Doctor Who

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

Tuesday’s ever-so-tired news

3 April 2007 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Feel sorry for the US: BBC America has just bought Torchwood
  • David Tennant back for series four

Film

  • Aardman’s signed with Sony now
  • Can anyone say ‘fix’? Serenity voted best sci-fi movie ever
  • Two John Cusack trailers

British TV

  • John Travolta will appear in the Christmas Extras
  • Virgin Media has launched a digital terrestrial service

US TV

  • Jennifer Love Hewitt’s mind is as thin as the rest of her: she thinks ghosts haunt the set of Ghost Whisperer
  • The Black Donnellys has been pulled
  • You can buy one of the original KITTs from Knight Rider

Monday morning news

2 April 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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  • Ratings for Smith and Jones were 8.2 million, peaking at 9.11 million
  • John Barrowman questioned about ‘fattie’ comments
  • David Tennant’s Doctor models himself on Jamie Oliver

Commercials

  • The official solution to that Virgin 74 bands puzzle

Film

  • First pics from Iron Man
  • Tarantino frightens cast with knowledge of their rubbish movies
  • A Dylan Thomas movie is on the way
  • The official site for Nicholas Cage’s Philip K Dick movie, Next, is up
  • Test-screening details of The Simpsons
  • Sigourney Weaver talks about Avatar
  • Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp may be in the sequel to Sin City
  • Luke Goss joins the cast of Hellboy 2
  • Two Transformers TV trailers

British TV

  • Living TV has the rights to Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer‘s second seasons

US TV

  • A promo for the next episode of Heroes
  • James Doohan has been fired into space
  • Sydney Pollack is directing a movie for HBO about the 2000 Florida recount
  • An interview with Dennis Haysbert about The Unit
  • The Sopranos in seven minutes

Review: Doctor Who – 3×1 – Smith and Jones

31 March 2007 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

Smith and Jones

So here it is. Series three has hit us at last. Expectations are high. We’ve a new companion to meet, an established Doctor – the coolest character in the universe apparently – to touch base with again and the horrible scar tissue left over from Torchwood to deal with. That really squandered some good will.

Despite the fact Russell T Davies was writing it and it was a series premiere, I thought Smith and Jones wasn’t that bad, even with all those factors to deal with.

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End of the week news for everyone

30 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Film

  • There’s a full length Ocean’s 13 trailer out
  • Uwe Boll damned by Kristanna Loken’s faint praise
  • What’s happening to Iron Fist?
  • Mark Wahlberg will star in M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening
  • Harry Potter 5 stills
  • Jason Statham might be in Paul W S Anderson’s remake, Death Race 3000

British TV

  • Some BBC channels are coming to mobile phones
  • Ronni Ancona has her own show. With friends.
  • The BBC is looking at the viability of another episode of EastEnders each week [subscription required]
  • Dermot O’Leary is the new X-Factor host [subscription required]

US TV

Thursday’s working from home news

29 March 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Sophia Myles likes David Tennant to dress up as the Doctor for?��Ǩ�� you know. Allegedly
  • A Metro interview with RTD
  • Freema talks about Daleks
  • The Doctor is the coolest

Commercials

  • The Trident gum ads have been banned for being racist [free registration required]

Film

  • The first Bourne Ultimatum trailer is up and at ’em
  • Andy Serkis (you may remember him as Gollum but he was great in kids’ bicycle courier drama Streetwise back in the 80s) is to star in The Cottage with Reece Shearsmith and Jennifer Ellison
  • Spoilers for Die Hard 4.0

British TV

  • Pat goes postal in the US
  • Now we’re adapting Italian formats
  • Sky has recommissioned Cirque de Soleil. Why? Oh. Ruby Wax won’t be in it this time [free registration required]



US TV

  • Standoff hasn’t been cancelled, honest. It just looks like it
  • USA Networks has some character-driven pilots. It’s their thing. They also have a few new character-driven series starting soon.
  • Mr Linderman in Heroes has a secret (spoiler alert)
  • Stuff about the Stargate movies