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(Dave Lewis 'The Mad Man with a Blue Blog')
Todays picture comes from Ancient and Forever and is by Francesco Francavilla (via Dan McDaid’s Twitter).
Previous posts...
- Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock Introduction to the Game
In the first developer diary, hear from the team behind Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock about making the game. - Today in the 'Whoniverse' Friday, May 18, 2012
1928 - John Abineri, who played Ranquin in DW: The Power of Kroll, Richard Railton in DW: Death to the Daleks, General Carrington in DW: The Ambassadors of Death, and Van Lutyens in DW: Fury from the Deep, was born in London.... - Big Finish - Bonus Episode Podcast - The Butcher of Brisbane
As a special thank you for our listeners' patience and understanding recently, this week's podcast contains the first episode of The Butcher of Brisbane: yours to download for free... - Big Finish - Chase Masterson Joins the Doctor!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star in Doctor Who Audio. Chase Masterson, who played Leeta in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has teamed up with Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor in the forthcoming main range audio The Shadow Heart.. - Karen Gillan talks tears at end of Dr Who and her excitement at making new Scots film
Scots star Karen Gillan will be able to keep an eye on Doctor Who after her last scene as his assistant … because she stole binoculars from the Tardis.... - Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock - The Monsters
Featuring interviews with Simon Harris (Executive Producer) and Nick Dixon (Design Director) of the upcoming Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock video game... - ‘Doctor Who’ stars bid farewell to BBC Television Centre in documentary
The Television Centre has been the home of the BBC for over 50 years, and was the building where Doctor Who was brought to life for the first time. With the broadcaster now relocating, stars of classic Who bid farewell to the first home of the TARDIS.
Todays Jigsaw...
Whovian News....
Portsmouth News has Call the Doctor! Royal Marines Museum gets a visit from evil Daleks.
The alien mutants have invaded the Royal Marines Museum in Eastney and more are on the way for a mass takeover this weekend.
At the risk of being exterminated, museum staff say they have given in to their invaders’ demands to hold a Doctor Who convention on Sunday.
There will be nowhere to hide – except, perhaps, upstairs – as the Daleks show off their skills in an obstacle race and X-terminate Factor talent competition in the museum’s grand Mountbatten Room.
The extraterrestrial creatures will also, bizarrely, be holding a question and answer session....
BBC Doctor Who has Fantastic Feedback!
The Doctor Who Interactive Team is used to great responses when we ask for your memories, input or ideas. But in the past couple of weeks we’ve been blown away by your suggestions about which historical figure the Doctor should meet, and your ideas about what caused Dark Day.
We received thousands of messages for both of these, but what made them so fantastic was the level of creativity, humour and drama that ran through your replies.
We’ve now stopped taking suggestions but we’ll be updating you on the historical figure story soon and before that, we’ll start sharing some of your Dark Day suggestions.
So stay tuned and once again – huge thanks for such a big, brilliant response!
Scanner selected posts...
Radio Times has Doctor Who Is Axed! The inside story on the cancellation of Doctor Who. "The first I heard of it was when David Saunders phoned me in a lather on 26 February 1985. He’d just learnt that the programme had been cancelled, as of the end of the current season. As co-ordinator (ie big chief) of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society (Dwas), Saunders was the man to know, and the next day the calamitous news was all over the media, sending Who fans into multidimensional meltdown...."
PluggedIn has Dr Who lands on Sony PS Vita and PS3 – but is it any good? Unsurprisingly, the primary focus of the game will be on the passing of time, with time-centric game play a main feature. A lot of thought has been invested in this, with players’ actions in one time zone having a direct impact on actions in others. This offers an additional dimension to traditional game playing, with multiple opportunities and challenges presented to enthusiastic gamers. In terms of visuals, graphics are being described as “photo real”, while official voice-overs from some of the cast of the TV series, including current the Doctor, Matt Smith, improve the game’s authenticity....
Digital Spy has 'Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock' trophy list revealed. The list of nearly 50 trophies includes collecting diary pages and hats, beating sections quickly, and defeating enemies such as Vekkis, the Emperor of the Daleks and The Silence. It also hints at some of the game's locations, including the Bank Of England, Old London Bridge and underground refugee camps....
BBC America - Anglophenia has ‘Doctor Who’ Rogues Gallery: The Haemovores. So, here’s the tale. In the far future (around 500, ooo AD), Earth has been thoroughly spoiled by industrial waste, and humankind has undergone something of an evolutionary shift. The plus points are telepathy, strength, claws, being bulletproof, the ability to climb shiny things, and the ability to weld metal just by holding it. On the down side, everyone needs to drink blood (or sea water, at a pinch), and a stake through the heart is fatal....
Miscellanious News...
- The ESO Network - Doctor Who to Release Mini-Episode Next Week
Doctor Who will be returning to television next week. A mini-episode, based upon the winning entry for this year’s Script to Screen competition, will air Thursday in the UK during the CBBC channel series Blue Peter at 5:45pm... - Mail Online - Doctor Who? Karen Gillan puts TV behind her.
She may have been all over the universe as Doctor Who's companion. But this may be Karen Gillan's most glamorous location yet. The 24-year-old made a surprise appearance at the Cannes Film Festival earlier today. - Fantom Films - New Guest Announcement
Wanda Ventham (Jean Rock in The Faceless Ones, Thea Ransome in Image of the Fendahl and Faroon in Time and the Rani) wil be joining us for Pandorica 2012 in Birmingham! Tickets now available.... - Telegraph.co.uk - Doctor Who star David Tennant's wife bares all about her West End ordeal
Georgia Moffett, the wife of David Tennant, says she was nervous about stripping down to her underwear on stage in her new West End play.... - Neil Gaiman's Journal - Trust me, I'm a Doctor (Honorary, of Fine Arts)
"Here's the Commencement Address I gave yesterday to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia"...
WhoTube....
TwineLightMedia has Official " Secrets of Earth " Sneek Peak Number 2. " The attack on the USS Twine in deep space unlocks questions about the Earth and what secrets she holds from the rest of the universe "
Podcasts...
Beware most podcasts are of an adult nature and are not suitable for children.
A Mad Man with a Box has Neil Perryman/Ghost Light. Ghost Light is a packed episode that barely takes a breather, so Neil and I took the opposite approach in this episode of the podcast by keeping it light. Really though how much could we say about what is essentially an all-around solid episode of Doctor Who?
The Oncoming Storm has Episode 9: The Nth Doctor Part 1 - The Varnax Menace. It's time to play what if in the 9th episode of the Oncoming Storm! Josh and Ashley are covering their first non fiction book, The Nth Doctor by Jean Marc Lofficier. Though, it's not really a non fiction book as much as collection of a bunch of almost fictions, as it looks at the attempts to make a Doctor Who movie in the years leading up the the Paul McGann TV Movie...
The Whostorian has Episode 36 - Galifrey Eternal. This week we talk about Jamie, Producer Philip Hinchcliffe, The KLF’s Doctorin’ The TARDIS and we take a look at Timelash. In the Death Zone we find The Raston Warrior Robot Vs. A Weeping Angel..
The Memory Cheats has Episode 10 - The Dominators. For the first time on The Memory Cheats, Josh and Steven randomly draw a Patrick Troughton story to review. Problem is, it's the Season 6 opener, "The Dominators", not one of the more celebrated stories in Doctor Who history. Would your intrepid hosts offer a different opinion…?
Review's Roundup...
Radio Times has Doctor Who: The Two Doctors. The second Doctor and Jamie are sent by the Time Lords to Space Station Camera to prevent dangerous time experiments. Head of projects, Dastari, is a genetic engineer who’s been augmenting his Androgum servant, Chessene, into a higher life-form and “mega-genius”. Colluding with the Sontarans, they take the Doctor to 1980s Spain where they intend to extract a gene from him that makes time travel possible...
TARDIS Eruditorum has Outside the Government 3 (A Fix With Sontarans). Doctor Who fandom is spectacularly bitchy. Sometimes - even often - this is a virtue. Mind you, it's an often misunderstood virtue. For one thing, the bitchiness is often mistaken as actual dislike, sometimes to puzzling effect....
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery has Doctor Who 178: The Abominable Snowmen Part 3. The Doctor figures out spheres are Yeti brains. The monks babysit Victoria. And Padma explains his plan to make the Great Intelligence flesh...
Bigger On The Inside has Set Piece. This is a real milestone for the Virgin New Adventures, as it features Ace’s departure from the TARDIS (although she briefly returns for one more book). Ace was a character that had grown and changed during the series....
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