tardisconsolenews: christmas special 2010

TV by the Numbers report the figure, which is for the 9-10.20pm showing on the channel. Last year the first part of The End of Time, which was shown the day after Christmas, achieved 671,000 viewers in the same timeslot.

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Sunday, 26 December 2010

Doctor Who Katherine Jenkins on A Christmas Carol

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Friday, 24 December 2010

Matt Smith's Fan Mail - The Graham Norton Show - Christmas Special 2010 - BBC One

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A Christmas Carol Doctor Who Behind The Scenes This Morning

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Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Dr who advent calender Day Twenty-One: Matt Smith Introduces A Christmas Carol

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Have a Confidential Christmas!

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Katherine jenkins lifts the lid on her Christmas Dr who role

Singer Katherine Jenkins bagged herself a huge job for her first acting role – the Doctor Who Christmas special. Nathan Bevan talks nerves, high notes and backstage riders with the diva

KATHERINE Jenkins is telling me of something very strange which happened on the day of her audition for the Doctor Who Christmas special. It was a cosmic coincidence so odd it could have come straight out of the plot of one of the Time Lord’s very own adventures.

“I went along to the casting director’s office in London the day before my 30th birthday and ran through about four or five scenes with them,” chirped the world-famous Neath mezzo-soprano.

“Afterwards, I drove 200 miles away to a hotel in Somerset to meet with some family and friends and guess who was the first person I saw as I walked into the lobby? Only Matt Smith himself!

“I wanted to go over to him and yell, ‘I might be acting alongside you’, but had signed a confidentiality agreement not to breathe a word. I couldn’t even tell my mum where I’d been.

“What was he doing there though? I mean seriously, just how random is that?” she laughed.

Serendipity some might call it, especially since Jenkins got the call telling her she’d won the prestigious festive role alongside Smith’s 11th Doctor practically as she was blowing out the candles on her birthday cake.

But as the mega-selling classical singer was quick to admit, she almost didn’t go for the part at all.

“Well, I’ve never done acting of any kind, so I really wasn’t sure if I was up to it,” she cringed.

“And it’s the Doctor Who Christmas Special too, that’s one step down from the Queen’s Speech in the iconic stakes. The last thing I wanted was to be the one to ruin it.

“But then I thought, ‘Well, why not try? The worst they can tell me is ‘no’.”

She clearly impressed them though, though Jenkins confessed to initially thinking she was only hired because her character, Abigail Pettigrew, is called upon in the script to sing.

Surely though, I tell her, if they’d had any concerns they’d have simply got a trained actress in and asked her to lip-synch instead.

“I suppose so,” she smiled, suddenly perking up. “And I’m in it quite a bit – it’s not a cameo – so they must trust me.”

She was certainly made very welcome by some more than others.

Yes, Michael Gambon, esteemed Knight of the British stage and screen, we’re looking at you.

“Michael was so lovely. Me and Matt would sit around for hours in his trailer in between takes listening to stories about his time in Hollywood,” said Katherine, whose part took nearly a month to film on location in places like Cardiff Bay, Pontypridd and Newport.

“He was a hell of a practical joker too, mind.

“His character, Kazran Sardick, is supposed to be a bit Scrooge-like and has this long cane with a metal tip that he carries everywhere.

“In one place we were filming the crew had to wear hard hats and, Michael being Michael, he’d wander up behind them, whack them on the head with the end of his stick and then quickly turn away like nothing had happened.

“He let me take the blame for that on a number of occasions. He really is a wicked man,” she laughed, adding that she’s now caught the acting bug and would happily do more “provided it involved music in some way”.

And Jenkins added that Smith could easily have similar success if he ever tried his luck at her day job.

“I had a really good laugh with Matt between takes.

“He kept mucking around and singing to me and I couldn’t believe what a great bass voice he has. People really should hear him!”

Acting aside, Jenkins has never been a stranger to taking risks; the stage show for her latest Believe tour featuring nightly feats of daring which see her flying around arenas on a high wire with no safety net below.

“You can blame Tim Gavin for that; he choreographed Take That’s last tour and he wanted to make mine less an ordinary classical concert and more of a spectacle,” she said.

“He was like, ‘Why don’t we have an aerialist zooming around in the air while you’re singing?’ and I told him I loved that idea.

“Then he said, ‘He’s going to come down and grab you and you’ll go up into the air with him’, and I went, ‘You what? I can’t do that!’

“We needed to do it though because it was a perfect visual complement to all the rockier songs in the set, stuff by Evanescence and Queen.

“It would have looked a bit odd me twirling around in the rafters singing Pie Jesu or something.”

Monday, 20 December 2010

Doctor who Christmas special small trailer

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Doctor Who BFI Q&A - Christmas Special - Part 1

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Dr who a christmas carol 20 things from sfx

The episode is a tour de force for Matt Smith. Amy and Rory are pretty much sidelined as Smith explodes like a force of nature from the screen. He is magnificent

It’s fantasy, through and through. It’s a Christmas whimsy that pays mere lip service to science fiction. This is Moffat’s vision of the show as a dark fairy tale taken further than ever before. We’re predicting some people will have a problem with this. Your enjoyment may be in relation to your ability to suspend disbelief
Two articles of clothing from the Doctor’s past make cameo appearances
There’s an unexpected continuity reference to the Tom Baker story “Pyramids Of Mars”
The Doctor is asked for some advice that he cannot give
The Doctor gets married
Katherine can act. You might be worried about a singer who’s never acted before taking on such a major role, but she’s really very good.
There are more witty, quotable lines per minute than ever before
Some of the FX are outstanding, but a couple are, well, shall we just say… over-ambitious
The production design is stunning
It’s not the most action-packed of Christmas special. There are some great, exciting set pieces, but mostly it’s a character piece
Michael Gambon is, of course, amazing.
The names in the opening titles are all Christmas-ed up
It’s fish and ships for Christmas!
It’s very, very, very Christmassy, and quite emotional
There’s a trailer for next season at the end (roll over for spoilery info: the Utah shoot looks incredible, we think we spotted an Ood, and there is a mention of Jammy Dodgers!)
Two of the Doctor’s trusted aides aren’t quite so reliable
Parents may hope that children won’t ask them to explain one gag
The final shot would make a good Christmas card

The Doctor has one major costume change (other than ones involving putting Father Christmas hats on)

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Monday, 13 December 2010

Dr who A Christmas Carol - clip

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Thursday, 9 December 2010

Does the Doctor jump the shark at Christmas?

After numerous rumours spawned by these set photo’s by Alun Vega of a flying shark featuring in The Christmas Special this reliable poster has revealed that apparently The Christmas Special does indeed feature an absconding shark and there was an actual shark on set for some of the filming.

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Doctor Who will be cloned by aliens in Christmas Special

Doctor Who’s Time Lord will be cloned by aliens in a dramatic episode of the sci-fi drama next year.

An army of monsters from outer space will make a carbon copy of the handsome doctor – who is played by Matt Smith – as they invade Earth.

However, the Time Lord will only discover the clone when he comes face to face with himself as he investigates the alien invasion, and tries to foil the extra-terrestrial beings’ plans to take over the world.

His companions Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) also become confused when they can’t work out which is the real doctor and which is his double, and who they should be taking instructions from.

The hit BBC One series returns in the spring after its special Christmas Day (25.12.10) episode, which will be based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ with an alien twist.

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Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Katherine Jenkins on BBC Breakfast (06-12-10) Doctor Who

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Sunday, 5 December 2010

Doctor Who writer keeps his cool

Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat has revealed he had to play festive hits and chill his room to get the mood right to compose the Christmas special.

Moffat, who is also in charge of the series as its executive producer, was stranded in a sweltering Los Angeles hotel room as he conjured up the tale.

The scriptwriter said he had a mental block until he took measures to change the atmosphere by turning up the air conditioning.

Moffat was stuck in LA during the air travel chaos earlier this year due to the Icelandic volcano which grounded flights. But tight deadlines meant the script had to be put together while he was there.

Writing in the Christmas edition of Radio Times about the experience, he said: "Two days of writing nothing, and I took emergency measures.

"I downloaded every Christmas song I could find, closed all the curtains, and turned up the air conditioning to 'Doctor Zhivago', and sat at my desk in a big coat and mittens. And I thought of the rules of Christmas movies."

The two-week Christmas edition of Radio Times is on sale until December 27, and the Doctor Who special is screened on Christmas Day.

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