News: June 2006 Archives
No, I and David Tennant. Don't trust the Interweb.
I've just listened to Imagining Albion: The Great British Future which is being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (and kept online for a week).
The first episode was excellent, all about Utopia. Lots of discussion about HG Wells and Huxley's Brave New World. Also comments by China Mieville, Gywneth Jones, Iain Banks and Ian McDonald with the last three having paragraphs of their fiction read and discussed.
Next week, Invasion!
If you're trying to avoid spoilers for the end of this Doctor Who series I'd give up, there's a huge one on the cover of the Radio Times.
Comedian Peter Kay talks about his Doctor Who experience, he's playing the monster that was designed by a Blue Peter competition winner.
Let's be honest, if you're going to be in Doctor Who, you either want to be Doctor Who or a baddie!
I never read any of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, so Absolute Sandman looks like a great idea to me, except that it's £44, gulp.
There's a big spoiler on the BBC Doctor Who website about this seasons finale. You'll probably not be able to avoid it if you're in the UK, but it's after a click here just in case...
UPDATE
As predicted it's all over the BBC, including a feature item on Breakfast! (They don't care about spoilers obviously).
SPOILER!!
SCI FI Wire reports that "The new updated Doctor Who boosted SCI FI Channel's ratings on Friday nights by double digits"
Which is good if you care about statistics (and believe statistics produced by SciFi) or want SciFi to show the next series of Doctor Who.
Alex Davis who organised Alt.Fiction 2006 has set up a blog for next year's event, cunningly titled alt.fiction 2007.
Via Locus, Tim Hildebrandt died on June 11, 2006, at the age of 67.
With his brother he created (among other things) some of the awesome original artwork for Star Wars.
Via the BBC, Executive Producer Julie Gardner confirms that there will be a Christmas special on 2006 and that in the series next year the Doctor will meet Shakespeare. They'll be filming for 34 weeks for the next series.
SciFi Brain hates the first half of the Doctor Who episode Bad Wolf, and doesn't find it funny. Unlike me. However, like me, they love the second half.
In the things I learned today section...
There are some who argue that the number of the beast was mistranslated and should be 616. In which case the date of the apocalypse is open to discussion depending on your country.
Via SFSignal, BBC Radio 7 has a show called7th Dimension, which consists of readings of SF and Fantasy stories. This week is The Day Of The Triffids. Cool. Must listen.
BBC Radio 7 is the new(ish) digital station, a mix of the best of BBC comedy, drama, and books. And it's available in all the usual digital places in the UK, DAB Digital Radio, Freeview, Digital Satellite, Digital Cable and of course, the internet
Good news if you're in Oz, via Outpost Gallifrey
"ABC has recently completed negotiations for rights to show the second series, which will begin on Saturday 8 July at 7.30pm"
Billie Piper is being interviewed on Chris Moyles's Radio 1 show this morning, right now in fact. And she comes across very nice.
A few little Doctor Who snippets. Asked why it takes so long to film the series she said, "K9 always cuts you up when you're running" and "The daleks took ages to film".
