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- Toby's back writing for the Doctor...and vampires - Southend Standard
- Southend's Toby is back writing for the Doctor...and vampires - Essex Echo
- Southend's Toby is back writing for the Doctor...and vampires - Southend Standard
- Blu-ray Review: Hamlet (2009) - Blogcritics.org (blog)
- One thing the parties agree on – keep women out - U.TV
- Amol Rajan: At times, the truth was stranger than any television satire - Independent
- When children leave home - The Guardian
- One thing the parties agree on – keep women out - The Guardian
- Are you ready for the Vampires of Venice?
- Ashes To Ashes - Series 3, Episode 6 - review - Unreality Shout (blog)
- 5.6: Vampires of Venice - DWO Review (Spoiler Free)
- BBC DOCTOR WHO (& Spin-Offs) • Re: Looking forward to VAMPIRES OF VENICE! - TV.com
- Doctor Who: Vampires Of Venice spoiler-free review - Den Of Geek
- 'Doctor Who' Stars Ponder The Doctor's Marital Status - MTV.com
- The Week in Gay TV: Jason and deMarco are "Angels," "Supernatural"'s End of ... - AfterElton.com
- Matt returns to Cardiff to film Sarah Jane two-parter
- BBC Wales director receives OBE from the Queen - BBC News
- Jamie and the 6th Doctor, are Back!
- BBC director lauds creative talent - The Press Association
- Return of the Land of the Living Dead
- Doctor Who stars Matt Smith and Karen Gillan at BBC Proms 2010 - Coventry Telegraph (blog)
- Doctor Who official 2011 annual, activity book details
- Doctor Who the Musical? Not going to happen, says Arthur Darvill - Stage
- Toby Whithouse Interviewed
- Vampires Spoiler
- Karen Gillan Talks of Her Role as Amy Pond on 'Graham Norton' (video)
- BBC defends 'Doctor Who Confidential' trip - Digital Spy
- There are many tv programmes that can say a lot about what we were like in our ... - Ealing Gazette
- BBC Wales director praises talent - WalesOnline
- This Week in Doctor Who: Vampires of Venice Review, Videos, Pictures and Other ... - Anglotopia.net
- The Runaway Train
- Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 199
- Confidential’s Venice trip branded a waste of money
- Venice or Bust
- Jimmy Gardner 1924 - 2010
- Reservoir Drugs - Fortean Times
- Doctor Who: Meet Amy's bloke Rory - What's On TV
- 'Who Confidential' Venice trip criticised - Digital Spy
- Today's media stories from the papers - The Guardian
- Naked Lennon? I can stomach that, says Chris - Manchester Evening News
- Vampires on Location
- Vampires of Venice writer discusses episode
| Posted: 07 May 2010 03:00 PM PDT Vampires of Venice round-up and results of last weeks poll, with your verdict on Flesh and Stone.  | ||
| Toby's back writing for the Doctor...and vampires - Southend Standard Posted: 07 May 2010 12:09 PM PDT
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| Southend's Toby is back writing for the Doctor...and vampires - Essex Echo Posted: 07 May 2010 12:04 PM PDT
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| Southend's Toby is back writing for the Doctor...and vampires - Southend Standard Posted: 07 May 2010 12:03 PM PDT
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| Blu-ray Review: Hamlet (2009) - Blogcritics.org (blog) Posted: 07 May 2010 10:58 AM PDT
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| One thing the parties agree on – keep women out - U.TV Posted: 07 May 2010 10:17 AM PDT
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| Amol Rajan: At times, the truth was stranger than any television satire - Independent Posted: 07 May 2010 10:16 AM PDT
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| When children leave home - The Guardian Posted: 07 May 2010 10:11 AM PDT
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| One thing the parties agree on – keep women out - The Guardian Posted: 07 May 2010 10:05 AM PDT
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| Are you ready for the Vampires of Venice? Posted: 07 May 2010 10:00 AM PDT There’s more adventure and drama for us to get our teeth into tonight (we’ve waited all week to say that!), in the form of episode 6, Vampires of Venice, which has its nationwide debut on BBC One/HD TONIGHT! The episode, written by Toby Whithouse, also welcomes the timely return of none other than Rory Williams, Amy’s [...]  | ||
| Ashes To Ashes - Series 3, Episode 6 - review - Unreality Shout (blog) Posted: 07 May 2010 09:56 AM PDT
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| 5.6: Vampires of Venice - DWO Review (Spoiler Free) Posted: 07 May 2010 08:38 AM PDT 5.6: Vampires of Venice - DWO Review (Spoiler Free) News Dated: 7/5/2010 Below is the DWO (Spoiler Free) review for 5.6: Vampires of Venice: It's safe to say that any episode following a Steven Moffat two-parter, will have a lot of work to do, perhaps a bit of an uphill struggle. Although, to a certain extent, that may be true for Vampires of Venice, Toby Whithouse' episode proves to be a strong, solid and entertaining story that fights its own corner admirably. Similar in tone to the Series Three adventure, The Shakespeare Code, we find The Doctor taking Amy and her fiancé, Rory, to 16th Century Venice, as a wedding present. After the closing scene from Flesh And Stone, it also works well as a great team bonding exercise for the TARDIS team. The pre-credit title sequence was a little different, and offers an unusual beat that leads into the titles than we're used to. Not entirely sure if it works, but it was highly amusing to see that a little of Amy's previous job seems to be rubbing off on The Doctor! What transpires is an incredibly Classic Who style take on the 'Vampires trying to survive and take over a city on Earth' vehicle. Whithouse definitely plays to his strength's here, with some elements drawn from his hugely successful Being Human series, as well as delivering some tight, funny, and at times, hard hitting dialogue - not to mention, a couple of continuity references for die-hard fans! Rory, really comes into his own here too, fans could be forgiven for comparing him to Mickey Smith from Series 1-4, but you get the feeling there is a lot more to his character than the aforementioned. One scene in particular proves his worthiness as a possible companion. Amy also shows some mettle in this adventure, and gets a little too close to the enemy, than may be comfortable for some. The final shot of the episode is strange, perhaps even, a little bizarre, but no doubt it will all tie up and make sense later in the series. Vampires of Venice is a new classic, and one which you won't tire of watching. Stories like this help blur the line between the Classic Series and the New Series, and once more proves that Toby Whithouse should be writing more for Doctor Who. 5 Things to look out for: - A Humbug. - Another nod to the Star Wars franchise. - A previous Doctor. - Another mention of The Doctor's home planet. - Timelord + Big Fish = ?  Comment on this review on the DWO Blog. 5.6: Flesh And Stone, airs on Saturday 8th May, at 6:00pm on BBC One.[Source: DWO]  | ||
| BBC DOCTOR WHO (& Spin-Offs) • Re: Looking forward to VAMPIRES OF VENICE! - TV.com Posted: 07 May 2010 08:30 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who: Vampires Of Venice spoiler-free review - Den Of Geek Posted: 07 May 2010 08:04 AM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' Stars Ponder The Doctor's Marital Status - MTV.com Posted: 07 May 2010 07:33 AM PDT
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| Matt returns to Cardiff to film Sarah Jane two-parter Posted: 07 May 2010 05:10 AM PDT Matt Smith is back in Cardiff shooting his scenes for the new series of The Sarah Jane Adventures! Thanks to the beady eyes of avid fans, we know that he’s already been filming his guest appearance for the past week or so, however we were given solid confirmation earlier this afternoon when journalist Benjamin Cook tweeted: “On the set of The Sarah [...]  | ||
| BBC Wales director receives OBE from the Queen - BBC News Posted: 07 May 2010 04:35 AM PDT
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| Jamie and the 6th Doctor, are Back! Posted: 07 May 2010 04:19 AM PDT This is a review for The Big Finish Adventure, The City of Spires. Staring Colin Baker as the 6th Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon and Georgia Moffett as Alice. The Doctor Land hoping to get away from it all, but once again as with a Previous Regeneration, he lands in the Middle of an Important Battle in Scotland. After managing to convince the Scottish Warrior Black Donald that he's not English, and accepts being called a French Dandy. The Doctor Notices one very important clue, "Black Donald" is in Fact Jamie McCrimmon.  | ||
| BBC director lauds creative talent - The Press Association Posted: 07 May 2010 04:10 AM PDT
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| Return of the Land of the Living Dead Posted: 07 May 2010 04:05 AM PDT  A couple of interesting Zombie films were on the agenda this week ... George Romero's Land of the Dead, and Return of the Living Dead from Dan O'Bannon.Land of the Dead is a peculiar thing, a Zombie movie which doesn't feel like one. It comes over more like some sort of vigilante film than anything else. The world has become infested with Zombies, and they stand around trying to recapture their lost humanity by continuing to do what they did before ... shopping, serving customers and so on ... while in a protected enclave, the last of humanity lives in a high rise development with its own shopping mall and every convenience you could imagine. However the owner of the complex, Kaufman, played by a fairly laid back Dennis Hopper, needs to get food and supplies in from somewhere so he has hired Cholo, played by John Leguizamo, to get the supplies for him. There follows a fairly predictable path, as a special 'supplies truck' is stolen by Cholo when Kaufman cuts him off after he has delivered the goods, and it's up to a small group of humans led by Riley (Simon Baker), and which include reformed prostitute/dancer Slack (Asia Argento), to retrieve the truck ... The film is most interesting for the zombies though, in particular 'Big Daddy' played by Eugene Clark who turns in a movie-stealing performance as a hulking brute who seems to have more intelligence than most - working out how to use a gun and other implements as weapons. The other zombies are mostly defined by their old jobs: a butcher, a cheerleader, a Salvation Army band member; and they follow 'Big Daddy's lead in attacking the complex and killing everyone inside. The film ends with zombies and surviving humans going their own way in a sort of 'live and let live' approach to the menace. I can't say it's a great film, but it has its moments and is never dull.  The other film is a favourite of mine and I never get tired of revisiting it. Return of the Living Dead is a straight zombie film which is a sequel of sorts to Night of the Living Dead. Some zombies from that outbreak have been canned up by the Army, and accidentally delivered to a medical supplies centre where they have stayed for years and years before worker Burt (Clu Gallagher) decides to show newby Freddie (Thom Mathews) what is in the basement. Cue the escape of gases which overcome Burt and Freddie, and which bring all the organic objects in the supply warehouse to life. In a great sequence we see a split dog (a dog mounted and cut down the middle, nose to tail, to show all the internal organs) whining, and butterflies flapping in a cabinet. Then a cadaver comes alive and runs amok before it's pinned to the ground with a small pickaxe. This still doesn't kill it and so they then cut it into pieces and take them over to the local morturary run by Ernie (Don Calfa) who destroys them in the incinerator, causing poisoned rain to fall over the nearby cemetary where a group of stoner mates of Freddies are partying. Next thing they know, the dead are coming back to life ...It's a wonderful fun film, and the leads play it straight, the laughs coming out of the situations rather than any overt comedy. I love the Tar Man zombie in the cellar - one of the best zombies ever committed to film - and the idea of the things being able to run and reason is very nicely handled. The 'Send more Paramedics' line deserves especial mention of course, as does the idea of Ernie and Freddie literally turning into zombies as we watch, and without dying in between. The production design by William Stout is exemplary, and the zombies are brilliant as a result. The old woman one which is captured and pinned to the table is a case in point. Her backbone writhing and weeping fluids as she explains that the creatures want brains to eat to ease the pain of being dead is a neat twist, and lends a little sympathy to the creatures. The stoner crew are amazing ... what a bunch. And what on earth Freddy's girlfriend - who is a 'nice girl' - is doing with the likes of Trash (Linnea Quigley) who strips off faster than you can blink and dances on a tomb before being got by the zombies, is anyone's guess. I have to also point out that the two main leads here are called Ernie and Burt ... something of an homage to Sesame Street perhaps? Definitely worth a watch, it's one of the gems of zombie cinema.   | ||
| Doctor Who stars Matt Smith and Karen Gillan at BBC Proms 2010 - Coventry Telegraph (blog) Posted: 07 May 2010 03:31 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who official 2011 annual, activity book details Posted: 07 May 2010 03:19 AM PDT Penguin Books have released the details of a selection of new Doctor Who books which are set to be published over the coming months! Firstly, August 5th 2010 will welcome the release of the Official 2011 Annual. It features original comic strips, an exciting new story, as well as puzzles based on all the Series 5 episodes, characters and aliens, and comes with a free [...]  | ||
| Doctor Who the Musical? Not going to happen, says Arthur Darvill - Stage Posted: 07 May 2010 02:56 AM PDT
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| Posted: 07 May 2010 02:07 AM PDT Toby Whithouse is the creator of Being Human – not to mention the man behind this week's Doctor Who, The Vampires of Venice! He's been interviewed by SFX recently, in which he describes the episode as being "like a 45-minute movie."
Whithouse gives the interview a nice overview of The Vampires of Venice.
The Vampires of Venice airs on Saturday night at 6pm on BBC One and BBC HD – if you haven't already, why not read our exclusive preview, or view the stills gallery?  | ||
| Posted: 07 May 2010 01:45 AM PDT Vampires of Venice spoiler - something fishy is going on...  | ||
| Karen Gillan Talks of Her Role as Amy Pond on 'Graham Norton' (video) Posted: 07 May 2010 01:27 AM PDT Doctor Who's new assistant Karen Gillan discusses life in the TARDIS. Is Amy Pond like a badly paid stripper? Preview of The Graham Norton Show…
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| BBC defends 'Doctor Who Confidential' trip - Digital Spy Posted: 07 May 2010 01:04 AM PDT
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| There are many tv programmes that can say a lot about what we were like in our ... - Ealing Gazette Posted: 07 May 2010 01:03 AM PDT
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| BBC Wales director praises talent - WalesOnline Posted: 07 May 2010 12:46 AM PDT
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| This Week in Doctor Who: Vampires of Venice Review, Videos, Pictures and Other ... - Anglotopia.net Posted: 07 May 2010 12:31 AM PDT
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| Posted: 06 May 2010 11:03 PM PDT When your fictional series uses time travel as one of it's plot devices, it allows you to draw from exciting moments in history to make adventures that are packed with both action and terrifying danger and as moments in world history go, few eras have as much opportunity for dangerous moments and excitement as the wild west, and it seems a perfect fit for a fast paced Doctor Who tale.
Annoyingly, I was left confused as to who was saying what in the spoken dialog, but this is a small nit pick as Matt in general does great moving the story along at the mostly frantic pace as it races across the desert throughout the story. Westerns, like horror pictures, are full of archetypical characters and situations. We all know the protagonist of that scary movie is going to investigate that ominous house on the hill near where his car stalled, and westerns are full of guns, horse chases and train robbery's. The Runaway Train has these elements in abundance, and although they are the same plot devices you have probably seen or heard in a wild west setting before, they are woven into the story well enough that the audio book still makes for a nice little tidy adventure story for the Eleventh Doctor. One thing the story conveys very well is how dirty, dusty and violent the old west was, and how much the violence hurt real people and their lives, a depth I was surprised to find in an audio book. If there is anything that ruins an sort of fictional adventure for me, I would have to say that any conclusion to a story must have loose ends tied up in a solid yet believable fashion. The Runaway Train pulls out at every stop along the line, the climax neatly explains everything we have heard during the audio book, and although I think the Doctor went a bit easy on the alien presented considering his original end goal, the end of the tale completes a nice little side trip to the current series of Doctor Who on television, especially for those of us dying to get the know the Eleventh Doctor a bit better. Currently available only as part of an offer in The Telegraph, The Runaway Train is on general sale on October 7th, 2010 and can be pre-ordered from Amazon for just £6.74  | ||
| Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 199 Posted: 06 May 2010 11:01 PM PDT "Yeah, but we have comfy chairs. Did I mention?" Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 199 Doctor Who: Flesh and Stone reviewed live over the net with live and recorded feedback (part 2 of 2). (If you haven't seen Flesh and Stone yet, wait until you have before listening). Hosted by Louis Trapani, James Naughton, Ken Deep, & Dave Cooper.  | ||
| Confidential’s Venice trip branded a waste of money Posted: 06 May 2010 10:53 PM PDT The BBC have been accused of wasting unnecessary money on this week’s edition of Doctor Who Confidential, The Sun reports. The episode, Death in Venice, features coverage of Matt Smith and writer Toby Whithouse’s visit to Venice, however programme-makers at the corporation are reportedly frustrated that the trip was funded, especially as its accompanying episode, Vampires of Venice, was, in fact, shot in [...]  | ||
| Posted: 06 May 2010 10:39 PM PDT Amazingly, Doctor Who is under fire AGAIN this week, as details emerge of a trip to Venice for Matt Smith and Karen Gillan as part of Doctor Who Confidential's coverage of The Vampires of Venice.
According to a popular red-top, other BBC producers have critisiced Doctor Who Confidential for wasting money.
So, the BBC producers of Doctor Who Confidential spent around upto £2000 to send its stars and a small crew to Venice for a day or two to film them on location – meanwhile nearly 18 months ago the then Doctor Who production team spent at least 10x this amount to film a bit of sand in Dubai. Yet another storm in a teacup?  | ||
| Posted: 06 May 2010 10:39 PM PDT  The actor Jimmy Gardner has died at the age of 85.Jimmy Gardner has two roles in Doctor Who. In 1964 he played the role of Chenchu, the manager of the way station at Tun-Huang, in the fourth story of the series Marco Polo. He returned to the series in 1978 to play the role of Idmon in the fourth Doctor story Underworld. Idmon was a Trog on the planet formed around the P7E, and the father of Idas. He tried to encourage the other Trogs to rebel, but was arrested by the Guards and selected for sacrifice. He was rescued by the Doctor and escaped his planet's destruction on board the R1C. Gardner had a long eventful life. He was a war hero, a survivor of two shipwrecks and numerous escapades on land. After the war he trained as an actor at The Central School and had a long career in television, film and stage. He appeared in many classic TV series including The Forsyte Saga, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Dixon of Dock Green, Z Cars and The Onedin Line. In film he worked on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and had his most notorious role as Ernie the bus driver in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Independent Obituary http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Reservoir Drugs - Fortean Times Posted: 06 May 2010 10:30 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who: Meet Amy's bloke Rory - What's On TV Posted: 06 May 2010 10:23 PM PDT
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| 'Who Confidential' Venice trip criticised - Digital Spy Posted: 06 May 2010 08:32 PM PDT
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| Today's media stories from the papers - The Guardian Posted: 06 May 2010 07:43 PM PDT
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| Naked Lennon? I can stomach that, says Chris - Manchester Evening News Posted: 06 May 2010 06:48 PM PDT
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| Posted: 06 May 2010 05:43 PM PDT
There's a very good reason for using Trogir as a double for Venice: "Trogir was under Venetian rule for so long," explains guest star Helen McCrory between scenes. (From 1420 to 1797, in fact.) "The chapel that we filmed in was absolutely the period that most of Venice was built. We also shot in front of medieval buildings that would have looked like Venice, but the real Venice has since been altered. The architecture here is stunning – people come from all round the world to see it." Spoiler-sensitives (Sharils?) should tread carefully before encountering the next paragraph.
Elsewhere, BeeHiveCity used a newcomer to Doctor Who to review the episode. So, you get spoilers and embarrassing ignorance, plus this dialogue exchange between the Doctor and Rory:
Catch The Vampires of Venice this Saturday evening, 8th May at 6pm on BBC One and BBC HD.  | ||
| Vampires of Venice writer discusses episode Posted: 06 May 2010 09:59 AM PDT Toby Whithouse, the man behind this week’s episode, Vampires of Venice (and, of course, Series 2’s School Reunion), has spoken to SFX about the inspiration behind his latest story. “I was going to write a completely different episode. The Doctor was lost in some kind of labyrinth,” he explains, “but then executive producers Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger said, [...]  |
Talking about how nice it is to not have to do the whole showrunner thing like he does on Doctor Who, Whithouse – who also wrote 2006's School Reunion – also describes how the his story was originally going to feature the Doctor in a 
The Runaway Train opens nicely on a railway platform, as three strangers are brought together by the Doctor to find and guard a mysterious alien object, smack in the middle in the American Civil War, with the Doctor at first oblivious to how and when he brought these men into his employ. The reading of the opening scenes shows one of the small flaws in this audio, which is although Matt Smith has both proved himself to be an excellent actor and in this instance a very fine narrator and reader, his American accents seem to all be the same.
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The "parent show" opted to use the Croatian town of Trigor to double as both 17th century Venice and 19th century France for another episode later in the series, but with its own budget, Doctor Who Confidential opted to fly the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond to the real, modern day Queen of the Adriatic.
The Vampires of Venice is attracting a certain amount of press attention this week, mainly due to the Hammer-esque vampire girls seen in trailers but also due to this Doctor Who episode being filmed abroad, in the Croation coastal town of Trogir.| 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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