Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Sarah Jane Springboard for Dreamland

io9 is reporting: The new season of The Sarah Jane Adventures won't just guest-star outgoing Doctor Who David Tennant — It'll also serve as a launch pad for the new Doctor Who animated series Dreamland, according to the series' head writer.
Phil Ford revealed that "events in the first story of season three of the Who spin-off will have a direct link into the events in the upcoming Doctor Who animated series,"

Monday, September 28, 2009

Jamie Returns to the Doctor

Big Finish have recently announced that joining the Sixth Doctor on his BF travels in 2010 will be Jamie MacCrimmon alias Frazer Hines. Last paired in the 1985 anniversary tale "The Two Doctors", Colin and Frazer will be battling enemies together for three regular releases (scheduled for April, May and June 2010 respectively) with Hines also voicing a Sixth Doctor tale for one of the Companion Chronicles range alongside a guest actor yet to be announced.

Farewell, Lucie Miller

From Big Finish: The Doctor and Lucie Miller are soon to go their separate ways. Big Finish has confirmed that Death in Blackpool, the first episode of the fourth season of Eighth Doctor Adventures, which is out in December 2009, ends with an emotional parting for the time travellers. “It may seem strange to begin the season with Lucie’s exit,” says executive producer Nicholas Briggs, “but we have some interesting twists and turns planned.”The following adventure, Situation Vacant by Eddie Robson, finds the Doctor auditioning for a new companion – and there are four contenders. The name of the lucky candidate will not be divulged until the story’s release in 2010.The season continues with Nevermore by Alan Barnes, which is followed by The Book of Kells by Barnaby Edwards, in which the Doctor and his new pal travel to Ireland in the year 1006. The starry guest cast of Kells includes Jim Carter (The Golden Compass, The Singing Detective), Terrence Hardiman (Secret Army, The Demon Headmaster) and Ryan Sampson (Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky).Next up, the Eighth Doctor will encounter the Ice Warriors for the first time in Deimos, a two-parter set on one of the moons of Mars. The story is written by Jonathan Morris, and the guest cast includes David Warner (Wallander, Titanic), Nicky Henson (Syriana, Vera Drake), Susan Brown (Torchwood: Children of Earth), Tracy-Ann Oberman (Yvonne Hartman in Doctor Who: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday) and Nicholas Briggs (voice of the Daleks and Cybermen) as the Ice Warriors.

The Doctor and Sarah Jane

The net is abuzz with picture of David Tennant. Here they are. The Sarah Jane Adventures returns to British TV this October.










Thursday, September 17, 2009

More North American DVDs -COVERS-




More North American DVDs

January 2010 sees two more classic Doctor Who stories being released on DVD in Region 1.
The Keys of Marinus is William Hartnell’s fifth serial and The Twin Dilemma is the debut story for the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker.
Both titles will be available on January 5, 2010

Monday, September 14, 2009

Sarah Jane Website.

In preparation for the return of The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC, the SJA website has had a complete make-over and now has more to explore than ever.
The BBC has created a brand new Sarah Jane Trailer Maker, featuring clips, sounds and graphics from the show, (for UK users only) so you can create the ultimate Sarah Jane Adventures video.
Take your pick from footage of your favourite characters, or your scariest monsters, including the Slitheen and Sontarans. And you can still access all your favourite videos and games from Series 1 & 2.
All this and Series 3 hasn't even started yet! Get ready for even more new content and features launching during this exciting series - including a long overdue visit to Bannerman Road from a very special friend (you know who!).
And if that isn't enough, the Monster Hunt is coming...

Mary Tamm Autobiography

Mary Tamm's new autobiography First Generation is released on 14th September. Tamm played the first incarnation of Romana alongside fourth Doctor Tom Baker. Colin Baker has written the foreword to the book which is available in two versions: a standard paperback and a special hardback edition. The hardback edition will only be available direct from Fantom Films and is limited to 200 copies, individually numbered, with extra photographs and signed by Tamm.

Ray Barrett 1927-2009

The actor Ray Barrett has died at the age of 82.Barrett appeared in the 1965 William Hartnell story The Rescue, playing the roles of both Bennett and Koquillion. The story was released on DVD earlier this year.Ray Barrett was a popular leading men on British television in the 1960s, appearing in such programmes as Emergency - Ward 10 and The Troubleshooters as well as providing some of the voices in the popular series Thunderbirds.In later years, Barrett returned to his native Australia where he made a string of television appearances in series such as Something In The Air, All Saints and White Collar Blue.His last film appearance was in Baz Luhrmann's Australia.He died from a brain haemorrhage early Tuesday morning.

Iain Cuthbertson 1930-2009

The actor Iain Cuthbertson has died at the age of 79.

Cuthbertson appeared in the 1978 Fourth Doctor story The Ribos Operation, where he played Garron, a con man attempting to sell the entire planet of Ribos to the Graff Vynda-K, deposed ruler of Levithia.

Aside from Doctor Who, he appeared in many roles on British television throughout the sixties and seventies, with his most memorable role that of the criminal and businessman Charlie Endell in Budgie, appearing alongside Adam Faith. He suffered a crippling stroke in January 1982, which forced him to give up theatre for fear of forgetting his lines. His first role following his stroke was as Scunner Campbell in SuperGran in 1985.

Cuthbertson's first marriage, to the actress Anne Kristen, was dissolved in 1988. His second wife was Janet Mary Smith. There were no children. He was born on January 4, 1930 and died on September 4, 2009.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

The 10 DOCTORS

Though it will never happen, Babelcolour from youtube.com has created another of his wonderful videos. This is part one, where he took parts from episodes past to make his own. I hope you like.