Thursday Press Clips

According to "This Week in Doctor Who", Norwegian Public Broadcaster NRK is confirming in email responses that they have bought the rights to air the new Doctor Who series. It will probably air on NRK2 starting in September. Meanwhile, Singapore Airlines will be broadcasting the first episode, "Rose" throughout August on their 747 planes (on channel 28 of their TV video-on-demand service).

Tom Baker's appearance as Anatole Blaylock in Remington Steele ("Hounded Steele") will be released in the U.S. as part of the Region 1 release of Season 2 on November 8th, according to the TV Shows on DVD website.

The Cinemas Online site has several stills of Billie Piper's appearance in the forthcoming film "Spirit Trap". There's also more coverage of Billie's refusal to attend the film's premiere, which we reported a few days ago, at IC South London,Ananova, Sky News.

In today's BBC News article "Why the future could be British": "Science-fiction and fantasy are hard to escape at the moment and it's the British writers winning the plaudits. Why? The films are tops at the box office, the books dominate the best-seller lists and on the TV the revived Doctor Who has pleased old fans and won a generation of new ones. Science fiction is booming and the British writers are leading the pack. For the first time in its 63-year history, all the writers nominated for the prestigious Hugo award for the best novel are British."

Stuff.co.nz has a profile of Mary MacLachlan, WETA Workshop model maker and fan of the series (which mentions the traveling Inside the TARDIS tour).

(Thanks to Paul Engelberg, Steve Tribe, Ian Golden, Benjamin Elliott, Vaughan Bilcock, Richard Kirkpatrick)