There are only three more weeks to wait until we get the Matt Smith Christmas Special edition of Doctor Who. We’ve already had some trailers so we kinda know what the episode will look like but the BBC have kindly gone and released some wallpapers too. In addition to Matt Smith there is Dumbledore as […]
Doctor Who Christmas preview: A Christmas Carol
The 2010 Christmas special from the Matt Smith Doctor is called “A Christmas Carol”. As part of Children in Need 2010 the BBC has aired a special preview. Worth a Geek Native peek too. What do you think? over on YouTube there’s quite a lot of negative comments… but that’s YouTube and negative comments are […]
Death of the Doctor pictures
The episode The Sarah Jane Adventures called “Death of the Doctor” is controversial. In it they seem to suggest the Doctor can regenerate as many times as he wants – rather than just 12 times which had been suggested before. Yes, also, there are canon examples of Timelords being given fresh regeneration cycles. BBC Pictures […]
Benedict Cumberbatch to play the Master? Or just messing with Doctor Who?
Is this getting silly? Pretty much everyone who watched Sherlock on the weekend enjoyed it. Benedict Cumberbatch was good. Lots of people could detect the Moffat writing style in the show. Nearly as many people thought Cumberbatch’s Holmes oozed “Doctorness” about it. In fact, the speculation that Cumberbatch would be the natural appointment as the […]
Doctor Who at the Proms 2010
This year’s BBC Proms had a Doctor Who feature. Along with first class classical music we had Cybermen, Daleks, Silurian warriors, Jadoon, Weeping Angels, Kazza and Matt Smith conducting. The following pictures are taken from Flickr. Credits to Tim Foxon, The Doctor Who Site, Fazzinchi, Steve Coats and tdrury. There are more but those photographers […]
First Pictures: Doctor Who’s new costume
We’re doing quite well with the photographs from the Christmas Special filming at Cardiff Coal Exchange. We’ve had a sneak peak of Michael Gambon heading in for filming – good to see Dumbledore on Doctor Who. Now we’ve got access to early pictures of Matt Smith, as Doctor Who, and wearing a new jacket. There […]
Does Matt Smith really want to quit as Doctor Who?
Here’s one that’ll start a debate about the credibility of British Tabloids. The Sun is reporting that Matt Smith will quit Doctor Who had the end of his next series. Why? He wants to crack Hollywood. That’s a plausible story but that’s also a story that could be argued for any any up-and-coming British actor. […]
Dumbledore to star in Doctor Who Christmas special
The BBC has confirmed that Sir Michael Gambon will have a significant role in the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special. Gambon, who is probably best known for playing Harry Potter’s Professor Albus Dumbledore, will appear alongside Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins. She seems pleased, Jenkin’s told the press; I’m over the moon to be involved in […]
Are the rumours true: Johnny Depp to play Doctor Who?
There are rumours today that Johnny Depp may play The Doctor in a Russell T Davies penned Doctor Who movie for the American market. It’s certainly due that both Russel T Davies and producer Julie Gardener left the the series to work on projects for BBC America. In fact; they’re both believed to be in […]
Matt Smith versus David Tennant – 5 million versus 8 million
Deep in some story on the BBC about men in shorts kicking balls are some handy Doctor Who viewing stats. Amid the excitement in South Africa, the final episode in the current series of Doctor Who had only moderate success. Saturday’s series finale was seen by an average of 5.1 million people – down on […]