Doctor Who

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

Tuesday’s romantic zombie news

19 August 2008 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

Film

  • Rhys Ifans to star in The Boat That Rocked
  • Filming starts on Mighty Boosh‘s Bunny and the Bull
  • Tom Cruise working with Sam Raimi on adaptation of DC/Wildstorm’s Sleeper
  • Fox and Warner Bros to fight over Watchmen rights
  • Tyrese to appear in A-Team movie as BA?
  • Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks?

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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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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).

Thursday’s best of Scottish TV news

31 July 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

  • 20 years until Doctor’s daughter returns?

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Theatre reviews

Review: Under the Blue Sky

30 July 2008 Natalia Romanova 4 Comments

Where: Duke of York’s Theatre, St Martin’s Lane, London

When: 7.45pm Mondays-Saturdays, 3pm matinees on Thursdays and Saturdays. Runs for 10 weeks from the 15th July 2008

How long: One and half hours without interval

How much: £15-£47.50 (includes £1 restoration levy)

Tickets from: 0870 060 6623 (+£3), Ticketmaster (+£3) or www.theambassadors.com (-£1.50/ticket on top three price bands)

Yes, I’m back. It’s me, “Easily swayed into going to the theatre by famous TV casts” woman. How you doing?

This time, I went to see Catherine Tate (Doctor Who, The Catherine Tate Show), Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd) and Francesca Annis (Between The Lines, Dune and Krull – she’s been in better stuff, too, but the last two amused me) in some sort of play or something about teachers behaving badly.

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