German Reunification Day 2019

German Reunification Day - next year will be the 30th anniversary.

Always worth checking international Google Doodles

Mission To The Unknown

A full remake of lost episode Mission To The Unknown, made by students, goes online on the Doctor Who Youtube channel next week for the anniversary of the original screening.

Freema Agyeman is a doctor, again

New Amsterdam - the hospital show, not the 2008 immortal detective show - also has Janet Montgomery as the hardboiled head of the ER and Tyler Labine in the psychological department. Which would make a solid TARDIS lineup...

The Twelfth Doctor sourcebook

New from Cubicle 7 today!

Terrance Dicks

Terrence Dicks has died, age 84. Tributes from writers and other fans including Neil Gaiman.

Apollo 11

Tonight at 3.56 a.m. local time it will be fifty years since human beings walked on the Moon.

Google talked to Mike Collins for their front page animation. Even in this brief interview I learned something - the “barbecue roll” to control the temperature of the vessel as it was in constant sunlight through the voyage.

Media coverage included a BBC Stargazing special talking about what NASA plans to do next, including a test drive of a prototype Mars rover.

Also today, three travellers arrived at the International Space Station.

Look back, look forward, and look up.

Jon Pertwee centenary

Celebrated with a big hi-def season rerelease, a documentary presented by his son Sean, a related interview and more, Jon Pertwee was born a hundred years ago today.

Pan Tadeusz

A Google Doodle today in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus, here in and Iceland, for the 185th anniversary of the publication of Pan Tadeusz, an epic poem by Polish writer and activist.

Wikipedia
Independent news story

While we usually associate epic poems with myth and legends, Pan Tadeusz is historical fiction about the region during the Napoleonic war.

Twenty years of Big Finish Who

Big Finish celebrates twenty years of Doctor Who audio with twenty hours free to listen, including interviews, as well as a preview of their new anniversary series The Legacy Of Time.

Years And Years And Children Of Earth

As previously noted, Years And Years is an idea Russell T Davies has had a while, with Turn Left as a foretaste, but he also mentioned in The Writer’s Tale that it was nearly the end of Children of Earth...

Character Class

I mean... Class characters for DWAITAS, thanks to Siskoid.

A first look at series 12

From the official Who Twitter:

Years And Years 1

Tonight saw the start of Russell T Davies’s Years And Years on BBC One and it’s very Russell T Davies, including some familiar faces in the cast and a thundering Murray Gold soundtrack.

Starting today (with the death of Doris Day on the radio added Drop The Dead Donkey style just before broadcast) it then jumps through five yeas to shows a normal family (Lyons, possibly a reference to this 50s British domestic saga?) dealing with life in 2024 and beyond. And let’s just say it escalates rather quickly.

It really did remind me of Turn Left, Donna Noble’s finest hour, just without her way of fixing things available so I’m not holding out much hope for a happy ending when we reach the 2030s.

Some of the “oh no, what will the future be like?” and “haven’t you read the news?” dialogue clangs, but there’s some lovely observation stuff too. And a funny robot, in a very post-watershed way.

GMing advice from Morgan Davie

Morgan Davie, friend and writer for C7’s Who line, was asked about GMing advice and responded on Twitter.

Years And Years, from Russell T Davies

Years And Years, a new series by Russell T Davies, starting next week on BBC One. His work has touched on this before with Donna’s parallel future in Turn Left, though this will give us more time with the family dealing with a frightening future.