Thursday, 1 July 2010

3D Doctor, a new vortex, plus veteran designer returns with more news and reviews...



Doctor Who Adventures has Issue 173, is out now (1 July)!
  • To celebrate the end of an utterly brilliant series, this week the Doctor Who Adventures team are bringing you our best magazine yet - a moving 3-D cover, part one of our exciting Series 5 poster collection, the first winner of the new DWA awards and loads more!
  • This week, you are literally not going to want to put your magazine down! Once you manage to tear your eyes away from the super-cool 3-D cover, inside you'll also find the Doctor Who World Cup (who wins? You decide!), the first part of our Series 5 episode guide, a massive monster quiz and a brilliantly hellish Pandorica maze. You've only got a week to get your hands on a copy- grab yours now.



Big Finish
have uploaded Issue 17 of Vortex Magazine, who will join the Eighth Doctor in his travels?

Torchwood Magazine - Facebook
has Photos - Issue 22 features.

TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has....

The10GrandCharityChallenge
has 64 TARDIS Artworks Online now, as promised, its TARDIS Project Day.



British Board of Film Censors
has...



The Doctor Who News Page has Veteran Designer returns to Doctor Who, Barbara Kidd returns to Doctor Who this year, when she takes over costume design duties on the Christmas Special and the 2011 series, she worked on the series at the start of her career, creating costumes as early as the 1973 Jon Pertwee story, Frontier in Space. She was a regular on the series throughout the mid seventies working on The Green Death, Invasion of the Dinosaurs and The Monster of Peladon before moving on to a new Doctor in the guise of Tom Baker for The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks and Pyramids of Mars. Her final contribution was for the Peter Davison story Kinda.

Big Finish has Eighth Doctor Trailer II, the second trailer for Season Four of the new Eighth Doctor adventures is now available to stream and download, Paul McGann stars in a brand new series of adventures, encountering enemies and friends, old and new.

Den Of Geek has Doctor Who exhibition review, Mark pays a visit to Newcastle's Doctor Who Exhibition, and finds a gathering of props and costumes that should please old and young fans alike…

io9
has The Johnny Depp Doctor Who movie couldn't be worse than this... [Satire], the rumored Johnny Depp Doctor Who movie sounds horrendous enough, but just remember: It could always get worse. Just check out this new spoof that imagines what it would be like if Jack Black took the role.

Daily Star
has Eric Cantona to join Doctor Who as an evil alien, the former Manchester United star is being lined up for a role as an evil alien alongside Time Lord Matt Smith, and producers are hoping the Frenchman might show off some of his famous Kung Fu moves in his baddie part.

SciFi Pulse
has ‘Torchwood’ Comic Debuts At Comic-Con With Tommy Lee Edward’s Signing!, Titan is pleased to announce that Torchwood comic will debut at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International 2010, with a Comic-Con exclusive cover drawn by British comic book artist Ian Churchill and a signing by acclaimed artist Tommy Lee Edwards.

WalesOnline
has Is Matt's Doctor Who a turn-off?, fans defended the series, which featured Smith as the youngest-ever doctor, super-fan Peter Bell, of Cardiff, said: “We had great weather on Saturday and most people don’t want to spend summer sat indoors watching the TV.”...

BrokenSea has released Season 3 – Episode 5: East of the Sun, West of the Moon, “When The Doctor joins forces with a ruthless bounty hunter to bring a wanted murderer to justice the past, present and future collide in a way that even The Doctor never expected…”

Airlock Alpha
has Johnny Depp Cast In 'Doctor Who' Movie?, ...how much truth is there to the report? Well, the original article has been removed from the Web, suggesting that it was either a total fabrication or something that studio and talent representatives wanted to keep quiet.

Digital Spy has Steven Moffat: 'My cowardice inspires me', he jokes that he gets inspiration for Doctor Who plots because he is scared of things.



Hello, I'm the Doctor has Doctor Who's Car - Bring Back Bessie!, ...a canary-yellow roadster, acquired by the Brigadier for the Doctor's use as part of the exiled Time Lord's agreement to assist UNIT in its efforts to protect Earth.



Tin Dog Podcast has TDP 132: Pandorica Opens & The Big Bang, the Doctor and Amy Pond  travel to the oldest planet in the universe where a legendary message turns out to be another "calling card" of River Song.

Pharos Project
has released 12: The Big Balls, the team attempt to answer some of the questions left over from the final episode of series 5 "The Big Bang". Who is River Song? Who is the mysterious voice? What is the silence? Why do Paul's feet stink so? Has Chris really got fountain shaped bollocks? Most importantly, can Little Pete retain his crown as the Doctor Dolittle of Love?

The Eleventh Hour Podcast
has The Big Bang, join Joe and Chris as they bring their recollections of the series into being purely by REMEMBERING them and also bid a fond farewell to CRACKWATCH and the frankly superhuman levels of editing it generates. Thanks for listening for all these weeks.

Behind the Sofa has Making it a good one, the Big Bang review by Paul Kirkley.

The Doctor Who Podcast
has Episode 21, it is our great pleasure to have Robert from the Doctor Who Review Today podcast in the campervan to discuss the fan reaction to The Hungry Earth.

Two-minute Time Lord
has 2MTL 147: Revisiting "Vincent and the Doctor", while the U.K. suffers the beginning of the Long Night Without Doctor Who, the U.S. and Canada have only gotten around to "Vincent and the Doctor," very much an outlier among the whole of Series 5. Thoughts about character development, starry nights and Fandom Wars (TM) within!

Staggering Stories has Commentary 11: Doctor Who - The Lodger, Amy's studio-bound, Craig and Sophie need a room and the Doctor's quirking it up to 11. But enough of their problems, please sit down with us to enjoy The Lodger…



A pick of todays 'Who' related tweets...

  • maticito Watching Doctor Who with friends tonight... yay!
  • vanconnor Wound up spending most of the day rewatching Matt Smith's debut Doctor Who season. Plays better in hindsight than first run. Ending helps.
  • emjaydavies Watching the season finale of Doctor Who instead of having a siesta today.
  • incroyable since doctor who is finished i've removed my karen gillen background, she'll be back on when doctor who returns.
  • byghostlight no matter how many times iwatch doctor who finale,my head feels like it is going to explode with how clever&tight the writing is
  • jch132 I'm in Doctor Who withdrawl already!Only been 3 days.Have to fill up on unwatched confidentials the next 13 wks, then Sarah Jane Adventures
  • andrepaploo The Sarah Jane Adventures is a really good show- I'd seen a random episode awhile ago, nice to get around to watching season 1 now
  • gingeniousben the security man for Sarah Jane Adventures just laughed at our camera. "Dude, you watch doors for a living..."
  • mattappleby Filming of the Sarah Jane Adventures drawing a crowd on the Hayes this afternoon.
  • DanJWatts On Tuesday we start mixing the first 6 episodes of the Sarah Jane Adventures series 4. Can we really be halfway through already?!!
  • introvertedwife Get your hands off my Doctor, you damn dirty Hollywood. Depp would make a horrible Doctor Who.
  • themusicgeek Re-watching the doctor who episode with James Corden in. Proper love that episode (:
  • Voyager_03 I think the only ones who don't like Matt as the Doctor now, are those who would not even give him a chance to start with.
  • Voyager_03 Again I have to ask... why would RTD do a Doctor Who Movie, WITHOUT David Tennant?
  • photogal1003 Ok, a Doctor Who movie? Saweeet. A Doctor Who movie starring Johnny Depp and NOT David Tennant? Laaaaame.



Spoiler TV has Exclusive! Doctor Who - Episode 6.01 - Extract of the Script, thanks to one of our contacts, Max Xaron, for sending us this snippet of the script from Episode 6.01. Whilst I don't doubt our source as always take with a grain of salt.

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