TARDIS Newsroom - Doctor Who News: Whovian roundup for Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Editor's bit...
(Dave Lewis 'The Mad Man with a Blue Blog')

Todays picture is Vogan by Harnois75. A Vogan redesign from the classic 1975 Dr Who story Revenge of the Cybermen.

Details of The Crash of The Elysium - Ipswich 2012 are now added to the top bar of the site, along with the WhoTube link and all thats 'Who' at Forbidden Planet (soon to be updated with a release calendar).

Todays Jigsaw...
70 Dr Who and the Scratchman by BrianAW
Previous Posts...

Doctor Who: The Sensorites - Special DVD Feature - Forgetting the lines
William Hartnell frequently forgot his lines. As Clive Doig, vision mixer on early Doctor Who stories tell us, it was immensely important for William's co-stars to support him back to the script....
On this day Wednesday, January 25, 2012
1969 - Episode 1 of DW: The Seeds of Death was first broadcast....
The Daily Dalek - Day 117: Dalek Attachments
Doctor Who Adventures Issue 253
It’s not easy pretending to be dead, you know!...
Dr Who phone game puts Daleks in your living room
While the majority of the AppGear collection was on show at CES 2012 a few weeks ago, a new Doctor Who version was talked-up today, which will see fans of the series strolling the streets shooting virtual Daleks and Cybermen with their smartphones...
TARDIS safe is unlocked with your smart phone
Timelords-in-training won't need a Sonic Screwdriver to crack open this adorable TARDIS safe -- instead it's unlocked using a smart phone. We've gone paws-on with the Zeon Tech TARDIS Smartsafe at the Toy Fair in London, so hit play on the video above to examine it for yourself.
Doctor Who and the Virgin Media TV Awards
Throughout many of the categories, the two leading contenders were Doctor Who and Merlin, proving that you lot like your big budget BBC sci-fi/fantasy shows. Time Lord beat wizard here though, just edging forward enough to claim the top spot...

Whovian News....

SFX has Anthony Head and THE Colin Baker confirmed for the SFX Weekender. But work commitments mean Alex Kingston is no longer able to attend. The SFX Weekender 3 is just eight days away, but if you thought you’d heard the last of our guest announcements then think again, because we’re delighted to confirm a further two huge genre stars will be joining in the fun in Prestatyn: Merlin/Buffy’s Anthony Head and the sixth Doctor Colin Baker. Wizard!...

Miscellanious News

Mortal words - Competition: What Doctor Who means to me (Win a TARDIS iPhone 4/4S case)
Naturally, being a fan, when I was looking for a case for my new iPhone 4s, I was delighted to find a wonderful TARDIS case at Redbubble.com. I ordered one, and when it didn’t show up and I contacted Redbubble, they immediately replaced it. Then, wouldn’t you know it, the first one escaped from its time loop and arrived three days later. I asked Redbubble if they wanted me to post it back and they said ‘Don’t worry about it: just give it to a good home.”
David Tennant News - David Tennant Visits Charity Body & Soul
David Tennant, along with a number of other celebrities, today visited the London charity Body & Soul as part of the launch celebrations for Sport Relief 2012. Among the group was Lara Stone, model and wife to Sport Relief challenge hero David Walliams, Tom Ellis, star of Miranda, and choreographer Arlene Phillips....

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Bob Canada's BlogWorld has I'm A Grown Man And I Bought This: Tardis Booble Head. In addition to bobbling, the TARDIS bobble head also features sounds. Push the button on the front of the maroon vase and you'll hear the trademark TARIDS takeoff and landing sounds. Both sounds are suitably loud and sound clear....

Big Finish have uploaded the trailer for 1.04 Doctor Who: Energy of the Daleks.

WhoTube....

Barry Letts - Who & Me - Episode 7
The Doctor Who TV producer concludes his memoirs, secretly writing for the series and tinkering with the famous theme tune.

Podcasts and VBlogs...
Beware most podcasts are of an adult nature and are not suitable for children.

Traveling the Vortex has Episode 56 – On the Rocks. In this week’s show we make the trip way back for an Adversary Archive on the Ice Warriors starting with the Second Doctor’s first encounter in the appropriately titled The Ice Warriors. Then another outing with the Second Doctor as the Ice Warriors return in The Seeds of Death.

Tid-Bits...

Geeks of Doom has Geek Gear: Time Travel ‘Time Warp’ Shirt. The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a time travel-themed shirt with references to Doctor Who, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures, Back To The Future, and more called "Time Warp" by stevethomas. The sale began at Teefury today, Wednesday, January 25, 2012, at midnight EST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.

RedBubble.com has Who 7 by Tate Renforth-Frederick. The license plate from Bessie during the episode Battlefield.

Hoyden About Town has Whoydensday: Adventures with a Knitted TARDIS. "The thing you should know about my family is that we feature more than one hardcore Whovian. My second cousin once removed is one of these, and he is trying to turn his newborn child into another. Now, what am I to do but to use my Who knitting skills to welcome my little third cousin* into the world of time and space? So I knitted a toy TARDIS...."

Review's Roundup...

Feeling Listless has “It’s Saturday night tea time in 1977 all over again!" Cleverly, Big Finish have decided to return to first principles and attempt to recreate the sound and style of the original stories. As Tom’s voice over in the trailers suggest, “It’s Saturday night tea time in 1977 all over again!" So we have the classic TARDIS team of Fourth and Leela, Tom consciously reproducing his earlier performance and Louise Jameson magnificently returning to the savagery of a role which has matured over a number of Big Finish’s spin off series across the years.

TARDIS Eruditorum has That's The Lion King (Full Circle). The State of Decay-Meglos-Full Circle trilogy, then, is where Bidmead shows what he can do. These are the three stories in which he shows how his vision of what Doctor Who can be improves existing models of Doctor Who. From a production standpoint, he moves through both previous versions of Doctor Who - the Hinchcliffe and Williams eras - and in each case attempts an improvement in which he shows how his approach expands on the potential of the previous models...

The Daily P.O.P. has Doctor Who Big Finish- Project Twilight. In search of some low end takeaway, the Doctor treats Evelyn to a dish from the ‘slow boat’ in contemporary London’s south end. There he encounters what appears on the surface to be a gangland attack. Bringing the body into the confines of the shady nightclub ‘Dusk,’ the Doctor encounters a situation that is as deadly as it is complicated....

Outer Space Book and a Pick of the Tweets...

Anneke Wills Official A new interview with Anneke is available to read online.

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