Sunday, 16 December 2012
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Houdini And The Space Cuckoos
Quoting the Doctor Who page...
"Earlier this year we asked who you would like to see the Doctor meet in a future adventure. We were delighted by the huge number of responses and the enormous breadth of your suggestions.
The most popular ‘nominees’ ranged from Florence Nightingale to Nikola Tesla with writers, scientists and soldiers all having their champions. We were forced to discount characters who were fictional, so Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson had to be left in Baker Street and similarly, people we’ve already seen the Doctor encounter were eliminated, which meant figures like Shakespeare were barred.
In the end, Doctor Who’s Executive Producer Caro Skinner sifted through the most popular suggestions and picked the person from history whom the Time Lord would meet in our seasonal short story… It’s the master escapologist, Harry Houdini!
And so in the 2012 Adventure Calendar’s festive tale the Doctor will encounter Houdini… The short story was written by Joseph Lidster and is called Doctor Who: Houdini and The Space Cuckoos. It’s available to download and read, exclusively from this site, starting tomorrow!"
And that was yesterday. Therefore, click here for the pdf of part one.
"Earlier this year we asked who you would like to see the Doctor meet in a future adventure. We were delighted by the huge number of responses and the enormous breadth of your suggestions.
The most popular ‘nominees’ ranged from Florence Nightingale to Nikola Tesla with writers, scientists and soldiers all having their champions. We were forced to discount characters who were fictional, so Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson had to be left in Baker Street and similarly, people we’ve already seen the Doctor encounter were eliminated, which meant figures like Shakespeare were barred.
In the end, Doctor Who’s Executive Producer Caro Skinner sifted through the most popular suggestions and picked the person from history whom the Time Lord would meet in our seasonal short story… It’s the master escapologist, Harry Houdini!
And so in the 2012 Adventure Calendar’s festive tale the Doctor will encounter Houdini… The short story was written by Joseph Lidster and is called Doctor Who: Houdini and The Space Cuckoos. It’s available to download and read, exclusively from this site, starting tomorrow!"
And that was yesterday. Therefore, click here for the pdf of part one.
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
The Future
Steven Moffat Teases Next Year’s Doctor Who.
Not much to go on yet, apart from Neil Gaiman on Cybermen, and knowing the Mark Gatiss episode is a return to a specific period and possibly a specific group of characters...
Not much to go on yet, apart from Neil Gaiman on Cybermen, and knowing the Mark Gatiss episode is a return to a specific period and possibly a specific group of characters...
Doctor Who: The Child Of Time
DWM’s first collection of Eleventh Doctor comics has arrived.
(With the news that the second Seventh Doctor book is on the way. Hooray!)
Written entirely (barring some edits) by Jonathan Morris and illustrated by lots of folks, this collection reprinting twenty-one issues’ stories includes standalones, almost-standalones with an arc attached, Big Two-Parters (here four-parters as the comics have that much less elbow room), comedy, horror, and a big apocalyptic super-crazy ending.
In the commentary section at the back, he notes that some ideas overlap a bit closely with the TV series at the time and other things had to change because he accidentally stepped on future episodes. I know how that feels, since in this one book he managed to hit two Celebrity Historicals I’ve suggested in this very blog, three I considered but didn’t include as they were a bit close to someone else, and one I’ve included there and featured in The Door In Time, as well as a classical reference for a monster name. (eerie music plays)
Anwyays, plenty of exciting, creepy, odd and funny ideas here...
(With the news that the second Seventh Doctor book is on the way. Hooray!)
Written entirely (barring some edits) by Jonathan Morris and illustrated by lots of folks, this collection reprinting twenty-one issues’ stories includes standalones, almost-standalones with an arc attached, Big Two-Parters (here four-parters as the comics have that much less elbow room), comedy, horror, and a big apocalyptic super-crazy ending.
In the commentary section at the back, he notes that some ideas overlap a bit closely with the TV series at the time and other things had to change because he accidentally stepped on future episodes. I know how that feels, since in this one book he managed to hit two Celebrity Historicals I’ve suggested in this very blog, three I considered but didn’t include as they were a bit close to someone else, and one I’ve included there and featured in The Door In Time, as well as a classical reference for a monster name. (eerie music plays)
Anwyays, plenty of exciting, creepy, odd and funny ideas here...
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
"Cybermen?" "Miranda!"
Not such a terrifying notion really...
(It would also appear that Rob Brydon and Sarah Alexander are the controllers of the universe. I’m okay with that...)
(It would also appear that Rob Brydon and Sarah Alexander are the controllers of the universe. I’m okay with that...)
The Shalka Doctor Versus Santa
The Shalkaverse gets a Christmas Special, two weeks before Richard E Grant appears in The Snowmen, courtesy of creator Paul Cornell’s Twelve Blogs Of Christmas, written by Chicks Unravel Time writer/editor L M Myles.
Both a viable adventure plot and an examination of this Doctor and companions’ particular quirks and foibles.
Both a viable adventure plot and an examination of this Doctor and companions’ particular quirks and foibles.
Monday, 10 December 2012
Saturday, 8 December 2012
Need some female celebrity historicals?
There are a whole lot in the linked articles, as well as modern heroes and remarkable people of all colours and religions.
Before you know the rest of the story...
IDW have relaunched and renumbered their Doctor Who comics again with the second Issue 1 of the Eleventh Doctor era after the previous run only got to 16 (you’re never going to get to issue 450 like that, you know!) and Hypothetical Gentleman, which addresses Amy and Rory’s first anniversary, just months after losing Melody - an emotional gut-punch that the series never really addressed.
I only have the first issue (picked up in Forbidden Planet London as it was signed by artist Mark Buckingham) so I have half the story, a cliffhanger, and the significance given to that dating to go on. Issue 2 seems to be out, but I haven’t seen it, so having half a story I inevitably wonder what happens next...
I only have the first issue (picked up in Forbidden Planet London as it was signed by artist Mark Buckingham) so I have half the story, a cliffhanger, and the significance given to that dating to go on. Issue 2 seems to be out, but I haven’t seen it, so having half a story I inevitably wonder what happens next...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Where were you in '05?
Doctors of Futures Past is a “Where I Watch” thread for the 2005 series. It looks to be a non-fan perspective, as it doesn’t mention the classic series at all in the intro.
Some consistent trends are already starting to emerge. From Rose:
“I still love the Doctor’s approach to dealing with people during a crisis, giving them rapid fire information while keeping them moving so they don't have time to panic.”
Some consistent trends are already starting to emerge. From Rose:
“I still love the Doctor’s approach to dealing with people during a crisis, giving them rapid fire information while keeping them moving so they don't have time to panic.”
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
The Adventure Calendar has opened to reveal a whacking great gallery of images including single character images that would be good candidates for cardboard standees and a scandalous view of Clara's ankle.
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Coming Soon: a couple hours sooner than expected
The Snowmen will be shown on Christmas Day at 5.15. The original slot for Doctor Who.
I look forward to complaints from parents' groups about it being too dark and scary for the timeslot...
I look forward to complaints from parents' groups about it being too dark and scary for the timeslot...
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