The beast has awakened. After a couple of months in hibination, OutpostGallifrey is back where it belongs; spilling the beans on the very best Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures news. With over 25,000 readers daily, the site is unquestionably the daddy of all Doctor Who fan sites, and you can visit its freshly updated pages here.
Already the site has reported some interesting (albeit irrelevant) Torchwood tip-bits. Where to begin...?
Naoko Mori was recently interviewed by the Guardian newspaper's sister publication, "The Observer". The Torchwood star talks about her favourite Sesame Street star, Kermit the Frog, and how she'd rescue him from a burning house (!). She goes onto discuss photographs and Japanese design. The full interview can be read at the paper's site, here.
In other news, John Barrowman is taking the moral high ground, and supporting the canine charity Dogs Trust - who campaign around Christmas time for dogs and other animals not to be bought for Christmas presents. K9 Magazine (alas, not a sister magazine to DWM) reports on the story here. Go John - a hero both on and off screen!
Television writer Jed Mercurio has some less-than-nice feelings towards Doctor Who and its spin-offs. He describes the series as "juvenilia, things that are really children’s drama dressed up a bit for an adult audience. If I give it a year people will have seen how boring it is to have endless Doctor Who spin-offs. Then, hopefully, people will go ‘we’ve made idiots of ourselves, let’s make something good again." He's just a little bitter that his series, "Bodies", lost out to Doctor Who at this year's BAFTAs.
I take it possible spin-offs for "Bodies" are out of the question Jed?
Finally, ratings are in for the BBC Three broadcast of "They Keep Kiling Suzie". Sadly, it's bad news in the weekly ratings war with Sky One's Lost. Torchwood secured an average rating of 957,000 - beaten by Lost's 1,004,000. The battle may be lost (gettit?) but the war is far from over...
BBC Two viewers, enjoy tonight's show. It's an interesting episode; and one that was completely rewritten by Russell T Davies (hence the similarities with his own "Everything Changes"). Things in Torchwood-land will never be the same again...
...Something's moving in the darkness, and are you ready?
7 comments:
Completely rewritten? Are you sure? According to the Brief History of Time (Travel)'s The y Keep Killing Suzie page it was only sent into production because RTD was so impressed with Tomalin and McCulloch's writing but that the "That's the thing about gloves Sir. They come in pairs." possible foreshadowing was RTD's addition. If he was impressed by the writing why would he rewrite it? And wouldn't he be listed as the writer instead? Or at least alongside Tomalin and McCulloch.
"And wouldn't he be listed as the writer instead? Or at least alongside Tomalin and McCulloch."
You've never heard of ghost writing?
Yes, but it I didn't know that happened in TV I thought it was only autobiographies where that happened. But it still doesn't make sense... as I said, the BHoT(T) site says RTD was impressed with their writing, if that is true why would he rewrite the episode?
"They keep killing Suzie" re-written by RTD??? Don't you think that leak was made up...? Here you have two very talented and distinguished writers having their work re-written? Don't think so...
And another thing....
Daleks and Cybermen in Torchwood? Oh please... that's a Dr Who thing.. yeah sure there was a Cyberwoman - but that was a one time thing...
rtd said he'd rewritten one torchwood script in dwm... that interview was around the time this episode was being filmed.......
and are they distinguished writers? what else have they done........
it sure felt like an rtd episode, sure we'll never know tho lol
It didn't feel like an RTD episode to me, It was... well, too good. While RTD has written some good eps of Who (Tooth & Claw and End of the World spring to mind) he's written his fair share of mediocre-to-iffy ones too (Aliens of London, Boom Town, New Earth, and the actual Abzorbaloff bits of Love & Monsters).
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