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Event Whorizon – How To Celebrate Fifty Years!

Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Over the world and across space and time; Doctor Who celebrates its 50th anniversary this month and to mark this auspicious occasion events by those behind the scenes and the adoring fans of the show have been organised to make sure the first fifty years of the show go with a bang!

So here it is, Kasterborous’ constantly-evolving round-up of what’s happening across the globe in the name of the Doctor!

And, as the great day draws closer and closer, we’ll be updating this page with all the latest news, events and screening information making sure you know all there is to know both locally and across the globe!

November

Throughout November Forbidden Planet will be hosting a chain-wide anniversary celebration where fans can pick up freebies and earn discounts on Doctor Who items.

Firstly, the store have produced eleven exclusive limited edition carrier bags – each one showcasing a specific Doctor in a fetching silhouette design. Each week from now until December 10th two designs will be available to customer purchasing Doctor Who items.

The release schedule is as follows:

1st Doctor (William Hartnell) and 2nd Doctor (Patrick Troughton): November 1st to 7th

3rd Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and 4th Doctor (Tom Baker): November 8th to November 14th.

5th Doctor (Peter Davidson) and 6th Doctor (Colin Baker): November 15th to November 21st.

7th Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and 8th Doctor (Paul McGann): November 22nd to November 28th

9th Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and 10th Doctor (David Tennant): November 29th to December 5th.

And then from December 6th onwards, we’ll have 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) bags until they run out!

Also, how about showing your love for the Doctor with these free pin badges? Just pop in-store and ask for one! Wear them loud and proud!

And finally, with Doctor Who fever set to reach an all-time high this month, with fans eagerly snapping up cool collectables and fantastic figurines, Forbidden Planet are launching a Gallifreyan Loyalty Card.

Every time you buy a Doctor Who item, they’ll stamp your card. When you get four stamps, you’re entitled to 15% discount off of any Doctor Who item in-store!  With other discounts being offered as standard, you could bag yourself some galaxy sized savings!

These special celebration promotions are available at the following Forbidden Planet International locations:

Forbidden Planet Aberdeen

Forbidden Planet Belfast

Forbidden Planet Cardiff

Forbidden Planet Dublin

Forbidden Planet Edinburgh

Forbidden Planet Glasgow

Forbidden Planet Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent)

Forbidden Planet Leeds

Forbidden Planet Leicester

Forbidden Planet Manchester

Forbidden Planet Middlesbrough

Forbidden Planet Nottingham

Forbidden Planet Sheffield

Forbidden Planet Wolverhampton

1– 3 November

Reversed Polarity – a Doctor Who 50th Anniversary convention run by the Toronto-based TCON Promotional Society – will be hosting Q&A’s with a variety of guests associated with the show’s history, as well as the opportunity for fans of the show to participate in writing workshops, a costume competition, two dances, shopping, prop displays, and many other activities.

The featured guests of the event include: Peter Davison, Dan Starkey, Director Graeme Harper, and Sound Engineer Dick Mills.

Other guests appearing at Reversed Polarity include writers Julie Czerneda, JM Frey, Graeme Burk, Robert Smith?, and Nikki Stafford.

Registration for the event is available at the door on the convention weekend November 1- 3.

6 November

Come and have your photo taken with either a Dalek or the Tardis at the Malvern Library, Australia for your chance to win the Eleven Doctors Micro Figures Set and have your picture displayed at the library.

Also from Monday 28th October to Sat 30 November the library will be showing a selection of Doctor Who episodes beginning with the very first episode

12 November – Ongoing

Leading up to August the National Media Museum had called for submission for a major new exhibition celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who fans – now on the 12th November that exhibition opens its doors to the general public until the 2nd March 2014.

16 November – Ongoing

The National Space Museum in Leicester will hold ‘Science of the Time Lords’ on 16th November between 10:00 – 17:00, where children and adults alike can take a closer look at time travel, teleportation and robots with a helping hand from some of the Doctors former companions including Sophie Aldred, Nicola Byrant and Louise Jameson.

In addition, voice of the Daleks and Cybermen Nicholas Briggs will return to the National Space Centre with the Monster Challenge, giving visitors a chance to try the Ring Modulator and create the perfect alien voice.

Tickets cost £13 for adults and £11 for children.

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Four of Manchester’s best loved venues are teaming up for a Doctor Who mini-festival this November with a host of events over two weeks to celebrate the Doctor’s anniversary.

New drama, live episodes, screenings, poetry. With more goodies than you can shake a sonic screwdriver at, it’s truly bigger on the inside!

The Lass O’Gowrie, FAB Cafe, Taurus and the Town Hall Tavern take on hosting duties which include The Art of Who – a look behind the Doctor Who Comic Strip, conversations with Andrew Cartmel and Waris Hussein, a stage adaptation of An Unearthly Child – from the team behind the fringe smash hits V for Vendetta and Halo Jones, a performance by The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre and much, much more.

Who at Fifty is Manchester’s very own Doctor Who fringe festival, running 16th – 30th November, 2013.

For more on Who At Fifty, check out our article on the event, stay in touch with Facebook and look out for the #whoatfifty on Facebook and Twitter.

Tickets are available from Wegottickets with some available on the doors (unless they sell out!)

 

The University of Central Lancashire are planning a special event on the 16th November: Doctor Who: The Science Behind The Scenes will be a day of presentations about the show and the science it uses, including topics like Science Fact or Science Fiction?, The Psychology of Doctor Who and Is Time Travel Possible?

There will also be a Q&A with Doctor Who screenwriter Stephen Gallagher, workshops, make-up, costumes and mask-making, and an area to have memorabilia assessed and valued!

Tickets for the event which takes place at the Darwin Building of the university, are £5 for full day entry.

 

Splendid Chaps – a year-long performance/podcast series celebrating the 50th anniversary, featuring comedian Ben McKenzie (Dungeon Crawl, Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour) and writer John Richards (ABC1 sitcom Outland, Boxcutters podcast) have a number of live dates throughout November in Australia.

Described by its creators as part intellectual panel discussion, part nerdy Tonight Show, Splendid Chaps is a combination of analysis, enthusiasm and irreverence.

Tickets are now available for their three live November shows: What I Learned from Doctor Who which takes place at the Toorak/South Yarra Library, 340 Toorak Road, South Yarra on Saturday, November 16 2013, 4:00 PM, The Other Splendid Chaps: The Companions  at the Melbourne City Library, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne on Tuesday, November 19 2013, 6:30 PM and Eleven/Future at ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne, on Thursday, November 21 2013; recording starts 7 PM.

Tickets are available through the Splendid Chaps website.

 

One week before the anniversary night itself American pub quiz leaders Geeks Who Drink will host Don’t Blink: A Doctor Who Quiz, a one-night-only Doctor Who trivia event in twenty major cities.

Thousands of Whovians will crowd bars and restaurants across the United States to answer questions about the show whose appeal has crossed all age, geographic, and planetary boundaries.

Quiz questions will primarily cover nu-Who with some classic Who material thrown in for good measure. Quiz teams are limited to a six player max, with a $5 admission fee for each player and total prizes in the hundreds of dollars. Admission is first come/first served. Details, times and locations are listed below:

Albuquerque: O’Neill’s Heights  9pm

Austin: Opal Divines (Penn Field)  9pm

Boston: Common Ground 6pm

Brooklyn: SuperCollider 7pm

Chicago: Municipal Bar 5:30pm

Colorado Springs: Phantom Canyon 1pm

Dallas/Fort Worth: Zio Carlo’s 7pm

Denver: Rackhouse Pub  2pm

Fort Collins, CO:  Black Bottle Brewery 9pm

Glendale, CA: Complex LA 5:30pm

Kansas City: Snow and Co. 6pm

Madison, WI: Buck and Badger TBA

Twin Cities: Cardinal Restaurant  7pm

Portland, OR:  The Tardis Room 2pm (additional seatings at 5pm and 8pm if there’s enough demand)

Rochester, NY: Lovin’ Cup 5pm

Salt Lake City: Devil’s Daughters 7pm

Sacramento: Capitol Garage 8p

San Antonio: Firehouse Pub 2pm

Seattle: Montlake Ale House  7:30pm

Tucson: Hotel Congress 7pm

18 November

The Doctor will be a guest of the palace on Monday 18th November where the Countess of Wessex – who is believed to be something of an admirer of the programme – will host a reception as the countdown to Doctor Who’s golden milestone reaches its final few days.

So far, the guests are being kept under wrap.

23 November

Here it is…the day itself. The golden anniversary and The Day of the Doctor!

The BBC have already confirmed that the anniversary special will be shown in 216 selected Cineworld, Odeon, BFI, Picturehouse and VUE cinemas in the UK and Ireland in locations including London, Birmingham, Belfast, Dublin, Liverpool, Cardiff and Edinburgh.

While internationally, German, Russian, American and Canadian fans will also be able to gather in cinemas to enjoy the simulcast release.

A full interactive map of every single cinema showing the Special is available at doctorwho.tv. 

 

BBC America have also confirmed a number of cinema screenings of the 3D special.  Participating cinemas on 23 November are listed below with tickets available for purchase from both the  Cinemark and Fandango sites.

Los Angeles: Cinemark Rave 18 + IMAX (Los Angeles, CA), Century Huntington Beach and XD (Huntington Beach, CA)

New York: AMC Loews Village 7 (New York, NY), Regal E-Walk Stadium 13 & RPX (New York, NY)

Chicago: Century 12 Evanston/CinéArts 6 and XD (Evanston, IL), Cinemark 16 + IMAX (Woodridge, IL)

Philadelphia: University Penn 6 (Philadelphia, PA), Cinemark 16 (Somerdale, NJ)

Dallas-Ft. Worth: Cinemark West Plano + XD (Plano, TX)

San Francisco-Oak-San Jose: Century San Francisco Centre 9 (San Francisco, CA)

Washington, DC (Hagerstown): Fairfax Corner 14 + Xtreme (Fairfax, VA)

Houston: Cinemark 17 + XD (The Woodlands, TX)

Atlanta: Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville, GA)

Seattle-Tacoma: Lincoln Square Cinema 16 with IMAX (Bellevue, WA)

Minneapolis: AMC Southdale 16 (Edina, MN)

 

Following a concerted campaign by fans in Denmark, cinemagoers will be able to see the anniversary special, at one of three special showings at the CinemaxX cinema chain.

The episode will be shown on the evening of 23rd November at branches in Odense, Aarhus and the capital Copenhagen.

 

Brit Movie Tours offer a Doctor Who Walking Tour, taking visitors on a ‘capital’ adventure around 15 ‘set-jetting’ locations around London, including sites featured in The Invasion, Remembrance of the Daleks and Rose.

Tours run over the 50th anniversary weekend 23-24 November and last approximately 2 ½ hours. Tickets cost £12 for adults and £10 for children.

Relive some of the Doctor’s greatest moments with over 40 guests from across the shows 50 years over the anniversary weekend when Doctor Who Celebration takes over the ExCel centre London.

The Fifth Doctor himself Peter Davison, will be attending all three days. Joining Peter on Saturday 23 November will be William Russell and Carole Ann Ford, who starred as companions Ian and Susan alongside First Doctor William Hartnell, plus the Director of An Unearthly Child, Waris Hussein.

Dick Mills of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and visual effects gurus Mike Tucker and Mat Irvine will also be on hand to facilitate some of the special features at the Celebration, which will be announced in more detail soon.

They will join current Doctor Matt Smith and former Doctors Tom Baker (who’ll be attending Saturday 23rd), Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy at the ultimate anniversary event, which will welcome over 20,000 fans of the world’s favourite Time Lord to the venue in east London.

The Doctor Who 50th Celebration’s opening hours will also be extended on Saturday evening so visitors can enjoy a free 2D simulcast screening of The Day of the Doctor together.

Saturday attendees will be emailed shortly with details about how they can reserve a seat. Visitors should note that the screening will have limited availability and tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

A full list of who’s attending the celebration on which days can be found over at doctorwho.tv.

 

The Doc Lands @ 50 – A party celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is to be held in London in November.

Organised by Jeremy and Paula Bentham together with Tony Clark, the Party will be free to attend and will take place at a venue in Docklands on Saturday 23rd November, starting around 7pm after the BBC’s Doctor Who 50th Celebration at ExCeL has ended that day.

The party is open to all people aged 18 and over, whether or not they are going to the ExCeL event.

If the broadcast of the anniversary episode and any other Doctor Who programming by the BBC coincides with when the party is taking place, it will be shown on the venue’s large-screen TV.

Food and drink will be available to buy at the party

Entry to The Doc Lands @ 50 Party is by allocated tickets only and capacity strictly limited to 1,500 places.

24 November

BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand have announced that the Anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor is to be screened in 3D in 106 cinemas across both continents.

The cinema screenings will be held on the same day as the anniversary is broadcast in those countries, and will also include specially-shot introductions that will be seen by cinema audiences around the world.

Participating Australian cinemas include:

Event Cinemas: Marion, Hornsby, Innaloo, Parramatta, George St, Cambelltown, Macquarie, Robina, Chermside, Tuggerah, Indooroopilly, Glendale, Mt Gravatt, Top Ryde, Burwood, Myer Centre, Liverpool, Brown’s Plains, Castle Hill, Townsville, Bondi, Cairn’s Central

BC&C: Maroochydore, Pacific Fair, Morayfield, Darwin Casuarina, Capalaba, Mackay North, Toowoomba GC, Ipswich, Rockhampton North, Coffs Harbour, Lismore

Greater Union: Miranda, Hurstville, Shellharbour, Morley, Arndale, Canberra Manuka

Dendy: Opera Quays, Newtown, Canberra, Brisbane

Hoyts: Blacktown, Tee Tree, Chatswood Mandarin, High Point, Warringah Mall, Northland, Penrith, Victoria Gardens, Frankston, Belconnen, Carousel

Village Cinemas: Jam Factory, Fountain Gate, Southland, Albury, Geelong, Knox, Eastlands, Sunshine

Independents: Cinema Nova (Carlton), Odeon (Orange), Palace Cinemas (Dendy Brighton), City Cinema (Griffith), Peninsula (Rosebud), Arcadia Cinemas (Ulladulla), Peninsula (Sorrento), Palace Cinemas (Nova Eastend), Peninsula (Warragul), Mitcham Cinemas (Mitcham), Paramount Cinema (Echuca), Mt Baker Wallis Cinemas (Mount Baker), Mildura Cinema (Mildura), Noarlunga Wallis Cinemas (Noarlunga), Wangaratta Cinema (Wangaratta), Piccadilly Cinemas (Piccadilly), Orpheum (Cremorne), Luna Cinemas (Leederville), Palace Cinemas (Norton Street), Luna on SX (Freemantle), Palace Cinemas (Byron Bay), Forum Cinemas (Wagga), Forum Cinemas (Tamworth), State Cinema (Hobart), CMAX (Devonport)

While participating cinemas in New Zealand include:

Event Cinemas: Queen Street Auckland, St Lukes Auckland, Albany Auckland, Manukau Auckland, Broadway Auckland, Westcity Auckland, Whangarei, Chartwell Hamilton, Queensgate Wellington, Embassy Wellington, New Plymouth, Westgate Auckland

Hoyts: Sylvia Park (Auckland), Botany Downs, Wairau Park (Auckland), Metro (Hamilton), Te Awa (Hamilton), Riccarton

Rialto: Dunedin

 

Special Events Group Limited are arranging a mass Doctor Who themed wedding which is expected to take place at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London on 24th November.

25 November

Taking place two days after the worldwide simultaneous release of the Anniversary Special selected cinemas will be screening the episode across the USA.

A full list of all participating cinemas can be found at Fathom Events site.

 

Frank Danes, author of Fifty Years in Time and Space: A Short History of Doctor Who, will be giving a talk on The History of Doctor Who at Topping and Co. bookshop, in the grand setting of the Bishop’s Palace in Ely, Cambridgeshire.

Galloping through the history of Doctor Who; expect a glorious, witty celebration including Daleks, Cybermen, Drashigs, and, of course, the Weeping Angels.

Tickets are £6/7 (redeemable against a copy of the book), available from Topping and Co.’s website or via phone on 01353 645005.

Are you holding an event that we haven’t included? Email christian@kasterborous.com with the details!

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Capaldi In Single Season Shocker?

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Reports in today’s Daily Express indicate that incoming Time Lord Peter Capaldi has signed up to a single run of 13 episodes of Doctor Who, and no more.

However, Kasterborites, we’re hopeful that this is nothing more than tabloid mischief-making.

Running under the headline “Who’s Next? New Doctor Peter Capaldi may stay just 13 episodes” the evidence presented to back up the claim is pretty thin – in fact, it’s non-existent. Stating that the Twelfth Doctor will appear in the forthcoming Christmas episode, the Express continues:

Capaldi, 55, will star in two series of six episodes each before waving goodbye to the Timelord – or signing a new deal depending on how popular he has been.

Moffat, 51, confirmed that the former The Thick Of It star will be seen in 13 episodes next year.

(Steven Moffat’s “confirmation” appears to come from the recent Broadcast interview.)

As you can see, there is nothing here that stands as a direct quote. Furthermore, it is unlikely that an actor of Peter Capaldi’s stature would commit to more than one series at a time anyway.

So, cool your boots: we’ve still got at least a year of the Twelfth Doctor, so lets enjoy it before we start the doom and gloom of casting another actor, okay?

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‘Who Are You Supposed To Be?’ Hits London in November!

Alex Skerratt is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

A light-hearted new comedy – Who Are You Supposed to Be - is set to perform at the Etcetera Theatre in London.

A new work by Australian writer Keith Gow, the play draws on real-life experiences from the world of fandom, and stars confirmed ‘geeks’ Cameron McEwan and Jennifer Lusk, (who met for the first time at a Serenity screening in Melbourne!)

As the play’s synopsis puts it:

The characters of Gene (McEwan) and Ash (Lusk) are wonderfully flawed, and their particular foibles allow the play to examine notions of masculinity, feminism, mental disorder, the perils of social media relationships and the fundamentals of human interaction. All under the playful banner of Doctor Who and Star Wars fandoms!

A meticulously-researched piece, the comedy’s lead actor – Cameron McEwan – is also the editor of the popular Doctor Who fan site, Blogtor Who! And it would seem the hard work has paid off, as the play has so far received a string of positive reviews from the likes of Cult Den and Broadway Baby, following its premier at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August.

For a chance to catch one of the Who Are You Supposed To Be? performances, check out the Etcetera Theatre’s website.  Meanwhile, Kasterborous wishes the good Blogtor all the best with it!

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Gatiss Prepares for Bad Fan Reaction to “Adventure”

Jonathan Appleton is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Mark Gatiss has revealed he’s prepared for a negative reaction to An Adventure in Space and Time when the special one-off drama on the origins of Doctor Who airs later this month.

Writing Doctor Who, you don’t give a monkey’s [about giving diehard fans what they want]. You write it for your audience, not for the people who will watch it anyway.

I don’t mean to sound contemptible at all – I’m a fan so there are a lot of things that I want to nod to or embrace – but you can’t be ruled by that. Here, this is holy writ; they’re real people.

Stressing that the film is a drama rather than a documentary, Gatiss has previously stated that key players Donald Wilson and David Whitaker will not appear and that he’s “totally prepared for howls of protest.”

Dramatising real events is always something of a minefield, with the need to simplify events and depict composite characters to satisfy the needs of plot and limited screen time.

What do you think? Are you prepared to overlook some inaccuracies in the name of a good drama? Or should facts always come first?

(Via Entertainmentwise.)

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Get Your Face In The Doctor Who Opening Titles!

James Lomond is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

TODAY is your day. Friends… Kasterborites, your moment is here. The fantasy (don’t pretend you haven’t been there) can become reality as YOUR GORGEOUS MUG can feature in the Doctor Who opening titles zooming mysteriously through space with a cosmic twinkle in your eye. All you need is a facebook account – so go and set one up if you haven’t already (chop-chop!).

The official Doctor Who Facebook page has launched a new app where you can upload your visage to feature in the current opening titles and share with friends. This forms an invite to #SAVETHEDAY and remind people what they’ll be doing come November 23rd…

 

You can see the demo video above, while more details from are available www.doctorwho.tv/. There is also a Facebook app: http://on.fb.me/DoctorWhoStarringYou

I’ve done it. See. And yes I’m single, low maintenance and can make tea. – watch it here: www.savethedaywhoiscoming.com/invite/73eff5

 

Applications on the back of a postcard addressed to:

Prof. James Lomond

Kasterborous Towers

Thatsnotme Avenue

Butimagineifitwasshire

Ingerland

WH50 23N

Quick – Invite EVERYONE you know. Commence The Great 50th Face Frenzy!

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Manchester’s Who At Fifty “Radio Times” Schedule

Nick Kitchen is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

The upcoming Who at Fifty celebration has released a Radio Times style schedule of events to accompany the previously released vintage-style cover image!

The schedule – by wizard designer Colin Brockhurst – gives a full look at the different events and shows being prepared to mark the occasion. Ranging from screenings of The Day of the Doctor (Sat. 23) and An Adventure in Space and Time (Fri. 22, pending confirmation) to a live recreation of the very first episode of Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child (Nov. 17-19), starring Phil Dennison as the Doctor, there is definitely something for every Whovian to get excited about (including sock puppets…erm…if sock puppets are your thing).

The fringe festival runs from Nov. 16-30th. Tickets are available at the door or in advance from www.wegottickets.com. Given the massive interest in all things 50th Anniversary, you may want to get your tickets ahead of time. You can check out Christian’s wonderful Who at Fifty preview here and connect with Manchester’s Who at Fifty on Facebook and by using FB/Twitter #whoatfifty.

Will you be celebrating in Manchester?

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More Doctor Who Missing Episodes? The PodKast Discusses…

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

The possibility of yet more Doctor Who missing episodes being unveiled has tickled the podKast team and so this week Christian Cawley and James McLean discuss the current rumours concerning the BFI and Marco Polo, as well as spending a few moments to reflect upon the amazing story behind Philip Morris.

Meanwhile, we also get excited about The Light at the End, Big Finish’s thrilling 50th anniversary story that pairs Doctors up in extremely interesting and entertaining ways, Mark Gatiss’ hugely anticipated An Adventure in Space and Time and we also discuss Nightmare of Eden and Genesis of the Daleks (plus more than a few minutes on Davros) for our recommendations.

Finally, listen out for mention of Back to Frank Black, a charity book that recalls the superb US TV series Millenium, starring Lance Henriksen – James was involved with the book’s development!

Click play below to start listening!

Kasterborous PodKast Series 3 Episode 39 Shownotes

Big Finish: The Light at the End
An Adventure in Space and Time
Back to Frank Black
Another Missing Doctor Who Episode Due To Be Unveiled?
Philip Morris’ Amazing Adventure
Nightmare of Eden
Genesis of the Daleks

Listen to the PodKast

There are several ways to listen. In addition to the usual player above, we’re pleased to announce that you can also stream the podKast using Stitcher, an award-winning, free mobile app available for Android and iPhone/iPad. This pretty much means that you can listen to us anywhere without downloading – pretty neat, we think you’ll agree! (Note that it can take a few hours after a new podKast is published to “catch up”.)

What’s more, you can now listen and subscribe to the podKast via our Audioboo channel! Head to http://audioboo.fm/channel/doctorwhopodkast and click play to start listening. You can also comment and record your own boos in response to our discussions!

Meanwhile you can use the player below to listen through Audioboo:

You haven’t clicked play yet?! What are you waiting for? As well as our new Stitcher and Audioboo presence you can also use one of these amazingly convenient ways to download and enjoy this week’s podKast.

Use the player in the top right of the Kasterborous home page, or visit the podKast menu link.
Listen with the “pop out” player above, which also allows you to download the podKast to your computer.
You can also take advantage of the RSS feed to subscribe to the podKast for your media player, and even find us on iTunes!

Incidentally, if you are listening on iTunes, please take the time to leave a rating and review and help us to bring in new listeners to the podKast!

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Moffat Doesn’t “Get” Doctor Who Fans’ Comic Con Trailer Woes

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

The last thing Doctor Who needed in its 50th anniversary year was division. Thanks to the reduced episode count and the infamous San Diego Comic Con exclusive trailer for The Day of the Doctor, however, division is what we’ve had.

While the rediscovery of The Enemy of the World and most of The Web of Fear has helped to placate some frustrations (along with the perpetually awesome BBC trailer for Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary) the SDCC affair – nay, debacle – has continued to bubble under the surface, along with disappointment that Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston won’t be appearing in The Day of the Doctor (not that we’d actually know at this point…)

So, surely Steven Moffat has some wise words of empathy for disappointed fans? Well, to be honest he’s largely been silent about these things, other than cryptically clueing us to keep the guesses coming until November 23d. For this, he is greatly respected; The Moff is doing his job in keeping us talking about the show.

However, a new interview in Broadcast magazine – out Friday, industry types – reveals that perhaps Steven Moffat doesn’t get it.

Comic Con has a history of screening exclusive material. I understand if people are feeling eager – but don’t you think it would have been a little bit early for everyone to see it? We were creating a buzz about it among the people who’d slept out all night for it.

This is going to get out, so let’s consider how fans dying to see the trailer are going to take these words.

Moffat considers SDCC “a little bit early,” but how many times have trailers for Christmas episodes aired at the end of a run, or coming series at the end of Christmas episodes during the RTD and early Moffat era?

The view from K Towers is that the now not-so grand Moff is making a rod for his own back in trying to justify the SDCC screening. With further analysis (and we’re Doctor Who fans – it’s what we do, right?!), it gets worse.

Take ”the people who’d slept our all night for it.” Does a Doctor Who fan, writer and showrunner really intend to say to you Kasterborite, dear Doctor Who fan, new and old, that the trailer was not for you unless you were one of an extremely select bunch of fans. An elite, if you will.

Surely not?! Surely over his youthful and adult years, Steven Moffat has experienced the same dismissal of his fandom as many other fans, has seen unpleasant cliques and groups develop and attempt to hijack the show’s fallow period as their own little kingdoms.

An elite?

What would the Doctor say? What would Davros say?

If you were a fan particularly unhappy about the SDCC trailer, expected the lack of Paul McGann and other classic Doctors in the 50th anniversary, how might you feel about a statement that seems to say “Deal with it, Whovian. It’s not your trailer - it’s someone else’s.”

Now, this isn’t our opinion. We’re extremely happy that Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary trailer was used to create a buzz; we’re delighted that a small group of people – many of which weren’t even hardcore fans (due to the location, career of many attendees and the amount of time it takes to enthuse passionately about multiple shows) – were able to see something that the rest of us weren’t.

But I’m pretty certain a lot of fans aren’t too pleased, and that these new comments by Steven Moffat are going to be taken very badly in some circles.

Doctor Who has long had a culture of the people in charge being forthcoming in their relationship with the fans, going back to the John Nathan-Turner era, and to some extent beyond. Perhaps it’s time to bring this to an end, in the name of peace and sanity of fans and showrunner alike?

(Via Broadcast | Thanks to Turquoise Tarquin)

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IN-CIN-ER-ATE! York Maze to Burn Giant Dalek for Bonfire Night!

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I’ve been re-watching a lot of Chris Eccleston recently and, from Rose’s job to the weapons factory on Villengard to Number 10 Downing Street (!), it’s striking how unconcerned the Ninth Doctor is with Blowing Stuff Up.

He may well then have sympathised with York local Guy Fawkes, everyone’s favourite arsonist, and delighted in hearing that York Maze owner Tom Pearcy will be replacing the traditional effigy with a 12ft (4m) high Dalek. Reasons Pearcy,

Throughout the year at York Maze we have been staging events to mark the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. The 6th Doctor, Colin Baker, was here in the summer to officially open the giant Dalek-shaped maze. We thought it would be fitting to end the year by giving the Daleks a good roasting.

The massive, wooden Skarosian was lifted into position on top of the giant 30ft (10m) high bonfire at York Maze, ready for York’s Bonfire Night celebrations on Tuesday 5th November. With the Dalek itself packed with pyrotechnics the evening promises to be… fantastic. You can see footage of the preparations on the York Press website.

York Maze Fireworks to Music Spectacular is on Monday 5th November 2013. The full schedule is as follows:

4.30pm - Doors open play areas and café open. There will be a range of hot food outlets. Music and fun from Minster FM. Range of fairground rides, sideshows and stalls.

6.30pm - Fire juggling and fire-breathing show

7.30pm – Lighting the giant bonfire

8.00pm - Fireworks to music spectacular

8.30pm - The after show party continues with York party band HUGE playing live.

 

The event is ticket only and tickets must be purchased in advance on-line. There will be no tickets for sale on the door. Car parking is reserved for ticket holders only. Entrance for adults is £12.95, children (3-15) £9.95, under 3 Free.

For tickets visit www.yorkmaze.co.uk - you’ll find York Maze on Elvington Lane (B1228), York, YO19 5LT, just off the A1079 Hull Road.

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Moffat: Capaldi Not A “Quirky young man”

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Steven Moffat has chatted this week about the casting of Peter Capaldi, and how he aimed to avoid another young actor as the 12th star of Doctor Who.

Put simply, they wanted a change; think of it as a reverse Peter Davison, if you will…

We couldn’t have had another quirky young man because Matt had nailed the part. Peter’s already a bit of a national treasure, an incredibly skilled, fine actor. As most people have realised, the moment you think of him in the part, you find it hard to think of anyone else.

Every time I was at a TV do and Peter was there, he’d come over to talk about Doctor Who and he was the first to congratulate Matt. I started thinking: what if that genius actor might actually say ‘yes’?

He’s right, of course. Although looking at the image above, perhaps we’re going to get a quirky old man instead…?

But what of the children, Steven? Won’t someone think of the poor, young souls who will cry when their Doctor, Matt Smith, melts away? Moffat recalls his own initial dislike of Jon Pertwee, before observing:

I sympathise with the kids who’ve grown up with Matt Smith. It’s like when you move home and your mum and dad say, ‘You’ll make new friends’.

I always resented the intruder but then after a while, I forgot there had been one before him.

Have you had trouble adjusting to a new Doctor (in the show, we mean, not at your local surgery)? Let us know below!

(Via Broadcast | Thanks to Turquoise Tarquin)

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