Planet Gallifrey

Wednesday, January 21

Filming from last night, 21.01.09

Hooray! Seems I missed a lot of filming action whilst I was tucked up in bed last night. Exciting stuff!

From the looks of it, this scene might closely follow on from the earlier filming at the museum. It took place just outside a tunnel which was blocked off. There were lots of police around with some cars, looking inside the tunnel.



A rippling flash of light then came from the tunnel, followed by the still smoking remains of a skeleton.


The lead policeman (who people think is played by Adam James) comes forward to inspect it.

"Call in UNIT - Emergency code one!"

And then of course UNIT turn up in mass - at least 20 or so troops surrounding the tunnel.


Theres also discussion that the UNIT officer Mogambo from Turn Left was about, but this is unconfirmed


UNIT advance towards the tunnel, guns out. The leader tells Adam James that she's 'read the file', and basically ignores his comments, then he says something like 'you don't understand, there are still people on that bus, she's fine'.


So, the bus from the museum shoot Im guessing? There were reports of it being crushed in a photo in the makeup van.


Although this wasn't seen in filming, a big satellite dish was unloaded from the back of a van, along with a pair of trough-like objects...


And, for some very odd reason the trailer behind the Army truck had two canoes on the roof!


There are loads more photos that were taken during the night, which you can easily see on alun's Flicker account, or on Brigade Leader's photobucket account.

(with a huge thanks to alun.vega, Scooty, Brigade Leader, Brian_Damage, The Gather and Simon)

Tuesday, January 20

Doctor Who news

The usual media roundup!

Casting
Telegraph - Doctor Who cannot be a woman, says Billie Piper
io9 - The Doctor's New Assistant May Be Bionic
Coventry Telegraph - Report says Michelle Ryan will be new Doctor Who assistant
Den of Geek - Michelle Ryan to be Doctor Who’s assistant?
Den of Geek - Paris Hilton lined up for Doctor Who role?

On Location
My Park Magazine - Doctor Who's Dubai scenes
io9 - The one place a Time Lord should never visit

Misc
Mirror - David Tennant beats David Beckham in grooming poll
The Quietus - The Best Of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop On One Side Of A C9
Superherohype - SiL & TND land Visual Effects nominations

With thanks to baraduim :)

More filming from last night

Just another update to yesterdays filming. Seems like it went on til ridiculous-o'clock this morning but there was some filming done outside!

And, as always there was some brilliant people on the scene ready to take pictures and report it all back to us! This is all the new info we've got:


James Strong is directing


A dark brown, almost burnt looking skeleton prop was brought out of the Museum.


A woman with dark brown/black hair was driven off from the filming, could well have been Michelle Ryan.

A red London Double Decker bus was filmed driving past the Museum - signs on its side read: "Neon - unbeatable call tariffs". It was a number 200 and heading to "Braintree"


There is a picture of a crushed red double decker bus in the costume and make up van - it can be seen from the window. Seems to fit in with the story that it was damaged en route to Dubai.

"The episode also stars Adam James, Glenn Doherty, something else James and Kevin or Keith something"


Hooray! A huge thanks to Scooty, Brigade Leader & alun.vega

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Monday, January 19

Media & Doctor Who filming!

Woop woop!

Okay, there will be filming going on tonight in a Museum. So it'll probably be inside though we might get some outside action as well.

According to Scooty (and his magical camera of delight) there are fake signs outside the building and a "weird semi circle globe lighting being put up around the exterior"


This was the same building that was used for the Lazarus Experiment

ETA- Scooty later added 
"it seems (a possible) Michelle Ryan is filming scenes inside a Museum that is having a display of Incan/Roman and Egyptian artefacts. From the outside we could see a series of ropes, pulleys and ballists being used to swing an actress around. 

"It looked like it could be Michelle Ryan, but I can't say for definate. She was wearing an all black cat suit and was blonde... A cat burgler type companion then?"

And alun.vega (Flickr account) managed to get a shot of the extras dressed as "International Gallery" security guards



And heres the recent media we have. Its mostly covering the same "Michelle Ryan as companion" story... so nothing much new really.

Mirror - Who's a metro? (article on David Tennant)
Telegraph - EastEnders actress Michelle Ryan could be Doctor Who's new assistant
Teletext - Michelle to help new Doc?
Digital Spy - Ryan tipped as new 'Who' assistant
Marie Claire - Michelle Ryan: New Doctor Who assistant?

(with thanks to baraduim, Scooty and alun.vega)

Sunday, January 18

Recent news

Hooray! News!

First off, a reminder that filming for Doctor Who starts tomorrow. Yays! Of course that doesn't mean that there will be a report straight away since a lot of filming happens inside. But fingers crossed right?

Also this blog now has over 100 followers! Well... it has 101 but thats still utterly amazing. So a huge huge thank you to everyone who follows PG, it means a lot to me.

And now onto the news! As per usual all the hard work is done by everyone on the DWF (especially baraduim) and therefore I bow down to them and offer cookies.

Now Magazine - I made tatty trainers Doctor Who’s trademark
David Tennant's trainers were sold off at a Children In Need charity auction and he fears their tatty state may have affected the bidding. ‘I was disappointed that they didn’t get that much. They were falling apart though,’ he admits.

The new era:
The Mirror - Doctor Who's new assistant set to be ex-EastEnders star Michelle Ryan
Star - Rachel's What Doctor Ordered
Digital Spy - Paris Hilton to play the 'Bride of Davros'
IF Magazine - Billie Piper approves of new Doctor Who
IGN - Billie Piper Talks About the New Doctor Who
Digital Spy - Piper: 'Matt Smith will be great Doctor'
About.Com - Matt Smith, 26, Will Be the New Doctor
Hackney Gazette - Who are you?


Torchwood:
Metro - Comic caper for Torchwood's John Barrowman
Daily Record - John Barrowman to pen Torchwood spin-off comic
South Wales Echo - Captain Jack pens his own comic book adventure
South African Times - Torchwood : Sunday, BBC Entertainment, 20:00


Misc:
Wired - John Scott Martin, 'Man Inside the Dalek,' Dies at 82
Herald - Much-loved writers sign up for Aye Write!
Digital Spy - 'Doctor Who' fans buy Tardis shed
Daily Record - Anyone for Seconds?
Manchester Confidential - Russell T Davies' Manchester
This is Wiltshire - I'm no Doctor Who, says Wiltshire's Matt Smith

And thats it. Hopefully things will pick up very soon!
Enjoy!