DOCTOR WHO - 2009 SPECIALS FILMING PART 2

More filming for the Doctor Who special (Episode 4:16) is taking place tonight (Friday 27th) in Victoria Place, Newport. The residents of Victoria Place have been told to expect snow and Christmas decorations so we're obviously looking at the 2009 Christmas Special here.
Filming starts at 10.00pm I believe, and the TARDIS prop is already in situ in a street dusted with visual effects snow.

We're currently getting images courtesy of Ahremsee's Flickr Photostream (thanks to Rob) and updates will keep coming as filming starts. All the usual DWF reporting crew, including Scooty and the gang, are all converging on the shoot so this post will keep updating as we go through the night.
9.15pm
Ahremsee has just reported that David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan are now on set and interacting with a large silver robot and several other travellers.

22.15pm
Tennant is on set and they've brought out a crash mat. He's wearing the blue suit, by the way.

Prince Harry Look A Like

Trowel do you do? ... Charles stunned by Harry lookalike Matthew Harbor West notts College

 

THE Prince of Wales does a double take as he comes face-to-face with a dead ringer for his youngest son yesterday.

Real thing ... Prince Harry, left, and Charles on visit

Charles, 60, was clearly taken aback when he met trowel-wielding Matthew Harbor — an eerie lookalike of Prince Harry, 24.

Ginger-haired Matthew, 18, from Mansfield, Notts, was taking part in a construction skills workshop the Prince was visiting at West Nottinghamshire College.

An onlooker said: “It was hilarious — the lad really was the absolute spit of Harry.”

Matthew, left, bears an uncanny resemblance to royal hellraiser Harry

Filming Doctor Who In Newport...

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Time and date for the Doctor Who Filming at Victoria Place in Newport.

DOCTOR WHO - 2009 SPECIALS FILMING

The filming for the, as yet untitled, second (we assume) Doctor Who special of 2009 got off to a bang this evening in a quarry in Taffs Well just north of Cardiff. David Tennant was on location, dressed in a very familiar costume - the orange space suit and yellow helmet from The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit two part story in the 2006 series.



Intrepid reporter Scooty was on the spot: "Filming tonight seemed to concern three major scenes. They were:
- An explosion the size of which I have never seen before. It formed a giant mushroom cloud and left a huge black smoke ring in the sky. It shook the camera from my hand.
- Man in orange spacesuit, almost certainly DT's stunt double, runs away from the explosion (in this case, green screen). He jumps on a trampoline and lands on a crash mat.
- Man in said spacesuit wakes up amongst a load of rubble. And slowly walks forward. This looks like it is DT - I can make out sideburns in a couple of the pictures."
UPDATE: Some footage from the filming. The stunt bit!

 

It isn't clear yet if this is filming for the same special for which the casting of Lindsay Duncan was recently announced. No doubt we will learn more! Many thanks again to the DWF's Scooty and fellow reporters for the accounts and pictures.

Doctor Who Experience in Second Life

A marvellous bit of technology, Second Life is more than just a game - as proven in this video of the The Doctor Who Experience & Cardiff rendered in superb 3D graphics.

 

VIDEO COMING SOOON !!!!!!!!!!

The Doctor Who Experience & Cardiff is a whole region in the free to download Second Life online world.  Dedicated to Doctor Who and Torchwood, the architecture within the region - as you can see in the video - includes Roald Dahl Plas, the Millennium Centre and much more.

Omitted from the video is the Doctor Who Museum which resides in the sky (player avatars can fly around the Second Life world) and is a virtual tour of the TARDIS from the original William Hartnell console.

We think this is superb, and strongly recommend anyone with the time to take a step into Second Life to check this superb piece of work in person (as it were).

(With thanks to Victor)