Doctor Who

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

Monday’s Sarah Jane and movie news

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Friday’s 30 rocking news

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  • Gossip Girl girls to guest in 30 Rock…
  • …and footage of Jennifer Aniston on-set
  • Mitch Hurwitz and Jason Biggs working on sitcom for CBS
  • Aliens land with Greg Berlanti and Rene Echevarria for The Return for ABC
  • Anthony Edwards and Noah Wylie to appear in ER‘s final season
  • Michael Rodrick to guest on 24 and Without a Trace
  • Jodie Foster to play Maggie in The Simpsons; Anne Hathaway also to appear
  • Swingtown creator to develop BiCoastal for Showtime
  • New Amsterdam‘s Zuleikha Robinson cast in Lost
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Free Big Finish audio play: The Coup, starring Nicholas Courtney

4 September 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

UNIT - The Coup
Not all of you listen to the Big Finish audio plays. That’s fair. Although there are plenty of good reasons for this, including not liking Doctor Who, Sapphire and Steel, etc, one big reason is they cost money.

But Big Finish is currently giving away a free play from their UNIT range of stories that stars Nicholas Courtney (the Brigadier from the adventures of the second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh Doctor TV stories), Siri O’Neal (Moondial anyone?), Scott Andrews, Matthew Brehner, Sara Carver, Michael Hobbs, Joseph Lidster and Mark Wright. So if you fancy a taster and have half an hour to spare, why not give this one a go?

Written by Simon Guerrier, The Coup is set in London in the near future. The UK division of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce is prepares to cede its authority to a new organisation. But who is attempting to sabotage the hand-over?

You can buy the full first series for only £20 and it’s worth noting that episode four also stars David Tennant. Yes, that David Tennant.

Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant: Derren Brown again

4 September 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

David Tennant on a space hoppe

It’s been quite some time since our last Sitting Tennant, which came from Anna. So to kick it off again, here’s one I prepared earlier: it’s from the finale of the last series of Derren Brown: Trick or Treat, in which DT and friends did all sorts of weird things in an unwitting attempt to get fish to swim.

The current Sitting Tennant league tables stand (ho ho) as follows. For pictures, 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. Anna has one and a half and Marie and Rullsenberg are at the back with one each.

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table has changed. Thanks to some dueting between Toby and Persephone, Toby is top now with seven captions, while Marie and Persephone have six, Rullsenberg and Electric Dragon both have three captions and Poly and Stu_N are on one each. Feel free to leave captions below for this entry, too.

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.

If you want to watch all the Derren Brown: Trick or Treat episode from which this picture came, here it is on YouTube.

Review: The Vengeance of Morbius

1 September 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment
The Vengeance of Morbius

It’s not often that the biggest fault with a Big Finish play is that it’s not long enough. Quite often, you just sit there, watching the tumbleweed go by and glaciers nip past you as you wait for the play to come to its inevitable conclusion.

But for the first time in quite a while, I came to the end of a play and found myself wishing that they’d spent a whole lot more time on it. I’m not saying that it was brilliant, it’s just when you have a character who has the potential to be one of the most interesting Doctor Who villains around, an hour doesn’t seem like quite enough to explore the character properly, does it?

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