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John Barrowman on QVC

Posted on March 1, 2010 | 1 comment |

You might have missed him if you weren't following me on Twitter and didn't get my heads-up, but John Barrowman was on QVC on Friday. Look, here are the pictures: he seems in his natural element almost, doesn't he?

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John Barrowman sings 'The Doctor and I'

Posted on February 26, 2010 | Post a comment |

John Barrowman sings 'The Doctor and I' - it's on his latest album.

I won't say a word.

The Doctor & I - 1'30'' by lucidonline

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Monday's "George 'Sylar' Gershwin" news

Posted on February 1, 2010 | 2 comments |

Doctor Who

John Barrowman to guest on Desperate Housewives
Steven Moffat discusses commissioning Simon Nye and Richard Curtis
Billie Piper says a Doctor Who movie is happening

Film

Big Love's Ginnifer Goodwin to star in Something Borrowed
Heroes' Zachary Quinto to play George Gershwin?
Patrick Stewart to appear in Mad Max: Fury Road?
Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams to star in Take This Waltz
Guy Pearce and Mary-Louise Parker to star in The Well

US TV

Casting on Mike and Molly and Adam Carolla's comedy pilot
Allison Janney to star opposite Matthew Perry on Mr Sunshine
Parks and Recreation gets a third season
ABC Family picks up Melissa Joan Hart/Joey Lawrence vehicle Melissa & Joey
How to Be A Better American gets a pilot
ABC orders pilot for Dana Gould comedy
Dollhouse ends on the usual low in the ratings
Bones and Fringe get season highs
Fred Willard and Swoosie Kurtz to guest on Chuck
Heroes' Dawn Olivieri joins True Blood [spoilers]

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Behold its glory! Sherlock Holmes and the dinosaurs!

Posted on January 25, 2010 | Post a comment |

Remember that movie I mentioned a while ago, featuring Gareth David-Lloyd as Dr Watson and Dominic Keating as some bloke in an iron costume facing dinosaurs and the like? Well there's a trailer now – bask in its magnificence.

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Wednesday's prepare to be cancelled news

Posted on January 20, 2010 | Post a comment |

Doctor Who

Fox planning to make US version of Torchwood

Film

(500) Days' Marc Webb to direct Spider-Man trilogy
Andrea Arnold to direct Wuthering Heights
Paranormal Activity 2 to get Saw 6 director

British TV

Beeb to run a multi-platform science season

French TV

ITV Studios sets up a French arm

US TV

Fox, CBS and ABC pick up pilots
ABC picks up two medical pilots as well
And NBC picks up a comedy pilot
Summit planning TV series based on movie Push
Life Unexpected does well, Chuck and 24 ratings drop, Heroes falls to new low in ratings
Billy Baldwin to guest on Gossip Girl [spoilers]
A character returns to Smallville [spoilers]

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Competition and Review: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter

Posted on January 13, 2010 | 24 comments |

Authors: Russell T Davies, Benjamin Cook
Price: £16.99 (Amazon price: £11.04)
ISBN: 978-1-846-07861-3
Pages: 704
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: January 14th (that's tomorrow, baby)

Writing's not easy. It's very hard. Ask a writer. Go on. Any writer. They'll tell you about it at length. Really quite absurd length.

Journalist Benjamin Cook asked Russell T Davies how hard writing is, some time just before the launch of the third series of Doctor Who in February 2007, and the resulting email and text correspondence lasted, well, years. But in a radical move, Cook and Davies decided to turn all that correspondence into a book, and thus Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale was born.

Since then, Russell T Davies has continued to tell Benjamin Cook just how hard writing is, and the additional 300 pages or so of correspondence have been collected together and added to the original book to produce Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale – The Final Chapter. This not only continues Davies' insights into writing for Doctor Who, as well as Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and indeed television in general, but also looks at the politics of television, the nature of television production, how PR and the press work, and more.

And if you keep reading this exciting review, you'll be able to win a copy of it. How's that for fun?

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The other Sherlock Holmes movie of the year: that one starring Gareth David-Lloyd - you know, Ianto off Torchwood - and Dominic Keating from Enterprise and Desmond's

Posted on January 13, 2010 | 7 comments |

Now I'm not saying that Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto off Torchwood) as Dr Watson, Ben Syder as Sherlock Holmes, and Dominic Keating from Enterprise and Desmond's in a copper suit as some kind of villain, all against a backdrop of dinosaurs in London, is the worst idea in the world.

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