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- Doctor Who star backs Labour party - Peterborough Today
- Dr Who regenerations 'modelled on LSD' - BigPond News
- Who's nicked your tie, Doc? - The Sun
- Doctor Who team hits New York
- 'Desperate Housewives' Cast Issues Joint Statement In Response To Nicollette ... - Access Hollywood
- Doctor Who blog: The Beast Below - The Yorker
- Survivors killed off by BBC after two series - Scotsman
- Eddie Barnes David Cameron faces a job getting public to govern - Scotsman
- Eddie Barnes: David Cameron faces a job getting public to govern - Scotsman
- Pandora: A Labour of love for film-maker Chadha - Independent
- Campaign Watch, April 13th - TheDailyDust (satire) (blog)
- I loved David Tennant in that episode - Courier Mail
- Interview with Nick Briggs
- Emma Watson Nominated for Constellation Award - The Leaky Cauldron.org
- TV Preview: Doctor Who - "The Eleventh Hour" - Blogcritics.org (blog)
- 10 Million Watch Eleventh Hour
- Q&A with Doctor Who's Steven Moffat (with spoilers!) - Dose.ca (blog)
- Dr. Who's "regeneration" meant to be like bad acid trip - Boing Boing (blog)
- Doctor Who's acid test - The Guardian
- Keeping it in the family - acting secrets revealed - Whitehaven News
- BBC axes sci-fi drama Survivors after two series - Daily Mail
- Doctor Who star backs Labour party - Paisley Daily Express
- Torchwood Star Pens Comic - Comic Book Resources
- Rat on a sinking ship - The Guardian
- Victory Teasers
- 'Survivors' axe confirmed by BBC - Digital Spy
- Survivors falls under BBC axe - The Guardian
- Get Two More Sneak Peeks At Saturday's Premiere of 'Doctor Who' - The Flickcast (blog)
- 'Torchwood' star to pen comic strip - Digital Spy
- 'Torchwood' star to pen comic strip
- BBC release archive of Classic Series documents
- Survivors axed by BBC - Telegraph.co.uk
- Survivors is dead; BBC axes sci-fi series - What's On TV
- Matt Smith, Karen Gillan And Steven Moffat Take Us Inside Doctor Who Season Five - io9
- Doctor Who regenerations based on LSD trips - NewsLite
- Got a question for the 'Doctor Who' gang? - USA Today
- Karen Gillan travels the universe with Doctor Who - Montreal Gazette
- 'Doctor Who' Stars Storm Paley Center - Wall Street Journal (blog)
- David Who? - University Observer Online
- Shelf Life at the Old Library, Swansea, review - Telegraph.co.uk
- The fascinating history of a Chelsea property designed by the same man who ... - Country Life (blog)
- Gareth David Lloyd pens Torchwood comic
- The Changing Face of Doctor Who
- Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 191
- BBC axes Survivors' third season - Metro
- Gordon Brown attacks Murdoch paywalls for online content - U.TV
- The current doctor Matt Smith with his assistant Amy Pond played by Karen Gillan - Sky News
- Karen Gillan opts for a trendy jumpsuit as Doctor Who hits New York - Daily Mail
- Doctor Regenerations 'Modelled On LSD' - Mix 96
- 'Hell' of an LSD trip the inspiration for Doctor Who regeneration - InTheNews.co.uk
| Doctor Who star backs Labour party - Peterborough Today Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:57 PM PDT
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| Dr Who regenerations 'modelled on LSD' - BigPond News Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:16 PM PDT
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| Who's nicked your tie, Doc? - The Sun Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:05 PM PDT
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| Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:35 AM PDT The Doctor Who team have arrived in New York as part of the publicity tour in the run up to the new series launch on BBC America this coming Saturday. On Monday Matt Smith and Karen Gillan attended an industry screening of The Eleventh Hour at the Paley Center for Media where, along with executive producer Steven Moffat, they answered questions from the specially invited audience. Smith talked about his audition and how he had to shoot 12 takes of the infamous fish custard scene in The Eleventh Hour. Moffat said his inspiration for the scene came from the Winnie-the-Pooh books, specifically the scene where Tigger claims to like everything, but then proceeds to reject all the foodstuffs offered to him. Smith and Gillan had time for some sight seeing as well as attending a 'Meet the Cast' event at the Apple SoHo store and giving an interview to TV Guide Magazine and the New York Times. The trio will attend a special screening of The Eleventh Hour on Wednesday at the Village East Cinema. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| 'Desperate Housewives' Cast Issues Joint Statement In Response To Nicollette ... - Access Hollywood Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:13 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who blog: The Beast Below - The Yorker Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:39 AM PDT
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| Survivors killed off by BBC after two series - Scotsman Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:13 AM PDT
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| Eddie Barnes David Cameron faces a job getting public to govern - Scotsman Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:07 AM PDT
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| Eddie Barnes: David Cameron faces a job getting public to govern - Scotsman Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:02 AM PDT
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| Pandora: A Labour of love for film-maker Chadha - Independent Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:01 AM PDT
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| Campaign Watch, April 13th - TheDailyDust (satire) (blog) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:27 AM PDT
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| I loved David Tennant in that episode - Courier Mail Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:24 AM PDT
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| Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT
Best known to Doctor Who fans as the voice of the Daleks and the Cybermen, Nick is also a key figure at Big Finish, where he is an Executive Producer, he directs and writes and also appears in the productions from time to time. He's also steeped in Doctor Who fandom – as you'll soon see… Nick kindly began by telling us a bit about his early days as a struggling actor… I left drama school in the early 1980s and struggled and got nowhere for years, doing odd little bits of very forgettable work. After manfully struggling on, and getting far too involved doing Doctor Who audio plays for love and not money – and I played the bloomin' Doctor! – I decided to officially give up and went to work for a publishing company. I eventually became an editor, but during that time, the 1990s, Colin Baker got me a job in seaside rep, which kick-started my theatre career. And since that time, I've worked in commercial theatre, directing, sound designing and acting. I've been murderers, murder victims, countless inspectors, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and King Richard in theatres throughout the land. And I'm still doing all this, in conjunction with my Doctor Who work on audio and TV. I will, for example, be at the Theatre Royal Nottingham this summer, directing and acting in thrillers. You've been one of the hardest working fans of the show in your time, with the Reeltime Pictures and BBV productions. What do you remember of this time? These were the jobs I did before I really started to make headway in my career, I suppose. They gave me invaluable experience and taught me so much. And, of course, the Reeltime Pictures Myth Makers interviews introduced me to a lot of the old Doctor Who actors with whom I still work now in Big Finish. BBV gave me great experience of filming under extreme pressure, with virtually no budget as an actor, writer and director. Very character-building stuff! I'm laughing while I'm writing this! In many ways these productions were the progenitors of modern fan made Doctor Who – how does it feel to know that people are still making fan films, and have you seen many of the recent ones? I don't think I've seen any recent fan films. Oh, I tell a lie, I did see one quite a few months ago. I can't remember much about it except that it wasn't half bad. The guy who was playing the Doctor was actually pretty good… I think he was American. And the girl was absolutely, proper, film star drop-dead gorgeous. The CGI wasn't bad either. I seem to remember the script was a bit off. But, of course, the incredible technology that's available to amateur film makers can give such a polished look now. God, I would've loved some of that technology to be available when we were doing Auton and Auton II, the straight-to-video dramas I directed. That was quite a character you played in Children of Earth – relatively brief and subtly insidious. Did you have any particular politician in mind when you breathed life into him? They sold the part to me as an Alastair Campbell type of spin doctor. I didn't set out to impersonate him, obviously, and there's no way Alastair Campbell would be as nasty as Rick Yates… But I did bear that bullishness in mind. It was great fun to do and I've lobbied Russell T. Davies for a return of the character – the way all actors irritate producers by asking for their characters to come back! – but there's no sign of that happening, alas. Have you any ambition to feature on screen in Doctor Who, or is voicing an army of various monsters enough for you? I'm happy to do whatever they ask me. But I'd be a fool to turn down a good part on screen in Doctor Who. But, you know, when they're getting really famous actors to come in and say about five lines, it kind of puts in perspective what my chances would actually be! Still, I'm ever hopeful. Also as a writer/director, have you any plans for films or TV shows you would like to work on outside of the Who World? I had a brush with writing for TV when I did some scripts for the now defunct Channel Five soap Family Affairs. It was lovely that I was given that opportunity and I'm eternally grateful to TV mogul Austen Atkinson who gave me the chance. But I found the work utterly soul-destroying. I think it's long enough ago for me to confess now that after writing a couple, I kept making up excuses about being too busy to avoid writing any more. I think that writing that kind of television is for people far more determined to become TV writers than I am – people who are prepared to take all the crap script editing and nonsense notes. I could write a book on the stupid things that were said to me about drama, acting and writing during that process! I'm much happier doing my own thing in my own little world of Big Finish audios. It means I get to explore my ideas without worrying about second-guessing the views of people who are frankly mostly not concentrating very hard, because they're working on several scripts all at once. I once got pretty close to writing an episode of The Bill… but it was like staring into the pit of Hell. Having said all that, if someone asked me to write a Doctor Who, there's no way I could say no, despite the world of pain that would undoubtedly open up for me. Luckily for my sanity, it seems, no one is going to ask me. Although I can't pretend I'm not a bit sad about that sometimes. And as for writing outside the Who World, as you put it… yeah, I'd love to write a movie. I'd love to create a TV series. I'd love to do it all! Of course! I love stories. But in order to do all that, you have to suffer years of writing terrible TV in whatever 'house style' is imposed. I know young writers who are going through that now, and smiling through the tears, pretending that it's all invigorating when really they're dying inside and just want to express the stories they want to tell. I have so much respect for writers like that. I feel too old, ugly and set in my ways to climb that mountain now. But… and you can guess what I'm going to say next, folks… If someone gave me the chance to have a go, I'd be straight in there! Despite all that pain. My ambition in this respect, would be to work with people who could really teach me something. And I certainly always believe I have so much to learn. I don't think the learning curve ever ends. My dream ambition is to create a science fiction franchise, though. We all have to have dreams, don't we? As an actor, Doctor Who aside, are there any roles, or types of roles that you would love to play? Along with this, you have a talent for voice acting, have you any plans for cartoon work or animated films? As for planning to do animation work… I'd love to. But it's so difficult to control your career. But my real ambition as an actor is to play as many varied roles as possible. To stretch myself. But I'm also fond of strong leading roles too. For example, I've played Sherlock Holmes a number of times on stage over the years. And now we're doing a series of Holmes audios for Big Finish, with me in the leading role. We've just released Holmes and the Ripper, by Brian Clemens, and we'll be doing more, later in the year. How important is it to faithfully reproduce the voices of Daleks and Cybermen whether on TV or for Big Finish? I'm not sure what you mean by 'faithfully reproduce' the voices. If you mean, make them like they were back in the original series of Doctor Who, then I'm certainly hugely indebted to the some of the original Dalek voice artists. They invented that delivery. But what I hope I've done is take it a bit further, given it a few more levels. No, don't laugh! If you think of the whole range of human expression in the voice as 100%, I think the original Daleks had 10%. I immodestly feel I've pushed it up to about 30%. Something that's happened with the Daleks now is that, for the first time in the history of Doctor Who, they've had some consistency in the voice. I'm the longest-running voice of the Daleks and I am in control of the technical effect on the voice. So, from Chris Eccleston to Matt Smith, the Dalek voice effect has always been the same. I don't think there was an unbroken run that long in the original series, and frankly they just 'guesstimated' the setting on the voice modulator every time they set it up… so you have Daleks sounding a bit like Pinky and Perky one episode, then in the next episode they sound great! Well, as you can tell, this voice thing is terribly important to me. I like to have pride in my work, but that doesn't mean that I won't have to see a psychiatrist about this at some point in the future, obviously! Long-term Doctor Who Magazine readers may recall that an alternative (fake) Ninth Doctor was based on you back in the 1990s – I was actually pretty taken with that incarnation and was a little disappointed when he "shayded" away… Well, quite. You must be that one fan of my Doctor! I did actually feature in another DWM strip called Party Animals, where I was an indeterminate future incarnation of the Doctor. And aside from playing the Doctor in those amateur audios all those years ago, I featured in a Big Finish production as 'The Previous Doctor', when we had Arabella Weir as the first female Doctor. Oh, and I also played a mad bloke who thought he was the Doctor in a BF story called Minuet in Hell. He'd had all the memories of the Doctor blasted into his head, so woke up believing he was the Doctor. Hold on… and that was years before The Next Doctor. Funny how these ideas keep turning up. Ha, ha… But it was a great thrill to be in the comic strip. I was working as Press and PR Manager or something at the Scifi Channel when that came out, and my boss kept introducing me to people as 'Doctor Who' and put photocopies of one of the first pages of the strip on everyone's desk in the marketing department. Oh, how we laughed. Next to David Tennant, you have lived the ultimate fan dream. Moving through the ranks of fan appreciation to officially working for the show and with classic Doctors for Big Finish. Is there ever a day that you wake up and say "No way can this be happening"? I deliberately make myself think that from time to time, just to remind myself how lucky I am. It's so funny that the second person I texted to say, 'I'm doing the Dalek voices' was actually David Tennant. And a year later, he was Doctor bleedin' Who. Well, it's only right that they give these jobs to the experts! Many thanks to Nick Briggs for taking the time to speak to us. Holmes and the Ripper is available from Big Finish now for £14.99.  | ||
| Emma Watson Nominated for Constellation Award - The Leaky Cauldron.org Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:54 AM PDT
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| TV Preview: Doctor Who - "The Eleventh Hour" - Blogcritics.org (blog) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:11 AM PDT
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| 10 Million Watch Eleventh Hour Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:54 AM PDT Well, the discussion about the audience figures for The Eleventh Hour and the rest of the new series of Doctor Who looks set to rumble on, but one thing is certain – television has changed.
It's a far cry from being the lowest opening of any of the new Doctor Who series – in face it's only slightly behind Rose, and is the second highest series opener yet!
If this doesn't shut The Guardian up, similar final figures for The Beast Below will certainly help…  | ||
| Q&A with Doctor Who's Steven Moffat (with spoilers!) - Dose.ca (blog) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:46 AM PDT
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| Dr. Who's "regeneration" meant to be like bad acid trip - Boing Boing (blog) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:01 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who's acid test - The Guardian Posted: 13 Apr 2010 07:00 AM PDT
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| Keeping it in the family - acting secrets revealed - Whitehaven News Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:46 AM PDT
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| BBC axes sci-fi drama Survivors after two series - Daily Mail Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:32 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who star backs Labour party - Paisley Daily Express Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:31 AM PDT
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| Torchwood Star Pens Comic - Comic Book Resources Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:27 AM PDT
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| Rat on a sinking ship - The Guardian Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:00 AM PDT
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| Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:24 AM PDT
As you probably know, episode 3 of the current series of Doctor Who is by Mark Gatiss, formerly of The League of Gentlemen and responsible for 2005's The Unquiet Dead, 2006's The Idiot's Lantern and guest starred in The Lazarus Experiment in 2007. We've picked some of the best teasers from their list…
I think that's quite enough of that! You can read the full set of teasers at Digital Spy. In the meantime if you haven't already, checkout the interview with Mark Gatiss, and remember – Victory of the Daleks is scheduled for 6.30pm this Saturday, 17th April and will be simulcast on BBC One and the BBC HD channel. Oh – don't forget to checkout our Victory of the Daleks trailer and galleries.  | ||
| 'Survivors' axe confirmed by BBC - Digital Spy Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:45 AM PDT
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| Survivors falls under BBC axe - The Guardian Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:22 AM PDT
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| Get Two More Sneak Peeks At Saturday's Premiere of 'Doctor Who' - The Flickcast (blog) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:14 AM PDT
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| 'Torchwood' star to pen comic strip - Digital Spy Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:02 AM PDT
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| 'Torchwood' star to pen comic strip Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:55 AM PDT Torchwood's Gareth David-Lloyd is to pen a comic strip in the show's companion magazine.  | ||
| BBC release archive of Classic Series documents Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:49 AM PDT The BBC have released an archive detailing the changing faces of the Doctor over the years, from the inital character outlines to how viewers reacted to new incarnations. The extensive collection is made up of image galleries, audience letters, memos, magazine articles and reviews. One point of particular interest – and one that has been picked up by various news [...]  | ||
| Survivors axed by BBC - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:41 AM PDT
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| Survivors is dead; BBC axes sci-fi series - What's On TV Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:26 AM PDT
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| Matt Smith, Karen Gillan And Steven Moffat Take Us Inside Doctor Who Season Five - io9 Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:11 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who regenerations based on LSD trips - NewsLite Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:17 AM PDT
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| Got a question for the 'Doctor Who' gang? - USA Today Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:13 AM PDT
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| Karen Gillan travels the universe with Doctor Who - Montreal Gazette Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:10 AM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' Stars Storm Paley Center - Wall Street Journal (blog) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:05 AM PDT
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| David Who? - University Observer Online Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:10 AM PDT
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| Shelf Life at the Old Library, Swansea, review - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:23 PM PDT
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| The fascinating history of a Chelsea property designed by the same man who ... - Country Life (blog) Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:12 PM PDT
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| Gareth David Lloyd pens Torchwood comic Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:01 PM PDT  Actor Gareth David Lloyd - Ianto Jones from Torchwood - has penned a new comic strip to appear in Issue #21 of Torchwood Magazine. David-Lloyd''s character, Ianto Jones, who died in Captain Jack's arms in the recent Torchwood five-part series Children of Earth,' gets a new lease of life and takes centre stage once again in this exclusive comic strip - a move that will delight all fans of the critically acclaimed Doctor Who spin-off.Talking exclusively to the official Torchwood magazine, David-Lloyd said, "I feel I know this character implicitly. The narrative of this comic focuses predominantly on Ianto, and integrates a number of characters who have been missed by Torchwood''s ardent followers." The story, titled Shrouded, is made up of two parts and is as diverse as it is thrilling. Ianto, who struggles with his tumultuous feelings for Captain Jack from the offset, has his world turned upside-down by the visit of a familiar face from the future. Additionally, he is set a mission that could alter the course of life, as he knows it, forever... Shrouded is illustrated by Pia Guerra, the critically acclaimed artist of Vertigo Comics' ground-breaking series, Y: The Last Man and more recently, Doctor Who: The Forgotten. Pia won 'Outstanding comic book artist for 2006' at the Joe Schuster Awards. This is not the first time an actor has penned a story; back in 2009 Captain Jack himself John Barrowman co-wrote Captain Jack and the Selkie with sister Carole for Issue #14. Torchwood Magazine #21 is released in the United Kingdom on 15th April, and in the United States from 11th May. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| The Changing Face of Doctor Who Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:55 PM PDT Just in time for a new Doctor and a new season, the BBC Archives have put up a fantastic display on the Changing Face of Doctor Who, which includes a treasure trove of audience reaction reports on each of the new Doctors along with Radio Times articles and photos. The main highlight is the character outline for the “New Dr. Who” after his ‘rejuvenation’ into Patrick Troughton. Naturally the LSD angle is what everyone seems to have picked up on… What’s most fascinating though are the audience appreciation reports, which seems to greet each new Doctor with suspicion, cool detachment and in the case of Tom Baker, outright disappointment (ironic given how popular Tom Baker became). The only one to really escape that trend is Peter Davison. The photos are worth a look as they include rare stills and a gallery of ‘might have been’ Doctors to boot. Well worth a look.  | ||
| Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 191 Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:49 PM PDT "What I always do: stay out of trouble… badly." Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 191 Doctor Who: The Beast Below reviewed live over the net with live feedback. (If you haven't seen The Beast Below, wait until you have before listening). Hosted by Louis Trapani, Ken Deep, and Dave Cooper.  | ||
| BBC axes Survivors' third season - Metro Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:43 PM PDT
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| Gordon Brown attacks Murdoch paywalls for online content - U.TV Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:33 PM PDT
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| The current doctor Matt Smith with his assistant Amy Pond played by Karen Gillan - Sky News Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:20 PM PDT
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| Karen Gillan opts for a trendy jumpsuit as Doctor Who hits New York - Daily Mail Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:18 PM PDT
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| Doctor Regenerations 'Modelled On LSD' - Mix 96 Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:12 PM PDT
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| 'Hell' of an LSD trip the inspiration for Doctor Who regeneration - InTheNews.co.uk Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:08 PM PDT
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