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8th Dec 2006, 3:34 PM #1
New Series Press Coverage (Minor Spoilers!)
Press coverage seems to have picked up following BBC1's Winter/Spring season launch yesterday. Looks like they've seen some clips from Series Three... probably the trailer at the end of 'The Runaway Bride'.
Today's Sun reports that the Doctor and Martha end up in bed together!! "OMG!! FFS!! IT'S THE END OF MY FANBOY WORLD!! ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUALISATION OF MY FAVORITE SHOW ALREADY!!"
CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS!!
Doctor Who's been a bed boy
Loving the comment after the story!!
Yesterday's Daily Mail had a similar story:
CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS!!
Dr Who cosies up with his new girl
I look forward to the 'coming soon' trailer at the end of The Runaway Bride.
There was also an interview in The Times a few days ago with Jed Mercurio (Bodies, Invasion Earth and Cardiac Arrest) moaning about "how boring it is to have endless Doctor Who spin-offs.":
The TV writer with a bone to pick
Do you think he might be bitter that BBC Three are making Torchwood instead of another series of Bodies?Last edited by Milky Tears; 8th Dec 2006 at 3:45 PM. Reason: to add links
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29th Dec 2006, 2:11 PM #2
The Sun's Ally Ross has Doctor Who as his main review.
A quote even makes the front page:
"Catherine Tate in a wedding dress...
enough to get every man above the age of consent cowering behind the sofa."
Originally Posted by The Sun/Ally Ross
Edited to add: This week's Lookalike section winner is "The Empress of Racnoss from Dr Who and Connie Fisher."
There's also a page of "Carlyle v Tennant: Are the Daleks ready for Begbie? How Trainspotting Star Measures Up As New Who" in the Scottish Sun. Sections include: Fornicate! Fornicate!, Sexiest Co-Star, Kit Off, Intimidate! Intimidate!, Pink Power, Brushes With Timelord No9 Christopher Eccleston, Awards and Most Embarrassing Moment.Last edited by Milky Tears; 29th Dec 2006 at 2:12 PM.
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31st Dec 2006, 3:16 PM #3
Billie Piper Stole My Lover Exclusive in today's People.
Sadly, no Myleene Klass bikini pics in the online edition, but at least Garry Bushell has David Tennant as "Gallifreyan of the year" and "The Tardis careening down the Westway" as one of his Small Joys Of Xmas TV. "The Empress of Rachnos" makes his Rot On Xmas TV list.
http://www.people.co.uk/showbiz/bushellonthebox/
DR WHO-HO-HO-HO-NO
bushell on the box
ALIENS drilled a hole to the earth's core on Dr Who. It still wasn't as big as the ones in Russell T's script. It felt lazier than usual, with recycled Santa robots, the sonic screwdriver over-used as a magic wand, a spectacularly senseless plot, and a lift that appeared to go from Chiswick to the Thames Barrier 20-odd miles away... Insanely, the Thames drained (no word on the North Sea). A space ship strong enough to survive the earth's molten core was shot down by a few tanks. Maddest of all, the Doc asked Catherine Tate's thick, frumpy bride to join him. Why? I suppose a wife this grumpy would silence a Cyberman.
The Sunday Mirror's Kevin O'Sullivan is just as positive:
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/showbiz/kevinosullivan/
DOC'S IN A BIT OF BOVVER
IF David Tennant is going to quit Doctor Who, I can understand why. Saving the universe week after week is a repetitive business.
As was proved by the dull-as-ditchwater Christmas special, The Runaway Bride.
"Your body's a battleground," said the Doctor after Catherine Tate's bride-to-be character Donna was beamed into the Tardis. He meant: "...the size of a battleground."
But who looked more scary? Tate in her billowing wedding dress or villainess Sarah Parish in her enormous spider outfit?
The prize went to terrifying Tate. Because, cackling constantly as the evil Empress of Racnoss, Parish's cartoon baddie was impossible to take seriously.
Naturally, the Doc foiled Racnoss. But Donna decided she wasn't up to this time travelling lark and went back to her mum's.
"Am I bovvered?" said the Doctor. OK, he didn't say that. But were any of us really bovvered?
Finally, some highbrow stuff/guff from Kathryn Flett in The Observer:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/revie...980339,00.html
..... on the big day Geraldine is allowed to wear a better piece of kit than Catherine Tate's drab rag of a wedding dress in Dr Who
But given that this Who was a Christmas special, and therefore an episode in which a certain levity and deftness of touch wouldn't - and indeed in the case of David Tennant's sweetly boyish Doctor didn't - go amiss, perhaps the award-winning comic actress (lest we forget) giving us an utterly charmless, strident and humourless performance meant that she got the frock she deserved. What a huge messy disappointment it was, full of Tate shouting and Tennant looking like he really really missed Billie Piper, and all of it drowned in hideously overwrought music. And what on earth - or even outer space - was the point in disguising the beauteous Sarah Parish as a giant red spiderthing? If you ask me, there was mix-up in both the casting and costume departments, and Tate and Parish were wearing each other's parts.
But at least they were given better material to play with than poor Don Gilet, forced (well, fair enough, paid) to play Tate's jilted husband-to-be without the benefit of any obvious characterisation at all. Fortunately he got a better gig later in the week in The Ruby in The Smoke, with Billie Piper. Indeed the Timelord's omniscience is such that almost every actor on TV last week could appear in the new parlour game (soon to be available as an interactive DVD if I have my way) 'Two Degrees of Separation from Dr Who'.
It seems like mere moments since I was writing patronisingly pat-on-the-back prose about Billie Piper reinventing herself as an actress. (Bless her! Quite good, isn't she? Wonder if she'll keep it up, or decide to make babies with Chris? That sort of thing.) I thought she might land herself a nice soap gig - nanny in Emmerdale, nurse on Holby - and that would be that. Safe to say I wasn't entirely prepared for Piper taking over the world, and I remain unconvinced.
Anyway, Piper's limitations aside, she is the casting director's darling, and so be it. Even with an oddly measured and breathy speaking voice (perhaps she felt this made her more posh and authentically 'period', and therefore more feminine? At heart I think Piper is uncomfortable with girlish stuff) she made a feisty enough Sally Lockhart. And anyway it didn't much matter because Sally floated, like a little crouton on the surface of The Ruby's boiling pot of melodramatic Victorian soup. Who knew that we needed more drama featuring teenage girl accountants who are handy with a pearl-handled revolver and able to balance the books like a bloke? But we do.
Elsewhere, among the opium dens, corpses, gems and orphans and all the rest of the deftly plotted foggy intrigue, Julie Walters's gloriously gothic turn as the wicked Mrs Holland more than made up for the previous week's Driving Lessons, Don Gilet got to do some proper acting, and the likeable JJ Feild (a great deal of whose life must be spent telling people that, yes, it really is e-before-i, and I sympathise: four decades of 'it's Flett-not-Fleet' has been dreary) made a charming nearly romantic lead.
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2nd Jan 2007, 2:28 PM #4A space ship strong enough to survive the earth's molten core was shot down by a few tanks.“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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2nd Jan 2007, 2:41 PM #5
The space ship wasn't in the Earths core was it?
Si.
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2nd Jan 2007, 4:53 PM #6
Not the same one, but an identical one, wasn't it? You see it at the creation of the earth, it causes all the rocks to form around it to make the Earth 4.6 billion years ago.
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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2nd Jan 2007, 7:18 PM #7
Perhaps that one was made of extra strong metal not impervious to tank fire , able to withstand temperatures at the Earths core and with ensuite bathrooms.
Si.
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26th Jan 2007, 12:31 PM #8
From today's Daily Star:
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news_detail.html?sku=1113
Dr Who and the sex-mad Britney clones
26/01/07
POP babe Britney Spears is set to take on Doctor Who playing a raunchy bunch of sex-mad aliens.
Writer Russell T Davies is a huge fan and wants her to appear in an episode created especially for her.
Blonde Brit, 25, right, will be cast as an entire race of lusty cloned creatures who all look identical to the twice-wed beauty.
Id love Britney to do it it would be so much fun, said Russell, 43.
Im not sure if shell come to Cardiff where the show is shot so Im nagging the BBC to fund a Hollywood special.
The new series of Doctor Who, which starts in the spring, again stars David Tennant, 35, as the Doc with Freema Agyeman, 27, as new assistant Martha Jones.
An early contender for "Best Doctor Who Tabloid Story Of 2007"?
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26th Jan 2007, 12:36 PM #9
Well that's just certain to be true.
Si.
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26th Jan 2007, 4:33 PM #10Pip Madeley GuestDr Who and the sex-mad Britney clones
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29th Jan 2007, 4:25 PM #11
Brittany Spears in series 3..
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29th Jan 2007, 4:53 PM #12
It's a disturbing turn of events I don't mind telling you. But I'll wait to see it (if it happens) to judge it.
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29th Jan 2007, 5:37 PM #13
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10th Mar 2007, 7:03 PM #14
Newish Daily Telegraph RTD interview:
INTERVIEW PROBABLY CONTAINS SPOILERS!!
Master of the universe
"A fourth series of Doctor Who has already been commissioned, and Davies is putting the finishing touches to scripts for Christmas 2007. His work here is - almost - done."
Nice to see the Toclafane get a mention.
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10th Mar 2007, 8:37 PM #15
very interesting read that and you do get the impression RTD is looking to move on after series 4...
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11th Mar 2007, 12:15 AM #16Pip Madeley Guest'Take The Talons of Weng Chiang, for example. Watch episode one. It's the best dialogue ever written. It's up there with Dennis Potter. By a man called Robert Holmes. When the history of television drama comes to be written, Robert Holmes won't be remembered at all because he only wrote genre stuff. And that, I reckon, is a real tragedy.'
There are three Tardises: one made from glass fibre, to lug around on location, and two made from wood. And there are four Daleks.
This is interesting:
BBC Books published six Doctor Who novels last year, all featuring new stories not seen before on television. Each sold at least 50,000, while the top seller, The Stone Rose, has so far sold 70,000, an amazing figure given that most hardback fiction sales reach just a few thousand. A further nine new titles will come out in 2007 along with eight Torchwood novels to accompany its second series. Penguin also benefited from the RTD effect last Christmas when its Doctor Who Annual sold more than 300,000 copies, way above the few thousands sales the industry usually expects for children's annuals.earlier this year the Doctor Who Voice Changer Helmet was voted Toy of the Year by the Toy Retailers' Association, while Doctor Who action figures - more than 1,221,978 million of which were sold in Britain last year - picked up the Boys Toy of the Year Award.Internationally, the show is also selling well: broadcasters in more than 32 countries including Russia, Japan and India have acquired the series from the BBC. Torchwood has so far been bought by nine broadcasters.the complete series one compilation quickly became BBC Video's top grossing 2006 release in North AmericaIn the last week of 2006 the Top 50 hardback fiction list included nine Russell T. Davies-inspired books: six Doctor Who and three Torchwood titles. In the first week of January 2007, three of the top five best-selling fiction hardbacks were Torchwood stories. As a result, despite publishing no other fiction titles, the BBC is now the 10th biggest publisher of fiction in Britain.
Doctor Who merchandise was responsible for an estimated 50 million of retail salesDavies will never complain about the funding of Doctor Who - not publicly, anyway. 'But it's still the sort of budget, I gather, that they get for Waking the Dead. And they're standing around in morgues. We're blowing things up, with monsters everywhere. We could make a much smaller show. We don't. We make it big and blousy.'
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11th Mar 2007, 10:21 AM #17
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17th Mar 2007, 1:37 PM #18
New Freema Agyeman interview in today's Sun:
PROBABLY CONTAINS SPOILERS!!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...120665,00.html
I hate her hammy acting and stinky jacket already! Get rid! End of!
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18th Mar 2007, 2:23 PM #19
An interesting Observer interview with RTD... where James Robinson spends most of the time spurting all over him:
PROBABLY CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS!
Television's lord of prime time awaits his next regeneration
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19th Mar 2007, 11:09 AM #20Pip Madeley Guest
It says:
As the third series begins the Saturday after next, Davies won't be packing up his typewriter until the turn of the decade, a date too far into the future to worry even the most nervy time-traveller, but one that will worry BBC executives.
'I'm not going to go on and on,' he says, from his spacious flat overlooking Cardiff bay, where the series is filmed. 'I wouldn't want to do series seven. There are other things I want to do.'
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19th Mar 2007, 12:17 PM #21
So he could be writing up until series 6! I personally would like to see him back off from the writing & may be just do 3 episodes in series 4, may be 1 or 2 in 5 & then Exec.Produce series 6 only.
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19th Mar 2007, 7:49 PM #22
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19th Mar 2007, 8:34 PM #23Pip Madeley Guest
Of course we can! Dr Who shouldn't end just because RTD's had enough...
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20th Mar 2007, 12:18 AM #24
But think of the moaning fans. They'll be lost without RTD!
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29th Mar 2007, 3:34 PM #25
Short RTD interview in Metro's 60 seconds:
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/intervie...&in_page_id=11
HOW BLOODY BLOODY DARE HE! MY BITTER OLD FANBOY BLOOD BOILETH OVER!
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