A Doctor Who Podcast
November 14th marks eighth Doctor Paul McGann’s 52nd birthday. McGann of course played the Doctor just once on screen in the 1996 television movie, but has delighted us with audio renditions from Big Finish for years.
And don’t forget, you can meet Paul at 2012’s Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles. Happy Birthday sir!
Reposted from dwconvention.com
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FRIDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER 2011
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BBC WORLDWIDE TO STAGE FIRST OFFICIAL DOCTOR WHO CONVENTION
Millennium Centre Cardiff will be transformed into a fans paradise 24th & 25th March 2012
BBC Worldwide today revealed details of the first ever official Doctor Who Convention since the series’ regeneration in 2005. The event will take place on the 24th and 25th March 2012 at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales – the current home of the show. Read more.
More special guests to be announced in the coming weeks!
Matt Smith and Steven Moffat are already confirmed to appear at the Official Doctor Convention 2012 but with more special guests from series 5 & 6 to be announced in the coming weeks, its sure to be the greatest gathering of Doctor Who cast and creators ever!
Keep watching the website for updates and don’t forget to sign up to the DWConvention newsletter.
Reposted from Blogter Who:
Shada documentary – World Premiere!
Courtesy of 2|entertain
November 23 will see the world premiere of Chris Chapman’s new documentary Taken Out of Time, which looks back on the making of the 1979 Doctor Who story Shada. It will be screened at a one day event, Visions From Behind The Sofa: Doctor Who, taking place at the University of Hertfordshire.
For the rest of the story, click here.
Reposted from Doctor Who News
The new issue of the Radio Times (12-18 Nov) confirms the time of the Christmas Special preview as being in the 8:00-8:30pm timeslot during this year’s Children in Need on 18th November, promising “an exclusive treat from Doctor Who”.
This is the same slot as broadcast last year – with Children in Need being a live show, the time can only be estimated and won’t be known until during the programme itself!
The title of the episode itself is expected to be revealed in the next couple of weeks.
“Okay, really, this is becoming a bit of a habbit, isnt it? The constantly running late? What is this, Vortex Time? Am I being punished for something? Why cant you just take me to the date I asked for instead of dropping me off later when I cant be proactive? Hmmm? I swear it’s like you have a mind of your own, silly old thing.”
Sorry, just had to have a brief discussion with Traveling The Vortex’s birthday TARDIS, which refuses to behave and consequently, we missed another one. November 3rd would have been the late Richard Hurndall’s “Bilbo Bagins” birthday, (as in one hundred and eleventh).
Richard stood in for William Harntell as the first Doctor in the 20th anniversary special, “The Five Doctors”. Happy birthday!
Once again I have missed a birthday announcement, not from lack of effort, miss-information or Cyberman invasion, but simply running out of time before the day ended to get it posted. It’s October 28th for those of you keeping track, and our sincerest apologies to Matt for missing it, but happy belated one anyway!
Please join us for the first of three goulish, horror themed episodes of Doctor Who over the next three Fridays for Halloween. First up, a retelling of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, with Tom Baker’s fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane going up against the sisters of the flame and a mad scientist in The Brain Of Morbius!
We push play at midnight, CST and you can follow the tweet-a-long with @travelvortex, @vortexglenn, @vortexkeith and @vortexshaun. Look for the #FridayNightWho and #BrainOfMorbius hashtags!
Please join us in wishing the lovely Katy Manning–who played Jo Grant opposite 3rd Doctor Jon Pertwee, and more recently reprised her role on The Sarah Jane Adventures–a very happy 62nd Birthday!
Chicago Tardis has updated it’s guest list once again, this time it looks like Alex Kingston’s appearance has fallen through (she’s no longer listed on the site, anway) BUT they have added two classic companions, a match set with 5th Doctor Peter Davison! Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton (Tegan and Nyssa) are slated to join the festivities, for more info, go to their website… www.chicagotardis.com
Please join us in wishing Nicola Bryant (Peri) a very happy 50th Birthday today, though to us she doesnt look a day over 29! Or tell her yourself via twitter, she can be reached at @thenicolabryant.
Join us tonight at midnight central standard time for the start of it all, William Hartnell in “An Unearthly Child”.
You’ve seen “The Wedding Of River Song” which is the last episode of WHO to date, now watch the first!
As always, join @travelvortex, @vortexkeith, @vortexglenn and @vortexshaun on Twitter for the live tweet-a-long, and look for the #FridayNightWho and #AnUnearthlyChild hashtags.
Just a reminder that this week’s Traveling The Vortex (Episode 40) will be delayed slightly, as all three of us were on vacation (or holiday if you prefer) this week, and Glenn has not yet made it back into town. We debated moving on without him, but with this being the finale of series six, it just didnt seem right.
And besides, he’s the only one who knows how to run the software!
We should be heading into the studio Tuesday night and will shoot for having it up on the feeds Wednesday. Next week should see us return to our regular release schedule.
From ATVToday:
Doctor Who fans have launched a campaign on Twitter to save the BBC Three behind-the-scenes series Doctor Who Confidential. The BBC announced earlier today that controller Zai Bennett had culled yet another series, Doctor Who Confidential. Most casualties so far have been comedies but with cuts at the corporation looming Confidential has fallen victim to the axe.
Doctor Who fans are not ones to take cancellation lightly and within hours of the news had launched a campaign on Twitter to try and save the series. Doctor Who Confidential has accompanied the BBC series since its revival in 2005 and has offered fans a behind-the-scenes look at every episode made since then. The documentary series has featured interviews with key cast and crew members over the years such as Billie Piper, David Tennant, Catherine Tate, John Barrowman, Phil Collinson, Julie Gardner, Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat.
So far over 8500 fans have signed up to the campaign on and the series was only axed this afternoon!
To join the campaign yourself, click HERE to join @SaveDWC on Twitter and HERE to sign the petition.
* In addition to Peter Davison and Alex Kingston (the 5th Doctor and River Song respectively), Chicago Tardis is firming up their guest list for the upcoming November convention. Big names from Big Finish include Jason Haigh-Ellery (producer), Nicholas Briggs (writer/director and voice of the Daleks/Cybermen), Lisa Bowerman, (Bernice Summerfield) and the new 7th Doctor companion Beth Chalmers.
Other writers/editors/publisher include Ben Aaronovitch (7th Doctor era stories), Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg (Howe’s Transendental Toybox), Graeme Burk and Robert Smith (Time Unincorporated and the forthcoming Who Is The Doctor), Benjamin Cook (A Writer’s Tale, Christa Dickson and Lars Pearson (Mad Norwegian Press) and Tony Lee (IDW Doctor Who comics). Their website promises more to come…
One change to the program is Toby Hadoke (Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf) who will be unable to attend.
* Doctor Who Magazine recently announced the show will return for another 13 episode season seven in 2012, but as many of us suspected, it WILL be broken into two parts, and it WILL start in the fall of 2012. So once the current season six wraps next week with “The Wedding Of River Song”, we’ll get a Christmas special, and then no new who for about 8 months. I feel withdrawals kicking in already.
* And lastly, Matt Smith is chomping at the bit to get to the 50th anniversary special, and he’d love for it to be in 3D. “I love making Doctor Who, and I get to be part of that 50th year which they’ll do something mental for,” he tells Bang Showbiz. “You know it will be brilliant. I’m interested in all the 3D stuff. If it could be filmed for 3D TV that would be fun, especially with Doctor Who, but it’s very expensive. I don’t know how they’d do it.”
I imagine something with void stuff.
Sigh, once again our fearless Traveling The Vorex research staff fell down on the job over a weekend (i.e. I was busy and didn’t get this posted on the 24th) but please join us in wishing writer and Cyber-Controller David Banks a very happy, albeit belated birthday! He played the leader in Earthshock, The Five Doctors, Attack Of The Cybermen, and Silver Nemesis.