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I heard Hattie on Local radio the other morning – Friday, I think – and although they talked about Red Dwarf and the new specials, she didn’t seem to have any insider knowledge, so I can’t see her being involved.
And to tell the truth, if Kochanski isn’t in the sections that have already been filmed, I can’t see her being in the rest.

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Some kind of wonderful.

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The fact that Doctor Who’s on over the same weekend (although Dwarf’ll be on on the 10th, and I can see Who being on the following day, hence the the following week’s issue), just the fact that it’s on Dave means it’s it’s chances of a cover are practically zero (though never say never, people).

Incidentally, nobody is worried that Dwarf and Who will be on at the same time, are they?

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Yeah, I’ve got it on a VHS somewhere…

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I know it’s one of my Dad’s favourites, but that’s probably an Elvis thing.

I really like it too.

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Yes, it says every saturday, and also says that it’s next on on wednesday 4th February…

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That’s my idea of heaven.

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I can’t even look at it.

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At least it’s not Ricky Gervais. I don’t know how I’d cope if *that* was onscreen.

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Michelle Ryan IS going to be in Doctor Who – She’ll play Lady Christina de Souza in Planet of the Dead at Easter. Lee Evans will play a character called Malcolm…

Apparently, ‘Christina joins the Doctor on a bus-trip which takes a very unexpected detour into danger’.

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I did the quiz, and despite getting them all ‘right’ (give or take the errors mentioned before), it told me I’d got 4 out of ten. Gormless.

Yep, got an e-mail from Dave yesterday, and have only just seen it, alerting me to the Production Diary. Officially can’t wait.

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That would answer the other question, then. Having said that – Kevin and Perry? A hit?

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Why no onscreen credit for Maria McErlene (sp?)

And if Kevin and Perry was one of Ed Bye’s movies, what was the other? And which was the hit and which was the flop?

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Powerful, and he meant it. Good stuff.

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You yawn, love, it’s alright.

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HE’S IN.

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There goes Aretha. New guys coming in.

God, I’m so scared.

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Well, the Sunday Mirror this week said she’d be taking over ‘from Freema Agyeman’, completely bypassing series four and Donna.

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Yes, they were on Top of the Pops and everything.

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Well worth it, sir.

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Well, with my birthday money/Karl’s HMV gift card, finally got round to buying the Beneath The Surface boxset. Nice.

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Bogus Journey was 1991, thus not an eighties movie.

Excellent Adventure it is.

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I’m looking forward to The War Games later this year.

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Oh no, it’s not that bad. The ‘My baseball cards must be worth a FORTUNE!’ line always makes me smile. The holograms are crap though, that whole “Ghandi in Space” thing…Awful.

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I cannot believe nobody’s mentioned Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Keanu Reeves’s finest hour.

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You don’t need an H, just a felt tip.

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I’d do it for the sheer honour. Though a crafty tenner or two wouldn’t go amiss.

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Me. Fact.

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Typical. I do the hard work (reading a magazine and copying it to here)…

(and yes, I know I’ve got a credit)

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Give that man a peanut.

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Huh?

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I was going to suggest that maybe it was something to do with Dave. But then it would have Dave’s website in the bio…

The mystery continues.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

But I’m biased.

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Can’t someone start a new thread entitled ‘Matt Smith – The Eleventh Doctor’ or something? then we can start over.

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Dark Victoriana would be nice.

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When I mentioned that ‘token’ thing, I wasn’t meaning to sound so pompous or political. What I meant was that the press would be reporting on ‘The first Black Doctor’, in the same way as they would have reported on ‘The first female Doctor’, as opposed to ‘The Eleventh Doctor’. Okay, so as it is, we’ve got ‘The Youngest Doctor’, but that’s nothing.

Another thing. A point I wanted to make, without wanting to sound just as pompous and political, is that although the Doctor can change his body, all those years ago, he was born a White Male. If he could change into a woman, then surely you wouldn’t be able to differentiate between Time Lords and Ladies, yes? And so, I’d argue that skin tone isn’t so easily changed either – it’s not a matter of race, just remaining as you were born. Please don’t get upperty with me. I’m not a barrister, just expressing my thoughts.

Plus, I didn’t want Paterson Joseph or Catherine Zeta Jones.

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You have to read this. This is brilliant…

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/topic.php?uid=4701958740&topic=7781

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Mine is me, by Michael of this parish.

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Sorry, I’ve been away. Has anything happened in the last few hours?

So. Matt Smith. He’s currently presenting the Football highlights on ITV1, doesn’t seem very Doctory.

I jest, of course. I know it’s not *that* Matt Smith.

Initial reaction? “Oh-kay…” It could have been a hell of a lot worse. I’m glad they didn’t go for a really established, star name, actor. Glad it’s not a woman/kid/token black/ethnic actor.
Not really aware of much of his stuff – I watched The Ruby in the Smoke, but couldn’t really tell you much about him.
My sister thinks he has a head shaped like a peanut, and hair like a walnut whip, but he has an oddness about him, which I think could work.
A bit worried he could be a bit, well, Emo, but, as has been discussed here and elsewhere, Steven Moffat has shown that he is a man who can be trusted in these matters…

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I don’t want Paterson Joseph. :-(

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Didn’t see all this before starting a se[arate thread. Whatever, I’m not moving it.

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. That’s good.

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Also, it showed that Sophie Aldred had a quite remarkable arse back in the day.

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Ooh, Short Circuit. I’d forgotten about that.

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Yeah. Whatever.

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Back to the Future is the best movie ever.

I didn’t see this, either. Love Ghostbusters. Was The Goonies in there?

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Actually.

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Currently halfway through watching the Special Edition on Disc Two. It’s…not fantastic, but it’ll do.

EDIT: Watched it all. The dark haired one had a bad hand in maniacal laughter. There was a couple of amusing fights. Angela Bruce’s hair looked ridiculous. But..

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