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24 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | REGENERATION FIGURES

Quality of "likeness" has been rough over the last year - ever since Simm's Master figure was captured in candle wax - and the range frequently duplicated with "build" releases but CHARACTER OPTIONS continues with the DOCTOR WHO brand throughout 2010.

Alongside the CLASSIC SERIES "monster" releases (this month will include amongst others: "Ice Warrior Martian", "Morbius monster" and the EARTHSHOCK "Cyberman with weapon") the UK-based company is releasing THE END OF TIME figures.

  • THE TENTH DOCTOR - SCARED FACE
  • THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR
  • THE SONIC SCREWDRIVER - re-packaged
   
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24 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | BBC DVD - HARTNELL

BBC DVD is releasing a three disc "boxed-set" CLASSIC SERIES adventure DOCTOR WHO - THE SPACE MUSEUM and DOCTOR WHO - THE CHASE on 01.03.2010.

DOCTOR WHO - THE SPACE MUSEUM

  • Defending the Museum - 9'26"
  • My Grandfather The Doctor - 10'3"
  • THE SPACE MUSEUM - Picture Gallery - 4'24"
  • A Holiday for the Doctor - 13'59"

DOCTOR WHO - THE CHASE

  • The Thrill of the Chase - 10'24"
  • DOCTOR WHO- Follow that Dalek - 11'58"
  • Give A Show - Slides - 12'13"
  • Shawcraft The Original Monster Makers - 16'57"
  • THE CHASE Photo gallery - 5'7"
  • Last Stop White City - 13'14"
  • Beyond the Screen - 21'54"
  • Easter Egg - 2'48"
  • Daleks! Conquer and Destroy - 22'36"
   
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UPDATED NEWS 24 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | BBC AUDIO 2010

As part of the addictive unabridged novelisation readings, BBC AUDIO has released the cover for the Fifth Doctor's post-regeneration story, DOCTOR WHO - CASTROVALVA (Published on 04.03.2010).

Still weak and confused after his fourth regeneration, the Doctor retreats to Castrovalva to recuperate. But Castrovalva is not the haven of peace and tranquility the Doctor and his companions are seeking. Far from being able to rest quietly, the unsuspecting time travellers are once again caught up in the machinations of the Master. Only an act of supreme self-sacrifice will enable them to escape the maniacal lunacy of the renegade Time Lord.

READ MORE CASTROVALVA

BBC AUDIO overview (Winter 2009/Spring 2010):

  • 21.01.2010 - DOCTOR WHO AT THE BBC... A LEGEND REBORN
  • 07.01.2010 - THE ICE WARRIORS (UNABRIDGED)
  • 04.02.2010 - LOGOPOLIS (UNABRIDGED)
  • 04.03.2010 - CASTROLVALVA (UNABRIDGED)
  • 08.04.2010 - THE THREE DOCTORS (UNABRIDGED)

And as a reminder, BBC AUDIO's unabridged release, DOCTOR WHO AND THE ICE WARRIORS is released as an antidote for the Yuletide festivities on 07.01.2010.

READ MORE THE ICE WARRIORS

   
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21 JANUARY 2010 | PERSONALITY | WHO viewers fix another NTA win

WHO fans have out done themselves again for a fifth year in a row in a mass voting to award DOCTOR WHO the best Drama Series at the NTA.

An organised crew, aren't we.

And for the third time David Tennant was awarded the title of best Drama Performance.

   
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19 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | DVD - MYTHS AND LEGENDS

With thanks to BBC DVD.

The British Board of Film Classification is listing DVD details for the future release of the CLASSIC SERIES boxset, DOCTOR WHO - MYTHS AND LEGENDS (THE TIME MONSTER, UNDERWORLD and THE HORNS OF NIMON). This is released on 29.03.2010.

The DVD EXTRAS for THE TIME MONSTER are:

  • BETWEEN NOW... AND NOW! SCIENCE AND THE TIME MONSTER
  • EPISODE THREE - THE RESTORATION PROCESS
  • PHOTO GALLERY + INFORMATION TEXT

The DVD EXTRAS for THE HORNS OF NIMON are:

  • WHO PETER - PARTNERS IN TIME (1963-1989) - BLUE PETER profile
  • PART TWO - MUSIC DEMOS
  • SCOTTISH FALSETTO SOCK PUPPET THEATRE
  • READ THE WRITER - PROFILE OF ANTHONY READ
  • PHOTO GALLERY + INFORMATION TEXT
   
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17 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | DVD - THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT

With thanks to BBC DVD.

The British Board of Film Classification is listing DVD details for the future release of Tom Baker's DOCTOR WHO - THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT.

  • Documentary: Christopher Barry (Director of the story)
  • The making of the story - Team Erato
  • Photo Gallery + Information Notes + Radio Times PDF
  • Coming Soon

There is no release date but it is scheduled for 2010, as is DOCTOR WHO - INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS (complete with new CGI dinosaurs).

The current BBC DVD plans are for the final CLASSIC SERIES release to be published by November 2013 (the 50th anniversary of the drama series).

   
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17 JANUARY 2010 | SERIES 5 | THE WRITERS

With DOCTOR WHO SERIES 5 only a matter of months away, DWM has published details of the (all male) writers (13 episodes in total).

  • Steven Moffat - (Six Episodes)
  • Mark Gatiss - (One Episode)
  • Toby Whithouse - (One Episode)
  • Simon Nye - (One Episode)
  • Chris Chibnall - (Two Episodes)
  • Richard Curtis - (One Episode)
  • Gareth Roberts - (One Episode)

The publication has not discussed the option that DOCTOR WHO SERIES 5 could/will be split into two halves (1) Spring broadcast and (2) Autumn broadcast.

   
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15 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA

With thanks to BBC DVD.

eyeofhorus.org.uk has received the preview copy of THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA . The single disc DVD is released on 08.02.2010.

The best quote from the commentary so far is: "I love hairy women" from Tom Baker. Classic commentary.

READ MORE Full preview and screengrabs online now (Saturday 16.01.10)

The sleeping iconic CLASSIC SERIES adventure, DOCTOR WHO - THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA will be released on 8 February 2010 and, today, BBC WORLDWIDE has published the cover.

   
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13 JANUARY 2010 | PERSONALITY | ECCLESTON does LENNON

BBC PRESS OFFICE is promoting the new season of drama (winter/spring) with a compilation video presentation.

In addition to the return of a certain Time Lord there is Billie Piper's return to BBC DRAMA and Christopher Eccleston's BBC FOUR "biopic" of John Lennon titled LENNON NAKED. See right.

LENNON NAKED charts his transition from "Beatle John" to enduring and enigmatic icon. It covers a period of wildly fluctuating fortunes from 1967-71; a time of worldwide adulation at one extreme, a combination of frustration and despair at the other. Writer Robert Jones articulates the burden of genius, as well as issues of fatherhood and fame in this 90-minute film. Ben Stephenson , Controller, BBC Drama Commissioning says: "Securing Christopher Eccleston to play John Lennon is further testament to the calibre of drama on BBC Four."

   
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12 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | VWORP FANZINE

Once in a while something special floats into the time/space fan vortex. Coming soon to a letterbox (if you order a copy) near you is VORWP! VWORP! - a retro-styled fanzine that pays homage to the original DOCTOR WHO WEEKLY magazine of the late 1970s and beyond.

And it looks good too - inside & out. Here's the publisher details:

It's a non-profit-making, full-colour glossy 80-page perfect-bound fanzine that celebrates Doctor Who in comic strip form as well as, in our first volume, thirty years of DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE. Contributors include many media/ Who luminaries, writers, artists, scholars and broadcasters, as well as up and coming comic writers and artists.

There's a full list on our website, as well as some preview pages. We've got two covers, the first a jam session between fourteen of the finest artists in Who comic history: Baxter Sullivan (1st Doctor), Roger Langridge (2nd Doctor), Ben Willsher (3rd Doctor), Adrian Salmon (4th Doctor), Dan McDaid (5th Doctor), Sean Longcroft (6th Doctor), Lee Sulivan (7th Doctor), Martin Geraghty (8th Doctor), Mike Collins (9th Doctor), Rob Davis (10th Doctor) and Leighton Noyes (11th Doctor), with cameos from Dave Gibbons, Dicky Howett and John Ridgway. The second is a nostalgic pastiche of a DOCTOR WHO WEEKLY cover, designed for us by DWW's original editor, Dez Skinn, who has been our adviser throughout the project; the back cover's by 30 Days of Night, Fell and Wormwood artist Ben Templesmith.

We've even got transfers and a Dalek scene to apply them to, drawn by Paul Grist, just like the first few issues of the Weekly !

EXTERNAL LINK VWORP! VWORP! ordering information

   
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9 JANUARY 2010 | eyeofhorus.org.uk | NEW COMPETITIONS

eyeofhorus.org.uk's free-to-enter competitions are now online, starting with:

  • 5 copies of DOCTOR WHO - THE COMPLETE TENNANT SPECIALS (BLU-RAY)
  • 10 copies of DOCTOR WHO - PELADON TALES boxset

And then:

  • 10 copies of DOCTOR WHO - THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA
  • 10 copies of DOCTOR WHO - TIME AND THE RANI
  • 5 copies of DOCTOR WHO - THE CHASE + THE SPACE MUSEUM boxset
  • 5 copies of DOCTOR WHO - MYTHS AND LEGENDS boxset

All DVDs will be REGION 2 and will open to DOCTOR WHO fans worldwide.

READ MORE Enter the competitions

   
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8 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA

The sleeping iconic CLASSIC SERIES adventure, DOCTOR WHO - THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA will be released on 8 February 2010 and, today, BBC WORLDWIDE has published the cover.

 

   
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8 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | DOCTOR WHO COMIC

Issue 417 of DWM is published this month with the new Doctor featured on the front cover, and with "showrunner-head writer", Steven Moffat attempting (and failing) to explain his illogical (lacking common-sense too) adoption of "SERIES 1" for the 2010 drama.

READ MORE ISSUE 417 cover

And the SERIES 5 versus SERIES 1 farrago continues.

Moffat explains that:

"It's Series Thirty-One of Doctor Who, and it's Series One of Matt Smith's Doctor, Those are both real numbers. I submit that 'Series Five of Doctor Who' means absolutely nothing unless you really believe that Matt Smith is the third Doctor. Everyone knows he's the Eleventh Doctor so that means it's definitely not 'Series Five'. Whichever number you choose, 'Series Five' is the one that's flawed."

No. Simply, no. (and it's a "season" not "series" that is relative to the complete DOCTOR WHO history). All of the BBC branding for this new DOCTOR WHO series (2005 onwards) states SERIES 1 started in 2005, and all the floundering fake explanations will not make his decision anything but plain stupid. BBC Branding Managers must be scratching their heads to the avoidable confusion. See right.

I asked my six year old about SERIES 1 and he said "the shorted haired Doctor with Rose". From the mouths of the target audience there, Moffat.

To put the case for "common sense man", Matt Smith's first series of stories is SERIES 5 or, based upon the full DOCTOR WHO history, SEASON 31.

   
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7 JANUARY 2010 | SERIES 5 | 11th DOCTOR PROMO PICTURE

BBC PICTURES has released the first promotional picture featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, holding his new Sonic Screwdriver.

 

   
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5 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | SPECIALS 09/10 BOXSET

BBC WORLDWIDE has issued the final artwork for the 11.01.2010 release of DOCTOR WHO - THE COMPLETE SPECIALS boxset and the DOCTOR WHO - WINTER SPECIALS (THE END OF TIME, PARTS ONE & TWO) release.

   
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2 JANUARY 2010 | MERCHANDISE | ICE WARRIORS AND SERIES 5?

UPDATED NEWS 05.01.2010 - PLAY.COM have been forced - by whom? - to withdraw the information leaving a minor adjustment.

Whether a mistake or a mix-up, but PLAY.COM have added "sales copy" to their promotion of the CLASSIC SERIES action figures - for the Ice Warrior toy - that is "interesting". It does not quite flow but nonetheless:

Reaching up to 7 feet tall, Ice Warriors were a large imposing race of reptilian humanoids from the planet Mars whose civilization was destroyed during The Doctor and companion Amy's search for a segment from the Key to Time.

EXTERNAL LINK PLAY.COM

   
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1 JANUARY 2010 | SERIES 5 | OFFICIAL WEBSITE UPDATES - SPOILERS

The Official DOCTOR WHO online website is itself "regenerated" and is launching SERIES 5 with a stunning preview of the forthcoming adventures.

The end is just the beginning.

Spoilers? Sure. But treat yourself.

There's River Song, "Reptiles", "Vampire Brides", "Magpie Electrical Monks", the Eleventh Doctor fixing the TARDIS, Amy Pond, Weeping Angels, Dalek at war and the Eleventh Doctor taking a pot shot at something.

EXTERNAL LINK BBC official DOCTOR WHO online site

   
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1 JANUARY 2010 | SERIES 5 | OFFICIAL WEBSITE UPDATES

Tonight, at 19:54, following the final Tenth Doctor episode, the only official DOCTOR WHO website online will be updating to promote SERIES 5 with Matt Smith as the Doctor.

The update will include a range of photos and videos.

EXTERNAL LINK BBC official DOCTOR WHO online site

Happy New Year, by the way. And what a year it looks.

   
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1 JANUARY 2010 | MEDIA | DOCTOR WHO - TOP TEN VIEWED TV SHOW

BARB has released numerous lists of which UK TV programmes were the most watched between 2000 and 2009.

DOCTOR WHO made it into the "Most watched on BBC One" list at number 10 - DOCTOR WHO - VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED with 13.31 million viewers.

   
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