Wednesday 1 December 2010
Bigger Bed On The Inside–Tardis Bed
A man in New Zealand built a very special bed for his son. By day, it’s a life-size TARDIS (the time machine from Doctor Who) disguised as a police box. By night, it’s a fold-down bed! It has a working police light, pulsing LEDs, and a talking telephone. It’s up for sale to the highest bidder. Link
Peter Hoar to direct an Easter Special?
The Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency have cited a credit for Doctor Who on their profile of director Peter Hoar; the entry reports that he will be directing a "one-off Special of the popular series to be broadcast over the Easter weekend", a one hour long story written by Steven Moffat and produced by Marcus Wilson.
Extract from the Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency on Peter Hoar
There is no other confirmation on the details listed; filming for the new series during November saw the completion of the opening story penned by Steven Moffat, and then moved onto Matthew Graham's two-part story (as reported by the writer), so the production date given remains unclear at present.
The positioning of such a special within the series is also uncertain - though Doctor Who traditionally broadcasts from around Easter, 2011 sees the weekend fall later in April (22nd-25th); this might suggest that an earlier Spring start to Series Six, but previous years have shown that any such decision is unlikely to be confirmed until a few weeks before transmission.
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Dr who - Special Sound
Special Sound traces the fascinating creation and legacy of the BBC's electronic music studio, the Radiophonic Workshop, in the context of other studios in Europe and America. The BBC built a studio to provide its own avant-garde dramatic productions with experimental sounds "neither music nor sound effect." Quickly, however, a popular kind of electronic music emerged in the form of quirky jingles, signature tunes such as Doctor Who, and incidental music for hundreds of programs. These influential sounds and styles, heard by millions of listeners over decades of operation on television and radio, have served as a primary inspiration for the use of electronic instruments in popular music.Using in-depth research in the studio's archives and papers, this book tells the history of the many engineers, composers, directors, and producers behind the studio to trace the shifting perception towards electronic music in Britain. Combining historical discussion of the people and instruments in the workshop with analysis of specific works, including a large number of Doctor Who incidental scores, Louis Niebur creates a new model for understanding how the Radiophonic Workshop fits into the larger history of electronic music. In particular, he explores the unique relationship between Doctor Who and the Radiophonic Workshop through new interviews with that program’s composers.
Doctor in the House
t's Day One of the 2010 Christmas Adventure Calendar... hurray! And to get us in the festive mood we've a brand new game of Doctor in the House!
The game first materialised last year and old hands will recall that you have to sneakily use as many quotations from the Doctor as possible. Use the guile of a Time Lord to win big points! Download Doctor in the House to find out the rules and find the new quotes for this year's version. And even if you don't fancy playing the game (is that possible?) then why not peruse the quotations and see how many you recognise... can you say what episodes the lines are from? We'll publish the answers soon
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The Mazes of Time: Android platform version expected?
A version of the mobile game The Mazes of Time is to come out for the popular Android operating system as well as the already reported Apple platforms, if an advert published by the game's author Oli Smith is accurate.The author's article was posted on the 23rd November, a day before the official announcement, so the decision may have changed - though a link to the advert was posted today by Tag Games on their Twitter feed.
Oli Smith wrote of the game:
Developed by the talented developers at Tag Games, this action puzzle adventure charts the adventures of the Doctor and Amy as they attempt to rescue an innocent family, scattered through time by the fallout from a Dalek attack, and will be out sometime in December!
Make a Date with the Christmas Calendar!
The Doctor Who Advent(ure) calendar is back! And this year it's better than ever with new festive features like Haven't I Seen Your Fez Somewhere Before? alongside old faves including Christmas cards, games, screensavers and original stories. We have videos featuring Matt Smith and the rest of the team, a few fantastic previews and something else new - The Christmas Questions. More about those nearer the time, but all we can say right now is that Katherine Jenkins gives some belting answers!
More about it Here
December 1–Advent Calendar
Hiya folks,
Here's the start of the countdown to Christmas So On The First Day Of Christmas I will Bring To You.
Dr who tenth doctor quotes Turn Left
Donna: I'm nothing special.The Doctor: Yes you are, you're brilliant.
Donna: She said that.
The Doctor:Who did?
Donna: That woman. I can't remember.
The Doctor: She never existed now.
Donna: No, but she said, the stars, she said the stars are going out.
The Doctor: Yeah, but that world's gone.
Donna: No, but she said it was all worlds, every world. She said the darkness is coming, even here.
The Doctor: Who was she?
Donna: I don't know.
The Doctor: What did she look like?
Donna: She was... blonde.
The Doctor:What was her name?
Donna: I don't know.
The Doctor: Donna, what was her name?
Donna: But she told me, to warn you. She said two words...
The Doctor: What two words? What were they? What did she say?
Donna: Bad Wolf. W-What does it mean?
Donna: Doctor, what is it, what's Bad Wolf?
The Doctor: It's the end of the universe!
Continuity Errors By Steven Moffat
The Luna University, The Hammerstein Building, smaller lecture theatre. 2643.
The little man on the podium plucked his watch from his waistcoat and glanced quickly round the lecture hall. Around fourteen million, he estimated. Almost half full. Ten minutes more would probably see the rest of the virtual attendees downloaded from the… thingummy. Never any good at technobabble, he reflected. All those consonants.
As his hand reached for the scroll button (on his Notematic Whatchamacallit) he noticed he was shaking, if only very slightly. Nerves, of course. Understandable. He wasn’t just giving a speech, after all: today he was going to change history. And a great deal was hanging on his getting things exactly right.
The lovingly prepared speech (eight weeks of actual writing, thirty years of research, a lifetime of serious resentment) spun silently across the Vidtronic Whatsit.
Ten minutes. Just time for one quick readthrough…
Extract from Professor Candy’s lecture notes.
Doctor Who?
(Notes for Franklin lecture)
Doctor who? Nice guy or utter bastard? (Look round the audience sternly. Ignore gigglers.) With the wealth of historical evidence now unearthed, few people still doubt that the time‐travelling Doctor is more than simply a myth or, as has been claimed, a conspiracy of historians on drugs very late at night. He’s real and he’s out there. The question is – do we want him?
The sole surviving Morthoid from the Dark Planet once remarked, ‘Never argue politics with the Doctor. He’ll just nip down a ventilation shaft, destabilize your political infrastructure, and blow up your solar system.’ (If get laugh, smile knowingly. If don’t, look serious.)
The Daleks of Skaro, of course, know him as the Ka Faraq Gatri. Traditionally this is translated as ‘Bringer Of Darkness’ though Professor Lyttle has established beyond reasonable doubt that this translation was, typically, the work of the Doctor himself. More accurately, and with that wonderful Dalek sense of irony, Ka Faraq Gatri means ‘Nice guy – if you’re a biped.’ And that perhaps sums up the Doctor better than anything. He just never knows when the Daleks are kidding.
Do we want him then? Do we need this one‐man crusade crashing round our history, patronizing our ancestors and kidnapping young women? Oh, yes, kidnapping them indeed! And simply discarding them wherever and whenever he chooses, the moment they grow too old or cease to be amusing. Consider, for a moment, the plight of the grieving parent whose daughter is not dead, nor in any conventional sense missing, but is a Warrior Queen on Thoros Beta. Can you imagine explaining that while the police are digging up your garden?
Incidentally, on the subject of the young women who have, seemingly voluntarily, become the disciples of the Doctor, the sponsors of today’s lecture have released a special, full colour pictorial tribute to these many unfortunates, which is available in the foyer for any students who wish to continue their studies on their own. I’ve been asked to tell you that it includes never seen before holographs of Jo Grant, Tegan Jovanka, and…
6pm for A Christmas Carol
The BBC has confirmed this year's Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol with be shown on BBC One and BBC One HD, on Christmas Day at 6pm.Final schedules were signed off this afternoon. Doctor Who has been shown at 6pm on Christmas Day for the last two years.
This year Doctor Who will be preceded by The One Ronnie, a variety show starring Ronnie Corbett and will be followed by Christmas Editions of Strictly Come Dancing, featuring John Barrowman, and EastEnders.
The programme has already been confirmed for transmission on Christmas Day in the United States on BBC America at 9pm ET and on Boxing Day in Canada on SPACE at 9pm ET and in Australia on ABC 1 at 7.30pm.