Best Torchwood fan fic ever: The Adventure of the Three Gay Unicorns

Read it and weep, authors. You’ll never better it.

“Buddy,” I announced (to the unicorn), “I’m gonna shoot you in the face!”

BLAM! That was the sound of my gun going off! I LOLed as the bullet slammed into the face of the commander unicorn. Rainbowy gay brain-matter flew out in all directions. His space-diamond tiara smashed against the floor in pieces, a symbol of his broken leadership.

Thursday’s Clooney, Clooney-ER, Clooney-est news

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  • Joanna Page, Margaret John and Siân Lloyd to star in The Vagina Monologues at the Wales Millennium Centre

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Rullsenberg): The Next Doctor

Today’s bonus Sitting Tennant is from Ms Rullsenberg, whose picture of a sedentary David Tennant I so cruelly left at home last week. It’s from The Next Doctor, I think, although to be honest I have absolutely no idea. Clearly though, it’s an imitation of the famous cantina scene from Star Wars, although from where the Doctor’s going to produce his gun, I wouldn’t like to say.

That gives us the following leader board for the picture competition:

  1. Jaradel, Rullsenberg: 1

Ooh, exciting. You wait ’til it hots up like the caption competition because it’s all go there. Marie, taking to heart the ruling that back-related captions are no longer topical, went for a Hudson river comment, earning herself a bonus half mark. But it was Rev/Views’ venture in surrealism that earned him the title of wittiest caption composer this time round, with the associated double points prize, taking him into joint second place.

That means the scoreboard now stands as follows:

  1. Marie: 4.5
  2. Jane Henry, Toby, Rev/Views: 3
  3. Aaron, Persephone, Rullsenberg: 2
  4. Jaradel: 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.

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.

Russell Tovey and Julie Gardner talk Doctor Who

In advance of my Being Human preview, which should pop up either today or tomorrow depending on work, I thought I’d give you a few Doctor Who nuggets that emerged from the Q&A following the showing of the first episode at the BFI on Friday.

Present – as advertised – was Russell Tovey, who appeared in the Christmas special The Voyage of the Damned and was once tipped as a front-runner for the part of the Doctor by Russell T Davies no less, and Matthew Bouch, producer of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Also present, but not as advertised since it was originally going to be BBC3 controller Danny Cohen, was Julie Gardner, head of drama for BBC Wales and exec producer for Doctor Who.

There wasn’t that much said about Who, for obvious reasons, but a few little anecdotes emerged.

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Monday’s Ofcom giveth, Ofcom taketh away news

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  • Roland Emmerich to produce adaptation of Asimov’s Foundation series
  • Keanu to play lead in anime adaptation Cowboy Bebop
  • Trailer for Paul Rudd’s I Love You, Man
  • Trailers for Planet 51, Crank 2 and Outlander

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