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Month: March 2015

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor: #12

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor: #12

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A thrilling TARDIS chase through the atmosphere – after no ordinary comet!

Tracking the Entity’s signal from the Berlin Wall in 1976 to Rome, 312AD, the Doctor, Alice, Jones and ARC stumble into an ancient mystery that will forever change the course of human history! And the burden and dangers of a life aboard the TARDIS start to hit home for Jones – is this his farewell tour? Rob Williams (Ordinary) and Warren Pleece blast into a brand-new story arc! Don’t miss the shocking reveal of what’s inside the comet!

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor: #10

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor: #10

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ECHOES OF TORTURE!

Gabby and the Doctor are back in New York after a terrifying excursion into the past, catching up with family and friends… until THE ECHO strikes, amplifying everyday noise into ear-shattering, mind-splinteringly debilitating waves of sound. What is the Echo – and can the Doctor and Gabby solve the mystery before the cacophany drives the city mad?

Plus: “Doctor… you are coming back?”

The fantastic Elena Casagrande and Arianna Florean return on art duties, taking us through to #15 and the end of the first season!

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Doctor Who Magazine: 485

Doctor Who Magazine: 485

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IT’S 10 YEARS SINCE DOCTOR WHO RETURNED TO TELEVISION –

AND DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE CELEBRATES WITH FOUR

VERY SPECIAL COVERS FOR ISSUE 485!

Ten years after the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) grabbed the arm of Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and told her to “Run!”, Doctor Who is still going strong, as one of the greatest TV success stories of the past decade. Doctor Who Magazine celebrates this milestone with a special commemorative issue that comes with four different covers, each one featuring one of the twenty-first century Doctors – Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi!

Inside the issue, we look back on the show’s success, with contributions from writers Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Robert Shearman, Paul Cornell, Toby Whithouse, Gareth Roberts, Chris Chibnall, Peter Harness and Jamie Mathieson, as well as from BBC Head of Drama Commissioning Ben Stephenson, who gives his view on the future of Doctor Who…

ALSO INSIDE ISSUE 485 OF DWM…

Russell T Davies, the writer of the landmark first episode, Rose, and many other episodes since, looks back on his first Doctor Who script, and shares brand new information about bringing the Doctor back to our screens.

DWM tracks down a guest star from each and every one of the ten Ninth Doctor adventures, including Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler), Yasmin Bannerman (Jabe the Tree), Alan David (Gabriel Sneed), Alan Ruscoe (the Slitheen and other creatures), Barnaby Edwards (the Dalek), Bruno Langley (Adam Mitchell), Shaun Dingwall (Pete Tyler), Florence Hoath (Nancy), Annette Badland (Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer Day Slitheen) and Jo Joyner (Lynda ‘with a Y’ Moss).

Doctor Who‘s first director of the modern era, Keith Boak, is interviewed, looking back on the making of Rose, Aliens of London and World War Three.

Doctor Who‘s first ever director, Waris Hussein, concludes his look back over the epic lost adventure from 1964, Marco Polo.

DWM pays tribute to 1980s director Fiona Cumming, who passed away earlier in the year.

The Doctor and Clara visit Antarctica in Part One of Blood and Ice, a brand-new comic strip written by Jacqueline Rayner and illustrated by Martin Geraghty.

Steven Moffat answer readers’ questions – and speculates about Osgood’s family connections!

Jacqueline Rayner reflects on what life would have been like if Doctor Who had never returned in Relative Dimensions.

The DWM Review assesses the very latest Doctor Who audio and book releases.

The Watcher reveals the connection between Doctor Who and Dr Carl Sagan, in the latest Wotcha!

The DWM Crossword, prize-winning competitions, official news and much more!

Doctor Who Magazine 485 is out on Thursday 2 April, priced £4.99.

BAFTA Craft Awards 2015

BAFTA Craft Awards 2015

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The Gallifreyan Newsroom today learnt that Doctor Who has been nominated in the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2015.

SPECIAL, VISUAL & GRAPHIC EFFECTS VINE FX, COLIN GORY Atlantis – Urban Myth Films/BBC One COLOSSUS PRODUCTIONS, VISION3 David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 3D – Colossus Productions/Sky 3D MILK VFX, REAL SFX, BBC WALES VFX Doctor Who – BBC Wales/BBC One ED BRUCE, NICHOLAS MURPHY, JOHN O’CONNELL Ripper Street – Tiger Aspect Productions, Lookout Point/Prime Instant Video

The Gallifreyan Newsroom would like to pass on our many congratulations at this honour and hope the team success at the ceremony on Sunday 26th April 2015 at the Brewery in East London.

I name this bus: John Nathan Turner?

I name this bus: John Nathan Turner?

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We got news today that  Brighton and Hove Council have launched a competition to name their new fleet of Coaster Buses.  Amongst  the many names that have made the short list is none other than former 1980s Doctor Who producer John Nathan Turner, who himself was resident in the area for many years.

If you would like to vote for John and in doing so, help to keep his memory alive, please follow this link.

PLEASE NOTE: VOTING HAS NOW CLOSED.

City of Death: Novel

City of Death: Novel

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City of Death

Douglas Adams’ Doctor Who script City of Death is to be turned into a novel by author James Goss.

Featuring Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor, City of Death –  a four-part serial – aired on BBC1 in 1979, watched by over 16 million viewers, and remains one of the most popular of the show’s story arcs. Alongside his companion Romana (Lalla Ward), it sees the Time Lord on holiday in Paris where villainous Count Scarlioni (Julian Glover) is scheming to invent time travel and reverse his ship’s explosion over primeval earth – a plot financed by forcing Leonardo da Vinci to paint multiple copies of the Mona Lisa to sell.

When the Doctor discovers the ship’s explosion was the spark for life on earth, he realises the Count must be stopped.

According to Adams’ biographer, Jem Roberts, the script had to be produced in a hurry when it became clear one Friday that the four-episode shoot set to begin on Monday had no storyline after it was left unfinished by David Fisher, one of the show’s writers, due to family problems.

In the words of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author – then working as a script editor on Doctor Who – the show’s producer Graham Williams “took me back to his place, locked me in his study and hosed me down with whisky and black coffee for a few days.”

Now Goss is extending the late author’s storyline into a novel, due out in May. “It’s a book Douglas Adams was supposed to write,” he told The Guardian. “In the 80s, they wrote to him, and asked if he would like to write [his scripts] as novels – they even said they’d pay double. But he thanked them politely, and declined, and used his ideas in other books.”

Although, inevitably, Goss – who’s penned two Doctor Who novels and produced a radio adaptation of Shada, an unfinished Doctor Who story by Adams – is wary of the challenge of putting his own spin on the much-loved author’s work. “I knew people would be looking and saying: ‘Well, it’s not going to be as good as what he’d have written’… But in a way it was great, because I knew that every decision I’d make would be wrong.

“When you’re essentially ghost-writing, and for someone as good as Douglas Adams, you know readers will say: ‘That’s not how Adams would have done it.’ It took a lot of pressure off.”

James Goss’s novel based on City of Death is published on 21st May by BBC Books.

Doctor Who: Legacy: New Adventure

Doctor Who: Legacy: New Adventure

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To mark the 10th anniversary of the relaunch of Doctor Who on March 26th, the hit mobile game, Doctor Who: Legacy, will be releasing a new adventure Bigger on the Inside.

Bigger on the Inside is a new 8-bit pixelated adventure with art work by Nathan Skreslet of PixelWho and a wholly original story line by Lee Cummings.     The storyline is the first story arc for the series, which kicks off with all incarnations of the Doctor present. It sees the TARDIS, and her guests, thrown into danger as a virus invades her systems. The story will see individual arcs for the 10th, 1st, 4th, 9th and War doctors, but they all will have their own chance to face up against the mastermind behind the plot which they’re trapped in.     Doctor Who Legacy is the mobile game, based on Doctor Who, which is now approaching 2 million downloads. The new adventure will be released on the eve of the 10th Anniversary of the screening of Rose.

Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Trailers

Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Trailers

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There’s a battle ahead for the Fourth Doctor and Leela, and it’s just possible that the chips are down too, in two new trailers from the Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures range…

There are two news trailers online today on the Big Finish site. April’s Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Death Match sees the Doctor and Leela pitched against the Doctor’s arch nemesis:

The Death-Match is under new management. The Hunt Master’s Champion has been installed. All regular players are welcomed back to the Pursuit Lounge to observe the contest in luxurious surroundings. Privacy is assured. For this reason we ask our elite guests to abide by the strict security protocols. Please note, the house has no limits.

In the Gallery, your combatants can be observed on the orbiting Quarry Station. A purpose-built environment filled with deadly traps and hidden dangers. Prizes are offered for every kill, with bonuses for rogue elements. Only an elite hunter can survive the End-Game. Do you have a worthy champion? Kill or be killed: the only rule of the Death-Match…

In May’s Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Suburban Hell, the Doctor and Leela arrive in that most unfamiliar of settings: an English tea-time in the 1970s:

Somewhere in a suburb of North London, there’s a crisis. More than a crisis, a positive disaster: Belinda and Ralph are expecting four for supper, and there’s no Marie Rose sauce for the Prawns Marie Rose. All in all, the evening couldn’t possibly get any worse…

Until the doorbell rings, bringing the Doctor and Leela to the dinner party. They’ve got a crisis, too – temporal ruckage has sent the TARDIS to another time zone entirely. Meaning they might have to endure a whole evening in Belinda’s company.

But the Doctor and Leela aren’t the only uninvited guests tonight. There’s a strange fog falling, out in the road. And in that fog: savage blue-skinned monsters, with dinner party plans of their own. Because it’s not Prawns Marie Rose on their menu – it’s people!

To hear both new trailers, simply click on the links above, where further details can be found as well as the chance to pre-order on CD or Download. The entire fourth series of Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Adventures can be Subscribed to at a substantial saving, or it can be bought Bundled with acclaimed Doctor Who – Philip Hinchcliffe Presents… for further savings…