Doctor Who News, Articles, Cast and Crew Interviews

[Madeleine]

No. Do tell

[huntress]

Anyone here plowing their way through Trial of a Timelord?

Anyone spotted the links to the new series in Mindwarp?

I have never seen any Colin Baker episodes to be honest. Do tell us about the links

[Reefgirl]

No. Do tell

I have never seen any Colin Baker episodes to be honest. Do tell us about the links

Spoiler:

Trevor Laird (Clive Jones) plays Frax the head of the guards and Chris Ryan (Commander Staal) plays Kiv, Sil's (remember him?) boss

I'd forgotten how good it was, it's been a good 20 years since I've seen it and I'd forgotten how piercing Bonnie Langford's screaming was. Other notable names in the TOATL were Tony Selby as Sabalom Glitz, a very young, pre London's Burning Glen Murphy, Joan Sims, Brian Blessed doing what he does best, shouting and over acting and Honor Blackman

[LizzieAnne]

In case anyone's interested in this for the weekend. Russell Davies and John Barrowman at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. See here

[BruTak]

RTD and Benjamin Cook were interviewed on the Steve Wright show on BBC Radio 2 this afternoon.

The whole show will be available on the BBC iPlayer from tomorrow, although RTD and BC only appear in the last half hour or so.

[prion]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/04/tvandradio

excerpt:

You. Would. Make. A. Good. Dalek
Veronica Horwell gets an offbeat glimpse into the brilliant mind behind New Who
The Guardian,
Saturday October 4 2008

What a wizard enterprise this is, 500 pages of emails and text messages between Russell T Davies, resuscitator, executive producer and head writer of Doctor Who, and his confidant Benjamin Cook, from February 14 2007 19:48 GMT to March 26 2008 18:25. A few details have been deleted, such as the name of the actor scheduled to play the Doctor's companion had not Catherine Tate extended her guest role into 13 episodes, but otherwise, it's unabridged and, moreover, footnoted.

The declared purpose of the project is to attend upon Davies as he negotiates with his BBC Wales colleagues, writes more than his share of the scripts for the fourth year of New Who, from last Christmas's panto/disaster movie to the series finale, and rewrites almost everybody else's. And to provoke from him masterclasses, rants, confessions,

REST AT LINK ABOVE

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http://westendwhingers.wordpress.com...ord-upon-avon/


Review - Hamlet with David Tennant, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon
August 28, 2008

Yes, yes, we know it’s not the West End and that it’s Shakespeare, but it had to be done.
Done by Andrew,

excerpt:

David Tennant (right, with Penny Downie) is funny too, brightly chirruping “Goodnight Mother!” as he drags Polonius’s corpse off stage. He also turns in a pretty good impression of Patrick Stewart in his response to Claudius’s demand, “Where’s Polonius?”.


REST AT LINK ABOVE, along with humorous Dalek artwork

[prion]

Prince Charles on DOCTOR WHO?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/entert...49C31920081013

LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Charles has been invited to appear on the BBC's "Doctor Who" programme -- and his office has not ruled out his taking part.

Initially Clarence House turned down the approach, a move which prompted the show's executive producer Russell T. Davies to label the Prince -- in the style of Charles' beloved Goons -- a "miserable swine."

But a Clarence House spokeswoman told Reuters on Monday the Prince himself had not actually seen the request.

"We did receive a request from 'Doctor Who's' producers," she said. "It was not turned down by Prince Charles but by a Clarence House official. We receive hundreds of requests and he doesn't see them all.

She added: "It's not uncommon for people to resubmit requests with different criteria and if it was resubmitted we would look at it again."

With the show's lead actor David Tennant winning rave reviews for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the moment, the fifth season of "Doctor Who" is not due until 2010, though three one-off specials featuring the time-travelling adventurer are planned for 2009.


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http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008...en-in-nee.html

'Children in Need' Could Unite All Surviving Doctor Whos
By John Scott Lewinski
October 12 2008

Sunday was a big day for Doctor Who news -- or at least for a fierce rumor fans hope is genuine Who news.

November's BBC Children in Need telethon made it a tradition in recent years to feature some sort of Who special as part of its fundraiser programming. Last year's show offered a Steven Moffat-written mini-episode, "Time Crash", bringing together current Doctor David Tennant and '80s version Peter Davison.

Now, reports claim the seven surviving actors who played The Doctor will reunite for this year's special. That means Tennant and Davision would join Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Sylvestor McCoy, Paul Mcgann and Christopher Eccleston for a reunion fans thought was impossible.

As for the 10th version of the Time Lord, Tennant is either walking away at the end of 2009's four special episodes, or he's looking to sign on through 2011. The only announcement on the situation that matters will come from the BBC and Tennant.

[BruTak]

Now that would be seriously cool!

The BBC will just need to throw money at Eccleston until he say yes.

[Reefgirl]

I would seriously watch CiN for that

[The_Carpenter]

I would seriously watch CiN for that

No need... just record it and skip through the rest of the trash

[Reefgirl]

No need... just record it and skip through the rest of the trash

Or watch it online

[LaCroix]

From SFX

Ten Doctor Who covers for SFX issue 176
On 23 November 1963, the world met the Doctor for the first time, when An Unearthly Child hit British television screens. Now 45 years and nine more incarnations of the Time Lord later, SFX is set to celebrate the anniversary of Doctor Who's launch in truly cosmic style.

Issue 176 of Earth’s leading science fiction magazine will offer readers a choice of no less than ten variant covers, one for each incarnation of the legendary Doctor.

http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=...who_covers_for



Click on the link for the full story and information.

[BruTak]

Interesting, yes.

But personally, I have a strong dislike for variant covers. You can never seem to find the one you want...

Still, ten covers is quite reasonable. At least it's not 100 variant covers like Empire magazine did a couple of months ago...

[LizzieAnne]

There's a new radio play of Dr Who tonight 18.00(19 Oct )on radio7 (via the BBC website) also one next week. It stars Paul McGann.

[Pharaoh Atem]

Joseph To Be First Black Doctor?

http://www.scifistream.com/2008/10/2...-black-doctor/

i could live with this