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Back This Crowdfunded Doctor Who Documentary Today!

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.

Blogtor Who’s Cameron K McEwan has teamed up with two filmmakers Elisar Cabrera and Jack Ayers in order to produce what should be the definitive independent Doctor Who 50th anniversary documentary!

For the 50th anniversary of the world’s longest running science fiction show, three London-based filmmakers have got together to produce a new documentary about examining how the face of Doctor Who fandom has changed since the series returned to TV screens in 2005.

Writer and author Cameron K. McEwan (aka Doctor Who blogger @BlogtorWho) has teamed up with filmmakers Elisar Cabrera and Jack Ayers to produce a new documentary on how fandom has changed since the series came back in 2005. There have been many documentaries about Doctor Who but this unique production by Capital City Entertainment is about the fans themselves and fandom’s changing face over the years.

This is your chance to back the film, which is already in production. Interviews have already been recorded with former companions: Sophie Aldred (Ace), Louise Jameson (Leela), Caitlin Blackwood (Amelia Pond); recurring characters, Neve McIntosh (Madame Vastra), Catrin Stewart (Jenny), Dan Starkey (Strax) and Simon Fisher-Becker (Dorium Maldovar); writers James Moran (The Fires of Pompeii), Jane Espenson (Torchwood: Miracle Day) and Andrew Smith (Full Circle); former Doctor Who script editors Gary Russell and Eric Saward; comic writers Tony Lee (IDW Doctor Who), Simon Furman (Doctor Who Magazine strips and Transformers), Dan Slott (Spiderman) and Richard Starkings (Elephantmen); and many more including many Doctor Who fans who have been filmed at various conventions around the country.

Choosing to bypass traditional documentary film funding avenues, the producers intend to raise their final production and film release costs for their film on the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform, where contributors can donate to creative projects and good causes in exchange for “perks”.

Said co-director Elisar Cabrera:

We wanted to keep this film 100% independently produced and distributed as we have always said through the production process this film is ‘by fans for fans’.

You can back the project on its Indiegogo campaign page, http://igg.me/at/whoschanging. The goal is £4000, and an impressive £336 has been pledged so far with just a couple of days campaigining, but they need your backing to reach the target. As is typical of crowdfunding campaigns, various perks are available to backers, depending on how much you pledge – full details of these can be found via the link above, where they’re listed in the right-hand column.

Co-director Cameron K. McEwan says:

As well as offering the standard perk of a free DVD, we thought we’d offer other perks that help bring Doctor Who fans together in this film. So, we have one perk that offers the chance to see edited clips before the release as well as a perk that gives fans a chance to contribute to the film their own photo memories of being a fan.

For more information, contact Elisar Cabrera, Producer, elisar@capitalcityentertainment.co.uk

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Sil is Back in 2014!

Meredith Burdett 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.

Where does all the time go? It seems like yesterday that we were all preparing for the start of 2013 and now, like a flash, we’re getting closer and closer to the end of the year.

Big Finish, being the forward thinkers that they are, have already announced some of their plans for the first quarter of 2014 with a trilogy of Sixth Doctor stories that feature not only the return of Lisa Greenwood as Flip but also the return of Nabil Shaban as the villainous Sil.

The run begins with Antidote to Oblivion which is a direct sequel to Sil’s television adventures, Vengeance on Varos, Mindwarp, which formed part of The Trial of a Time Lord, and the Lost Story Mission to Magnus.

Script Editor Alan Barnes comments:

Rogue trader Sil is a villain as relevant to 2014 as he was to 1985…and he’s played, as always, by the brilliant Nabil Shaban. Set in a privatised future UK, Antidote to Oblivion is Sil up to his gills in a scheme to turn austerity into prosperity… whatever the cost!

The adventures continue with The Brood of Erys, where Flip is abducted and the Sixth Doctor finds himself on the planet Asphya looking for her. It even guest stars Nicola Sian who many of you will remember as Clara’s mother from the 2013 Doctor Who story The Rings of Akhaten. The story is written by Full Circle writer Andrew Smith.

The trilogy comes to a close with Scavenger, a story set in the near-future where an Anglo-Indian mission to rid the stratosphere of space junk goes horribly wrong when a ‘zombie satellite’ returns to life. Scavenger will guest star Anjli Mohindra, who is best known for her role as Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures alongside Elisabeth Sladen.

You can find out more about the exciting new stories by visiting Big Finish!

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Into the Dark Dimension Fan Film

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.

As stories that failed to materialise go, The Dark Dimension is a doozy.

Legends foretell of a time long ago (1993) where fan scholar Adrian Rigelsford, descended from a storm-swept mountain holding stone tablets decreeing ‘There shall be a direct to video 30th Anniversary film, Tom Baker wants to be the Doctor again, we can get the others!’ and there was much rejoicing.

The tablets spoke of an adventure; a time bending affair that sees the Fourth Doctor wrenched from his fate at the Pharos Project by a malicious creature – causing the formation of the ‘dark dimension’. Literally living on borrowed time, he must fix the breach in the timeline before he and his other incarnations are erased from existence.

However, when the stone tablets, now written into script form, were presented to  BBC Enterprises, the corporation, lacking the experience, revenue and man-power to produce a film and, indeed, unite all the Doctors together long enough to film them, doth said:

“No”

But fans, eager to see such a production, have taken what has been passed down and attempted to realise the mouth-watering potential of such a celebration.

Enter Daren Robbynson, who with a script said to be the latest version of the special yet to be released by anyone on the internet has begun work on bringing the tale to life.

Uniting a band of merry men that include fan film veteran and creator of Gallifrey Base, Steve Hill; Kurt Bergeron, who was recently in the fan audio drama Pieces of Eight; Quinton Kyle Hoover, who’ll be taking on the mantle of the Fourth Doctor; Tegan Harris as Ace; and James Braddock, yet again playing the Brigadier after his turn in the spoof fan trailer The Big Whobowshi.

The group has also produced two test trailers featuring the Fourth and Third Doctor and the results are encouraging to say the least.

You can keep up with progress on their quest to bring the story to life on the Doctor Who: Into the Dark Dimension Fan Page on Facebook.

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Adric Returns to Big Finish!

Meredith Burdett 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.

Big Finish has been producing the audio adventures of the Fifth Doctor since 1999. At first, he was joined by only Nyssa and occasionally Peri before Mark Strickson joined Davison for a few adventures.

Then Big Finish manages to get Janet Fielding to return for a one-off adventure featuring Cyber technology to finish her story as Tegan Jovanka. Being the hard-working people that they are, they managed to convince Fielding to come to the Big Finish fold on a yearly basis to reunite the classic TARDIS team of the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Turlough and Tegan, and what fun adventures they’ve been having since 2010.

But what about the original Fifth Doctor line up? Was there any space for Matthew Waterhouse as Adric to make a return? It seemed as though it was not to be until recently, all of a sudden Big Finish post one photograph on their Facebook page and now it’s official – Matthew Waterhouse is in the recording studio with Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton and they’re recording new Doctor Who stories that will be released in 2014!

Reunited fully as a team for the first time since 1982, Kasterborous is very pleased to tell you that Adric is back from the dead or at least alive during a period before he died at the hands of the Cybermen.

Details on the upcoming adventures are yet to be released but this is another very exciting update from Big Finish and very welcome news during Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary.

(Via Facebook)

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Peter Capaldi on a Shortlist of One?

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.

Following the immensely successful global simulcast reveal of the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor, showrunner/writer, Steven Moffat, spoke with the press regarding the process of casting Matt Smith’s successor.

I just think you know instantly when the Doctor is ‘in the room’ and…the Doctor was ‘in the room.’

While quick to dismiss the idea that Capaldi’s age was a deciding factor, he goes on to say that he

…cannot imagine what someone in their 20s could do with the Doctor after Matt Smith showed us how to be a 20s Doctor.

The interview is an intriguing glimpse into the mindset of those who were tasked with identifying the newest face of the beloved Time Lord.

It will be interesting to see if the transition from Smith’s “Old/Young” Doctor to Capaldi’s “Young/Old” Doctor will be as smooth as Moffat is suggesting…

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PodKasting the Twelfth Doctor Reveal!

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.

In a change to the usual routine, this week’s Kasterborous podKast (with a “K”) went live through Google Hangouts and YouTube to catch our reaction to the news of the new Doctor – Peter Capaldi.

Fortunately, hosts Christian Cawley and James McLean also recorded the proceedings, available now for you as an MP3 just as usual.

So sit back and enjoy a remarkable occasion, captured live as the moment unfolds. Listen as we question the need for such a show, admire the guests, comment on how great Johnny Ball might have been as the Doctor, and ultimate get over-excited when Peter Capaldi is announced.

Useful links for this week’s podKast:

Kasterborous Series 3 Episode 27 Shownotes

Peter Capaldi
Watch the PodKast as it happened
Kasterborous Magazine

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 Discusses Capaldi Casting [VIDEO]

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.

It seems there was only really one name on the list for the Twelfth Doctor – Malcolm Tucker Peter Capaldi!

after the hypefest that was Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor, Steven Moffat revealed that Capaldi’s was a name that he, Mark Gatiss, Brian Minchin and others kept coming back to…

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Miss the Big Reveal? Here’s Peter Capaldi!

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 Doctor is regenerating – but as you cannot wait until Christmas, here’s the moment from Sunday’s Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor when esteemed character actor Peter Capaldi was unveiled live on TV!

Hey, did you see that at 0:36?!? Capaldi did a Hartnell-esque lapel grab!

The full seven minute clip includes the actor’s first interview, in which he recalls downloading old scripts and practicing some dialogue as the Doctor, and consoling his daughter when she couldn’t find any websites suggesting him as Matt Smith’s replacement.

A new dawn of Doctor Who is approaching, dear reader!

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Peter Capaldi Introduces Himself…

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 new Doctor Who is Peter Capaldi, a 55 year old who – interestingly – is the first over 50 to play the role since Jon Pertwee. The star of political satire The Thick of It will be taking the reins in the Christmas episode, and has recorded this short introduction for the BBC’s official website:

You might have thought him too told, but Capaldi it is – the Twelfth Doctor, the next incarnation of our favourite Time Lord.

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Peter Capaldi IS the Twelfth Doctor!

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.

So there you have it – after months of speculation, 55 year old Peter Capaldi has been finally confirmed as the twelfth star of Doctor Who!

While Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor was a typical BBC light entertainment love in with pointlessly selected “celebrity” guests and lacking substance while we awaited the main event, the audience reaction was of course exactly what you would expect.

Capaldi saw off strong competition from latecomers such as Sam Troughton and Aneurin Barnard to become the very first actor descended from a previous Doctor/the very first black Doctor/ the very first female Doctor, defying expectations.

Some quotes have been released by the official Doctor Who website. Says the new Doctor:

Being asked to play The Doctor is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can’t wait to get started.

Meanwhile, Steven Moffatsays:

It’s an incendiary combination: one of the most talented actors of his generation is about to play the best part on television. Peter Capaldi is in the TARDIS!

There’s very little else to say at this stage, other than admire the photo above. You can catch the end of the live podKast until 8pm, at which point the show will be available via iTunes, RSS, Stitcher and Audioboo as usual.

A brave new dawn for Doctor Who beckons – it’s going to be interesting!

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