Wednesday, January 5, 2011

New Big Finish covers, plus a pick of the blogs and reviews



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Editor's bit...

Todays picture comes from Robert Hack and features the 7th Doctor and the Ice warriors.

The News...

Big Finish have uploaded the covers for....


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02. Doctor Who: Short Trips - Volume 2
, Get ready for eight fantastic new adventures in space and time with the Doctor and his companions, featuring stories from many of Doctor Who’s most popular authors from the worlds of television, print, comics and audio, as well as new talent and fresh voices... and read by your favourite Big Finish actors!


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4.10 Doctor Who: To the Death, starring Paul McGann.
They also have the trailer for Doctor Who: Industrial Evolution, 19th century Lancashire: where the white heat of the Industrial Revolution burns hottest at Samuel Belfrage's brass mill, a mill plagued by more than its fair share of work-related injuries, while Thomas Brewster struggles to secure a fair deal for Belfrage's overworked hands, fellow travellers the Doctor and Evelyn follow the Copper King to Liverpool, there to discover the unexpected truth about Belfrage's business, back in Ackleton, the local MP voices the fears of many when he says that the machines are taking over. He's more right than he knows…

Pick of the Blogs...


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BBC Doctor Who Adventures Magazine
has What's your verdict?, the Doctor Who Christmas special was fantasto-brilliant - but what was your favourite bit?, the Doctor Who Adventures team can't decide what we liked best in A Christmas Carol. Was it the EXCITEMENT of the spaceship crashing through the clouds? Was it the HILARIOUS antics of the Doctor as he fell out of the chimney? Was it the TERRIFYING shark? Or was it something else entirely?, tell us what you liked best about the special by emailing dwa@bbc.co.uk, and don't forget to include a picture of yourself - we'll print the best of your best moments in the mag! P.S. Happy New Year!


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Invisible Mikey has posted All Things New (and Doctor Who), "as of next week I will have been blogging for a year.  Since this time last year I’ve moved to a new home thousands of miles from the previous one, begun a new profession, and published over 100 thousand words in this space, but that’s not all.  I’ve also become a WHOVIAN, a fan of the British (BBC Wales) TV show “Doctor Who”.....

Tid-Bits...


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Crafty Tardis has Tomb of the Cybermen Cross-Stitch, "so I was finishing a cross stitch dalek (inspired by some of the lovely things I've seen here, btw), and a friend saw what I was doing. She commissioned me to make a cross stitch of a Cyberman's head for her boyfriend. Specifically one from Tomb of the Cybermen...."


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Looking for a TARDIS has Well, this was a surprise, "something I dug up from 60's era Doctor Who that might look familiar to anyone who's seen A Christmas Carol, the woman (is that supposed to be Barbara? If so, it's a terrible
likeness) gets nearly eaten by a great big fish, but it's not quite a
shark......"


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Who Fix has Lipstick on Your Collar, the first attempts at chroma dot colour recovery were disappointing (from DWM 78).

Review's Roundup...


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Classical Gallifrey has Serial 51: Spearhead from Space, because of the way Classic Doctor Who worked as a convention, the way the stories were told and how they were serialized individual stories but without any real overarching serialization or continuity, it's rare for a Doctor Who story to be "important". "Pyramids of Mars" can be all the fantastic in the world. Still doesn't make it "important." Important stories are typically regeneration stories (not even necessarily companion arrivals or departures because they're almost always backgrounded excepting certain instances), "Spearhead From Space" is one of those stories that is... well... Extremely important.....


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HeroPress has Doctor Who: Time And The Rani (1987), Sylvester McCoy's tenure in the TARDIS started inauspiciously with, possibly, the worst opening scenes in Who's long history - a TARDIS-in-space effects sequence that looks like an amateur fan film production that cuts to shots of an unconscious McCoy wearing an ill-fitting blonde wig and masquerading as the pre-regeneration Sixth Doctor.....


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The Edwardian Adventurer has 060 – Escape to Danger (The Web Planet Part 3), the Doctor begins intense negotiations with The Animus to free himself and his friends.  Ian escapes The Zarbi and tries to find Barbara, the Doctor spends most of this episode negotiating with and scheming against The Animus....


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Den of Geek
has Doctor Who: Meglos DVD review, a story from Tom Baker’s eighteenth and final season as Doctor Who, Meglos arrives on DVD. But has time been kind to it? Here’s James’ review, the eighteenth season of Doctor Who is still, some thirty years after its initial transmission, something of a controversial one. It was a season that saw the ascension of John Nathan Turner to the producer's chair, the rather dry and (some would say) pretentious Christopher H. Bidmead becoming the show's script editor as well as a whole slew of other stylistic and presentational alterations.....

Podcast Review's...


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The Krynoid Podcast
has minipod: xmas special 2010, through the sherry and brussel sprout haze, Tiny Jim and Martin Scrooge try to say something sensible about 2010's Christmas special, A Christmas Carol, flying sharks, invisible fish, isomorphic controls and a miserable old curmudgeon (comprising one half of the podcast team) - what more could Santa bring you?....

Spoiler Alert...

chrisidoctor
has YouTubed Doctor Who Series 6 Filming Pictures 3.


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