taken place in a 24 hour supermarket ("have you ever been in one at 3am? Weirdest places in the world - so bright and empty, and staffed by the Damned.): "I pulled out of that Torchwood script. I'm not doing it. Poor Julie [Gardner]. She bears the brunt of all this, and protects me from the consequences. It's easy for me in some ways, because with my status as a writer, frankly, I can get away with anything. That's awful, isn't it? No one shouting, no one berating me, no contracts being waved, just everyone running around making that decision easy for me. You could go power mad. Mind you, I'm mild and lovely compared to some of the stuff you hear about other writers. Or maybe this is the start of me getting worse." He goes on, " The truth is, I wasn't not-writing because I couldn't think of anything, but because I'm sick of fixing other people's problems. I sat there at 4am and thought: what am I getting out of this? Nothing. Just misery. So sod it, I'm off." To put that quote into some form of context, Davies had been deseperately trying to write the Torchwood script for almost two months, and the process was evidently making him quite distraught. One gets the feeling that he wanted to write the series opener as a means of 'fixing' the show after its bumpy first series... ("Torchwood's failure of voice... which is my fault, I suppose, though they're all working hard to fix it for Series Two") "That was severe. First time I've ever done that," Davies decides, "As a result, I'm quite cheery again. Nightmare welcome-back-to-Cardiff dinner with the Torchwood cast tonight, just when I feel I've abandoned them. (I haven't. I'll try to script-edit more.) Eve Myles got drunk, which was lively. Gareth David-Lloyd is just the sexiest bastard on this Earth. And Johnny Barrowman regaled us with how many Joseph's he'd like to sleep with, so it was a bit of a laugh. The panic has abated." Episode 2.1 ultimately turned into "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", written by Chris Chibnall and introducing James Marsters as Captain John Hart. Davies returns to script two of the five series three episodes. "The Writer's Tale" is out now, priced an RRP of £30 - although it's much cheaper online!  | ||
| Is One of the World's Richest Men Also One of Its Worst Polluters? - RedOrbit Posted: 25 Sep 2008 06:31 AM CDT
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| Nokia launches N96 - Computerworld Australia Posted: 25 Sep 2008 06:23 AM CDT
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| APTA Supports Surgeon General's 'Call to Action' to Prevent Deep ... - MarketWatch Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:28 AM CDT
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| Mythical Approaches to Doctor Who (Call for Papers) Posted: 25 Sep 2008 03:32 AM CDT Greetings Everyone, It is my hope that this finds you all well. While I have not been a huge poster on the forums, nor community, I do appreciate all the great insights and thoughts throughout the threads and podcasts that I have read and listened to daily. I know a few that have been involved with the podcasts, that I met through DWNY. I would like to share with your community a project that Dr. Kristine Larsen (author of "Stephen Hawking: A Biography" ...  | ||
| Television viewing highlights for the weekend of Sept. 25 - 28 - Encore Posted: 25 Sep 2008 03:17 AM CDT
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| Is One of the World's Richest Men Also One of Its Worst Polluters? - Broadcast Newsroom Posted: 25 Sep 2008 03:08 AM CDT
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| Is One of the World's Richest Men Also One of Its Worst Polluters? - PR Newswire (press release) Posted: 25 Sep 2008 02:24 AM CDT
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| Is One of the World's Richest Men Also One of Its Worst Polluters? - Clean Energy Update Posted: 25 Sep 2008 02:20 AM CDT
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| Is One of the World's Richest Men Also One of Its Worst Polluters? - SunHerald.com Posted: 25 Sep 2008 01:30 AM CDT
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| Is One of the World's Richest Men Also One of Its Worst Polluters? - MarketWatch Posted: 25 Sep 2008 01:23 AM CDT
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| Is One of the World's Richest Men Also One of Its Worst Polluters? - Earthtimes (press release) Posted: 25 Sep 2008 01:18 AM CDT
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| Nokia Signs Mobile Deal With BBC - Red Herring Posted: 25 Sep 2008 12:50 AM CDT
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| It's Crew, Revs in Clash of Titans - MLS - Major League Soccer Posted: 25 Sep 2008 12:07 AM CDT
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| Cardiff Bystanders Peek at 'Torchwood' Season 3 - BuddyTV Posted: 24 Sep 2008 11:45 PM CDT
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| Dirty Dancing new cast from 29 Sep 2008 - London Theatre Guide - Online Posted: 24 Sep 2008 11:02 PM CDT
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| Posted: 24 Sep 2008 11:00 PM CDT What's that coming over the hill? Is it a monster? It's a particularly adrenalised SFX office today, and not just because the final, serious, "no really, stop mucking about now, we need to send the pages to the printer soon or we're all sacked" deadline...  | ||
| London's Dirty Dancing to Welcome Harvey, Rowe, Hartley, Starks ... - Playbill.com Posted: 24 Sep 2008 10:50 PM CDT
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| Step into the Tardis for Children in Need - Easier (press release) Posted: 24 Sep 2008 10:17 PM CDT
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| mocoNews.net - Nokia Strikes Content Deal With BBC Worldwide; Not ... - Washington Post Posted: 24 Sep 2008 09:18 PM CDT
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| News: Just who is... The Next Doctor? Posted: 24 Sep 2008 08:58 PM CDT By now, you can't have failed to notice talk of a second Doctor in this years Doctor Who Christmas Special. The Next Doctor will, we're told, put the Doctor alongside a future version of himself, played by David Tennant's Blackpool co-star David Morrissey. With screen credits going back as far as 1983, he perhaps remains best known for his starring role in the Hollywood flop Basic Instinct II in 2006 alongside a Sharon Stone desperate to revive her flagged career. He's also starred in State...  | ||
| Little Britain on N96 in Australia and Asia - Mobile Entertainment Posted: 24 Sep 2008 08:39 PM CDT
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| Posted: 24 Sep 2008 08:30 PM CDT Dreamworks has acquired the rights to John Wyndham's 1968 children's SF novel Chocky, and Spielberg is keen is direct it, according to The Hollywood Reporter . We bet he is. Y'see, as well as being the story of a boy who is in mental communication with...  | ||
| High-flying modellers celebrate - Melton Today Posted: 24 Sep 2008 08:11 PM CDT
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| Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 116 Posted: 24 Sep 2008 08:09 PM CDT  Episode 116 of Doctor Who: Podshock is now available. "I sometimes wonder why I like the people of this miserable planet so much." Outpost Gallifrey Presents: Live at I-CON 27, plus John S. Drew of Doctor Who: Short Trips - The Quality ... | ||
| Almost Every Cylon Mystery -- Explained! Also, Secrets Of ... - io9 Posted: 24 Sep 2008 08:05 PM CDT
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| Step into the Tardis and help Children In Need! - Western Telegraph Posted: 24 Sep 2008 06:30 PM CDT
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| Flyers' birthday well worth celebrating - Fife Today Posted: 24 Sep 2008 06:27 PM CDT
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| DTFC Graphics Competition #10 - SnitchSeeker.com Posted: 24 Sep 2008 05:03 PM CDT
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| Blood clots can be a silent killer - Louisville Courier-Journal Posted: 24 Sep 2008 03:35 PM CDT
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| Exclusive: I dread flying above Edinburgh crowd, admits Mary ... - Glasgow Daily Record Posted: 24 Sep 2008 02:00 PM CDT
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| Posted: 24 Sep 2008 01:00 PM CDT Radio 1 show coming live from the TARDIS tomorrow morning.  | ||
| Scary Poppins - Glasgow Daily Record Posted: 24 Sep 2008 12:12 PM CDT
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| Nokia's N96: Now with built-in BBC - CNET.com.au Posted: 24 Sep 2008 12:00 PM CDT
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| N96 users to be offered free season of popular BBC shows - Australian Techworld Posted: 24 Sep 2008 11:19 AM CDT
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| TONY’s Shadow Emmy Award winners: Did Mad Men’s Pete Campbell get ... - Time Out New York Posted: 24 Sep 2008 11:08 AM CDT
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| Nokia launches N96 - PC World Magazine Posted: 24 Sep 2008 10:05 AM CDT
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| Is an American Doctor Who a Possibility? Plus: Graham Norton in La ... - Anglophenia Posted: 24 Sep 2008 03:10 AM CDT
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| Medieval magic - Reading Evening Post Posted: 23 Sep 2008 05:40 PM CDT
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| Medieval magic - Get Bracknell Posted: 23 Sep 2008 05:40 PM CDT
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| Crawley plan to spend within their means - http Posted: 23 Sep 2008 05:30 PM CDT
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| Essex, Belle River look strong again this year - Chatham Daily News Posted: 23 Sep 2008 05:14 PM CDT
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| Curtain comes down on bowls season - Isle of Man Today Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:03 PM CDT
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| Arts uproar? Ordinary folks just don't care, Harper - Toronto Star Posted: 23 Sep 2008 03:34 PM CDT
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| Anvil Points cleanup work begins - Grand Junction Sentinel Posted: 23 Sep 2008 11:51 AM CDT
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| David Tennant refused to star in ‘Doctor Who’ alongside JK Rowling - Entertainment and Showbiz! Posted: 23 Sep 2008 09:07 AM CDT
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| Layton, Duceppe take campaign to Club Soda - The Gazette (Montreal) Posted: 22 Sep 2008 10:44 PM CDT
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