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An archive of blog entries about British science-fiction programme Doctor Who.

Monday’s gossiping cavegirl news

9 February 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennants (from Rosby and Rullsenberg): The Stolen Earth and Partners in Crime

6 February 2009 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

Billie Piper and David Tennant

David Tennant in Partners in Crime

Time for the weekly Sitting Tennants. In this case, we have two Doctor Who shots, one from Ms Rosby showing behind-the-scenes fun during The Stolen Earth, and one from Ms Rullsenberg in which David Tennant is channelling Colin Baker during Partners in Crime: “See the pretty thing swing back and forth.” Phnar, Phnar.

That means Rosby’s clawed her way into second place on our picture competition leader board:

  1. Rullsenberg: 4
  2. Rosby: 2.5
  3. Jaradel: 2

In the witty caption competition section, there’s much confusion (in my head anyway) over exactly how many pictures everyone’s captioning with each comment. But fingers crossed, this is how it stands, with Marie’s super-powered, story-telling, four-picture-captioning wittiest and topical* comment giving her an unprecedented nine points and taking her to the top of the leader board.

Oh, yes, and a bonus point to Persephone for using Gary Numan lyrics. What? You didn’t know about that secret rule? Must have slipped my mind.

  1. Marie: 16
  2. Toby: 12.5
  3. Jane Henry: 10
  4. Persephone: 9
  5. Rullsenberg: 6
  6. Rev/Views, Jaradel: 5
  7. Scott: 3
  8. Aaron: 2
  9. Electric Dragon: 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 (and pictures of David Tennant in current productions) getting extra marks. The wittiest caption for each picture will get double points. And there’s a bonus point for using Gary Numan lyrics appropriately.

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.

* Topical once you realise that Marie has sympathetic back pains, poor lass

Thursday’s Matt Smith news

5 February 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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Review: The Companion Chronicles 3×7 – Transit of Venus

2 February 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Transit of VenusIt seems that if you want to listen to a guaranteed decent Companion Chronicle, you have to stick with the Hartnells. Whether it’s because the Hartnell years tended towards greater innovation and harder sci-fi, or whether it’s because the better Big Finish writers prefer it, the quality on the Hartnell releases have tended to be far better than those for other Doctors. Certainly, the very worst of the range is still head and shoulders above most of the rest.

Here, for example, we have The Transit of Venus, read by original Hartnell companion Ian Chesterton (aka William Russell). While not absolutely brilliant, it is a very Hartnellian piece, in which Ian and the Doctor are stuck on board the The Endeavour under the command of Captain Cook as it travels to Australia.

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BFI offering free David Tennant film to members

2 February 2009 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

David Tennant in Sweetnightgoodheart

No, honestly, I’m not making that headline up. If you’re a member of the BFI, you can now download for free David Tennant in Daniel Zeff’s Sweetnightgoodheart:

Our Valentine to BFI members, this delightfully bittersweet and wry comedy stars Doctor Who’s David Tennant as a less-than-straightforward man trying to split from his hardworking medic girlfriend (Kate Ashfield). Over a candlelit supper, his attempts are misinterpreted as a marriage proposal and the night spins wildly out of control as a host of friends and family descend to wish the happy couple well. Will he find it in his heart to do the right thing?

It’s only nine minutes long and 53MB in iPod format. Ooh, look at that would you, it appears that link is clickable by people other than me. Get it while you can without joining then!

If that stops working (or I’m simply deluded), it’s available for the rest of the month at least so you can sign up to join now and get it; but since previous free downloads are still available, by the looks of it, you’ll probably be able to join at an even later date and still be able to get it. Here’s a clip: