Doctor Who Fan Music (Chameleon Circuit)

I think one of the more amusing things about the internet era is that music like Chameleon Circuit has more of an opportunity than ever to get out into the public. In the past, at best, this would be a novelty single or something that you'd end up getting a scratchy, tenth generation tape copy of. Now, you can go right to Amazon.com and pick it up.

Or you can find a video on YouTube:

Fantastic RTD and David Tennant Interview

If you haven't seen it already... good stuff.

Dr. Lazer Rage

Christopher Eccleston on the Sarah Silverman Show. I need to see the episode in question.

The Sarah Silverman ProgramThursdays 10:30p/9:30c

Odds 'N' Ends - Dr. Lazer Rage

Black God
Alternative Comedy

Abortion Song
Stoner Humor

Oh, and here is a relevant clip...

The Sarah Silverman ProgramThursdays 10:30p/9:30c

Brian's Blastoff

Black God
Alternative Comedy

Abortion Song
Stoner Humor

It turns out that this is the episode that it airing this week, and it is on iTunes!

The Price Is Right

I read it in the Times

Today's new york times has a profile of Russell T Davies.

Amusing Doctor Who is everywhere...

This might not be meaningful for everyone, but I'm terribly amused that Neil Gaiman can make jokes about the depths of Steve Manfred's Doctor Who knowledge.

Moving On Up

I think one of the exciting things about the new Doctor Who's success is how it is positively impacting the careers of many of the people involved. Where in the 1980s Doctor Who might have been a career dead-end, seeing Phil Collinson getting promoted to Head of Drama at BBC Manchester is very nice.

Also, it is incredible to see the reports that The Sarah Jane Adventures will be airing on Sci Fi this spring along with the next episodes of Doctor Who. I'll be interested to see how a show that is targeted for younger audiences is marketed here, because I think that while it is generally a good show, it's definitely targeted for a younger audience.

But it is still incredible to see how well Doctor Who is doing right now, as well as the people attached to it.

Revolutionary Or Tool Of The Man?

New Sci Fi blog i09 instantly won my love on their first big day by tracking how many revolutions the Doctor has caused. Big surprise, the Sylvester McCoy Doctor caused more of them than Jon Pertwee.

But still -- this site certainly starts off promising.

Wil Wheaton Discovers Doctor Who

He had the good sense to pick Genesis of the Daleks -- which is, of course, as good as Doctor Who ever gets.

It is kind of interesting to look at the comparisons between Star Trek and Doctor Who, especially in this country, where Doctor Who was originally popular in the period right before Next Generation started, and I've often felt that it wasn't a coincidence that Doctor Who went into decline in this country as Next Generation started up and became more popular.

And I think there is some comparison between Voyager and Enterprise and the Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy eras -- especially when you think about how one of the issues in both was how you had a production staff that were trapped in roles for longer than they should be, and how they sort of continued on autopilot for a while.

I'll be interested to see how Wil reacts to any episodes with Adric, Doctor Who's very own boy genius...

Unexpected Who Spotting

I don't really expect to see a Doctor Who reference in an American political blog like Wonkette.

Heroes and Doctor Who

As both a Doctor Who and a Heroes fan, I was excited to see that one of the campaigns for the new series of Heroes is specifically targeting Doctor Who


(What follows is a screen shot -- so not technically an advertisement...)

The Doctor Who Channel

It is really amazing -- with BBC America now airing Stephen Moffat's excellent Jekyll, and also giving heavy promotion to Doctor Who and Torchwood's upcoming runs starting in September, BBC America's Saturday night has been taken over by the Doctor Who family.

I finally watched the first two episodes of Jekyll, and it goes without saying that it is excellent. Moffat's episodes of Doctor Who have been some of the best, and so to see him take on this sort of material is excellent, and is a part of the resurgence of the UK's telefantasy tradition.

The Doctor Who Challenge

Ok -- here's a question. Let's say that you've got ten days to convince an adult woman that Doctor Who doesn't suck.

What would you do? Anything -- individual episodes, meta-information about the series -- whatever..

I figure focusing on new series episodes are best at this point in time -- "Rose" of course is intended as a good first episode. I figure any Steven Moffat episode is a good choice as well, especially since they're generally stand alone.

Doctor Who Tube

The BBC has worked out a deal to put some video clips on YouTube, and that includes David Tennant's Dr Who Video Diary 1 and Freema Agyerman in the other.

And thankfully, this is something that's not UK only, so the quality is much better than we're used to seeing on video posted on the BBC site...

The Horror of Max Headroom

In one of the stranger footnotes in North American Doctor Who history, during a Chicago broadcast of The Horror of Fang Rock in 1987 a bunch of people broke in with a strange Max Headroom-inspired sequence. This was one of those stories that of course spread around like crazy Back In The Day, but this is perhaps the first chance for many people to see what happened. I'm not sure how long this will stay around -- but really, I wouldn't see any reason for it to go away.

Sketch

Back in the old days of the 1980s, along with your fifteenth generation copy of Paradise Towers, you'd also occasionally get a clip from some other British television show that had a Doctor Who reference. Now that the TV series is back in production, we're seeing more of them (though they never totally went away) -- but these clips -- which are unlikely to find any other sort of international distribution -- are now showing up on YouTube.

Like this one from The Friday Night Project:

I can't believe I didn't know that

I've been reading through About Time 2 and I discovered that the Henry Lincoln that co-wrote the Yeti stories in the 1960s was also wrote Holy Blood Holy Grail conspiracy books that lead to the Da Vinci Code.

I'm really enjoying paging through About Time 2.