John Barrowman, Jimmy Vee as Graske, a Slitheen, Monks, a Mysterious woman, which I think could be the Rani, 2 mysterious people, one completely white and one completely red, the CGI crew so maybe there will be CGI aliens, and Russell Tovey, who played Midshipman Frame from 2007's Voyage of the Damned. Filming took place in Cardiff. You can see them from the filming photo's, from Scooty's Photobucket, here and Alun vega's Flickr, here. Earlier, filming also took place at Caerphily Castle. Danny Hargreaves was there with a green screen.. you can see some of the castle pictures here, on ahremsee's Photobucket. Next, before that, Christmas decorations went up at The Hayes and the surrounding streets, and some filming in Penarth at the same time. It looks as though the Henriks store will return with a "Christmas @ Henriks" sign. If you don't remember, Henriks was the store that Rose worked in before she met the Doctor. You can see a few of the photo's below, and there are many more from the links. Many thanks to Scooty, Alun Vega and ahremsee for them.
The cover for issue 408 of Doctor Who Magazine is now released on Facebook by the DWM editors. The Magazine will be out on April 30th for £3.99.
Issue 408 includes interviews with David Tennant and Michelle Ryan, a brand-new comic strip, The Age of Ice, by Daniel McDaid and artwork by Martin Geraghty, a look at the 2nd Doctor, The Time Team look at 1988's Silver Nemesis, a look at Planet of the Dead's set report, The Fact of Fiction examins the 1st Doctor's The Celestial Toymaker from 1966, and Production Notes, You Are Not Alone, Gallifrey Guardian, Previews, Galaxy Forum, Reviews, a competition for Doctor Who DVD's, books and CD's, and Who On Earth Is...
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A new 10 second trailer for Torchwood, series 3 has been released on the Torchwood official site. You can watch it below, or from the official site here. It will broadcast this June, and it's rumored that it will start on Monday 15th for 5 consecutive nights of 1 hour episodes.
Sci-Fi Collector has recently revealed that they have released 2 limited edition Torchwood figures. They are Ianto Jones and Captain John Hart, and 1000 each has been manufactured. Most of them will be able to purchase from Gareth David-Lloyd and James Marsters concerts, but some of the figures can be bought from the Sci-Fi Collector's website, here, for £14.99 each, or £29.90 for both.
Doctor Who Magazine editors have recently released an image of an upcoming 7th Doctor Graphic Novel. The production team includes Simon Flirman, John Ridgway, Bryan Hitch, Lee Sullivan, Grant Morrison, Geoff Senior, John Higgins, Alan Grant, Dan Abnett and Mike Collins. You can see the cover on the left of the list below and it will feature the following stories:
No more information is currently available.
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BARB has released the final ratings for Planet of the Dead as 9.54 million on BBC1, over 1 million higher that it was origionally estimated with and extra 200,000 on BBC HD. It was the 5th most watch programme of that week and is the 6th highest rated Doctor Who episode since 2005.
Sci-Fi Collector has released a picture of the first approved Toshiko Sato action figure. The figure will be released with the wave 2 set which includes Ianto Jones, Captain John Hart and the alien Blowfish figures. They will be released this Summer. You can see the image here.
Sci-Fi Collector has released a picture of the first approved Alien Blowfish action figure. The figure will be released with the wave 2 set which includes Toshiko Sato, Ianto Jones and Captain John Hart figures. They will be released this Summer. You can see the image here.
Sci-Fi Collector has released a picture of the first approved Ianto Jones action figure. The figure will be released with the wave 2 set which includes Toshiko Sato, Captain John Hart and the alien Blowfish figures. They will be released this Summer. You can see the image here.
Sci-Fi Collector has released a picture of the first approved Captain John Hart action figure. The figure will be released with the wave 2 set which includes Ianto Jones, Toshiko Sato and the alien Blowfish figures. They will be released this Summer. You can see the image here.
John Barrowman, who plays Jack Harkness, was interviewed by Dan French, from Digital Spy. The interview reveales some key parts of Children of Earth. You can read some below;
Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures have all been nominated in the Bafta Cymru awards. This year, the event will be hosted by TV Presenter Gethin Jones and see 51 different productions compete for the coveted BAFTA Cymru mask at The Wales Millennium Centre on Sunday, 17 May 2009. Doctor Who recieved a massive 9 nominations which are:Torchwood recieved 2 nominations which are:
This morning, John Barrowman was a guest on the Chris Moyles Show, on BBC Radio 1. You can listen to it here, however, John Barrowman only comes in at about 2 hours, 15 minutes and 30 seconds in... Visit the Chris Moyles Show's official site here.
2Entertain's Doctor Who: The Cybermen Collection DVD is now in shops throughout UK and Ireland, for £15.99. It features Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday. You can read more about the DVD in an earlier post, here, and it also includes a collectable mirrored packaging, a specially filmed David Tennant interview and a Documentary 'Top 25 Cybermen moments'.
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Next Saturday, the channel Watch (Sky channel 109, Vigin channel 124) are having a Doctor Who day about Rose Tyler. At 11:45, Doctor Who Confidential will begin the run of episodes until 6:00. The episodes are: Rose, Dalek, Father's Day, The Girl in the Fireplace, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.please comment
BARB has released the unofficial overnight ratings for Planet of the Dead. It was watched by 8.41 million viewers on BBC1, with an extra 184,000 viewers for BBC HD. It was the most watched programme on BBC1 on Saturday, but had the 2nd highest viewers, behind Britains Got Talent. The overnight ratings for Doctor Who Confidential, Desert Storm, are 0.46 million. These ratings are not official, and the actual numbers will be released in 10 days.
Many thanks to The Bad Wolf TV (Miss Gallifrey) for awarding Whoviavortex it's 4th award! The site was awarded "Friendliest Blog", along with Time Lords Vs Daleks and The Hair of Time. Click here to view the results and here for the site home.
The 5th Tennant Tape is now available from the official site. It's almost 4 minutes long, and you can watch the video here, or below.
The official site also added some other videos that include the full episode Planet of the Dead, the full episode of Confidential Desert Storm, The Waters of Mars trailer, Making the Tritivores, The Big Questions: Michelle Ryan, David Ames video diary and the rest of the Tennant Tapes.
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Did you watch Planet of the Dead? What am I saying, of course you did! Anywho, the next episode has been revealed as The Waters of Mars. You can see the trailer below along with some screencaps of it.
