Monday, September 21, 2009

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News


News: Hornet's Nest 3 Cover

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 06:11 PM PDT

Part 3 of the Tom Baker starring Doctor Who Hornet's Nest series is The Circus of Doom, which again co-stars Richard Franklin as former UNIT captain Mike Yates.   In Blandford, 1832, ringmaster Antonio exerts a strange influence on the townsfolk. When the Doctor steps into the ring, he discovers that Antonio has some familiar demons of his own... The third of five linked stories written by the acclaimed Paul Magrs, The Circus of Doom also features Michael Maloney, Jilly Bond and Susie...

News: Countdown to NovelCon

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 09:00 AM PDT

A limited number of tickets remain for NovelCon, the upcoming Doctor Who event dedicated to the long history of Target books, Virgin New Adventures and BBC books to be held on Sunday October 11th at the Lass O'Gowrie pub in Manchester. Esteemed Doctor Who authors will be appearing, such as: Paul Magrs, Mark Morris, Mark Michalowski, Steve Lyons, Paul Dale-Smith, Andrew Cartmel, David McIntee, Daniel Blythe, Justin Richards, Simon Guerrier, Martin Day, Trevor Baxendale, Paul Cornell and Gary...

Reviews: The Eight Truths

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 08:11 AM PDT

It's nice to feel vindicated in one's beliefs, even if the source of vindication is a science fiction audio play from the Big Finish Doctor Who series called The Eight Truths. You see, I have always stayed away from the kooks and weirdos that hang around airport terminals handing out flowers or the strange man on the train who hands out those little comics that give me instructions on how my soul can be saved from the Devil himself if only I'd listen. The Eight Truths opens with the Doctor...

News: Anneke Wills Online

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 07:45 AM PDT

Former 1960s Doctor Who companion Anneke Wills - who played Polly Wright opposite William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton - has a new website online which features her autobiographies Self Portrait and Naked as well as galleries, videoclips of interviews and some of her artwork. It's a well put together online home for one of the most remarkable women to have appeared on the show - the two volumes of her autobiography certainly make that clear - and a shop on the site provides opportunites to...

Girl Number 9

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 07:02 AM PDT

Gareth David-Lloyd (Torchwood), Joe Absolom (Doc Martin, Personal Affairs), and Tracy-Ann Oberman (Doctor Who, Eastenders) star in a upcoming new webseries written by James Moran (Doctor Who, Torchwood, Severance), Girl Number 9.

SYNOPSIS
Vincent Boylan (Joe Absolom) has just been arrested, suspected of being behind the brutal murder of seven girls, but the team only have a limited time to get a confession. If they can't make him talk, he could slip through their fingers. Detective Matheson (Gareth David-Lloyd), who is leading the investigation, is sent to try and get some answers. But things soon take a horrifying turn for the worse, as Matheson and his boss Lyndon (Tracy-Ann Oberman) find out that all is not as it seems. The mystery deepens as everyone is drawn into Boylan's sick mind games, and each twist-packed episode ends on a tantalizing cliffhanger, making every installment a must-see.

Girl Number 9 is a dark thriller created exclusively for the internet in six 5-minute episodes. Production began on 09/09/09. The show premiers on October 30, 2009 at 9pm. The first three episodes are directed by award-winning feature director Dan Turner. James Moran makes his directorial debut in episodes 4-6. Produced by Martin Baker and Pete Coogan. Follow the official website or Twitter for news, photographs, trailers, and more.

The Mind of Evil - recoloured

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 04:47 AM PDT


Posters on the Gallifrey Base discussion forum report that it was announced at this weekend's "Regenerations" fan convention in Swansea that the 1971 Third Doctor adventure The Mind of Evil has been restored to colour for a forthcoming DVD release. Like a number of stories starring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor, the colour master videotapes for this six-part story were junked by the BBC in the 1970s. This left only black and white film recording copies of the episodes, made for overseas sale, in the archives. A small handful of colour clips survived on a domestic videotape recording of a transmission of the story in the United States, and were used to restore colour to scenes as a bonus feature at the end of the 1998 VHS release.

No detail has yet emerged of whether the full story has been recolourised for this DVD edition, nor for when the disc is scheduled for release. It is also not currently known whether the episodes were restored to colour using the chroma dot technique employed on the similarly-afflicted third episode of Planet of the Daleks in the forthcoming Dalek War box-set, or whether they were restored from scratch with artificial colour.

Actor Nicholas Courtney, who appears in the story as the Doctor's ally Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, is also reported to have participated in an audio commentary for the release.

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A Great Face for Radio and the Hero to Zero in 9.79 - Sports Journalists' Association

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 04:15 AM PDT


A Great Face for Radio and the Hero to Zero in 9.79
Sports Journalists&os; Association
At this point the comrex signal dropped out, meaning that there was a split second of Dalek interference, but happily the forces for good ensured that their ...

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus - DVDTimes.co.uk

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 04:14 AM PDT


Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus
DVDTimes.co.uk
... (7:26) and a Coming Soon trailer for the forthcoming four-disc Dalek War box set (1:22). Available in PDF format are the Radio Times listings from 1964. ...

My media - guardian.co.uk

Posted: 20 Sep 2009 04:07 AM PDT


My media
guardian.co.uk
I am enticed by my 12-year-old to watch Torchwood, but I balk at Gossip Girl. Digital radio has been a godsend. I can now devour the World Service in ...

off to England again - Flick Filosopher (blog)

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 09:29 PM PDT


off to England again
Flick Filosopher (blog)
... able to get tickets to see John Simm of proper Life on Mars in Speaking in Tongues and John Barrowman of Doctor Who and Torchwood in La Cage aux Folles. ...

Largest collection of trolls-world record set by Sophie Marie Cross - World Records Academy

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 08:19 PM PDT


World Records Academy

Largest collection of trolls-world record set by Sophie Marie Cross
World Records Academy
Sophie admits, and she's recently added Doctor Who comics and toys to her collecting hobby. She said: "There are still dolls on the Internet that I want to ...

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GLAMOUR girl Meddy Ford is running for Miss Wales 2010. - WalesOnline

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 01:57 PM PDT


GLAMOUR girl Meddy Ford is running for Miss Wales 2010.
WalesOnline
TORCHWOOD fans have been hosting auditions for a musical production of the hit BBC show. The advertisement features breakdowns for 10 characters including ...

MEDIALOG: Soon to be Seen in IMAX! - STARLOG - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Universe

Posted: 19 Sep 2009 08:57 AM PDT


MEDIALOG: Soon to be Seen in IMAX!
STARLOG - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Universe
BLACKADDER creator Richard Curtis is writing an episode of DOCTOR WHO (which will star the next Doctor, Matt Smith). The Tolkien Trust, harpercollins ...

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