Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Jenkins' old school's Who preview
Singer Katherine Jenkins was special guest at her old primary school in Neath. Pupils were given a special preview of her debut acting role, in the Doctor Who Christmas special.
Jenkins talked to BBC Wales Today's Lucy Owen - while pupils gave their verdict.
Dr who advent calender 15 A Christmas Carol Previews
Only ten days to go until the Doctor is back! A Christmas Carol is on BBC ONE on Christmas Day at 6pm. Can't wait that long? Then enjoy these clips! More coming later today!see them here
December 15th–Advent Calendar
Katherine Jenkins' Christmas Questions
A Christmas Carol marks Katherine Jenkins' first foray into acting and although details about her character are shrouded in a snowy mystery, we do know she's playing Abigail Pettigrew and she'll be singing in the special!
It's an incredibly busy time for Katherine right now, so we're doubly grateful she found time for The Christmas Questions, spilling the beans about working on Doctor Who, her earliest memories of the show, what she's up to at Christmas... and much more.
What have been your personal highlights of working on Doctor Who?
I would say working with the Doctor Who Team. Doctor Who is a bit like a family and everyone made me feel very welcome and at ease. Matt Smith and Sir Michael Gambon were an inspiration - I have never done any acting before and they were incredibly encouraging.
What's surprised you most about the world of Doctor Who?
The attention to detail and the way they create the special effects. There was one particular set in 'A Christmas Carol' that was so eerie and spooky - I could never have stood there by myself!
What are your earliest memories of Doctor Who?
I remember sitting on my mum's sofa, pillow in hand as it always really scared me! My most immediate memory would be the music - it's so iconic.
How will you be spending Christmas? And after working on the show for ages, will you still be watching A Christmas Carol 'live' on the 25th?
Yes, absolutely! I will hopefully be back in Neath after my trip to entertain the troops in Afghanistan. Then in the evening on Christmas day, we usually head up to my Aunty Jo's house for Christmas tea and Trivial Pursuit... This year it will all be about Doctor Who. We'll watch it as a family and I already know that I will be very nervous!
Who do you get mistaken for? In real life?
Charlotte Church - all the time!
The last time you went to a fancy dress party, who or what did you go as?
Every New Year's Eve we have a fancy dress party. Last year I went as Princess Jasmine. This year, in honour of Doctor Who, we are having a TARDIS themed party though I'm still not sure what I'm going to wear!
Do you believe in ghosts?
Yes - maybe not ghosts but spirits for sure. My dad died when I was 15 and he visited me once in a dream. I have no doubt it was him.
Five fast ones: What's your...
- Favourite movie?
Forrest Gump
- Favourite TV Show? (apart from Doctor Who!)
Spooks
- Ideal Christmas present (to receive!)
Time (to spend with the family)
- Favourite book?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Motto?
It's never crowded on the extra mile
Finally... what are your new year's resolutions for 2011?
To take more photos of my travels and to print them off!
Massive thanks to Katherine Jenkins!
Dr who eleventh doctor quotes The Beast Below
The Doctor: I'm way worse than Scottish. I can't even see the film, it won't play for me.Amy: It played for me.
The Doctor: The difference being the computer doesn't register me as human.
Amy: Why not? ou look human...
The Doctor: No, you look Time Lord. We came first.
Amy: So there's other Time Lords, yeah?
The Doctor: No. There were, but there aren't... just me now. Long story. It was a bad day, lots of bad stuff happened. And you know what? I'd love to forget it all, every last bit of it. But I don't. Not ever.
The Doctor: Say weeeeeeeeeee
Amy: Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
Amy: How does a mouth have an eject button?!
The Doctor: Think about it! Right then! This isn't going to be big on dignity! Geronimo!
Amy: I voted for this. Why would I do that?
The Doctor: Because you knew if we stayed here, I'd be faced with an impossible choice - humanity or the alien. You took it upon yourself to save me from that. That was wrong. You don't ever decide what I need to know.
Amy: I don't even remember doing it.
The Doctor: You did it. That's what counts.
Amy: I'm... I'm sorry.
The Doctor:Oh, I don't care. When I'm done here, you're going home.
Amy: Why? Because I made a mistake? One mistake, I don't even remember doing it. Doctor!
The Doctor: Yeah, I know. You're only human.
Liz 10: What are you doing?
The Doctor:The worst thing I'll ever do. I'm going to pass a massive electrical charge through the Star Whale's brain - should knock out its higher functions, leaving it a vegetable. The ship will still fly, but the whale won't feel it.
Amy: That'll be like killing it.
The Doctor: Look, three options: One, I let the Star Whale continue, in unendurable agony for hundreds more years; Two, I kill everyone on this ship; Three, I murder a beautiful, innocent creature as painlessly as I can. And then, I... I find a new name, because I won't be the Doctor anymore.
The Doctor: Nobody talk to me. Nobody human has anything to say to me today!
Amy: It came because it couldn't stand to watch your children cry. What if you were really old, and really kind and alone? Your whole race dead, no future. What couldn't you do then? If you were that old, and that kind, and the very last of your kind.... you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry.
Amy: Have you ever run away from something because you were scared, or not ready, or just... just because you could?
The Doctor: Once. A long time ago.
Amy: What happened?
The Doctor: Hello!
Amy: One little girl crying. So?
The Doctor: Crying silently. I mean children cry when they want attention, because they're hurt or afraid. When they cry silently, It's because they just can't stop. Any parent knows that.
Amy: Are you a parent?
Amy: In bed above or deep asleep, while greater love lies further deep. This dream must end, this world must know. We all depend on the beast below.
Through Time (Updated Edition) by Andrew Cartmel
Doctor Who gets the history it deserves, written by an insider."Doctor Who" is a classic both of science fiction and television drama. First broadcast in 1963, it has remained an influential TV presence ever since, is now the jewel in the BBC's crown. As a vehicle for satire, social commentary, or sheer fantasy adventure, "Doctor Who" is unparalleled. It was a show created for children, but it was immediately loved by adults. Arriving at a time of upheaval in the popular arts in Britain, "Doctor Who" was born into a television tradition influenced by the TV plays of Dennis Potter, the cult television drama "The Prisoner", the James Bond films and Stanley Kubrick's science fiction triptych - "Dr Strangelove", "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "A Clockwork Orange". A British fantasy adventure that has unfolded across television screens over decades in the tradition of Lewis Carroll, Conan Doyle and HG Wells, the strength of "Doctor Who" has always been its writers and the ideas they nurtured. In this new history of the show, Andrew Cartmel (who was the script editor on "Doctor Who" from 1987 to 1990) looks into its social and cultural impact - providing a fascinating read for committed and casual fans alike.
See it Here
Life Begins at 40
Two thirty-something Doctor Who fanatics sharing a flat in Blackpool, out of pocket, out of luck and clinging to the hope that Life Begins at 40...Jeff is a barman, constantly forestalling marriage to his neurotic new-age girlfriend, preferring the company of Pete, an agoraphobic misfit with some serious baggage. United by their social detachment and love of Doctor Who, their world view is tainted by too much cult TV, and the walls between reality and fantasy begin to blur, with hilariously disastrous consequences.
With middle-age fast approaching, can they really spend the rest of their lives hiding behind the sofa? 'Life Begins at 40' deals with the big questions. Should we get married? Are children a good idea? And, in the future, will we all be walking around with one eye and no arms from too much teleporting?
See it Here
Running Through Corridors Volume 1
In Running Through Corridors, two Doctor Who lovers of old – Robert Shearman and Toby Hadoke – embark on an epic quest of friendship: spend the “gap year” of 2009 (when Doctor Who consisted of a handful of specials rather than a full season) re-watching the whole of Who two episodes a day, every day, from the show’s start in 1963 and ending with David Tennant’s swan song on New Year’s, 2010.
This three-volume series contains Shearman and Hadoke’s diary of that experience – a grand opus of their wry observations about the show, their desire to see the good in every story, and their chronicle of the real-life changes to Who in that year.
With this book, Who fans will feel that they’re watching along with Shearman (World Fantasy Award winner, Huge Award nominee and writer on the new Doctor Who) and Hadoke (renowned stage performer for his one-man comedy show, “Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf”) as they make their “grand journey” through the world’s most wonderful and longest-running drama series.
See it Here
Doctor Who Memoir: Blue Box Boy by Matthew Waterhouse
As a boy Matthew Waterhouse loved Doctor Who: he watched all the episodes and read all the novels and comic strips.What starts as a heart-warming story, of a boy growing up with Doctor Who as his trusted friend, engaging the reader memories and nostalgia that will be familiar to any Doctor Who fan, takes a sudden twist when he is thrust into an alien and adult world - cast as Doctor Who’s youngest ever travelling companion - for two of the series’ most inventive seasons.
Matthew’s sense of wonder with his dream job and his love for the show are palpable; as is his shock at genuine hostilities between cast and crew members and considerable tensions on set, which are counterpointed with poignant reminders that he is just a boy, and still a fan, who finds himself in the absurd, comic world of minor celebrity.
What follows is a story-by-story memoir of his time on the show, peppered with glimpses into Matthew's personal life, tales of conventions, DVD commentaries, and some revealing anecdotes about everyone from fellow actors to Doctor Who’s more high-profile fans.
This memoir holds nothing back: written with honesty, warmth, a rapier wit and a good dose self-depreciation, the book is essential reading for any Doctor Who fan. Finally, we get to hear Matthew's side of a story which has been told and embellished and imagined by fans and fellow actors for years.
This affectionate and darkly humorous memoir is a record of what it was like to make Doctor Who, and to work for the BBC in early 80s, and is proof that you can take the actor out of Doctor Who, but you can never quite take Doctor Who out of the actor...
See it Here
Dr who a christmas carol screening report QandA
1. Peter Bowles isn't in it. Laura Rogers and Bailey Pepper play Steve North's wife and son. Leo Bill sits on the bridge of the spaceship and doesn't say much.
2. Arthur Darvill appears in the opening credits in a font size that's bigger than his role in this story.
3. There are some really good jokes. We liked the one about kissing and screwdrivers .
4. Continuity geeks will notice nice nods to Pyramids of Mars and School Reunion.
5. Utah isn't this Doctor's first visit to the States.
6. You'll believe a shark can fly. Only the sourest of critics would say it's been jumped over.
7. Michael Gambon is so good he's in it twice.
8. The fez makes a cameo appearance.
9. Katherine Jenkins sings powerfully. Her lungs are set at 11.
10. Toby Haynes is a genius.
Doctor Who's Karen Gillan: Everyone likes my style - apart from my mum
The actress, 23, told Grazia magazine that her mum regularly calls her up to tell her off for what she's been snapped wearing.
'My mum will see a picture and be like, "What the hell are you wearing?"'
The ginger beauty dons a white dress, dramatic false eyelashes and lashings of dark red lipstick in a glamorous photoshoot for the magazine.
She claimed it wasn't a 'bad thing' to be considered a fashion icon in the making.
'I'm glad people aren't reacting the same way as my mum.'
Gillan, who plays Amy Pond in the BBC series, insisted she didn't spend a lot of time thinking about her look.
'What I basically wear is a dress with some ankle boots.'
After being thrust into the limelight, Gillan insisted her life was still the same.
'In a work sense, it’s changed. The sort of things I do now… photo shoots and events and… but in my private life, it’s remained pretty much the same. I’ve just surrounded myself with people who aren’t really affected by all that.'
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