Steven Moffat and
Mark Gatiss have been nominated for the
Long Form Television category for
Sherlock in the
2013 Producers Guild Awards, which take place on the 26th January. The show is up against
American Horror Story,
The Dust Bowl,
Game Change, and
Hatfields and McCoys.
Matt Smith has recorded a couple of pieces for
Disney Junior's new series entitled
A Poem is .... Set amongst animated clips from various Disney animations, he presents a traditional folk song
De Colores on the 5th January and Jack Prelutsky's
Once They All Believed In Dragons on the 19th January - a video of the latter can be found via
BBC America.
[BBC America, 3 Jan 2013]Bernard Cribbins talks about working on a new story-based series
Old Jack's Boat:
"It was lovely to be asked, it is a bit like Jackanory - it's me, sitting telling stories, with my dog Salty beside me. And it has the bonus of a few extra characters and some animation, and we got the chance to wander about Staithes, a lovely fishing village in North Yorkshire." The series also sees two episdoes written by
Russell T Davies:
"I asked them if they had all the stories in place and when they said no, I approached Russell to ask if he would do it. It was a change for him, to write for such a young audience but his stories are lovely." [Evening Times, 2 Jan 2013]Bill Pullman reveals his love of fruit in a new documentary
The Fruit Hunters. The actor, who owns over two acres of Orchard in Hollywood, said:
"Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me. I think in California it really blossomed. This climate is sensational for growing a lot of different variety of rare fruit plants from other climates all year-round. That idea was intoxicating to me. I would say the biggest surprise to me, the tree that I just find so cool (is) Persian mulberries; they're so fragile, the farmer's market will sometimes sell a single layer of them to gourmet chefs, but they're pretty pricey. But, if you stand under a tree and eat away, you just feel so lucky to have a sensation that very few people get to have." [USA Today, 4 Jan 2013]The actor also continues his 'presidential' credentials in a new series from
NBC,
1600 Penn; Pullman plays President Dale Gilchrist in the show, which debuts on the 10th January.
John Barrowman suffered an accident during the matinee of his pantomine
Jack and the Beanstalk in Glasgow on Friday; the performer fell from a horse and was taken to Glasgow's Western Infirmary as a precaution. However, his injury was reported to be minor and that he expected to be back for the matinee on Saturday.
"The Next Doctor"
David Morrissey speaks very favourably about current Doctor
Matt Smith:
"I love Matt; I think he's a fantastic actor. I've known him for a long time and he's a great guy. He's a really brave choice for them. There was lots of names around – and those were tough shoes to fill, David Tennant's. You know what I mean? David Tennant really made it his own, and for Matt to come in and do that is something else ... he's the first [Doctor] to really break through in America." [Paranormal Pop Culture, 6 Dec 2012]Brian Cox is to star in the BBC Four comedy series
Bob Servant Independent, in which he plays the wannabe MP for Broughton Ferry. The six-parter (
originally planned to be in three parts and airing late last year) stems from the hit BBC Radio Scotland comedy
The Bob Servant Emails and best-selling Bob Servant books. It begins on
Wednesday 23rd January at 10pm.
Frank Skinner appeared alongside
Billie Piper on
The Graham Norton Show, where he confessed he'd accidentally called her Rose backstage! Talking about the show itself, he said:
"I said to my manager 'Do you think you could get me a part in Doctor Who? I don't mean like a big part, I'll be a monster, I'll be a lunar rock, but I really would love to be able to say to my grandchildren I was in Doctor Who', and he said 'oh sure, it won't be a problem'. He got in touch and he got an email back from one of the senior people saying 'I'm really happy to hear that that's a thing that Frank would like to do ...' Somehow the end of the email seems to have been be cut off!" [The Graham Norton Show, 4 Jan 2013]In Memoriam:
Daphne Oxenford died on
Friday 21st December aged 93. She played two roles in
Doctor Who, first as the Archivist in Seventh Doctor story
Dragonfire from 1987, and then as an older Agatha Christie in the Tenth Doctor story
The Unicorn and the Wasp in 2008 (her scenes in the latter were not broadcast, but can be seen on the
Complete Series Four Boxed Set). She will perhaps be best remembered, however, as the voice of
Listen With Mother and the immortal saying
"Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.".
Tonight sees the return of Stargazing Live to BBC Television on BBC2/BBCHD. The series sees presenters Professor Brian Cox and Dara O'Briain bring their enthusiasm for astronomy to life, inviting viewers to appreciate the sky and the visible objects that surround us each evening.
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