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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Dec 15, 2014 0:02:31 GMT
Season’s greetings from Perkins: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02f3wcsWhat a lovely fellow and this was released for Day 14 of the 2014 Advent Calendar on the BBC Doctor Who website.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Dec 16, 2014 12:30:33 GMT
Long-time Doctor Who fans were rather perplexed to see in The Day of the Doctor that among the pictures in the UNIT Black Archive was one of Sara Kingdom and Mike Yates as they never see them meet before and there was no way to comprehend how such a meeting took place. Well this is what I read from Pawel Dembowski at the Big Finish Audio facebook page: “Simon Guerrier (who wrote the Sara Kingdom trilogy [for Big Finish]) said that when he met Steven Moffat some time ago, he asked about the photo of Sara Kingdom and Mike Yates in the UNIT Black Archive. And Moffat said basically "Well, it's for you to write how it happened now!"
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Jan 15, 2015 2:27:20 GMT
From the Doctor Who News Page: Currently being filmed for Doctor Who are episodes written by Toby Whithouse. Guest stars in these episodes are Paul Kaye, Morven Christie, Arsher Ali, Colin McFarlane, Sophie Stone, Zaqi Ismail, Steven Robertson and Neil Fingleton.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 8, 2015 10:33:16 GMT
The Silent Stars Go By: The Silent Stars Go By is a novel featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. Released in 2011, this featured the Ice Warriors prior to the Eleventh Doctor later meeting one of them on TV in Cold War. This was also released as an audiobook read by Michael Maloney. Written by Dan Abnett. The Silent Stars Go By is a very good Ice Warriors story and prior to Cold War, the Ice Warriors were last seen in the TV series in 1974’s The Monster of Peladon. So for Doctor Who fans who became fans because of NuWho but did not had the chance to see any of the past Ice Warriors stories, The Silent Stars Go By may have been their first introduction to them. A very enjoyable Ice Warriors story and the highlight of it was when Amy had trouble calling them Ice Warriors as she called them Ice Men instead. That was amusing I mean it isn’t really difficult to say Ice Warriors. If this had been a TV story I could easily see Karen Gillan delivering the amusement of Amy’s difficulty saying Ice Warriors. As Ice Warriors are Martians it was fitting the Doctor noted the irony of them not being little green men but big green men instead! Interesting that this tale shows what happens when the psychic paper is shown to someone who can’t read. Quite thrilling when Amy faced off giant rats. Reminiscent of when Leela also faced one in Talons of Weng-Chiang. All in all Abnett did well in his depiction of the Ice Warriors prior to their TV return in Cold War as well as Maloney’s narration of the audiobook.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 10, 2015 3:27:31 GMT
Demon Quest: The Relics of Time: The Relics of Time is the first part of Demon Quest audio story arc featuring the Fourth Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey with a brief appearance by Mike Yates. A thrilling start for Demon Quest which got triggered when Mrs Wibbsey inadvertently sold a vital component of the TARDIS. In going back in time in Roman times it was very fun that Mrs Wibbsey was thought to be this Wibbsentia. When the Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey met a so-called wizard and what a revelation of who he turned out to be. Quite enthralling the way the wizard last appear here and as the Doctor says this story is far from over.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 10, 2015 4:18:24 GMT
Thunderbirds Are Go! TV Tonight review (with spoilers): tvtonight.com.au/2015/04/thunderbirds-are-go.html“There were only two seasons of the Super-Marionation series in the mid 1960s, but it lived on in repeat form and a generation remembers it with nearly as much fervour as Britain’s other defining adventure, Doctor Who.” “Now it has been revived (perhaps due to the success of Who), by ITV who have cleverly partnered with New Zealand’s Pukeko Pictures and Weta Workshop (Lord of the Rings, Avatar, King Kong).”
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 11, 2015 0:14:55 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 11, 2015 21:06:22 GMT
Karen Gillan on her then new role as Amy Pond when she appeared in The Graham Norton Show back in 2010: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoisPQqnXTYAlso present were Alan Davies and Jennifer Lopez.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Apr 12, 2015 6:17:31 GMT
When DWM paid tribute to the late Doctor Who director Derek Martinus, his widow Eivor expressed dismay that his obituaries was led by his Doctor Who work. She says that the obituaries should have acknowledged more on his non-Who work.
To be quite frank, Mrs Martinus simply did not get it.
If one was to look up Derek’s work on IMDb, most people today have not seen or heard of his non-Who work in general. So from an editorial viewpoint it made sense for the obituaries to be led by his Doctor Who work.
Of the shows he had worked on Doctor Who is the one that everyone is familiar with and the only reason why people today should care from an editorial standpoint who he was when he was alive.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 5:40:36 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 5:49:52 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 21:15:42 GMT
Australian director Daniel Nettheim will direct two episodes of Doctor Who for Peter Capaldi’s forthcoming second season. tvtonight.com.au/2015/05/aussie-to-direct-doctor-who-episodes.htmlThis isn’t Nettheim’s first foray in the worlds of Doctor Who as he previously directed four episodes of K9. Also Nettheim’s uncle David Nettheim is an actor who had been in Doctor Who when he appeared in The Enemy of the World playing Fedorin.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 22:24:00 GMT
Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor’s Last Stand: In the Eleventh Doctor swansong The Time of the Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor spent 900 years on Trenzalore in the town of Christmas. During The Time of the Doctor there were brief glimpses of his long time on Christmas. Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor’s Last Stand is a book that presents some of the full-length accounts of the Doctor’s 900 years on Christmas.
The third of these stories is Strangers In The Outland.
Strangers In The Outland: Written by Paul Finch. To be honest I could not find myself enjoying this story as the menace that are the Autons did not translate well with me. It is not bad how the Autons are revealed here but their presence is not served well to me by the story’s lack of thrill and suspense.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 22:25:13 GMT
Voodoo of the Cybermen: Voodoo of the Cybermen is a two-part fan fiction story published in Data Extract #224 and #225. Featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa. Not bad story featuring the Cybermen with voodoo in the storyline and taking place in Haiti 1945. Wonder if the TV series will ever be filmed in Haiti one day as I am sure it will be a beautiful location to shoot at.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on May 20, 2015 22:25:38 GMT
We Love Titans – Wardrobe Malfunction: This is a one page comic published in Titans’ The Tenth Doctor Comic issue #4. This featured the Tenth Doctor figurine plus a brief appearance by the Fifth Doctor. The Tenth Doctor in the TARDIS figures out what to do wear and neat what he decided at the end.
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