An archive of blog entries about British science-fiction programme Doctor Who.
Time to announce the winner of the The Writer’s Tale competition. Through the mighty power of the Internet Random Number Generator and atmospheric noise, I can reveal to you that the lucky recipient of my review copy of Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale – The Final Chapter is…
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And so it is that we come to the end of the Stockbridge trilogy, in which the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa travel to the past, present and future of Stockbridge because Big Finish love continuity and it was in the comics in the 80s or something.
We’ve had the past, which tried to be Monty Python and failed, but wasn’t bad when it was serious; then we had the present, which was pretty good apart from a few dodgy performances and odd directorial choices.
Now we have the future. The story carries straight on from the previous one again, except the Doctor and Nyssa appear to have ended up in some futuristic tourist park populated by Northerners and aliens, including Lisa Tarbuck and Keith Barron.
Except, as the title of the story and the cover should tell you, things aren’t what they appear to be.
Continue reading “Review: Doctor Who – 129 – Plague of the Daleks”
The YouTube one is unembeddable, but BAFTA itself has a nice vid of the recent event where Caitlin Moran of The Times interviewed Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner about Doctor Who. It’s 25 minutes so go make yourself a nice cup of tea first. BAFTA also has some other vids as well, if you’re interested, so click through to them if you have any more time after that.
UPDATE: BAFTA tell me they’re going to take down the embedded version soon, so watch it here before it disappears, or watch it on their web site when it does.
UPDATE 2: BAFTA now tells me their one’s going to stop working, but the YouTube one is now embeddable, so I’ve embedded that instead.
Continue reading “Caitlin Moran interviews Julie Gardner and Russell T Davies for BAFTA”
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?
Continue reading “Competition and Review: Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale – The Final Chapter”
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