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The Mutants DVD, when a strange message pod turns up at UNIT HQ, the Doctor and his assistant Jo suddenly find themselves involved in another dangerous mission for the Time Lords. The TARDIS takes them to Skybase One above the inhospitable Solos. It is the 30th century and the planet is about to gain independence from Earth’s glorious empire. But someone on Solos has other plans and, alarmingly, the natives are slowly mutating into fierce-looking creatures. It’s time for the Doctor and Jo to find out why...Scanner selected posts...
BBC Doctor Who Adventures Magazine, has DAY 3: Win an Eleventh Doctor action figure, Our brilliant Doctor Who prize giveaway continues today with another brilliant prize, exclusive to www.dwamag.com, this time, we've got a cool Eleventh Doctor action figure to be won, for your chance to win, just answer this question....WhoTube....
The Minute Doctor Who Podcast has TMDWP - 049 - Hello and Goodbye, some general house keeping.
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Comfy Chair has Online Fanzine Archive Launches, the first in this series is MORBIUS The Newsletter of the Doctor Who Special Interest Group of American Mensa. The come from my own personal collection of Doctor Who fanzines. My archive covers 5 years of the newsletter's existence....
A Life More or Less Ordinary (Paul Scoones) has Absence of Malus, "I began writing production text for the BBC / 2|entertain Doctor Who DVD range two and a half years ago, quite early on I think it must have become apparent to my commissioning editor that I have an particular affinity for the Fifth Doctor's era, because I soon found myself the go-to guy for stories from Peter Davison's third and final year.....Podcasts...
The 20mb Doctor Who Podcast presents Doctor Who and the Alicia of Doom, in our first venture into audio ‘drama’, Alicia has been kidnapped by The Dalek Announcer with the ransom being podcast feedback. Adam and Ben embark on a rescue mission with the help of The 2nd Doctor and Jamie.....
Radio Free Skaro has 235 - The More, The Guerriers, a very busy week in the world of Doctor Who — including big DVD news and disappointing results at a certain fictitious awards show — is capped off in this latest installment of Radio Free Skaro by not only our look at director Keith Boak in the miniscope but also a visit with Simon & Thomas Guerrier. The Guerriers are responsible for some recent and upcoming bonus material on Classic Doctor Who DVD releases and we talk with the brothers about some of them, especially their award-nominated Race Against Time coming out very soon on the DVD of The Mutants. Join us, won’t you?.....
Gallifreyan Embassy has released Doctor Who: Podshock Episode 235, an interview with Sarah Sutton and Matthew Waterhouse, Doctor Who news, Gallifrey 22 update, and more.....
Adventures in Time, Space and Music has Episode 13 – The Parallel Lives of Simon Guerrier, in this episode we'll be featuring an interview with Doctor Who author and editor Simon Guerrier, focusing on his work writing for BBC Books and and working for Big Finish Productions, recorded the 27th of November, 2010 at the Chicago TARDIS convention.....Review's Roundup...
Den Of Geek has The Mutants DVD review, before he became more famous as the writer behind Nick Park's hugely successful Wallace & Gromit, Bristol-based Bob Baker was more famously known as the man (along with fellow writing partner, Dave Martin) who created one of Doctor Who's most enduring creations, K-9.....
Tea with Morbius has Timewyrm: Revelation, by Paul Cornell (Virgin New Adventure), you could say this is the only book in the Timewyrm series that really matters. Exodus was a great novel, but it did not really deal much with the Timewyrm herself and in Genesys she was a fairly uninteresting and standard alien villain.....
He also has Wirrn Dawn, by Nicholas Briggs (Big Finish Audio), This is the first Eighth Doctor audio that I have listened to, unless you count Paul McGann's appearance in Survival of the Fittest. I thought he gave a reasonable performance, even if not the most inspiring Doctoral performance I have heard, deep down every Doctor Who fan wants to see old monsters return and so a story like this has an obvious appeal. Being on audio, we are freed from the disadvantage of seeing unconvincing monster props....
Tachyon TV has Something’s Cooking in the Kitchen, The Ark was the final Doctor Who story made with John Wiles as producer, and over the years his era has become known for two things; off-screen he got on so badly with William Hartnell that they tried to get each other sacked/killed, and on-screen the majority of stories he produced were dark, mordantly funny, and typically concluded with innocents being ruthlessly slaughtered....
Doc Oho's Big Finish audios reviews has LIVE 34 written by James Parsons & Andrew Stirling-Brown and directed by Gary Russell, we interrupt today’s Big Finish update to bring you an exciting new review of LIVE 34 written by James Parsons & Andrew Stirling-Brown and directed by Gary Russell. Over to Joe Ford and his on the spot reactions immediately after listening…’
The Edwardian Adventurer has 080 – A Battle of Wits (The Time Meddler Part 3), the Doctor, it turns out, has escaped through a secret passage in the cell. Vicki and Steven follow, there is a lot of moving around in this episode, from monastery to beach, to village, to forest. Everyone is moving toward the endgame in the next episode....
Unreality SF has Review: Jago & Litefoot Series Two, When Big Finish dusted off some of the incidental characters from the classic Doctor Who episode The Talons of Weng-Chiang, they hit gold. Theatrical impresario Henry Gordon Jago and pathologist Professor Litefoot's Companion Chronicle The Mahogany Murderers sold out its first CD run in an unpredecented two months....
They also have Review: Bernice Summerfield: The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy, the premiere of the third season of the Professor Bernice Summerfield audio dramas sees everyone’s favourite archaeology professor headed to the Gigamarket to excavate some ancient latrines....
Bigger On The Inside has “Have you heard of time standing still?”, at the centre of the story of ‘Enlightenment’ is the race between the Eternals. Such competitions come with built in tension. There can only be one winner and so every success and failure effects the outcome.Podcast Review's...
Geekshow has The Doctor’s Companion Ep. 37 – That’s Davros!, Davros is creating the Daleks while Scott and Matt are gushing about the Tom Baker 6-part serial “Genesis of the Daleks”. The Time Lords call the Doctor, along with companions Sarah Jane and Harry, to the planet Skaro before the creation of the Daleks in hope of preventing their existence. Can the Doctor stop the evil scientist Davros from creating one of the Doctor’s most formidable foes ever? What does Nyder like to do for fun? What does that middle switch do?....Outer Space Book and a Pick of the Tweets...
Gareth David-Lloyd - The Official Page Gareth will be returning to Australia this June for the Supanova Pop Culture Expo conventions in Sydney (17-19 June) and Perth (24-26 June). Info on the events can be found at the Supanova website. |
Doctor Who Filming Dates for the Diary: DW filming from Monday for 3-4 days in Charlestown, St. Austell; TW unit 1 filming at a butchers in Frogmere Street, Swansea on Monday; TW unit 2 possibly filming near Magor (motorway services) also on Monday; TW filming at the Coal Exchange, Cardiff on Tuesday. Some M4 excitement this morning it seems, as the TW crew set up a car on a low-loader and police escort assembles (last time they did this was for Gwen's travel to England in CoE!). Setting off from the Hampton Hotel Cardiff (J23A). Meanwhile back in Swansea preparations are continuing at the Family Butcher on Frogmere Avenue, now dressed as a pharmacy. |
DWMtweets Issue 431 is now safely at the printers. |
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Doctor Who Spoilers has And the title of the game-changing Episode Seven is…, well, first of all we can reveal that Dorium, played by Simon Fisher-Becker has a surname, he’s called Dorium Maldavar, however, we've also discovered the title of Moffat’s mid-series cliff-hanger Epsiode Seven and since episode titles have been in particularly short supply this year we felt duty bound to pass it on as quickly as possible.....
They also posted Charlestown becomes Whoville, it looks like the suggestion that the DrWho crew are about to cross the Severn Bridge and film in Cornwall for the first time since Colony in Space has been borne out. Earlier today, a filmmaker visiting Charlestown tweeted: I’m filming a short today in sunny Charlestown in Cornwall. Tomorrow they’re filming Dr Who here with, I imagine, a very similar budget.....
The Doctor Who News Page has Torchwood: Week Three Filming, the lead-up to the week saw the cast and crew out in Los Angeles make their way to the United Kingdom; of the principle cast, this meant a return home for John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Kai Owen and Tom Price, and joined (so far) by Mekhi Phifer and Dichen Lachman. Crew-wise, Director of Photography Nathaniel Goodman and Directors Bharat Nalluri (episode one) and Bill Gierhart (episode two) also travelled over....