Monday’s suddenly cold and wet post-holiday news

18 August 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

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Holiday time

1 August 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

It’s that time of year again: Rob’s vacation. Yes, I’m off to sunny climes for a fortnight and will be coming back on the 18th. Until then, no blogging of course, since I won’t have so much as an iPod with me.

The Daily News will resume on the 18th, assuming there is any news, but since everyone else is off on their hols during August and I’m going to be busy, too, I’ll be on reduced blogging output until the end of September.

If you’re going away, have a nice time; if you’re not, guard the place and help any lost souls who wander here.

Bye for now!

Review: Doctor Who – The Death Collectors

1 August 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Death Collectors

Casting’s a funny old game, isn’t it? You can ruin a production with it, or make it a triumph. You can make thousands flock to it, or send them running for the hills.

Take The Death Collectors for instance. It’s been sitting on my metaphorical shelf for the best path of a month now, glowering at me sinisterly. I say sinisterly purely because it’s a Sylvester McCoy story and I find them about as appealing as an emergency tracheotomy performed with a Pizza Hut knife and coke straw. This one doesn’t even have Hex (or, shudder, Ace) to make it slightly more appealing.

Oh, but what’s this? Katherine Parkinson is the guest star? The sort of red-headed one with the nice voice off The IT Crowd?

Ah. Now, I really think you should have made more of that Big Finish. Maybe written it in giant letters across the cover and relegated Sylvester McCoy to the small print perhaps?

Pass me my iPod…

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Friday’s final pre-holiday news

1 August 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

The Daily News will be back (if there is any news, of course, and I’m not too knackered) on Monday 18th August 2008

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  • More Moff talk, including Doctor as the “ultimate liberal”

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting (or possibly reclining) Tennant (from Anna): Hamlet

31 July 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Anna's reclining Tennant

Who’s this coming unto the breach, dear friends? Why it is Anna, and with her comes David Tennant reclining. An excellent first entry! Well done.

With that, the tables look a little longer than before. Rosby is still in the lead with five entries, Persephone at four. Poly with three and a half, Toby on three entries and Scott on two entries. But now here’s Anna at one and a half for currency, and, erm, Marie with one because I’d forgotten hers. And Rullsenberg’s. Oopsy. Careless Rob.

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table has also changed subtly. Toby and Marie are now joint top with six captions to their names, Persephone has five captions to her credit, Rullsenberg and Electric Dragon both have three captions and Poly and Stu_N are on one each.

Given that I’m on holiday for a fortnight, starting tomorrow, that should give you all plenty of hunting time for new pictures – as well as time to come up with WAA captions. Good luck!

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 in due course (ie when I’m back from my holiday).