Doctor Who Does America

Various interviews with Moffat and other stuff from SDCC:


http://io9.com/5028464/exclusive-interview-with-doctor-whos-steven-moffat
(This one has a spoiler for the end of season/series four.)


http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=58032


http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=47147


about Barrowman and a possible future movie role:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=7531

The BritTrak is Dragoncon's British media track. Mostly, the track focuses on TV and movies, often of a science fictional nature, but also examines the written word, dealing with characters such as Sherlock Holmes and authors like H. G. Wells.

Dragoncon takes place in Atlanta, GA, USA, from August 29th to September 1, 2008.
http://dragoncon.org/

Find information on the guests and the schedule under the cut:

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NOTE: I'm not on staff, just doing some PR. :)

For all you new people, we meet the third Saturday of every month starting at 4:30 and going 'til 11:00 or 12:00 midnight. Not everyone stays that late, of course, but there's always a group of us still hanging around. We bring food and drinks to share with everyone (IF you're able to...if not, please show up anyway, we'd rather have join us empty handed than not at all!) and we catch up on Doctor Who news, watch some awesome tellie, and hang out with each other. Very informal. :)

This time we have Turn Left and the 2-part finale, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, to watch, plus the next serving in our Sylvester McCoy buffet, Battlefield. I think later on we're going to continue with the next episode or two of Quatermass, which is one of the shows that was a big influence on Doctor Who in its earlier years.

You can get directions to our meeting here: http://www.atlantagallifreyans.org/events.htm

Meetings are held at the Doraville Civic Center, very near the intersection of Buford Highway and I-285.

I think that most of the Doctor Who-related guests for the Boston Jumpcon, like Mary Tamm and John Levene, had already cancelled or been cancelled by the con, but getting the word out is important.

That's three Jumpcons cons in a row, cancelled. I can't imagine that any of the others will be a "go". Folks in Boston can go to Readercon this weekend, but it's a totally literary con, with no media guests. Can't say that I wasn't expecting this. Blast! Between this debacle and FedCon in Dallas, fans, especially those new to organized fandom, could be doubtful about other cons, and it could hurt long-established cons. :(

Total article about the cancellation is under the cut.

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http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci08_prog_thu.php

12:00-1:00 Doctor Who—Writer Russell T Davies (Doctor Who), executive producer Julie Gardner (Torchwood), and writer Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) discuss their creative process and experience working on the BBC's Doctor Who—Britain's most successful sci-fi franchise—with exclusive clips and a Q&A session. Ballroom 20

1:00-2:00 Torchwood—Writer Russell T Davies (Doctor Who), executive producer Julie Gardner (Torchwood), writer Steven Moffat (Doctor Who), and actors John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd, Naoko Mori and Burn Gorman discuss their creative process and experience on working on BBC America's highest-rated show ever—Torchwood— followed by a Q&A session. Ballroom 20

Note that these are both on Thursday, one right after the other. According to their FAST FAQs, "Rooms are not cleared between events."
http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_fastfacts_2008.php

http://www.marytamm.com/page2.htm

(This is from Mary's website. I haven't found out yet which other British guests she is talking about.)

2008 Doctor Who conventions in THE STATES

NEWSFLASH RE JUMPCON
Due to circumctances beyond my control, I will not , along with several other British guests, be appearing at the Boston convention, as the organisers have lost their backing.There are postings on the net about this. I will keep you informed of the future events I was booked for this year as soon as I have info.
Mary

Then there's this from John Levene's site:

http://john-levene.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=1

"Currently Jumpcon is doing a bit of reorganizing. Once John's schedule is updated, we will post his appearances. Until then, please visit the JUMPCON site."

Hey-- hope you're enjoying the 4th of July weekend! The weather's beautiful here in Chicago-- warm (but not hot), sunny, low humidity-- can't ask for more!

You all, however, have certainly asked for more-- more guests for this year's Chicago TARDIS! We're happy to oblige.

We're pleased to welcome back our dear friend DR. ARNOLD T. BLUMBERG. Co-author of "Howe's Transcendental Toybox" and designer of the poll-topping "The Target Book" (amongst many things), Arnold will add to the quality of discussions throughout the weekend.


Joining us for the first time will be the popular team of KATE ORMAN and JONATHAN BLUM. Kate wrote several Virgin and BBC DOCTOR WHO novels, including "The Left-Handed Hummingbird" and "The Year of Intelligent Tigers." Jonathan co-wrote "Vampire Science," "The Seeing I," and "Unnatural History" with Kate, and scripted the first Big Finish Seventh Doctor audio, "The Fearmonger."

Finally, we have a number of Big Finish-related guests to announce. Joining Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs this year will be...

DAVID RICHARDSON-- Big Finish Line Producer
SIMON GUERRIER-- writer
CIARA JANSON and LAURA DODDINGTON-- new companions Amy and Zara to the Fifth Doctor, in the just-announced Key 2 Time Miniseries: http://www.bigfinish.com/news/The-Key-2-Time-Mini-series-January-2009

Also making her first appearance at Chicago TARDIS-- someone many of you have wanted to see for years! We're thrilled that

LISA BOWERMAN

will be coming to Chicago TARDIS this year. Lisa portrays popular companion Benny Summerfield in the Big Finish audio line of the same name. (With Benny's creator Paul Cornell already in attendance, you can bet we'll have at least one Benny-only panel!)

As you can see, we're going to have a hugely entertaining event this year-- so make plans now to attend if you haven't already! All the relevant membership and hotel information can be found on the con website, www.chicagotardis.com.


p.s. as always, all guest appearances are subject to professional commitments.

p.p.s. You might want to make flight reservations now, if you can manage it-- the air fares will only go up as the convention approaches. Also, American and United are cutting back severely at O'Hare in the fall, so you will want to make sure you can actually get a flight into Chicago for the convention!

(This is from the UK newspaper, the Daily Telegraph. There's pictures at the site, evidentially. And there's nothing for C. Baker or Pat Troughton, which doesn't seem fair. The emphasis is on T. Baker, not surprisingly.)

SPOILERS in the article if you haven't see these shows/series/episodes. You have been warned. Here be dragons.


The 10 greatest episodes of Doctor Who ever at

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/exclusions/doctor-who/top-10-doctor-who-episodes.xml

July Desktop Calendar

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Previews & Links @ my journal here

Big Finish is releasing an audio sequel to the Doctor Who season 16 Key to Time stories with the Key 2 Time (sic) mini-series. It will be in three parts and will be released between January and March 2009.

This stars the Fifth Doctor (as voiced by Peter Davison) on a new hunt for the six segments of the Key, but supposedly his task won't be as easy as it was the first time around.

He is joined by a new companion, Amy, one of two sentient humanoid `Tracers', created to find the six segments of the Key. She is played by Ciara Janson and the role of her twin sister Zara is played by Laura Doddington.

http://www.bigfinish.com/news/The-Key-2-Time-Mini-series-January-2009

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16967

http://www.comicbookresources.com/images/previews/idw/doctorwho/DW104-05.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/6jcsut

Earlier this year, thanks to IDW Publishing, the Doctor returned to
American comics in the "Doctor Who" miniseries and this August will
begin his second miniseries, "Doctor Who: The Forgotten," by Tony Lee
and Pia Guerra ("Y: The Last Man").

More under the cut.

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I just wanted to remind everyone in the metro (and beyond) Atlanta area that the next meeting of the Atlanta Gallifreyans (Atlanta's own Doctor Who club) is tomorrow, Saturday June the 21st, starting at 4:30 PM at the Doraville Civic Center. (The civic center is within walking distance of the Doraville Marta station, and is a block or so away from the Buford Hiway and I-285 intersection. Directions at the AG site, below.)

Please bring one of the following: food or drink or plate and napkins and plastic cutlery with which to share with all, if you can. :)

We will be watching the last part of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (time constraints kept us from watching all the way to to the end last month, alas). We're in the middle of watching a Seventh Doctor episode per meeting. Next up is Battlefield. We should be finished with McCoy by October at the latest, which means that we will be returning to the Third Doctor with The Three Doctors, just in time for the show's anniversary month in November! :)

The Tenth Doctor episodes that we should be watching include Silence in the Library, Forest of the Dead, and Midnight. If we are lucky, we will also be watching Turn Left! We are skipping The Wasp and the Unicorn for now, since it was just shown on the Sci-Fi Channel, so most everyone has had a chance to see it hopefully.

The site for the club is here:
http://www.atlantagallifreyans.org/
Directions are on the site.
Any further questions about the meeting, please ask here. :)

TimeGate is the Doctor Who and Stargate con for Atlanta, GA, USA.

For those of you who have attended previous TimeGates, you know that we put on a great little con. :) No over-crowding, and with plenty of time to stop and chat with our guests, local and international, and all the other interesting attendees. We had such a grand time with this last one that we will be doing it again. *beams*

Please check the updated site, with a new look, here:

http://www.timegatecon.org

The major guests haven't been announced as yet, but we do have some guests already. And for those of you who have been at some of the earlier one-day TimeGates, Barry Clark and his amazing life-sized Dalek will be returning next year! :) Barry and the Dalek have been also at the last few Dragoncons; last year, he was hanging out with the R2 builders at the bottom of the first set of escalators in the Marriott.

At any rate, please bookmark the site, if you haven't already, and keep checking back for news of our major guests, our TG store, membership prices, con-suite goodies, panels, dealer and fan tables, and more. :)

TimeGate happens over Memorial Day weekend.

Feel like rewatching the entire new series of Dr. Who, start to finish, with some great Who fans and discussion? Then join whodux ! Our rewatch is slated to begin June 26th and we'd love to have a ton of fans to kick off Episode one!

Join, Look at the questions/rules page, or just check us out!

This is cross-posted at doctorwho, drwho_america, new_who, and timenchips_ot. Please forgive spamming.

Inside you will find: THE MOST EPICAL TEN/ROSE PROJECT EVER ATTEMPTED. LULZ, it's a very special, most amazing, PICSPAM-FANMIX to the epic extent, in preperation for the last three episodes of S4. Enjoy! There are obvs. spoilers.

Recognize the subject line quote? If so, you might already have an idea of whom I'm about to announce! Chicago TARDIS is indeed thrilled to add

ELISABETH SLADEN

to our growing list of guests at this year's convention. Ms. Sladen, of course, is beloved by Doctor Who fans worldwide for her portrayal of Sarah Jane Smith, companion to the Third and Fourth Doctors, who has crossed over into New Series continuity with her appearance in the Tenth Doctor story "School Reunion" and her CBBC spin-off series "The Sarah Jane Adventures." She hasn't been at a Chicago convention since 1993, so we're doubly excited she will be joining us this year.

Unfortunately, due to the costs involved in bringing Ms. Sladen to our convention, Chicago TARDIS will be charging for her autograph and photograph sessions. The photograph session will cost $20 if you bring your own camera, or $25 if you want us to take the photo. (You'll get an 8 x 10 of the photo.) The autograph session will cost $20 if you bring your own item to get signed, or $25 if you decide to purchase one of the photos available at the session. (All-Access Members get into the sessions for free-- another membership level perk.)


More convention info-- including membership and hotel info-- can be found on the con website, www.chicagotardis.com.

(Reposting here since the link was not well-received by the moderation at doctorwho. Hope it will be better appreciated here.)

Cross off RTD's favorite lazy ideas as they appear in each episode!

 ...It's massive for me. I know, I just posted yesterday. Well, more accurately, last night at about midnight. I'm bored, it's too hot outside to go golfing at the moment, so you all suffer from my sudden spark of creativity.

[3] Ten/Rose
[6] David Tennant/Freema Agyeman
[4] David Tennant/Billie Piper
[4] David Tennant
[1] Freema Agyeman
[2] Billie Piper
[5] Torchwood
[1] Eve Myles

OVER HERE~ 

I'm pleased to make the first of what we hope will be *two* rounds of guest announcements this week.

Coming back to Chicago TARDIS to help celebrate 45 years of DOCTOR WHO are the following gentlemen:


GARY RUSSELL
Since Gary was last with us, he has directed the animated DW adventure "The Infinite Quest," as well as served as script editor for TORCHWOOD. We look forward to chatting with him again!

NICHOLAS BRIGGS
Dalek and Cyberman voice artist, as well as writer and producer for Big Finish, Nicholas joins us for the second year in a row.

JASON HAIGH-ELLERY
The main force behind Big Finish Productions, Jason will be back for his 9th year, complete with all the latest news on the DW audio drama front.

Gary, Nicholas, and Jason join COLIN BAKER and PAUL CORNELL at our convention, November 28-30, 2008 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL, USA. More information on the event, including registration information, can be found on the convention website at www.chicagotardis.com.

If you attended TimeGate VI, the Doctor Who and Stargate convention in Atlanta, GA, USA, over the Memorial Day weekend, we would love to see reviews! If you have a review up already, please link to it in a reply to this post. Or if you have been meaning to post a review, just let us know. :)

We are also looking for photos from the con, so again, please do let us know a link as to where to find them. :)

We hope to announce guests for next year's TimeGate as soon as possible.