Google at 20

Many happy returns! Don’t be evil.

Mister Rogers

A Google Doodle in the US for the 51st anniversary of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, a public television series about someone who always seeks to help.

"Let's get a shift on."

New trailer, just over a minute. Spaceships! Shadows! She’s in charge, bro!

“Sometimes I see things need fixing, do what I can.”

Getting close now...

A wallpaper-friendly poster and blurbs for the first two episodes...

Joanna Baillie

A Google Doodle for Joanna Baillie, born 256 years ago today, a Scottish playwright (and descendant of William Wallace) who I must admit I had never heard of before. She had some boosting from Sir Walter Scott, and inspired Lord Byron, among others.

Sunday, October 7th

The Woman Who Fell To Earth leads the new series, on Sundays. Likely a solid call after the last series which may not have started at the same time twice.

Since my games society meets on Sundays it’s not great for me, but, eh.

Lucie Miller is coming back

io9 describes her as the best companion you’ve probably never heard of... they really should have said the best you’ve never seen.

Doctor Who Infinity

Motion comics and puzzle games, starring a variety of Doctors and companions and enemies in different stories.

A Doctor Who RPG Stream

Thanks to the announcement of new shows from Geek & Sundry at Gen Con, I discovered that their Star Trek Adventures series Shield Of Tomorrow has finished... and the GM mentioned a previous Doctor Who RPG game. So something to look through the backlog of!

The Time Traveller's Wife, the series

The Time Traveller’s Wife to be adapted for HBO by Steven Moffat. In the interview he acknowledges having been influenced by it before.

(And will the title role get as weirdly typecast by it as Rachel McAdams?)

Is that...?

Jodie Whittaker sneaking on stage to model the Doctor’s outfit in the Comic-Con fashion show for the official replica clothing line from Her Universe was delightful.

"All of this is new to me..."

First footage trailer from the Comic-Con panel. And we have... yellow sonic screwdriver light!

And an alien planet and some horse riding.

Right! This is gonna be fun!

The universe is calling

Now that the teaser trailer has aired on BBC One, here it is.

And in showing the Doctor making little changes in her future companions’ lives in a flash, it makes the Doctor look like an artron-energy-powered speedster. Which I presume is just artistic licence... though with this show, you never can tell! :)

"I pretended to defuse something..."

Entertainment Weekly puts Doctor Who on the cover and talks to Jodie Whittaker about her audition and more, as well as giving us an early look at her companions. Note: self-playing video. Boo, hiss.

The Thirteenth Doctor toys

Various sites have photos of a variety of inevitable stylised pop culture ornaments, a costume from Her Universe, and a 12” scale figure from Character Options. No sign of anything for their classic 5” scale line, or their Star Wars style 3.75” scale.

Apparently we’re also getting Bill in 5” scale this summer, among various new and variant figures for it. In the UK they’re exclusive to B&M. So I have to find one of those, I guess.

Edit several weeks later: apparently you can get Bill from Amazon. If she’s in stock.