Forgive me if I don’t immediately join the circle-jerk to celebrate the return of the Sontarans. Before we get into that, I’d like to briefly note that Donna Noble is a far superior character to Martha Jones, even after Martha has been overhauled and assigned to work with UNIT, The Doctor’s former employer.
We were all worried about Catherine Tate dropping her comedy act into Doctor Who and Donna blasting out “I ain’t even bovvered” when she doesn’t automatically get her own sonic screwdriver. How wrong we were. When the Tate-isms get dropped in, like when Donna introduces herself with a “Donna, by the way. Donna Noble, since you didn’t ask.” it’s absolutely brilliant. Then she insists on getting a salute as well. And the gormless UNIT flunky complies.
April 26th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Doctor Who
In BBC One’s Doctor Who tonight, Martha Jones summons the Doctor back to modern-day Earth, but an old enemy lies in wait.
With the mysterious ATMOS devices spreading across the world, Donna discovers that even her own family is not safe from the alien threat – but is it too late to save them?
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem (series 4, episode 4/13), BBC One, Saturday 26 April 2008, 6.20pm
April 23rd, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Doctor Who
This Saturday Martha Jones summons the Doctor back to modern-day Earth, but an old enemy lies in wait. With the mysterious ATMOS devices spreading across the world, Donna discovers that even her own family is not safe from the alien threat - but is it too late to save them?
April 20th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Doctor Who
Next weeks Doctor Who show sees the return of another of the doctor’s former assistants, Martha Jones!
Martha summons the Doctor back to modern-day Earth, but an old enemy lies in wait. With the mysterious ATMOS devices spreading across the world, Donna discovers that even her own family is not safe from the alien threat — but is it too late to save them?
Doctor Who star Billie Piper is planning her first child with her new husband Laurence Fox.
A source told the News of the World: “Billie’s ready to become a mum now and it’s no secret that she’s been getting increasingly broody lately.”
In preparation for the pregnancy, Bille P has already given up cigarettes, alcohol and fast food. Thats more than Kerry Katona did when she was pregnant! Read more & comment »
Doctor Who writer and executive producer, Russell T Davies has spoken out against a poll in the Independent, which named him the most influential gay man in the UK.
Speaking to the Pink Paper, Davies said: “B******s, am I hell! I had nothing to do with that decision.
“I mean I hope, I think, I do good work and I’ll be very visible as a gay man because I think that’s very important, but in terms of being influential when there are people out there fighting for changes in the law, homophobia in schools. That’s influence.” Read more & comment »
April 15th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Doctor Who
This Saturday night the Doctor takes Donna far into the future, to her first alien world. But on the planet Ood-Sphere, they discover terrible truths about the Human Race. As the enslaved Ood struggle for survival, a secret buried for 200 years threatens to rise up and engulf them all.
I managed to miss the last two episodes of Torchwood as part of the BBC’s plan to screw over anyone who likes their flagship Sci-Fi shows by moving the timeslots at random. But that’s a rant for another day, because thanks to the pretty darn good BBC iPlayer, I was able to watch both episodes back to back on my laptop.
The Doctor
Then there was the first episode of Doctor Who on Saturday night. Which was just awesome. Breathtakingly so. The timing of the early scenes, where Donna and The Doctor were feet apart at all times was brilliant. And of course, that completely silent conversation the two had through the windows of the office block was hilarious.
So Doctor Who kicked off again on Saturday night, and due to the new earlier time slot, I recorded the show to watch when all the children were quietly tucked up in bed.
My husband though is a bit of a Doctor Who fanatic, so he braved the screaming kids and flying toys and tried to watch the launch of series four at 6.20 on Saturday evening.
About half way through the show I heard him yell, scream would actually be a better description. I rushed to the living room to find out who had died or what emergency had occured, only for him to rewind the TV and show me this…..
I really can’t wait! The new series of Doctor Who kicks off tonight. In case you just can’t wait that long, here is a sneak preview of the first episode.
Come back after the show and let us know what you thought!
David Tennant heads up Pompeii and climbs Mount Vesuvius in this latest Doctor Who Confidential exclusive
In this exclusive episode, Doctor Who Confidential steps out from behind-the-scenes to reach brand new heights with the Time Lord himself, David Tennant.
Scaling Mount Vesuvius in the bay of Naples, the active Doctor Who star ascends 4,200 feet to the summit of one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes.
“To be honest I’m quite excited at the prospect that it could blow at any second!” quips David, “…it’s quite life-affirming somehow!”
For this special edition of BBC Three’s top-rated show, David also takes a guided tour around the ancient archaeological site of Pompeii. Read more & comment »
BBC News got a great preview of this weeks launch episode for series four of Doctor Who.
Catherine admits that she didn’t actually realise that there were aliens in Doctor Who (???) and David Tennant comments on his ever increasing pile of fan mail!
At yesterdays launch of the new series of Doctor Who, Catherine Tate revealed to the press that her character will be the first of the doctors sidekicks who doesn’t fancy him.
She joked: “Donna knows he’s an alien. She knows he’s got two hearts and she doesn’t want to see what else he’s doubled up on.”
Tennant commented on the lack of romance saying: “It’s sort of the next thing to do. We’ve had a love story, we’ve had an unrequited love story, why not have this … Read more & comment »
