TV Times

Tuesday, 1 April 2008 - Reported by Marcus
This week's TV Times features an article on the return of Doctor Who. The magazine is running a competition to win a bronze Dalek, to tie in with the start of Series Four. The Dalek is worth 2500 pounds and is currently being custom made by This Planet Earth. The competition is open from 1st April and is runs until 2nd May.

You can either enter by post through TV Times magazine or online at the magazine's website, Whatsontv.co.uk.




FILTER: - Magazines

Radio Times

Tuesday, 1 April 2008 - Reported by Marcus
The website of the BBC's listings magazine, the Radio Times, has revealed that the magazine has once again givenDoctor Who the honour of gracing the magazine's cover for the start of the new series. This time there will be four different versions of the cover available. The new issue, which also extensively previews the series inside, will be available across the UK from tuesday.

Tha magazine reveals the almost complete list of Episode titles for Series 4. Episode 12's title is being kept secret for the time being.

Series Four Episode Titles
  • 1. Partners in Crime
  • 2. The Fires of Pompell
  • 3. Planet of the Ood
  • 4. The Sontaran Stratagem
  • 5. The Poison Sky
  • 6. The Doctor's Daughter
  • 7. The Unicorn & The Wasp
  • 8. Silence in the Library
  • 9. River's Run
  • 10. Midnight
  • 11. Turn Left
  • 12. TBA
  • 13. Journey's End




FILTER: - Magazines - Series 4/30 - Radio Times

Doctor Who Adventures Issue 58

Tuesday, 1 April 2008 - Reported by Marcus
This week's Doctor Who Adventures celebrates the return of Doctor Who to UK Television. The magazine is out across the United Kingdom on Thursday 3 April.
Press Release

Who is back!

Doctor Who returns to BBC One on this Saturday at 6.20pm, so make sure you don’t miss this week’s issue of Doctor Who Adventures for a sneaky look at the first episode!

Inside you’ll find new pictures of the Doctor and Donna in action in the exciting first story of series four, Partners in Crime.

You’ll also find a special Time Agent tracker for you to rate the episode’s scares and shocks.
The issue comes with a free TARDIS trainer bag – which is perfect for carrying space boots or copies of your favourite magazine…

PLUS:
Posters: Dalek Sec Hybrid, Partners in Crime, Voyage of the Damned, Mr and Mrs Master.
Tales from the TARDIS: The Doctor and Martha run into trouble when they bump into an escaped alien.
Puzzle: A deadly Dalek crossword.
Activity: Who am I? game with cool cards to cut out and play with!
Facts: What is the longest-ever story or the most-battled monster? Find out all this and much more in our Who Book of Records.
Who’s where: Trouble for Donna and Jackie Tyler in this week’s search.
Doctor's Data: Find out about the Second Doctor.
Comic strip: Trouble for the Doctor on a planet called Death’s Door in part one of a new three-part comic strip adventure.
Time Teasers: Lots of puzzles to solve!
Who knows! Answers to readers’ questions about the Fall of Arcadia and the Master.
Win: Answer the questions to win goodies.
Subscription offer: Subscribe today and you’ll get a free Cyberman watch!
AND LOADS MORE!




FILTER: - Magazines - DWA

Doctor Who Magazine 394

Friday, 28 March 2008 - Reported by Marcus

There are two issues of Doctor Who Magazine published in April.

Issue 394 is out on the 3rd April 2008. It previews the first set of episodes of the new series including the previously unnamed Episode Five, The Poison Sky. Episode Nine's title is also revealed as River's Run.

A week later the Tenth Doctor Collected Comics is released featuring full-colour comic strip stories written by Rob Davis, Dan McDaid and Jonathan Morris.
Press Release

CRIMINAL INTENTIONS IN DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 394

Actress Sarah Lancashire speaks exclusively about playing the villain in Partners in Crime, the mysterious Miss Foster, in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine. "Miss Foster is, essentially, a nanny, a guardian, to some rather unusual children," explains Sarah. "I see her as a slightly warped Mary Poppins. She’s quite austere. She’s a strong woman. When I first read the script, I thought, oh, well, of course she’s a baddie… but the more I read it, I thought, no, she’s doing what she’s doing for legitimate reasons." Seriously? "Yes! You can’t blame her at all. Hers is perfectly reasonable behaviour"

Also this issue:
  • Doctor Who’s executive producers Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson answer the most probing of questions as DWM’s readers become the interviewers.
  • Previews of the first five episodes of Series Four, Partners in Crime, The Fires of Pompeii, Planet of the Ood and The Sontraran Stratagem/The Poison Sky, featuring new and previously unpublished photos!
  • DWM interviews award-winning writer Steven Moffat who breaks his silence about his forthcoming two-parter, Silence in the Library/River’s Run.
  • Russell T Davies reveals more of Series Four’s secrets in Production Notes.
  • The Fact of Fiction visits a devastated Earth and uncovers the horrific truth behind The Sontaran Experiment.
  • Actress Jacqueline King talks exclusively about her role as Donna’s mum in the new season.
  • The Doctor experiences a holiday with a deadly difference in a brand new comic strip, Hotel Historia.
  • Neil Harris recalls the great days of video tape in You Are Not Alone.
  • Double trouble for the The Time Team as they watch the adventures of The Two Doctors.
  • PLUS all the latest news, exclusive photos, reviews, previews, competitions and even more!


AMAZING DOCTOR WHO ADVENTURES IN THE TENTH DOCTOR COLLECTED COMICS!

Collected together for the first time, these new adventures in time and space take the TARDIS into unexplored realms of adventure and excitement!

The Doctor and Martha attempt to save the doomed planet of Loam from destruction at the hands of gigantic monsters, then split up for a crazy adventure spanning Mars and an ordinary London bus! Then it’s off to meet legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton in the icy wastes of the Antarctic, before visiting an abandoned space base where a deadly plot is afoot.

Packed with 100 pages of thrills, scares and laughs, this Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition collects together four full-colour comic strip stories: THE WOMAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD, BUS STOP, THE FIRST and DEATH TO THE DOCTOR!

Featuring the writing talents of Rob Davis, Dan McDaid and Jonathan Morris, plus stunning artwork from Mike Collins (2000 AD), John Ross (Doctor Who Adventures), Martin Geraghty and Roger Langridge (The Fin Fang Four)!




FILTER: - Magazines - DWM

Doctor Who Adventures: 57

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who Adventures issue 57, is out on now across the United Kingdom.
Press Release

This week in Doctor Who Adventures…

Get ready for the exciting new series of Doctor Who with a special preview of what's coming up. How will Donna meet the Doctor? Who is Wilf? What are the Pyrovile? And what connects Agatha Christie to scary giant wasps? Check out what we know so far.

We also celebrate the return of the frondly Ood by giving away a free jumbo inflatable of these particularly yucky looking aliens!

PLUS:
Posters: Jake and a Cyberman, creepy Carrionites, the Titanic and Martha and Jack.
Tales from the TARDIS: Martha rescues the Doctor.
The Ultimate Guide to Doctor Who – Utopia to Voyage of the Damned.
Quiz: Donna's back! Take our quiz to find out what you know about her already.
How to draw: a horrible Heavenly Host.
Secrets: discover how the Krillitane were gunged.
Make it! An amazing moving Dalek illusion.
Doctor's Data: facts about the Brethren from Tooth and Claw.
Comic strip: part two of Every Dog has its Day – what has happened to a young boy's dog?
Time Teasers: more mind-bending puzzles.
Who knows! Your questions answered.
Win: goodies up for grabs.
Subscription offer: subscribe and get a free Cyberman watch!
AND LOADS MORE!




FILTER: - Magazines - DWA

Doctor Who Adventures Issue 56

Wednesday, 19 March 2008 - Reported by Marcus
This week's Doctor Who Adventures takes a look at the most exciting machine in the universe, the Doctor's TARDIS. You can find out how the design team created the look for the time machine, and take a peek at the amazing controls.

The issue comes with eight free gifts. There's a special folder, Time Agent badge, Dalek and TARDIS magnets, pen, holographic stickers and psychic paper. There are posters of the TARDIS inside and out, the Doctor in 42, and Dalek.

In "Tales from the TARDIS", the Abzorbaloff reveals his ugly face and "The Ultimate Guide to Doctor Who" reviews The Lazarus Experiment to Blink. The quiz asks how much do you know about the Cybermen and explores why we love K-9.

There are details on how to be a scary Clockwork Robot and "Doctor’s Data" looks at the First Doctor. The Comic strip is part one of a new adventure for the Doctor "Every Dog has its Day."

Doctor Who Adventures is out across the UK on Thursday 20 March.




FILTER: - Magazines

Doctor Who Adventures 55

Thursday, 13 March 2008 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who Adventures issue 55 is out on Thursday 13 March across the United Kingdom.
Press Release

Beware the Host!

This week’s Doctor Who Adventures looks at the (almost) silent stars of Voyage of the Damned, the Heavenly Host. Read all the essential information on these horrible androids and find out what happened to them aboard the Titanic.

Our special photo story this issue is about Time Crash, where the Fifth Doctor ends up in the Tenth Doctor’s TARDIS. The issue comes with an essential piece of kit for all Time Agents – a special Doctor Who log book with a pen and some cool stickers.

PLUS:
Posters: we’ve got Judoon, the Fifth Doctor and Host!
The Ultimate Guide to Doctor Who – The Runaway Bride to Evolution of the Daleks.
Quiz: this week we have some questions about the Doctor.
Doctor’s Data: who is Donna Noble?
Comic strip: Part two of a comic strip – Reign of the Stone Monkey.
Make: a child of the Slitheen mask – yuck!
Time Teasers: help Bloodtide and Doomfinger with this week’s word search and brain teasers.
Who knows! Your questions answered.
Secrets: discover who the Catkind of New Earth were created.
Win: loads of Doctor Who goodies!
Subscription offer: subscribe and get a free Cyberman watch!
AND LOADS MORE!




FILTER: - Magazines - DWA

SFX Issue 168

Tuesday, 11 March 2008 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who Executive producer Russell T Davies has spoken exclusively to SFX about the future of Doctor Who.

The show returns this Spring for a fourth series, and will encore as four specials in 2009 before returning for a fifth full series in 2010. While there has been no official comment on the future of Doctor Who beyond that, Davies reveals that the establishment of this transmission pattern will help to ensure the show's longevity.

"Doctor Who is now one of the BBC's biggest flagship shows," he tells the magazine. "And this sort of pattern will guarantee it being on air for twenty years. It's no good looking at that American pattern of making seven years if you're lucky - that's just not going to work. Who wants it to die after seven years? It's much bigger than that. It needs looking after, in the sense that it needs pauses, it needs its legend revamping every so often. If you build these pauses in now and say this will always happen, that's part of the plan now - it's literally a twenty year plan, which can't be guaranteed, because different people will be in charge in years to come - but if you present them with something rock solid, that is working, and has a unique transmission pattern that shouldn't be interfered with, then it will stay."

In the interview Davies also tackles such topics as the casting of Catherine Tate, the rise of the online critic and the true story behind the return of Billie Piper. In addition, he confirms that UNIT, the fictional military organisation returning to the show in the new series, is now the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, and not the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce as it was previously known.

The full interview is in SFX 168, on sale across the UK on Wednesday 12 March.




FILTER: - People - Production - Magazines

Doctor Who Adventures Issue 54

Saturday, 8 March 2008 - Reported by Marcus
The latest issue of Doctor Who Adventures issue 54, is out now across the United Kingdom.
Press Release

Who’s the worst villain in Doctor Who?

The Doctor has encountered so many brilliant villains on his travels, and sometimes they look just like us, making them even more scary than usual. Remember scheming Margaret Slitheen and the absorbing Victor Kennedy? Innocent enough at first, they were actually terrible monsters in disguise!

In this week’s Doctor Who Adventures, we look at the top 10 list of the universe’s most wanted, essential reading in case you ever run into one of them.

The issue comes with a special Doctor Who monster notebook and pen, perfect for jotting down notes of your adventures and alien sightings!

PLUS:
Posters: The Beast from The Satan Pit, loads of villains and a creepy Cyber creator poster of John Lumic.
Tales from the TARDIS: The Master captures the Doctor.
The Ultimate Guide to Doctor Who – a look at Love & Monsters to Doomsday.
Quiz: will you get maximum points in our Max Capricorn quiz?
Why we love… villains in Doctor Who.
Comic strip: Part one of a new comic strip – Reign of the Stone Monkey.
Make: a mask of our top villain and a fantastic model of Dalek Sec!
Time Teasers: help Bloodtide and Doomfinger with this week’s word search and other brilliant puzzles.
Who knows! Your questions answered.
Win: loads of Doctor Who goodies!
Subscription offer: subscribe and get a free Cyberman watch!
AND LOADS MORE!




FILTER: - Magazines - DWA

Doctor Who Magazine 393

Tuesday, 4 March 2008 - Reported by Marcus

This month's Doctor Who Magazine comes with a complete new Doctor Who audio adventure.

Cuddlesome is a brand new adventure for the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, co-starring Roberta Taylor, Timothy West, and David Troughton. "It's about a dastardly plot to infect the world," says Peter, "because someone was nasty to someone when they were young! It's a nice idea, toys are the perfect way to get to the population. Evil!"

Also this issue, DWM counts down the 100 Greatest Doctor Who Death Scenes of All Time! Doctor Who’s current executive producer Russell T Daviesleads the comments on the programme’s most memorably morbid moments. Speaking about the battle between the Raston Warrior Robot and the Cybermen in 1983’s The Five Doctors, Russell enthuses, "Best. Massacre. Ever. Heads go flying! Arms! Guts! On Children in Need night! We should really bring those Rastons back one day, they were brilliant" Terrance Dicks agrees, as the writer of the story, "there’ll be a few quid in it for me!"

Meanwhile, writer Steven Moffat is full of praise for Pete Tyler’s death in 2005’s Father’s Day "just chilling, and tragic and unforgettable" while fellow scribe Paul Cornell raves over Harrison Chase’s grisly demise in 1976’s The Seeds of Doom – "Just gorgeous. Apt and relishable. One of the absolute best Doctor Who deaths."

Also in DWM 393: "30 Reasons to be excited about Series 30" – with new photos from the new series! Martha Jones, alias Freema Agyeman answers questions from the dreaded TARDIS tin" and script-writer Gareth Roberts reveals how the Doctor and Donna are set to meet Agatha Christie, as he discusses his forthcoming adventure, The Unicorn and the Wasp.

The Fact of Fiction uncovers the truth behind 1066 and all that as it examines The Time Meddler while Novice Hame actress Anna Hope speaks about her new Doctor Who audio role. Nightmarish creatures fill the final chilling chapter of full colour comic strip Universal Monsters and Russell T Davies extols the new-found virtues of an oft-neglected Tom Baker tale.

Neil Harris bemoans the ‘worst story ever’ in You Are Not Alone and The Time Team find that it’s grim up north as they watch The Mark of the Rani.

DWM 393 is out in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2008.




FILTER: - Magazines - DWM