Month: May 2010

Wednesday’s “Triple A Thing” news

26 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Sitting Tennant

Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant (week 21, 2010)

25 May 2010 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Rullsenberg's Sitting Tennnat

This week’s captionable Sitting Tennant comes from Ms Rullsenberg, who’s clearly been to some themed party recently. Enjoy!

  1. Rullsenberg: 150
  2. Erin C: 130
  3. Sister Chastity: 120
  4. Toby: 110
  5. Rachel: 80
  6. Sabine: 60
  7. Karen: 35
  8. Dawn: 10
  9. kellyann06: 5

In captionland, it was Marie who came through with the winning caption, so she now joins Toby and Rullsenberg at the top of the caption leaderboard. Well done to her and to everyone else who wrote such lovely captions. Good luck this week!

  1. Toby, Rullsenberg, Marie: 100
  2. Electric Dragon: 95
  3. Jane Henry: 55
  4. ecg: 50
  5. Rachel: 45
  6. SK: 25
  7. Sabine: 20
  8. kellyann06, Sister Chastity, Dani: 10
  9. whogal, Joe B: 5

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. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Monday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Monday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.

Tuesday’s “lost about Lost?” news

25 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

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Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – The Lost Stories – 06 – Point of Entry

24 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

PointofEntry.jpg“Hello, bottom of the barrel. Big Finish here. We’ve come to scrape you.”

There was an almost a point to the Lost Stories range. Adapt the Doctor Who TV scripts that for one reason never got made into shows and turn them into audio plays with as much of the original cast as possible.

That’s fair enough.

Yet here we are on just the sixth entry in the range and what do we have? A script written by Marc Platt based on a one-page A5 story outline created by Barbara Clegg (Enlightenment) for a season or other that Big Finish can’t quite determine, for a Doctor and companion equally undetermined.

At this point, surely we have to say, is this truly a lost story if it never even got beyond the pitching stage?

Quibbling aside, do you really want to hear Christopher Marlowe getting inspiration for Doctor Faustus from some Aztec gods?

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July 2010 at the BFI

24 May 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Time for our regular look at what TV’s on at the South Bank in London in July. Things to look forward to include a massive look at Brian Clemens’ work (including two Q&As, one devoted entirely to The Avengers), one of Jonathan Ross’s good shows (The Incredibly Strange Film Show), two episodes of Out of the Unknown, and a reshowing of Chimera followed by a Q&A with Stephen Gallagher and director Lawrence Gordon Clark

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