Watching Doctor Who

The BBC Doctor Who site in announcing that Steven Moffat has won a second BAFTA for his Blink script. He now has a Welsh BAFTA and a BAFTA Craft award for Blink. Do you think that he just might win a third Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Hugo in a row for the script?

I’m thinking that he has a good chance.

I was over at my image source looking for image coolness for this post, and what did I find? Some photos from the filming of the 2008 Doctor Who Christmas Special! I know that I normally try to avoid stuff that is too spoilery…but…well I couldn’t resist this time. Sorry. Anyway, I wonder what The Doctor/David is thinking about here.

Rumour has it that the 2008 Christmas Special will include the Cybermen. Nothing official to back that up, mind you, but it’s something to think about. (I wonder where I could get a copy of that coat. In my size, of course.)

He’s looking really serious here. I wonder what he is pondering. These pictures were taken on 21 April in Gloucester, England, in case you’re interested.

Here we see Velile Tshabalala and David Tennant. There are also rumours out there that say this episode takes place during Victorian times and may include Rose and Donna. Sadly, I believe the setting, but not the companion part. (Here’s hoping that I’m wrong.) At least these two seem to be having a good time.

Hello Magazine has an article about the filming on the Christmas special here, if you are interested. The same goes for Metro.co.uk and the spoilery article at The Sun.

Even the CBBC is getting in on the act!

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Eddie Izzard says that he’d love to play The Doctor, according to The Sun. Now…that might actually be very entertaining.

Classic Doctor Who action figures are on their way, says the Action Figure Insider. Click on the link if you want to see pictures of the oncoming toys.

David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston are going head to head for the Best Male Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode award in Canada’s Constellation Awards. Carey Mulligan (Sally Sparrow) from the Doctor Who episode “Blink” and Naoko Mori for the Torchwood episode “Greeks Bearing Gifts” are up for the Best Female Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode award. Doctor Who is also up for the Best Science Fiction Television Series of 2007. Oh, and who do you think is up for Best Overall 2007 Science Fiction Film or Television Script? Well, Steven Moffat’s Blink and Paul Cornell’s Human Nature/The Family Of Blood, of course. Good luck, you lot!

Doctor Who Christmas Special, Velile Tshabalala, David Tennant, Eddie Izzard, Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston, Steven Moffat, Paul Cornell

Series 4 of Doctor Who is set to start in the UK on 5 April 2008, so it’s already time for the trailer avalanche.

If you go to the front page of the Official Doctor Who site, you can click on the picture of the Doctor and Donna to see what looks like a shorter version of the cinema trailer (which will be on the site on 29 March.) For three more quick trailers, you can go here for the Ood Trailer, the Sontaran trailer, and the Dalek trailer.

This year’s Hugo Nominees have been announced. This time around in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form we have three of the five nominations. Steven Moffat’s episode of Doctor Who, “Blink” (no big surprise there), Paul Cornell’s two-parter of Doctor Who, “Human Nature“/”Family of Blood“, and Catherine Tregenna’s Torchwood episode “Captain Jack Harkness.” Here’s hoping for a Whoniversal hat trick.

Kent News is reporting that Tom Baker said that he would do a cameo on the New Doctor Who “if they ask him nicely.” Well, I certainly hope that they ask him nicely! That is really saying a lot, considering that he didn’t come back for The Five Doctors. (They used footage from the unaired “Shada” by Douglas Adams for his part.) Keep your fingers crossed folks!

Doctor Who, Ood, Sontaran, Dalek, Hugo Nominees, Steven Moffat, Blink, Paul Cornell, Human Nature, Family of Blood, Catherine Tregenna, Torchwood, Captain Jack Harkness, Tom Baker

Billie Piper attends the premiere of The Tudors season 2

Let’s get down to business, shall we?

The continuing saga of the UK Doctor Who premiere date:

* The Official BBC Doctor Who Site Says: Spring 2008

* The Radio Times Doctor Who Page Says: Expect episodes that are not new up through 3 April.

* The BBC Press Office Says: Doctor Who is currently listed as “unplaced” for the week of 5-11 April.

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* The CBBC Newsround has the answer. Series 4 will begin on 5 April 2008 in the UK. (They also note that Totally Doctor Who will not be returning for another series.) So, there we go!

Moving on:

Remember the Royal Television Society Awards? Two of our shows were nominated. We didn’t win. Sigh.

Check it out! It’s a Steampunk Dalek! Yes, I’ve been hunting for cool stuff this week.

The Comic Maker feature on the Official BBC Doctor Who Site has been nominated for an interactive BAFTA award. The awards ceremony will be on 20 April 2008. Hey. If they win both the BAFTA and the Emmy for that Comic Maker, etc. do you think that they’ll finally let folks outside of the UK play with it?

Anna was kind enough to point out that there is a special version of the Toyota Scion out there called…a Dalek. I’m not sure why, but you can go look at the pictures for yourself and see if you can spot any similarities between the car and the Doctor’s nemesis.

If you are interested in watching a featurette about William Hartnell’s time as the Doctor, check out what I found on Youtube.

And here ends your update. As you were.

Billie Piper, Totally Doctor Who, Steampunk Dalek, Doctor Who, Dalek, William Hartnell

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

I’ve won an award! JM from Fiction Scribe has gifted me with the Roar for Powerful Words Award.

The rules are:

* Link back to the person who tagged you.

* List three things that you believe are necessary to make writing good and powerful.

* Tag five others and comment on their blog informing them that they’ve been tagged with this award.

So…here are three things I believe are necessary for making writing good and powerful:

1. Knowledge of your subject…even if that subject is a complete fantasy.

2. Passion for your topic.

3. A spark of creativity.

I wish to pass the award on to:

Amy of Lives Less Ordinary, The folks who send letters to Dear Anonymous, Puss Reboots, Dave P of PopBuzzUK, and JM at The Book Stacks. (No, you don’t have to participate in the passing on of the award. Just know that I think you offer powerful words with your blogs.)

And now…back to our topic.

First of all, sorry for the down time on the site. We were upgrading our servers. Hopefully everything should be okay now.

Over on the Official Doctor Who Website they’ve announced a couple more guest stars for Doctor Who series 4. Alex Kingston from ER and Colin Salmon from many things including James Bond films will be among the guest stars in the upcoming series. Series 4 is getting more interesting by the day. Who will they announce next?

Apparently, Burn Gorman told SciFi Wire that he was glad that the U.S. gets Torchwood. He’s pleased that Torchwood is being accepted as a stand alone show. Also, he enjoys working with John Barrowman. Good to hear it.

Digital Spy is reporting that the Doctor Who series 3 episode Gridlock is up for an Epiphany Prize. This prize is given out to “popular, entertaining movies and television programs that are wholesome, inspirations, uplifting, redemptive, and moral.” And while I am glad that Doctor Who is up for another award, one has to wonder if these folks have actually watched the show. Anyway, the awards ceremony will be on February 12 in Beverly Hills.

An excerpt of John Barrowman’s new autobiography is available over at the Daily Record website if you are interested. I’m quite keen to get my hands on a copy of that book.

And finally, a bit of random news. Did you know that Tesco is expanding to the West Coast of the US? Yes indeed. It looks like this British chain will be opening 18 stores in the San Francisco Bay area under the name “Fresh and Easy Neighborhood Market.” I have one question. Will they have the same merchandise as the Tescos in Britain?

Doctor Who, Burn Gorman, Torchwood, Gridlock, Tesco

As the National Television Awards were last week in the UK, I thought that some of you folks that live elsewhere might enjoy seeing a bit of the fun. The Doctor Who team won the award for Most Popular Drama and David Tennant came away with Most Popular Actor. As you can see in the picture above, David and Freema seem to be quite happy with the state of things. (David is wearing one of those velvet coats again. Oh well. It looks better in motion as you’ll see.)

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Doctor Who, David Tennant

Hello! This week I am starting the Whoniversal Information Roundup (why do I feel the need to add “Yee Haw” to that?) with a bit of fun. JM over at Fiction Scribe has been kind enough to give me the Smile Award. Thank You Kindly, JM. I’m glad that I make you smile.

As is the custom in these cases, I may now confer this award upon 5 other bloggers that make me smile. I have selected:

Audrey of Only One Audrey
Emma of Treehouse Jukebox
DaveP of PopBuzzUK
Miss Zoot of Misszoot
and
amypalko of Lives Less Ordinary

Right then. On to the more usual stuff!

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This year’s TV Quick/TV Choice Awards left David Tennant smiling. Not only did he win the gong for best actor, but Doctor Who also won the Best Loved Drama award. Between these two awards and Steven Moffat’s Hugo, I’m thinking that Doctor Who is going strong. Keep up the good work you lot!

Apparently, as if he wasn’t busy enough, David Tennant will be appearing in the Christmas episode of Ricky Gervais’ comedy Extras. No official word about his part, but insiders are hinting that it will be related to Doctor Who in some fashion. Get your Tivos ready now.

david-tennant.com is reporting that David will not only be playing Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company (from Thursday 24th July 2008 to Saturday 15th November 2008 in Stratford Upon Avon), he will also be playing Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost. One may safely assume that he will not be following this performance with one of Love’s Labour’s Won. I really need to get my passport updated. Also, it has been widely reported that Patrick Stewart will be playing Hamlet’s Uncle Claudius (as if I needed any added incentive.)

TV Quick, TV Choice Awards, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Extras, david-tennant.com, Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Upon Avon, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Patrick Stewart

Wow. This is quite the day for news. Steven Moffat has won a second Hugo Award (Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form). This time it was for the Doctor Who episode - “The Girl in the Fireplace.” His first Hugo was for “The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances” back in series one. I wonder if he’ll end up being nominated for “Blink“? Congratulations, Mr. Moffat! (Now…he’d better write an episode for series four.)

Th Official BBC Doctor Who site has an article about this fabulous happenstance here.

Steven Moffat, Hugo Award, Doctor Who, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Blink

The winners of the BAFTA Cymru awards have been announced!

And the winners (that we care about) are:

Best Drama Series
Torchwood: Everything Changes - Richard Stokes

Best Director Of Photography: Drama
Torchwood: Everything Changes - Mark Waters

Best Editor
Doctor Who: Tooth And Claw - Crispin Green

Best Lighting Director - Not Camera
Doctor Who: New Earth - Mark Hutchings

Best Design
Torchwood:Everything Changes - Edward Thomas

Best Costume
Doctor Who:The Girl In The Fireplace - Louise Page

Best Make-Up
Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace - Sheelagh Wells / Neill Gorton

Best Screenwriter
Doctor Who: Doomsday - Russell T Davies

Best Original Music Soundtrack
Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet - Murray Gold

Best Director: Drama
Doctor Who: Doomsday - Graeme Harper

Best Actor
Doctor Who: Doomsday - David Tennant

Best Actress
Torchwood: Everything Changes - Eve Myles

Here’s some news coverage of the event. Well done everyone! Mind you…I can’t agree on the best actress. I felt that Billie’s performance in Doomsday was better than Eve’s in Everything Changes. Oh, well. They didn’t ask me.

BAFTA Cymru, Russell T Davies, Murray Gold, Doctor Who, Doomsday, David Tennant, Torchwood, Everything Changes, Eve Myles

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Watching Doctor Who

The BAFTA Cymru Award Nominations have been announced, and Doctor Who and Torchwood seem to be everywhere. Including the list for Best Drama Series, for which they are both nominated. Amusingly enough, the third nomination in this category is for Belonging which stars Eve Myles. You may notice that there is quite a bit of Doctor Who vs. Torchwood on the nomination list. This should be…interesting. The Awards ceremony will be Saturday 28th April, 2007. That’s just around the corner! So, here’s a list of the folks for whom we’re keeping our fingers crossed:

Best Drama Series
Doctor Who
Torchwood

Best Director Of Photography: Drama
Doctor Who: Tooth And Claw - Rory Taylor
Torchwood: Everything Changes - Mark Waters

Best Sound
Torchwood: Everything Changes

Best Editor
Doctor Who: Tooth And Claw - Crispin Green

Best Lighting Director - Not Camera
Doctor Who: New Earth - Mark Hutchings

Best Design
Doctor Who:The Girl In The Fireplace - Edward Thomas
Torchwood:Everything Changes - Edward Thomas

Best Costume
Doctor Who:The Girl In The Fireplace - Louise Page

Best Make-Up
Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace - Sheelagh Wells / Neill Gorton
Torchwood: They Keep Killing Suzie - Marie Doris

Best Screenwriter
Doctor Who: Doomsday - Russell T Davies

Best Original Music Soundtrack
Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet - Murray Gold
Torchwood: Out Of Time - Murray Gold / Ben Foster

Best Director: Drama
Doctor Who: Doomsday - Graeme Harper

Best Director
Doctor Who: A Celebration Concert - Rhodri Huw

Best Actor
Doctor Who: Doomsday - David Tennant
Torchwood: Everything Changes - John Barrowman

Best Actress
Doctor Who: Doomsday - Billie Piper
Torchwood: Everything Changes - Eve Myles

BAFTA Cymru, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Belonging, Eve Myles