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I feel violated. Violated and stupid. Don't I learn? Am I no better than invertebrates or small yappy dogs? Couldn't I tell that another Torchwood Radio 4 play was going to make the last one look like a work of art?

Apparently not, because I actually sat down and listened, live, to Torchwood - Asylum.

Well that's 45 minutes I'm not getting back.

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Apologies for the delay in reviewing this one: I simply couldn't face listening to the first of two Sylvester McCoy stories after having to sit through the Key 2 Time season.

In fact, the thought of listening to the new Eighth Doctor and Lucie season was so horrific I've decided to give those a complete miss, so sorry if you've been hoping for reviews of those – I doubt you have.

But, just for yous guys, I forced myself to get back on track. I steeled myself last week, gave The Magic Mousetrap a whirl – as well as the first episode of The Three Companions – and now I'm ready to report.

It's not that bad actually, although it would have been so much better with practically any other Doctor/companion combination.

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Doctor Who

• John Barrowman annoyed by Torchwood episode cut

Film

• What wasn't in Star Trek
• Amy Adams to star in The Fighter?
• Trailer for Ricky Gervais's The Invention of Lying
• Unstoppable stopped?
• Trailer for Gamer

• John Simm, Ian Hart and Kerry Fox to appear in Speaking in Tongues
• Gareth Gates to star in touring Les Mis

US TV

• Promos for season three of Mad Men
• Showtime cancels Brotherhood
• Mental's Chris Vance to appear in four episodes of Burn Notice [spoilers]
• Virtuality gets rubbish ratings
• Greg Garcia heads for Fox
• Drea de Matteo joins Desperate Housewives

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Twitter's an amazing thing, but on Friday, Rev/Views, Aaron and I together managed to create the storylines for a fourth series of Torchwood in just under an hour. Now that's amazing.

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Doctor Who

• Rusty talks about Torchwood and Doctor Who [spoilers]
• Another Torchwood trailer

Film

• An American Werewolf in London remake?
• How Marvel's The Avengers movie is going to work
• Trailer for vampire movie Daybreakers
• Trailer for Earhart biopic Amelia

Theatre

• Rain Man to go on tour with Neil Morrissey
• Alan Cumming to play the Green Goblin in Spiderman musical

British TV

• Last of the Summer Wine back for six episodes
• Ofcom report says Sky needs to offer its movie and sports channels to other providers
• Mighty Boosh to split?

US TV

• An extra episode for Lost
• Bones to shoot more episodes in the UK
• Supernatural finds its devil - on Lost
• Heroes to get more complicated?
• Missy Peregrym to co-star in Copper
• TJ Ramini joins 24
• What was the German's/the triplets' storyline originally on Heroes?

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Doctor Who

• Beeb denies 11 Doctors rumours

Film

• David Fincher to direct Facebook movie?
• Katherine Heigl to star in Life As We Know It
• Daniel Craig to star in Dream House?
• Heather Graham and Johnny Knoxville join Kevin Spacey's Father of Invention

• A fourth series for Lewis
• Setanta goes off air in Britain
• NBC's Ben Silverman on shortlist for ITV CEO
• Fat Friends writer Kay Mellor to write drama about women over 50

US TV

• New trailers for Parenthood, Community and Trauma
• Callum Blue to play Zod in Smallville
• Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox to reunite in Web Therapy?
• AMC orders Rubicon
• Adrianne Palicki returning to Supernatural
• Meghan Markle joins Fringe as a recurring character

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Doctor Who

• All 11 Doctors to reunite for Comic Relief??

Film

• Trailer for The Last Airbender

French TV

• French TV dominated by US programmes

British TV

• Top Gear gets 7.1m viewers
• Andy Duncan to stay at Channel 4 for another three years?
• ITV to make Irish policeman drama Single-Handed

US TV

• Ashley Jensen may return to Ugly Betty
• Merlin gets rubbish ratings
• Don't say I didn't warn you: Bryan Fuller leaves Heroes
• Royal Pains' ratings continue to rise

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Doctor Who/Torchwood

• Spoilers for series five?
• Series four of Torchwood ready to go?
• Extended trailer for Torchwood series three

Film

• Prepare to snivel. Trailer for The Time Traveler's Wife
• Casting for John Carter of Mars
• Frost/Nixon writer to write next Bond movie
• Rare British comedies returned to BFI

Theater

• Bonnie Langford to make her Broadway comeback
• Evan Rachel Wood back on as Mary Jane in Spiderman musical

British TV

• Kröd gets 1.8m viewers
• Big Brother averages 2.7m viewers
• BBC Scotland to make three new comedy series

US TV

• 50 Cent to cameo in Entourage?
• Nurses angry with Nurse Jackie?
• Clips from Melrose Place, The Beautiful People and Vampire Diaries
• What's planned for the new Futurama
• House most popular show in the world?
• Mad Men not selling well
• Chuck could return early and with more episodes

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It's caption day! Time to discover who's submitted the best picture of David Tennant in repose of the week, and for all you's lot to start coming up with witty captions for it.

Why, it's Ms Rullsenberg who has triumphed this week, giving us this picture of all-out conflict between Russell T Davies and David Tennant, not that Davey T seems that threatened by Rusty.

That gives us the following leaderboard:

1. Rullsenberg: 30.5
2. Sister Chastity: 22.5
3. Jaradel: 20.5
4. Rosby: 2.5
5. Persephone: 1

Start captioning, my friends.

Back at witty caption land, this is the first week of the new rules, in which top captioner gets 10 points. After much sitting around measuring my laughter output for each caption using a finely calibrated audio Carusometer, I finally decided that Toby's second caption had what it took to hit the top.

That gives us the following lovely caption board:

1. Toby: 131.5
2. Marie: 112.5
3. Rullsenberg: 92
4. Jane Henry: 70.5
5. Persephone: 45.5
6. Jaradel: 38.5
7. Electric Dragon: 31
8. Rev/Views: 25
9. Scott 2: 14
10. Scott: 3
11. Aaron: 2
12. almostwitty.com: 1
13. Stu_N: 1

Remember, you can submit as many captions as you like for today's picture, with the wittiest getting 10 points next Friday.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it's judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery.

Every photo displayed on Monday (one per person who sends one in) gets a point, with a bonus point if it's from the latest DT production; the best pic in the stash each week will appear on Friday and get three points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Friday's Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points.

Doctor Who

• Cardiff Bay to get The Torchwood Experience?

Film

• Mission: Impossible IV still happening?
• Trailer for indie romcom with Zooey Deschanel 500 Days of Summer
• Seven Golden Vampires to be remade?

Theater

• Jonny Lee Miller to star with Sienna Miller in After Miss Julie

• BBC stars to take pay cuts
• BBC3 to start at 3pm?
• BBC4 to have a Scottish season
• Mitchell and Webb can Playing Shop, plan rewrites

US TV

• Michael Shanks to guest star on Sanctuary
• Heroes writers signed up for two year deal
• 2.8m unprepared for digital switchover
• Rob Buckley replaces Brian Austin Green on One Tree Hill
• House premiere to run to two hours and new characters for The Mentalist and Dexter [spoilers]
• What the next season of Lost is going to be like [spoilers]
• More returning characters on Lost?

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