Euros Lyn interview and look behind the scenes plus Kenilworth invasion

Zap2it.com has Fifteen minutes with 'Torchwood: Children of the Earth' Director.

WalesOnline takes A look behind the scenes at Torchwood.

Kenilworth Today has news that the Daleks and Cybermen invade Kenilworth library for Dr Who Day.

EXCLUSIVE — Russell T Davies: 'Why there will be a Doctor Who film'

South Wales Evening Post

The screenwriter told all in an exclusive interview, revealing how the film would differ from the TV version of the hit show.

He told the Post: "There must be ways and means of doing it — I suspect one day it will happen.

"I think once something is talked about often enough then it starts to happen.

"I think being talked about in the papers could almost bring it into existence. It gives us an idea of whether or not anyone would want to go and see it at the cinema."
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Russell plans to bow out as chief writer on the show after filming this year's four specials.

But in October he told the Post he would return to the show if a film version was given the green light.

And he has now hinted at how the film could work if it was made.

He said: "In The Voyage of the Damned Christmas special in 2007 our design department did a brilliant job. But in a film version it would have had huge, vast ballrooms and towering inferno-type sets with everything collapsing.

"I think we'd stick very much to what we've made so far because it is successful. The Sex and the City film kept it very faithful to the core show and it was clever.

"Doctor Who might seem as if it's a film sometimes, but if you actually look at films they're even bigger."

But it seems whatever happens, the show won't be leaving the small screen.

Russell said: "I think the important thing to say is that if it ever happened it wouldn't take the television version off air because that would be terrible and it would also be breaking the BBC's charter."

TARDIS Calendar Saturday 07 February 2009

Coming in the next 7 days:

• Dalek, I Love You - BBC Radio 7 ,
• Here's One I Wrote Earlier: Peter Purves My Autobiography ,
• Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil (Audio) ,
• Doctor Who Adventures 102 ,
• Hyde Fundraisers at Salford's Lowry Outlet Mall

Check out our UK TV and Radio Guide for 'Who' on the box

Beeb read DWM, Janus guide, tinpods and Pia Guerra video

BBC Doctor Who  have Word Smith, Doctor Matt working with Steven Moffat to define character.

The Whoniverse has added The Janus Conjunction to their Discontinuity Guide.

Tin Dog Podcast have released TDP 80: Warriors Gate and The Key 2 Time Part 0 and 1 (added to the pods and audio section of the editor's bit).

Radio Free Skaro Presents: An interview with Pia Guerra, Pia Guerra is widely known as the artist behind the award winning "Y: The Last Man" comic series. But she's also the artist on "Doctor Who - The Forgotten", a new series starring everyone's favorite Time Lord (in multiple incarnations). Oh yes, and a devoted Whovian.

Tech drive, fake who and Sally Sparrow's new life

The Whoniverse has updated the TARDIS Technical Index with Drive Section.

io9 warns Don't Give David Tennant Your Credit Card Number, No Matter How Nicely He Asks.

Den Of Geek reports that Sally Sparrow pairs up with Obi-Wan?, Carey Mulligan is best known for her role in Doctor Who as Sally Sparrow in the Steven Moffat episode Blink...

Iris Wildthyme - The Sound of Fear (Audio Adventure)

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Materialising aboard Radio Yesterday, a space station broadcasting golden oldies to Earth's colonies, Panda finds something sinister in the air-conditioning and Iris comes face to face with her long-lost husband.
Starring Katy Manning and David Benson.

Order from the TARDIS Shop Due for release on the 28th February

Attack of the Cybermen (DVD) Cover and Details

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The TARDIS is lured to Earth in 1985 by a distress call sent by Lytton, who has made contact with a group of Cybermen based in London's sewers.
The Doctor and Peri are then captured and forced to take Lytton and the Cybermen in the TARDIS to the Cybermen's home planet Telos.
The Cybermen have stolen a time vessel from another race and plan to change history by crashing Halley's Comet into Earth and obliterating it before it can bring about the demise of their original home world, Mondas, in 1986.

Order from the TARDIS Shop Due for release on the 16th March

Ride the Androzani Express and Jack's back

BrokenSea - Doctor Who have a new drama Ride the Androzani Express, "Return from your vacation feeling younger and more alive than you ever thought possible. Experience state-of-the-art interstellar travel combined with the luxury and charm of Old Earth rail, stops include Trian, Ulran, New Earth and Androzani Major, the Androzani Express, the mystique, the excitement, the fun, the mystery… see you aboard… (added to the pods and audio section of the editor's bit).

guardian.co.uk have Jack's back: new Torchwood season unveiled.

Exclusive preview of Torchwood: Children of Earth

BBC - Torchwood- Children of Earth

Watch an exclusive sneak preview of what's to come in the new series.

Torchwood will be back on BBC One at 9pm later this year.

Read the latest Torchwood: Children of Earth news

The Doctor's fanmail, fashions and myths

BBC News has an article called Early fan mail for new Doctor Who.

CBBC Newsround has New Doctor talks future fashions.

The Sun has also take the fashion line with I'll be stylish in the Tardis, Matt Smith revealed he plans to style his Time Lord look on legendary Fourth Doctor Tom Baker.

cadmium2 have released Show 40: Doctor Who - The Myth Makers (added to the pods and audio section of the editor's bit).

Noel Clarke: 'I won't be in more Who'

Digital Spy
By Mayer Nissim

Noel Clarke has confirmed that he will not be appearing in any future episodes of Doctor Who.

The Adulthood director made the comment after he praised the choice of new Doctor Matt Smith.

Clarke told thelondonpaper: "He's great - young and dynamic.

"I can sit back and watch it as a fan, as I won't be appearing in any more episodes."

Whocast across Whodom and the Doctor's daughter has a background

DWO WhoCast episode 106 is now available, in this episode, the boys mull over the latest news from across Whodom - battered buses, bionic women and blue coats (added to the pods and audio section of the editor's bit).

georgiamoffett.co.uk has a nice piece about Georgia Moffett, I'd also like to welcome them to the TARDIS Webguide and Friends Page.

Matt goes house hunting and Benton at 20th aniversary

The Sun has an article called Doctor hunts for new Tardis, Matt Smith goes house hunting in London with sister Laura Jayne.

John Levene.com have posted news that John Levene is set to join GALLIFREY's 20th Anniversary.

I think about Doctor Who all the time, reveals new timelord Matt Smith

The Daily Record

DOCTOR Who's Matt Smith said he can never shake being the Time Lord from his mind - a year before viewers see him in the role.

In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, Smith compared taking on the mantle with becoming the new Sherlock Holmes or James Bond.

Last month Smith was named as the 11th Time Lord since the programme first aired in 1963.

He replaces David Tennant at the helm of the Tardis and is due to first appear on screens in the role in 2010.

Smith told the magazine: "This show is so alive, it really is.

"I can't ever quite forget that I'm the Doctor - which is weird, because it's still so far away.

"But it's always there in my subconscious, because it's the Doctor!

"It's like, there's Sherlock Holmes, James Bond and Doctor Who. It has resonance in our cultural fabric."

At just 26, Smith has become the youngest ever Doctor and, although previously relatively unknown, he has appeared in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys at the National Theatre in London and alongside Christian Slater in Swimming With Sharks in the West End.

Smith told how he would need to tone down his dress sense for the part.

Asked what he might wear as the Doctor, Smith said: "I'm a big fan of long coats and rather dashing scarves in everyday life, so who knows?

"For the audition, I rocked up in whatever, so I think they're having to tone down what I wear in real life for the Doctor!

"I am a rather elaborate dresser. That's what's lovely, there are all these exciting things - what's he going to wear, what's he going to do in his first scene with his companion, which monsters will he meet, will he meet the Daleks?"

On playing a 950-year-old Time Lord, Smith said he wanted to make the BBC show "part of my fibre".

He said incoming head writer Steven Moffat "has this show ingrained in his soul and searing through his blood".

He continued: "It's really borne into his whole fabric - and that's the job for me over the next few months, to make this show part of my fibre.

"I think Steven is going to be the main creative source for me and we're going to discover it together - who the Doctor is in Steven's mind and words, coupled with pockets of my personality, my history, my life, and the man and the human being that I am."

He said he planned to sit round a table with executive producer Piers Wenger and Moffat, read the scripts together and talk about the part.

Smith said: "We'll talk about my intentions, their intentions, how we feel it can fly, and sing, and be as brilliant and as Doctor-y and as excellent as it can be."

K9 returns from the black hole

Doctor Who Magazine (out tomorrow) has released news that good old K9 will be back in the next season of the Sarah Jane Adventures for at least 6 of the 12 episodes

Niki Smith said "We've already got 10 scripts at first draft stage, and I can now announce that K9 is going to make a return to Sarah Jane's attic!
He's been locked away in that safe, saving the world from a Black Hole, for far too long now.
I can promise that the fun is only just beginning - just wait till he gets to meet Mr Smith properly" .

Who goes HD, unlimited Dalek remembrance and a batch of reviews....

SFX reports that Doctor Who will be going High Definition for the four specials that are seeing out the Tennant/Davies era.

Digital Spy has Classic Moment: 'Dr Who' - Unlimited Rice Pudding, relive the legendary clash between The Doctor and Davros in 'Remembrance Of The Daleks'.

Unreality SF have the following reviews.... Iris Wildthyme: The Sound of Fear, Doctor Who: The Destroyer of Delights, Doctor Who: The Prisoner's Dilemma and Doctor Who: Assassin in the Limelight.

Big Finish are releasing the Sixth Doctor's "lost season" which will be released as audio dramas next year (2010) with "The Nightmare Fair" and "Mission To Magnus", both titles were released as books previously

Daleks: A Plea for Tolerance

R J Evans has a brilliant article called Daleks: A Plea for Tolerance

Daleks have had a really bad press over the last few years.

Thanks to the efforts of the last remnant of a species that was so warlike and irredeemable they had to be, well, exterminated, the good name of the Dalek species has been besmirched, sullied and libeled.

With only a few Daleks left, seeking asylum on the planet Earth is proving difficult.

Here, we put the record straight and offer their side of the story.

Doctor Who Magazine 405 Cover and Details

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In DWM 405!
Matt talks exclusively in his only interview since getting the role...

On how he plans to go about playing a 950-year-old Time Lord:
“The script is where it starts, it’s always about the words, and luckily we’re in the hands of Steven Moffat [Doctor Who’s incoming Head Writer], who has this show ingrained in his soul and searing through his blood. It’s really born into his whole fabric - and that’s the job for me over the next few months, to make this show part of my fibre. I think Steven is going to be the main creative source for me, and we’re going to discover it together - who the Doctor is in Steven’s mind and words, coupled with pockets of my personality, my history, my life, and the man and the human being that I am. I’ve got a meeting with Piers Wenger, executive producer] next week to discuss that, but I think we’ll start rehearsing and, you know, just sit around Piers’ or Steven’s kitchen table, read the scripts together, talk about the part. We’ll talk about my intentions, their intentions, how we feel it can fly, and sing, and be as brilliant and as Doctor-y and as excellent as it can be.”

On what he might wear as the Doctor:
“I’m a big fan of long coats and rather dashing scarves in everyday life, so who knows? For the audition, I rocked up in whatever, so I think they’re having to tone down what I wear in real life for the Doctor! I am a rather elaborate dresser. That’s what’s lovely, there are all these exciting things - what’s he going to wear, what’s he going to do in his first scene with his companion, which monsters will he meet, will he meet the Daleks? This show is so alive, it really is. I can’t ever quite forget that I’m the Doctor - which is weird, because it’s still so far away. But it’s always there in my subconscious, because it’s the Doctor! It’s like, there’s Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, and Doctor Who. It has resonance in our cultural fabric.”

Also in DWM 405:

• NEW DOCTOR DAY!
  Showrunner-in-waiting Steven Moffat shares exclusively with DWM readers just what it's like to cast a new Doctor Who in Production Notes.
• REALITY TV?
  Remember the Zygon gambit? The Yeti in the Underground? Or that, frankly, unmissable invasion by thousands of Daleks after Earth was transported billions of miles across space? DWM investigates why so many people in the Doctor Who universe, apparently, don't!
• SUSIE CUES!
  She's worked on some of the most highly-acclaimed Doctor Who stories of all time! Susie Liggat talks candidly to DWM about her experiences as the producer of the UK's best-loved drama series.
• ANTIMATTER MATTERS!
  It could mean the end of the universe! The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith journey to the furthest reaches of space and encounter anti-matter monsters as The Fact of Fiction reveals some surprising secrets about 1975'sPlanet of Evil.
• DAY OF THE LOKHUS!
  Can the Doctor and Majenta prevent the Day of the Lokhus? And what will become of Maxwell Edison? Find out in the final thrilling part of DWM's latest comic strip, The Stockbridge Child by Dan McDaid, with art by Martin Geraghty.
• DEAR MATT SMITH...
  Neil Harris writes an open letter to Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith, full of helpful - and not so helpful! - advice, in You Are Not Alone.
• DWM turns the tables on the BBC's 'Doctor Who correspondent' as we ask the questions of the one-and-only Lizo Mzimba in Who on Earth Is!
• Plus! News, previews, reviews, competitions and more!

DWM 405 is out on 5 February 2009, price £3.99.

Unquiet podcast and Yquatine falls for a review

A Podcast of Impossible Things has released 1.03 The Unquiet Dead - Christmas Special Part One, join them for the first part of a belated Christmas celebration as they look back at series 1's seasonal ghost story, The Unquiet Dead and also look forward to The Next Doctor, the 2008 Christmas Special!(added to the pods and audio section of the editor's bit).

The Five of Diamonds have reviewed The Fall Of Yquatine.

Dr Who theme gets East Lancashire pupils thinking of jobs

Blackburn Citizen

A DALEK and a brick Tardis were just some of the projects on display during a Dr Who-themed event Accrington and Rossendale College.

Around 350 students from 15 secondary schools across East Lancashire attened the day, which was aimed at getting year 11 pupils thinking about their choices after leaving school.

It was organised by the construction and technology department at the college's Hameldon Centre in Accrington and allowed students to showcase their work.

Pupils took part in a number of skill-based challenges, including decorating a Tardis and a K9 robot race and changing the front wheel of a motorbike.

Pupils came from schools across Hyndburn, Rossendale, Burnley, Pendle and the Ribble Valley.

Maurice Gleeson, director of construction and technology, said: "Everyone had a fantastic day, it was a great opportunity for high school students to experience what the construction and motor engineering trades are all about.”

Skaropod, Burn's a dad (again), rising night and a batch of reviews

Radio Free Skaro have released a new Podcast 120 - The Return of Pedantor, this week saw a surfeit of news for the Three Who Rule to chew over, and masticate they did as they analyzed, cogitated...and digressed into discussions of Matt Houston, black and white action figures, the questionable acting talents of one Derek Jacobi, and a beast named Pedantor (added to the pods and audio section of the editor's bit).

Torchwood.TV send their congratulations to Burn Gorman and his wife Sarah, who gave birth to the couple's second child Nell on Sunday January 25th, as do I.

TARDIS Shop has news that a new audio CD Doctor Who: The Rising Night will be released in July (more details soon).

Dreamwatch reviews Sarah Jane Adventures: The Ghost House and The Time Capsule, Doctor Who: The Darkening Eye, Return of the Krotons, The Raincloud Man and Masters of War.

Doctor Who Adventures 101 Cover and Details

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In this weeks issue

* Free pull-back K9 and stickers
* Bred for War - Sontaran secrets
* Amazing Fifth Doctor 'Black Orchid' Adventure
* Red Nose Day Fun
* Solve the Console Quest

On sale the 5th February

A day in the snow

BBC NEWS

Jim Lynn, Hemel Hempstead: "All the kids started building a snowman, but one by one they retreated indoors with freezing feet and fingers. My daughter Charlotte lasted longest, and we decided on a Dalek."

'Torchwood' trailer to air on Thursday

Digital Spy

By Neil Wilkes

'Torchwood' trailer to air on Thursday

A 60-second preview of the new series of Torchwood will premiere simultaneously in the UK and US this Thursday.

The third series, Torchwood: Children Of Earth, will air over five consecutive nights on BBC One this Spring.

The trailer will be shown at 4pm ET on Thursday at New York ComicCon 2009, where star Eve Myles and director Euros Lyn are due to participate in a panel session.

At the same time - 9pm GMT - the preview will be made available on the Torchwood website at bbc.co.uk/torchwood.

Series producer Peter Bennett previously told Digital Spy that Children Of Earth would be an "epic" tale, with a "dilemma about a subject that's going to affect all the children of Earth".

Hours waiting for a bus then three come along, Sub zero three, Bad wolf mag and get happy on patrol

Outpost Gallifrey has news that the BBC acquire a third bus (spoilerific).

Inky Adventures in Time and Space have Sub Zero - Episode 3, somewhere in this polar waste, something pretty deadly to Earth is Hiding.

Bad Wolf TV have released a new online magazine TBWTV Issue 1.

TARDIS Shop has news of the release of Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol (Audio Book) being released on the 2nd of July.

Doctor Who releases for February

February

• 5th - The Nemonite Invasion (10th Doctor Audio)
  
• 12th - Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil (Audio)
• 15th - Companion Chronicles 3:08 The Prisoner's Dilemma
  
• 23rd - Doctor Who: The Rescue & The Romans (DVD)
  
• 26th - The Darksmith Legacy: Book Three - The Colour of Darkness (Book)
  
• 26th - The Sontaran Games (Quick Read book)
• 27th - Doctor Who Series 1-2-3 - Collect & Build - Gelth Phantoms figure
  
• 28th - BF118: Doctor Who: Key 2 Time - Destroyer of Delights (Audio)
  
• 28th - Collect & Build Vespiform Set
  
• 28th - Iris Wildthyme - The Sound of Fear (Audio Adventure)
  
• 28th - Iris Wildthyme - The Two Irises (Audio Adventure)
  

Note: dates may change

Full circle recovering, underworld to the pirate planet and a Fenric review

Velvet Jacket Full Circle has an alternative cover for 'Full Circle'.

The Vervoid has Underworld to The Pirate Planet and a review of The Curse of Fenric DVD.

Piece of Doctor Who memorabilia could be yours

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A deadly Cybershade is going to lose its head - and a lucky visitor to Spaceport will win it.

The head of a Cybershade - a shaggy varient of Doctor Who nemesis the Cybermen - is now on show at Spaceport as the Wirral-based attraction celebrates the extension of the hugely successful The Art of Doctor Who exhibition.The Cybershade head was made by Millennium FX, who have designed and created these and many other famous adversaries of the Doctor.

Cybershade at SpaceportSpaceport's Elaine Hyder with the Cybershade head

"The Next Doctor" was a tantalising precursor to the long-awaited news that Matt Smith will be following David Tennant as the eleventh Doctor. Matt will appear in his first episode in Easter 2010.

Ken Moss, Spaceport Manager, said: "We wanted something big to celebrate the fact that we have extended The Art of Doctor Who exhibition until March 1st, and we're absolutely delighted to have the Cybershade head - it's a ‘money can't buy' piece of celluloid history.

"There will be a prize draw open to every visitor and the lucky winner will be able to keep this unique prize forever."

Cybershades are wraith like variants of the Cybermen, with bronze cyberheads. They were created by the Cybermen after they broke out of The Void (or the space between universes) because of a need for a greater workforce. The Cybermen modeled the Cybershades on animals and used them as guards or scouts. The shaggy monsters are primitive animal-like conversions, created with the brain of a cat or dog - except that they hiss, instead of bark or meow......read more here

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Whovian worlds and staggering stories plus designs at the proms

Whovian World have released Whovian Monthly Issue 2.

Staggering Stories have released their Podcast #38: The Wilf is Worth Ten of the Adric (added to the pods and audio section of the editor's bit).

Amphibious Designs have a cover for Doctor Who at the Proms.

Time and Relative Dimensions in Space

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Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger is one of Britain's most original artists, creating works that combine intellectual curiosity with wide public appeal. This Hayward Touring Exhibition, which opens at the Hayward before moving to Leeds and Swansea, is the first gallery exhibition curated by Wallinger and provides special insights into the artist's thought process and interests. The title and many of the themes in the exhibition take their inspiration from the story of the Russian Linesman, whose controversial ruling in the 1966 World Cup final between England and Germany changed the course of footballing history. For his selection, Wallinger creates an exhibition that investigates many of the issues that have concerned him as an artist over the past 25 years, in particular ideas of boundaries, thresholds and arbitrary divides, whether physical, political, psychological or metaphysical.

Navigating almost 2000 years of history from an early Roman double-headed marble bust of Dionysus and Silenus, through popular 'View-master' stereoscopic photographs and 18th Century trompe l'oeil paintings, to a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer showing a device for rendering objects in two dimensions, the show explores the ambiguities present in our own perceptions and how the lines between fact and fiction are often blurred and manipulated. The show also includes Mark's own work Time and Relative Dimensions in Space (2001), a life-sized mirrored representation of the Tardis from Doctor Who, first shown at the Venice Biennale. Related works in the show will be grouped together, in order to create unexpected dialogues and interpretations........read more here

Who's that girl? New Time Lord gets himself a look-a-like girlfriend

Mail Online

The new Doctor Who's girlfriend bears an uncanny resemblance to the Time Lord himself.

With her elfin crop swept in a side-parting and long ,graceful nose, the beautiful singer from Ipanema could easily pass as Matt Smith's sister.

Mayana Moura, a 26-year-old Brazilian, commutes between homes in Rio de Janeiro and New York, and performs with a punk rock band on the US club circuit.

Friends revealed last night that she met Smith, the unknown actor recently cast to play the 903-year-old Time Lord, when he was holidaying in Rio......read more here