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- Australian ratings for Victory of the Daleks
- Opening Pandorica
- Vampires of Venice - Trailer
- Telegraph Audiobook Offer
- Nortongate - The Aftermath
- Nortongate Revenge
- The Vampires of Venice
- Bubba Ho-Tep
- Flesh and Stone overnights, press reaction
- Flesh and Stone - Ratings
- Sexed Up Pond?
- New TV trailer for The Vampires of Venice
- Gaiman Script Update
- Arthur Darvill responds to tabloid headlines
- Vampires of Venice Screens
- How do you rate Doctor Who: Flesh and Stone? (5=Fantastic)
| Australian ratings for Victory of the Daleks Posted: 02 May 2010 01:39 PM PDT  Victory of the Daleks has debuted in Australia to excellent ratings. TV Tonight reports that the episode averaged 915,000 viewers in the five major capital cities, despite stiff competition from the commercial networks including Masterchef Australia and the annual Logie Awards (The major Australian TV awards). The Daleks proved popular, Doctor Who improving its ratings by 64,000 viewers from the previous week's episode. Again it was the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's top-rating program of the day, rating higher than its popular Sunday 7pm news (By comparison, the final of the mini-series Burn Up only rated 375,000 viewers for the ABC in the following 8.30pm timeslot). The corresponding Confidential Cutdown also rated a respectable 523,000 viewers in the five major capitals.http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   |
| Posted: 02 May 2010 11:31 AM PDT As was hinted in the trailer, Flesh and Stone brought some fairly big developments to Series Five's story arcs. On the flip side, it also posed a lot more questions. Cracks in timeThere was another crack in the wall on the Byzantium ship. After investigating, The Doctor concluded that the crack is the end of the universe. We learn the crack will erase everything from time so that it never existed in the first place. The Doctor speculates that this is why nobody remembered the Cyber-King invading Victorian London in The Next Doctor. Ditto with Amy and the Daleks.
River Song: MurdererRiver Song confirms she has killed a man and was in prison. So who did she kill? Or perhaps the question is 'Did she kill Who?' It is heavily hinted that she has killed the Doctor in her time-line. It's surely the most obvious choice, but with Moffat, it could be some clever misdirection. We can't rule out something else. Here's the dialogue.
26/06/2010What is the significance of this date? First, the Doctor tells River that this is "the date of the explosion where the crack begins". Then at the end of the episode, Amy's alarm clock changes over to reveal it is the same day of her wedding. Perhaps more importantly, it might also be the date the Pandorica opens. Lastly, Saturday 26th June 2010 just happens to be the date the final episode of Series Five would air on TV provided Eurovision doesn't cause a one week break. Even it does, the penultimate episode will air instead and the rumoured title for that is…The Pandorica Opens. Future DoctorCould there actually be two Doctor's in this episode? One from the present and one from the future. There was a suspiciously jarring scene after the Doctor leaves a blinded Amy in the woods. Seconds later the Doctor suddenly reappears to tell Amy a cryptic message, but this time he has his tweed jacket on, even though the Angels took it. So could this be a Doctor from the future? Let's look over the scenes in more detail. The Angels take the Doctors jacket. The Doctor reappears after, minus jacket. The Doctor leaves, "Amy later", he says brusquely, and pats her on the head. A few seconds later, whose hands are these? It's the Doctor! Now with his tweed jacket on and his sleeves rolled up. This Doctor's demeanor is different and he is much gentler towards Amy this time.
And the Doctor leaves again. There is no mention of this again in the episode, so what was the point of the scene? Yes, the jacket could be ruled out as a really bad continuity error but it could actually be something far more significant. A future Doctor could be visiting his own time-line to leave a very important message to Amy. What did he tell her when she was seven? That's the key.  |
| Posted: 02 May 2010 09:17 AM PDT The BBC have released a trailer for The Vampires of Venice, on BBC One and BBC HD, Satuday 8th May, 6pm. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   |
| Posted: 02 May 2010 07:35 AM PDT If you, like us, missed the recent promotion in the Telegraph for free Doctor Who from BBC Audiobooks, you can now buy the full collection online. Anyone buying the Daily Telegraph between April 23rd and 30th from WHSmith had the chance to pickup one of the following:
While the free offer is now unavailable, a free + P&P offer is now open, which means you can get the whole pack of seven CDs for just £12.99, inclusive of postage and packaging!  |
| Posted: 02 May 2010 07:15 AM PDT The BBC has reiterated its apology for the Nortongate incident, this time on the feedback programme Points of View. In a special programme presented from the BBC Election studio, four letters from viewers were read out along with the BBC official response which the presenter Jeremy Vine called a rare, unreserved apology. The whole programme is available on the BBC iPlayer. Meanwhile The Sun reports that Graham Norton will poke fun on the incident as part of his BBC One show on Monday. The paper claims a Norton animation will dance on to the screen, followed by a Dalek who promptly blows him up. The programme features Karen Gillan as a guest. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   |
| Posted: 02 May 2010 06:43 AM PDT TV presenter and serial invader of Doctor Who, Graham Norton, plans to get his own back on criticism from fans – by commissioning a new banner that shows the Irish comic being exterminated by a Dalek If you're unaware of Nortongate, it is the term given by Doctor Who fans to the second encroachment by an Graham Norton into the world of Doctor Who at the climax of The Time of Angels, in which an animated advert for Over the Rainbow - Lord Lloyd-Webber's latest state sponsored advertising campaign for his next musical – was displayed over star Matt Smith's face. Press reports indicate that bachelor Norton is set to have his head blown off by an animated Dalek in a similar banner on his weekly broadcast The Graham Norton Show on Monday evening at 10.35pm on BBC One. This is a preview that has been doing the rounds online: (Thanks to Sonic_Tangobat in the Kasterborous Forum for linking to the image, and thanks to whoever out there created it!) Interestingly the next edition features Doctor Who star Karen Gillan, who plays companion Amy Pond.  |
| Posted: 02 May 2010 05:04 AM PDT Doctor Who returns this week as the Doctor, Amy and Rory travel back in time to Venice…
The Vampires of Venice is by Toby Whithouse (2006's School Reunion and of course the creator of Being Human) and airs at 6.00pm on Saturday, 8th May and can be viewed on both BBC One and on the BBC HD channel, available through Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.  |
| Posted: 02 May 2010 03:55 AM PDT  Sometimes films pass you by for no reason at all. Bubba Ho-Tep is one such. I am a massive fan of the Phantasm films and thought that Beastmaster from the same director was pretty cool as well, so I have no idea why I didn't catch up with this gem sooner ...The premise of the film is somewhat strange: Elvis Presley is alive and well and living in a rest home suffering from a fractured pelvis and an infected pecker. Seems that The King swapped places with an Elvis tribute act many years ago, and it was the tribute act (Sebastian Haff) who allegedly died on the loo with cheeseburger in hand, while the real King continued to perform as Haff until he broke his pelvis in a fall from a stage, and went into a coma. Also in the rest home is John F Kennedy - not dead at all from a bullet taken in November 1963, but living as a black man (he was dyed!) with a sack of sand in his skull. There are a series of deaths at the home, and Elvis and JFK realise that there's an ancient Egyptian soul-sucking mummy on the loose, and only they can bring him down before he sucks their souls right out of their own ass-holes! It's a mind bending concept, but the direction and performances are so spot on that it is nothing but enjoyable. Bruce Campbell as Elvis is a revelation. He is spot on as the aged crooner, with his mannerisms and voice down pat. It's a brilliant performance, and a shame that it didn't garner more widespread acclaim at the time. Ossie Davis as JFK is also superb - delivering the revelation that they dyed him black with a straight face. The whole thing is played completely straight and this enhances the film. It's a fun romp through horror, played by folks who know just how to pitch it all.  The effects veer from the slightly naff - the scenes with the giant scarab bug reminded me a lot of the similarly naff giant fly sequences from Phantasm - to the superb - Bubba Ho-Tep's appearances in the rest home are creepy and well developed. He's one scary mummy!I really appreciated the conceit of the hierogyphic graffiti on the toilet wall, and also that when Ho-Tep spoke, you saw the pictograms appear from is mouth before they are translated on screen - the images match what is said as well, and these alone are very funny. I'd recommend this film to anyone who hasn't seen it. It contains enough surreal touchpoints for people who are not that into horror, while the frightening elements are enough to keep a horror fan happy as well. Very enjoyable indeed.   |
| Flesh and Stone overnights, press reaction Posted: 02 May 2010 03:35 AM PDT 6.53million tuned in for Flesh and Stone on BBC One last night, according to the inital overnight ratings. With 34.5% of the total TV viewing share, and an additional 0.34million watching on the HD channel, the episode, the concluding instalment of the Weeping Angels two-parter, has an unofficial overall figure of 6.9million. In addition, the British press is full of praise for the [...]  |
| Posted: 02 May 2010 02:55 AM PDT  Unofficial overnight figures show Flesh and Stone was watched by 6.9 million viewers with a share of 34.5% of the audience.6.53 million watched on BBC One, where it was again the most watched programme of the evening, with an additional 0.34 million watching on BBC HD. Britain's Got Talent once more won the evening with 10.3 million watching. With one day to come, Doctor Who is the twelfth most watched programme of the week so far, a position which should rise when final figures are calculated next week. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   |
| Posted: 01 May 2010 11:30 PM PDT Doctor Who supporting cast member Arthur Darville – he plays Amy Pond's fiancée
With Rory in the TARDIS, what better time to speak to Darville – as WalesOnline have – about the recent press reaction to Karen Gillan's short skirt and her attempts to seduce the Doctor at the end of the last episode?
As we all knew, it really is just a storm in a teacup. Not like the British press to blow things out of proportion, now is it? It's an interesting interview actually, in which Darville also reveals how much he likes working with Matt Smith and Gillan. Rory joins the TARDIS team for The Vampires of Venice, next Saturday, 8th May at the earlier time of 6pm, on BBC One.  |
| New TV trailer for The Vampires of Venice Posted: 01 May 2010 11:23 PM PDT The BBC have released a new TV trailer for Episode 6, The Vampires of Venice, which airs next Saturday at 6:00PM on BBC One/HD! Written by Toby Whithouse, the adventure sees the Doctor, Amy and Rory encountering a clan of blood-sucking beings in the city, which has been sealed off to protect it from the Plague. But Rosanna Calvierri may [...]  |
| Posted: 01 May 2010 10:41 PM PDT Fantasy creator legend Neil Gaiman has revealed to Twitter followers that he has completed a draft version of his Doctor Who script, expected to be produced as part of Season 32/Series 6.
Originally called 'The House of Nothing', the script has apparently since been retitled… We should point out though that Doctor Who scripts do have a habit of not being made – comedian, actor and writer Stephen Fry has had a script floating around for some time, while Mark Gatiss revealed in Doctor Who Magazine that Victory of the Daleks is quite different from the original Daleks and World War 1 script that was initially submitted for the 2008 series.  |
| Arthur Darvill responds to tabloid headlines Posted: 01 May 2010 09:21 PM PDT Arthur Darvill has responded to the various tabloid headlines which claimed Karen Gillan’s peformance as Amy Pond was ’sexing up’ the series. During an interview with WalesOnline, the actor, who the website jokes is envied by men and teenage boys across the nation for his portrayal of her on-screen fiancé, Rory Williams, defended his co-star, saying: “It’s so funny [...]  |
| Posted: 01 May 2010 03:00 PM PDT 60 screen caps from The Vampires of Venice 'Next Time' trailer.                                                              |
| How do you rate Doctor Who: Flesh and Stone? (5=Fantastic) Posted: 01 May 2010 01:48 PM PDT 5 TARDIS Groans 38% (3 votes) 4 TARDIS Groans 50% (4 votes) 3 TARDIS Groans 13% (1 vote) 2 TARDIS Groans 0% (0 votes) 1 TARDIS Groan 0% (0 votes) 0 TARDIS Groans 0% (0 votes) Total votes: 8  |
Matt Smith once again stars as the Eleventh Doctor, with Karen Gillan as Amy, while Arthur Darvill joins as Amy's fiance Rory. Rosanna Calvierri is played by Helen McCrory.
Flesh and Stone closed with the Doctor promising to "sort out" Amy Pond – and the next time trailer saw him picking up Rory to transport the young lovers through time for a romantic weekend in Venice.
With Matt Smith expected to remain as the star of the show for at least another year, we can at the very least expect the Eleventh Doctor to play a part in what is going to be a highly anticipated TV event; hell, we're anticipating it now, and we're not even halfway through the preceding season!| 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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