Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennants (from Rosby and Rullsenberg)

Young Tennant

Simon Pegg and David Tennant

Catherine Tate and David Tennant

It seems the new layout for Sitting Tennant was a good move, since suddenly we have a veritable onslaught of Tennants in a sitting position. Today, we have three: one from young Rosby (who clearly likes her Tennnants young and windswept) and thought that that was going to be enough to hold on to her lead; but two from Ms Rullsenberg who is therefore declared the new leader. Told you you’d be caught napping, Rossers.

The Sitting Tennant picture competition table now stands as follows:

  • Rullsenberg: 8.5
  • Rosby: 8
  • Persephone: 6.5
  • Toby: 5
  • Poly, Scott: 3.5
  • Jane: 2.5
  • Anna, Electric Dragon: 1.5
  • Marie: 1

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table now sees Marie within striking distance of Toby thanks to some extreme wittiness (and topicality) on her part from her sick bed, while the middle of the board continues to see neck and neck excitement – like an Algonquin Roundtable version of Super Mario Kart:

  • Toby: 21
  • Marie: 19.5
  • Jane Henry: 13.5
  • Persephone: 12
  • Rullsenberg: 10.5
  • Rev, Electric Dragon: 5
  • Stu_N: 2
  • Poly, Andrea: 1

As always, captions and new submissions for the gallery, please. Remember, you can submit as many (witty) captions as you like for each and every picture, with topical captions getting extra marks – as do pictures of David Tennant in current productions.  

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. You can also enter the witting and amusing captions league table by commenting on existing photos in the gallery.

Fringe: tracking the Observer

Still watching Fringe? Blimey, you’ve got stamina. Even I petered out around about episode six or seven. I want to like it, I really do, it’s just really boring.

There are some glimmers of light in it, though. One’s John Noble as the truly mad scientist Dr Bishop. If the show was purely about him, I’d watch it.

The other glimmer of hope is The Observer. Much like Lazar in Witchblade, he pops up in more or less every episode, but you have to be very observant to spot him – although the fourth episode in which he’s the focus was pretty much the only good episode since the pilot (as far as I’m aware).

To save you time – and to avoid watching Fringe – you can see all his appearances in this video someone’s mashed up for your delight

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Review: Doctor Who – Forty Five

Doctor Who - 45Sometimes Big Finish have a good idea and they run with it: make lots of audio plays featuring the original actors from Doctor Who. Sometimes they have a bad idea and they still run with it: make lots of audio plays featuring none of the original actors from Sapphire and Steel.  

But sometimes they just have an entirely mundane idea that no one would really consider re-using – and they run with it. Case in point: 100 was a series of four, one-episode plays gathered together to celebrate the 100th Big Finish Doctor Who audio release. So far so good. What you might not then have expected is for Big Finish to release four more one-episode plays under a numerical umbrella for no really good reason whatsoever.

Which is why Forty Five would have surprised you. It’s just four plays, all featuring the number 45.

That’s silly.

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