31
JANUARY 2005 | NEW
SERIES | THE SUN reveals more of Billie Piper
More
glimpses of the New Series have been revealed by the UK compact red-top, THE
SUN.
Link
from here - but the online article contains photographs of monsters.
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JANUARY 2005 | PRODUCT
| Gatiss and Fielding in DWM 353
It's
next week with more key information relating to the new series. No 'official'
console room photograph yet but the crystal white interior is glimpsed at on
the cover of DWM353.
Both
Janet Fielding and Mark Gatiss are interviewed, THE DEADLY ASSASIN is
reviewed, more from Russell T Davies, and 'official' updates from the casting
couch.
£3.99
could just be the ticket for this issue.
New
series launch date revealed?
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JANUARY 2005 | NEW
SERIES | "Masterful"
Our
regular telephone conservation with the EOH Source today, commenting on a recent
recording session was simply "masterful".
And
that was it.
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JANUARY 2005 | NEW
SERIES | Eccleston leads HOLOCAUST Service
Marking
the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, as part of Holocaust
Memorial Day, Christopher Eccleston lead the Readings at Westminster Hall (London)
today in the presence of British survivors, their families and Her Majesty The
Queen.
Eccelston
presented the Reading: "If This is a Man" by Primo Levi.
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JANUARY 2005 | DVD
PRODUCT | THE CLAWS OF AXOS - May 09
Whilst
a little overpriced, compared to other UK internet retailers, the BBC
SHOP is the first to announce the full DVD extras (and 'blurb')
for the May 09 release, THE CLAWS OF AXOS. Their price £19.99.
And
here it is (spoiler ahead - if you don't know the
plot):
An
approaching Alien spaceship is detected on monitoring equipment at UNIT HQ, where
the Brigadier is entertaining two visitors - Chinn, a civil servant making a
security inspection, and Bill Filer, an American agent sent to discuss the threat
of the Master. The Ship lands in England and the UNIT team, joined by Hardiman
and Winser from the nearby Nuton power station, meet its occupants: beautiful
golden-skinned humanoids called Axons.
The
Axons claim that their ship, Axos, is damaged and that they need time in which
to repair it. In return, they offer Axonite, a substance that can cause animals
to grow to enormous sizes and thus end food shortages. The Doctor is suspicious,
and rightly so: Axos, Axonite and the Axons - whose true appearance is hideous
- are all part of a single parasitic entity brought to Earth by the Master to
feed on the planet's energy.
The
Doctor manages to materialise his TARDIS, with the Master on board, at the centre
of Axos. He offers to link the two ships together to make one giant time machine,
on condition that Axos in return helps him to take revenge on the Time Lords
for exiling him to earth. This is merely a trick, however, and Axos is locked
in a time loop from which it can never escape.
The
Doctor returns to Earth in the TARDIS, where he reluctantly admits to the Brigadier
that the Master may also have escaped.
And
the DVD Extras:
Commentary
track (Katy Manning, Richard Franklin and Barry Letts)
Photo
gallery and Production subtitles
Out
takes/deleted scenes
NOW
AND THEN - a featurette about the Dungeoness location, with Katy Manning
Interview
with Director, Michael Ferguson
WHO
WAS DOCTOR AXON? - a featurette detailing the task of updating the 'master
copy' for DVD release.
A 30-minute
compilation of VAMPIRE FROM SPACE studio material, including
all the Roger Delgado footage and some extended and deleted scenes
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JANUARY 2005 | NEW
SERIES | New cast members named + RADIO 2 doc.
Murray
Gold now confirmed as composer of all of the Incidental Music for Series 1.
BBC
AUDIO are releasing a 'TV tie-in', PROJECT WHO? on
04 April. Amazon.co.uk price £10.99. It follows the broadcast of the RADIO
2 two-part programme the previous week (which we believe is being produced
by DOCTOR WHO fan and EVENING STANDARD columnist,
Victor Lewis Smith. Pending confirmation).
It
takes a look at the DOCTOR WHO phenomenon. Why is now the right
time for it to return? There will be interviews with the stars and producers
of the new series, location and set visits, and interviews with famous people
who are fans of DOCTOR WHO. This CD release will feature additional
material not included in the Radio 2 broadcast.
In
the latest DWM, series producer, Phil Collinson, confirms the existence of a
dedicated 'sound-stage'/'studio' for JUST the TARDIS interior. EOH revealed,
in 2003, that this was too be the case but the news was discredited at by USA
websites (and their related Forums). Good to know that Sources at the time were
accurate.
The
american-styled sound-stage (not on the scale of the 007 studio at Pinewood Studios)
is required for the a 360 degrees perspective across the Console Room, its internal
'chameleon-nature' and, of course, to have a permanent series of meandering corridors.
The complex is located at secret location in Newport.
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JANUARY 2005 | NEW
SERIES | WHO is THE television event of 2005
A
wry smile and a cold tingle down the back of the neck?
Several
UK newspaper (both tabloid and broadsheet) have previewed the coming TV highlights
for 2005. And
everyone is talking about DOCTOR WHO, adding excitement felt
by fans worldwide.
THE TIMES in
their OUT OF THE BOX preview column does not hold back:
The
biggest TV event over the next few weeks will be the return of DR WHO (BBC
ONE, March) in the form of a leather-jacketed Christopher Eccleston, with perky
Billie Piper as his sidekick. The Daleks will be back and Simon Callow will appear
as Charles Dickens, but war could break out among the show’s more obsessive
fans – production staff have already received hate mail, even death threats,
over the new logo, the size of the TARDIS windows and the new theme music.
THE
MIRROR, under the tantalising banner headline of "WHO'S THE BIG
STAR FOR 2005?", the series is previewed with extra
plotline giveaways:
Last
year gave us a bumper crop of entertaining TV shows, and 2005 is already promising
big things, too.
Here
are the programmes we are beyond excited about. We can only hope they live up
to the hype…
DOCTOR
WHO – BBC. Never
has a TV series been so shrouded in secrecy – but soon we’ll be able
to see how Christopher Eccleston fares as the travelling timelord, and whether
Billie Piper measures up as his assistant.
A
few facts have emerged. The TARDIS, which transports the Doctor through time
and the universe, is made from coral on the inside and is a living organism which
can grow and change shape. But don’t worry, the outside still looks like
an old police box.
On
his journeys he will come across Simon Callow as Charles Dickens and Zoë Wanamaker
as a very old woman.
There
is also more than a hint of romance this time around. Eccleston says: “Doctor
Who has two hearts and they can both be broken.”
Even
the lethargic listings (and poor second-cousin to RADIO TIMES), TV
TIMES "rejoiced" by the long-awaited return of the TARDIS
and the Daleks.
The RADIO
TIMES preview? We're holding our breath.
UPDATED
| 04.01.2005
The
series looks set to broadcast at 18:45 on Saturday evenings
(before THE NATIONAL LOTTERY show).
