Possible Tennant/Tate Team Up, Project Latte & Jack Whitehall Wants Guest Spot

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Packed with more content than the Black Archive, it’s the Kasterborous Newsblast! Set your weekend off in style as we explore what some of the stars of Doctor Who are getting up to! Stream the Doctor! Get a Missy action figure! See the Daleks hit Leeds! All the Who news that’s fit to print, as the New York Times doesn’t (quite) say!

Tate and Tennant to Team Up?

Catherine Tate has revealed that she and former time travelling mate David Tennant are “looking for future projects together.” We’re intrigued Catherine, tell us more…

“Working with David is the best. We get on so well and it’s just always so much fun. It’s just that something clicked when we first started working together from day one on The Runaway Bride and hopefully will continue to.”

Fans of the Doctor’s gobbiest companion to date will, however, be disappointed to hear that Catherine doesn’t see much potential for a reunion:

“Unfortunately I think Donna’s storyline would prevent her from coming back. Any memory of the Doctor, of her time travelling with him, and the adventures she embarked on, would kill her. So I can’t see a storyline being able to bring her back.”

A Latte for the Doctor

News from Canada now, and Bell Media has done a deal to bring the series to its new subscription on-demand streaming service. ‘Project Latte’, for that is the service’s highly intriguing-sounding ‘code name’ according to the press release, will give users in Canada access to 108 episodes of Doctor Who as part of its package of over 350 unique TV titles.

Genre fans will also be able to enjoy Orphan Black, Utopia and every episode of Star Trek ever made. The Doctor has been a strong performer in Canada of late, with Series 8 averaging 756,000 viewers on the Space channel, earning it the coveted honour of ‘most-watched TV series on Canadian speciality television’. Makes you want to know what other kinds of speciality television there are in Canada…

Jack Wants a Part

Comedian Jack Whitehall fancies being in Doctor Who, and as part of his preparation for pitching to Steven Moffat he’s been researching other comedy co-stars who have appeared in the programme during the current showrunner’s tenure:

“I’d love to do Doctor Who. I need to corner Steven Moffat. He had Zawe (Ashton, Jack’s co-star in Fresh Meat) and Michelle Gomez (who has appeared in BBC 3 sitcom Bad Education) in the last series – they were both very good in it.”

He doesn’t want just any old part, mind you. Whitehall reckons he’d be just right for a baddie in the Die Hard mould:

“I’d like to play a villain. My heroes are people like Jeremy Irons and Alan Rickman. I’d love to do my version of a Rickman villain.”

Michelle’s Secret is Out

Missy actress Michelle Gomez has given an interview to Gay Times, and seems to have rather enjoyed carrying that dark and terrible secret as to her character’s true identity around…

“I did have to keep it secret. I kept it so much of a secret that it was a surprise to me in the end. Somebody did tell me at some point and I chose to stuff it into the darkest recesses of my mind so the reveal was very surprising to me too. I did have this secret all summer so I did wander around looking like Mona Lisa all summer with this strange enigmatic smile because it’s quite nice having a secret, really, isn’t it?”

Elsewhere in the interview Michelle is coy about Missy returning to the series next year (bit late for that, we would have said!) but can disclose, with permission from her PR minder, that a Missy action figure is on the way:

“Well I’m terribly excited I think it’s a huge achievement for not only the fact that I’m a woman in this industry but to be a 47 year old action figure is pretty good going for the old girls.”

Anniversary Special for Leeds Fans

A story to remind you of the magnificence of Doctor Who fans now, and a Leeds-based group of amateur filmmakers are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their first Doctor Who production. The Projection Room fans group script their own adventures and film them on home made sets and on local locations and have attracted a dedicated following. Former Doctors Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker have even got involved over the years.

Member David Hobson is refreshingly honest about how his family regard his hobby:

“We have a laugh and people see to appreciate it. I’m not sure my wife is overly thrilled, but she accepts it is part of me. My daughter is 13 and is completely embarrassed by the whole thing.” Warms your heart, doesn’t it?

Freema’s Baptism of Fire

 

Can it really be all those years since Martha Jones’s debut in Doctor Who? The memories are still powerful for Freema Agyeman, however, who describes the full-on freight train impact of joining up with the Doctor: “It’s not exhausting in a negative way but it can be all-encompassing. I always liken Doctor Who to this locomotive going at a million miles per hour. You jump on it, you’re exposed to all of that and you can just get off – it keeps going, the show is a big deal. For you as an actor, you can have the positive and negative experiences of that and then you can move on – it doesn’t have to overshadow or affect the jobs you do afterwards.”

Freema is promoting her promising-sounding new audio drama Six Degrees of Assassination, a political thriller co-starring Sherlock’s Andrew Scott:

“It’s thrilling and exciting for people to experience that from the safety of their own home. It’s not too heavy on the political side of things so you’re going to get a mainstream audience that can come on board with it. It’s a brilliant whodunit.”

Catch Karen and David on Netflix

Finally for now, Netflix subscribers who haven’t so far caught up with some of the post-Doctor Who appearances of some of the show’s best -loved stars of recent years will be able to soon. Karen Gillan’s 2014 horror film Oculus will make its debut on the online subscription service on December 3rd, with David Tennant’s hit ITV drama Broadchurch available from the 12th of the same month – just before its much anticipated second series appears on UK screens in 2015. Troubling fare to keep you entertained in these long winter evenings…

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