It’s not just Father’s Day, it’s father and mother’s day over on The Sarah Jane Adventures. Let’s talk about it after the jump.
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UK TV
Month: November 2008
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Friday’s scary walking plants news
Doctor Who
- No, no, it’s not Paterson Joseph! It’s David Knijnenburg!
- Connie Fisher would like to be an assistant
Film
- Another Buffy movie thanks to Twilight?
Music
- Cliff and The Shadows to reunite
British TV
- BBC remaking Day of the Triffids
- RDF Media sold for £52m
- C4 reviving Comedy Showcase
- ITV to make £25m of cuts
- Less swearing on the Beeb
- BBC3 has a cinema trailer now
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Thursday’s thankful news
Doctor Who
- David Tennant to appear in Shakespeare documentary
Film
- Actors’ strike plans gearing up
- Trailer for Heigl and Butler’s The Ugly Truth
Theatre
- Gareth Gates to star in Joseph
British TV
- Clip of Juliet Stevenson in Dustbin Baby
- Channel 4’s Christmas line-up
- Licence fee won’t be given to C4 for digital switchover
- Third series of Jam and Jerusalem planned
US TV
- Who’s playing Olivia’s sister in Fringe
- Sarah Connor hits series low
- Larry King to guest on 30 Rock
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Audio and radio play reviews
Review: The Companion Chronicles 3×5 – Home Truths
How disconcerting. I thought they were going in Doctor order with these, but now we’ve skipped back to William Hartnell again. Wait a sec while I get my bearings.
Right. Whenever there’s a Doctor Who list-writing competition/meme (and these do happen very, very, very often), one of the lists is invariably "shortest-lasting companion", with the challenge being to identify who counts as a companion: anyone who travels in the TARDIS? Anyone in two or more consecutive stories who travels in the TARDIS? It all starts to become a bit tricky, when you consider that Liz Shaw, for example, never actually travelled in the TARDIS yet is undoubtedly a companion.
Fellow competitors in the ‘tricky’ stakes are first Doctor companions Katarina (Trojan priestess) and Sara Kingdom (future secret agent), both of whom pop up around the time of The Dalek Masterplan then promptly cark it after a minimal number of episodes in said story.
Which makes a Sara Kingdom Companion Chronicle an even trickier prospect for Big Finish. How exactly can you get Sara Kingdom to start recounting a tale of her life with the Doctor when she meets him and dies in the same adventure?
Sounds like a bit of a ghost story. Gather round, everyone…
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Wednesday’s Bollywood taxi driver news
Doctor Who
- Steven Moffatt has definitely cast the next Doctor
- …and the TARDIS might be getting a redesign
- Sarah Jane Adventures get a third series
Awards
- Bad Sex in Fiction winners announced
- Writers’ Guild of Great Britain awards
Film
- Star Trek trailer with added Nimoy
- Eddie Izzard and Brian Dennehy join Every Day
- Paul Schrader writing for Bollywood
- Trailer for Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity
- David Fincher to direct Keanu in Chef?
British TV
- Steptoe drama never to be repeated following complaints
- Ben Shephard to host The Krypton Factor
- CBBC and CBeebies dramas
US TV
- Frank Spotnitz working on NBC drama for Gabrielle Union
- Two pilots add cast
- Plans for an NCIS spin-off
- NBC’s January line-up