Lost Records, Domain Names & Lindalee Snubs Robb Stark for Clara!

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Welcome to a packed News Blast, featuring more news than you can cram into the Fourth Doctor’s pockets! World records broken! Domain name crisis! It’s all here in the fantastic Kasterborous News Blast!

CSI Trumps The Doctor

First up, news that Doctor Who’s record for the world’s largest simulcast, set in 2013 by The Day of the Doctor, has been beaten by CSI. The US drama, which has seemingly had more incarnations than the Doctor himself, has been officially recognised by Guinness for the March 4th 2015 showing in 171 countries of the episode which launched the latest version of the franchise CSI: Cyber (almost sounds like a Doctor Who crossover…) starring Patricia Arquette.

Back in its 50th anniversary year Doctor Who ‘only’ managed to reach 94 countries. Ah well, records are there to be broken, and just ten short years ago the idea of the programme achieving a record for this kind of thing would have been impossible…

Frost Gets Capaldi Giggling

Nick Frost has spoken of his joy at landing the plum pudding role (sorry…) of Father Christmas in last year’s Doctor Who seasonal special and revealed how he would make the leading man laugh at inopportune moments on set. In a brief chat with The Daily Nexus he says, “I worked out what his little funny bone was, and then it was really easy just to keep making him laugh all the time. Which was great, because there were a few scenes where we just couldn’t get through it, and we had to end up shooting bits kind of separately because we were laughing so much.” Tsk, these comedians!

Abzorbaloff Hits Blackpool

Fans of Peter Kay won’t want to miss the Abzorbaloff actor’s launch of his new series Car Share at Blackpool Opera House later this month. The BBC series, his first in eleven years, sees him star with Sian Gibson as colleagues forced to share their journey to work every day. In a sign of the rapidly changing broadcasting landscape the series will debut online before a showing on BBC1 at a later date in April.

The original date of Saturday 28th March having sold out, a second has been added on Friday March 27th with all proceeds going to the Derian House Children’s Hospice.

The Doctor’s Domain Name Trouble

Fans of Doctor Who thinking of launching websites incorporating the name of their favourite show will perhaps have to think again with the news that ICANN, the body which oversees allocation of domain names, has decreed that all ‘dot-doctor’ domains must be held by “legitimate medical practitioners” only, thus ruling out any .doctor sites held by anyone who hasn’t taken the Hippocratic Oath. This news has, as you’d probably expect, not gone down without some controversy, with start-up company Donuts arguing that it’s unfair. “If this edict is allowed to stand, ‘doctors’ of all stripes – except for those ICANN finds worthy – would be frozen out of a useful gTLD,” says the company’s Jon Nevett.

Jenna Surprises Lindalee!

If anyone was looking for confirmation that six year olds prefer Doctor Who to Game of Thrones it has now officially been provided with this clip which shows roving pint-sized reporter Lindalee swiftly losing interest in Richard Madden when she catches sight of his girlfriend Jenna Coleman at the premiers of new Disney movie Cinderella. He may be playing Prince Charming but that’s clearly no match for Clara Oswald…

Awww!

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