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- Doctor Who: Podshock Live Show Reviewing 'Cold Blood' Scheduled
- Slipknot star 'found with needle, pills'
- Eurosport serves up first 3D broadcast
- Palin: 'Pregnancy was humiliating'
- BBC Cymru Wales Takes 11 Top Honours at BAFTA Cymru Awards - News On News
- Wilkinson: 'Sex tape broke my heart'
- Locklear 'cleared of hit-and-run charge'
- Monjack to be buried next to Murphy
- Pandorica Pics & New Info!
- Mariah Carey pulls out of Perry film
- Sky criticises BBC iPlayer VOD links
- Sherlock Holmes and the case of the lost £800000 episode - The Sun
- Culture Club: Luther, Tuesdays, 9pm, BBC1 - Independent
- Ronnie Wood: 'I've been clean 60 days'
- Sky 'nears Virgin Media TV channels deal'
- SFX Vampires Collection
- World Cup singer dies from meningitis
- BBC North - Northern Locations to Get Greater Exposure - News On News
- Oprah's Angel Network shutting down
- Sarah Ferguson attends NY book fair
- Sandra Bullock to receive MTV honour
- TV legend Art Linkletter dies, aged 97
- Jago & Litefoot Preview
- (Noel Clarke) - Anglophenia
- National Movie Awards: Harry Potter wins Special Recognition Award - stv.tv
- Bundchen, Brady suit dismissed by courts
- 'Twilight' bags three National Movie Awards
- Second Adventure Game title revealed?
- P. Diddy: 'Phoenix's rapping is real'
- Simpson: 'Reality show is missionary work'
- BBC: HD, not 3D
- Chris Chibnall teases “totally different” conclusion
- 'Chuck' creator producing 'Fun Size'
- Doctor Who: The New TARDIS Tour Video (Flash)
- Adventure game section launches on official site
- John Barrowman: 'I enjoyed Housewives' - Digital Spy
- A First: Human Being Infected With Computer Virus - Geekosystem
- Karen Gillan defends all things Amy
- The Dominators - DVD Cover and Details
- Journal and Ring Collection
- Not Really Raunchy
- Karen Gillan: 'Doctor Who is not sexy' - Digital Spy
- Smith Starts Shooting
- Talk to Doctor Who's Karen Gillan - Times Online
- The Dominators on DVD
- UK teens gripped by prom fever - Easier (press release)
- Karen: Doctor Who hasn't got sexy - The Press Association
- BBC3 Pulse Guest Blogging
- Captain Cyborg sidekick implants virus-infected chip - Register
- Barry Letts Interviewed
| Doctor Who: Podshock Live Show Reviewing 'Cold Blood' Scheduled Posted: 26 May 2010 02:44 PM PDT Doctor Who: Podshock will be once again be taking to the net this Sunday (30 May 2010) for a live-over-the-net show reviewing the ninth episode of the new series, Cold Blood. He's back… and it's about time! We return with our live-over-the-net review series this time talking about the 9th episode of the new series starring Matt Smith as the Doctor premiering on BBC One this Saturday (coming to BBC America on June 12th). We will be reviewing Cold Blood.  | ||
| Slipknot star 'found with needle, pills' Posted: 26 May 2010 12:11 PM PDT The hotel employee who found Slipknot's Paul Gray's body says he suspected a drug overdose caused the death. 
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| Eurosport serves up first 3D broadcast Posted: 26 May 2010 12:08 PM PDT Eurosport runs its first 3D broadcast at the French Open, but has no firm plans to launch a 3D channel. 
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| Palin: 'Pregnancy was humiliating' Posted: 26 May 2010 12:02 PM PDT Bristol Palin says she imagined a much different life for herself before becoming a teenage mother. 
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| BBC Cymru Wales Takes 11 Top Honours at BAFTA Cymru Awards - News On News Posted: 26 May 2010 11:51 AM PDT
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| Wilkinson: 'Sex tape broke my heart' Posted: 26 May 2010 11:42 AM PDT Kendra Wilkinson says that she is a much different person now than when her sex tape was made. 
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| Locklear 'cleared of hit-and-run charge' Posted: 26 May 2010 11:21 AM PDT Prosecutors say that they did not have enough evidence to charge Heather Locklear with hit-and-run. 
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| Monjack to be buried next to Murphy Posted: 26 May 2010 11:03 AM PDT A rep for the Murphy family says that Simon Monjack wanted to be buried next to his late wife. 
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| Pandorica Pics & New Info! Posted: 26 May 2010 11:00 AM PDT See the first official images from The Pandorica Opens, plus exciting new plot details!  | ||
| Mariah Carey pulls out of Perry film Posted: 26 May 2010 10:48 AM PDT Mariah Carey reignites rumours that she is pregnant after departing Tyler Perry's forthcoming film. 
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| Sky criticises BBC iPlayer VOD links Posted: 26 May 2010 10:23 AM PDT Sky says BBC iPlayer's new links to other video on-demand sites makes it an unfair online aggregator. 
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| Sherlock Holmes and the case of the lost £800000 episode - The Sun Posted: 26 May 2010 10:08 AM PDT
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| Culture Club: Luther, Tuesdays, 9pm, BBC1 - Independent Posted: 26 May 2010 10:01 AM PDT
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| Ronnie Wood: 'I've been clean 60 days' Posted: 26 May 2010 10:01 AM PDT Ronnie Wood says that he attends addiction meetings daily to keep him away from drugs and alcohol. 
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| Sky 'nears Virgin Media TV channels deal' Posted: 26 May 2010 09:54 AM PDT Sky is reportedly close to agreeing a protracted deal to purchase Virgin Media's television channels. 
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| Posted: 26 May 2010 09:47 AM PDT The latest SFX Collection is a Vampires special and features The Vampires of Venice on its cover. Inside is an interview with Toby Whithouse writer of the latest story to feature blood sucking aliens in Doctor Who, as well as an interview with Terrance Dicks who wrote the classic series Vampire story State Of Decay. The magazine comes with seven free gifts. Four Being Human coasters to help protect your table from hot beverages and test your knowledge of the show, a 100-page book of classic horror stories from the likes of Bram Stoker, MR James, F Marion Crawford and Rudyard Kipling, a double-sided poster featuring True Blood and sexy Hammer flick The Vampire Lovers, and a small build-it-yourself coffin. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| World Cup singer dies from meningitis Posted: 26 May 2010 09:41 AM PDT Siphiwo Ntshebe dies just weeks before he was to sing at the opening ceremony of the World Cup. 
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| BBC North - Northern Locations to Get Greater Exposure - News On News Posted: 26 May 2010 09:23 AM PDT
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| Oprah's Angel Network shutting down Posted: 26 May 2010 09:22 AM PDT Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network will close after its remaining funds have been dispersed. 
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| Sarah Ferguson attends NY book fair Posted: 26 May 2010 09:10 AM PDT The Duchess of York hints at difficulties resulting from her recent money scandal at a NY trade show. 
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| Sandra Bullock to receive MTV honour Posted: 26 May 2010 09:01 AM PDT Sandra Bullock will be on hand to receive the 'Generation Award' at this year's MTV Movie Awards. 
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| TV legend Art Linkletter dies, aged 97 Posted: 26 May 2010 08:56 AM PDT Television presenter Art Linkletter dies of natural causes in his Bel Air home. 
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| Posted: 26 May 2010 08:49 AM PDT Fresh from The Mahogany Murderers, Jago and Litefoot return next week as Big Finish brings you a new type of Doctor Who spinoff! Jago and Litefoot are of course Christopher Benjamin (Henry Gordon Jago) and Trevor Baxter (Professor Litefoot), seen only once in Doctor Who, in the seminal Talons of Weng Chiang over 30 years ago. These new adventures also feature Lisa Bowerman as Ellie, Conrad Asquith as Sergeant Quick and Toby Longworth as Doctor Tulp With scripts from Justin Richards, Any Lane, Alan Barnes and Jonathan Morris, these four full cast stories look like a very entertaining selection. I've already had the fortune to listen to The Bloodless Soldier, and it is great drama – in advance of a full review at the weekend, I can tell you that the two stars once again effortlessly recreate the parts they have played only twice – in 1977 and 2009!
1.2 The Bellova Devil 1.3 The Spirit Trap 1.4 The Similarity Engine You can still pre-order this superb collection from www.bigfinish.com for £30 – the price is set to rise on June 1st, to act now!  | ||
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| National Movie Awards: Harry Potter wins Special Recognition Award - stv.tv Posted: 26 May 2010 08:11 AM PDT
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| Bundchen, Brady suit dismissed by courts Posted: 26 May 2010 08:04 AM PDT A judge denies a suit by two photographers who claimed Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady's bodyguards shot at them. 
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| 'Twilight' bags three National Movie Awards Posted: 26 May 2010 08:02 AM PDT The Twilight series is the big winner at the National Movie Awards. 
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| Second Adventure Game title revealed? Posted: 26 May 2010 07:59 AM PDT We’ve discovered what is thought to be the title of the second Adventure Game! The recently unveiled mini-site on the official Doctor Who website includes an image of a Cyberman for the second interactive episode. Although the header simply says ’Coming Soon’, the eagle-eyed among us will notice that the image itself is called ‘winter-of-terror304.jpg’, so we can assume that the game is [...]  | ||
| P. Diddy: 'Phoenix's rapping is real' Posted: 26 May 2010 07:57 AM PDT P. Diddy says that he worked with Joaquin Phoenix on several tracks for an upcoming album. 
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| Simpson: 'Reality show is missionary work' Posted: 26 May 2010 07:39 AM PDT Jessica Simpson says that she found her life's work while filming The Price of Beauty. 
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| Posted: 26 May 2010 07:00 AM PDT
Danielle Nagler, head of HD at the BBC, noted that the corporation needed to see more of what 3D could offer before it committed itself.
Nagler also called 3D a 'distraction' in the Beebs plans to invest consumers fully in HD. While the Corporation are looking at broadcasting Rugby at the O2 Arena and the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic games live in an extra dimension; they are still hesitant as to what it offers drama.
Budgetary constraints have also meant no development has been planned for 3D and with the NAO (National Audit Office) being called upon to scrutinize even the small change in the vending machines at Broadcasting House, it looks unlikely that any further enhancements are likely to happen. Directed by Michael Geoghegan for The Mill (the VFX company providing special effects for Doctor Who since 2005) a stereoscopic 3D version of the trailer was created using two 2D images spliced together in line with the binocular vision of human beings, in order to give two perspectives of the same image. Doctor Who has appeared in 3D before with Dimensions in Time, the 1993 Children in Need cross over/abomination where the Rani trapped several incarnations of the Doctor in Albert Square, the home to mope-a-thon soap Eastenders. The technology then employed the 'Pulfrich effect' where lateral motion is given depth by a delay between signal timings in both eyes which was accomplished by 3D glasses with one eye lens darker than the other. 3D televisions have been available in the UK since April. The sets can operate in either HD or 3D with the addition of LED Shutter Glasses which accomplish the 'Pulfrich effect.' A report from Informa Telecoms and Media that featured in The Guardian reports that 800,000 households currently have a 3D ready set but as little as one in eight will actually be watching 3D programmes with it. One of the significant reasons for the large gap is that viewers were not aware that they also needed the correct set top box/subscription package before they could being viewing. An issue that also plagued HD when, like this summer, the boom in new technology was met with indifference by the public- giving weight to the Beeb's argument that more time needs to be spent familiarising the consumer with the product. Sky Sports already broadcasts in 3D with Sky Movies set to follow suit in the Autumn. Check out the full article at Techradar.com in 3D! (or not). Read the full report on the 3D television gap at guardian.co.uk.  | ||
| Chris Chibnall teases “totally different” conclusion Posted: 26 May 2010 06:52 AM PDT Chris Chibnall has promised that the conclusion to his Silurian two-parter will be “totally different” to part one. He explained: “We always talked about that as a big split between the two episodes, that you’d start with quite a small canvas and then you would broaden. As the characters in the stories realise how much more [...]  | ||
| 'Chuck' creator producing 'Fun Size' Posted: 26 May 2010 06:33 AM PDT Chuck co-creator Josh Schwartz produces upcoming comedy Fun Size. 
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| Doctor Who: The New TARDIS Tour Video (Flash) Posted: 26 May 2010 06:32 AM PDT Doctor Who: The New TARDIS Tour - Production designer Edward Thomas lets us in on the secrets of the brand-new TARDIS.  | ||
| Adventure game section launches on official site Posted: 26 May 2010 06:27 AM PDT The release of the first instalment of the long-awaited Adventure Games, City of the Daleks, is now just over a week away, and as such the official Doctor Who website has tonight launched a mini-section devoted to the interactive episodes! You can catch up with all the previews and interviews released so far, and keep an eye [...]  | ||
| John Barrowman: 'I enjoyed Housewives' - Digital Spy Posted: 26 May 2010 05:52 AM PDT
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| A First: Human Being Infected With Computer Virus - Geekosystem Posted: 26 May 2010 03:59 AM PDT
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| Karen Gillan defends all things Amy Posted: 26 May 2010 03:30 AM PDT The Mirror have today posted new quotes from Karen Gillan commenting on the surge of complaints the BBC recieved as a result of Amy’s suggestive remarks at the end of Flesh and Stone. “We’re not sending out bad messages because the Doctor wasn’t reciprocating,” she said. “And, actually, people who do find that quite raunchy: really?” In regards [...]  | ||
| The Dominators - DVD Cover and Details Posted: 26 May 2010 03:23 AM PDT The Dominators - DVD Cover and Details News Dated: 26/5/2010 2|Entertain have sent DWO the DVD cover and details for The Dominators. The Dominators The Dulcian Councillors, refuse to retaliate, however Cully, the rebellious son of their leader Senex, has already joined forces with the time travellers. The fight is on! The Doctor, Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury) join a handful of determined Dulcians bent on outwitting the Quarks and struggling to escape the violent brutality of the Dominators. But the whole planet is doomed to become a mass of radioactive material - fuel for the enemy's invasion fleet whose war mission will even spread to Earth unless the Doctor can devise an infallible plan... Special Features: • Audio Commentary with actors Wendy Padbury, Frazer Hines, Giles Block and Arthur Cox and make-up designer Sylvia James. • Recharge and Equalise – cast and crew look back on the making of the story with actors Frazer Hines, Felicity Gibson, Giles Block and Arthur Cox, script editor Derrick Sherwin, co-writer Mervyn Haisman, designer Barry Newbery, make-up designer Sylvia James and Radiophonic Workshop designer Brian Hodgson. • Tomorrow's Times – The Second Doctor – a looks at Doctor Who's contemporary media coverage in daily newspapers and other publications. • Photo Gallery. • Coming Soon. • Radio Times Listings in Adobe PDF format. • Programme subtitles. • Subtitle Production Notes.  The Dominators is released on 12th July 2010, priced £19.99. Compare Prices for this DVD on CompareTheDalek.com.**To view cover check out the DWO News page** [Source: 2|Entertain]  | ||
| Posted: 26 May 2010 03:16 AM PDT New contributor Helen Calder reviews the End of Time Journal of Impossible Things and Masters Ring set. The set features two items familiar to fans not just from The End of Time but from previous Tenth Doctor stories. It's a nice idea to package up mementos of the Tenth Doctor but these two make odd bedfellows. They're very different objects and appeal to very different fans. These are toys and not meant to please the adult fan and that's a pity because there is definitely a market for quality memorabilia out there.
The Journal of Impossible things looks exactly right and the outside of the faux leather binding even feels pretty good. It's a bit smaller than the real thing but that will hardly matter to kids. Opening it is a a little disappointing as it blows the illusion of the leather binding when you see the fabric back. The 78 printed pages are beautifully detailed with handwritten notes and drawings in faded brown ink. It looks perfect until you try to read the writing. Between the quality of the handwriting, the circular and disjointed nature of the content, and the faded look it's very hard to actually read. But perhaps this is part of the point. Something like this should be hard to read. It should be a mystery to be deciphered. This would be perfect for the teen aged fan who's willing to invest a little time in it but it's really not suitable for most younger children as they're bound to be disappointed by how much work is involved. And there's my only big criticism of the set. The two parts do not go together. The younger children that would delight in the ring would lack the patience for the journal and anyone who has the patience for the journal would find the ring disappointingly plasticky. On the other hand if you have two children, one 6-10 and the other 11-15 then this set will delight both of them. Available for the last few months since release of The End of Time, you can pickup your own Journal of Impossible Things and Masters Ring set for just £9.99 on Amazon!  | ||
| Posted: 26 May 2010 02:40 AM PDT Karen Gillan says she finds that suggestions that the show has been sexed up 'strange'- but wants to lock lips with the Doctor again for the Christmas special.
In the past the Daily Mail have used choice comments from MediawatchUK, the successor to the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, the organisation founded by Mary Whitehouse in 1965. During Philip Hinchcliffe's reign as producer Whitehouse was extremely critical of several serials such as stone cold classics The Ark in Space, Genesis of the Daleks, The Brain of Morbius, The Seeds of Doom and The Deadly Assassin. The Mail claims the BBC have cynically 'sexed up' the show in order to attracted a more adult audience although figures revealed yesterday in Kasterborous show that the BBC have sold 7 million units of action figures in a year with only five episodes of Who aired. Which suggests they're getting along fine without the needing to cynically 'sex up' the show for adults. Head over to The Mirror to read more about what Karen wants from her 'boys' in the Christmas special and what she thinks of 'skirt-gate'. For a more reasonable view of the Daily Mail's article read Sexy Vamps OK? from the Kasterborous archive.  | ||
| Karen Gillan: 'Doctor Who is not sexy' - Digital Spy Posted: 26 May 2010 02:09 AM PDT
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| Posted: 26 May 2010 01:30 AM PDT Hot off the heels of his success in Doctor Who, Matt Smith has started filming a new drama, Christopher and His Kind, 4RFV.co.uk has reported.
BBC2's new drama concentrates on his formative years, where he leaves England for 1930's Berlin and has created opportunities for young actors to get involved as well. The article also goes into some detail regarding the UK Doctor Who tour that took place in March and where it went:
Each of these areas visited was treated to a screening of The Eleventh Hour, for the local children.  | ||
| Talk to Doctor Who's Karen Gillan - Times Online Posted: 26 May 2010 12:45 AM PDT
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| Posted: 26 May 2010 12:40 AM PDT Starring Patrick Troughton, The Dominators follows the Second Doctor's battles with a cruel alien race set on spoiling the Doctors holiday!
The Dulcian Councillors, refuse to retaliate, however Cully, the rebellious son of their leader Senex, has already joined forces with the time travellers. The fight is on! The Doctor, Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury) join a handful of determined Dulcians bent on outwitting the Quarks and struggling to escape the violent brutality of the Dominators. But the whole planet is doomed to become a mass of radioactive material – fuel for the enemy's invasion fleet whose war mission will even spread to Earth unless the Doctor can devise an infallible plan… The packshot can be seen on the right – click here for a hi-res version. Extras are as follows: * Audio Commentary with actors Wendy Padbury, Frazer Hines, Giles Block and Arthur Cox and make-up designer Sylvia James. Packed with a host of fantastic extras, this classic five-part adventure is available on DVD from 12th July 2010, priced £19.99.  | ||
| UK teens gripped by prom fever - Easier (press release) Posted: 26 May 2010 12:12 AM PDT
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| Karen: Doctor Who hasn't got sexy - The Press Association Posted: 25 May 2010 11:34 PM PDT
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| Posted: 25 May 2010 11:19 PM PDT Today I'm a Guest Blogger at BBC3, talking about Pulse. And here's our lead, Claire Foy, talking about the show for The Stage Podcast. Only eight days to go! The team will be at the London MCM Expo on Sunday. We're pick of the day in the Radio Times. Now I just have to work out where I'm going to be for broadcast night...   | ||
| Captain Cyborg sidekick implants virus-infected chip - Register Posted: 25 May 2010 10:21 PM PDT
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| Posted: 25 May 2010 10:00 PM PDT Following the death of former Doctor Who producer Barry Letts, we decided to run a series of articles in tribute to the actor, director and producer who oversaw the series from 1969-1974. Kasterborous contributor James Whittington brings us an exclusive interview with one of the biggest names in Doctor Who's history, Barry Letts, who sadly died in November 2009. In 2008 I had the opportunity of doing an email interview with Barry Letts for an Internet site that changed before it could be used. It wasn't until his passing in November that I remembered that it was sitting on my hard drive. Below is that interview in full and is respectfully dedicated to him and the Doctor Who legacy he left behind. Thanks Barry, and the hours of entertainment you helped create for us.
Barry Letts: When I was four I was going to be in the Christmas play with my brother and sister (Pauline Letts) at the Little Theatre in Leicester, but it fell through because we all caught chicken pox. But from that time I was convinced I was going to be an actor and a writer. I wrote a play when I was six. JW: You began your career as an actor and appeared in such shows as The Avengers. What do recall about this time? BL: I felt completely at home. I was more at ease on the stage than, say, at a party. Live television felt very like the theatre. If there was a repeat you had to do the show again! JW: Why did you turn to directing? BL: I'd always been fascinated by movie-making, and when I started working regularly in TV I was hooked. It also made sense economically. I needed regular money. JW: What was it like working on such shows as Z-Cars? What was the atmosphere on set like when making these live to broadcast shows? BL: The adrenalin level was high, as in a first night in the theatre. If the performance went well, you felt as if you could jump over the moon. JW: You're famous to most of us thanks to your involvement on Doctor Who and your first duty was as director on the Patrick Troughton serial The Enemy of the World. What do you recall from the recording of this story? BL: That I tried too hard. If I'd concentrated more on the actors and the script (which was very late in arriving) rather than cramming in so many technical tricks, it would have been a damn sight better. JW: In 1970 you became the show's producer, now this was a time of great change such as the programme being broadcast in colour and the arrival of a new doctor, Jon Pertwee. Was it a dramatic time? BL: Dramatic? Not quite the word. The whole feel of the show was changing, and together with Terrance Dicks as my script editor, I had a chance to make it as exciting as it had been when it started. JW: You were also behind some of the best loves stories such as The Daemons, The Green Death and The Time Monster, where did the inspiration for these come from? BL: These, together with Planet of the Spiders, were a collaboration between Bob Sloman and me. We each had an equal input into the storylining as well as the dialogue, but the original idea for The Daemons and The Green Death came from me and The Time Monster from Bob. Daemons was a development of the audition scene I wrote when I was casting Jo Grant, and The Green Death was a blatant attack on big business and its effect on the ecology of the planet, which I found profoundly worrying – and still do. On each occasion it was Terrance who suggested I should develop these ideas. JW: You also penned Jon Pertwee's last story Planet of the Spiders, was he an easy person to work with? BL: In general yes. He was a great leader of the company, and made everybody in the cast feel at home. JW: When Tom Baker was cast as the Fourth Doctor was he your first choice and why did you choose him? BL: I talked to several others – though I hadn't actually asked anybody to play the part. I might have cast Graham Crowden, Michael Bentine, or Fulton Mackay. Graham said he didn't want to commit himself to more than a year; Michael decided not to pursue the idea unless he could co-write the scripts (an impossibility) and I never actually spoke to Fulton about it. In the end I think Tom was the perfect choice. JW: Why did you leave the show in 1974? BL: Both Terrance and I felt that after five years we'd given as much as we could. The same ideas were coming round again. And we both wanted to move on to other things. Jon's leaving gave us the opportunity. JW: In 1976, you returned to direct the fan favourite The Android Invasion when Philip Hinchcliffe was producer. Had there been many changes in the running of the show since you'd left? BL: Not really. It was very early in the reign of Philip and Bob Holmes. Don't forget that in the early days, a new producer and his script editor are saddled with the decisions made by their predecessors. I and Terrance, for example, commissioned The Genesis of the Daleks. JW: Again you returned for a season in 1980, how did that come about?
JW: The 1990's saw two Doctor Who radio plays, The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space. What do you recall of these productions? Had Pertwee and the cast changed at all when approaching the characters? BL: Jon, Nick Courtney (who played the Brigadier) and Lis Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) had never left my life as I saw them at various conventions, but it was great working together again; just like old times. Jon and Nick said they couldn't make head nor tail of The Ghosts of N-Space, a view that was shared by some of the audience. But it was still very popular. It seemed perfectly clear to me! JW: The 2005 resurrection of the show has been a huge success; would you go back to it if asked? BL: No. I'm very glad it's been such a blockbuster. But I wouldn't be asked – and quite right too. I wouldn't have asked Verity Lambert to join me when I took over, now would I? JW: Barry Letts, thank you very much. This interview forms the final part of out tribute to the legendary Barry Letts. Please see our other articles, The Barry Letts Influence, the topical Never Judge a Silurian by his Myrka and Primal Fear, the first part of what was to be celebration of Barry Lett's Doctor Who era, which we reshaped into a tribute following his death.  |
1.1 The Bloodless Soldier
Anyone hoping to see more Doctor Who in 3D after the cinema trailer earlier this year will be in for a long wait. The BBC announced at the IPTV World Forum in London this week its concerns that 3D's recent popularity is taking away the focus from HD.
Gillan, who plays Amy Pond, who's rising hemline and attempts to drag the Doctor to bed during Flesh and Stone have already sent 
Weeks after Smith appeared in Belfast for the BBC's Doctor Who pre-broadcast tour, he returned to Northern Ireland to play an entirely different part, that of Christopher Isherwood, a popular writer.
The Dominators, self-acclaimed masters of the ten galaxies, and their robot servants, the Quarks, arrive on the planet Dulkis with evil intentions as the Doctor and his friends touch down for a peaceful holiday. Life is about to change dramatically for the pacifist Dulcians who, with no weapons on their planet, soon become enslaved to the Dominators.
James Whittington: Were you focused, when you were growing up, as to what you wanted to be?
BL: John Nathan-Turner was the producer in every way. As "Executive Producer" I was merely standing in for Graeme Macdonald, the Head of Drama Serials, whose work load had suddenly doubled when he was asked to take on the Drama Series department as well. I represented the BBC as editor, so I saw the scripts, kept an eye on the production process in case help was needed with amorphous bodies like the "programme planners", and approved the final show for transmission. In retrospect I wish I hadn't put my name on it. It wasn't fair to John.| 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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