Tag: Doctor Who

In Case You Wondered Why Chris Eccleston Left DOCTOR WHO

…Bad Wilf, a UK site that, like TVWriter™, is pretty much crushing on The Doctor, has a transcript of comments he made recently to “an acting master class at the Theatre Royal Haymarket”:

Our Boss’s favorite Doctor

I left Doctor Who because I could not get along with the senior people. I left because of politics. I did not see eye-to-eye with them. I didn’t agree with the way things were being run. I didn’t like the culture that had grown up, around the series. So I left, I felt, over a principle.

I thought to remain, which would have made me a lot of money and given me huge visibility, the price I would have had to pay was to eat a lot of shit. I’m not being funny about that. I didn’t want to do that and it comes to the art of it, in a way. I feel that if you run your career and– we are vulnerable as actors and we are constantly humiliating ourselves auditioning. But if you allow that to go on, on a grand scale you will lose whatever it is about you and it will be present in your work. read article

RTD v. Moffat (Not Necessarily a Battle to the Death)

by ladyfan

As the media salivates over the ucoming season 7 of Doctor Who, lauding Steven Moffat’s work on both it and Sherlock, thereseems to be a good deal of jumping over the four seasons that actually brought Doctor Who back to life. Yes, we speak (reverentially) of what will surely in the future be known as the Russell T. Davies Dynasty (for you non Who-vians, the RTD Dynasty = Season 1-4 of new Who). Although Moffat was a freelancer on the show before his upgrade to showrunner, the voice and tone of the first four seasons is unquestionably Davies’.

The excellent and painfully truthful book about TV writing he’s co-written with Benjamin Cook reveals just how involved Davies was in the episode-to-episode process of the show – and while we wonder about how he was ever able to sleep (ever) we admire the unity of tone and carefully crafted subtle plot arcs that span from season to season each year. Bad Wolf? Torchwood? Harry Saxon? There is always a little extra credit for paying attention to the details (and if you’re an extra super nerd, like we are, watching the episode that fourth or fifth time illuminated that one reference we missed the first four times. It did! And it was worth it!) read article

Return With Us Now to The Doctor Puppet

Um…so where’s Prospect Park? Just wondering…

The Doctor Puppet looks ready…but for what?

I was looking at more photos from my trip to Prospect Park last week and noticed something a bit odd in the background of one. I think I’m about to have some especially good adventures!

Our writing teacher, a certain LB, once said that “An adventure is any tragedy you survive.” So we don’t know whether to hope the Doctor Puppet is right or to head for the hills. read article

The Doctor Puppet is Up to Something

What British TV show would be having a New York City premiere? Thinking caps on, folks?

It was not a lucky day for Alisa and me. She tried to get a ticket to the NYC Premiere of a well-liked British TV show, but as her payment was being processed the website crashed and her transaction did not go through. She has her heart (and my hearts) set on going, so if you have a spare ticket we would both be very very grateful. I’d ask for one for myself too, but I think the theatre wouldn’t mind if I just sat on Alisa’s lap. It’s times like these when I could really use the TARDIS. read article

DOCTOR WHO Returns September 1

Only 17 more days till what may not be the most important thing to be happening in the multiverse but definitely is The Big Kahuna of Events in TVWriter™’s corner of our trans-dimensional reality:

DOCTOR WHO, Series 7 (Season 7 in the U.S.), Episode 1, ASYLUM OF THE DALEKS, will be on BBC America at 9 pm Eastern/Pacific time. read article