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Catch-up TV Guide: From The Bridge to Sounds Of The 70s
18 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
TV: The Bridge
Another successful Euro import for BBC4, this stylistically cold but warmly received Scandinavian crime drama draws to a close this week. Fortunately, latecomers can binge on the whole thing via iPlayer's series catch-up service.
BBC iPlayer
Audio: The Moth
Similar in tone to This American Life, but always performed live, The Moth continues to showcase some of the strongest longform storytelling around. Recent episodes include comedian Lizz Winstead recounting an embarrassing incident in a Moroccan spa and the tale of a rebellious eight-year-old's role in the Iranian revolution.
Online
TV: Classic Doctor Who
Netflix are quietly amassing an extensive library of classic Who, with over 50 episodes available. At present they're only up to the Patrick Troughton years, but Pertwee, Baker, Baker and the rest are expected soon.
Netflix
TV: Spaced
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright have finally reunited to film The World's End, the concluding »
- Gwilym Mumford
Win: Celebrate 70 years of Enid Blyton with the Famous Five Series One on DVD
15 May 2012 7:11 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
To mark the DVD release of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five Series 1 on May 21st, we’ve been given three copies of the show to give away. The release includes all 13 episodes of the classic 70’s TV show and has been released to celebrate 70 years of Enid Blyton.
The series was originally broadcast on ITV over two series in 1978 and 1979 and this year marks the 70th anniversary of the release of the Famous Five series of books.
Meet the Famous Five: Julian (Marcus Harris), Dick (Gary Russell), Anne (Jennifer Thanisch), their cousin George (Michelle Gallagher) and her dog Timmy. Ruined castles and rolling moors; mysterious islands and hidden caves: the five can find adventure wherever they are. Join them at Kirrin Cottage, or away on their holidays as they encounter smugglers, scoundrels and spies. Thankfully, Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny are always around to offer lashings of ginger beer. »
- Competitons
Win Enid Blyton's Famous Five Series 1 on DVD
13 May 2012 11:29 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
To coincide with the 70th anniversary of the release of the Famous Five series of books, Enid Blyton’s Famous Five Series 1 - which features all 13 episodes of the classic 70s TV show - is coming to DVD here in the UK on May 21st and to celebrate we have three copies to give away to our readers courtesy of Koch Media. Read on for a synopsis and details of how to enter this fantastic giveaway...
Meet the Famous Five: Julian (Marcus Harris), Dick (Gary Russell), Anne (Jennifer Thanisch), their cousin George (Michelle Gallagher) and her dog Timmy.
Ruined castles and rolling moors; mysterious islands and hidden caves: the five can find adventure wherever they are. Join them at Kirrin Cottage, or away on their holidays as they encounter smugglers, scoundrels and spies. Thankfully, Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny are always around to offer lashings of ginger beer.
Based »
- flickeringmyth
Doctor Who & Star Trek Assimilation 2: The Cybermen Rise Again
10 May 2012 4:18 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Dramatic structure generally puts a story in one of a very few categories—Man against Man, Man against Nature, Man against Himself, Man against God, Man against Society, Man caught in the Middle. These “conflict narratives” provide the backdrop for every story you’ve ever seen and lay the groundwork for what makes the man vs. machine mythos discussed previously so interesting.
When fighting against machines is man really fighting against himself? How many people have had embarrassing experiences they want to forget, or painful ones, or sad ones? In those moments is it really the experience that isn’t welcome or the unpleasant emotion associated with it? Doctor Who’s Cybermen show us that it is the emotion.
Debuting in 1966 in the serial The Tenth Planet, the Cybermen are part machine and part human originally from the Planet Mondas—which was a mirror of Earth travelling in an orbit »
- Adam Borders
Doctor Who: Professor Wenn – The Series That Never Was
1 April 2012 1:18 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
I’m sure by now most of you have already read or heard the fascinating news from the BBC. Apparently a very, very early draft version of Doctor Who has surfaced. How early? 1956, making it a full seven years before the series actually aired.
From what it sounds like, this idea never really made it past the concept stage. They never did any filming or casting, though they had some people in mind, and never wrote any stories, but they did have some outlines. The series was to go into production in 1957, in an effort to capitalize on the success of The Quatermass Experiment. BBC budget cutbacks early that year prevented this from happening, which was for the best, as you’ll see. The BBC article is quite long, so I’ll summarize it for you tl;dr people.
The series appears to have been the creation two low-level BBC »
- Chris Swanson
The Doctor Who Column: A 'companion piece' for Jenna-Louise Coleman
28 March 2012 11:58 AM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
Huzzah! After much media brooding and betting about the identity of the new Doctor Who companion, actress Jenna-Louise Coleman was announced at a press call last Wednesday.
The speculation had been gathering at pace of late, with a few whispers of Sophia Myles somehow coming back to Who after playing Madame du Pompadour six-odd years ago. Possibly this was some sneaky red herring paper trail left by Steven Moffat who urged his Twitter followers to follow La Myles, while a forthcoming interview in Doctor Who Magazine could have also been a clue. But no – quite how Sophia will be involved in the next series (at the time of writing this) is a mystery, so apologies if early next week she's announced as the next incarnation of The Rani.
What else? Waterloo Road, a programme that I dip into about once in a blue moon. It's an odd one in that »
The Doctor Who Column: How to celebrate the 50th anniversary..?
19 March 2012 11:14 PM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
We human beings have a strange way of dealing with getting older. It happens at the point of milestone birthdays, so when the Big 40 morphs ominously into the Big 50 it's a hell of a shock, and then worse still, it turns devilishly into 65. And so on. Someone asked me the other day how I'd be celebrating my next milestone birthday, which is only a couple of years away – at which point I just started bawling so loudly the sobs could be heard 100 miles away.
Slightly less wussy people tend to forget about the misery of big birthdays by inviting the world and his wife to a great big party. More often than not, these events are not so much the happy-go-lucky kiddy parties from golden ages gone by, more one long booze-up with enough alcohol to make even Phil Mitchell raise his eyebrows. Friends and family congregate in a musty »
News: BBC Screens Doctor Who
16 March 2012 10:03 AM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
We at Disc Dish are big fans of Doctor Who and are thrilled that BBC has been rolling them out on DVD and Blu-ray. We’re even more thrilled that BBC is giving a special screening of Doctor Who: The Three Doctors in our hometown of Austin, Texas, on March 24.
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors was released in a special edition DVD on March 13.
In the episode, the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Unit investigate strange events around Dr. Tyler’s research into cosmic rays. An alien force attacks Unit HQ and the Doctor has no option but to call on the Time Lords for help. But they’re also under attack, from a mysterious power emanating from a black hole. The only way they can help the Doctor is to break the First Law of Time and allow him to help himself. So the first (William Hartnell) and »
- Sam
Doctor Who: Tomb of the Cybermen - DVD Review
14 March 2012 6:35 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Some tombs should remain lost, especially if they contain metallic Doctor Who villains bent on world domination. However, what was lost can be found as this episode from Patrick Troughton.s Doctor was once thought lost forever. When it did turn up it was a reason for celebration which we now celebrate again. The Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Jamie (Frazier Hines), and Vicky (Deborah Watling), arrive on the planet Telos where an Earth archaeological expedition, led by Professor Parry (Aubrey Richards), is attempting to uncover the lost tombs of the Cybermen. With a lot of help from the Doctor the archaeologists enter the tombs. What they find is the frozen remains of the Cybermen and they.re not as dead as »
- Jeff Swindoll
8 Really Good Special Effects in ‘Classic’ Doctor Who
28 February 2012 2:03 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Doctor Who from 2005 onwards hasn’t often had to worry too much about poor special effects. Given a devoted teams at The Mill and Millennium FX and a decent, if not exactly lavish, budget from the BBC, most of the time whatever Russell T. Davies and now Steven Moffat and co can dream up, the rest of the team can convincingly realise. But it wasn’t always so. In the 1960s, the budget was around £2000 an episode and many recordings were attempted in the tiny Lime Grove studios. Small wonder that several special effects shots fell short of the mark, even by the standards of the day.
But despite the willingness of modern, and usually snide, TV companies to mockingly reshow these embarrassing old clips, the fact is that from 1963-1989, Doctor Who created some innovative images which completely defied the microscopic budgets they were working with. In this article, »
- Tom Salinsky
Multiple Doctor Who Stories: The Positives & Negatives!
24 February 2012 8:40 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
When I compiled my list of things I wanted to see in Series 7 of Doctor Who, I didn’t expect my objection to multi-Doctor stories to be quite so controversial. With hindsight, it’s my own fault. Wanting a snappy ending to the piece, I didn’t really go in to enough detail about my reasons. The truth is there are plenty of good things about multi-Doctor stories, it’s just that overall I think the cons outweigh the pros.
So, here’s a more detailed look at this – apparently divisive – issue.
Reasons To Want A Multi-Doctor Story… 1. They’re Fun!
Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee’s bickering is a delight in The Three Doctors and the two actors play off each other beautifully. In its demented way The Five Doctors is even more fun, chucking Cybermen, Daleks, Yeti and The Master into the mix and giving each Doctor »
- Tom Salinsky
The Doctor Who Column: Wealth In Our Time Lord
20 February 2012 12:43 PM, PST | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
Money. On the surface of it, it's no more than paper and iron. Or an abstract figure in a bank account. And yet we just cannot do without it. Back in the day, people used to trade and barter as a means of payment, and judging by the still-forlorn economic picture, give it a few more years, and everyone will be forced to use beans, string and seeds as elementary commerce.
That grim view of the economy sure isn't helped by the constant bombardment of news reports, which I swear are getting odder by the day. Not least in the fact that on the one hand, we get reports of famous people who are shelling out on the swankiest clothes and bling to attend showbiz parties or awards dos. And also, there's some big do later on this year, for which money is apparently available in readiness for great big »
7 Reasons Why ‘The Time Warrior’ Is The Best Doctor Who Story For Beginners
14 February 2012 8:31 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
The Doctor’s triumphant return to television after 16 years has created a two-tier system of fans: people who are only interested in the show from 2005 onwards, and people who embrace its entire 48 year history. As a member of the second group, I am occasionally asked what story I would start with from the original 26 year run to try and convince someone whose first Doctor was Christopher Eccleston that there was more to the Classic Series than wobbly sets, identical corridors and polystyrene spaceships. Well, I mean, of course there was. There were also gravel pits.
I always end up with the same story, one that was among the very first released on VHS, back in the 1980s. I would start with The Time Warrior. Here’s a quick list of reasons why.
1. No Obvious Problems
The Time Warrior has a number of very apparent features that some other stories lack. »
- Tom Salinsky
Doctor Who thing of the day: Cybermen invade Ealing!
3 January 2012 5:30 AM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
The Ealing Gazette yesterday took a retro look back at a time when Cybermen invaded the West London suburb as part of the show’s production: Along the way, the show has been filmed in myriad locations, including Ealing. The borough’s studios in Ealing Green were a vital resource in the programme’s formative years. The studios were used as a location for what is known as ‘filmed inserts’, specialised shots, usually incorporating special effects, that could not be shot on the normal set. For the first two incarnations of the show, featuring William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton as the respective doctors, the majority of the special effects or second unit photography was done at Ealing. Ealing was also used for the occasional bit of principal photography, with one example being the 1969 story The Space Pirates, in which filming was split between Ealing, Lime Grove and BBC Television Centre in White City. »
- MaryAnn Johanson
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