The BBC have confirmed that the title of the 50th Anniversary Special for Doctor Who will be called “The Day of the Doctor”. We had been told “featured film” in length – so around 90 minutes in length. As it turns out The Day of the Doctor will be around 75 minutes in total. That’s […]
Who will be the next Doctor? Bookies put Rupert Grint and Russel Tovey among favourites
Matt Smith’s last episode in Doctor Who will be the Christmas special. Who will replace him? BBC News are pushing the question. Experts and pundits are landing TV interview roles to tackle the question in front of millions. “Does the Doctor have to be male?” is a common question. William Hill are offering 8/1 odds […]
David Tennant and Billie Piper back for Doctor Who 50th
The last words of the Tenth Doctor were “I don’t want to go” and now he’ll be back. There’s a tradition with Doctor Who anniversary episodes that has two or more Doctors involved in the same plot line but it really was not clear whether this would happen for the 50th. Today, on the same […]
Your very own Timelord calendar and star chart
This rather wonderful poster is a Gallifreyan Perpetual Calendar and Galactic Star Chart. It lets Timelords or their companions discover the day of the week for any given day between the years 1600 and 9999 AD. That’s a pretty wide scope. As a bonus, any Timelord might be pleased to know that they star chart […]
Doctor Who t-shirt battle
Popular flash sale t-shirt site Teefury have two Doctor Who designs in a head to head battle. Bad Landing by Adams Pinto shows the Tardis surrounded by too many enemies to count and Time Fiction by zerbriant is a mashup of Doctor Who and Pulp Fiction. Who’s winning? Currently Time Fiction has the lead. Bad […]
Colourful Doctor Who posters
This colourful set of Doctor Who posters are by the deviant artist Pedro R. Martínez Andreo. The Spanish artist describes his own Doctor Who journey on his journal; being really upset after Tennant left and worried about Matt Smith up to the point he now considers Smith to be one of his favourite Doctors.
A review of Firefly – A Celebration (Anniversary Edition)
This is a beautiful beast of a book. It’s huge. There are 544 pages, in colour, in a hardback that just oozes quality. Right now, Amazon is accepting pre-orders and the book is due out at the end of September in the UK and the beginning of October in the US. That timing is important […]
Which Doctor Who actors have the lowest Bacon number?
You know the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? In it you can work out that you’re related to the actor Kevin Bacon through no more than six assocations. Google has the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game baked into its search results. To access it search for [bacon number] followed by an actor’s name. […]
How to Train Your Dragon: Riders of Berk clips
How to Train Your Dragon will enjoy a TV series in the States. It airs on Cartoon Network and is called Riders of Berk. The series follows on with Hiccup and Toothless living in the Viking island of Berk. The dragon trainers discover more about their dragon’s powers, new dragons but also new villains and […]
Does Tennant confirm 50th Dr Who appearance?
The big Doctor Who news today is that the BBC will air a docu-drama called An Adventure in Space and Time. It’s written by Mark Gatiss, who has worked closely with Moffat on Doctor Who in the past, and produced by Skinner and Steven Moffat himself. There’s also lots of interest in this appearance of […]
