WE MUST FEED!... you, if you are hungry.

Doctor Who cake decorations and cookie cutters and chocolate moulds and such. The card Dalek straw toppers might be good for those using paper standup miniatures...

Mindlash

John Seavey creates a Ninth Doctor episode about a decadent future colony using elements from Vengeance On Varos... in his sleep.

See also his new Whoblog, A Mad Man With A Box (Without A Box).

Steven Moffat at Comic-Con

Steven Moffat on Matt Smith’s departure, the search for the Twelfth Doctor, the length of the anniversary special, Zygons and Ryan Gosling.

What's wrong with this picture?

From a multi-era re-enactment event, apparently. Or that’s what Torchwood want us to think...

Live in ten...

RTD considered a live episode during his run. As noted, something with a limited location and guest cast like Midnight would work - indeed, Midnight has been performed as a play. It could also have worked well with the plans for Century House - an episode happening in and around a live broadcast.

The Box Of Delights

Turns out that The Fourth teaser is for high-end tat for a limited edition of Terror Of The Zygons. Not because Terror Of The Zygons is the classic Fourth Doctor story to end all Fourth Doctor stories, just because it’s new to disc and related to the anniversary special. I’d have put City Of Death in there myself - on Blu-Ray, since they’re launching that line now. Still, that is some nice tat. What would you put in similar boxes for the other Doctors?

Fran Kranz IS the Doctor! (Again, no...)

Happy Fourth of July weekend to US-connected readers!

One of the results of a broken arm is I’ve been watching a lot of repeats of Frasier. And that poll got me thinking about the old “an American playing the Doctor” bit again, especially a suggestion about a separate US reboot. So I thought “Kelsey Grammer as the Doctor...” and then I thought... “the Sixth Doctor!” And the results followed... Some of these are complicated meta-references to real-world roles, some are just “kinda looks the part”...

DWW

Dez Skinn on the origins of Doctor Who Weekly, Doctor Who Magazine as it is now. Includes great big scans of pages from some of the not-reprinted backup strips.

Danny Dyer Is NOT The Doctor! (I bloody hope)

An SFX poll for nightmare suggestions for the Twelfth Doctor. Dyer isn’t even the most horrific, although the Go Compare opera singer seems a bit of a stretch.

And some ain’t so bad at all.

Although chillingly, Russell Kane has just said he wants it in an interview.

And yes, one of the options is AN AMERICAN.

Captain Jack is off the market!

Congratulations to John Barrowman and his partner, now husband, Scott Gill.

Alone with the Silence

Mention of the royal visit on the official Doctor Who Twitter account also inadvertently gave me a plot hook:

“HRH Prince Charles has just met the monsters! There was everything from Daleks to Angels, but will he remember having met the Silence...?”

What would it be like to be immune to the power of the Silent? Never forgetting the monsters hiding in plain sight? You might be essential to stopping them... if it doesn’t drive you mad...

It could also be treated more casually, like Spike’s immunity to Glory’s concealment spell in Buffy season five played for laughs. But consider the horror possibilities as the Silent hunt you through streets filled with people... people who could help you, but never for more than a few moments before they forget why you need their help at all... who won’t even remember seeing someone blasted to dust...

Prince Charles IS the Doctor! (Again, not really!)

From a royal visit to the set, with video too. And Matt Smith agrees...

The Ripple Effect

The children’s authors’ Doctor series reaches the seventh month and the Seventh Doctor, with Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman OBE writing The Ripple Effect, in which the Daleks are acting out of character again...

Canada Days Gone By

In honour of Canada Day, what would be a good event in the country’s history for time travellers to visit?

The Franklin Expedition is kind of a downer...

Alternatively, go to the future for a Margaret Atwood homage episode?

There isn’t much in the TARDIS Index. Apart from Sydney Newman, of course!

Enemy Within was shot there, although set in the US.

One could-have-been is that the Canadian animation company Nelvana planned a Doctor Who cartoon in the late 80s. So maybe use their tank-like Daleks or IG-88 style Cybermen, or the numberless Harold Ramis lookalike Doctor, apparently unnamed companion and doctor’s bag that folds out to become K-9?

Of course you already have your own Time Lord from Being Erica...

Cybermen In Colour, Part Two

Re previous discussion, I saw this Kroton costume today. Ironically even more black and white than usual, but still a pointer towards how the Cybermen look with a lick of paint.