Watching Doctor Who

I started this blog back in November of 2006, and in that time we have seen all sorts of things together. Torchwood came to America. Companions have come and gone. A new Doctor has been announced. The Sarah Jane Adventures have begun. The folks running the back end of the Whoniverse have handed over the baton to others. David Tennant has done a turn as Hamlet. Quite a bit can happen in nearly two and a half years.

Sadly, my time here has come to an end. I’m moving on to other projects, including that sleep thing I’ve heard so much about. (maybe)

Please come and join me over at Shadowproclamation.net, my other Doctor Who blog, complete with podcast. I’ll miss this blog and my faithful readers/commenters. Thank you for joining me for the adventure.

Yours in Who,
Elisa

Doctor Who, podcast

Things have been a bit confused around here at 451 Press over the last month or so. I’m not too sure what the future may hold. I have no definite information one way or another, but just in case…

If this blog suddenly disappears, please come join me over at http://www.shadowproclamation.net. Our first Podcast is posted there now, but we’re still trying to get the subscription thing figured out with iTunes. There are a lot of fiddly bits I was not aware of involved in this podcasting thing! Quite the learning curve, you know? Let me reiterate that I have no plans to leave this blog behind, but if something should happen that is out of my control…you know where to find me.

Littleradge over at YouTube posted this video today to remind folks that David Tennant does not use social networking sites. Apparently, now amongst the random folks that create accounts pretending to be Mr. Tennant there is someone who has been striking up conversations with people and then asking them to meet him somewhere. Pretty scary, eh? Be careful out there.

David Tennant On The Internet:

In Other News:

This Thursday, the trailer for Torchwood’s third series Children of Earth will premiere in both the US and the UK, according to several places including BBCAmerica. And…I suppose they’d know. I’ve heard that the BBC Torchwood site says something similar, but I can’t verify that as I can’t see the news on their site. If you are in the U.S., go to the BBCAmerica Torchwood site on Thursday, February 5th at 4:00 pm to view the trailer.

The Daily Mail’s website is running an article about Peter Davison including what he’s been up to lately. It also touches on the relationship between Peter’s daughter Georgia and a certain David Tennant.

From the rumour desk we have the story that the baddies that the Doctor will be encountering in the first of the Doctor Who specials will be half-man, half-fly creatures called the Tritovores. Nothing official has been announced at this time, so decide for yourself if you are going to believe the current rumour.

And finally, as if David Tennant weren’t busy enough, what with filming the Doctor Who specials, etc. it looks like he’ll be hosting Red Nose Day this time around. I wonder if he’ll be participating in any skits. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Littleradge, David Tennant, Torchwood, Peter Davison, Doctor Who

John Barrowman at Birmingham Christmas Lights 2008
(From WireImage.com, Photo by Jules Annan)

Have I told you folks about Torchwood Babiez? It’s like a combination of Muppet Babies and the Whoniverse in comic format. You can find it over at tw_babiez on Livejournal. The reason I mention it now in particular is that part 3 (of 4) has just been posted. I’m loving it, and I hope that part four isn’t that many months away.

Speaking of comics, it looks like Sheldon is a Doctor Who fan, or perhaps it’s artist Dave Kellett who’s the fan. Either way, this is the second time I’ve seen the show mentioned in his comic strip.

The Children in Need TV event is on tonight, 14 November 2008, at 7pm. And what can we expect to see with relation to the Whoniverse? Well, apparently we will be treated to a clip from the Doctor Who Christmas special. In addition, there are rumours floating around that the next Doctor will be named during the show. I wonder if they’re actually talking about the name of the Christmas special, which is “The Next Doctor.” Who knows? I guess we’ll find out tonight.

Doctor Who series four is currently playing on BBCAmerica if you want to catch it again. It’s playing on Saturdays at 9(8c).

How did you first encounter Doctor Who? One of the things I haven’t done on this blog for a while is My First Doctor. Who was your first Doctor? Where did you see your first episode? Tell me your story and I’ll post it here. (You can see the previous ones here.) You can either comment with your story, or send me an e-mail using the Contact Me link near the top right of the blog.

Torchwood Babiez, Sheldon, Doctor Who

I’ll get the next part of The Pocket Project up as soon as possible, but my husband and I were in a car accident today (info/pics here). Don’t worry. We’re mostly okay, even if the car isn’t. It’s merely that I’m quite sore at the moment.

I’ll be back to posting soon.

The Brits were a couple of days ago, and wouldn’t you know it? David Tennant got to give Kylie the award for International Female Solo Artist. As you can see, they were both quite pleased about this.

Both David and Kylie were interviewed for Radio One after she received the award. You can watch the interview here. You’d think that you wouldn’t be able to see an interview for radio…but that’s where you’d be wrong.

Kylie performed her song “Wow” live on stage at The Brits. If you would be interested to see her performance, you can see it here. If you want to see her interviewed on the Red Carpet, you can see that too. Oh. You say that you would like to see that hug in motion and watch her acceptance speech? Well…you can. (Don’t you just love Youtube?)

And, of course, I had to include a picture of David with his silver star on his chest. He was wearing his black velvet coat again. Apparently folks like the way it feels. Well, congratulations to Kylie Minogue, and I’m glad that David was the one who got to give her the award.

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And now, onto other things:

This blog is up for a Blogger’s Choice Award again this year. I’d be ever so thankful if you would pop along and vote for me. (Thank you kindly.)

James Moran has a blog! Yes, that’s right, you can keep track of the author of the Torchwood episode Sleeper, author of an episode in Doctor Who series four, and all around nice fellow (I met him, remember?). A big Hat Tip to Paul Cornell for letting me know about this blog.

Gareth David-Lloyd has done a spoiler-y interview with Zap2it. In it, he mentions that he is interested in coming to a U.S. Convention. I hope that Shaun Lyon and Co. are paying attention to this. I’d love to see him at Gallifrey One next year.

Recently, Catherine Tate had the opportunity to interview David Tennant for Chain Reaction on Radio 4. (Listen Again while you can.) The next episode with feature David Tennant interviewing Richard Wilson.

Please note: If you live in the UK, you can now buy episodes of Torchwood from iTunes. I wonder if this will ever be the case in any other country.

Paul O’Grady will reportedly be playing himself in an episode of Doctor Who series four. For a short and spoilery article about this go here. I was particularly interested to see the other names mentioned in this article.

And finally, I’ve read an article that said that Chris Chibnall would be leaving as the Torchwood head writer at the end of series two to go work on CSI: London. It was open in one of the windows on my laptop when it died, and I haven’t been able to find it again. So, we’ll just treat it as a rumor for now, okay?

The Brits, David Tennant, Kylie Minogue, James Moran, Gareth David-Lloyd, Catherine Tate

Come With Me

Reminder:

I will be gone next week as I have taken time off to go down to Gallifrey One in Los Angeles, California. The convention is running from 15-17 February. I hope to see some of you there. (Don’t worry lisa-marie. I’m bringing my camera.) Anyway, in the meantime please enjoy a bit of posting randomness. The usual schedule with re-assert itself upon my return…after some Con Reports, of course.

Moving on…

While filming with a Baddie from Doctor Who series four, Freema felt quite tall, apparently. She also found the guys in prosthetics “really cute and quite funny.” Let us hope that we have a different reaction, eh?

Kevin Stoney who played three classic characters (Playing against the 1st Doctor, Guardian of the Solar System Mavic Chen The Daleks’ Master Plan. Playing against the 2nd Doctor as Tobias Vaughn in The Invasion. With the 4th Doctor he played the Vogan Tyrum in Revenge of the Cybermen.) has passed away. He was 86.

The other half of the iF Magazine Burn Gorman interview has arrived, and brings with it whispers of crossovers and a discussion of how Owen has changed this series. The crossover thing has me quite intrigued.

Big Finish, the company that makes the Doctor Who audio adventures, has started to make some of their adventures available in a pay to download format. For those of you in the U.S. that have found the price of their CDs prohibitive, you are in for a happy surprise with these downloads. They’re only $12.99. Also, Big Finish now has a Podcast that you can subscribe to.

Doctor Who, Burn Gorman, Big Finish

So, I’ve been doing this blog for a little over a year now and I’m curious what features you like. Should I discontinue Friday Showtimes? Do you like the Tuesday question? Is there something else you’d like me to discuss? Do you want more discussion of spin-offs? Would you like a bit more of the classic Who? Would you like to tell me about your First Doctor?

Thanks for your input, and I return you to your regularly scheduled blog. As you were.

It’s the middle of the night right now where I am, and we’ve just received one of those phone calls that you dread. Watching Doctor Who will be on hiatus for a few days as I must head out of computer range to deal with a death in the family. Service will resume when I get back down off of the mountain.

Please send prayers and good thoughts.

-Elisa

During the San Diego Comic-Con (that I didn’t get to go to *sniffle*) came the announcement of a Doctor Who Comic Book featuring the Tenth Doctor and Martha. The stories will take place in the latter part of series three and word has it that they are canon. Gary Russell (Doctor Who script editor) is signed to write the stories, and Nick Roche will be doing the artwork. We can expect these comics to appear beginning in early 2008. For more info (and more sketches) check out the article over at Comic Book Resources. And now I have yet another thing to hunt for in comic shops.

In other news, I am going to be participating in a Convention. As an invited guest, if you can believe it. Yep. Catslyn from Watching Stargate and I are filling the 1am (Australia Time) timeslot (That’s 8am, Pacific Time) for the Conflux Virtual Mini-Con. We are the SciFi in Cyberspace group. Go us! The Mini-Con is free, so come on over and chat with us.

Torchwood is coming to HD in the US in September. It will appear on HDNet. (Now, if only I had an HD TV.)

If you would like to read some spoilery information about series 4 of Doctor Who, and series 2 of Torchwood, you might just check out this interview with Julie Gardner from iF Magazine. She has a bunch to say. (pssst! She doesn’t think that RTD will quit.)

Colin Baker (the 6th Doctor) is glad that the new show is doing well, because now his daughters think he is cool. (They’ve even gone back and enjoyed his episodes now. I’m glad to know that they’ve seen the light.)

The folks over at david-tennant.com are raising money for the ACCORD hospice in Paisley in memory of David’s mother Helen. Be sure to stop by and see if you can help out. Go here to check out the auction. You can read a BBC article about the effort here.

John Normington, who played the older Tom Flanagan in the Torchwood episode Ghost Machine, has passed away. He was 70.

First a comic book, and now a video game. That’s right, a video game. Not much is known about the Doctor Who video game at present, beyond its appearing during the holidays, and availability on more that one platform. In the UK, anyway. No word on theoretical availability in the US yet (sigh.)

*whew* Well, that’s it for this week. Don’t forget to join me for the mini-con.

Image Source: Comic Book Resources

San Diego Comic-Con, Gary Russell, Doctor Who, Nick Roche, Conflux Virtual Mini-Con, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Julie Gardner, Colin Baker, John Normington

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So, have you seen my cool new banner yet? Check it out! 451Press has finally arranged a way for me to add my own custom banner to this blog. Yay! My husband provided the mad Photoshop skillz for this banner (you can see my small skills at The Book Stacks, where I did the banner myself) Enjoy!

You read that right folks. Torchwood is coming to BBC America…according to them. Apparently, the whole channel is undergoing a radical makeover (which may explain why I was able to find Doctor Who listings for the end of the month today. Normally, they don’t have listings that far ahead.) Torchwood is slated to be part of their “Supernatural Saturday” prime-time line up (as are “new episodes” Doctor Who). No exact dates as yet, only “later this year.” So…it looks like my New Year’s Wish is coming true. Yes! I’ll let you know anything more that I discover. Hopefully the dates will be posted soon.

Torchwood, Doctor Who

451 Press is holding a comment contest for the month of January. So, until January 31st any quality comment that you post on our nework (except 451press.com itself) makes you eligible for the drawing. There is one $500 prize, and five $100 prizes. Apparently, you may “enter” as much as you would like, and the winners will be randomly chosen. (I can’t win. Sigh.) If you want to check out other blogs in this network you only need to scroll to the bottom of this page. My other blog is: The Book Stacks, if you are interested. So, get out there and comment! Good luck! We now return you to the usual Doctor Who-related postings.

451 Press, comment contest

Greetings Whovians. Well, it’s that gift giving time of year. You know. Chrismahannukwanzakah. In the spirit of this holiday rich week (and a bit) I thought that I would offer you all a gift. This week, I am planning on offering up a review a day. Yep. You heard me. (Wish me luck. Those suckers take forever to write up.) I am hoping to offer a variety of reviews, so that every day is a surprise. I would also like to thank everyone for stopping by. This blog was my birthday present this year, and I hope that I have taken good care of it. So, I wish you all happy holidays for the rest of time. And space. May you all get a TARDIS this year. (Now, wouldn’t that make the Time Agency nervous?)

Chrismahannukwanzakah, TARDIS