Classic Doctor Who is on KBTC, the PBS station out of Tacoma! So, here is the KBTC Doctor Who schedule (as best as we can guess it), featuring Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor.
BBC America now has dual feeds, East and West, so the schedule may be off by three hours if you get the East feed. Here's their West schedule:
BBC America is also the home of Torchwood in the United States. Here's the current schedule:
Syfy no longer has the first run rights to Doctor Who or The Sarah Jane Adventures in the United States. But their Doctor Who site is still up at syfy.com/doctorwho/. They also still retain some rerun rights. Their current schedule:
HDNet is an all-high definition channel available on many systems. Among their programming is Torchwood, which you can see at these times:
Stick a fork in it, the Doctor's run on the CBC is over.
The CBC's Doctor Who web page can be found at cbc.ca/doctorwho/. The CBC's website is also presenting a Doctor Who documentary, Planet of the Doctor, which can be seen at cbc.ca/planetofthedoctor/.
Information about the show, including web editions of some out-of-print Doctor Who novels and new made-for-the-Internet stories, can be found at the BBC's Doctor Who website at bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/.
Want to see some of the websites shown or mentioned in the show, or that are otherwise part of the show?
The companion behind-the-scenes series, Doctor Who Confidential, broadcasts on BBC Three. The cut down abbreviated episodes are also being streamed on the web, so keep your eyes on the Doctor Who Confidential website at www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/confidential/.
The BBC's website has some made-for-internet stories. A new pre-Ecclesston ninth Doctor, played by Richard E. Grant, appears in the fortieth anniversary story, "Scream of the Shalka" (www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shalka/). The sixth Doctor meets up with the Cybermen in "Real Time" (www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/realtime/). The made-for-Internet version of "Shada," featuring Paul McGann as the Doctor, Lalla Ward as Romana, and John Leeson as K-9, is back, and can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/.
A twist on next year's broadcast of the new season of Doctor Who: It's going to be split into two parts. Episodes one through seven will be shown in the spring as usual, but then there will be some twist cliffhanger, and the rest of the season will then be shown in the fall. Hmm...
It's nearly a year away still, but already we're getting good news about the new Torchwood series. First off, yes, it will be a single ten-episode story, titled "The New World". John Barrowman, Eve Myles, and Kai Owen are all back, and Gwen and Rhys are going to be raising baby Anwen while dealing with the events. New characters (yet to be cast) will be CIA agents Rex Matheson and Ester, who will team up with what's left of Torchwood to deal with a global copnspiracy. Events will take place in (at least) Cardiff, Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. Writers Russell T. Davies and John Fay ("Childrenof Earth") will be returning, and they will be joined by John Shiban (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Smallville, Legend of the Seeker, Breaking Bad), Doris Egan (Smallville, Dark Angel, House), and Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Caprica).
The winners of the Saturn Awards have been released, and Torchwood won Best Presentation on Television for "Children of Earth". It beat out the Doctor Who special "The End of Time", Syfy's Alice minseries, AMC's remake of The Prisoner, The Tudors, and ABC's remake of V. In other categories, David Tennant lost out for Best Actor on Television to Josh Holloway of Lost, and Bernard Cribbins lost the Best Guest Starring Role on Television award to Leonard Nimoy on Fringe. Lost: "The Complete Fifth Season" won for Best DVD Television Release, defeating both Doctor Who: "Planet of the Dead" and Torchwood: "Children of Earth". Meanwhile, in Canada, the Constellation Awards were also presented, which saw David Tennant win for Best Male Performance in a 2009 Science Fiction Television Episode for "The Waters of Mars". For a complete list of winners, see constellations.tcon.ca. And another set of awards, the online Portal Awards, were dominated by Doctor Who, with Torchwood also making a good showing. The Who winners were David Tennant for Best Actor/Television (with John Barrowman second), Eve Myles for Best Actress/Televison (and Karen Gillan as the runner-up), Bernard Cribbins as Best Supporting Actor/Televison, "The End of Time" as Best Episode/Televison (and "Children of Earth" right behind it), Alex Kingston as Best Special Guest/Televison, and Doctor Who as Best Series/Television, with Torchwood right behind. For the complete list of all winners and nominees, see www.airlockalpha.com/specials/portal-awards-2010
The June 12, 2010 Doctor Who pledge drive at KBTC was a bit of a disappointment. With a goal of $15,000, the final tally fell far short of that, not even quite reaching $10,000. Online pledges, corporate matches, and late arrivals from time shifters (or those who just don't call in) will push that closer to the goal, but it looks like, for the first time in many years, the station won't get there, endangering the future of classic Doctor Who in Western Washington. If you still haven't pledged, you can do so at kbtc.org/donate.php. The Doctor Who thank you gifts are even available in the "Choose Your Gifts" box.
Excellent news! There will be a fourth series of Torchwood, and John Barrowman and Eve Myles will both be back. This time around, it will be ten episodes, probably with an interconnected storyline similar to "Children of Earth", to be shown in 2011. The Starz channel will be one of the backers, so the story will go beyond Cardiff and spread around the world, with new American characters. The series will first appear on Starz in the United States and BBC1 in Great Britain. (Don't worry, we'll have episodes as soon as possible at Androgum meetings.)
Too far north to see Doctor Who on KBTC? Maybe not any more! KBTC has announced that their signal now reaches Belligham, Vancouver, and Victoria. If you get over-the-air digital channels, retune your receiver to get channels 28.1 and 28.2, and you may be in for a very pleasant surprise every Saturday night at 7:00 p.m.
In Sarah Jane Adventures news, visitors are coming to Bannerman Road. One two-part story in the forthcoming season, to be written by Russell T. Davies, will feature Katy Manning playing Jo Grant, and Matt Smith playing the Doctor! This will be the first time Manning has played Jo on television since "The Green Death" in 1973, the first (known) meeting between Jo and Sarah Jane, and the third Doctor that Davies has written for. It will also be the seventh incarnation of the Doctor that Sarah Jane has met (at least on television).
The awards season continues! Both Doctor Who and Torchwood received several nominations for the Constellation Awards, presented in Canada. They are:
The 2010 Hugo Award nominations have been announced, and Who fans have a lot to cheer for. In the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, the nominees are:
More recognition for Doctor Who from The Guinness Book of World Records: Doctor Who Magazine has been awarded the record for Longest Running Magazine Based on a Television Series. Gee, over thirty years and four hundred issues, you think?
The new K-9 series has already started showing in Scandanavia, will debut in the United Kingdom and Australia during Easter weekend (the same weekend as the new season of Doctor Who), and will apparently make its American debut on Disney XD this summer.
The Sarah Jane Adventues has been picked up for two more seasons.
Barry Letts, the producer of the Jon Pertwee years of Doctor Who, has died. He was eighty-four. He started his association with Doctor Who directing "The Enemy of the World," then was named producer partway through season seven. He stayed on until Tom Baker's debut story, "Robot," then passed the reins over to Philip Hinchcliffe. He returned to direct several other stories, however, and helped Graham Williams produce when Williams took ill, and acted as Executive Producer for season eighteen to shepherd new producer John Nathan-Turner. Letts also wrote two radio shows for Pertwee's Doctor and several original novels.
Whoa, that sneaked in! The Doctor Who Confidential team has produced a three-part retrospective, Doctor Who Greatest Moments, which has already started on BBC3. Yes, we'll do what we can to show it at upcoming Androgum meetings. They'll also be on the forthcoming DVD of the animated story "Dreamland".
The streak is over. Doctor Who (and Steven Moffat) did not win the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. Both Who stories that were nominated (the two-part "Silence in the Libary"/"Forest of the Dead" and "Turn Left") lost out to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. The complete list of Hugo winners is available right here.
The Guinness Book of World Records recently awarded a second world record for Doctor Who. Having already previously recognized it as the Longest Running Sci-Fi Series, the show recently won a second award for Most Successful Sci-Fi series, based on ratings, DVD and book sales, and downloads, among other criteria.
We have our own domain! So now androgums.org will be the place to come for all the latest on our little enclave of Seattle-area Doctor Who fandom. But the domain does cost us a little bit of money, so if you can help out with a donation, just click here:
The latest news about the new show can be found at Outpost Gallifrey's news page.
The Emerald City Androgums are a fan club devoted to Doctor Who, and to having as much fun as unhumanly possible at our meetings. We meet every other month for an Androgum potluck. Members are encouraged to eat, drink, and be merry, and we watch whatever shows tickle our fancy. We try to include at least one selection of the good Doctor himself.
In addition to semi-regular parties, we also had a newsletter that tried to keep the more isolated-from-fandom members up-to-date on the latest Who happenings and rumors. It also served as a creative forum for any Androgum who felt like writing a story or drawing a picture.
The newsletter is no more, however, and all newsletter activities will soon move on-line. So if you want to contribute something, here's the place to do it!
We can scan art, so if you'd like to help us create an on-line Androgum gallery, please feel free to send the art to us!
And coming soon: Club T-shirts and aprons!
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