Doctor Who

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

Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant: The Bill

25 June 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Today’s Sitting Tennant is from an episode of The Bill (Deadline) that David Tennant appeared in roughly 13 years ago. You can see a clip of it on YouTube as well. In case you can’t tell, he’s in an interrogation room, not a hair salon.

Amusing captions, please.

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.

Look who it is in Doctor Who on Saturday

23 June 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Looks like Monday is going to be official Doctor Who day at TMINE from now on, judging by today’s posts. Here then is a new trailer for Saturday’s episode. It does contain a great big juicy FO spoiler, but you’ll have to avoid watching BBC1 for the rest of the week to avoid missing it, so you might as well watch anyway. Warning: may not be playable in the US.

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Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – Assassin in the Limelight

23 June 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Big Finish - Assassin in the Limelight

It’s a bit hard to know what to say about this one other than, "Ho, hum, another Sixth Doctor and Evelyn story."

To a certain extent, that’s because the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn stories seem to have fallen into a rut of late. The Doctor and Evelyn (who’s a history professor, you know) land in the past somewhere. They find something oddly out of sync with local history. They discover a boogly woogly thing is responsible. They fix it in a non-threatening, slightly slow and old manner while bickering in an old people "out on a day trip from a rest home" sort of way. The end.

Come on guys. Get your verve back. You had it once.

Unfortunately, Assassin in the Limelight follows closely in this rut since it employs a previous rut co-habittee’s villain (or is it villains?) – Leslie Phillips’s Dr Robert Knox, last seen being mean to the slow-witted David Tennant in Medicinal Purposes. The Doctor and Evelyn’s mission this time: stop John Wilkes Booth from being assassinated. (Ed: shurley shome mishtake?)

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UK TV

Review: Doctor Who – 4×11 – Turn Left

22 June 2008 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

The 1970s. A lot of people get all nostalgic about them, forgetting the constant strikes, power cuts, massive inflation and white dog poo that came with the era.

One good reason to get nostalgic is the TV. Ignore fluffy stuff like The Good Life or jaw-dropping programmes like The Black and White Minstrels Show – the essence of 70s TV was bleak, miserable and pessimistic despair, whether it was in sci-fi like Doomwatch, The Survivors, Blake’s 7 or The Changes or dramas like Callan, The Sandbaggers, Special Branch or Law and Order. 

Fan-bloody-tastic TV, in other words. This is what we want. 

And praise the Lord, Rusty gave us misery in spades with tonight’s episode.

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Wednesday’s pretend news

18 June 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Film

Theatre/Theater

British TV

  • Japanese silent comedians Gamarjobat get BBC3 pilot

US TV