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Doctor Who: Dreamland broadcast dates announced
- Posted at 3:50pm
- 11 November 2009
- by LauraPledger-RT
The Tenth Doctor is embarking on an animated adventure in Dreamland! The six-part series, voiced by David Tennant, premieres at 5:15pm on Saturday 21 November on BBC1 via the Red Button service, and can also be viewed on the Doctor Who website.
A new episode will be available each day at 5:15pm between 21 and 27 November, but don't worry - if you happen to miss one, you can do some temporal jiggery-pokery of your own and catch up via the Red Button for the duration of the series.
The 45-minute-long animation...
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars preview
- Posted at 6:10pm
- 06 November 2009
- by Patrick Mulkern-RT
He's visited the Moon at least four times and even been to Pluto, but amazingly the Time Lord has never set foot on Mars - until now.
Of course, the Red Planet looms large in Doctor Who mythology. Former inhabitants the Ice Warriors - those "cruel Martian invaders" who plagued Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee in days of yore - receive a namecheck here, which will gratify fans.
And there are echoes of other episodes. The Impossible Planet (2006) showed us a similar isolated base and crew. The settlers' biodomes and rocket recall 
David Tennant to star in US comedy drama
- Posted at 11:40am
- 03 November 2009
- by WilliamGallagher-RT
Doctor Who's David Tennant is to play the lead in Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, a new comedy drama for America's NBC from the makers of Heroes and Life.
Rex Alexander (Tennant) is a lawyer in Chicago who has started suffering from panic attacks and, rather than continue to litigate himself, has instead taken to coaching clients to represent themselves in court.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the show has been in development for two years and that NBC "had been trying to find a lead actor for several months until Tennant came...
Doctor Who: Waters of Mars to air in November
- Posted at 2:14pm
- 30 October 2009
- by PaulJones-RT
The latest Doctor Who special, The Waters of Mars, will be shown on BBC1 at 7:00pm on Sunday 15 November, a BBC source announced today.
The story is one of three remaining episodes starring David Tennant as the Time Lord before the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, takes over in 2010. Tennant's two-part swan song, The End of Time, will air over the Christmas/New Year holiday period.
Meanwhile, incoming executive producer Steven Moffat has been talking up new signing Matt Smith. He called him "the best" and claims that, despite being the...
New Doctor Who logo unveiled
- Posted at 11:25am
- 06 October 2009
- by PaulJones-RT
The BBC this morning unveiled a brand-new Doctor Who logo, which will accompany Matt Smith's on-screen debut as the Time Lord in spring 2010. The logo is the 11th to have been used on screen in the show's history.
Doctor Who's new lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat called the new design, "simple and beautiful, and most important of all, a completely irresistible doodle," and joked "I apologise to school notebooks everywhere because in 2010 that's what they're going to be wearing."
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For a closer look at the...
First pic of new animated Doctor Who
- Posted at 3:30pm
- 21 August 2009
- by LauraPledger-RT
This is the first image of the animated Tenth Doctor, due to appear later this year in animated adventure Dreamland. Fans will first be able to see the six-part series via the BBC red button or on the BBC's Doctor Who website. The 45-minute long animation will also be broadcast on CBBC on BBC2 in the autumn, and on the BBC HD channel.
Written by Phil Ford - co-writer of upcoming Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars, as well as the brains behind several Sarah Jane Adventures and an episode of...
Doctor Who new series starts filming
- Posted at 11:25am
- 20 July 2009
- by PaulJones-RT
Filming began today on the new series of Doctor Who, with fans getting their first on-set glimpse of Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith and his companion Amy Pond, played by Scottish actress Karen Gillan.
Smith has his work cut out for him, replacing the much-loved David Tennant in the role, while Gillan follows in a long line of female companions, most recently including Billie Piper and Catherine Tate. As Amy, she will first meet the Time Lord in episode one of the new 13-part series.
Also new to the job...
Karen Gillan is the Eleventh Doctor's companion
- Posted at 2:10pm
- 29 May 2009
- by LauraPledger-RT
The BBC has revealed that 21-year-old Karen Gillan will be the lucky companion joining Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith in the Tardis when the next full series of Doctor Who starts next spring.
As she prepares to begin filming this summer, a clearly enthusiastic Gillan said, "I am absolutely over the moon at being chosen to play the Doctor's new companion. The show is such a massive phenomenon that I can't quite believe I am going to be a part of it.
"Matt Smith is an incredible actor and it is going to...
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead preview
- Posted at 3:47pm
- 07 April 2009
- by PaulJones-RT
Are you as excited as we are about The Doctor's upcoming Easter adventure (Saturday 11 April, 6:45pm), Planet of the Dead? Want to know more about it? Well, Radio Times reviewer Mark Braxton has seen it, and had this to say:
"The Time Lord seems to have met his match in the chic, catsuited Lady Christina. As the naughty aristocrat, Michelle Ryan is given quite an entrance here, diving like Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible into a Fort Knox-style museum to steal a priceless artefact. Evading the police, she meets the Doctor on board...
Lindsay Duncan is new Doctor Who companion
- Posted at 1:19pm
- 19 February 2009
- by PaulJones-RT
Following last month's news that Michelle Ryan is to star alongside David Tennant in the Doctor Who Easter special, Lindsay Duncan has been revealed as the Time Lord's newest companion.
The Rome star - who can also be seen as former PM Margaret Thatcher in Margaret - will play Adelaide, said by the BBC to be "the Doctor's cleverest and most strong-minded companion yet". Duncan said, "I'm thrilled to be involved in Doctor Who. I've never done anything like this before."
The episode is the second of four specials...
Matt Smith is new Doctor Who
- Posted at 11:00am
- 05 January 2009
- by WilliamGallagher-RT
If we could only stop seeing that moody shot of Matt Smith on the news. That one endlessly repeated shot where he's looking down at the camera and seems even younger than he really is. Other than that, I'm sold: this new Doctor is a superb choice. It's a brave one but it had to be: the only way to follow David Tennant is to be bold and brave and different.
Peter Davison faced the same criticism when he took over from Tom Baker aged 29, but he had an easier job: Tennant is leaving when it seems...
Doctor Who Christmas special
- Posted at 11:44am
- 19 December 2008
- by GillHudson-RT
Radio Times editor Gill Hudson gives her verdict on the Doctor Who Christmas special, The Next Doctor (Christmas Day, 6:00pm, BBC1):
We're in 1850s Victorian London. It's 24 December. It is snowing, it is bustling, it is Christmas-card perfect. And guess who just landed right in the middle of it?
Correct.
So far, so not terribly surprising – for about 60 seconds, anyway. And that's when another character arrives on the scene and, wouldn't you know it, he's calling himself the Doctor too, complete with sonic screwdriver and Tardis. Mad, bad, dangerous to know, or all three?
...Doctor Who: Journey's End
- Posted at 10:00pm
- 05 July 2008
- by WilliamGallagher-RT
Daleks, Doctors, Donna and always someone shouting out the plot until you bought them a beer: this was event drama, this was party television. Everyone watched this, everyone. Pubs that usually are locked to Sky Sports were tuned to BBC1 and if you didn't get to watch it with friends and food, get 'em all round for the BBC3 repeats.
You did have to feel a bit cheated about the regeneration but it was done with such a knowing laugh - Russell T Davies gleefully enjoying all the fuss he helped create last week. It's going to...
Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth
- Posted at 9:00pm
- 28 June 2008
- by WilliamGallagher-RT
Crikey. A Dalek finally shoots the Doctor after 40 years of trying - and the Doctor Who production team keeps secrets better than the MoD does.
It must be fantastic being them tonight: the whole country caught off guard, no-one knowing this would happen. Even news organisations weren't ready. Nobody was ready, and a furious, just furious rush begins right now to find out who the new Doctor is.
It looks as if David Tennant has lied to us all when repeatedly saying he's doing the specials next year - unless there's something even weirder going...
Doctor Who: Turn Left
- Posted at 7:40pm
- 21 June 2008
- by WilliamGallagher-RT
No question: Doctor Who monsters are scary. Take a look at the new Radio Times survey: vote for which is the most frightening monster and you could win Doctor Who DVDs. But tonight's is the first creature to make me feel ill since 1974. Jon Pertwee's final tale, Planet of the Spiders, had that disagreement between the Eight-Legs and the Two-Legs that might normally have gone our way but for how the Eight-Legs were bloody huge. Thirty-four years later and I just shuddered at that memory - although, true, the fact that it was nearly four decades...
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