http://www.gallifreyone.comThe latest Doctor Who news from Outpost Gallifrey.en-gb http://www.gallifreyone.com/links/og.gifhttp://www.gallifreyone.com11070 http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuyykZVZFOMMngsiV&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThis Week In Doctor Who July 3/4, 2009 - Vol 12, No 27 The weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts worldwide since 1998. by Benjamin F. Elliott http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho/rss http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/vortex?q=twidw Upcoming Premiere Broadcasts: Sunday 5 July: BBC Entertainment Poland 7PM and 11:30PM - The Lazarus Experiment Tuesday 7 July: Ztele Canada 9PM EDT - Journey's End, pt 2 (French version) Wednesday http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuyupZZkVyuOMivev&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThe new issue of Radio Times features a special fold out cover of Torchwood promoting Children of Earth which starts next Monday. Inside is an interview with John Barrowman in which he criticises the BBC for cutting the series to five episodes following its move to BBC1. Barrowman said "We were the most successful show on BBC3, ever. We moved to BBC2 because the ratings were so good, the ratings were great again and we were beating shows that had been on BBC2 for a long time. The decision was http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuyFVZlVlcYefEugH&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleOutgoing showrunner Russell T Davies has given an interview to BBC Radio Four's Front Row. He talked about Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. The programme can be heard on the BBC iPlayer for the next six days. In addition Davies has given an interview to SFX in which he talks about the upcoming series of Torchwood. http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuykFpZuunNheSWtt&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleTorchwood comes to BBC Radio Four this week with a specially commissioned series of three plays occupying the long running Afternoon Play slot. Starring John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloydthe 45 minute plays will be transmitted at 2.15pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Once transmitted they can be downloaded from the BBC iPlayer for a period of 1 week. Asylum Wednesday 1 July 2009 When PC Andy arrests a teenager for shoplifting, he thinks it is going to be a routine case. Then http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuyEEFEpyoIAyuNiu&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThis Week In Doctor Who June 27, 2009 - Vol 12, No 26 The weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts worldwide since 1998. by Benjamin F. Elliott http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho/rss http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/vortex?q=twidw Note - next week's edition will go out on Friday July 3. Upcoming Premiere Broadcasts: Saturday 27 June: BBC America USA 9PM and Midnight and 3AM EDT/6PM and 9PM and Midnight PDT - The Next Doctor http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuypVEAVAaBJUYsAS&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyle http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuVlkyFAFnxKWldyi&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleA roundup of news for the broadcast of Torchwood: Children of Earth around the world. United Kingdom (BBC1, 6th-10th July) BBC Press Pack The Radio Times website has now listed Torchwood as being broadcast from Monday 6th July from 9:00pm, and will be broadcast over consecutive nights.The Guardian used Children of Earth's broadcast as the basis for an article on the role of the story-arc in science fiction.The Examiner reports on the soundtrack for Children of Earth to be released in the UK on http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuVuAFuulEgJpMNPy&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleIn a new documentary, Mark Gatiss explores the history of the Target book range for BBC Radio Four. In the days before domestic video players and multi channel Television, the only way for fans to relive Doctor Who episodes, or catch up with stories they had missed, was through the hugely popular Doctor Who novelisations, published throughout the 70's and 80's. Gatiss, a self confessed Doctor Who fan, who has written and stared in the revived series, presents On the Outside it Looked Like an O http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuVFAyuyVPyFtWEFA&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThis Week In Doctor Who June 19/20, 2009 - Vol 12, No 25 The weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts worldwide since 1998. by Benjamin F. Elliott http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/torchwood http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho/rss http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/vortex?q=twidw Upcoming Premiere Broadcasts: Sunday 21 June: BBC Entertainment Poland 7PM and 11:30PM - Daleks In Manhattan, pt 1 Tuesday 23 June: Ztele Canada 9PM ED http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuVFFEEElpxZagrXH&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThe BBC Press Office have released details for week 27, and confirms that Torchwood: Children of Earth will be broadcast during that week, 4th-10th July. The show is currently listed as "unplaced", meaning that the exact time and days have yet to be finalised. A new trailer for the show has been provided by UKTV in Australia, and can be viewed via YouTube: http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuVkyVAyAcgEKjouG&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleVarious news sources online and in print - including science fiction website io9 and British tabloid newspaper The Sun - have in recent days been running a picture from behind-the-scenes of David Tennant's forthcoming two-part finale in Doctor Who. The image, apparently a screen grab from a video, shows David Tennant along with guest star Timothy Dalton and another actor, whose presence in the story may be considered a spoiler, so his name is given in the spoiler box below. Dalton's role in the http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuVkypkpkwNWWMNWr&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleJust announced: Special guests at this year's San Diego Comic-Con include new series creator Russell T. Davies and the show's lead actor, David Tennant. They will join former executive producer Julie Gardner and director Euros Lyn on a special panel on Sunday, 26 July, 10:00 am - 11:00 am. Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood is also returning to Comic-Con, with star John Barrowman appearing on a panel also featuring Davies, Gardner and Lyn. Sharing space at that panel will be the new BBC America seri http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuVEpEkFyRQieXjhE&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThe BBC Press Office has released the official press pack for the forthcoming five-part serial Children of Earth, which forms the third series of the popular Doctor Who spin-off. The release includes information on cast and crew, as well as interviews with chief writer and executive producer Russell T Davies and cast members John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd and Kai Owen. http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuuAklyyVIUfVkxBI&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleWith our impending closure at Outpost Gallifrey and the Doctor Who Forum, we wanted to share some recent developments in the online world of fandom... Today is the grand opening of Gallifrey Base, the de facto successor to the Doctor Who Forum. While a brand new community in its own right, Gallifrey Base is created and administered by Steve Hill, who has served as DWF's senior forum administrator for the past several years, and features many of the recent staff members of our Forum here. Ever http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuulAEAlAMTednqOF&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThis Week In Doctor Who June 13, 2009 - Vol 12, No 24 The weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts worldwide since 1998. by Benjamin F. Elliott http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/torchwood http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho/rss http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/vortex?q=blog Upcoming Premiere Broadcasts: Sunday 14 June: BBC Entertainment Poland 7PM and 11:30PM - Gridlock Tuesday 16 June: Ztele Canada 9PM EDT - Midnight (French http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuuVuFEkuEQZaKbaf&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleExperience Design, the team behind the Doctor Who Up Close exhibition in Cardiff Bay, have announced plans to open a Torchwood-themed exhibition in the Bay area. The ambitious plan aims to reconstruct sets from the Torchwood Hub seen in the series, based across two levels, including an upstairs recreation of the Cardiff Bay watertower with lift to the 'hub' below! It is also hoped that costumes from the series will also be on show. Head designer of Experience Design, Martin Wilkie said: "A Tor http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuuuEkkklLovQVrxX&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThe British Fantasy Society, which has presented the British Fantasy Awards since 1971, is this year adding a category for Best Television, and Doctor Who has been nominated for the new category, which does not appear to be strictly limited to the fantasy genre. Also nominated are "Battlestar Galactica", "Dead Set", "Supernatural" and "Dexter". Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook has also been nominated for an award in the Best Non-Fiction category. A full list http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuuklyZkVYtQhEeuX&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThis Week In Doctor Who June 6, 2009 - Vol 12, No 23 The weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts worldwide since 1998. by Benjamin F. Elliott http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/torchwood http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho/rss http://www.gallifreyanembassy.org/vortex?q=blog Upcoming Premiere Broadcasts: Sunday 7 June: BBC Entertainment Poland 7PM and 11:30PM - The Shakespeare Code Tuesday 9 June: Ztele Canada 9PM EDT - Forest O http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuukuVuppdbxvUkEW&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleAfter a period on hiatus, Who Party, Canada's Doctor Who convention is returning on Saturday June 13th, 2009 in Toronto. A semi-annual event first started in 1978, Who Party is one of the longest-running Doctor Who events in the world. Who Party is taking place at the Best Western Primrose hotel at 111 Carlton Street and runs between the hours of 10am and 8pm. Guests for Who Party include: * Director James Strong (Doctor Who: "The Impossible Planet", "The Satan Pit", "Daleks in Manhattan", "Ev http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuFAlyEpZjzNyLUeq&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleOutpost Gallifrey and the Doctor Who Forum, the most popular Doctor Who fan website on the Internet, will be closing for good as of July 31, 2009. The announcement was made in the Forum and the Doctor Who News Page on June 2 by owner/operator Shaun Lyon, whose statement about the closure is below. The closure of the site has been planned for a couple of months. It should be noted that this major announcement will NOT affect the Gallifrey One conventions, preparations for the next installment http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuFAuZyFEtjOcsyPr&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThe Doctor Who Blog is reporting that Canada's Space channel is now the home of Doctor Who in Canada, officially ending the series' time with former co-production partner the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Space will air Planet of the Dead on Saturday July 25th. Waters of Mars and the two other specials to follow will air on Space in late 2009 and early 2010. Beginning in March 2010 Space will have the rights to show Series One to Four of the show as well as The Christmas Invasion and The http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuFlZypuFrQbBKval&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleBBC America has announced that their new BBC America HD channel will launch in July with the HD broadcast of Torchwood: Children of Earth and the latest Doctor Who special, Planet of the Dead. Torchwood: Children of Earth will air on BBC America HD and BBC America on five consecutive nights, beginning on Monday, July 20. Planet of the Dead will follow on Sunday, July 26. (As previously announced, the 2008 Christmas special, The Next Doctor, will air on BBC America on Saturday, June 27.) It i http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuFlVkpAAiGitCMYX&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThe 'fast-tracked' Planet of the Dead has debuted in Australia to excellent ratings. The Easter special averaged 1,051,000 in the five major capital cities, compared to the 738,000 viewers who watched 'The Next Doctor' in January or the 869,000 who watched the Michael Palin special 'Around the World in 20 Years' the week before at 7.30pm. 'Planet' was the ABC's top rating drama of the day and its second highest rating show after the 7pm news. Meanwhile the ABC has also started promoting Torchwoo http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuFZpkuVlIzBRKdpy&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleJune 3rd Update: Just a note to all the readers of This Week In Doctor Who re: the column's future. This Week In Doctor Who is not ending. The Yahoo Group at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho continues. The column remains on rec.arts.drwho , rec.arts.drwho moderated , and any mirrors (legitimate or otherwise) using one of the above services. I will continue running the column here through July 25 (should be the last Saturday before Shaun closes the news page and forums). If http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkuFVAAApEyQIHNbKI&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyleThe BBC has announced that Scottish actress Karen Gillan is to play the new companion, alongside Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith, in the next series of Doctor Who, due to be broadcast in the spring of next year. Twenty-one year-old Gillan previously appeared in last year's episode "The Fires of Pompeii", as the Soothsayer. BBC News reports that she studied acting at Telford College in Edinburgh, and has also appeared in The Kevin Bishop Show and the forthcoming film Outcast, starring James Nesbitt.