Doctor Who

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com You can catch "Doctor Who meets a Fifties monster B-movie", Dreamland this weekend as the a new six-part animated adventure premières daily on BBC Red Button and the BBC's Official Doctor Who website from Saturday 21 November. From the pen of Phil Ford (The Waters of Mars, Torchwood, The S...

By Brian A. Terranova info@kasterborous.com Monsters from Mars - this week’s Doctor Who Adventures magazine is all about The Waters of Mars. We investigate the planet Mars and find out if it is a place you should visit or avoid. If you were to visit Mars with the Doctor what would you take? Find out with Doctor Who Adventures’ essential ch...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Den of Geek has kindly collected together known facts about the final David Tennant Doctor Who story The End of Time - and it makes interesting reading... There's plenty here to digest, so take your time: In The End Of Time, we will meet a new type of Ood. Russell T Davies revealed this in the Q&...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Television’s longest-running science fiction series, shot in HD, has just three episodes to go before a new Doctor arrives on screen next year! The next special, Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars airs on BBC AMERICA, Saturday December 19th at 9pm/8c. All will be revealed as the Doctor and his...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com It was great to hear the news that eminent sci fi and fantasy author Michael Moorcock would be writing a Doctor Who novel for BBC Books last week - until it transpired that a number of "fans" were less than complimentary. Let's get this straight - this is Michael Moorcock we're talking about. T...

By Mick Karma info@kasterborous.com As revealed by the BBC's Official Doctor Who site, The End of Time, Part One has been confirmed as the title of the Christmas Day special! Presumably, the second part of the Tenth Doctor's last stand will be called The End of Time, Part Two. Interestingly this is the first time a single title h...

By Brian A. Terranova info@kasterborous.com Lost Doctor Who is a sad thing no matter how you cut it. But in the case of all the lost adventures from the 60’s, they still survive as in audio form, thanks to dedicated fans. Now these Lost Stories are no longer a mystery to those who never saw them before. Now, thanks to the dedicated fans in the r...

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By Mick Karma info@kasterborous.com Speaking to a couple of outlets, Russell T Davies has confirmed that Torchwood Series 4 is all but  confirmed for 2010. As reported by the Coventry Telegraph the outgoing Doctor Who exec is preparing for the fourth run of Torchwood - eagerly expected after the critical and popular success...

By Chris Davids info@kasterborous.com We might be in non-story land with this, but David Tennant has revealed that he has never offered input into Doctor Who. Well what a surprise. Surely even the most feeble-minded Radio 1 listener tuning into the risible NewsBeat would be able to distinguish the roles of the country's most fam...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com And so it begins. Landing on Mars. Failing to check the date. Cries of anguish. The rash, defiant decision. The Time Lord Victorious. The end is nigh. With The Waters of Mars, Doctor Who stepped up a gear into the now-recognisable Utopia/Turn Left “third episode from the end of the series”, a marke...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Yes - you can watch Doctor Who classics The Edge of Destruction (1964), The Krotons (1968), Carnival of Monsters (1973) and The Caves of Androzani (1984) free and legally on YouTube! This is part of BBC Worldwide's final embracing of streaming Doctor Who via the web - recently we've seen M...

By Mick Karma info@kasterborous.com Following reports of a major new edition of Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook, BBC Books have announced publication of The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter. Set to be released on 14th January 2010 as a £16.99 paperback, this new edition sees Russell T Davies...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com While we're all speculating about the final end for the Tenth Doctor, the 2010 series of Doctor Who is managing to film in relative anonymity. Thanks to a mighty bunch of fans snapping away with various camera phones (and in some cases higher quality equipment) it would seem however that th...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Following on from news of the release of The Nightmare Fair (starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant) Big Finish have released news of even more lost Doctor Who stories that they intend to produce! While the adventures of the Sixth Doctor and Peri will continue on a monthly basis as their ad...

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By Chris Davids info@kasterborous.com Taking a break from scurrilous gossip-mongering, The Daily Mail has nevertheless maintained it's reputation for not bothering to do any research in a brief interview with Doctor Who guest star John Simm. Simm (currently playing in Speaking in Tongues at the Duke of York's Theatre) is be...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com The first in Big Finish' series of audio adventures based on the scripts from the aborted Season 23 (when Doctor Who was put on hiatus for 18 months) The Nightmare Fair is set in Blackpool and features the return of an old and mysterious enemy - the Celestial Toymaker... The TARDIS has been draw...

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By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com UK viewers caught a glimpse of The End of Time after tonight's special - the trailer is available online at the BBC's Official Doctor Who website! The trailer appears to be the same - or extremely close to - the one that aired for visitors to the San Diego Comic Con earlier this year, with the n...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com A signed Sixth Doctor figure wearing the blue version of his usual apparel from the BBC online Doctor Who adventure Real Time has been made available for auction Closing at 20:00:51 GMT on Friday, 20th November, this special auction item is to raise funds for the BBC's Children in Need app...

By Chris Davids info@kasterborous.com Fans of actor Frazer Hines who played Doctor Who companion Jamie McCrimmon from 1966-1969 might be interested to know that his acclaimed 1996 autobiography "Films, Farms and Fillies" has been re-edited, revised and released in hardback as Hines Sight. Frazer Hines is one of the UK's mos...

By Chris Davids info@kasterborous.com We'll finish off our series of Waters of Mars preview images with this - David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan in action with the Wall-E-esque robot Gadget in tonight's Doctor Who special... There has been so many images from this special floating around the web lately, so I hope we've been able to...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Is it time for the USA to finally wake up to Doctor Who? That's certainly the sentiment of Scott Brown, writing in Wired.com recently. Despite a core group of very passionate fans, Doctor Who has failed to make any real impact in the USA as a whole (despite David Tennant appearing on one popula...

By Mick Karma info@kasterborous.com Our daily series of Doctor Who images from The Waters of Mars continues today with this - Lindsay Duncan and David Tennant looking for something with a small torch and a radio that resembles an old central heating timer... There's horror, suspense and darkness aplenty in the next episode of D...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Don't miss BBC Three this Sunday evening as The Waters of Mars gets the Doctor Who Confidential treatment! This edition is obviously titled "Is There Life on Mars?" and spends an hour giving us interviews with the stars of The Waters of Mars - David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan, as well as Exe...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com The Radio Times has again come to the rescue of Doctor Who fans wanting an online gallery of images from the upcoming special The Waters of Mars - for the third time in as many specials! Why the BBC's Official Doctor Who website can't bring themselves to give us any preview images (and why the...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Continuing our daily dip into the vast sea of images from Sunday's The Waters of Mars, here's more Doctor Who picture goodness. Is the Doctor ready to run? He certainly doesn't look happy about being on the Mars Bowie Base in 2059, and getting out of an enclosed and sealed base on an alien plan...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Despite the press previews and water zombie trailers, The Waters of Mars has been declared "child safe" by outgoing Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies. RTD was speaking recently to ShortList magazine and was quick to point out that The Waters of Mars isn't some sort of grotesq...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com The Waters of Mars will close on Sunday night with a trailer for the Christmas Doctor Who - the first unnamed part of the two part Tenth Doctor finale story will feature something quite brilliant, if Rusell T Davies words in Doctor Who Magazine 415 are anything to go by... "The final casting for...

By info@kasterborous.com Take a trip to Mars in Doctor Who Magazine 415! Lindsay Duncan, aka Captain Adelaide Brooke of Bowie Base One, reveals in an exclusive interview in Doctor Who Magazine Issue 415 how her character is put under pressure in the new Doctor Who Special The Waters of Mars... DWM asked Lindsay, what w...

By Mick Karma info@kasterborous.com Get set for the return of Doctor Who on Sunday 15 November with this week’s Doctor Who Adventures magazine. You’ll get a sneak peak at this exciting new story, The Waters of Mars. And look out for pictures of some of the scariest monsters ever! You can also find out all about the Doctor’s new com...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com You certainly wouldn't let her in, would you? Today's image  sees Doctor Who star David Tennant and his Waters of Mars co-star Lindsay Duncan seperated from a "water zombie" (as we're calling them here at K Towers) by a plate of glass. Broadcast this Sunday, 15th November, The Waters of Mar...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Examining how the media reported Doctor Who star David Tennant's career during 2008, David Tennant A Year In The Spotlight covers a year in the media life of one of Britain's foremost actors - and it's for charity, too. The 394 page book unsurprisingly contains a considerable amount of Doc...

By Mick Karma info@kasterborous.com A few days after The Waters of Mars and in advance of the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Specials, BBC Three next week brings us another showing of the series' Top 5 Christmas Moments. Made up - believe it or not - of clips from 2005's The Christmas Invasion, 2006's The Runaway Bride, 2007's Vo...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Steven Moffat's recent appearance at Days 3 and 4 of the Cheltenham Screenwriting Festival have been covered by the ScreenwritingGoldmine.com website in a superb article that even throws into question the belief that Doctor Who has a "show runner"... You see apparently BBC's Head of Serie...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Fans of classic Doctor Who will be pleased to hear that BBC Worldwide have signed an agreement with two new licensees to produce new merchandise. First of all there's Bravado's adult T-shirts and hoodies featuring images from the era of the Fourth (Tom Baker) and Fifth (Peter Davison) Doc...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Here'sour third daily picture from The Waters of Mars - get used to this because from what we can gather there's quite a bit of running in the new episode of Doctor Who! No disrespect of course, but Ms Duncan - seen here as Mars Bowie Base commander Adelaide - seems in pretty good shape for her y...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Take a careful look ladies and gentlemen...this is your first glimpse of one of the David Tennant's final moments in Doctor Who... Released today, this image from The End of Time gives little away - save for hinting at the dire straits the Doctor is in as browns, dark blues, shadows and sharp colum...

By Chris Davids info@kasterborous.com Footage has been released by the BBC of Waters of Mars producer Nikki Wilson chatting with various crew members on location for this weeks Doctor Who. The National Botanical Gardens of Wales forms the majority of the location work for The Waters of Mars - see some rare footage below for a bri...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Tune in to BBC Radio 7 on the morning of Monday, 16th November (very early - midnight!) for a broadcast of the commentary for the coming episode of Doctor Who - The Waters of Mars! Featuring Julie Gardner, Russell T Davies and David Tennant, the 60 minute commentary will of course be best exp...

By Mick Karma info@kasterborous.com The new Radio Times - covering November 14th to the 20th - features a superb Doctor Who cover with David Tennant's Tenth Doctor peering out of the yellow helmet of his space suit. As you can see it's a great image - click the cover for a full size version. Inside, Russell T Davies and David Tennan...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Today's Waters of Mars image sees the Doctor and Commander Adelaide hitching a ride on the robot Gadget in a shot from this Sunday's episode of Doctor Who... Little is still known of the details of the episode, save for the fact that a deadly waer-based alien infection on a Mars base causes a zom...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com All this week in the run up to The Waters of Mars (this Sunday, 15th November at 7pm on BBC One!) we're giving you one image per day from the next episode of Doctor Who. If you're particularly keen on avoiding spoilers you may want to look away - in the meantime, these images have been made availa...

By Mick Karma info@kasterborous.com David Tennant appears on The Graham Norton Show tonight on BBC One (10.35pm) as part of a series of appearances on TV and radio throughout this week in the run up to The Waters of Mars. No doubt by the time the next episode of Doctor Who comes around we'll all have heard Tennant a few times on the ra...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com David Tennant returns in Doctor Who on Sunday, 15th November on BBC One in The Waters Of Mars, the second of four special editions of the BBC's flagship drama series throughout 2009. Actress Lindsay Duncan co-stars as Adelaide, commander of Bowie Base One on Mars. Neighbours, Flying Docto...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Readers of the Western Mail can grab a series of limited edition Doctor Who Waters of Mars posters beginning next weekend - the type of freebie that will send fans scurrying to Wales for a copy! Next Saturday’s Western Mail, the following days Wales on Sunday and then the following four dai...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com The popular Doctor Who podcast Radio Free Skaro has a superb episode lined up this week - they've got writer Phil Ford on the show, the man behind next week's Waters of Mars! Ford is also responsible for upcoming CGI adventure Dreamland as well as The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3 opener Pr...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Coming soon from Kamera Books is Brian J. Robb's Timeless Adventures: How Doctor Who Conquered TV, a book that explores the political and cultural significance of the Who phenomenon.  Starting with the current stratospheric popularity of Doctor Who, Timeless Adventures sees leading W...

By info@kasterborous.com Flying foes! Doctor Who Adventures magazine is packed with top scares! From swooping Reapers to the destructive Toclafane, you’ll find everything you need to know about monsters that fly in this week’s issue of Doctor Who Adventures Magazine. The story guide is all about an explosive Cy...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com As we reported in August, the BBC have made a deal with MSN for the web portal to provide streamed classic TV content - and this includes Doctor Who, it has been confirmed. So far you can catch all 6 epsides of 1965 adventure The Web Planet, which stars William Hartnell as the Doctor, William Ru...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com Finally confirmed by the BBC's Official Doctor Who site, Dreamland - the new animated adventure starring David Tennant, Georgia Moffet and David Warner - will premier on Saturday, 21st November online and via the Red Button on digital TV. It's been a long wait to get this far since the proj...

By Chris Davids info@kasterborous.com The Master is back in Doctor Who this Christmas - and while it's far too early to say exactly how he fits in to the end of the Tenth Doctor, John Simm revealed that the bonkers Time Lord hasn't got time for politics this time around. Former Life on Mars star Simm took time out to appear on the Steve...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com 2 entertain have confirmed that the Doctor Who specials will be released on Monday, 11th January 2010. Some fans might be surprised at the trio of releases that should complete the 2005-2009 collections of Doctor Who fans across the United Kingdom. • Doctor Who The Complete Specials – a box...

By Mick Karma info@kasterborous.com Due to close this week, Coventry's successful Doctor Who exhibition has been extended until January 10, 2010 - time enough to add new exhibits from the upcoming TV specials! This extension - reported in the Coventry Telegraph - sees the popular exhibition announcing some slight change...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com The BBC have aired a new preview for The Waters of Mars this evening - the next Doctor Who special was trailed with sombre music and a the tagline: "The beginning of the end." Currently available for viewing on the BBC Official Doctor Who site, this latest trailers sees shots of the Mars surfa...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com A part in Doctor Who for Girls Aloud star and X Factor judge Cheryl Cole? That's certainly the claim of The Mirror today - and they're giving the impression that this would be an acting role... Apparently no deal has been signed - hardly a surprise. Any appearance is more than likely to be a Barbar...

By James Whittington info@kasterborous.com The arrival of the Doctor Who Annual for 2010 brought back many happy childhood memories to me. Those sepia coloured moments recalling where time spent during Boxing Days, dressed in gaudy coloured pyjamas, stuffing my face with chocolate and tangerines and my head stuck between the cov...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com This weekend the BBC National Orchestra of Wales teams up with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales for an early Halloween event which will feature some of the creepiest music ever written - including pieces from Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Batman and of course Doctor Who, r...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com A review of Toby Hadoke's Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf show has been published in the Louth Leader, and if you haven't seen the show yet you will certainly want to after reading it. It's a touching show, by all accounts, and even features the voice of David Tennant. I've seen clips of it on Youtu...

By Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com This is a good one, found via The Gallifreyan Embassy. Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - the new book from Russell T Davies co-authored by Benjamin Cook (well known to DWM readers) and basically a collection of email correspondence about the production of Doctor Who - has its own website, whe...