The BBC is reporting that new Doctor Matt Smith and his companion Karen Gillan will be embarking on a short UK tour this month, part of the BBC’s Outreach programmes which “will target hard-to-reach communities relatively underserved by the BBC.” Although when it names some of the destinations I have to say I’m puzzled at [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 20, 2010
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)
Continue reading...Thursday, February 11, 2010
Good pal of the blog Oli Smith has been busy scribing away on more Doctor Who tales, this time with a strip in Doctor Who Adventures #153 which is on shelves right now: (frames from Doctor who Arctic Eclipse, written by Oli Smith, art by John Ross, colours by Alan Craddock, in Doctor Who Adventures #153, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 8, 2010
The SFX Weekender was held over the weekend (well, duh!) and among the panels and cosplay and discussions and drinking there were, of course, the annual SFX awards. The Geek Syndicate boys were live-Tweeting them as they happened (thanks, Nuge) and SF Awards Watch has handily compiled them all. Neil Gaiman won the Best Novel [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 5, 2010
Graeme Neil Reid tells me he posted up no less than eighteen different ink sketches on his blog through December and January, taking in science fiction characters, comics and sci-fi movies. Now he’s offering a chance to win your choice from the sketches, simply by clicking the follow button on his blog and leaving your [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 3, 2010
(just the thing if you’re planning some interior redesign – a section of TARDIS interior wall) The famous auction house Bonham’s has a number of props and costumes and other assorted collectables from Doctor Who and Torchwood going under the hammer on the 24th of February, from Martha’s costumes to a section of TARDIS wall to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 21, 2010
Last night the multi-award winning Doctor Who and outgoing Doc David Tennant scored yet again at the National TV Awards in London, with the series taking the best drama gong for the fifth year in a row, with Tennant picking up the oustanding drama performance award. And I know its not connected to SF&F (although [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 11, 2010
We’ve been bursting to tell you about these new action figures coming soon, but our lips were sealed close with a sonic screwdriver. Finally we can shout about them! Yes, its a set of figures from the Tennant-era finale The End of Time which we enjoyed in the UK over Christmas and New Year, with [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 2, 2010
And so after all the anticipation it is finally hail and farewell to David Tennant’s brilliant run on Doctor Who (did you have a little tremor in your voice, did you find yourself blinking back any possible tears at that “I don’t want to go” line?). Regeneration -- that wonderful device the world’s longest running [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Ah, Doctor Who and Bernard Cribbins for Christmas Day… Soon… Soon it won’t be just teasing little clips, it’ll be the whole episode being unwrapped under the tree… (via Podshock’s Twitter)
Continue reading...Monday, December 7, 2009
The Cynical C blog points us towards this set of classic adverts from the early days of personal computing with Tom Baker’s Doctor and Lalla Ward’s Romana selling us the latest in digital technology (hey, anyone remember the ‘paperless office’ promises of the early and mid 80s?). I’d completely forgotten about these, they were probably [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
On his journal Neil Gaiman notes that the rather lovely animated version of his younger reader’s novel Coraline has won the feature film category at the Children’s BAFTA awards. Lost and Found won the animation category, while the wonderful Bernard Cribbins, soon to return to our screens in the final David Tennant Doctor Who episodes [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Over on the Bad Librarianship blog Mark Kardwell is discussing the animated Doctor Who serial Dreamland currently to be found on the official BBC Who site (sorry, I think it may not play to folks outside the UK). Like me Mark’s not entirely convinced by the style of animation, but the story (by Phil Ford) [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 23, 2009
The BBC’s Press Office releases some more snippets on the upcoming final Doctor Who specials of 2010, the two-part The End of Time which sees the return of The Master, Donna and the demise of Tennant’s incarnation. From the description of part one “It’s the Tenth Doctor’s final journey – but his psychotic nemesis the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 23, 2009
(the late William Hartnell as the first ever Doctor, with granddaughter Susan and companions Ian and Barbara; (c) BBC) Happy birthday wishes today to the world’s longest running science fiction TV series, Doctor Who, first broadcast on the BBC on November 23, 1963. Famously there was some doubt the fledgling show would even air, following the [...]
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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