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Art Nouveau Amy

Joe — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:03:14 +0000

How fabulous is this Art Nouveau Amy Pond art by Bill Mudron? Doctor Who meets Alphonse Mucha. (via And This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, tip of the hat to Andy Cheverton for pointing me to it in the first place)

Amy!

Joe — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:04:23 +0000

I like Adam Law‘s cartoon version of Doctor Who’s Amy Pond (thanks to PJ Holden for the link):

(Amy Pond by and (c) Adam Law; and while we’re at it, I should tell you to visit Adam’s main site where among other things you can read his Felicity comics online)

Next Doctor Who will be ‘two’ seasons

Joe — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:45:19 +0000

The Guardian has video from the Edinburgh International Television Festival where Doctor Who’s Grande Fromage Steven Moffat revealed that the 2011 season of the show will be split to effectively create two seasons from one, with the new season beginning at Easter as before, building over seven episodes to a crescendo then after the cliffhanger returning in the autumn for the remaining slice of the usual 13 episodes. Moffat explained that this allows them to do a really big cliffhanger in the first half of the sort they normally couldn’t end a season on because it would leave the viewers hanging for far too long for the conclusion, but as the gap now would only be a few months to autumn they feel they can have it now (which sounds pretty good!). And as Moffat acknowledges, it also gives them a double in terms of marketing the new season – two ‘first’ night launches and up the hype, spreading the show out more over the year meaning that there isn’t such a huge, single gap between the end of a season and the start of the next, it’s all sounding like 2011 Doctor Who is going to be a serious blast.

(Karen Gillan in a screengrab from one of the other Guardian videos from the Edinburgh TV Fest)

Also on the Guardian’s Edinburgh TV Festival coverage there are more Who related videos (sadly not embeddable, so best I can do is point you to the links), including Karen Gillan and Steven Moffat answering questions such as why does the Doctor have a sexy companion (tradition, as Moffat points out) and Moffat discussing how he found Karen and Matt for their roles, with Moffat commenting that they actually had in mind to have an actor a bit older than Tennant originally, but that Matt was “like a young man built by old men from memory.” (tip of the fez to Richard Nelson for the original link)

Chat to Karen Gillan!

Joe — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:03:42 +0000

Michael Moran of the Times’ Blockbuster Buzz tells me they have a major scoop coming up – an online live web chat with Karen Gillan, the Doctor’s flame-haired companion in the excellent new Doctor Who series. Yes, I know, steady now, keep calm, form an orderly line… The chat will be going out at 10am on Friday June 4th, check the Times for details.

New Doctor Who action figures!

Joe — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:53:56 +0000

Prepare to get as excited as we are: the first wave of 2010 Doctor Who action figures has just been confirmed. The first range from the new series will include Matt Smith’s Doctor and Karen Gillan’s Amy Pond, of course, the Stone Angel, the new-style Dalek and one I think half of us were wanting even as the episode went out (judging by the Twitter chat) – the World War Two ‘Ironside’ Dalek in British Army khaki. I’m clearing more space on my desk….

Exterminate for Victory!!!

Joe — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:02:46 +0000

Doctor Who! Daleks! World War Two! Winston Churchill! Amy! Bow ties! Amy’s legs! This Saturday! Oh yes….

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMOgj0t0MCA

(link via Geek Native, who has rather nicely gathered a bunch of Who clips for Victory of the Daleks into one single post which you should go and look at then freak out in excitement!)

And on related Who news don’t forget the first exciting new season merchandise has been hitting our shelves, like Amy and the Doctor stand-ups:

And there’s the special twin-pack Crash action figure set featuring Matt Smith’s new Doctor in his ‘raggedy Doctor’ clothes as he appeared in his first episode as the TARDIS crashes into young Amy’s garden and then his new costume with it’s cool Quatermass era vibe to it:

New Who

Joe — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:03:41 +0000

Soon, oh yes, my friends, soon….

(apologies if this doesn’t play for you, some BBC videos only work for UK IP addresses; via PJ Holden’s Twitter- UPDATE – If the link is playing up and the video won’t play directly, try the direct link to the BBC Dr Who Trailer)

Doctor Who filming

Joe — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:28:53 +0000

Celeb site Mr Paparazzi has a whole bunch of pictures from the filming of the new Doctor Who, with some pics of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in front of a somewhat altered looking TARDIS, which looks, to me at least, more like the early 60s version of the famous police box. I wonder if that’s what some of the Twitterverse speculation about a ‘new’ TARDIS was about the other day.

(pic from Mr Paparazzi/Big Pictures, Doctor Who (c) BBC)

New Doctor Who costume revealed

Joe — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:20:42 +0000

(Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Matt Smith as the new Doctor, (c) BBC)

The BBC has given the world the first glimpse of Matt Smith in costume as the new Doctor, a fairly low key outfit of a tweed jacket and bow tie, black trouser and boots. It all looks very 1950s university professor, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing – I like the Victorian/Edwardian look but it has been done to death in Who in the past – as, to me anyway, it recalls the unflappable boffins of classic 1950s era British science fiction like Quatermass and its ilk. Arriving for the start of filming for the new series (due next year), Matt Smith commented:

“I feel very privileged and proud to be part of this iconic show,” Smith said after arriving on set for his first day of filming. The scripts are brilliant – I’m excited about the future and all the brilliant adventures I get to go on as the Doctor.“