Doctor Who

So was there a dry eye in your house? Read more

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An old showman trait is to keep the audience wanting more – a key aspect to Doctor Who, new and old. Read more

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After the inauspicious opening episode, David Tennant’s tenure in the TARDIS is developing into a rather rewarding series, in many ways superior to the show’s debut run last year. Read more

I am a number

Being possibly the only science-fiction genre television watcher to have only seen one episode of The Prisoner, and with only a passing idea of what the series is about, I’m slightly non-plussed that Christopher Eccleston would decide to do only one series of Doctor Who before falling headlong into the starring role of Number Six in a revival of Patrick McGoohan’s 1960s series. Read more

Doctor, who?

Right, we know the form by now. I go to a Doctor Who launch then, gradually as I transcribe the roundtables, dump some of the off-cuts on here. So, let the offal tray take its first delivery courtesy of Camille Coduri talking about David Tennant’s success in stepping into the title role. Read more

Delete! Delete! Delete!

“Oh, and if you spot one Cyberman at the back who’s a little bit slower than all the others, that’s Gethin from Blue Peter.” So quipped Russell T Davies at the latest Doctor Who launch, held last night at the Apollo West End in London. Read more

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Throughout the land, grown men are crying. This isn’t because of some major sporting event, the death of a cherished footballer or because the Queen is 80. Read more

“You idiot, Lizzy!”

Despite my disgraceful grumping about last Saturday’s Doctor Who, I’m, obviously, still hopelessly devoted to the show and thus excited to an equally disgraceful degree when I get to interview any of the cast. This afternoon, it was a telephone call to Elisabeth Sladen. Yer actual Sarah Jane Smith! Read more

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“I’m the new new Doctor,” chortled David Tennant through that toothy grin. And here, it seems, was the headline news from the start of Doctor Who‘s much anticipated second run. Read more

The fear factor

Right, this’ll be the last Doctor Who posting on here … until the next one, at any road.

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Catching snippets

For some of us, now is the time when our hard-drive recorders come in very handy. Unlike Graham, who was fortunate enough to have attended the Doctor Who press event the other night, us lot had to retune our Sky Digiboxes to BBC Wales last night to catch some of the first glimpses of the new series, or try to see clips on one of the breakfast programmes when we should have been at work. Read more

“I’m the new new Doctor!”

As expected, the papers are full of Doctor Who stuff today now we’ve passed the embargo date for news from the Cardiff launch. Naturally, then, I can’t resist adding my own thoughts to the rage of info pouring through. Read more

Time waits…

So, I’m back from Cardiff and the Doctor Who series two launch. As per the Guardian’s grumblings, info about the event is embargoed until tomorrow, so I’ll punt some stuff up on here then.

Paul Abbott was there, though.

Doctor, Doctor, can’t you see I’m burning, burning?

So, it’s official, then. And once more I’m gearing up to go Doctor Who nuts as the new series’ press launch has been confirmed for March 28 in Cardiff. The invites are ebay-ably attractive – David T, Billie P and an in-a-spin TARDIS on one side, some generic landscape shot on the other; both adorned with Photoshop whispy bits of business. Read more

“The thing about this hand is… it’s a fightin’ hand!”

So the good Doctor didn’t get quite as many viewers as predicted, but 9.8 million is pretty remarkable for a children’s science-fiction adventure at any time of the year, especially one up against Sir Terence of Wogan on the other side. Read more

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So “The Christmas Invasion” then. Perhaps the only episode of Doctor Who in the last 20 or so years not designed to stand up to the rigours of the home video (let alone DVD recorder with hard drive) age – and that’s possibly as it should be. Read more

The five facts of Doctor Who

Five points of interest from yesterday’s Doctor Who: “The Christmas Invasion” press launch, which I’ll doubtlessly be regurgitating all over the place for the next few days … Read more

Who! Who! Who! Merry Christmas

It’s the press launch for Doctor Who: “The Christmas Invasion” on Monday 12 December, which is terribly exciting, obviously. Read more

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If you still required irrefutable evidence that the programme you had been watching for the last 13 weeks was indeed Doctor Who, then there it was as the ninth Doctor breathed his last and turned into Doctor number 10. Read more

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It didn’t sound like the most promising idea in the history of Doctor Who. And this from a series that, for this casual fan, had more or less died at the moment an enemy heavily indebted to Bertie Bassett lumbered on screen. Read more

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