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Post by MS on Jul 9, 2013 19:52:19 GMT
From News In Time and Space: Big Finish has announced that they have gotten the licence to produce Survivors created by Terry Nation on audio. A number of actors from the original TV series will reprise their roles for the audio series. This of course would not be the first time that Big Finish has produced works based on creations from Terry Nation as they have continued producing stories with Daleks & Blake’s 7. www.newsintimeandspace.net/2013/07/survivors-090713104508.html |
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Post by MS on Jul 12, 2013 0:19:08 GMT
Saw Peter Capaldi and Michio Kaku in World War Z the latter appearing as himself in a cameo.
For Capaldi he plays a doctor as the WHO Research Facility. Somewhat fitting to the fact that he had been a Doctor Who guest star in The Fires of Pompeii. Even though the WHO is something completely different, it was very tempting to think of Capaldi ‘s character in World War Z of being like the Doctor just with the way his character is credited alone.
Incidentally one line of Capaldi’s character in this movie is “They are coming back.” This made me think of Torchwood: Children of Earth in which the titular children at one time said “We are coming…back” and Capaldi had been in that Torchwood story.
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Post by MS on Jul 13, 2013 6:50:10 GMT
The second and the last two episodes of the second and final season of Monroe was directed by Brian Kelly and among the regular cast members was Tracy Ann Oberman. Kelly had directed the first two episodes of Torchwood and he kind of narrowly missed directing Tracy Ann Oberman in the Torchwood series. This is because Tracy Ann Oberman had played Yvonne Hartman, the head of the doomed Torchwood One in Doctor Who: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday and did not get to appear in the Torchwood series itself which focuses on the team at Torchwood Three. So Kelly directing Tracy Ann Oberman in Monroe kind of rectifies him not directing her on Torchwood. A few days ago saw the end of Monroe directed by Brian Kelly. So while Kelly did not get to direct Tracy-Ann Oberman for the start of the Torchwood series he did however did get to direct her for the end of the unrelated Monroe. |
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Post by MS on Jul 14, 2013 4:57:49 GMT
This week on Go! saw the 2011 movie version of Red Riding Hood and it featured Julie Christie.
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Post by MS on Jul 14, 2013 7:26:49 GMT
Just finished seeing Highlander 1.14 For Evil’s Sake and it guest starred Vernon Dobtcheff.
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Post by MS on Jul 17, 2013 22:44:27 GMT
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Post by MS on Jul 17, 2013 23:24:18 GMT
Starting this week 7TWO has been showing on weekdays the Ballykissangel episodes that were produced by Chris Clough.
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Post by MS on Jul 18, 2013 23:49:11 GMT
Yesterday saw the new The Lone Ranger movie with the music composed by Hans Zimmer.
While still on the subject of composers last week saw the movies Dick & The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl both of their music composed by John Debney.
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Post by MS on Jul 19, 2013 0:05:31 GMT
Broadchurch was produced by Richard Stokes which once again has him working with Chris Chibnall as Stokes had produced Torchwood and Chibnall was its head writer for the first two seasons of Torchwood.
A familiar Torchwood face in front of the camera for Broadchurch is that of Susan Brown (Children of Earth).
Also in Broadchurch is Tracey Childs which reunites her with David Tennant as she had guest starred in one of his Doctor Who episodes The Fires of Pompeii.
Like Broadchurch co-star Arthur Darvill, she also played a Doctor Who companion. In her case it is Elizabeth Klein, both a companion and adversary to the Seventh Doctor in the Big Finish audios.
In Broadchurch she played Tennant’s boss CS Elaine Jenkinson. Imagine a companion bossing a Doctor around.
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Post by MS on Jul 19, 2013 2:15:36 GMT
Warehouse 13 has been said to be like Torchwood and a recent guest star in Warehouse 13 is Tony Head.
Head has however only appeared in the Doctor Who side of the Whoniverse but his Doctor Who guest stint in School Reunion did have brushes with Torchwood.
School Reunion was part of the Doctor Who season that had Torchwood as its theme by having a reference to it in the lead-up to the appearance of Torchwood One at season’s end, the ramifications of it having an impact on Torchwood Three in the Torchwood series.
With his Warehouse 13 guest stints Head got to be reunited with his Buffy co-star and someone who did appear in Torchwood, James Masters while Warehouse 13 itself was created by another Buffy luminary Jane Espenson who also worked on Torchwood in Miracle Day.
In addition to this. Head was also a narrator of Doctor Who Confidential. One of the Confidentials was Oods and Ends, the corresponding episode to Planet of the Ood & Planet of the Ood had featured a Warehouse 15.
So not exactly the same number but still feels prophetic to Head’s guest stints in Warehouse 13.
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Post by MS on Jul 19, 2013 23:00:39 GMT
For the two Doctors in Broadchurch, David Tennant and David Bradley, this is not the first time they worked together as both in their pre-Doctor days were in Blackpool,
In fact like Broadchurch, Tennant played a cop in Blackpool. Both Broadchurch and Blackpool were about murder in a small town with the Tennant cop characters from both shows being from out of town.
So with Broadchurch, Tennant and Bradley find themselves in a similar situation to that of the musical Blackpool only there isn’t any singing in Broadchurch.
For Broadchurch has two Doctors and two companions Arthur Darvill and Tracey Childs.
In Doctor Who, Darvill as Rory was the Doctor’s father-in-law. So in Broadchurch, Darvill is in the same town with two versions of the same son-in-law!
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Post by MS on Jul 19, 2013 23:11:22 GMT
Father Brown 1.2 The Flying Stars guest starred Julian Wadham and Alex Price.
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Post by MS on Jul 19, 2013 23:44:25 GMT
ABC1 is showing Father Brown starring Mark Williams as the clergyman title character and may be not coincidental that it is also showing simulateneously Broadchurch featuring Williams’ Doctor Who son Arthur Darvill playing a clergyman as well.
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Post by MS on Jul 20, 2013 0:19:03 GMT
Recently saw the TV movie Possessed by Evil otherwise known as Possessing Piper Rose.
Piper Rose is the name of a young girl which as it says in the title has been possessed.
By whatever name you want to call this movie, it was originally aired in 2011 and as a Doctor Who fan could not help to think whether the Piper Rose name may have been a reference to Billie Piper and her Doctor Who character Rose Tyler.
To add to this bit of Doctor Who companion name curio one of adult cast member of this TV movie was Sarah-Jane Redmond. Sarah Jane is of course the name of another Doctor Who companion but it maybe plausible that the actor may have gotten her part in the TV movie due to her talent alone and her name maybe a mere coincidence.
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Post by MS on Jul 20, 2013 23:59:47 GMT
Sydney Sunday Telegraph’s Nick Dent reviewed Pacific Rim in which he mentioned Burn Gorman as one of the nutty professors.
Dent gave it three and a half stars with the verdict of “Superior sci-fi action silliness”.
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