COMICS AND ‘ZINES • Radio 4 will be airing four 15-minute programmes on comics and cartoonists with Phill Jupitus, broadcasting on the back of a favourable response to his previous comics programme. The first one with Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau… Read More ›
Television
The Seven Doctors
Various news sources are reporting that BBC Children in Need will be featuring a special Doctor Who episode this year featuring all seven surviving Doctors. Here’s what the Telegraph has to say about it: “The actors are getting together for… Read More ›
Doctor Who Stand-Up Returns to Lancaster
Top comedian and actor Toby Hadoke returns to the Dukes, Lancaster this month with his hilarious hit show, Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf. This razor sharp comic odyssey, at The Dukes on Saturday 18 October (and will also be… Read More ›
Doctor Who has Come To Bed Eyes!
Doctor Who star David Tennant and The X Factor judge Cheryl Cole have been judged to have the best ‘come to bed eyes’ among UK celebrities, according to a survey by the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Tennant beat… Read More ›
Vworp! Vworp! Comic Book Stars Celebrate Doctor Who
Legendary comics creator Dez Skinn, founding editor of what is now Doctor Who Magazine, is the latest big name to join the guest list for Vworp Vworp: Comic Book Adventures in Time and Space which takes place in one of… Read More ›
Doctor Who Behind the Scenes Contest Launched
(Via the BBC): Fans of Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go behind the scenes at the studios where the shows are filmed. On Saturday and Sunday, 8 and 9 November,… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 22 September 2008
• One of downthetubes contributor Matthew Badham’s two articles in the new Judge Dredd Megazine (article entitled The Nu Brit Comics Revolution) pimps Blank Slate, The DFC, ROK Comics, Trains are Mint and Garen Ewing’s Rainbow Orchid. You should be… Read More ›
In Review: The Tripwire Annual 2008
Review by John Freeman Joel Meadows has edited and designed Tripwire since 1992, and, as editor of the magazine and a freelance journalist for newspapers such as The Times, The Indpendent and various other titles, has interviewed almost everyone of… Read More ›
Doctor Who DVD Files Magazine "Market Tested"
Last month, we reported on a new Doctor Who magazine in development from part works publishers GE Fabbri, publishers of the Doctor Who magazine Battles in Time and magazine-video titles such as Ronnie Barker, Charmed and Stargate SG-1. Although GE… Read More ›
No Heroics Creator Interviewed
Top comics podcast service Geek Syndicate has just published its interview with Drew Pearce, the creator/writer of the upcoming ITV2 superhero comedy No Heroics, the first ever original sitcom for the channel. The six-part series is brand new for 2008… Read More ›
Goodbye, Ken, and thanks for all the fun…
Updated (earlier picture from Doctor Who audition tapes was not, apparently, Ken Campbell): The brilliant Ken Campbell — improv actor, writer and man of experimental theatre — has died, aged just 66. His stage shows were simply incredible, always full… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 30 August 2008
• A quick reminder about Jonathan Cape,, The Observer and Comica’s Graphic Short Story Competition of which the winner will receive a tasty grand and their story across two pages of The Observer. Follow this link for more info and… Read More ›
Wrong Door Reviews…
— which are pretty mixed so far, reflecting comment here and elsewhere on the net. Broadcast reports that The Wrong Door attracted 546,000 (3.5%) at 10.30pm last night, the highest ever audience for the launch of a comedy on the… Read More ›
Wrong Door Day
It’s Wrong Door day — the launch of BBC3‘s new comedy show written by Ben Wheatley whose credits also include work for web, TV such as Time Trumpet and advrtising such as Pot Noodle Crumlin and more. Anyone who likes… Read More ›
In Pictures: Colin Baker’s Brief Encounter!
200 science fiction fans of all ages enjoyed a “Brief Encounter” with Doctor Who star Colin Baker this weekend on Carnforth railway station, Lancashire. When the event sold out – surprising even the organisers, Carnforth’s new TARDIS Shop – Colin’s… Read More ›
Trripwire Returns!
Top comics magazine Tripwire returned to comic shop shelves this week with its eagerly-awaited second annual issue, an extravagant 144-page smorgasbord of pop culture content kicked off by an original Doctor Who cover painted by Tommy Lee Edwards. The magazine… Read More ›
Doctor Who Part Work in the Offing
(with thanks to Jeremy Bentham and Tony Clark): Alerted by a posting on the web site of Blackpool’s Who shop, it seems plans are afoot to release a Doctor Who DVD Files Magazine. Part works publishers GE Fabbri, publishers of… Read More ›
Doctor Who’s Brief Encounter!
Colin Baker, who played the Sixth Doctor Who in the 1980s, is visiting Carnforth, Lancashire for a special bank holiday event. Colin will meet and greet fans of the series at Carnforth Station‘s Doctor Who-themed shop ‘The Tardis’ on Monday,… Read More ›
Moggy in the TARDIS
Liking a) Doctor Who and b) cats is obligatory for all downthetubes contributors – and anyone disliking either of these two things is asked to leave pretty quickly, I can tell you. The team was therefore thrilled to see this… Read More ›
Crossovers That Never Happened: The Two Doctors
… The Two Doctors in question being Doctor Who and Marvel’s Doctor Strange. It was TV Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel who proposed a Doctor Who/ Doctor Strange crossover and submitted a plot to me around 1991/92, about the… Read More ›