Category: Doctor Who

Social media marketing, through the medium of Asylum of the Daleks

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This morning in Edinburgh? Just a solitary Scotsman standing in front of the excited audience asking us very politely “to keep it a surprise for everyone else.” When that Scotsman is Steven Moffat, addressing a lucky audience of Doctor Who fans getting ready to watch the season premier a week before its airing next week, trust is enough. My thoughts on marketing after attending the ‘Asylum of the Daleks’ screening this morning are up on Forbes.

The Doctor’s origin is actually laid out in The Mind Robber. Fact?

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I’ve been following Philip Sandifer’s fanatastic blog as he steps through and analyses each Doctor Who story starting from 1963 (and its counterpart, Adventures With The Wife in Space on Tachyon TV), but his last post has just blown my mind. He’s up to the final few stories of Patrick Troughton, specifically The Mind Robber: The primary threat in this story is that the characters will become fictional. This is, of course, a brilliant use of existential horror and one of the highlights of the story. But thinking about that from a remotely human perspective, it does not actually make

Science fiction comedy quiz show podcast thing… The Thumbcast

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[audio:http://podcastmachine.com/podcasts/3266/episodes/21370/media_files/51565/download/5/file_128kb.mp3] MP3 File – Show Notes – RSS Feed Iain Hepburn and Craig McGill have a rather popular podcast – it takes a nice niche topic (in this case the world of Cult TV and Film), throws in some passionate people (Iain and Craig) and then they see what happens. And this month, their podcast (The Thumbcast) decided to do something a little bit different. Rather than two blokes chatting around a microphone, they decided to create a comedy panel quiz show; partly because it seemed a fun thing to do, partly to get their mates involved, and possibly as

Picture of the Day – Doctor Who Muppets

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Paul Cornell is one of the writers on the latest season of Doctor Who (he does other stuff as well), and his blog is always a nice read. But part of his post today, and the accompanying picture, is gorgoeous. And I was delighted to encounter, at the weekend, these puppets, made and operated by Julia Houghton and Jason Lythgoe-Hay, of the Tenth Doctor and Donna. Not for commercial purposes, mind: these are labours of love. I’ve only seen one other like this, the work of the fabulous Mrs. David in New York.