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- SJA Series 4 Titles
- Doctor Who @ SDCC 2010
- The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who
- SFX Take the Scripts
- “Matt Stood Out”
- New Torchwood Writer?
- Over-Who-sed?
- Be In A Movie With David Tennant!
- Telos Goes Digital
- The Only Good Dalek
- My Summer Newsletter is online!
- My new Forum is online!
- The Circus of Doom: Tom is Doctor Who in Hornets' Nest BBC Audiobook released on 5th November 2009
- The Dead Shoes: Tom in Doctor Who Hornets' Nest story to be released on 8th October 2009
- Tom returns to his role as Dr Who!
| Posted: 09 Jul 2010 07:59 AM PDT Episode titles for the fourth season of The Sarah Jane Adventures have been revealed by Doctor Who Magazine. The following six two-part episodes will air this autumn on BBC One and the CBBC channel.
In April it was announced that Russell T. Davies would return to the Whoniverse with Death of the Doctor. Details have been sketchy although what has been confirmed is that joining Matt Smith's Doctor will be Third Doctor companion Jo Grant (Katy Manning) in an episode which features a secret base beneath Snowdon and a new alien race called the Shansheeth, who are described as 'vulture undertakers'. For the first time in the series the group of Sarah, Luke, Clyde and Rani, will travel to an alien world – breaking the Judoons confinement of Rani and Clyde to Earth. The final episodes will also see the return of The Trickster last seen in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith which featured the Tenth Doctor. Anyone concern at the title of 'Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith' need not panic as a fifth series has already been commissioned. It is also rumoured that series four will see Luke leave the fold, to be replaced by a younger girl though being as he is Sarah's son, it probably won't be for long. His disappearance maybe at the hands of the Nightmare Man who is played by the one-time Davros, Julian Bleach. Other guest stars include: Cheryl Campbell (Pennies from Heaven, Spooks, Peep Show) will play Ocean Waters in the Vault of Secrets, Cyril Nri (This Life, Survivor) plays a shopkeeper in Lost in Time and Julie Graham (Survivors and At Home with the Braithwaite's with Fifth Doctor Peter Davison) will play Ruby White in the finale Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith. (via Digital Spy)  |
| Posted: 09 Jul 2010 05:37 AM PDT The San Diego ComicCon event is taking place this month and on the 22nd of July, with a few Doctor Who related talks to enjoy. There will be one seminar entitled "From screen to comics" in which several talented comic writers talk about how they convert popular TV shows into a 32 page extravaganza, writers include Tony Lee and Peter David. They'll be talking about various shows including True Blood and above all, Doctor Who. The other presentation will be called "The British Invasion" and will feature five top UK writers talking about what makes modern British Science Fiction unique. Included in the panel will be none other than Dan Abnett (writer of various Doctor Who plays for Big Finish and for the BBC audio books version of Torchwood), Paul Cornell (Father's Day, 2005 and Human Nature/The Family of Blood, 2007) and Toby Whithouse (School Reunion, 2006 and The Vampires of Venice, 2010). This looks set to be a great ComicCon and if you're a Doctor Who fan, a great way to hear some brilliant writers talk about the inception of their ideas. If you want to find out more, visit www.comic-con.org and search for Doctor Who.  |
| The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who Posted: 08 Jul 2010 10:03 PM PDT A brand new book is out in September that celebrates the rebirth of the UK's number one family drama series – Doctor Who. The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who is a lavish hardback, containing everything you need to know about the Eleventh Doctor's first year. (See The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who cover in hi res) Released on September 30th with an RRP of £12.99, you can preorder The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who for just £11.69 from Amazon  |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2010 09:22 PM PDT SFX.com has published an article which breaks down the main plot of Series 5/season 31 of Doctor Who. Past Doctor Who related publications by SFX have had fantastic episode breakdowns for series one to three and this article also manages to raise a few smiles. If you've ever read Total Film magazine, you may (or may not be) aware that they publish an "abridged script" of a recently released film, pointing out its foibles. SFX have done the same for Doctor Who Series 5. For example:
And also another little gem:
This is a lovely little look at a series that SFX clearly loves so if you go to their website and read it, don't take it too seriously!  |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2010 05:57 PM PDT
Angel also mentioned that she is unsure how long Merlin will carry on for as characters seem to be getting to certain points where there is no more to write about them:
Thank heavens for Doctor Who and its versatile format which means it will go on forever and ever, there's always one show you can rely on!  |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:59 AM PDT A recent Kodak moment sprang up among former Who producers Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner, a Dalek, and American television writer Bryan Fuller, all of whom happen to be across the Amy Pond right now.
TV Overmind's Sam McPherson puts into words what you're likely wondering yourself at this point:
Were Davies and Gardner honestly just chatting with a fellow industry member? Or were they in pursuit of a new writer for Torchwood? As the old entertainment-news-website saying goes, watch this space. Who Else? And while you're watching it, drop a comment or two below with ideas of who you think would make excellent writers, whether they're veterans of the programme or have never touched science fiction in their lives, for 2011's ten-part Captain Jack snack on BBC One and Starz.  |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2010 07:01 AM PDT io9.com has written an article to fill the gap of "no Nu-who" on BBC America this week by listing plot devices that they don't like being overused in Stephen Moffat episodes of Doctor Who. It's an interesting and quite frankly accurate look at what keeps recurring in the world of Doctor Who but at the same time, why would you want to insult a show that has given out so much? The article cites plot devices such as: The Doctor tells scary aliens to go away- Episodes such as Forest of the Dead and The Pandorica Opens contain scenes where the Doctor blags an escape from an enemy by telling them to think about who he actually is and if they can really defeat him. Someone stops a deadly machine by admitting to their true feelings-the Doctor stops gas mask zombies by getting a character to tell a child she is his mother in The Doctor Dances, two characters profess their love in The Lodger to stop a rip-off TARDIS from killing the Doctor. Deadly and unknowable aliens use dead humans' lingering remains to communicate- the child in The Empty Child, Vashta Nerada in Silence in the Library and Angel Bob in The Time of Angels. A little girl is trapped in an unreal world where she's the only one who can touch reality- The little girl in Forest of the Dead and to an extent Amelia in The Big Bang. A little girl meets the Doctor, and then she sees him again as an adult, but it's only been a few minutes for him- The Girl in the Fireplace and The Eleventh Hour use this the most. Timey-wimey cheating that actually affects the plot- Take your pick from most Moffat written tales…. While these may be fair points to make the fact still stands that Moffat is such a great writer that he can take similar plot devices and make them look completely different to attract strong ratings each week in his Doctor Who episodes. Russell T Davies had similar "uniform" plot devices and his episodes shot Doctor Who back to where it belonged-as entertain-the-hell-out-of-you-on-a-Saturday-night television. Two of Doctor Who's most prolific and famous writers, Robert Holmes and Terry Nation, always used similar plots and characters and yet they managed to create some of the best loved and most fondly remembered Doctor Who episodes of all time. It's best to just enjoy the show, rather than pick away at the obvious. It has been running for more or less fifty years now and there are bound to be some similarities!  |
| Be In A Movie With David Tennant! Posted: 08 Jul 2010 04:51 AM PDT Preparations are quickly being made for Fright Night, an upcoming American film featuring our beloved tenth Doctor, David Tennant, which is scheduled to commence production later this month. It is to be shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico, even though the story is set in Las Vegas, Nevada. A news blog associated with David Tennant's website has reported that On Location Casting, the company responsible for finding people to be in the movie, is looking for a few younger people to linger in the background:
From regular students, to teachers, to showgirls and vampires? Interesting line-up indeed; this sounds like Fright Night is going to be quite the movie! At any rate, it sounds like they're looking for a broad range of people; so if you're in the southwestern region of the United States, don't hesitate! You could be in a film with David Tennant! What are you waiting for? Speaking of David, remember how we recently told you about that other movie he's going to be in? The Decoy Bride? Well, filming has been in progress there on the Isle of Man for a couple of weeks now, and just look at this costume! Have you sent out those birthday invitations for me yet? I do need a clown at my party.  |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2010 03:35 AM PDT Doctor Who fiction publisher Telos Publishing Ltd has announced a range of its products will be made available for download in digital format thanks to a partnership with a company called Andrew UK Ltd. David J Howe (long-time Doctor Who writer and commentator), Publishing Director at Telos commented:
For those of you who may be unaware, Telos published fifteen Doctor Who novellas from 2001-2003. This included some brilliant titles such as Time and Relative by Kim Newman, Foreign Devils by Andrew Cartmel and Fallen Gods by Jon Blum and Kate Orman. So good was Fallen Gods, that it went on to win the Aurealis Award for best Australian science fiction novel of 2004. These little gems are well worth checking out and will be made available soon for Iphone, Ipad and Kindle devices. For more details of which titles Telos has available digitally, you check their news feed at www.telos.co.uk. Go on, It's well worth it!  |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2010 12:53 AM PDT From Justin Richards and Mike Collins comes The Only Good Dalek, the first ever graphic novel from BBC Books! As you can see from the cover – freshly released today – it's a colourful affair, set during the Human-Dalek war.
The Only Good Dalek is release on September 16th, 2010, but can be pre-ordered from Amazon for £15.29!  |
| My Summer Newsletter is online! Posted: 31 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT Read my latest newsletter where you will find details of my recent work - including the Nationwide World Cup commercials.  |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2009 11:00 AM PDT My brand new forum is now live.  |
| The Circus of Doom: Tom is Doctor Who in Hornets' Nest BBC Audiobook released on 5th November 2009 Posted: 24 Oct 2009 11:00 AM PDT This is the third Doctor Who story in Hornets' Nest, a series of 5 BBC Audiobooks. Tom stars as Doctor Who 28 years after he played the role for 7 years on BBC television. The circus has come to town - and so has the Doctor! Watching the parade pass by in 1832, he finds the people of Blandford strangely drawn towards the garish big top.....  |
| The Dead Shoes: Tom in Doctor Who Hornets' Nest story to be released on 8th October 2009 Posted: 30 Sep 2009 11:00 AM PDT This is the second Doctor Who story in Hornets' Nest, a series of 5 BBC Audiobooks. Tom stars as Doctor Who 28 years after he played the role for 7 years on BBC television. Visiting the English seaside town of Cromer in the summer of 1932, the Doctor happens upon the strange world of the Cromer Palace of Curios..........  |
| Tom returns to his role as Dr Who! Posted: 26 Aug 2009 11:00 AM PDT Tom returns to his role as the fourth Doctor in Doctor Who: Hornets' Nest, a series of five thrilling adventures from BBC Audiobooks. The first story, The Stuff of Nightmares, will be available from 3rd September.  |
* S04E01/E02: The Nightmare Man by Joseph Lidster
Angel Coulby, who stars in BBC's Merlin (and was also in 2006's The Girl in the Fireplace) has given her opinion on Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith. In an article published by Digital Spy she commented:
Fuller, who is linked with such stateside hits as Dead Like Me, Heroes, and Pushing Daisies (all of which, interestingly enough, were canceled after at least two seasons, despite the oozes of sheer awesomeness emanating from the third), has the potential to be, if he isn't already, a massive Doctor Who fan, considering the sci-fi nature of his work.
The Only Good Dalek is an epic tale from Richards, a well known author of children's fiction, and of a good number of Doctor Who books; he's also Creative Consultant to BBC Books. 
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