Doctor Who New assistant
Karen Gillan is going to be the new assistant.
She appeared in fires of Pompeii.
Read more in the BBC article.
Doctor Who assistant is named.. Karen Gillan
May 29th, 2009Tags: doctor who 
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Doctor who David Tennant specials to be HD
April 17th, 2009
It has been confirmed that the BBC are going to present the three remaining Doctor who specials in HD. They will also be shown on the BBC’s iPlayer which is available in the UK.
I often wondered why Torchwood was shown in HD and the answer was always Doctor who had a lot more effects and the cost would be too high. This is great news!
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Torchwood : Children of Earth Preview Trailor
April 14th, 2009
Torchwood : Children of Earth Preview Trailor is now available:
Torchwood returns soon with a major story line.
Go to : http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/news/
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Doctor Who Confidential: Planet of the Dead Review
April 13th, 2009
Doctor Who Confidential: Planet of the Dead Review
Doctor Who, Planet of the Dead was an extremely elaborate episode. It had a fleet of police cars chasing a bus, that said bus ending up on an alien dessert world and also the comic genius of Lee Evans. To the Doctor who confidential was going to be very interesting. For the car chase the production crue managed to shut of a large proportion of an actual tunnel. This coincided with local government works so the entire road was closed.
The Bus in the dessert, that was an actual dessert and a real double Decker bus in Dubai. The bus was shipped by sea and it suffered some heavy damage. This damage was written into the story line as the bus suffered damage while going through the worm hole. Also, in the dessert the weather conditions proved difficult for the production team. But the weather brightened up and they could finish all the filming in time.
A special treat was the inclusion of ‘Malcolm’ played by Lee Evans. Lee Evans is without a doubt a comic genius. He portrayed the character rather well and there are several hilarious clips of him entertaining the crue…
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Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead Review
April 12th, 2009
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead Review
David Tennant is leaving the role of Doctor who as you may already know (http://www.doctor-who.andys-blog.net/2009/01/04/new-doctor-revealed-the-replacement-for-david-tennant/).
In the run up to that we are going to be treated with several special episodes rather than a series. The Planet of the Dead is the first of these episodes. The story starts with an almost ‘Pink Panther’ style museum robbery in what we find out to be Earth present day. A Gold chalice is placed in a laser protected case and four guards are on duty around it – all facing outwards. From above a sly thief guides down and steels the prize. The alarm sounds and she is pursued outside where she takes refuge in a passing bus, the number 200 to Victoria Station. Another person jumps on the bus, the Doctor. We see a new use for the psychic paper – it also acts as an Oyster card (my application for a psychic Oyster card is already in 
).
The Doctor sits next to lady thief and pulls out a typical cobbled together scanner – with a little spinning dish. The Doctor is hunting for some anomalous radiation – it gets stronger and stronger… Outside the bus the police are coordinating an operation to stop the number 200 bus in a tunnel. The bus goes in but does not come out…. Only one thing for the police to do.. Call UNIT.
The bus enters the tunnel and the Doctors radiation detector is going wild! He shouts, hang on as the bus is rocked and shaken. It stops with a jolt and outside there is bright sunshine. The Doctor and the other passengers realise that they are on a different world, if the never ending dessert is not a clue then the three suns certainly gives the game away. One of the passengers turns out to be a psychic who warns of voices; screaming and calling. The dessert hides a dark secret which later reveals itself.
It transpires that they came through a portal and they need the metal of the bus to protect them from the radiation.
On the planet a storm is approaching and the psychic warns that death is coming on the wind.
The Doctor and the lady thief encounter two fly like aliens whose ship has crashed and are also suck. The aliens launch a probe towards the storm – the storm is not a storm – but a swarm of billions of sting ray like creatures that eat everything and turn it into sand – and it is coming there way.
The Doctor realised that they need part of the alien ship to make the bus go – as it is out of fuel. So with the agreement of the aliens the Lady thief retrieves the part. Unfortunately the aliens are killed by several of the creatures.
The Doctor makes the Bus fly, through the portal. And with the assistance of a Unit scientist (Played by Lee Evans) closes the portal before the swam can get through.
The lady thief try to go with the Doctor but he is too hurt from loosing people to risk it again. She escapes using the bus and fly off.
But, dear reader, here is the real bit you are waiting for. Just before the Doctor leaves in the Tardis, the psychic lady says to him to be careful, something from the darkness is coming and it will ‘knock 4 times’. I personally hope it is the Black Guardian, who the Doctor hid from for so long after refusing to hand over the Key to Time!
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Doctor Who, Planet of the Dead, See the trailor, tonight BBC1
April 11th, 2009Doctor Who is back, with the Planet of the Dead, yes it is true!
Planet of the Dead, Easter Special
So if you have not seem the trailor pop over to http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/episodes/S0_06
Look back here for a review of the show !
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New Doctor revealed: The replacement for David Tennant
January 4th, 2009
The New Doctor
The replacement for Dvid Tennant has been announced and in their typical style it is a surprise. A 26 Year old relatively unknow actor who in effect is the youngest to ever play the role.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7807996.stm
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“Torchwood”: Lost Souls, Big Bang Day, BBC Radio 4 (Audio)
September 21st, 2008
Some of you may not know but the BBC commissioned a 45 minute Radio Play with the Torchwood cast for ‘Big Bang’ Day last week. It was exceptinally good and if you missed it, (and yes their was serval , Jack stop it moments’..) you can get it from Amazon.co.uk
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Doctor Who ‘Robot’ Retro review with Tom Baker
July 23rd, 2008
Tom Baker as the doctor, his first episode. It is brilliant to see him and sad to see Jon Pertwee go.
The story line not only includes a brilliant costume change scene, whereby the Doctor tries to define his image, a crazed Robot and the brilliant Brigadier!
The entire story is about a group of scientist on Earth who are part of an organisation called ‘Think Tank’. They are to create a new world order based upon the leadership of the elite. The scientific elite.
The Robot element in this story arch is a Robot created by their founder who is the hunter and gather of the group and generally does all of the dirty work.
They try to take control of the Earth by steeling the codes to launch all of the Nuclear missiles and the Robot goes mad with the conflict as he has a intelligence and prime directive not to hurt Humans.
And it is created out of a living metal which enables it to grow to a size that makes it dwarf the other people following the Brigadier trying to destroy it with a Ray Gun.
The Doctor, now fully aware of himself, creates a solution that will attack the metal of the deranged Robot.
The day is won, and not only does the Doctor have a new body but a new assistant alongside Sarah Jane Smith – Harry.
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Journey’s End Doctor Who review (Spoiler)
July 22nd, 2008
Cliff hanger, no cliff hangers, everything and anything can happen.
Rose is back and reunited with The Doctor, but during their classic run to each other’s arms moment the Doctor is attacked by Dalak. Jack, the ever faithful, captain, teleports in and destroys the Dalek. The Doctor is taken to the Tardis by Rose, Donna and Jack where we see him start to regenerate.
Torchwood is under attack by the Dareks and Sarah Jane Smith appears about to be exterminated by two Daleks….
Well, the Doctor regenerates and pushes the regeneration energy into his hand, the one that was cut off. He is him, unchanged. The regeneration energy has been contained..
Jackie, roses mum and Mickey materialise and save Sarah Jane Smith. Torchwood is trapped in a time bubble that holds the Dalak in place.
In the Tardis, Rose, Donna and Captian Jack are delighted that the Doctor is ok. Amidst their celebration, the Tardis is transported to the Dalak crucible at the centre of the planets.
There, the Doctor and Rose walk out and Donna remains for a second. As she walks out the Tardis doors close on her. Panic the doctor blames the Dalaks, Donna is terrified. Both are trying to get the door open. The Dalak says, ‘this is Time Lord trickery’ and declares that the Tardis must be destroyed. A door opens beneath it and it falls…. the Tardis falls into the core of the Dalak’s base. The Doctor realises it will be destroyed and there is nothing he can do.
Meanwhile, Jackie, Mickey and Sarah Jane Smith surrender to the Dalaks as all humans are being transported to the Dalak’s base to test their weapon.
The Tardis is being ripped apart, Donna is being thrown around. She falls to the ground and sees the Doctor’s hand… The case breaks and the regeneration energy flows into her. Then the hand glows and out of it grows another Doctor, although… Naked… Which she observes. The new Doctor acts fast and makes the Tardis dematerialise….
The original Doctor and Rose think both the Tardis and Donna are dead.
The Doctor and Rose are then transported down to the vault where Davros awaits…
Mean while, Jackie, Mickey and Sarah Jane Smith have been usurped under a large green glowing device. The Dalaks are getting ready to test it. A lady falls and Sarah Jane and Mickey take the opportunity to run for cover. Jackie, kind hearted as she is, helps her up, the machine starts up. Before it is fired Jackie is able to use her teleportation device to teleport to safety. The remaining people start to disintegrate and turn to dust.
Back inside the vault Davros has appeared to gloat of his triumph, he explains this triumph is over reality as the 27 plants create the ‘Reality Bomb’ which will break down the bound between atoms and cause everything to cease to be.
The new Doctor and Donna are safe in the Tardis that is in stealth mode so the Dalaks cannot detect them. They realise it was the result of the regeneration energy and the transference to Donna and back to the hand creating a part human part Doctor Timeload…they observe the effects of the test of the ‘Reality Bomb’ and the new Doctor and the original Doctor realise at the same time what it is… The new Doctor realises that he could use Davros’s passion for the Dalak race against him. If they could get a probe to him they could us the energy to destroy the Dalaks.
Mean while, the mystery of the osta hargon key is revealed. There is a nuclear self destruct created in the Earth and the key fires it. Also, Sarah Jane Smith has a Warp Star, as Jack says, an explosion waiting to happen. Both of them tell Davros this via a communication, but after several protests from the Doctor at their actions the Dalaks teleport Martha, Sarah Jane Smith and Jack (with Micky and Jackie) to the volt.
Davros orders the firing of the “Reality Bomb”, in true Davros style, manic and crazy!
The countdown is on… But the Tardis reappears, no-one including the Doctor can believe it! The new Doctor runs out and tries to get to Davros but that hand, the hand that always pushes a switch to make evil happen has evil it’s self. Lighting, electricity fly’s from it and throws the new Doctor away. Donna runs out, grabs the probe and shouts I got it but I don’t what to do with it. She too is hit and is thrown back….
All is lost – all are down. The countdown goes down, down to zero… Nothing happens.. Shock everywhere..
This is the age of the Doctor Donna, there is donna, standing by a consul.. She explains some technical reason, Davros tried to zap her again, she presses a few switches and he gets shocked.. Then Davros orders her extermination, and she again flips some switches and the Dalaks have no weapons. Everyone is triumphant! The Dalaks are helpless.. The Doctor’s ask how… It was a two way biological l Meta crisis she calmly explains! .. When Davros shocked her it made he become part Donna part Timeload.. The Doctor Donna
She says she will send the planets home, and says, did you know I was the best temp.. 100 words per minute!
She starts at the controls like a typewriter. Brilliant was my thought at this point…
All is over, but the new Doctor starts the feedback and destroys all the Dalaks.. mass genocide
The original doctor is not impressed and Davros, from behind burning rubble shouts to the doctor… “Remember, you did this!”
There is a twist at the end that I think I will leave a mystery as I want to leave something for you to discover as this is a brilliant episode…..
The end for now….. 
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