Sea Devils DVD ExtrasBookmark and Share

Friday, 2 November 2007 - Reported by DWNP Archive

The British Board of Film Classification has passed a number of extras for the DVD release of The Sea Devils in the UK.

Included on it will be a 36min 35sec documentary entitled Hello Sailor! - Making The Sea Devils, plus a photo gallery and continuities.

The six-part story was classified on October 29. Outpost Gallifrey reported in September that the Jon Pertwee adventure would be part of a three-story box set also comprisingDoctor Who and the Silurians and Warriors of the Deep.

It was revealed in May that The Sea Devils was being prepared for release on DVD, with the news that the Restoration Team were hoping to track down naval personnel who were involved with or who witnessed the filming - in particular, a rating believed to have shot some cine footage.

A release date for the box set has not yet been announced but the BBFC classified Warriors of the Deep on November 1 - the same day it did the extras for The Sea Devils.

Extras for Doctor Who and the Silurians were classified on October 31, and the story was classified on November 1 - with episode seven listed as "Episode 7/Doctor Who - Next Week", which implies a contemporaneous trailer for The Ambassadors of Death is included at the end.




FILTER: - Classic Series - Blu-ray/DVD

Terrance Dicks RetrospectiveBookmark and Share

Friday, 2 November 2007 - Reported by DWNP Archive

The National Media Museum in Bradford is honouring former Doctor Who script editor and prolific author Terrance Dicks with a career retrospective later this month.

Dicks, whose work on the show stretches back to The Invasion in 1968 and who was script editor throughout the Jon Pertwee era, will be at the museum to discuss his time in TV and work as an author.

The Terrance Dicks: Three Decades in Television and Beyond event takes place on Saturday, November 24.

The museum says the interview will be illustrated with rare photographs from its collection plus clips from shows Dicks has been involved with, such as The AvengersMoonbase 3Space: 1999Jane EyreOliver TwistVanity Fair, and Doctor Who.

The discussion will be followed by a screening of his 1980 Doctor Who story State of Decay, from Tom Baker's final season.

Click on this link for more details.




FILTER: - People - Classic Series

Tennant's Fincham praiseBookmark and Share

Thursday, 1 November 2007 - Reported by Anthony Weight

The StageThe Guardian and The Sun all give coverage today to David Tennant's praise for former Controller of BBC One Peter Fincham and his Head of Publicity Jane Fletcher at last night's National Television Awards ceremony in London.

Fincham and Fletcher were forced to resign from their positions at the BBC last month following the so-called "Crowngate" controversy, where an audience of journalists at a BBC press launch were shown a misleading preview of a programme about the Queen. Both were publicly acknowledged by Tennant during his acceptance speech, screened live last night on ITV1.

Although Fincham arrived at BBC One after the first season of the new Doctor Who had already been a success in 2005, Tennant praised the support both he and Fletcher had given the programme over the past two years, and said that they would be greatly missed.

The Stage quotes Tennant as saying that: "Peter and Jane were fantastic supporters of our show and brilliant at their jobs. It is a real shame they have gone. They were very much a part of our team. It feels very different without them and I am sad about that."

The Guardian adds praise from Freema Agyeman, particularly for the ex-Head of Publicity Fletcher. "She always had so many other shows [to work on] but it felt like a personal relationship."




FILTER: - Production - David Tennant - Press

Peter Moffatt 1923 - 2007Bookmark and Share

Thursday, 1 November 2007 - Reported by Marcus
Former Doctor Who Director Peter Moffatt has died at the age of 84.

Moffatt had a long and distinguished career in British television working on some of the nations best known drama series including All Creatures Great and SmallJuliet Bravo and Within These Walls.

For Doctor Who he directed six stories starting with the 1980 Tom Baker story State of Decay and finishing with the 1985 story The Two Doctorswhich featured both the second and the sixth Doctors.

He was something of a specialist in multi Doctor stories having also directed the 20th anniversary story The Five Doctors which was shown as part of the BBC's 1983 Children in Need programme.

In recent years he was involved in the production of the Classic series DVD's, providing a commentary to a number of his stories. A retrospective of his work was featured as an extra on the DVD release of the 1982 story The Visitation.

Peter Moffatt died on the 21st October 2007






FILTER: - Obituary

Tennant Interviews MinogueBookmark and Share

Thursday, 1 November 2007 - Reported by DWNP Archive

David Tennant can be heard interviewing Kylie Minogue for an hour-long programme later this month on BBC Radio 2.

The BBC Press Office says X-amining Kylie is to be broadcast on Tuesday, November 27 at 10.30pm, and will feature Tennant talking to Minogue about her life and work.

Minogue plays the character Astrid in the forthcoming Christmas special Voyage Of The Damned.

The radio programme coincides with the release of her tenth studio album, X, and will feature a track-by-track sample of it as well as an exclusive song.

The press office adds that a revised version of the programme, Re-X-amining Kylie, featuring extra material about Doctor Who, will be broadcast on Radio 2 after Voyage Of The Damned.




FILTER: - People - David Tennant - Radio