Doctor Who

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

Wednesday’s news

28 March 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

  • A long interview with David Tennant in Living Scotsman
  • Tennant is also going to star in an HBO/BBC production called Einstein and Eddington. Not as Einstein though.

Books

Film

  • Ray Winstone’s joined the cast of Indiana Jones 4
  • Mike Myers is to star as an Indian guru. No potential for offence there then.
  • No one wants a Columbo movie
  • Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear have signed up for Ghost Town
  • A green light for The X-Files 2 may be only a week away
  • A trailer for 28 Weeks Later is up

British TV

  • Moira Stewart’s been dropped as a newsreader [subscription required]

US TV

  • South Park does 24
  • Heather Locklear has a pilot
  • Will Jon Stewart’s baseball pilot get picked up, now it’s on YouTube?
  • Jason Behr replaces Stephen Moyer in the Company Man pilot
  • Kevin Sorbo is to be a preacher for Hallmark
  • Rob Lowe is going to be a series regular next year in Brothers and Sisters
News

Tuesday’s news

27 March 2007 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Radio Times covers

Doctor Who

Books/Comics

  • Neil Gaiman’s doing a book-signing at Forbidden Planet on Friday

Film

  • The original Transformers movie gets a re-release in London
  • Michael Biehn might have a part in James Cameron’s Avatar. QFS.

British TV

  • Philip Glenister from Life on Mars slags off British TV [free registration required]

US TV

  • Lots of BSG interviews. Looks like Caprica’s off, though
  • Piper Perabo is going to be House‘s love interest. Maybe.
  • More pilot casting, with The Thick of It getting a lead at last
  • The usual spoilers from Kristen this week, including a forthcoming Lost fatality, Prison Break fatalities, and a Heroes fatality
News

Tuesday’s news

27 March 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Radio Times covers

Doctor Who

Books/Comics

  • Neil Gaiman’s doing a book-signing at Forbidden Planet on Friday

Film

  • The original Transformers movie gets a re-release in London
  • Michael Biehn might have a part in James Cameron’s Avatar. QFS.

British TV

  • Philip Glenister from Life on Mars slags off British TV [free registration required]

US TV

  • Lots of BSG interviews. Looks like Caprica’s off, though
  • Piper Perabo is going to be House‘s love interest. Maybe.
  • More pilot casting, with The Thick of It getting a lead at last
  • The usual spoilers from Kristen this week, including a forthcoming Lost fatality, Prison Break fatalities, and a Heroes fatality

“Eek. I’m late” news

26 March 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Bloody alarm clocks

Doctor Who

  • Interview with sweet FA
  • The Mirror says David Tennant has confirmed he’ll star in all of the fourth series
  • Lots of (alleged) spoilers about Captain Jack’s appearance this season

Film

Media Journalism

  • Charlie Brooker discovers what the rest of us journalists have to go through every single time we deal with a PR firm

US TV

  • Homeland Security is testing drones named after Chloe from 24
  • Watch Shatnerisation as it happens: Billy boy is to appear alongside himself in Boston Legal using footage from 1957
  • Goodie. Another Stargate series is on the way. It’ll deal with the ninth chevron. Wow.
  • Pilot casting

“Roll on the weekend” Friday news

23 March 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

  • The Stage has puts its Doctor Who podcast online

Film

  • Artwork for Gatchaman (aka G-Force)

British TV

US TV

  • BSG finale talk from Grace Park. There’ll be a two-hour special episode in the Fall, before the fourth season starts next January.
  • Miguel Ferrer joins the cast of The Bionic Woman and Orlando Jones is to star in Victoria ‘Green Wing‘ Pile’s first US show
  • NBC performs evil experiments on Heroes fans
  • Jamie Kennedy stars opposite the real bionic man, Lee Majors, in pilot Me and Lee?