Tag Archive | "BBC"

New Doctor Who this weekend!

Saturday, November 14, 2009

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At last, the waiting is nearly over – tomorrow night at 7pm we’ve got the Doctor back on UK screens. 7pm, BBC1, take the phone off the hook. The Beeb is promising this will be a good scary episode, so make space behind the sofas of the nation, in the traditional manner. Gosh, hard to [...]

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Tomb of the Cybermen

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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MSN has episodes from the classic Patrick Troughton era Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen tale on their video player as well as some other classic Who, Day of the Triffids and the modern remake of the Quatermass Experiment starring David Tennant. (above Deborah Watling as Victoria and Pat Troughton as the second [...]

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Geek Syndicate goes on set with Merlin

Friday, October 16, 2009

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The Geek Syndicate Podcast boys have a new special up detailing a set visit to the BBC’s Merlin production, discussing their visit and talking to the shows stars and crew such as Colin Morgan (Merlin), Bradley James (Arthur), Katie McGrath (Morgana), Anthony Stewart Head (King Uther) and Charlotte Morris (Head of Costume Design). (a suitably armed [...]

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Dave Gibbons on the Beeb

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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The mighty Dave Gibbons will be guesting on the George Lamb show on BBC 6Music this morning at some point during its run from 10am to 1pm; as usual with the Beeb radio programmes, if you miss it you can use the Listen Again feature to catch it for seven days after transmission. (Dave Gibbons, photo [...]

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Doctor Who at ComicCon

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Via the TARDIS Newsroom come a link to the first of 4 parts of a video of the Doctor Who panel at the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con, which is rather handy for those of us who couldn’t be there, with Russell T Davies and David Tennant. Very nice to see Who at such a [...]

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Doctor Who filming

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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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 [...]

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New Doctor Who costume revealed

Monday, July 20, 2009

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(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 [...]

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Blue Moon – Oli Smith joins the TARDIS

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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We all know Oli Smith for his comics creations, his fascinating (and often inventive) videos and the great public profile he’s given to the UK small press comics scene with his work with London Underground Comics. Now he’s joining the world of Doctor Who – the prologue for  his Doctor Who story, Blue Moon, went [...]

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Babbage at the Beeb and stumbling over another great webcomic…

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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A nice little bit of techy cartooning over at the BBC tech site. Animator Sydney Padua takes a look at the father of modern computing Charles Babbage: (via Boing Boing) And then, as these things invariably do, I’m off on a little Internet explore to Sydney Padua’s website and his her webcomic The Adventures Of Lovelace and [...]

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Doctor Who: the Waters of Mars

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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The BBC Press Office has released some brief details of upcoming autumn season programming, including the next Doctor Who special, The Waters of Mars; from the official BBC blurb: “David Tennant returns as The Doctor in The Waters Of Mars, the second of four Doctor Who specials being screened on BBC One this year. He is [...]

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Death by chocolate

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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The BBC site has news of a horrible and very unusual industrial accident where a man fell into a vat of hot chocolate at work and sadly lost his life. And I know it is rather ghoulish, but it suddenly reminded me of David Yurkovich’s very interesting Death by Chocolate, in which our central character, [...]

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Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd on BBC Breakfast

Monday, July 6, 2009

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Torchwood’s Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd were guest on the BBC Breakfast programme to promote the start of the five part Torchwood: Children of Earth which starts on the Beeb tonight. Annoyingly they weren’t on the Breakfast sofa until after I had left for work, but the Torchwood Newsroom conveniently points us to a YouTube [...]

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SF books on the radio

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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Digital radio station BBC 7 has two good science fiction books being read on air this week, one modern, one classic, with Anton Lesser reading from Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World while the station is also running an adaptation of Stephen Baxter’s alternate history take on the US space programme, Voyage. Both started [...]

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Russell T on the radio

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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With the new Torchwood approaching rapidly outgoing Doctor Who big cheese Russell T Davies talks to BBC Radio 4’s Front Row about his time on Doctor Who, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures and his own hopes and fears for his future career as he takes the huge step of moving to America and trying [...]

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