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- David Cameron is a nobody in the north - U.TV
- I Was A Teenage Doctor Who Fan In America - Shadowlocked
- Tell Us Your Questions for the New Doctor Who - New York Magazine
- David Cameron is a nobody in the north - The Guardian
- Final BARB figures for The Eleventh Hour
- New Daleks Revealed
- Dalek Tea Party
- The Eleventh Hour - Final Figures
- Sir David Attenborough tops celebrity trust poll - Utalkmarketing
- Doctor Who complete reviews: The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew's Eve - Shadowlocked
- What2Watch: Betty Meets An Ugly End - Film.com
- Election broadcast features sci-fi Doctor and Doctor's 'son' - DigitalJournal.com
- 'Sherlock' kicks off sales at Mip TV - Variety
- Doctor Who: "The Beast Below" Review - IGN
- See the new Dr Who computer game! - CBBC Newsround
- Ageing Tiger, Crouching Postman - TheDailyDust (satire) (blog)
- Doctor Who star Matt Smith `privileged` to be playing role - Monsters and Critics.com
- Jonathan Ross Trashes BBC: 'I Can't Wait To Get Out' - Huffington Post (blog)
- More stills from Victory of the Daleks!
- TV ratings: 6.6m watch Doctor Who to keep BBC top on Saturdays - for now - The Guardian
- Doctor Who Series 5, Episode 2 - The Beast Below: A Review - t5m
- Religious and Spirituality : I will have the Pope arrested, says atheist ... - SkyNewswire.com
- Doctor Who takes on the Daleks in World War II - Radio 1
- Victory of the Daleks Gallery
- The Beast Below - AI and Sunday Ratings
- Victory of the Daleks Trailer
- Labour's Doctor Who election ad - The Guardian (blog)
- Written by Rose Major - Rapid tv news
- BBC Announces Plans to Offer Four Original "Interactive Episodes" of "Doctor Who" - InteractiveTV Today [itvt]
- TV: Doctor Who – Victory of the Daleks - Pink Paper
- Dirty Protest get back into the Roundhouse - WalesOnline
- Victory of the Daleks Preview
- The Forgotten Army
- Karen Gillan as Amy Pond gets a soaking with her sidekick the Doctor (Matt Smith) - Metro
- Doctor Who and A Passionate Woman - The Guardian
- Doctor Who sheds over a million viewers - Den Of Geek
- Doctor Who star talks about the shows new season - Monsters and Critics.com
- Ninemsn Launches Catch-Up TV Service - Asia Media Journal
- Nine launches Fixplay catch-up TV - CNET Australia
- Eat breakfast (or dinner) with the staff of the Junior Gazette - Crikey
- Who made Who? - Brisbane Times
- Victory of the Daleks - Trailer
- The Beast Below
- The Universe is Cracked
- New Victory of the Daleks teaser!
- Tom Baker on TV
- Website Commentary
- Doctor Who Season 05.02 - The Beast Below Micro-Review - Popzara (blog)
- Terrence Hardiman: Who Fan
| David Cameron is a nobody in the north - U.TV Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:09 AM PDT
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| I Was A Teenage Doctor Who Fan In America - Shadowlocked Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:41 AM PDT
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| Tell Us Your Questions for the New Doctor Who - New York Magazine Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:35 AM PDT
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| David Cameron is a nobody in the north - The Guardian Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:31 AM PDT
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| Final BARB figures for The Eleventh Hour Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:58 AM PDT BARB have today released the finalized viewing figures for The Eleventh Hour, revealing that the Series 5 opener was watched by an official audience of 10.8million! With 9.59million watching on BBC One and an additional 494,000 tuning in in HD, Doctor Who was the third most watched programme of the week, being beaten only by two [...]  | ||
| Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:57 AM PDT The latest issue of the Radio Times (out tomorrow) has once again dedicated a cover (actually, three) to Doctor Who and the return of the Daleks this Saturday. But as you can see, it's not the Daleks as we know them. The exclusive cover shoot reveals a new, chunkier redesign with a different mid-section, eyepiece and some bold new colouring…  The three covers Says the Radio Times website, "Ahead of the General Election, the latest edition of Radio Times is available in three covers, each featuring a differently aligned Dalek, in red, blue and yellow". The issue will also have an interview with writer Mark Gatiss. So I think we now know what will be coming out of that Dalek machine in the Victory of the Daleks trailer!  | ||
| Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:57 AM PDT The picture says it all, but this is not Photoshop shenanigans. The Daleks will be offering cups of tea in this Saturday's episode, Victory of the Daleks! "There are certain things you can't imagine Daleks saying, but at the same time by making them sly and pretending to be what they're not you can actually get away with it – as I hope I do with them saying, 'Would you care for some tea?' And that's an amazing thing to hear in a Dalek voice! I hope it doesn't sound like a sketch, but that's the role they are playing in this episode." Writer Mark Gatiss told SFX. Lets hope he's right! See some more new pics below.  | ||
| The Eleventh Hour - Final Figures Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:35 AM PDT  Final figures for The Eleventh Hour have today been published by BARB and give Matt Smith's debut story an final rating of 10.08 million viewers.This total is over two million higher than the initial overnight figure of 8 million which implies a large number of viewers time shifted the programme by recording it and watching it later in the week. On BBC One the story had 9.59 million watching, enough to make the story the second most watched on the channel for the week and the fourth most watched on all British television. However an additional 494,000 people watched the simulcast on BBC HD, giving the story a total audience 10.08 million and making it the third most watched overall. It was only beaten by two episodes of Coronation Street. The Eleventh Hour has the eighth highest rating since the series returned in 2005. If the HD figure is included it is the first episode in the programme's history to be the third most watched of the week. Only twelve out of 757 episodes have ever made the top five. The Episode has also spent most of the week in the top ten list of iPlayer requests, with nearly a million downloads so far. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Sir David Attenborough tops celebrity trust poll - Utalkmarketing Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:19 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who complete reviews: The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew's Eve - Shadowlocked Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:14 AM PDT
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| What2Watch: Betty Meets An Ugly End - Film.com Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:06 AM PDT
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| Election broadcast features sci-fi Doctor and Doctor's 'son' - DigitalJournal.com Posted: 12 Apr 2010 02:50 AM PDT
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| 'Sherlock' kicks off sales at Mip TV - Variety Posted: 12 Apr 2010 02:36 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who: "The Beast Below" Review - IGN Posted: 12 Apr 2010 02:13 AM PDT
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| See the new Dr Who computer game! - CBBC Newsround Posted: 12 Apr 2010 01:58 AM PDT
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| Ageing Tiger, Crouching Postman - TheDailyDust (satire) (blog) Posted: 12 Apr 2010 01:55 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who star Matt Smith `privileged` to be playing role - Monsters and Critics.com Posted: 12 Apr 2010 01:43 AM PDT
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| Jonathan Ross Trashes BBC: 'I Can't Wait To Get Out' - Huffington Post (blog) Posted: 12 Apr 2010 01:10 AM PDT
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| More stills from Victory of the Daleks! Posted: 12 Apr 2010 01:03 AM PDT As the nation awaits the return of the Daleks this Saturday, BBC Newsbeat have released more stills from the episode! The story, written by Mark Gatiss, sees the Doctor summoned to Blitz-torn London by an old friend, Winston Churchill, played by Ian McNiece. But it’s actually the Daleks he finds deep below the city streets, and they are planning their deadliest [...]  | ||
| TV ratings: 6.6m watch Doctor Who to keep BBC top on Saturdays - for now - The Guardian Posted: 12 Apr 2010 12:44 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who Series 5, Episode 2 - The Beast Below: A Review - t5m Posted: 11 Apr 2010 11:46 PM PDT
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| Religious and Spirituality : I will have the Pope arrested, says atheist ... - SkyNewswire.com Posted: 11 Apr 2010 11:10 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who takes on the Daleks in World War II - Radio 1 Posted: 11 Apr 2010 11:02 PM PDT
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| Posted: 11 Apr 2010 11:00 PM PDT We've got some snaps from Victory of the Daleks for you now as the build up to the next episode of Doctor Who contiues! Starring Matt Smith as the Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and featuring Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill and Bill Paterson as Bracewell, Victory of the Daleks is one of the most anticipated episodes of the new series. Set for broadcast on Saturday, 17th April, Victory of the Daleks is scheduled for 6.30pm and will be simulcast on BBC One and the BBC HD channel. (Images courtesy of the BBC)  | ||
| The Beast Below - AI and Sunday Ratings Posted: 11 Apr 2010 10:31 PM PDT  The Beast Below achieved an AI score of 86.The AI or Appreciation Index or AI score is a measure of how much an audience enjoyed a programme. The score was the same as that for The Eleventh Hour and is classed as excellent. Doctor Who had the joint highest score on BBC One and ITV 1 for the day, along with Casualty and Harry Potter. The Sunday repeat was watched by 0.75 million viewers, where it was the 5th most watched programme of the day on multi -channel television. The share was 3.1%. On the main channels, Sunday's Coronation Street got 40,000 more viewers than Saturday's Doctor Who, pushing Doctor Who down to thirteenth place for the week. The position will almost certainly rise when final consolidated figures are published next week. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Posted: 11 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT We've got a great trailer for the upcoming Doctor Who episode Victory of the Daleks - get ready for World War Two alien invasion action! Written by Mark Gatiss and starring Matt Smith as the Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, Victory of the Daleks kicks off at 6.30pm on Saturday, 17th April on BBC One!  | ||
| Labour's Doctor Who election ad - The Guardian (blog) Posted: 11 Apr 2010 09:23 PM PDT
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| Written by Rose Major - Rapid tv news Posted: 11 Apr 2010 09:21 PM PDT
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| TV: Doctor Who – Victory of the Daleks - Pink Paper Posted: 11 Apr 2010 08:46 PM PDT
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| Dirty Protest get back into the Roundhouse - WalesOnline Posted: 11 Apr 2010 07:23 PM PDT
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| Posted: 11 Apr 2010 06:49 PM PDT Doctor Who continues this week with Victory of the Daleks - a wartime adventure guest starring Ian McNeice as Winston Churchill, and featuring the return of the Doctor's sword enemies.
Featuring some of the most iconic scenes from the new series trailer, Victory of the Daleks is a much-anticipated episode of the new Doctor's adventures. Set for broadcast on Saturday, 17th April, Victory of the Daleks is scheduled for 6.30pm and will be simulcast on BBC One and the BBC HD channel. (Image courtesy BBC)  | ||
| Posted: 11 Apr 2010 06:36 PM PDT The Forgotten Army is the third in a trio of new Doctor Who books released this Spring starring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.
Brian Minchin is a script editor for Doctor Who. He has written short stories and comic strips for Torchwood Magazine, as well as a Torchwood audiobook, The Sin Eaters, narrated by Gareth David-Lloyd. Released oni April 22nd, The Forgotten Army is available now to preorder from Amazon  | ||
| Karen Gillan as Amy Pond gets a soaking with her sidekick the Doctor (Matt Smith) - Metro Posted: 11 Apr 2010 06:25 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who and A Passionate Woman - The Guardian Posted: 11 Apr 2010 04:45 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who sheds over a million viewers - Den Of Geek Posted: 11 Apr 2010 04:32 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who star talks about the shows new season - Monsters and Critics.com Posted: 11 Apr 2010 03:59 PM PDT
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| Ninemsn Launches Catch-Up TV Service - Asia Media Journal Posted: 11 Apr 2010 03:37 PM PDT
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| Nine launches Fixplay catch-up TV - CNET Australia Posted: 11 Apr 2010 02:54 PM PDT
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| Eat breakfast (or dinner) with the staff of the Junior Gazette - Crikey Posted: 11 Apr 2010 02:54 PM PDT
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| Who made Who? - Brisbane Times Posted: 11 Apr 2010 01:02 PM PDT
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| Victory of the Daleks - Trailer Posted: 11 Apr 2010 09:46 AM PDT The BBC has released a trailer for Episode Three of the new series, Victory of the Daleks. The episode is written by Mark Gatiss and stars Bill Paterson, Ian McNeice and Nicholas Briggs. It can be seen in the UK next Saturday at 6.30pm on BBC One and at 8.25pm on BBC HD. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Posted: 11 Apr 2010 09:15 AM PDT Having established the new cast last week, the second episode of this series gets straight into the adventure. An SF adventure on a Starship UK, the action nods to Star Wars, the metaphors to The Matrix and the setting to 80s dystopias. While the viewer may be more settled with the characters (anxieties put to rest last week), their actions tell us a little more about them, especially Amy's attitude to the Doctor. Nods to American genre films never sacrifice the Britishness and Doctor Who-ishness of the show. It's hard to imagine an American genre show with cycling as the principle mode of transport in a dystopian future, children crying on school benches, or a police state maintained by sinister creatures with rotating clown faces. The Smilers themselves have the right degree of mystery and menace about them. There is no explanation for what they are; their purpose isn't explicitly spelt out with exposition, but their ubiquity and austerity posit them as an intimidating force to the population of Starship UK. The uncertainty of their nature is particularly unsettling. I had assumed they were mechanical, but the half-human, half-Smilers that show up might suggest otherwise. However, the most striking characteristic of this particular dystopia is the voting system. Citizens are hypnotised into a trance-like state, their thoughts streamlined into one of two polarised options (the red pill or the blue pill). This reflects contemporary political disaffection, a feeling that our current political system regulates opinion into one of two opposing camps, with ignorance the best possible result. This is not directly resolved, but the moral relates back to it implicitly. Morally, the concern of the episode is environmental, which we haven't seen in Doctor Who for a long time. The citizens of Starship UK are savaging their land, torturing it in their ignorance. They repeatedly defer action, as to address the problem would first involve having to accept moral responsibility. The climactic dilemma moves the characters forward impressively. The Doctor's initial disgust at 'humans' puts him in danger of becoming a mouthpiece for the show, but his attempt to lobotomise the Star Whale quickly puts a stop to that. Doctor Who has always taught us to love the alien, the different and the new. For a moment there he forgot that. It takes Amy stepping in to offer a better solution. This reminds us that Amy's known this man all of her life. Her speech about what kind of person the Doctor is comes from years of play and fantasy based on a brief, unusual point in the Doctor's life, where he did act kindly and helpfully to her.
Liz X receives no moral exception or special treatment and the story is better for it. No blame is placed on her, nor is any weight of expectation. Everyone needs to act to change the world for the better, and Queen or not, she is just one of many. Although the resolution may be a little convenient, the character progression justifies it. And one cannot begrudge the optimism of the outlook. Also, there is enough that is questionable left hanging – Liz X runs a police state! She's going undercover from herself! What the hell are the half-human, half-Smilers all about? They sound horrible, anyway… Just imagine the Jeremy Kyle Show about that illegitimate lovechild. It's great to see a direct lead-in to the next show. It's also great to see a noted historical figure contacting the Doctor directly. Namedropping is all very well, but it can seem a little clubby and elitist. As though the viewer isn't in on the Doctor's personal joke. Seeing Winston Churchill sat there phoning for help is more inclusive, and removes his mystique. As he was just a man, this is only a good thing. There have already been many allusions to future events and open plot points in the series. It's going to be interesting to see if any of them are red herrings. On top of all the allusion in the last episode, we now have the reappearance of Magpie Electricals and the rip in the Star Whale's back. The Beast Below was a fun adventure and a great follow-up to The Eleventh Hour. A great mix of character progression and morality, of plotting and world-building, dark, unresolved actions and light-heartedness. And I've not even mentioned Terrence Hardiman, scary-by-default to my generation as the former Demon Headmaster. Bring on the Daleks!  | ||
| Posted: 11 Apr 2010 08:54 AM PDT The Beast Below Spoilers The cracks we first saw on Amy's wall in The Eleventh Hour are now appearing through time and space in other episodes as many suspected they would. The Beast Below took place more than a millennium into the future, and another one has cropped up. This was at the very end of the The Beast Below on the Starship UK and was almost impossible to miss thanks to the rather obvious 'HEY LOOK AT THIS' zoom of the camera We'd prefer a bit more of a challenge spotting these in future if this becomes a regular occurrence like 'Bad Wolf'. Anyway let's compare it to the original in the Eleventh Hour…  The crack on Amy's wall So are the cracks following Amy and the Doctor? Is this just a sign that the universe cracked like Prisoner Zero said? Or perhaps the Doctor and Amy are causing them, leaving a mark wherever they go… Read our Silence will Fall speculation here  | ||
| New Victory of the Daleks teaser! Posted: 11 Apr 2010 08:16 AM PDT The BBC have released a new teaser trailer ahead of the broadcast of the forthcoming adventure, Victory of the Daleks. The eagerly anticipated episode, written by Mark Gatiss, sees the Doctor summoned to Blitz-torn London by an old friend. But it’s the Daleks he finds deep below the city streets, and they are planning their deadliest scheme yet… Victory of the Daleks airs [...]  | ||
| Posted: 11 Apr 2010 07:49 AM PDT The living legend that is Fourth Doctor Who star Tom Baker recently recorded an interview for broadcast this weeks on Sky Arts.
Interestingly, Tom has known presenter and Sociology Professor Laurie Taylor since they were students at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. The In Confidence series also features chats with Lily Allen, Will Self, Jonathan Miller and Richard Dawkins between now and early June – find out more on the Sky Arts website. If you can't wait, check out this clip of the interview at the Sky Arts website – Tom at his best! While you scurry off to see if you have Sky Arts, I can tell you that it is channel number 256 on Sky and 284 on Virgin.  | ||
| Posted: 11 Apr 2010 06:54 AM PDT There is a fascinating commentary on the redesign of the BBC's Official Doctor Who website available online on the main BBC Blogs page.
While the new site has apparently been styled to fit in with the rest of the BBC website:
Responses from other readers of the blog suggest that many are unhappy with some of the changes – not least the apparent lack of compatibility with PC browsers. It seems that as with many things, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Despite the rather splendid redesign that is less graphics intensive – and as such less bandwidth intensive – not everyone is happy. While the appearance of the new Doctor Who pages on the BBC website is pretty much what you would expect on a Mac, there does seem to be a lack of "compatible thinking". The large text segments simply don't look as good on a PC as they might have done at the design stage – something that leads us down the "BBC are in love with Apple" path. This is a claim that has been repeated many times over the past 3 years, from iPlayer's initial compatibility on mobile platforms being limited to the (then new) iPhone to the BBC falling over themselves to provide coverage of the iTray iPad upon its recent release. Regardless of how easy they are to use, the majority of users in the UK are using PCs. Some elementary cross-platform testing would resolve these criticisms of what is otherwise a spiffing looking site. What do you think? Has the team behind the new site misfired? Leave your comments below.  | ||
| Doctor Who Season 05.02 - The Beast Below Micro-Review - Popzara (blog) Posted: 11 Apr 2010 06:28 AM PDT
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| Posted: 11 Apr 2010 04:56 AM PDT A recent interview with The Beast Below guest star Terrence Hardiman has revealed that The Demon Headmaster actor is a bit of a Doctor Who fan…
Speaking to Digital Spy, the actor who petrified a generation of kids 14 years ago revealed that he's been watching Doctor Who since the 1960s…
While The Beast Below hasn't quite had the same effect (despite an almost as-strong audience share as The Eleventh Hour) I'm sure Terrence was delighted to get the chance to appear in Doctor Who. Hardiman is also very complementary to the new star of Doctor Who – in fact its a cool little interview, worth a read!  |
Written by Mark Gatiss (The Unquiet Dead, The Idiot's Lantern), Victory of the Daleks stars Matt Smith as the Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond.
Written by Brian Minchin, this book joins 
for just £4.89.
Despite world-changing action, the character focus, as in The Eleventh Hour, is small-scale. Uniquely, the Doctor is defined by his relationship with his companion in this episode, and their relationship is founded on how unusual the Doctor's timeline is. Matt Smith is very relaxed into his Doctorishness here. He has an absent-mindedness that is simultaneously endearing and alienating, going outside and waving Amy out from the viewscreen is light-hearted. Nearly blowing her out of the TARDIS into space is too, but also life-threateningly clumsy. And his mannerisms are pure Patrick Troughton.
Tom gives a rare hour-long televised interview to Laurie Taylor in a new television series titled In Confidence at 10pm on Tuesday 13th April on Sky Arts.
Episode 2 of the new series of Doctor Who guest stars Hardiman as Hawthorne, the leader of a hooded sect. Without revealing too much, let's just say it isn't entirely clear what or who he is until late in the episode – but sadly he doesn't have swirling eyes.| You are subscribed to email updates from Kopic's Dr Who and Torchwood News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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