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The Sarah Jane AdventuresIncoming Doctor Who executive producer and showrunner Steven Moffat said today that he would not rule out the possibility of a feature film spin off of the hit BBC1 drama as long as it did not interfere with the television series.
Speaking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Moffat told delegates: “As long as it was great and fantastic then yeah. But a film is on [for] 90 minutes and that is not as important as the series. But as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the show we could do it.”
His comments mean that there could be a follow-up to the two 1960s Doctor Who movies: Doctor Who and the Daleks, and Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150AD. Both of these films starred Peter Cushing as the Doctor – a part he never played for television.
Moffat’s remarks also chime with comments made by BBC Fiction controller Jane Tranter, who also refused to rule out a movie spin off when asked by MediaGuardian.co.uk last year. “I would not rule out a film version of Doctor Who, no,” she said.
Moffat also revealed that Steven Spielberg was a fan of the show. When he had to pull out of his writing commitments for Spielberg’s Tintin film trilogy to take on his new job, Spielberg told him that “the world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who”.
During his Edinburgh session Moffat also called on the press to stop print spoilers about the show’s plot.
“Shut up, just shut up. It is easy to find out what’s going on with the show. We virtually publish the scripts and we film in public,” he said. “But in giving things away you become that bore in the pub who delivers the punchline of a joke a second before it is delivered.”
He revealed that he planned to stay quiet about his plans for the show – he takes over for series five, to be filmed next year and broadcast in 2010 – to avoid spoilers.
Moffat also said that the Doctor would remain youthful and that casting an older actor, like William Hartnell, the first Doctor, was unlikely.
“The show is really tough for a superfit David Tennant so you might kill somebody who takes on the role in their 60s. For Doctor Who to turn into an old man you’d be pissed off,” he added.
“Even William Hartnell had trouble back then, he was often ill and he forgot his lines. I think the Doctor will always be about 40.”
Moffat has written a number of the most critically-acclaimed episodes of the revived show – The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink and Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.
He replaces Russell T Davies, the key creative figure behind the Doctor Who revival in 2005, who stands down next year after filming the three 2009 specials.
The appointment makes Moffat Doctor Who’s showrunner, the key creative force behind the programme.
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A trio of guest stars for the third season of Torchwood have been announced by the BBC.
Peter Capaldi, Liz May Brice and Paul Copley will all have prominent roles in Torchwood: Children Of Earth, which will be shown over five consecutive nights on BBC One next spring.
Capaldi, best known for The Thick Of It, will play civil servant Mr. Frobisher – a man trying to conceal a terrible secret. The renowned actor recently guest starred in the Doctor Who story ‘The Fires Of Pompeii’ as Caecilius.
Brice, who played convicted murderer Pat Kerrigan in ITV’s Bad Girls, will take on the role of Johnson – a cynical undercover government agent with a mission to expose Torchwood. Copley, best known for recurring roles in The Lakes, This Life and Coronation Street, will play the traumatised figure of Clem.
BBC Wales Head of Drama Julie Gardner hailed their involvement and stated: “Joining our main cast are some fantastic guest artists who will only add to making this unmissable TV.”
Series regulars John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd, Kai Owen and Tom Price will all be returning.
Doctor Who might be on a year-long hiatus (surfacing only for a few specials in 2009), but that’s not stopping the show from piling up more accolades.
The jewel in the BBC’s crown won Best Programme of 2008 at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, while its home network (BBC1) was named Terrestrial Channel of the Year. Surprisingly, the Skrin Broadcast Consortium of JudGar 6 won Extraterrestrial Channel of the Year. Grand Network Potentate Marqueag Nix could not be reached for comment.
Right around the time Doctor Who was donning a kilt to reaffirm its spot as the hottest show on U.K. TV, new executive producer and show runner Steven Moffat was making it clear that he won’t stand in the way of a Who movie as long as the film doesn’t get in the way of the show’s regular production come 2010.
That sounds good to the TV viewers of Britain who voted Doctor Who as the top show they’d like to see made into a film in a summer Radio Times poll.
John Barrowman enjoys entertaining people. When he’s not fighting aliens in the streets of Cardiff he’s judging young West End hopefuls as they compete for a dream role. Last night he was in North Wales making his debut at the Faenol Festival.
It was his first time in North Wales, a country the Glasgow-born American says he has come to love.
“I really love Wales so it’s great to have the chance to play at a big festival here. Instead of taking the motorway we took the road up through the Brecon Beacons. I feel at home here.”
His appearance came at the end of the first week of filming for the new series of Torchwood.
The 41-year-old added he was pleased to finally be performing at Faenol.
“Bryn has asked me to be involved for a few years but because of filming I’ve never been able to.”
On stage Barrowman performed songs from his forthcoming album, Music Music Music.
He was joined by Jodie Prenger, who won the role of Nancy in the new West End production of Oliver! after wowing him and his fellow judges on I’ll Do Anything.
Billie Piper takes the cake for yummy mummies in a sizzling new advert for her sexy ITV2 drama in which she stars as a hooker.
The heavily pregnant actress turns up the heat in the short series teaser, kicking off a pair of jeans as she strips down to some racy black lingerie.
Making sure the lads will be tuning into the latest series of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, Piper, 25, seductively slaps on some lippy in the back of a vintage car as she stairs down the barrel of the camera with inviting eyes.
The actress and former pop sensation is expecting her first child with husband and actor Laurence Fox.
Earlier in the year the former teen star revealed she acted out some of the heated sex scenes herself despite carrying a baby bulge.
Piper said she used a body double and some clever camera angles to help her pull off her kinky role.
Following the release of “Another Side,” the album made up entirely of cover versions of popular songs made famous by other artists, John Barrowman has decided to work on yet another album. This time, it’s called “Music Music Music,” and it features songwriting contributions from Take That’s Gary Barlow.
Barrowman, who presently stars as Captain Jack Harkness on the Dr. Who spin-off Torchwood, is no stranger to the music circuit. In fact, his musical abilities have been featured in films such as in the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely, where he had a duet with Kevin Kline singing “Night and Day,” and in the 2005 Mel Brooks film The Producers, where he sang “Springtime for Hitler.” In addition, he also performed in and co-presented a BBC One Series called The Sound of Musicals, in which performs from West End musicals sing songs from the shows.
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see all »“Music Music Music” is the Torchwood star’s second pop album following “Another Side,” which reached number 22 on the United Kingdom Album Charts and was certified Gold on January 11. The first single of his new album called “What About Us” is expected to come out on November 17, while the album itself will be released on November 24.
Apart from Torchwood, John Barrowman will also be participating in Broadway: The Next Generation, a documentary written and directed by Rick McKay. The feature, which will be released in 2009, also includes Liev Schreiber (The Manchurian Candidate, CSI), Jeff Goldblum (The Fly, Raines), Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Glenn Close (Damages), Peter Gallagher (The O.C.), Alan Cumming (Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World), Amanda Plummer (The Last Angel), Bryan Batt (Mad Men), Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show, Cosby), Richard Thomas (Just Cause, The Christmas Secret), and Jason Alexander (Seinfeld), just to name a few.
Catherine Tate is keen to reprise her role as departed companion Donna Noble in a future series of Doctor Who.
The actress, who left the show at the end of the recent fourth season finale, told Doctor Who Magazine: “I knew that there would definitely be an end to Donna, at the end of the series.
“But had that not been the case, had it been open-ended, had there been potential for Donna to stay on for another series, I must confess that I’d have said ‘yes’ like a shot.”
Despite Donna’s mind being wiped in ‘Journey’s End’, Tate added: “Could Donna come back? Well, in science fiction, anything is possible.”
Torchwood star Eve Myles looked stunning as she laughed and joked with cast and crew members during filming in Cardiff yesterday.
Mount Stuart Square in the Bay was transformed into a surreal sci-fi world as work began on the third series of the hit BBC show, entitled Torchwood: Children of Earth.
Eve, who plays feisty former police officer Gwen Cooper, was all smiles despite the damp weather as she spent the entire day on set.
Wearing a black leather jacket, black skinny jeans and black leather boots, she cut a dramatic figure as she faced a mystery alien lifeforce – to be added into the scene by the show’s special effects team – outside Buffs wine bar.
A crew member said: “I can’t give anything away, but this series has a lot of surprises in store for viewers.
“Eve is great, so easy to work with. She’s lovely and good fun on set, but a true professional too.”
He added that Cardiff had proved to be an excellent choice as a filming location.
“What makes our job so much easier is that the people of Cardiff are so supportive,” he said.
“The businesses around this area could make things difficult for filming but they are being so cooperative.”
But the crew seem to have become confused between science fiction and reality.
As a passer-by went to post a letter, a member of the production team asked a colleague: “Is that our red post box or is it a real one?”
Consisting of one five-part story, Children of Earth will be the first venture into the world of Torchwood for Euros Lyn, who previously directed Doctor Who episodes including The Runaway Bride and Steven Moffat’s two-parter Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.
Executive producer for both Doctor Who and Torchwood, Russell T Davies told production staff: “I usually give you all one or two tone words when we have a meeting like this, but if I were to give you two words this time, they would be ‘Euros Lyn’.
“More than ever before, this series of Torchwood will be director-led, and it will look absolutely amazing.”
Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, which started life on digital channel BBC3 before moving to BBC2, is to be broadcast on BBC One next spring.
Russell T. Davies has revealed that Torchwood’s third season will be entitled ‘Children Of Earth’.
The mini season will run over five consecutive nights on BBC1 in Spring 2009 and be directed by Euros Lyn.
Davies exclusively told Torchwood Magazine: “More than ever before, this series of Torchwood will be director-led, and it will look absolutely amazing.”
Filming will begin in Cardiff on August 18 and details of casting are due to be released shortly. Freema Agyeman was expected to join the Torchwood team as Martha Jones, but her recent decision to join the cast of ITV1′s Law And Order has put her appearance in doubt.
David Tennant has been named the Greenest Star on the Planet.
The Doctor Who star won the title after receiving the most votes out of the top ten celebrities in Playhouse Disney’s Playing for the Planet Awards.
Families across the UK voted online choosing the Time Lord as their favourite eco-friendly star in the shortlist which included Sienna Miller, Lily Allen, Lily Cole, Stella McCartney, Madonna and Johnny Depp. Star couple Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Chris Martin earned a joint nomination.
David – who is currently appearing in Hamlet with The Royal Shakespeare Company – drives a hybrid car and actively encourages everyone around him to get involved and save the planet as his alter ego The Doctor would do.
Peter Duncan, awards judge and ambassador said: “I am delighted that David Tennant has won the Greenest Star award – he’s a great role model for kids everywhere and clearly is as passionate at saving the planet as his character ‘The Doctor’.
“As we enter the final judging stage for the rest of the categories, I’m looking forward to seeing some fantastic entries from eco-heroes all over the country.”
The Playing for The Planet campaign launched last year to help pave the way for a whole new generation of pre-school kids to grow up green.
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