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The usual media round up, lovingly gathered together by baraduim and the other people on the DWF

Lindsay Duncan coverage
Press Association - Thatcher star teams up with Doctor
CBBC - New Dr Who assistant revealed
WalesOnline - Lindsay Duncan to star in Doctor Who
BBC News - Duncan to play Doctor's sidekick
SyFy Portal - Lindsay Duncan Latest To Try Out For 'Doctor Who'
Den of Geek - Lindsay Duncan Joins The TARDIS

Torchwood
Watch - Exclusive Torchwood Magazine Comic Strip
Pop Culture Zoo - New Torchwood web comic online
Western Mail - Torchwood’s John Barrowman gets help for comic turn
Fear Net - New 'Torchwood' Season 3 Images!

Misc
The Sun - Evil Mugabe hoards lost Doctor Who tapes
Independent - mentions Freema refuting the rumours of falling out with RTD
What's on TV - New Doctor has 'got the right idea', says Tennant
Glasgow Evening Times - Look Who’s arrived from Cyber-space
Den of Geek - Doctor Who: live on stage?

Enjoy!

Doctor Who for Duncan?

This is reported from the Daily Record, as far as I know theres nothing official said about it from the BBC but fingers crossed ey?

I'm thrilled to be Doctor Who's new assistant

LINDSAY Duncan will star in this year's second Doctor Who special as the Time Lord's companion, the BBC confirmed today.

Duncan, who is starring as Baroness Thatcher in the BBC2 drama Margaret, will play Adelaide - the Doctor's cleverest and most strong-minded companion yet. 

She will join David Tennant, who continues his role as the Doctor in the second instalment of four specials to be screened throughout 2009. The second special will follow Planet Of The Dead, due to air this Easter on BBC1. 

Duncan said: "I'm thrilled to be involved in Doctor Who. I've never done anything like this before and I'm really looking forward to working with David Tennant and the Doctor Who team." 

The second episode is being written by executive producer Russell T Davies and Phil Ford. It is due to go into production in spring 2009 and will be screened on BBC1 later this year. 

Davies said: "Lindsay is an incredibly talented actress and I've been an admirer of her work for some time. 

"We are delighted to announce that she will be joining the team and playing the Doctor's most strong-minded companion yet."

Hooray!

Torchwood Comic

This was just sent to me by email.

The new Torchwood magazine (issue 14) is coming out on the 19th Feb. Its featuring a new TW comic strip which was written by John and Carole Barrowman

'Captain Jack and the Selkie', sees Jack facing a deadly threat on a remote Scottish island, where people are disappearing one by one... To his horror, Jack starts to suspect he may know who, or perhaps more specifically, what is responsible...

Heres an interview between John and Carole where they discuss the strip

CB: Ready to chat about our Torchwood Magazine comic?
JB: Wait. Shouldn’t we have some sound effects if we’re making this read like a scene from ‘24’?

CB: Do you even know how to write sound effects? You’re the worst speller.
JB: I blame the doctor for that because when I was a kid I’d stay up late on Sunday nights when the classic DOCTOR WHO was on WTTW in Chicago so I’d never study for my Monday morning spelling tests. Add the sound effects later.

CB: Do you remember when we first got the idea to collaborate on a Captain Jack story?
JB: The summer when we were working together on Anything Goes. We were on location for Torchwood in a warehouse in Cardiff. I was filming the “Meat” episode.

CB: Wasn’t that the same shoot where the pigeon pooped on Jack’s shoulder? Now that was hilarious.
JB: That was good luck . . . the shoot was taking forever. Lots of green screen shots. I think I started making up ways that Jack could end the scene and we could all get home. Now that I think about it, we came up with some funny stuff . . . I still think we should do something someday with the idea of Jack and the–

CB: Shush!! . . . Can we tease shamelessly like that?
JB: [laughing] I think we just did. Anyway, I remember the endings we made up got more ridiculous the longer we all sat in that cold damp warehouse . . . you and I kept playing on the way home in the car.

CB: I’d forgotten about that . . . do you remember what we called the game?
JB: “What Would Jack Do?” . . . but the actual comic didn’t really take shape until Comic Con last summer in San Diego when we met Tommy Lee Edwards and Trevor Goring.

CB: It was the ‘Face of Boe’ poster that did it.
JB: The poster they created of Jack superimposed on the ‘Face of Boe’ still amazes me when I look at it. I framed it as soon as I got back to London. It’s on the wall in my office and I think it’s the best illustrated characterization of Jack that I’ve come across . . . until our comic is released that is.

CB: And you see a lot of images of Jack.
JB: Oh, yeah . . . so after Tommy, Trevor and I signed a batch of the posters, I asked them if they’d ever be interested in working with us on a graphic novel about Captain Jack.

CB: We had a graphic novel in our head because we had both recently read Neil Gaiman’s MARVEL 1602. You’d bought it to send home with me for Turner [my son], but we each ended up reading it first.
JB: Was that the one where the X-Men face the Spanish Inquisition?

CB: Uh, huh . . . they’re in Elizabethan England. Very clever stuff.
JB: Trevor and Tommy thought a collaboration sounded like a great idea and on the way home from Comic Con I knew that if we didn’t pursue the idea of the four of us working together right away, we’d all get busy with our individual work and it would never happen.

CB: Torchwood Magazine didn’t necessarily have a comic in mind did they?
JB: I don’t think so . . . but given that we’d just hooked up with two of the best artists in the comic world, as far as I was concerned, it made sense to pitch a comic . . . and then later when you and I were brainstorming on a story, I remembered you’d written something before about the myth of the selkie, and I thought it’d be a perfect plot to adapt for what, in my head, I was already calling a “Captain Jack Tale.”

CB: Except that my story had nothing to do with Torchwood or Captain Jack.
JB: Not then it didn’t but we worked that out between us . . . I’d always wanted to do something that put Jack in Scotland and your original story was set on an island off the Orkneys. Plus we’d already agreed to tell a story that showed a side of Jack and a part of his history that hadn’t been explored too much in other media . . . I wanted to give fans something original about Jack.

CB: What side of Jack do you think our comic foregrounds?
JB: I think we see Jack’s compassion . . . maybe his guilt. Plus his wicked skills with a harpoon!

CB: You’ve always been a comic fan, haven’t you?
JB: Oh, yeah. Love Spiderman, Batman, and definitely Captain America. . . I think it has something to do with when we immigrated to the States in the late 70s and I was trying hard to be an American kid. Couldn’t get enough of comics and Captain America . . . but I also love Superman–all the Justice League heroes for that matter.

CB: Do you remember the first mint condition comic you ever bought me when you could afford one?
SOUNDS OF SILENCE
CB: You haven’t got a clue, have you?
JB: A TIN TIN comic . . . plus a bunch of first edition ‘Noddy’ books.

CB: Nice save . . . so what do you think of ‘Captain Jack and The Selkie’ now that you’ve seen the finished product?
JB: I’m astonished. It’s brilliant work. The panels with the selkie are completely breathtaking . . . and Jack looks so damn good.

CB: When Tommy and Trevor sent the first colored panels, I just stared at them in stunned admiration.
JB: Tommy Lee, Trevor, John Workman on the lettering, Martin Eden at Torchwood Magazine, everyone worked really hard, but Tommy Lee especially, given the tight deadlines and budget constraints.

CB: Are you game for another one?
JB: !bOng! !bOng! !bOng!

For larger versions of the images, see here

Hooray!

Tennant Tapes

Another mini video diary has been added to the BBC site.

It covers the night filming in the tunnel but, as usual, gives nothing away.



Hooray!

Who News

More media joy, gathered together by baraduim and the other people on the DWF
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Matt Smith
The Sun - Time...lord at the bar
Digital Spy - 'Who' star to earn £1m in five-year deal
Den of Geek - Matt Smith the Doc 'til 2014?
United Press International - 11th Doctor Who signs five-year deal
Los Angeles Times - 'Doctor Who' at a discount -- David Tennant's bargain replacement
SyFy Portal - Matt Smith Gets Minimum Wage As New Doctor
Now Magazine - Matt Smith will get £1m to play Doctor Who for 5 years
Wired - Doctor Who's Matt Smith Signs 5-Year Deal
Daily Mail - Who's that girl? Matt Smith in the cross-dressing role that helped land him role of the new Time Lord

Misc
Digital Spy - Doctor Who 'filming in Dubai'
Anglophenia - Photos: David Tennant and Michelle Ryan Steam Up Dubai
Bookseller - First graphic novel for BBC Books (The Dalek Project)
Daily Record - David Tennant the's best Doctor Who for me, says John Barrowman
EADT24 - Time with the Doctor - then to Blue Peter (Peter Purves)
Birmingham Mail - Rare Dr Who posters go on sale in Birmingham
io9 - The New Doctor has a set lifespan?

Events
The Mercury - Doctor Who wanders on stage (stageplay "Who, Knows")
Newton Abbey Times - charity event with DW and TW cast members
London SE1 - Mark Wallinger installs mirrored ‘Tardis’ at The Hayward
Standard - Reflective Doctor Who Tardis on show at Hayward Gallery

Torchwood
SyFy Portal - New 'Torchwood' Twice As Intense
Anglophenia - New York Comic-Con: Anglophenia Meets Eve Myles and Euros Lyn
TV Shows on DVD - The '3rd Season' of Torchwood on DVD & Blu-ray
Comic Book Resources - NYCC: Torchwood (panel with Eve Myles)

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Independent - My secret life: Freema Agyeman, actress, 29
Independent - Mark Wallinger: Mane attraction (Hayward Exhibition)
Broadway World - BBC America to Air 'Any Dream will Do' and 'The making of me: John Barrowman

Yay :)