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- Was Doctor Who's "Eleventh Hour" Too Sexy? - TVOvermind
- New Doctor up to the job of saving the world, say critics - Brisbane Times
- New Doctor up to the job of saving the world, say critics - The Age
- New Doctor up to the job of saving the world, say critics - Sydney Morning Herald
- Filming begins on new season of The Sarah Jane Adventures - ATV News (blog)
- Sarah Jane Adventures: Filming begins
- Doctor Who reviews: The Eleventh Hour - Shadowlocked
- The Beast Below Trailer
- The UK Response to New Doctor Who: "Refreshing!" "Terrific!" - Anglophenia
- Doctor Who: The Companions (video)
- Vworp Vworp! Editor Interviewed
- Doctor Who: The Beast Below Preview Promo (video)
- Boris tests the limit for big art - Financial Times
- Doctor Who Hugo Nominations!
- Matt Smith and Steven Moffat interview, Doctor Who ramps for USA debut Apr. 17 - Monsters and Critics.com
- Kylie Minogue not to replace Dannii on 'The X Factor' - Gaea Times (blog)
- New TV trailer for The Beast Below!
- McCartney bans meat on music tour - Gaea Times (blog)
- 'Doctor Who' deemed 'too sexy' by viewers - Digital Spy
- New 'Doctor Who' acclaimed by critics - Digital Spy
- Steven Moffat on the Doctor
- 'Who's Matt Smith 'buys £775k house' - Digital Spy
- Matt Smith: Being the Doctor
- The iPad Makes It Hard to Resist the Temptation to Gloat - MacNewsWorld
- Further Eleventh Hour Reaction
- New Doctor Who series premieres on Space - Digital Home (blog)
- 'Doctor Who' Showrunner Talks Romance And Rubbish, And Why Matt Smith's ... - MTV.com
- The united states of Diablo Cody - California Chronicle
- Eleventh Hour - AI and Repeat Ratings
- Racy new Doctor Who series deemed 'too sexy' - Metro
- The Beast Below Trailer
- Carey Mulligan and Saoirse Ronan In The Frame For Geoffrey Fletcher's Violet ... - /FILM (blog)
- 2010 Hugo Awards - 3 Nominations
- Steven Moffat on Fairytales
- New Doctor Who cracks it in Easter treat for fans of Time Lord - Scotsman
- 11th Hour Extra's
- New Doctor Who Debuts - Merchant News
- Four Films
- Meet Tom Baker!
- Karen Gillan defends Dr Who's sidekick Amy Pond - hellomagazine.com
- TV Review: Doctor Who - Leicester Mercury
- Wired Doctor Who
- Viewers think new Doctor Who is 'too sexy' - Telegraph.co.uk
- The Commitments' Roddy Doyle and Doctor Who's Dalek writer Rob Shearman to ... - Liverpool Daily Post
- Doctor Who and A Touch of Frost - The Guardian
- Doctor Who: Podshock Live Show Reviewing The Beast Below Scheduled
| Was Doctor Who's "Eleventh Hour" Too Sexy? - TVOvermind Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:27 AM PDT
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| New Doctor up to the job of saving the world, say critics - Brisbane Times Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:01 AM PDT
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| New Doctor up to the job of saving the world, say critics - The Age Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT
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| New Doctor up to the job of saving the world, say critics - Sydney Morning Herald Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT
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| Filming begins on new season of The Sarah Jane Adventures - ATV News (blog) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:52 AM PDT
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| Sarah Jane Adventures: Filming begins Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:24 AM PDT Filming commenced on the fourth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures last week, and today saw the production back at the Sarah Jane Smith residence on Bannerman Road, aka Clinton Road in Penarth. The old team were here for filming, i.e. Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, Tommy Knight as Luke, Daniel Anthony as Clyde, and Anjli Mohindra as Rani. K9 was also spotted on location, which appears to be first confirmation that Sarah's long-time companion will be back in Series Four (he wasn't mentioned in the press release). The scene being filmed appeared to involve Luke leaving home http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Doctor Who reviews: The Eleventh Hour - Shadowlocked Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:00 AM PDT
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| Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:00 AM PDT The Beast Below is episode two of the new Season 31/Series 5 of Doctor Who, and we've got a little video trailer of the episode for you! Starring Matt Smith as the Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, The Beast Below also stars Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda, Scream of the Shalka) and The Demon Headmaster himself, Terrance Hardiman! Scheduled for broadcast on BBC One on Saturday, 10th April, at 6.15pm, The Beast Below is also simulcast on the BBC HD channel. (Via SFX.co.uk)  | ||
| The UK Response to New Doctor Who: "Refreshing!" "Terrific!" - Anglophenia Posted: 05 Apr 2010 07:47 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who: The Companions (video) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 07:41 AM PDT Doctor Who: The Companions Matt Smith describes the unique role of the Doctors companion, how this human woman is essential to the Doctors survival and what actress Karen Gillan is bringing to the role of Amy Pond.  | ||
| Vworp Vworp! Editor Interviewed Posted: 05 Apr 2010 07:10 AM PDT Our good friend Gareth Kavanagh was recently interviewed on BlogTalkRadio for SciFiPulse about the superb Vworp Vworp! fanzine, a tribute to Doctor Who Magazine. The interview is about 20 minutes long and to prompt you to listen, we've had a chat with Gareth ourselves to furnish us with some new Vworp Vworp! facts and figures. Vworp Vworp has been a huge success, with such a great response from fans great and small – editors Gareth and Colin Brockhurst have in fact found the reaction overwhelming. The response has been so great that the "variant cover" (a clever "photo" of the Fourth Doctor and a Malevilus, referred to by Dez Skinn as the true cover) has sold out, with some appearing on eBay. Due to the success of Vworp Vworp! volume one (which includes the first installment of Kasterborous' own Time Leech strip), remaining stocks are getting very low, with the last few expected to be sold through shops over the coming months. A second colume of Vworp Vworp! is in development, and should include an indepth look at the Tides of Time, an insanely ambitious attempt to interview all eleven editors of Doctor Who Magazine and the realisation of a lost Abslom Daak script by Martin Geraghty (pencils and inks), Ade Salmon (colours) and Colin Brockhurst (letters) from Steve Moore originally written in 1980 but subsequently withdrawn. Volumes three and four are also on the cards, with a variant cover for volume two and another free gift! If you haven't yet picked up volume one of Vworp Vworp!, copies are still available from www.vworpvworp.co.uk!  | ||
| Doctor Who: The Beast Below Preview Promo (video) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:50 AM PDT The preview promo for episode 2 of the 2010 series of Doctor Who, The Beast Below. Be sure to catch our live over-the-net review the day after on Sunday.
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| Boris tests the limit for big art - Financial Times Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:43 AM PDT
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| Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:40 AM PDT Doctor Who has been nominated for 3 Hugo awards – the annual sci-fi awards ceremony considered to be the very pinnacle of critical success and acceptance for many genre writers.
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor Written by Russell T Davies; Directed by Andy Goddard (BBC Wales) Opposition to Doctor Who in this category comes from episodes of the now-cancelled Dollhouse and the declining Flash Forward. Meanwhile Doctor Who scriptwriter Paul Cornell (Father's Day, Human Nature/Family of Blood) has also received nominations for Best Novelette and Best Graphic Story for some of his recent work including Captain Britain – see www.paulcornell.com for more!  | ||
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| Kylie Minogue not to replace Dannii on 'The X Factor' - Gaea Times (blog) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 06:30 AM PDT
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| New TV trailer for The Beast Below! Posted: 05 Apr 2010 05:56 AM PDT The BBC are now airing a new trailer for this Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who, The Beast Below! Episode two – written by Steven Moffat – sees Amy’s first visit to the future go terribly wrong when the Doctor takes her to Starship UK, where she encounters the terrifying Smilers and learns a deadly truth inside the Voting [...]  | ||
| McCartney bans meat on music tour - Gaea Times (blog) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 05:53 AM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' deemed 'too sexy' by viewers - Digital Spy Posted: 05 Apr 2010 05:32 AM PDT
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| New 'Doctor Who' acclaimed by critics - Digital Spy Posted: 05 Apr 2010 05:22 AM PDT
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| Posted: 05 Apr 2010 05:15 AM PDT Steven Moffat, Lead Writer and Executive Producer of Doctor Who, describes the personality of the Doctor and why he's such an intriguing character.
View this clip at BBC America. (Many thanks to Nicole)  | ||
| 'Who's Matt Smith 'buys £775k house' - Digital Spy Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:43 AM PDT
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| Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:30 AM PDT Thanks to BBC America, we've got another great Doctor Who video clip for you, this time Matt Smith talking about being the newest Doctor, his interpretation of the character, and the challenges of playing the role.
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| The iPad Makes It Hard to Resist the Temptation to Gloat - MacNewsWorld Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:28 AM PDT
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| Further Eleventh Hour Reaction Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:51 AM PDT
None other than The Mirror's Jim Shelley, a famous critic of the Russell T Davies/David Tennant years. Of The Eleventh Hour, Shelley observed:
Meanwhile, popular local paper The Shropshire Star utilized a clever dual review of The Eleventh Hour. Unfortunately one of the reviewers forgot to watch:
And you, "Andrew Owen", weren't paying attention as clearly the Atraxi wanted Prisoner Zero, a fact made clear in the first act with the phrase "Prisoner Zero has escaped" and the sight of a giant eyeball through the crack in Amy's room. A "Hack of the Week" award is earned, people… The Scotsman, meanwhile, can draw upon a band of real journalists and critics who seem prepared to watch TV and not text their friends while the show in question is on air.
io9.com featured a great review (one worth reading) from Charlie Jane Anders which curiously compared the superior The Eleventh Hour with the much shorter Rose with the following statement:
Rose is essentially 35 minutes long, plus opening titles and long trailer. An hour it is not. Curious rag The Mail on Sunday observed: "By the end of the episode, in his tweed jacket and bow tie, like an Indie-band Professor Quatermass, you have forgotten all about his illustrious predecessor," McKay wrote. "Indeed, Smith might turn out to be one of the best Time Lords of the lot." However those Daily Mail readers were later stirred up by an article about some of the over-reaction to Karen Gillan's legs.
Finally, The Independent gives a good review, but more fascinating is the fact they're speculating what might go wrong for the new Doctor. Essentially, Liz Hoggard is posing the "when are you leaving?" question on his first day. At least David Tennant got 3 months! Incidentally, did you see this from the BBC?
I hate to be picky, but Sylvester McCoy was also voted the most popular Doctor ever during the 1990s. No disrespect to Sylvester, but a DWM poll isn't based on reality, it is based on "now" Finally, Digital Spy quoted Doctor Who Appreciation Society chief Anthony Wainer, whose remarks were aired on BBC News over the weekend.
Funny, that's what I was thinking…  | ||
| New Doctor Who series premieres on Space - Digital Home (blog) Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:43 AM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' Showrunner Talks Romance And Rubbish, And Why Matt Smith's ... - MTV.com Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:27 AM PDT
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| The united states of Diablo Cody - California Chronicle Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:05 AM PDT
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| Eleventh Hour - AI and Repeat Ratings Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:08 AM PDT  The Eleventh Hour scored an Appreciation Index score of 86 making it one of the most enjoyed programmes of the weekend. The Appreciation Index or AI is a measure of how much an audience enjoyed a programme. Figures are based on ratings from a selected panel of 5000 people. The average score for BBC One is 80 with the average for the current Doctor Who timeslot being 82, and the average for Drama being 85. The score is higher than previous Doctors' premieres: David Tennant's first appearance in The Christmas Invasion scored 84, and Christopher Eccleston's first story, Rose, scored 76. AI figures tend to grow throughout a series as the audience becomes familiar with the characters and the concept. Doctor Who's highest score so far was 91 for The Stolen Earth and Journey's End. The programme was most enjoyed by female viewers who rated it significantly higher than males watching. It also scored highest in Scotland and with the 35-54 age group. Viewers generally found the programme high quality, original and different with some missing David Tennant. Overnight figures for Sunday show nothing could approach the success of Doctor Who on Saturday, with the highest rated show being A Touch of Frost on ITV1 with 7.2 million watching. So The Eleventh Hour was the highest rated show of the Easter weekend and the eighth highest of the whole week. The Sunday BBC Three repeat was watched by 0.67 million viewers and was the third rated show on multi-channel for Sunday. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Racy new Doctor Who series deemed 'too sexy' - Metro Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:07 AM PDT
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| Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:04 AM PDT Here's a short trailer for the second episode of Series 5, The Beast Below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kybye_eEviE The Beast Below airs Saturday at 6.15pm on BBC1.  | ||
| Carey Mulligan and Saoirse Ronan In The Frame For Geoffrey Fletcher's Violet ... - /FILM (blog) Posted: 04 Apr 2010 11:48 PM PDT
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| 2010 Hugo Awards - 3 Nominations Posted: 04 Apr 2010 11:04 PM PDT The 2010 Hugo Award ceremony will take place at Aussiecon 4 in Melbourne Australia this year, and sees Doctor Who nominated three times in the Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form category! The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars - all penned/co-penned by former series show-runner Russell T Davies - are vying for the award, and are up against American series Dollhouse and Flash Forward. Doctor Who has fared well in this category since its return to television. In 2006, new series show-runner Steven Moffat's story The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances won the award (with Father's Day and Dalek also nominated). Then the following year saw Moffat's The Girl in the Fireplace succeeding (this time against Army of Ghosts/Doomsday and School Reunion). And then in 2008 - you guessed it - Moffat triumphed again with Blink (up against Human Nature/Family of Blood and Torchwood's Captain Jack Harkness). Last year Moffat narrowly missed out with Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead (along with Russell T Davies's Turn Left) to Buffy and Dollhouse creator Joss Whedon's Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Will Davies finally triumph this year with three stories up for the award? The award ceremony takes place at Aussiecon between 2nd-6th September - only those registered for the convention are eligible to vote. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Posted: 04 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT Especially for our American readers, here is a clip courtesy of BBC America in which Doctor Who boss Steven Moffat describes why he sees the show as a modern fairytale. You can also view this clip at BBC America. (Many thanks to Nicole)  | ||
| New Doctor Who cracks it in Easter treat for fans of Time Lord - Scotsman Posted: 04 Apr 2010 09:36 PM PDT
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| Posted: 04 Apr 2010 09:22 PM PDT
The Official BBC Doctor Who Website has now a episode section with the 11th Hour that's full fo Extra's. Graphic artwork, video's not used for the Confidential, a PDF of a Prisoner Zero Wanted Poster and so much more just follow the link at the end of the page. There is only one big but, for the video content you have to live in the UK  | ||
| New Doctor Who Debuts - Merchant News Posted: 04 Apr 2010 08:54 PM PDT
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| Posted: 04 Apr 2010 08:51 PM PDT Easter is a time for films, and so courtesy of the local Blockbuster, we rented four for the long weekend.  THE FOURTH KINDI'd read a bit about this one, and nothing was very complimentary. We got it because Zee wanted to see it, and, well, it has Milla Jovovitch in it. It's a fairly standard alien abduction story, with a conceit (which I don't believe at all) that it's all real. This exends to having supposed genuine footage in the film itself of the actual protagonists, while Milla et al act out what happened. It does have a couple of very nice sequences in it which are unnerving. When the chap has a fit on the bed around 100 minutes in, it's really quite creepy, as is the bit where the policeman sees the UFO over the house - and so do we for about 1 second. The ending however is totally spoiled by being 'seen' in fizzing and fuzzing camcorder tape while we hear the voice of the alien speaking to us in Ancient Sumarian (translation helpfully provided). I was impressed that they got through the whole film without ever actually showing the alien - the scene where it enters Milla's house and abducts her is very scary, and you never see a thing. But this is also the problem - these days we expect to see something ... and to have everything relayed to us during the exciting moments through a third person camcorder picture which is blipping all over the place making the picture unseeable was somewhat disappointing. Overall the film wasn't a total wipeout, and I'd give it maybe 5 or 6 out of 10.  THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUSI had no pre-expectations of this at all. I knew that Heath Ledger had died mid-way through making it and that as it was a Terry Gilliam film, I should expect something surreal. But it blew me away. The plot is fairly straightforward. Dr Parnassus (Christopher Plummer in best Dumbledore mode) has made a deal with the devil (Tom Waits) to see who can first get to 5 souls. Parnassus has a rickety sideshow trailer and through a cheap fake-glass portal on there, people can enter into a land from their own imagination. At some point they must make a decision, and if they choose wrong then the devil wins the soul. Travelling with Parnassus is his 15 year old daughter (Lily Cole) who will be forefit to the devil if he wins before she turns 16; a dwarf (Verne Troyer in a brilliant performance); and a young man in love with the daughter (Andrew Garfield). Into their lives comes con-artist Heath Ledger, on the run from the mafia for money owed. He manages to turn the sideshow around and to start to get what Parnassus wants ... but can it all be done in time. As with all Gilliam's films, the visuals are rich and amazing. Whenever anyone enters the mirror, they find themselves in some fantastic CGI land, but it's all so well done, and genuinely leaves you wide eyed in amazement. I loved the way the film all hung together, and appreciated the use of several London locations which are very familiar to me: Blackfriars bridge, Borough Market, Southwark Cathedral ... The acting is all top notch, and Ledger's death caused some rewriting where his character is played by three other actors when they go through the mirror at different times: Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law, all of whom do a fantastic job at inhabiting this character through the adventures. I loved this film, and it's one I will buy for myself when I can find it cheap on Blu-Ray :) Probably 9/10 from me.  NEW MOONOh dear. We got this one because Zee wanted a laugh ... but it wasn't a laugh, it's possibly the worst thing I've seen on DVD for some time (and considering that we watched Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 the other night, that's saying something). The plot ... there isn't one. It seems to consist of sulky-faced teenager Bella being dumped by her sparkly vampire man Edward, and then moping about it for months and months. She is so joyless that I can't see why anyone would spend any time with her at all. And Edward is just as bad! We got about 45 minutes into the film, and the Blu-Ray player decided that it had had enough and started to slip and pause the film. We thought this was a sign and so stopped watching it. A dreadful, dreadful piece of cinema with no redeeming features that I can see. At least Twilight was fun to watch in some areas, but this, this is angst-ridden plotless rubbish. The makers should be ashamed at themselves. 0/10 from me on that one. Waste of film.  DOGHOUSEI'd heard about this one, and even saw some of the preproduction images for it (We had dug them out for Telos' book It Lives Again! as Axelle discussed the film in there). It's a comedy Zombie film, probably most aligned to Shaun of the Dead, but in the mould of Zombieland too. A group of blokes, all having been dumped or in trouble with their wives and girlfriends head off to the deserted town of Moodley to get drunk and forget their troubles. One of their number is getting divorced and this is their excuse: to help their mate. When they get to Moodley though, they find it deserted except for hoards of zombie-like women, all insane and out to kill any man they find. Their mission is then to survive to the end of the film. I loved this. It's a great fun film with lots of silly moments - I laughed out loud at the Zombie granny with the Zimmer frame. The acting is strong - it has Noel Clark in it for that almost obligatory Who connection - and the set-up is very neat. It transpires that it's all a government test of some toxic weapon to turn women on men and thus win wars without needing soldiers ... nice. The effects are grisly and gruesome - I had to look away at the finger cutting scene - but the comedy is also played to good effect. The female Zombies, or Zombabes as they are termed, are brilliant. All with the tools of their trade: cleaver for a butcher, scissors for a hairdresser, dressed as a shopgirl, a hooker, a bride, a goth monstrosity, a huge hulking housewife with curlers ... and they move fast too, with intelligence to take an axe to a pole supporting a platform on which one of our heroes is hiding. It rattles along at a nice pace, and is a very good way to spend an evening. I don't think it's quite as good as Zombieland for entertainment value - but then that film is pretty amazing - but it does a very good job. 8/10 from me for that one. David   | ||
| Posted: 04 Apr 2010 08:30 PM PDT
Before recording an audio commentary for the classic The Seeds Of Doom serial – thankfully (and at last) set to be released on DVD this year, you'll get to meet Tom Baker and Play.com will even put you up in London for the night. Sadly as is the way with these things, the answer is far too simple…
I mean, really, they asked that? You should see the multiple choices! The competition closes on 11th April 2010 – head on over to Play.com right now to enter! (With thanks to Ian!)  | ||
| Karen Gillan defends Dr Who's sidekick Amy Pond - hellomagazine.com Posted: 04 Apr 2010 08:25 PM PDT
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| TV Review: Doctor Who - Leicester Mercury Posted: 04 Apr 2010 07:31 PM PDT
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In order to promote the new series of Doctor Who on BBC America (kicking off on April 17th 8/9c), the April 2010 issue of Wired features a 4-panel cover wrap which highlights the sonic screwdriver as "Gadget of the Year." This edition is so special however it isn't available on newsstands or to subscribers – instead, potential winners must enter via email and follow other instructions at SmallScreenScoop. Winner(s) will be picked randomly on Monday, April 15th 2010 – head over to SmallScreenScoop.com to check the rules and enter! Great looking cover, isn't it?  | ||
| Viewers think new Doctor Who is 'too sexy' - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 04 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who and A Touch of Frost - The Guardian Posted: 04 Apr 2010 04:45 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who: Podshock Live Show Reviewing The Beast Below Scheduled Posted: 04 Apr 2010 03:35 PM PDT Doctor Who: Podshock will be once again be taking to the net this Sunday for a live-over-the-net show reviewing the second episode of the new series, The Beast Below. He's back… and it's about time! We return with our live-over-the-net review series this time talking about the 2nd episode of the new series starring Matt Smith as the Doctor premiering on BBC One this Saturday (coming to BBC America on the 24th). We will be reviewing The Beast Below.  |
Three episodes of Doctor Who – all by Russell T Davies – have been nominated in the 
The overwhelmingly positive reaction to the new Doctor Who episode and its star continued over the weekend, with support from some unlikely places.
Online retailer Play.com are currently running a Doctor Who competition, offering the prize of a "meet and greet" with the legendary Fourth Doctor himself, Tom Baker.
There's a very cool Doctor Who competition at 
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