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- Aperture to hold a 'girls night out' for Bachelorette finale - Winston-Salem Journal
- How I learned to love the Doctor's dashing lady-friend, River Song - io9
- 'Doctor Who' - 'The Pandorica Opens' Recap - TV Squad (blog)
- "The Pandorica Opens" - A.V. Club New York
- The Gang’s All Here…
- Richard Shaw 1920 - 2010
- Doctor Who: Christmas Special News Round-up SPOILERS!!! - Anglotopia.net
- Sherlock Holmes is back… sending texts and using nicotine patches - The Guardian
- "Enormous" bad luck for drink-drive boyfriend - Worcester News
- classic 'Doctor Who' blogging: “The Ark in Space” - Flick Filosopher (blog)
- Sandra Vergara cast for 'Fright Night' - allvoices
- Oooo-Weee-Oooo On Six Strings
- Torchwood Filming Date Details Released - Anglotopia.net
- 'Glee,' please call 'Torchwood's' John Barrowman back about his guest role! - Zap2it.com (blog)
- Sandra Vergara - InfoCuts (blog)
- Sandra Vergara: Trying Her Hand in Hollywood - The Gossip Girls (blog)
- Sandra Vergara: Trying Her Hand in Hollywood - GossipCenter.com
- Pay TV learns to speak geek - Variety
- the Pandorica opens (again)... - Flick Filosopher (blog)
- Doctor Who AudioGo-a-go-go!
- Sandra Vergara Joins the Cast List for 'Fright Night' Movie - Great New Movies (blog)
- Torchwood This Week - July 17, 2010
- This Week In Doctor Who - July 17, 2010
- This Week In Doctor Who - July 17, 2010 Section B
- This Week In Doctor Who - July 17, 2010 Section A
- Matt Smith Planning To Quit Doctor Who Job Next Year? - Musicrooms.net
- A Year with Tom Baker
- Legend of the Cybermen
- Courting ritual - The Northern Echo
- Captain America comic hero brings movie action to Wales - WalesOnline
- David Tennant to play 'The Incredible Hulk'? - Real Bollywood (blog)
- Nebula One Season Survey
- Army puts Cotswold School pupils through their paces during activities week - Cotswold Journal
- Doctor Who buffs build life-sized Dalek - Times and Transcript
- Tonight's The Night for Scots jack of all trades John Barrowman - Scottish Daily Record
- BBC Licence Fee Could Be Cut Under Tory Plans - ATV News (blog)
| Aperture to hold a 'girls night out' for Bachelorette finale - Winston-Salem Journal Posted: 17 Jul 2010 03:21 PM PDT
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| How I learned to love the Doctor's dashing lady-friend, River Song - io9 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 01:43 PM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' - 'The Pandorica Opens' Recap - TV Squad (blog) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 01:15 PM PDT
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| "The Pandorica Opens" - A.V. Club New York Posted: 17 Jul 2010 01:11 PM PDT
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| Posted: 17 Jul 2010 12:00 PM PDT ...to see the Doctor, and the universe off. With Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Autons, the return of Rory, River Song and cameos from Winston Churchill, Liz Ten and Vincent Van Gogh, The Pandorica Opens was a lovely, small scale, quiet character piece, don’t you think? Just joking. Leave your comments on the episode here (NO SPOILERS for next week’s finale!) and visit our TARDIS file.  | ||
| Posted: 17 Jul 2010 11:57 AM PDT  The actor Richard Shaw has died at the age of 90.Richard Shaw had three appearances in Doctor Who. In 1965 he played the role of Lobos, the Morok governor of Xeros, in the William Hartnell story The Space Museum. He returned to the series in 1973 working with Jon Pertwee on the story Frontier in Space where he played Cross the leader of a section of the prisoners at the Lunar Penal Colony. His final role in the series was in the 1978 story Underworld, where he played Lakh, a Seer on the planet which coalesced around the P7E. Away from Doctor Who, Shaw had an extensive career in British television spanning over 40 years. He played Sladden in the 1959 classic Quatermass and the Pit, appeared in many classic plays on BBC and ITV and appeared in such series as Crossroads, Freewheelers, Dixon of Dock Green and the film Carry On Don't Lose Your Head. Actor Toby Hadoke has posted a tribute to Richard Shaw on his website. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Doctor Who: Christmas Special News Round-up SPOILERS!!! - Anglotopia.net Posted: 17 Jul 2010 10:07 AM PDT
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| Sherlock Holmes is back… sending texts and using nicotine patches - The Guardian Posted: 17 Jul 2010 10:06 AM PDT
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| "Enormous" bad luck for drink-drive boyfriend - Worcester News Posted: 17 Jul 2010 10:03 AM PDT
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| classic 'Doctor Who' blogging: “The Ark in Space” - Flick Filosopher (blog) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 08:31 AM PDT
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| Sandra Vergara cast for 'Fright Night' - allvoices Posted: 17 Jul 2010 08:24 AM PDT
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| Posted: 17 Jul 2010 07:57 AM PDT
Guitar amp-makers of Electro-Harmonix have achieved the incredible: they've managed to produce an authentic-sounding replication of the original Delia Derbyshire Who theme using their amps! If you sidle on over this way, you can read all about it and even watch a YouTube demonstration! According to geek-living blog Walyou,
If you're a complete guitar virgin like me, who can play bits of Smoke on the Water, badly, and not much else, it may take an ounce more patience than suggested above to make such a realistic-sounding Doctor Who theme. But if you're an old pro at the instrument, and have all the right equipment (Electro-Harmonix seems to indicate that they want you to buy theirs), have a go at this and let us know in the comments if you have any success!  | ||
| Torchwood Filming Date Details Released - Anglotopia.net Posted: 17 Jul 2010 07:39 AM PDT
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| 'Glee,' please call 'Torchwood's' John Barrowman back about his guest role! - Zap2it.com (blog) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 05:33 AM PDT
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| Sandra Vergara - InfoCuts (blog) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 05:19 AM PDT
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| Sandra Vergara: Trying Her Hand in Hollywood - The Gossip Girls (blog) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 04:42 AM PDT
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| Sandra Vergara: Trying Her Hand in Hollywood - GossipCenter.com Posted: 17 Jul 2010 04:40 AM PDT
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| Pay TV learns to speak geek - Variety Posted: 17 Jul 2010 02:55 AM PDT
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| the Pandorica opens (again)... - Flick Filosopher (blog) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 02:54 AM PDT
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| Posted: 17 Jul 2010 02:50 AM PDT Doctor Who Audiobooks has a new master; call him AudioGo!
Michael Kuhn told the MediaGuardian that he wished to move beyond the BBC content and intends to launch new titles including comedy, celebrity stories and comic books, as well as trying to get sports stars to launch audio versions of their traditional print memoirs. In an attempt to win over the web savvy youngsters Kuhn is hoping to move BBC Audiobooks which has released such Doctor Who titles as Dead Air, Pest Control and The Runaway Train into the digital age:
The sale is part of a move by BBC Worldwide to strip the its commercial arm of several disposable assets consider non-core after pressure from the commercial sector following its purchase of the globetrotting brand, Lonely Planet. Worldwide has already sold an 85% share of BBC Books to Random House and is rumoured to be selling an equal stake in BBC Magazines which publishes Doctor Who Adventures. AudioGo will continue to trade the 20% of content from the BBC as BBC Audiobooks. Specific profit figures relating to Audiobooks are unavailable but BBC Audiobooks said that it was 'profitable' in the 12 months to the end of March. Although revenue from the audio and music division, which includes BBC Audiobooks had slipped from £27.2m to £25.9m. BBC Worldwide said that the audio and music business operated in "challenging markets" last year, adding that although digital downloads are growing and now account for almost 30% of units sold, the business is "strategically non-core and we believe a faster transition from physical to digital distribution can be achieved". So how do you listen to BBC AudioBooks? And how do you think Who will fair competing against sports stars an celebrity memoirs?  | ||
| Sandra Vergara Joins the Cast List for 'Fright Night' Movie - Great New Movies (blog) Posted: 17 Jul 2010 01:53 AM PDT
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| Torchwood This Week - July 17, 2010 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 12:39 AM PDT Torchwood This Week July 17, 2010 - Volume 4, Number 23 by Benjamin F. Elliott In 2011, Torchwood returns for Series 4. US broadcaster - Starz  | ||
| This Week In Doctor Who - July 17, 2010 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 12:37 AM PDT Psst - tonight, let's crush the internet. See a few paragraphs down the line ... This Week In Doctor Who - Section A All the known broadcasts of Doctor Who covered weekly since 1998. With the spinoffs too. UK - Doctor Who isn't quite over yet, even though the current series ended 21 days ago. The BBC's Three have a couple of treats.  | ||
| This Week In Doctor Who - July 17, 2010 Section B Posted: 17 Jul 2010 12:19 AM PDT This Week In Doctor Who Section B PBS, Sarah Jane, K-9 July 17, 2010 by Benjamin F. Elliott Public TV Premiere Run: Idaho Public TV http://idahoptv.org The  | ||
| This Week In Doctor Who - July 17, 2010 Section A Posted: 17 Jul 2010 12:02 AM PDT Psst - tonight, let's crush the internet. See a few paragraphs down the line ... This Week In Doctor Who - Section A July 17, 2010 - Vol 13, Number 26 by  | ||
| Matt Smith Planning To Quit Doctor Who Job Next Year? - Musicrooms.net Posted: 16 Jul 2010 11:54 PM PDT
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2010 11:43 PM PDT
The calendar will be on sale from August 2010 and features a very typical Tom Baker quote on the front of it:
The calendar will be priced at £9.99 and you can find out how to order one by visiting the official Tom Baker website at www.tom-baker.co.uk.  | ||
| Posted: 16 Jul 2010 10:17 PM PDT Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then I'll begin…. A long, long time ago (in the Doctor's life and in the viewing publics), the Doctor and his friends visited a place far, far away. This month, Big Finish takes them back there for the finale of the Sixth Doctor and Jamie reunited trilogy. Armed with only an air of nostalgia and a slight mistrust of each other, the old team must make their way through famous literary characters and Cybermen alike.
Speaking as a reviewer who has only listened to this play and no others, the overall story arc that gets explained as Legend of the Cybermen unfolds in no way detracts from the self contained story itself as the action and adventure unfolds. Without spoiling too much, the Cybermen have ended up in The Land of Fiction and, as they would naturally want to, are trying to convert "fiction and lies into fact and logic". These Cybermen are ruthless, with the look of The Invasion-style soldiers but with the mentality and sound of their "NuWho" parallel universe cousins. Like any classic tale, the story unfolds at a neat and even pace. The Doctor and Jamie are trying to evade the famous white robots last seen in 1968's The Mind Robber when they run into none other than The Artful Dodger. This leads to a seriously creepy and unsettling cliff-hanger for the end of part one. As the tale goes on, we discover that famous characters from classic novels such as Alice from Alice in Wonderland and Dracula from…well, you know, have joined forces to wage an almighty war on the Cybermen and their Cyberplanner. Some of Legend of the Cybermen's most touching moments come from these characters themselves as we find out about the parts that they have played in the war and the losses they have sustained. It's a true credit to writer Mike Maddox that he can take these iconic and well used players and add yet more depth to them then they could ever have thanks to a war that they didn't want to fight. Sound like a certain Time Lord? And what of the Sixth Doctor and Jamie's relationship? Making the move to have Jamie return as an older version of himself rather than trying to remain the same age makes for some sizzling dialogue between Colin Baker and Frazer Hines. In a scene reminiscent between Sarah Jane Smith and the tenth Doctor in 2006's School Reunion, Jamie questions the Doctor as to why he didn't return for Zoe and himself after the Time Lords split them up and why he doesn't look back. This genuinely tugs at the heart strings. And makes you realise why Big Finish decided to pair this particular Doctor with this particular companion. Jamie's blunt naivety has a certain way of tunnelling right through to the heart of old "sixy" in a way that not many others ever have. On paper, the synopsis for Legend of the Cybermen could read like an absolute mess of continuity (the Sixth Doctor and Jamie reunited, a return to The Land of Fiction, the return of the Cybermen, famous literary characters everywhere, the resolution of this particular story-arc and even a few other familiar faces..) but when it's this well written, directed and acted and has a beautiful musical score to cause even the hardest of hearts to melt, you can't help but applaud Big Finish and all involved for their effort. Buy this, buy it now and place it on your bookshelf next to your classic collection of books. It's that good it deserves it. Legend of the Cybermen is available from Big Finish on CD and download – visit www.bigfinish.com for more details!  | ||
| Courting ritual - The Northern Echo Posted: 16 Jul 2010 09:16 PM PDT
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| Captain America comic hero brings movie action to Wales - WalesOnline Posted: 16 Jul 2010 08:58 PM PDT
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| David Tennant to play 'The Incredible Hulk'? - Real Bollywood (blog) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 08:56 PM PDT
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2010 08:42 PM PDT So, it's all over now then. The dust has started to settle and opinions are flying around about Matt Smith's first series as the Eleventh Doctor and the challenges that he's faced. And to reflect that there are going to be season surveys. Lots of them. One of the first is from is from website Nebula-one, who are asking their readers for opinions of all 13 episodes that made up the 2010 series of Doctor Who. The website gives a template of how to write up your mini reviews and wants all your honest thoughts and views and what you considered to be the best and worst of the episodes. The results will either be published as an article on the site or as a separate PDF for the public to view but this has yet to be confirmed. So head over to nebula-one.blogspot.com, your thoughts and votes are required!  | ||
| Army puts Cotswold School pupils through their paces during activities week - Cotswold Journal Posted: 16 Jul 2010 08:41 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who buffs build life-sized Dalek - Times and Transcript Posted: 16 Jul 2010 08:09 PM PDT
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| Tonight's The Night for Scots jack of all trades John Barrowman - Scottish Daily Record Posted: 16 Jul 2010 06:51 PM PDT
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| BBC Licence Fee Could Be Cut Under Tory Plans - ATV News (blog) Posted: 16 Jul 2010 06:39 PM PDT
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Want to spend the whole of 2011 Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker? The likelihood is you won't be able to, so to make up for this, he's releasing a calendar with entirely new pictures of himself to help you cope throughout the New Year.
And what a tale it is.
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