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Todays picture is The Doctor and Amy by nancywho.
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Doctor Who Tin Tote: TARDIS
Dine with the Doctor! Bif Bang Pow!'s wonderful line based on Doctor
Who, the longest-running sci-fi TV series in the world, continues with
this fantastic Doctor Who TARDIS Tin Tote!
Due for release on the 15th September, order from Forbidden Planet.
Main News...
The Doctor Who News Page has Day of the Moon - Final Ratings, it had a final consolidated audience figure of 7.30 million viewers, a 36.7% share of the total TV audience, according to figures released by Barb....
They also have Curse of the Black Spot - AI, it had an Audience Appreciation figure, or AI, of 86 once more putting it in the excellent category, with nothing on Sunday getting more than 6 million viewers, Doctor Who finished 18th for the week on overnight figures, with a top ten place possible when the final figures are released next week, the Sunday repeat on BBC Three was watched by 0.41 million viewers.
Big Finish has The Five Companions - Cover revealed, May 12 is an important day in the Big Finish calendar… It’s the day when a host of Doctor Who stars come together to record a very special story, Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, William Russell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh and Anneke Wills will all be under the same roof for The Five Companions, and they’ll be joined by Dan Starkey, playing Sontarans, and Nicholas Briggs as the Daleks, Eddie Robson’s script is an exciting and rather tender reunion, in which the Fifth Doctor meets up with his distant past – the schoolteacher who settled down, the space pilot who became a King, the security agent who died and lived again and the swinging Sixties secretary who has made her own way in the world, The Five Companions is available only to subscribers of the main Doctor Who range whose subscription includes our December 2011 release. However, those who take out a 12-month subscription after this release will be able to select the story as their additional free CD.
Whovian News....
The List has Doctor Who fans must wait to discover River Song identity, Matt Smith has revealed 'Doctor Who' fans will have to wait until the second half of the current series to find out who River Song is......
guardian.co.uk has Why The Hand of Fear is a fitting tribute to Elisabeth Sladen, when it came to asking which story the BBC should repeat in her honour, the candidates seemed endless. Planet of the Spiders, when Sarah Jane first witnessed a regeneration, Pertwee bowing out with the seminal line, "a tear, Sarah Jane?" The bravehearted face-off against Davros in Genesis of the Daleks? Her eerie vulnerability in possession caper Pyramids of Mars? Instead BBC Four will repeat 1976 story The Hand of Fear tonight and tomorrow....
Wifetor Who has Meredith Vieira set visit on "Today", US show Today featured a set visit from Meredith Vieira (who is due to appear in an upcoming episode) featuring interviews with Alex Kingston and Matt Smith...
ActiveDad has Doctor Who Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) Series 1 Micro-Figure review, It’s Day Three of the Daily Mirror Doctor Who Micro-Figure give away and today it’s the turn of the Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) Series 1 Micro-Figure. If the kids have already got Doctor Who and Dalek The Eternal then you’ll need this to finish the set....
Miscellanious News
- BBC News - Webscape - Sound clouds and time lords
Featuring Dalek 6388, a fan site to exterminate all fan sites, with a huge amount of detail about Doctor Who's arch-rivals, the Daleks. - HeroPress - 'One Dalek Is Capable Of Exterminating All!'
"I was so impressed when Rachel's dad sent me a link to Dalek 6388 - a near-encyclopedic website compiles by a pair of dalek prop historians, tracing the design history of the iconic pepper-pots from their first appearance in The Daleks (1963) through to their final Classic era appearance in Remembrance Of The Daleks (1988)."
Scanner selected posts...
Pull To Open has My View of Who, "I've been getting increasingly annoyed, upset and angered by Doctor Who fandom recently nit picking, moaning and whining from the beginning of episode one of the new series. It's gotten to me in a way I didn't think it could; so I decided to look at what makes my view of Doctor Who - which is usually glowing and happy - so different from those fans - in many cases friends and peers; and I've figured out what it is...."
WhoTube....
MichaelShawnShannon has Doctor Who News, Meredith Vieira to join cast for an episode, Meredith Vieira to join cast for an episode of Doctor Who, looks like it may be a Cybermen episode.
digitalspy has Gaiman: "You see the Doctor do things he's never done before", legendary sci-fi writer Neil Gaiman teases us about his forthcoming Doctor Who episode 'The Doctor's Wife'.
BBCClassicDoctorWho has First appearance of Jo Grant - Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons, the Doctor is in no mood for being interrupted by the enthusiastic Jo Grant. Classic clip from the 1971 four-part story 'Terror of the Autons' starring Jon Pertwee.
MrTARDISreviews has Doctor Who Review - The Curse of the Black Spot (2011), the TARDIS is marooned onboard a 17th-century pirate ship whose crew is being attacked by a mysterious and beautiful sea creature. Becalmed and beset by cabin fever, the pirates have numerous superstitious explanations for the Siren's appearance....
Tid-Bits...
Springfield Punx has Another Doctor Who Week; Day 7 - The Silence.
In Print 002 - Doctor Who Comic Strip.
doctorwho has Ikea Sci-Fi Manuals -- "Tjardiis".
Banana Dalek! - Dalek of the Day
eBay items of interest...
The following eBay items are all for the Great Ormond Street Hospital & Children with Leukaemia charity....
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Review's Roundup...
Cathode Ray Tube has The Curse of the Black Spot Review, it seemed rather inevitable that Doctor Who would return to the action-adventure of the pirate genre at some point in the course of its revival since 2005. Naturally, it is no stranger to this type of action-adventure, having dabbled with this staple of adventure fiction in the past.....
Tea with Morbius has Alien Bodies, by Lawrence Miles (BBC novel), there is a really unsettling vibe about Alien Bodies. It does not feel like reading a typical Doctor Who novel. There is an overwhelming sense that the book is shaking up the whole mythos of Doctor Who. Just as the New Adventure novels Timewyrm: Revelation and Cat's Cradle: Warhead completely altered the paradigm of Doctor Who in the Virgin range, Alien Bodies completely alters the horizon of Doctor Who within the BBC books.....
This way up has The Curse of the Black Spot, it is probably not that easy to make something involving both Doctor Who and pirates a bit dull, but Steve Thompson’s brisk if uninvolving episode pulls it off. Or perhaps after the diversity of the season’s opening story, `Curse of the Black Spot` is simply what we expect from Doctor Who with few surprises? The narrative delivers a story where pirates believe they are cursed by a siren that takes them if they are injured....
The Edwardian Adventurer has 6.03 – The Curse of the Black Spot, I found this episode to be a nice space to breathe after the rushing around in the previous story. Sure, there was a lot of rushing around in this one, but the settings were fewer and the fact that much of the story took place on the pirate ship really made the episode feel as if the scope was much smaller. Given the virtually intimate feel of this story (compared to the bombast of the previous), I’m quite interested to see how the BBC America ratings progress from here....
Billie Doux has The Curse of the Black Spot, in many respects this felt like a lost episode
from the Russell T. Davies era. The concept was big, there was lots of
frenetic action and loud music, all nicely capped off with a
pseudo-emotional crisis which, unfortunately, never quite hit the mark....
Hashtags Plus One has Dr.Who, Hugh Bonneville, and realism in science fiction, after an ambitious two-part opener in which both the entire series budget and the audience’s minds were comprehensively blown, Doctor Who settled down to a more traditional ‘freak of the week’ format on Saturday....
tor.com has “The Curse of the Black Spot”, It seemed like it was going to be a nice respite from the high-stakes Moffstraganza that were the last five episodes of Doctor Who. I thought a standalone, rollicking pirate tale would be just what the, erm, doctor ordered. And then I saw “The Curse of the Black Spot,” and started comparing it with “The Web Planet.” And “The Web Planet” was winning, if only because I was so bored I fell asleep while watching it, whereas I had the misfortune of watching “The Curse of the Black Spot” in its entirety.....
The Tardis Project has "Bell of Doom", in Preslin's shop, Anne is awakened by a pounding on the door. At first, she tries to hide, but then she hears Steven's voice asking her to let him in. She let him in, relieved that the guards hadn't caught him the night before. Steven tells her they nearly did; he'd hid after the curfew bell. He tells her that, although he'd gotten a warning to Nicholas, it came too late. Anne asks Steven whether he will go back to his friend, the Doctor. Steven tells her sadly that he can't; the Doctor is dead....
stuartreviewsstuff has The Romans (Or How to Progress Your Career in Three Easy Steps, by Sevcheria the Slave Trader), in The Rescue, the writers slipped in some mild and subtle humour to nice effect. Maybe it was coincidence or possibly it testing the waters for the next story – The Romans - in which humour becomes a major factor. Presumably because it’s set in Ancient Rome, the writers decided to make the story – and Episode 3 in particular – part serious/part farce....
Podcast Review's...
Radio Free Skaro has Episode 253 – Yarrr’s Revenge, it’s a pirate party, and yarrr all invited as The Three Who Rule take a look at the latest Doctor Who offering, The Curse of the Black Spot. The boys hash through the highs, lows and plethora of middles of this eye of the storm between the Series 6 two-part opener and Neil Gaiman’s sure-to-be-awesome-but-dark episode 4, always keeping the goals of stats and public safety in sight.
The Bad Wilf podcast has Episode 27, In which Martyn and Imran discuss Doctor Who:Curse of the black spot.
The Unearthly Child Podcast has Episode 034: The Curse of the Black Spot, Pirates ahoy! in this week's Doctor Who, and my thoughts on the episode are presented in this Unearthly Child Podcast.
US WhoCast has Episode 044: Initial Reactions to S6E03 "Curse of the Black Spot", Matt is joined by Anna from the Shelf Life Podcast, Donald from the ReOpening the X-Files Podcast, and Wes from the Omega Podcast to discuss their reactions to the 3rd ep of series 6, "Curse of the Black Spot"
The Cultdom Chronicles has ‘The Curse of the Black Spot’ Review.
Outer Space Book and a Pick of the Tweets...
 | BlogtorWho Haha, brilliant! The Silence have been Simpsonified - http://tinyurl.com/SilentSimp |
 | bigfinish Just listened to the edit of Jago and Litefoot 3.3: Swan Song. John Dorney is a ridiculously clever writer. Early start. Studios to organize. People to chat to. I need to ring Peter Davison, Anneke Wills and William Russell. Is 630 too early? |
 | Nelle_Macbeth Improved Gingerbread Troughton design complete with bow tie #bowtiesarecool #doctorwho #doctorwhobaking http://twitpic.com/4v73ho |
 | JasonArnopp If it's Monday morning, then that means it's time for the Monday Morning Crossword. Hold on to your pens (yes, pens) for the first clue... 1 Across: Popular BBC One series about a Time Lord who travels in something called a TARDIS (6,3) |
 | DW_Experience This Friday 13th at the #DoctorWho Experience we will be unveiling....... Sorry...that's strange....I was talking about unveiling monsters but I can't remember why...weird... |
- alun_vega Photo: Genesis Of The Dalek http://tumblr.com/xch2fsxs9r
- Martyn_Havell Really looking forward to Torchwood in the summer
- LSully9 Matt Smith early in the morning is ALWAYS a good start to the day!
- hidesmith I watched the latest Doctor Who yesterday. I never thought a pirate outfit could be hot but Karen Gillan managed to pull it off.
- burningupasun That awkward moment when people don't understand why you are wearing a bow tie
Spoiler and Speculation Alert...
- Digital Spy Forums has Series6 Ep 7 question
- thatsthewayitgoes09 has YouTubed Curse of the Black Spot Ultimate Review
