Russell talks Torchwood, 'Who' magazine for America, Win K9 on DVD, Top 5 Paradoxes....

Editor's bit...

Todays picture is Amelia and the Raggedy Doctor by shatzy-shell.

The Newsroom's Google Calendar has been updated wih next weeks UK TV and Radio Guide for 'Whovians'.

The News...

TV Squad has 'Torchwood' Creator Russell T Davies Talks about the Show's 'Miracle' Season (VIDEO), a couple of years ago, the sci-fi-flavored show, which follows a secretive team that battles threats to Earth, abandoned the monster-of-the-week structure that it had used in its first two seasons. In 2008's 'Torchwood: Children of Earth,' creator Russell T Davies abandoned that format to tell a morally complicated story that spanned five tightly linked episodes.....

The Doctor Who News Page has Doctor Who Unlimited, the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine contains the news that the popular publication is to gain a North American spin-off title from April. Produced in the UK by Panini, as the original magazine is.
Doctor Who Unlimited will apparently not be a versioned edition of DWM, but will be a separate publication in its own right, containing "100% new material".
Unlimited will be edited by John Ainsworth, who has contributed various features to DWM in the past, and has recently been credited as the magazine's "Editorial Assistant".
He explained to DWM that "Doctor Who unlimited will have slightly more of a focus on the fictional side of Doctor Who and will also be giving regular coverage to the fans themselves", the first issue of the 44-page magazine will be available on newsstands in the US and Canada from the 7th of April.
There is currently no information as to whether readers outside of North America will be able to order copies.

They also report the sad news of the death of Norman Taylor, one of the men behind the iconic Doctor Who title sequence, has died, in 1963 Norman Taylor was a BBC Technical Operations Manager on Crew 9 based at Lime Grove in London. He was the man who, while experimenting with a camera looking at a monitor showing its own picture, made the serendipitous discovery of "visual howlaround" - the effect that was subsequently used for Doctor Who's original title sequence....

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Total Sci Fi has the chance to Win K9 on DVD, robot dog shenanigans ahoy, Doctor Who’s robot dog blasts into his own live-action sci-fi adventure series with K9, which arrives on DVD on 31st January. And to celebrate we’ve got 3 copies of K9 Series 1 Vol. 1, to give away!...

MTV has 'Doctor Who' Number 1 Preview - The Eleventh Doctor Makes His Comics Debut!, late last year, "Doctor Who" comics scribe Tony Lee offered up a preview of sorts for the relaunch of IDW Publishing's ongoing series that will introduce The Eleventh Doctor, played by Matt Smith in the television seriess, to the publisher's comic book universe.....

Pick of the Blogs...

tor.com has Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey: Top 5 Doctor Who Paradoxes, "Yesterday, I traveled into the future and read a blog on Tor.com about temporal paradoxes in Doctor Who. To my horror, I realized the blog was written by me! So without missing a trick, I copied and pasted the text into a Word document, copied that document to my flash drive, grabbed my vortex manipulator and popped back into this Wednesday and pasted the text into a blog. Whew! I’m pretty sure this is a predestination paradox, or maybe an ontological paradox. I mean when did I write this thing in the first place? What do I mean by first? Anyway, The Doctor has dealt with a lot more of these things than me. Here are five of the best...."

Topless Robot has 6 Ways the Sixth Doctor from Doctor Who Got Screwed, in 1984, Peter Davison left Doctor Who as his version of the Doctor, the gentle, much-loved fifth, regenerated into the sixth. Producer John Nathan-Turner and others on the production staff felt it was time to take the series in another direction and perhaps return to the darkness and ambiguity of the show's early years. The actor chosen to herald this shift in tone was Colin Baker, who had appeared in a smallish part on the show before and had made a good impression on Nathan-Turner and others at a party....

Austen and Aliens has Alien Appreciation: The 456 of Torchwood: Children of Earth, from the first episode of this miniseries, when the 456 decide to get the attention of the entire world by simultaneously speaking through all of earth's children, I was suitably freaked, but my genuine horror at this alien race was only heightened by the decision to never show a clear image of their form. They appear inside a specially-designed tank in a pillar of blinding light....

The Ood Cast has released Guide 21: Gelth, "you know those moments when you’re somewhere unfamiliar, and you get the distinct feeling you’re being watched… only when you turn round, there’s just a blue, gaseous cloud floating around waiting for you to die so it can steal your corpse and go terrify a famous author?....This lot do… The Gelth."

Podcasts...

The Doctor Who Podcast has released Episode 59, predictions for 2011, just how wrong will they be in 2012?, we warm up our crystal balls and get our tarot cards ready - it's the DWP predictions for 2011, Trevor, James and Tom have come armed to the campervan with three predictions on what will occur in the Doctor Who world in 2011, save this episode for this time next year, when you can play it again and laugh at how wrong each of the team are!

Adventures in Time, Space and Music has a Podcast Promo, in this podcast, we'll sample music from the almost 50 year history of Doctor Who, discussing the technical minutiae involved in the music, how it relates to the story, as well as explore the varied composers and musicians who have worked on the show.....

Two-minute Time Lord has 2MTL 184: Yes, I Have a Freak Flag, please indulge me in yet another slightly extended podcast, with a little look at the proud eccentricities and the less-proud excesses and turf wars of Doctor Who fandom, Andy Ihnatko's tongue-in-cheek Freak Flag Compact...

Tid-Bits...

Bob Canada's BlogWorld has Doctor Who Infographic, "I think this is the first time in my life I've ever drawn the TARDIS. It was surprisingly hard! It seems like it would be simple; after all it's just a blue box with some windows. But there are tons of little details and recessed panels and whatnot, and it took forever to get it all straight...."

Samy Kacimi (tardib) tweeted "If one day there's a TV episode with The Doctor helping Gandhi, then he HAS to wear this"

EPICponyz has Doctor Who: Rubber Ducky.

Review's Roundup...

Almighty Taco has Dr. Who Christmas Gone Wrong, "it starts off with Amy (in her ugh…strip-o-cop uniform) having a romantic roleplay holiday with Auton Rory in his Roman solider outfit … hey, it can happen… when suddenly the ship starts to plummet as The Doctor meets Kazran Sardick (played by Albus Dumbledore… no no sorry it’s actually award winning actor Michael Gambon as Scrooge and Scrooge’s father in this episode (who know that Scrooge had an ass of a father?)) and he just happens to have control over a machine that controls the clouds....."

Shadowlocked reviews The King's Demons, what's that? who's Kamelion? well, amazingly Kamelion was supposed to be the new travelling companion of The Doctor, except with a twist. With C3PO a familiar metal face at the time, Doctor Who came up with its very own metal man, a shape-shifting robot that had been captured by The Master for use on the planet Earth in 13th-century England...

The Edwardian Adventurer has 069 – The Dimensions of Time (The Space Museum Part 2), ...we have a bored bureaucrat who thinks back with pride on the military conquests of a now stagnant empire. We have a rebel group composed of young men who have no real cause to rebel against. All they know is that the must rebel, and our characters’ arrival could lead to weaponry that can help them in their cause of rebellion. Finally, we have our regulars who just want to get out of the museum and back to the TARDIS to avoid their horrific fate....

Podcast Review's...

Television Zombies has Episode 150: “Christmas in the TARDIS”, this week, the TVZ team discusses the recent Doctor Who Christmas special. Also, the news of the week, an interview with Ryan Ridley of the Grandma’s Virginity Podcast and a major announcement.

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

doctor_who_news People Roundup: David Tennant is to become a father according to a report in the British tabloid, The Daily Mail... http://bit.ly/gaVE39

Doctor Who Filming Torchwood: Day Four appears to have been set at CIA Headquarters (not FBI?), and was also Eve Myles (Gwen) and Kai Owen's (Rhys) first day filming. Day Five shooting is active tonight (late afternoon in LA) at 650 South Spring Street, an old bank used in a number of sci-fi films (Spider Man 2, The Mask) amongst others (Ghost, Seven).

Doctor Who Filming Doctor Who: it would appear that the crew were filming at a power station in South Wales last night, with a local observer commenting on "weird monks" and "teleporters". This is for episode seven, which started filming this week, but this is the first report we've seen of them being out and about.

Who Fix Saturday's Who Fix: http://www.whofix.net/?p=548

alun_vega This from the Torchwood DOP - exciting! “@natiejay: First week Torchwood DONE! 4 more days and off to Wales...”