Doctor Who’s new trailer
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The Point Radio: David Tennant On Ending ‘Doctor Who’
In just a few days, BBC America premieres the first part of “End Of Time” which will see the final appearance of David Tennant as DOCTOR WHO. We sit down, not only with David, but also key creators Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner in the first part of our exclusive interview. Plus it’s OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY and we end the season with a rumor about a SUPERGIRL movie…with Taylor Swift??
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Reminder: New ‘Doctor Who’ episodes premiere this weekend on BBC America
Set your DVRs so you can see David Tennant and his great change.
Which is an obvious segue to this:
No, we have absolutely no shame.
The Waters Of Mars is this Saturday, The End Of Time part 1 is next week (day after Christmas) and part 2 is January 2nd.
Weird headline of the day: ‘Doctor Who Tried To Save JFK Dies’
When I read this headline, I thought that Doctor Who had gone back to November 22, 1963– the day that Doctor Who premiered on the BBC, by the way– and had tried to save John F. Kennedy.
But no. The story merely notes the passing of Dr. Malcolm Perry, who was the ER doctor on duty in Dallas on that fateful day.
But we all know the Doctor was there, right? No? Well, then perhaps you may want to read this, with an even more confusing title:
Originally published by Virgin Publishing Ltd in 1996, Who
Killed Kennedy has long been out-of-print and consequently has become much
sought-after by Doctor Who book collectors, but is now available online as an e-book.
‘Doctor Who’ meets ‘Sliders’ as Jerry O’Connell cast in David Tennant’s new pilot
The explorer of alternate universes is about to meet the last Time Lord.
Jerry O’Connell, best known to genre fans as Quinn Mallory in Sliders, will co-star opposite Doctor Who‘s David Tennant in the pilot of NBC’s dramedy Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, replacing Sendhil Ramamurthy just days after he was cast in the role. (Ramamurthy, who also stars on NBC’s Heroes, stepped aside because of scheduling conflicts.)
According to Cynopsis, O’Connell will play an ambitious though good-natured lawyer who was used to playing second fiddle to Rex (David Tennant) until Rex’s career changes. O’Connell’s character also falls in love with Rex’s fiance. The pilot has also cast Lindsey Kraft to play Rex’s assistant and Cleo King as a practical-minded private school bus driver.
And the fan-fiction crossovers are starting on LiveJournal right… now.
David Tennant’s final ‘Doctor Who’ episodes scheduled for BBC America
All good things must come to an end, and they’ll be ending at pretty much the same time here as in the UK.
BBC America will air the US premieres of the three Doctor Who specials where David Tennant ends his turn in the title role. Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars airs on December 19 at 9 PM Eastern; Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part One airs December 26 at 9 PM Eastern; and the final special Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part Two airs January 2, 2010 at 9 PM Eastern.
But worry not– Tennant will be back on TV soon on NBC, no less, in the new series Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, being prepped for a fall premiere. Let’s see if he can do a Chicago accent…
Watch Classic ‘Doctor Who’ for free on YouTube
The BBC has recently released four stories from the original run of the show on YouTube.
The stories are:
- The Edge of Destruction (William Hartnell)
- The Krotons (Patrick Troughton)
- Carnival of Monsters (Jon Pertwee)
- The Caves of Androzani (Peter Davison)
If you’ve never seen them before, now’s your chance.
Tennant and Pegg Team Up
Two of Britain’s most popular actors have been cast in director John Landis’ Burke and Hare. According to Bloody Disgusting, Landis’ return to filmmaking will have him working with David Tennant, fresh off Doctor Who, and Simon Pegg, who gained acclaim in Star Trek.
The title characters are based on the famed 19th Century graverobbers who made a nice live providing corpses to an Edinburgh medical school. Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft (St. Trinian’s) have written the script based on the real life incidents involving the hapless Burke (Pegg) and Hare (Tennant). Given demand, the pair would try and hasten along the end for borders at the lodging house run by Hare’s wife.
Landis last directed Susan’s Plan in 1998 while Tennant just completed shooting the sequel to St. Trinian’s, also written by Ashworth and Moorcroft. Pegg guest starred on Doctor Who, but played opposite Christopher Eccleston’s version of the Time Lord.
Six Great Doctor Who Moments
As we brace ourselves for the new Doctor Who specials, the return of Sarah Jane Adventures, and Matt Smith’s first season, here’s a little gasoline to pour on the fan-fire – my take on the six top moments on Doctor Who.
6.
Quiet Time
There’s a great moment in the Doctor Who teevee movie, one
that we had rarely seen (if ever) in the original series: the Doctor, in this
case Doctor Seven, quietly sitting in the TARDIS in his comphy chair, reading a
book. Of course, drama being what it is he quickly gets, well, killed. Fatally.
And then begins a difficult regeneration into Doctor Eight. That wasn’t the
worst thing that confronted him: he had to face Eric Roberts as the Master. He,
and his series of proposed telemovies, was doomed.
5.
The Ears Have It
There’s this great moment in Rose, the first of Doctor
Nine’s shows where Christopher Eccleston stops the action when he crosses a
mirror in the TARDIS. He peers into the mirror, thinks he’s kind of good
looking, but he’s not too sure about those ears. In one stroke, Russell T.
Davies established the Doctor had just reincarnated and, therefore, the fight
that destroyed the other Time Lords had “just” happened (however one defines
“just” in time travel) while, at the same time, revealing quite a lot about this
new Doctor’s personality. Nice moment.
4.
The One and Phony Master
Stephen Moffat is the current Doctor Who showrunner and,
along with Davies, the most significant writer of the new series. But between
this series and the original, the BBC aired a wonderful “Doctor Who” episode
called The Curse of Fatal Death. It was a charity fundraiser ten years ago, a
brilliant parody, and the Who debut of writer Moffat. It featured no less than
five new Doctors – played, sequentially, by Rowan Atkinson, Richard E. Grant,
Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley – and one stellar Master: the
gifted stage and film performer, Jonathan Pryce. Had one of those movie
projects ever gotten off the ground, he would have been perfect in the role and
might have given Delgado a run for his money. It isn’t easy being menacing in
such a broad parody, and it is to the credit of both Pryce and Moffat that it
comes off.
‘Doctor Who’s new logo UPDATE: with video!
Just up on the BBC website, in time for the debut of the new bloke, Matt Smith.
UPDATE: Oh, look, some nice person has posted the video that you’re not supposed to see if you aren’t in England:
