This year's Blue Peter Doctor Who Competition
Sunday, 3 December 2006 - Reported by Chuck Foster
After the success of their Doctor Who Monster competition last year, Blue Peter and the Doctor Who production team decided to go one better this year with a new competition for a Blue Peter viewer to actually have aspeaking role in the new series!
Launched on the 16th October with an video introduction by David Tennant and other recent series actors, the following weeks saw thousands of videos submitted, choosing from three different scripts to act out.
As well as the top prize of appearing in Doctor Who, the next three runners up have an expenses-paid trip to the exhibition in Cardiff, all ten receive a signed boxed set for Season Two, and the 250 runners up receive a Doctor Who book and action figure.
Future editions of Blue Peter saw encouragement from Doctor Who's Casting Director Andy Pryor, and Stormbreaker film star Alex Pettyfer.
The competition closed on the 10th November, and the following Wednesday's show covered some of the 8057 entries that had been received! The top nine video finalists were then announced, plus an online poll run to enable viewers to select an additional finalist from ten other entrants by the end of the week.
The ten finalists will now be attending an acting workshop, and the eventual winners will be announced on a future programme.
Competition details online can still be seen on the CBBC website, with the original competition announcement and scripts, plus the voting results.
Launched on the 16th October with an video introduction by David Tennant and other recent series actors, the following weeks saw thousands of videos submitted, choosing from three different scripts to act out.
As well as the top prize of appearing in Doctor Who, the next three runners up have an expenses-paid trip to the exhibition in Cardiff, all ten receive a signed boxed set for Season Two, and the 250 runners up receive a Doctor Who book and action figure.
Future editions of Blue Peter saw encouragement from Doctor Who's Casting Director Andy Pryor, and Stormbreaker film star Alex Pettyfer.
The competition closed on the 10th November, and the following Wednesday's show covered some of the 8057 entries that had been received! The top nine video finalists were then announced, plus an online poll run to enable viewers to select an additional finalist from ten other entrants by the end of the week.
The ten finalists will now be attending an acting workshop, and the eventual winners will be announced on a future programme.
Competition details online can still be seen on the CBBC website, with the original competition announcement and scripts, plus the voting results.
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