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Moffat Talks Matt’s Last Stand

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.

It’s an incredibly exciting time of you’re a Doctor Who fan right now. The show’s 50th anniversary has meant that we’ve had several nods to the past in 2013’s run of episodes, there’s plenty of exciting new merchandise, the fall of the Eleventh is fast approaching and the Twelfth Doctor will soon be making his on screen debut. To add to all of that, there’s going to be a proper, official, bone fide Doctor Who anniversary special on the telly for the first time in 20 years!

But of course, you have questions. Who will be the next Doctor? What form will Matt Smith’s last ever episode take? Will Meglos finally make a return appearance?

Not all of these questions can be answered; in fact none of them can at the moment but thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we’ve got some of the choicest cuts from a recent interview with Doctor Who’s Commander-In-Chief Steven Moffat, regarding the show’s future.

On announcing the new actor to play the Doctor:

Unless we have an insane plan, we’ll announce a new Doctor within days of finalizing the new Doctor. Because it’s very, very hard to keep any kind of a secret. The last time, when we chose Matt, we had to hold over on that one, because there was a Christmas Doctor Who special called The Next Doctor for which Russell T. Davies was playing the game of pretending it was going to be David Morrissey. So we couldn’t deflate that…but I think we’ll go public pretty fast.

On the sex of the next Doctor:

I’m not going to comment at all on the direction we’re going. Sorry!

Which sounds like a typical Moffat fib! With regards to whether we’ll see an appearance from the Twelfth Doctor in 2013:

Yes. That’s not the hope — that’s the plan. It’ll be the traditional regeneration. You know, the eleventh will fall and the twelfth shall rise. And you’ll see that in the closing moments of the show. I mean, you sometimes sit and think, “Are there better ways of doing it? Is there a different way of doing it?” But quite honestly what could be better than that? It’s just too exciting.

And planning ahead for the filming of the 2013 Christmas special, whether we’ll have Matt’s long locks of hair back in time:

We’re sprinkling fertilizer on his head as we speak. I don’t know. If you care to take a look at The Angels Take Manhattan there are a couple of scenes that Karen Gillan came back to do in the graveyard after she’d had her radical haircut and she is wearing what seems like a strategically draped otter on her head… however we effect it, the Doctor will turn up in his trademark quaff. We can’t have Matt’s last stand in the TARDIS without his proper look.

And finally, Moffat commented on leaving the coveted role of the Doctor in general:

It’s not like leaving any other part, it really isn’t. It’s sort of like abdicating [the throne] and it’s genuinely emotional, it’s upsetting. It’s an upheaval in your life. It’s something you really have to contemplate.

You can read the full interview here.

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BBC Announces The Monsters Collection!

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.

With an RRP of just £10.20, these new vanilla releases from BBC Worldwide are an excellent introduction to some of the scariest and most iconic monsters from Doctor Who’s classic and recent series.

Each title concentrates on a deadly enemy – The Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, The Master, Davros and the Silurians – and features two separate stories from popular incarnations of the Doctor, including Matt Smith, David Tennant, Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee.

We’ll feature each title in more detail over the weekend, until then all you need to know is that the range – which we reckon would be perfect for younger viewers just discovering the scary delights of fifty years of Doctor Who – includes the following adventures:

The Daleks
Asylum of the Daleks
Tomb of the Cybermen
Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel
The Time Warrior/The Sontaran Stratagem
Terror of the Autons
The End of Time
Genesis of the Daleks
The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End
The Silurians
The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood

The Monster Collections will be available from 30 September 2013 – head to Amazon to order today!

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Free CubeeCraft Toys

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.

Cubeecraft, the website where you can download cut outs in order to turn them into 3 dimensional toys, are now offering a free download of some Doctor Who goodies to give you something to do over the long hot summer!

Available now is the Eleventh Doctor, in original tweed outfit, as well as 3 versions of the TARDIS: the original, a Bad Wolf version (from 2005’s Aliens of London) and the newest version as piloted by the Eleventh Doctor since 2010.

But it’s not just Doctor Who that’s available for you to download; there are a host of your favourite TV characters just waiting for the 3D treatment!

Batman, Star Wars, Breaking Bad, Superman, Iron Man, Scott Pilgrim Characters, Resident Evil characters - the list goes on and on.

With over 200 designs, each with a difficulty rating as well as instructions on how to create them, these Cubecraft toys are a must for anyone who wants to decorate their shelves with something a little more whacky than usual!

To make their Doctor Who range, head over to their site, or for more information on Cubeecraft or to browse their various downloads, visit their homepage.

(Via MakeUseOf)

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Doctor Who Cupcake Kits

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.

If there’s one guest you want at a party it’s the Doctor. However, for a Time Lord, his time keeping isn’t exactly prompt. You might book out the church hall, tell him to be there or be square and before you know it the Sonatarans are at the pineapple and cheese sticks and the church is a refuge for the last of humanity.

In other words, there won’t be many balloon animals, unless they come alive and start eating the guests. Then there are too many balloon animals.

So what better way to celebrate a party without the oncoming storm than with this exclusive range of Doctor Who-themed baking products from Lakeland.

How about some delicious Daleks with these Dalek Cupcake Wraps and Toppers? Or a TARDIS Cupcake Kit? What about some TARDIS Chocolate Moulds? Or…Or… Let’s face it, you’re not even reading this anymore: you’re wrangling children into an enforced birthday party on the pretence of ordering all of these fabulous items (Kasterborous does not endorse the wrangling of children…but we are free next Saturday…just so you know.)

Perhaps the most impressive item in the range is this Dalek Cupcake Stand. Standing proudly above the crisps and sausage rolls, this magnificent centrepiece adds a much need sinister edge to the otherwise light as air world of miniature cakes.

You can see the whole range, which launched in the autumn, over at Lakeland’s site.

(Thanks to The Doctor Who Site. Have a metaphorical cupcake on us.)

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Fund The Minister of Chance Movie!

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.

Following on from their appearance at the London Comic Con, Clare Eden and her production team, responsible for the new episodes of The Minister of Chance, have been overwhelmed with the positive response that they have received from listeners to their audio series and new fans alike.

In fact many of you may have walked away with a rather special promo card for The Minister of Chance that was available on the day from the convention. To help spread the good word of this production and to create hype and interest for film financers, as well as financers in general, the team has created the attached postcard that you can send on to a friend, post on a blog or display proudly on a website. Every little counts for The Minister of Chance and all the interest gathered for the production will help to keep it alive and well so please help Clare and her team (that includes many familiar Doctor Who faces) to let the world now about The Minister of Chance!

The move is also hoping to be made from the planned Sonic movie to a Feature movie, meaning that if the funds become available The Minister of Chance could become a live action film, not bad for a character that started off as a supporting role in a Doctor Who audio in 2001!

So to help the production team out, as well as promote the series’ full complement of 5 episodes and a prologue that is already available for free why not share the following on your blog or Facebook page to keep the good word going:

The Minister of Chance

 

starring Julian Wadham, Lauren Crace, Jenny Agutter, Jed Brophy, Paul Darrow, Beth Goddard, Philip Glenister, Tamsin Greig, Peter Guinness, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann

 

The full season of five episodes and the Prologue of this innovative series remain available as a free download to anyone wanting to cheer up their commute, gym session, airport lounge or to enjoy on a sunlounger with a holiday cocktail!

Meanwhile their campaign has just begun for the Sonic Movie to take its steps towards Feature Movie! Their crowd-funding campaign is now underway (also via www.ministerofchance.com) – and includes a raft of Limited Edition Collectors Items, along with Tees, Signed posters and script packs, as well as a chance to join ‘The Ministry’, a members only club giving a blow by blow insight into the production process as they go along…  Have a listen to the series, and if you like it, why not take the opportunity to become part of movie-making history yourself?

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Colin Baker Opens Giant Dalek Maze 50th Anniversary Tribute

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.

Here’s a fun way to commemorate Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary – navigating your way around a giant maize Dalek!

Like the TARDIS materialising from another dimension a giant Dalek has cropped up in a field of maize on the outskirts of York. Is it the work of alien invaders or crop circle pranksters? In fact it is an inspired piece of field art created by Yorkshire farmer and Doctor Who fan Tom Pearcy as his tribute to the 50th anniversary of the show.

York Maze itself is 18 acres (8 football pitches) in size, and this latest design (previous years have included Harry Potter and James Bond mazes) features the biggest image of a Dalek ever created, over 300m (1000ft) long, cut out of an 18 acre field of over one million living maize plants.

The design also includes images of the first Doctor in 1963 William Hartnell and the current Doctor 2013’s Matt Smith, and as befits the title the 10km of pathways form an intricate maize maze which visitors can explore. York Maze is the largest maze in Europe and one of the largest in the world.

Says Tom Pearcy,

Like many kids I grew up watching Doctor Who from behind the sofa and fell in love with the show. I wanted to create a piece of art as a tribute to the 50th anniversary and also make it interactive so visitors can have their own adventures in time and space inside the maze.

The Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker will meet up with some of his old foes the Daleks at the launch of the York Maze.

It is fantastic to see how much interest there is in the 50th anniversary of the show. I have been invited to join events all over the world this year, but what York Maze have created with their giant maize maze has to be one of the most imaginative ways to mark the 50th anniversary I have seen. Who would have thought almost thirty years after I played the Doctor that the show would continue to go from strength to strength reaching a new generation of fans.

It is great that children and their families will be able to have their own Doctor Who inspired adventures in the York Maze this summer.

Oh, and Kasterborous editor Christian Cawley will be at the maze today, hoping to chat with Mr Pearcy and the special guest.

The rather wonderful York Maze (come on, it’s a maze, made from maize!) is open to the public from Saturday 13 July to Monday 2 September. See www.yorkmaze.co.uk for details.

Can you tell what it is yet ?? #yorkmaze pic.twitter.com/GalLW8heYc

— York Maze (@Yorkmaze) July 11, 2013

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The Missing Episodes – The Second Doctor Volume 1 from DWM!

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.

Doctor Who Magazine has released details of its latest special edition, in which it presents the earliest adventures of the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, in pictorial form!

Sadly, 106 Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s aren’t currently held in the BBC’s archives. The original videotapes were erased, and although film recordings for many early episodes were retained, others seem lost forever.

Fortunately for fans, some of these missing episodes survive in telesnap form – these are photographic images that were taken of television screens as the stories were originally broadcast. This 116-page Special from Doctor Who Magazine presents the earliest stories from the Second Doctor’s era in the form of telesnaps, featuring the stories THE POWER OF THE DALEKS, THE HIGHLANDERS, THE UNDERWATER MENACE, THE MOONBASE, THE MACRA TERROR and THE FACELESS ONES .

There’s also a fascinating feature by researcher and author Richard Molesworth, which reveals how some missing episodes of Doctor Who have miraculously been found and returned to the archives over the years.

Fill the gap in your collection, with  Doctor Who Magazine:  The Missing Episodes – The Second Doctor Volume 1 ! The magazine is out now, price £5.99.

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50th Anniversary “movie-length” says Moffat

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.

Ever since some BBC Worldwide publicity material at some toy fairs earlier this year stated that the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special would be just 60 minutes long, fandom has been up in arms (hey, what’s new?). Happily, we can report that this was an error.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Steven Moffat has confirmed that the episode is “well over an hour”.

It’s a special episode. I think you could call it movie-length, yeah. I mean, I’m saying that with a slight hint of vagueness because I don’t know the finished running time. [Laughs] It’s certainly well over an hour.

Moffat goes on to discuss the effect of having David Tennant and Matt Smith on set together, and the way they interacted off-screen.

They really loved each other and had a huge laugh together. And of course they’ve been through this experience that only the two of them can talk about, really, in the modern world. They are the two people that have played that part at a time when the series is this big. They spent the entire time just sitting together talking animatedly.

But what about on-screen?

Well, when you’re talking to yourself, there’s no filter! You don’t spare yourself! They’re quite a fun pairing, I would say. There’s a bit of the normal joshing of each other but they’re both such enthusiastic Doctors. While they might be sort of competing slightly, they’re both standing there saying, “Oh god, it’s so cool, there’s two of me!”

So, it’s very different. I think the other one that worked brilliantly was Jon Pertwee and Patrick Troughton. They were incredibly funny together. This is very different from that but it’s a sublime double act.

Funny? Sublime? Is it November yet?

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Kinnear: Doctor Who?!

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.

The much touted once and future Doctor Rory Kinnear has denied that he’ll be the twelfth incarnation of the Time Lord.

The Skyfall actor, who has been the bookies favourite since he was rumoured to have been offered the part in June, told The Independent he was certain he wasn’t going to be asked:

I don’t where it came from and how these things evolve. I haven’t been and I am totally certain that I will not be asked to be the next Doctor Who.

He added:

If I was an actor who was really longing to play Doctor Who, then this would be torturous, but it’s a programme I’ve never watched, so I don’t even really know what it is.

So is he readying his Moffat-style smokescreen for when he takes on the role or is this genuine denial? Is he even the right fit for the Doctor or should the Producers look elsewhere? Would you like to see him step aboard the TARDIS?

He’s certainly a very talented choice and an unusual choice for the role but is he too different?

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Official Promo: An Adventure In Space and Time

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 BBC has today released this awesome photo of David Bradley as William Hartnell from the forthcoming dramatised account of Doctor Who‘s early years, An Adventure In Space and Time!

Click image for hi-res version!

This teaser image has probably been released in advance of footage being unveiled at the San Diego Comic Con later this month. Certainly we’ve already had some other images revealed at last week’s Paris Comic Con, so prepare yourselves for a little bit more, Kasterborites!

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