IO9 has some nice images and video of the Dr Who Special that may never air.
BBC America will be airing the new mini-season of Torchwood only a few hours after it airs in the UK, according to Wired. Word is the five episodes will air on five consecutive nights sometime this summer. I was happy last year when they ran it a week after the episodes played only a week behind the British showings; this is even better! Apparently John Barrowman is also writing a Torchwood Comic that will be appearing in (surprise) Torchwood Magazine.
And at 26, he is the youngest actor ever to play the Doctor. Yesterday the BBC named Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor Who. Andrew Pettie of the Telegraph has some ideas about why this is a good move for the Beeb, and while the reactions at places like SciFi Heaven range the gamut, I find this promising. The actor has played in the Phillip Pullman screen renderings of The Shadow in The North and The Ruby in the Smoke, as well as showing up in an episode of Secret Diary of a Call Girl; all with Who veteran Billie Piper. He has also worked with Moffatt on a few previous projects, so the new season should be fairly interesting.
There is an interview at Sci-Fi London with Neal Asher covering all kinds of topics. Neal is the author of The Skinner, Cowel, and The Gabble, among others. The Doctor Who Christmas Special wasn’t enough, someone had to create this Dalek Xmas Tree…
Unbelievable Dalek Christmas Tree from Lindsey J. Testolin on Vimeo.
Not much of a present, Universe! On Christmas Day we lost Leo Frankowski, a science fiction author best known for his Adventures of Conrad Stargard. IO9 has a good review (warning: with LOTS of spoilers) of this years Doctor Who Christmas Special. Of course, if you live in the UK, no spoilers at all, since it aired two days ago there. One last thought for today; do you know your place on the Geek Hierarchy? If not (or even if you think you do), you should really check that flowchart.
It is Christmas, which means if you are in the UK you had the opportunity to see the Dr Who Christmas Special; the rest of us will have to be content with this report from the BBC. It does give us some possible spoilers about the identity of the new Who. Fox, no longer happy with destroying and canceling its own science fiction programs and projects, has been attacking Warner Brothers to try to get the Watchmen stopped. Now it seems a judge has issued a ruling that says they do own at least a part of something they never made or tried to bring to market. Will the copyright madness never stop?