Damn the writing. Full speed ahead with a bit of casting news.
Cuz…DOCTOR WHO:
Karen Gillan to Star in ABC’s Emily Kapnek Comedy ‘Selfie’
by Lesley Goldberg
Doctor Who alum Karen Gillan is returning to TV.
Tag: Doctor Who
DOCTOR WHO’s Dirty Little Secret?
Speaking of DOCTOR WHO (well, sorta), as everybody who visits TVWriter™ knows, we’re huge WHO fans. Which means that we spend way too much time searching the web for little tidbits about the show, the people who made and are making it, and its history.
A week ago we stumbled across a review of a book about the series that we’d never heard of before. When we read the review, we saw why. JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner, by Richard Marson Miwk, goes into facets of the life of a man who may well be the Old WHO’s most beloved producer and is mighty strong stuff, especially when its obvious audience is a fandom where most controversies swirl around missing episodes and continuity errors.
Cartoon: The 12th Doctor…for Continuity Freaks
This is kinda a Whovian in-joke, but we loves us the art:
From the ever-delightful (except when it isn’t) Doctor Puppet blog.
Peer Production: Yeppers, There Was a Doctor Puppet Christmas Special
We’ve been neglecting the Doctor Puppet lately, mostly cuz, well, it’s not as fun anymore now that the blog is told in the voice of the DP’s creator instead of his own. But that’s our problem…and probably why the usual kinds of marketing don’t work on us. Anyway, better late than never:
Our Last Post Relating to DOCTOR WHO’s 50 Anniversary
Probably. Maybe. Whatever:
Writers Explain Why ‘Doctor Who’ is ‘Like Writing Seven Shows At Once’
by Graeme McMillan
Tomorrow sees the 50th anniversary of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, television’s longest-running sci-fi show and — in recent years — one of the fastest-growing genre franchises around the world (The anniversary is being celebrated with a global simulcast of a special episode “The Day of the Doctor,” with additional 3D screenings in U.S. cinemas on Saturday and Monday).
The longevity of the series means that those currently creating the show grew up watching it — not that the familiarity makes their jobs any easier. “Writing Doctor Who is not like writing any other show. It’s like writing seven shows at once, it’s so extraordinarily demanding,” said Chris Chibnall, who’s written for the show since 2007 under showrunners Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat.
