Bringing sexy back, demanding full refund. He/him I guess
Here it is! Matt and a friend host the prequel to the 2012 Doctor Who Christmas Special: The Great Detective
Find out more about Children in Need here!
We’ll be posting the trailer and four FIVE new images from ‘The Great Detective’ later today!
The space opens July 20th. Visit the Doctor Who Experience site for more info.
I really really REALLY hope it’s still around next August; we’ll be in the UK for a conference and I don’t think it’ll be all that hard to convince L to detour to Cardiff when we’ve flown ALL THE WAY FROM WESTERN NY HAHA EAT ANOTHER JAMMIE DODGER
First, watch the video above. You know, the one we’ve titled ‘DOCTOR WHO TUMBLR YAY EVERYBODY WE REACHED 100,000 FOLLOWERS NOW HERE’S A WORD FROM MATT!’
So now we can finally say it:
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
A year ago we started this Tumblr to celebrate our favorite reblogged fan art, fan posts, gifs, news, and other wibbly wobbly tumblry wumblry stuff. Yes, we’re an official blog but as you can tell, we’re a little different.
That’s because we’re your official blog. The Doctor Who Tumblr is the show as seen through your eyes.
It’s fueled by your love for the Doctor, Amy, Rory, River, Ten, Nine, Donna, Rose, Martha, Sarah Jane, Captain Jack, Sue from Catering, the TARDIS, twelve Jammie Dodgers and a fez.
It’s every character and every story and every relationship and everyone who’s involved in this show that makes this thing.
As Matt Smith once said, the show is much bigger than just him or Karen or Arthur or Moffat or Caro…. That’s because the show is made up of all of us— from the people who make the show in Cardiff to the people who meet online to share their love for the show worldwide.
And that’s why we’ve always said that the Doctor Who Tumblr is your tumblr. These are your posts and these are your 100,000 followers.
So congrats! And let’s have the Tumblr version of a PARTY!
First: we need decorations? So we asked the AMAZING gif artist that is lulinternet to create a new gif for us:
Awesome, right?
So we took that and made a badge for everyone, you know, in case you want to tell everyone:
And what else… oh yeah! A prize! As a thank you, we’re sending a prize pack of Doctor Who stuff (thank you BBCAmericaShop.com!) to our 100,000th follower, because, you know, they were lucky and that’s what you do to the 100,00th follower.
But because we also appreciate loyalty, we’re giving a prize pack away to our very first follower as well. Because, you know, that’s how we roll.
So that’s about it.
Sparknotes version: 100k followers, Matt smouldering on camera, awesome gif art, and gifts for being here with us. Also, while Huck is in moral conflict with the received values of the society in which he lives, he ultimately learns that there is nothing more important than friendship.
We know there are Tumblr blogs with more followers (we’re looking at you, Beyoncé)…
…and tumblr blogs that post only 10k notes…
… we are so incredibly proud of this because you truly are the greatest fandom ever.
Thanks for following.
As the World’s Youngest Doctor Who Reviewer, Lindalee was not expecting to run into any stars of the hit BBC Television show on the night of Disney’s CINDERELLA World Premiere. But as The Prince himself (Richard Madden) took a few minutes to be interviewed by the 6 3/4 year old red-carpet reporter, Lindalee suddenly spotted actress Jenna Coleman who plays her favorite character ‘Clara Oswald’ on Doctor Who, who was waiting nearby for her real-life boyfriend, Richard. Having met Jenna twice already in both New York and London, Lindalee quickly ditched the opportunity to chat w/ the Prince to embrace and re-connect w/ her fellow Whovian. [x]
I’m indifferent about Moffat leaving Who– he’s written some great eps
but put out a mixed bag as a showrunner (I’m catching up on this past season and I’ve been enjoying it much more than I have since we lost Rory and Amy), and has said and done some
horribly sexist crap but has shown recent signs of improvement in that
direction– but WHAT THE HELL WHY DO WE NOT GET ANY EPISODES THIS YEAR
GODDAMMIT
Explaining the decision to hold Moffat’s last series until next year, BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore said: “I have decided to schedule Steven’s big finale series in Spring 2017 to bring the nation together for what will be a huge event on the channel. 2016 is spoilt with national moments including the Euros and Olympics and I want to hold something big back for 2017 - I promise it will be worth the wait!”
YOU ONLY DO LIKE TEN EPS PLUS THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
THAT LEAVES LIKE FORTY FUCKING WEEKS
I’M PRETTY SURE EUROVISION PLUS THE OLYMPICS WILL TAKE SIX TO EIGHT OF THOSE, MAX
PULL YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, BEEB
GIVE ME MY GODDAMN SEASON OF DOCTOR WHO
Smug Mode imagines what would the Time Lord’s 13 incarnations look like if the show was made across the pond.
1. First Doctor — Burgess Meredith
Known primarily for his roles as The Penguin in the 60s Batman series and Rocky Balboa’s trainer, Mickey Goldmill, in the first three Rocky films Meredith made for an irascible, curmudgeonly yet warm and protective Doctor.
2. Second Doctor — Dick Van Dyke
Faced with the impossible task of replacing its lead star, the show’s producer’s decide not to replicate the previous Doctor, but go in a different direction entirely. Van Dyke’s Second Doctor seems light and playful on the surface, but this masks a brilliantly inventive mind and an absolute abhorrence of injustice.
3. Third Doctor — Vincent Price
The show débuts in colour (or should that be color?) for the first time as the Doctor is exiled to Earth; now in the form of horror icon Vincent Price. Price hams the role up as a scientific madman aiding the U.S military in their constant battle against alien invasion!
4. Fourth Doctor — Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder’s weird and wonderful comedic talents made the Doctor both more alien and more popular than ever before, making the show a surprise break-out hit even with UK Audiences. Wilder still holds the record for longest tenure in the role and still occasionally refers to himself as The Doctor.
5. Fifth Doctor — Kyle MacLachlan
After Wilder’s definite incarnation the producers decided to cast a deliberately different actor. Kyle MacLachlan was the youngest actor ever to take the reigns to the TARDIS and proved himself over his three years creating a subtle and idealistic Doctor.
6. Sixth Doctor — Christopher Walken
Production problems plagued Walken’s brief stint in the TARDIS and were not helped by the actor’s constant bizarre demands. Walken insisted on wearing a multi-coloured patchwork coat and have his Doctor attempt to strangle his Companion. Thankfully the producers opted not to take these ideas on board. Walken’s Doctor was cold, dark and brooding but after a brief two year stint, the actor left due to ‘creative differences.’
7. Seventh Doctor — Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub’s brilliant take on the Time Lord as a devious, scheming chess-master couldn’t stave off the show’s imminent cancellation.
8. Eighth Doctor — Jeff Goldblum
The show was revived in 1996 by the UK’s BBC in attempt to revamp the show for British audiences. Viewers were worried that the essential Americanness would be lost but to assuage their fears an American actor was cast; Jeff Golblum’s neurotic, excitable Doctor was a perfect fit for 90s audiences. US fans’ fears of Britishification proved to be somewhat true when the Doctor controversially didn’t kiss his companion! Unfortunately the show was never picked up and Goldblum’s Doctor survived only in podcasts which, seeing as it was the mid-90s, nobody was able to download.
9. Ninth Doctor — Nicolas Cage
The show was reborn in 2005 headed by head-writer Joss Whedon. To solidify the show in the minds of the public they needed to cast an established actor as the lead. Nicolas Cage approached Whedon and begged to be cast. He was a life-long fan of the show, even having the entire interior of the TARDIS tatooed on the inside of his left arm and naming his first daughter Romanadvoratrelundar. The show, and Cage, was a huge hit regenerating the programme for a new generation. Despite this, Cage opted not to return for a second series.
10. Tenth Doctor — Sam Rockwell
After his predecessor’s abrupt departure just as the show was taking off, Rockwell had to prove to new audiences the show could work without its’ lead. And prove it he did. Rockwell’s suave, light-footed, assured Doctor consistently rates as high as Wilder’s in opinion polls.
11. Eleventh Doctor — Donald Glover
Glover’s casting was controversial as the actor was only 25 at the time. The rapper and comedian immediately blew any worries out of the water playing a Doctor who was both joyously youthful and impossibly old.
12. Twelfth Doctor — Bryan Cranston
At 57, Bryan Cranston is one of the oldest people to be cast as the Doctor and also has the added task of having to differentiate his Doctor from his career defining role as Walter White in Breaking Bad. We have to wait til August to find out just how he’ll do it!
13. Bonus: Harrison Ford as the War Doctor
71 year old screen icon Harrison Ford played a secret incarnation of The Doctor in the 50th Anniversary Special “Independence Day of the Doctor.” Ford brought a doleful, tragic gravitas to his Doctor, weighed down by centuries of war.
Mary Tamm, the first Romana from Doctor Who has died at age 62.
Anglophenia’s Fraser McAlpine wrote it better than any of us could:
I’m writing this on behalf of every Doctor Who fan who finds it hard to know what the appropriate response may be when one of the many actors who gave their favorite show life, loses theirs. I’ve never met the actress Mary Tamm – whose death from cancer at age 62 was announced today – most likely very few people reading this have, and yet, ever since her stint as the first Romana in the last ’70s, playing an impossibly glamorous Time Lady opposite Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor, she (or rather Romana) has been a very real part of my mental landscape.
