The Idiot's Lantern

The Idiot's Lantern

Friday, July 13, 2007

what's on tv, the radio-and some pretty cool links!

Series 3/Season 29 in the U.S.A.
Fridays, 9:00pm (EDT) on the SciFi Channel

Current episode:
2. The Shakespeare Code

Previous episodes:
1. Smith and Jones
The Runaway Bride

Series 3/Season 29 in the U.K.
Current episode:
The third series has ended it's run on BBC One-but will return for the 2007 Christmas Special, Voyage of the Damned, in December.

Previous epiosdes:
13. The Last of the Timelords
12. The Sound of Drums
11. Utopia
10. Blink
9. The Family of Blood, part 2
8. Human Nature, part 1
7. 42
6. The Lazarus Experiment
5. Evolution of the Daleks, part 2
4. Daleks in Manhattan, part 1
3. Gridlock
2. The Shakespeare Code
1. Smith and Jones

Doctor Who on the radio:
Moths Ate My Dr Who Scarf
from BBC 7:
This BBC 7 new commission by Toby Hadoke is a fantastic autobiographical piece, with universal appeal. It's told along the timeline of Doctor Who history, using smart comedic observations and excerpts from his teenage diaries. These include how he coped with being bullied, why he never got the girl, and later how being such a fan helped to actually get the girl, and end up with two children that are now the envy of every kid in the playground, all thanks to a geeky obsession. This is a two-part non audience version of Toby's successful 2006 Edinburgh show.
Friday at 5.30pm and 6am
Be sure to check it out in their Listen again section. The program will be available for one week after it airs.

Check out the weekly Doctor Who quizzes at Scifi.com!!
I took the first quiz, and got a perfect score. My rank is TimeLord. LOL.
A new quiz every week after each new episode!!!

Doctor Who at the SyFy Genre Awards Although this particular article focuses on Battlestar Galactica's nominations, I think it's worth the mention that Doctor Who is quite well represented too!! (see the end of the article for the complete list of nominations).

Also from the SyFy Portal: I was watching their little news alert ticker and this interesting tidbit caught my eye: the third series (season 29) episode, Gridlock is the 727th television episode of the Who Universe-this is one up from the Star Trek Universe, at 726. Woo!

from Outpost Gallifrey
Peter Tuddenham, has died at the age of 88 after a brief illness.
Peter's vocal talents could be heard in the Classic Who stories, the Ark in Space, the Masque of Mandragora and Time and the Rani.

Also included in this particular link-more information about the Jetix K-9 Adventures series and first glimpses of the Christmas special, Voyage of the Damned (so you may not want to scroll down too far, just in case their are spoilers. ;) )

Speaking of spoilers, I feel this last batch of links from the BBC could be considered major spoilers for the casting of the 2007 Christmas Special, series 4, and series 2 of Torchwood-you've been warned!!! ;)

Christmas 2007
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/07/11/47099.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/07/03/46771.shtml
Series 4(season 30!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/07/04/46831.shtml
Torchwood
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/07/02/46692.shtml

TAFN, happy Who watching!!!

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