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Video Of The Day: Season 7 Doctor Who

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Mar 272013
 
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by Gene Turnbow


The new season premieres this Saturday, March 30, 2013. And frankly, we couldn’t be more stoked.  With so little good SF on television these days, Doctor Who is our fannish redemption.

Today we want to offer you some of the things we’ve been seeing float by while we note today’s important birthdays and prepare for the recording of this week’s episode of The Event Horizon with our special guests Trevor Craft and Bruce Boxleitner.

First up: the exciting trailer for the beginning of the second half of the 7th season, featuring the Doctor’s mysterious new companion Clara Oswin Oswald, played by the vivacious and energetic Jenna-Louise Coleman.  It hints at some rather wonderful story arc developments that we’ll be seeing in the next several episodes of Doctor Who.

Next, a Season 7 Pt. 2 teaser about the Doctor digging through is wardrobe trying to find his old clothes.  It does presuppose that somehow the TARDIS cleans up after him, though, as he madly tosses closes from the storage box over his shoulders with wild abandon.

Then, it’s a little vignette between Clara and the Doctor, with the Doctor dressed in monk’s robes, going through the age-old question:  “Doctor Who?”

And then we found an odd little clip with Clara on the back of a motorbike with the Doctor driving, with him wearing a rather silly helmet and goggles. They’re heading straight into London towards Big Ben and Westminster Abbey, and they’re having a conversation about why the Doctor doesn’t take the TARDIS into battle.

Then there’s the trailer for the first episode of the second half of the new season itself, The Bells of St. John.

After that, we found a short piece about how Strax came to live with Lady Vestra and Jenny in Victorian London.  It’s a three and a half minute short called The Battle of Demon’s Run, Two Days Later.  We’d love to show it to you, but we can’t.  Every single copy of it uploaded to YouTube has been blocked by the BBC.  Presumably it’s going to be part of a DVD or Blu-ray set, and they don’t want it floating about the aether while they get their kit together.

There is plenty of Doctor Who trailer goodness on today’s page though.  We hope you enjoy the fruits of our video scrounging this afternoon.

Enjoy.

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Krypton Radio First Look: Doctor Who Series 7 Prequel

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Mar 252013
 
Matt Smith on a postage stamp. Now Doctor Who will really go places!

In which The Doctor meets a lonely little girl…

by Executive Producer Susan Fox

They telegraph pretty well who the little girl is, so it’s not so dramatic a surprise as to who she is at the end.  But it’s still adorable, and makes a splendid prequel for the second half of the 7th season of Doctor Who – which, we hasten to add,hits the airwaves in about a week.

Good thing that little girls in the Whoniverse don’t listen to that advice about “Don’t Talk To Strangers.”
Good thing that wasn’t The Master.

Doctor Who starts once again with his new companion Clara Oswald on March 30 in the U.S and the U.K, and on March 31 in Australia (but at the same time as the UK, thanks to that pesky International Date Line thing.)

Enjoy.

Global Times

  • United Kingdom (BBC 1) – 30 March, 2013
  • United States (BBC America) – 30 March, 2013
  • Canada (Space) – 30 March, 2013
  • South Africa (BBC Entertainment) – 31 March, 2013
  • Australia (ABC 1) – 31 March 2013
  • Poland (BBC Entertainment) – 31 March 2013

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Video of The Day: The Great Detective (Christmas Special Prequel) 2012

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Nov 162012
 
Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction television series in history.

We’re dyed in the wool Whovians.  We can’t help it.  It’s just so good.

Here is a just released minisode prequel, together with the episode preview itself. Both the prequel to the preview of the Doctor Who Christmas Special and the trailer itself are dedicated to the U.K. charity organization, Children In Need.  And we get a saucy little preview of Jenna-Louise Coleman, the Doctor’s newest companion.

Enjoy.

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Video Of The Day: Doctor Who Season 7 Prequel, ‘Pond Life’

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Sep 012012
 
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It’s today!  The first episode of the new season of the popular BBC One dramatic series Doctor Who is tonight at 9PM Eastern time, 8PM Central time, 7PM Mountain Time, and 6PM Pacific Time (Krypton Radio time).  Be sure to check your local listings, don’t rely on us or you could miss it.

All week long, BBC One has been running one minute interstitials, “micro-sodes”, called Pond Life.

Rather than tease you with them one per day, we figured they’d eventually release the entire mini story all edited together, and we lucked out (and now so have you).

Today we present Pond Life in its entirety.  The word of the day is “Ood on the loo”.

Enjoy.

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Corsair’s Chronicles: Official Doctor Who “Matt Smith” Figures Out Now

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Aug 172012
 
Corsair's Cube in hand. The Corsair's Closet is SO Squeeing! about this!

The Corsair’s Closet features: Matt Smith goes plastic!
By, Time Siren

The Squee! that was heard ’round the world!

This week has been a flurry of excitement at Big Chief Studios in the U.K. Feedback has been pouring into their offices as customers finally receive their newest and most accurate figure to date; the 11th Doctor Matt Smith 1:6 scale collector figure! Ever since it premiered last October on their brand new Facebook page, we’ve all been holding our collective breaths, waiting for it to be released.

There have been long approval processes, production delays and the addition of awesome accessories, making everyone squirm that much more in anticipation. The quality of this figure is breathtaking. I knew I had to have it when I mistook the preproduction stills back then as being from an actual photo shoot of the actor himself!

Even if you only collect figures for their value, you’ll be massively impressed with this one’s tiny, beautiful details. It was worth the wait for the addition of accessories such as the Corsair’s psychic message cube from the episode The Doctor’s Wife, the TARDIS blue invitations and his sonic screwdrivers (yes, two of them!). Now that more images are available at their website, go check it out and it’s a guarantee you will fall immediately in love with the accuracy of the unkempt sweep of hair over his eye, the wrinkles on his forehead and how Big Chief even remembered to turn his wrist watch backwards on his wrist!

Corsair’s Cube in hand. The Corsair’s Closet is SO Squeeing! about this!

Product description from the site:

Sporting a tweed jacket and cool bow tie, the Eleventh Doctor and his companions Amy Pond and her husband Rory Pond, travel through time and space aboard the TARDIS. Sometimes dangerous, often life-threatening, but always exciting, the adventures of the Doctor and his companions are celebrated with the release of the Limited Edition 1:6 Scale Collector Series Figures from BIG Chief Studios Ltd.

Our artists meticulously studied comprehensive reference materials to develop the most accurately scaled collector’s figure. First creating a realistic and authentic character portrait of the Eleventh Doctor as portrayed by actor Matt Smith and replicating the Time Lord’s trademark costume and signature accessories in exacting detail.

Officially licensed and authorised by BBC Worldwide, includes authentic character portrait, beautifully hand-tailored costume, signature accessories and a deluxe display base.

Now that they are being shipped, it’s even harder for us U.S. fans to wait for ours when U.K. recipients are already posting their pictures and praises on the Big Chief Studios Facebook fan page, but in the end it will be so worth it!

(According to their Facebook page, they have shipped all their pre-orders s of August 14th. We thank the staff at Big Chief for working round the clock to get these figures into the hands of collectors around the world.)

 

Corsair’s Chronicles, features articles and fandom news coverage from Elizabeth Carlie as the Mad Woman With A Box and Kristine Cherry as Time Siren; hosts of one of the most insane podcasts on Krypton Radio, The Corsair’s Closet. Two fan-girls getting their geek on by squeeing about Doctor Who, cosplay and pop culture fan creativity.

Matt Smith Returns To ‘Doctor Who’ September 1

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Aug 142012
 
Matt Smith as Doctor Who
Matt Smith as Doctor Who

Matt Smith as The Doctor

Confirmation is trickling in that Matt Smith will continue his role as The Doctor in the BBC One’s dramatic series, “Doctor Who”, and that he has signed on to continue the series into Series 8 for 2014.

We’ve all been waiting for the other shoe to drop.  On August 5, we showed you one of the new Season 7 trailers, which looks amazing.  What we didn’t have then was a start date for the first of the five episodes that comprise the new season, though, and now we have it.

Mark your calendars, everybody, because it’s September 1.

Returning (at least for the first episode of the new season) are fan favorites Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams, and Karen Gillian as the unsinkable Amy Pond, but only long enough to tell the end of their part of the Doctor Who story.  It will also story the arrival of the Doctor’s new sidekick, played by  Jenna-Louise Coleman.

Matt Smith agreed to remain on Doctor Who until at least 2014 after show creator Steven Moffat lured him with ‘brilliant’ future storylines. The actor said that he was keen to stay on board to appear in the 2013 series, which Moffat has reportedly already begun writing. And he told The Sun, ‘His first episode sounds great. It hasn’t been written yet but the idea is as brilliant and as mental as you’d expect from Steven. So there’s a lot to look forward to. ‘When Steven was going to pitch the next season to me not long ago, he said, “Are you ready to cry?”.’ Smith added.

The  series’ first new episode of the new season will be called Asylum Of The Daleks, and has already screened at BFI Southbank, and will show again  on Tuesday before being shown at the Edinburgh International TV Festival which runs from August 23-25.

Smith has also said on various occasions that he plans to be with the series when celebrates its 50th anniversary next year.

First five new episode titles

  • Asylum of the Daleks
  • Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
  • A Town Called Mercy
  • The Power of Three
  • The Angels Take Manhattan

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Video Of The Day: Doctor Who Season 7 Trailer!

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Aug 052012
 
The image shows Amy Pond being carried by an injured, grim-faced Doctor. They’re both surrounded by Daleks that have been encountered during different eras of the Time Lord’s travels. A Dalek on the right of the picture does not have any of the vertical grille-like slats that have become a familiar feature, indicating it’s a version the Doctor faced when he first met his oldest enemies on Skaro. And on the left there’s a Special Weapons Dalek, last seen in the 1988 story, Remembrance of the Daleks.

The image shows Amy Pond being carried by an injured, grim-faced Doctor. They’re both surrounded by Daleks that have been encountered during different eras of the Time Lord’s travels.
A Dalek on the right of the picture does not have any of the vertical grille-like slats that have become a familiar feature, indicating it’s a version the Doctor faced when he first met his oldest enemies on Skaro. And on the left there’s a Special Weapons Dalek, last seen in the 1988 story, Remembrance of the Daleks.

Finally. If you’re as much of a Doctor Who fan as we are, you’ve been waiting for some inkling of what Season 7 is going to be about.  Now we have at least something, and it’s better than we imagined.

The Doctor returns to BBC One this Autumn with five epic episodes, featuring Daleks, Dinosaurs, Weeping Angels and the departure of the Ponds.

One of our favorite lines from the trailer: “Dinosaurs – on a spaceship!”

Enjoy.

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Game Reviews: “Doctor Who: Worlds in Time – Beta”

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Dec 292011
 
Doctor Who Worlds In Time

It stinks! Or does it?

A Game Review Rant, by Staff Editor PK.

So I was poked with a stick this morning and asked what I thought about Doctor Who: Worlds in Time; not being a big gamer I hadn’t tried it yet, so I agreed to give it a whirl.  Unlike many of the KR staffers, I’m not a huge game player, which sometimes in the case of reviewing new games is a good thing. If like me and you’re not a big gamer, or you just like to hear about the new user experience, then I’ll give an honest and fair albeit slightly cynical opinion on it. Doctor Who: Worlds in Time, from the BBC and Three Rings, is a web-browser Adobe Flash based game which looks like it was inspired by the artwork from Atomic Betty. And while I may not be a dedicated game player, I am a life long Doctor Who fan, and as such was interested when I was told about an MMORPG featuring everyone’s favorite mad man in the little blue box.

I didn’t read anyone’s reviews or look up history on the game, I decided to dive headfirst into it and go from there. Loading up the site DoctorWhoWit.com, I’m greeted by the BBC logo and a small flash movie featuring the current Doctor (played by the amazing Matt Smith), in which a bobble-headed cartoonish Doctor, speaking in text balloons blathers on about how the time stream and universe is breaking apart into temporal shards. (This was somewhat of a disappointment right off the bat, as text balloons are no match for Matt Smith’s remarkable and spastic acting talent which he displays as the Doctor.) The initial impression was that this was going to be nothing more than a kids game, and as I slowly proceeded I discovered I was correct. After watching the short film, I saw that I was required to sign up for an account in order to play the game. Pretty normal, and it was painless as I was allowed to sign up with a simple connection to my Facebook account. You’re also allowed the option to sign up using a form asking for your personal information along with your e-mail, easy enough. I must say though, without even starting the game, it was already wearing a bit thin on me as a fan. There was no iconic Doctor Who music from the show, and they couldn’t even be bothered to get Matt Smith to voice the character. Nitpicking I know, but details count!

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