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(Dave Lewis 'The Mad Man with a Blue Blog')
Todays picture is Lily Cole from Doctor Who by kablammo55.
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Whovian News....
Doctor Who TV has Series 7: Chibnall will Scare. Doctor Who’s executive producer Caroline Skinner gave an little update on Series 7 in the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine. Skinner confirms that the Russell T Davies-owned Dalek (pictured) he loaned for filming on the opener has a “a starring role in the climax.” She moves on to talk about the second episode which is being written by Chris Chibnall. Skinner says it has “the best episode title ever” and will be “the biggest VFX episode of the series”....
Big Finish has Final 2012 Trilogy Announced. The final main range mini-series of 2012 has been confirmed, and it forms a sweeping storyline, with each story focusing on a different Doctor. “We wanted to do something a bit different with the year's final trilogy,” says script editor Alan Barnes, “so what we've come up with is an epic space saga spanning 60-odd years involving three Doctors, a royal wedding and a brooding villain… not to mention psychic powers, swamp monsters, barbarian hordes, bounty hunters and a space-faring snail! “It all begins when the Fifth Doctor becomes caught up in the hunt for a missing princess in John Dorney's The Burning Prince (September), continues with the Sixth Doctor stuck in the middle of an interplanetary war in Rick Briggs' The Acheron Pulse (October) and concludes with the Seventh Doctor witnessing the fall of an intergalactic empire in Jonathan Morris' The Shadow Heart (November)”...
BBC Things to Do has Dalek Invasion of Portsmouth. Only the brave should venture to the Royal Marines Museum on Sunday 6th May as an army of Daleks will invade the Museum. Throughout the day there will be a variety of family activities, photo opportunities with Daleks and special guest appearances. Prize for the children with the best Sci-Fi fancy dress outfit....
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Brian of Morbius has Museum piece. "You may remember a while back that I posted photos of the Doctor Who exhibition we went to in Cardiff – all bright lights, flashing models and relatively light on actual content. We’d driven through Bromyard and seen signs for the Time Machine museum there a number of times, but had never actually got round to going. Thomas can be a bit highly strung when it comes to stuff like this, and I was blowed if I was going to pay five quid for entry only to have him tear about the place in one of his moments of silliness. So the fact that he was, on this occasion, staying in Shropshire with his grandparents gave us the perfect excuse...."
BBC America - Anglophenia has Doctor Who Rogues Gallery: The Master. Every Holmes needs a Moriarty, ever Scooby Doo needs an embittered janitor. The Doctor has the Master, a rival Time Lord who appears to be slightly more successful at Time Lording than his eccentric fellow Gallifreyan (fully working chameleon circuit on his TARDIS, for starters), apart from one problem: he’s mad. In fact, he’s mad and he’s bad, and most definitely dangerous to know....
Miscellanious News
- Corsham People - Corsham Sci-Fi Day Raises £6K for Charity
There was a queue of people waiting to get into the star-studded event throughout the day, which spanned across the sports hall of the Springfield Leisure Centre and the main hall of the Corsham Community Centre, featuring celebrities from the likes of Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and more.... - Telly Mix - Britain's Got Talent 2012 auditions see Dalek impersonator Martin Crofts
A man who impersonates a Dalek with a saucepan on his head is one of the more wacky acts to audition for Britain’s Got Talent 2012 this weekend.... - The Doctor Who News Page - People Roundup
Phil Davis talks about what roles interest him the most: "I like films and plays that are about real life, I'm not interested in superheroes or things going to the moon and all that. What I like is films about real people, dealing with real problems and what it's like to be alive in London in 2012 – well, not just in London, in this country. Those are the things that interest me, things that are genuine"...
WhoTube....
- Doctor Who and the Giant Robot - Episode 4
Harry infiltrates the Think Tank whilst the Doctor meets with the Giant Robot's creator and mentor. Read by Tom Baker.
Podcasts and VBlogs...
Beware most podcasts are of an adult nature and are not suitable for children.
TimeVault has 29 Doctor Who – Terror of the Autons. A stage hypnotist and a factory worker employ a team of mime artists to run their own radio station whilst taking part in a bus tour for a group of artificial florists with abnormally large heads. Clearly this contravenes all the laws of, erm….sense, so U.N.I.T. is called in to put a stop to it. The Doctor can’t take part though because he’s confused by a window and challenged some clowns to a fist fight. Not to worry, the clumsy work experience girl has just brought the Brigadier a damp plank of wood, just what he needs to defeat the Sparkly Fingers of Death…
DWO WhoCast has Episode 241. Take a trip to a future Earth and privatisation gone mad! Yes, it's Energy Of The Daleks! We also have a natter about Barry from Bromely....
The Krynoid Podcast has 031: The Masque of Mandragora. Count Federico introduces Renaissance Italy’s hot new diet sensation in the 1976 pseudo-historical epic, The Masque of Mandragora. The fourth Doctor and Sarah wander round The Village watching look-unlikes fighting and mounting horses, while avoiding executioner’s swords, sacrificial knives and cockernee pikemen’s pikes.
The Naked Scarf has The Trial Of A Time Lord 1-4 (Well Technically It’s More Of An Inquiry). Join Adam, Andi and Stephen as they start to tackle one of the most controversial stories in Doctor Who’s history. Does it deserve it’s terrible reputation? Do we really need constant cutaways to court? How many crash zooms can one face stand? Will Adam give in to Andi’s utterly random demands to put the song Sex Dwarf into this episode? And is the world truly ready for a sexy William Hartnell Halloween costume?
The Memory Cheats has Episode 8 - Ghost Light. Amazingly, the Wheel of Fortune selects another Season 26 story in Ghost Light, mere weeks after picking the last story ever, Survival, for Josh and Steven to discuss. What did the fellas think of this densely layered drama featuring alien husks and trouble after dusk?
Tid-Bits...
Nothing Tra La La? (Simon Guerrier) has AAAGH! at the beach! "More AAAGH! silliness from Doctor Who Adventures, this time from issue 266 and featuring a Sea Devil, a Marshman and a Haemovore, plus a Pyrovile from James Moran's The Fires of Pompeii. As ever, it's written by me, drawn by Brian Williamson and edited by Paul Lang and Natalie Barnes..."
honorarydoctor has TVM TARDIS Console Restoration Log: Sonic Screwdriver Addendum, "Paul (the current owner of the TVM console) hit it off with Philip Segal who produced the Doctor Who TVM in '96. Phil after seeing the conole nicely restored and cared for decided to invite Paul over recently to bequeath some other TVM items for safe keeeping as he was about to move house. Paul received a signed script book, a chess set, an original post/staff form the Eye of harmony set- the same one used by McGann and Roberts during the final battle! and most importantly - the Doctor's Toolkit Bag!..."
Deviant Art has I like the Beatles now. The Beatles are cool by Crispy-Gypsy
Geeks of Doom has Geek Gear: Doctor Who ‘Void Stuff Vision’ Shirt. The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a Doctor Who-themed shirt called "Void Stuff Vision" by jkilpatrick. The sale began at Teefury today, Friday, May 4, 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 Silence while reading by Demianite.
Review's Roundup...
TARDIS Eruditorum has Things Which Act Against Everything We Believe In (Attack of the Cybermen). The obvious putdown of Attack of the Cybermen is that it finally and demonstrably shows just how bad both Ian Levine and Eric Saward are, in that both of them take credit for this story instead of frantically trying to shift the blame onto the other. But denouncing Attack of the Cybermen is almost too easy. And anyway, I want to take a different line on Season 22...
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery has Doctor Who 164: The Faceless Ones Part 6. The Chameleons are forced to surrender their captives and leave, and Ben and Polly make their goodbyes....
Squabbling rubber (Gary Gillatt) has The Daemons. "A review of the DVD for Doctor Who Magazine, from 2012. (Sadly, there was no room for my theory that Bok is the Master’s Tardis. A glow-eyed, peripatetic statue, like a mini Melkur. At the the end of this story, it sits there, cross-legged, in the churchyard, waiting for the Master to escape from prison)...."
Tea with Morbius has The Talons of Tired Tropes. "My low opinion of The Talons of Weng-Chiang is shared by many fans who have more love for the Hinchcliffe era than I do. There are plenty of fans who feel that Talons does not compare favourably with the more popular Genesis of the Daleks or Pyramids of Mars (as it happens, I think Talons is better than Pyramids of Mars). So the faults in this story are not simply my bias coming out as a Hinchcliffe critic...."
SFX has Doctor Who: Ace Adventures Review. That nitro 9-lobbing companion Ace became one of ‘80s Who’s best-loved characters is miraculous, considering how unpromising the original conception was. She’s meant to ooze authenticity, but the streets of late-‘80s Britain were hardly teeming with her kind: well-spoken 16-year-olds who look 22, wear Blue Peter badges on their bomber jackets, use the word “bilgebag” as an insult, and are also experts in home-made explosives....
SFX also has Who Is Michael E Briant? Review. "Who is Michael E Briant? It’s a question even pretty knowledgeable Doctor Who fans can be forgiven for scratching their heads at. Briant helmed half a dozen of the Time Lord’s ‘70s adventures (including much-loved tales “The Green Death” and “Robots Of Death”), but has a lower profile than some of his colleagues...."
Second Life News
The TARDIS Newsroom has its own place in Second Life, come and drop in for a virtual Doctor Who World of adventure at Paradox Island.
Paradox Island - A Second Life Adventure has Hartnell Rack Unit and Drawer Unit from NN. Featured in the early Dr Who episodes 'The Space Museum' and 'The Chase'.
