Doctor Who star Matt Smith auditioned for a role in Sherlock but was rejected for being too “barmy”, it has been revealed. The actor, 27, was after the role of the detective’s sidekick Doctor Watson – a part which eventually went to The Office’s Martin Freeman. Steven Moffat, who produced both Sherlock and Doctor Who, [...]
I spotted an interesting article talking about the importance of the Big Finish audio stories to Doctor Who canon and thought I’d share it with you via the source link below. It’s an interesting topic in many ways. The article puts up a fine argument as to why Big Finish is VERY important to Doctor [...]
Judging by the shelf-fuls of merchandise the Doctor Who revival has spawned over the past few years (when the oil eventually does run out, I predict a Wicker Man-style execution for whomever made the decision to apportion even a tiny sum of this planet’s ever-dwindling resources to Cyber Men Bath Fizzers and embroidered Dalek hankies) [...]
I REALISED the other day that I must have spent more hours of my life watching Doctor Who than any other TV show. With the possible exception of The Simpsons. As a boy on Saturday nights, the anticipation was intense as the classic signature tune began – and those 25 minutes sped by way too [...]
As you all saw, I purchased Doctor Who: The Adventure Games Episode 1: City of the Daleks just recently and in between my busy day to day work and dazzling social life (or something along those lines), have finally had a chance to start playing. My first impressions are: The voice acting is great. It’s [...]
This whole Benedict Cumberbatch as The Doctor story, that I kicked off recently here, just gets stranger and stranger as the days go on. Now the latest news is that Cumberbatch claims to have been talking to David Tennant about taking the role at one stage and comments, “David and I talked about it but [...]
Welcome to your Sunday, Who fans! Today we’ve got a video from a US fan, talking about Matt Smith and his first season in Doctor Who. I fully subscribe to the point of view that Matt Smith’s had a good first season and the real proof of the pudding, so to speak, will be in [...]
From the I Never Would Have Guessed That files, comes news that Matt Smith actually auditioned for the role of Watson in the current BBC re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes being put together by Doctor Who showrunner, Steven Moffat and longtime Doctor Who fan and occasional Who writer, Mark Gatiss. Given that the audition happened “a [...]
This Benedict Cumberbatch bloke, currently starring in the BBC’s new Sherlock series, sounds like an interesting chap and everything (and I’m keenly awaiting the chance to see Sherlock, myself), but the video below is a bit off-putting to me. Basically, he says that he’d like to play a role in Doctor Who that means appearing [...]
There’s a strange rumour doing the rounds that Nicky Wire, the bass player in the Manic Street Preachers is writing a Doctor Who script. The way he describes it, the script doesn’t appear to necessarily have been asked for — it sounds more like he’s been doodling with the idea of doing a script, and [...]
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