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 Jon Pertwee as the Doctor.
BBC America is also the home of Torchwood reruns in the United States. Here's the current schedule:
Torchwood: Miracle Day was coproduced by Starz, so they get to show it. Here are the currently scheduled showtimes:
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:
The CBC is no longer showing new Doctor Who or Torchwood. But they do have some limited rerun rights, so keep an eye on their programme guide for possible late night showings.
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/.
The January 2012 pledge drive at KBTC easily met its goal of $15,000 on air. It accomplished this despite RustyCon going on at the same time, and many potential viewers still not having power due to the snowstorm. Next up, June!
Seattle is getting a Dalek! The Science Fiction Museum announced that its new exhibit, Icons of Science Fiction, will include one of the white and gold Imperial Daleks from "Remembrance of the Daleks". The new items go on display in June.
Torchwood: Miracle Day has been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Drama Series catergory. The GLAAD Media Awards are presented for outstanding portrayals of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community. Torchwood is competing against Degrassi, Grey's Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars, and Shameless. The GLAAD Media Awards will be presented at three ceremonies, on March 24 in New York, Los Angeles on April 21, and San Francisco June 2. For more information, see www.glaad.org/mediaawards.
Voting is now open for the National Television Awards! The following categories should be of interest to Whovians around the world:
David Tennant and Georgia Moffat were married on New Year's Eve, with their baby daughter Olive among the attendees. They met during production of "The Doctor's Daughter", where Moffat played the title character. Of course, she really is the Doctor's daughter, as her father is Peter Davison. So now the Doctor is his own son-in-law!
Well, the bad news we all knew was coming is now here: Amy and Rory will be leaving the Doctor during the upcoming season, and the Doctor will have a new traveling companion. However, when and how the Ponds are leaving, and who the new companion will be, have yet to be revealed.
Surprisingly good news at this year's Missing, Presumed Wiped screening, sponsired by the BFI: Two previously lost episodes of Doctor Who were shown! Not seen by the public in over forty years, they were "Air Lock", the third episode of "Galaxy 4", and episode 2 of "The Underwater Menace", making that now the earliest complete episode with Patrick Troughton's Doctor. You can see clips from the two episodes right here, and 2|entertain, the producers of the Doctor Who video releases, plans an announcement soon about how and when they will be released on DVD. And yes, as soon as we can get them, we're showing them at an Androgums meeting!
So, you want to see the latest, official trailer for "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe"? Okay!
The annul Children in Need telethon was broadcast on the BBC November 17, and there were two major Doctor Who appearances. First, Matt Smith put up one of his costumes for auction, and there was also a preview of the upcoming Christmas special, which we now know is called "The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe". Here's a look:
The BAFTA Children's Awards nominations gave The Sarah Jane Adventures a few nods in their 2011 nominations. The show was up for both Best Drama and Favorite Show (the latter to be detemined by an online vote of kids seven to fourteen), and Phil Ford has been nominated for Best Writer. However, when the winners were announced on November 27, The Sarah Jane Adventures was shut out.
Doctor Who and several folks who've had exposure through the show did well in this year's TV Choice Awards, voted on by the British public. Doctor Who won for Best Family Drama, and Karen Gillan won Best Actress (defeating, among others, the late Elisabeth Sladen) for playing Amy Pond on the show. Matt Smith lost out on Best Actor, however, to his predecessor, David Tennant, for his work in Single Dad. Other winners of interest were Being Human (created by frequent Who scriptwriter Toby Whithouse) for Best Drama Series, Sherlock (created by Who producer Steven Moffatt and guest star/writer Mark Gatiss) for Best New Drama, and the fiftieth anniversary tram crash on Coronation Street (overseen by former Who producer Phil Collinson) winning for Best Soap Storyline. Meanwhile, on our side of Amy the Pond, Matt Smith won the award for Best Science Fiction Actor at the 2011 Scream Awards, beating out movie actors Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford (Cowboys & Aliens), Chris Evans (Captain America: The First Avenger), and Jake Gyllenhaal (Source Code). Doctor Who lost Best TV Show to Game of Thrones, however, and Karen Gillan was defeated by Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil: Afterlife) for Best Science Fiction Actress.
Doctor Who Confidential will no longer be made after this year. Changing priorities in both funding and programming at BBC Three means that this year's season will be the last episodes of Doctor Who with a behind-the-scenes Confidential to go with them. But there are several calls and petitions out asking for a reprive, so all may not quite be lost yet. One of them is at www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/savedwc.
Want to see David Tennant light the torch at the opening of the Olympics next year, just like his Doctor did in "Fear Her"? Well, there's a petition you can sign. It's incredibly unlikely that it would ever happen, but one can hope! However, BBC newsman Huw Edwards has been announced as the anchor for the BBC's coverage of the Opening Ceremonies. He's already had some practice, having done the same job in "Fear Her"!
Voting is has now closed for the National Television Awards, and yes, there are several Doctor Who and related nominations. We don't know who the final nominees are yet, but they should be announced soon. The final awards will be presented on January 25.
Another award nomination! The Writers Guild of Great Britain has announced their nominations for the past year, and for the third year running, Doctor Who is up for Best Television Drama Series. They're up against The Shadow Line and Accused. Steven Moffatt also received a nomination for Best Television Short-Form Drama, for Sherlock. When the awards were presented on November 16, however, both were left out in the cold (Doctor Who lost to The Shadow Line). The complete list of winners can be found on the Guild's website.
The results are in for the 2011 TV Choice Awards, and Doctor Who was a winner! The show won for Best Family Drama (beating out The Sarah Jane Adventures, among others), while Karen Gillan won the Best Actress award, ahead of Alex Kingston, Freema Agyeman, and the late Elisabeth Sladen. Matt Smith was up for Best Actor, but he lost to David Tennant, who won for his performance in Single Dad. The complete results are up on the TV Choice website. In other awards, the Constellation Awards in Canada have announced their winners, and Murray Gold and his scores for Doctor Who barely beat out the special effects of Inception for Best Technical Accomplishment in a 2010 Science Fiction Film or Televison Series. None of the many other Doctor Who nomnations won, but there were some close calls! For the complete list of winners, see constellations.tcon.ca.
Doctor Who was a double winner at the 2011 Hugo Awards, presented at Renovation, this year's WorldCon, in Reno, Nevada. The two-part story "The Pandorica Opens" and "The Big Bang" won for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, beating out "Vincent and the Doctor", "A Christmas Carol", the animated short The Lost Thing, and the music video "F@#$ Me, Ray Bradbury". And Chicks Dig Time Lords, the collection of essays about women in Doctor Who and Doctor Who fandom, won the award for Best Related Work. For a complete list of all of the 2011 Hugo nominees and winners, take a look at www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2011-hugo-awards.
The June 18 Doctor Who pledge drive at KBTC was a lot more successful than last June, thanks in part to two more episodes and wet weather. Final numbers are not in yet, but we know that the $15,000 goal was not met on air that night. But online pledges, corportate matching gifts, and late mail-in pledges may push that over the top. At any rate, it appears that classic Doctor Who on KBTC is safe for another six months.
And yet more award nominations: The Portal Awards! Doctor Who nominations include Matt Smith for Best Actor/Television, Karen Gillan for Best Actress/Television, Doctor Who for Best Series/Television, "The Doctor's Wife" as Best Episode/Television, Alex Kingston and Michael Gambon for Best Special Guest/Television, and Elisabeth Sladen for the Gene Roddenberry Award for lifetime achievement. For more information, including the complete list of nominees, see the complete press release at the Airlock Alpha website.
That guy who played Tom Campbell in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD, and then Wilfred Mott in the revival of the television show? He is no longer known as Bernard Cribbins. He is now Bernrd Cribbins, OBE, having been honored by the Queen for his services to drama on this year's list.
More animation! The BBC has announced that the two missing episodes of "The Reign of Terror" will be animated for the forthcoming DVD release. Episodes four and five are missing, but the remaining four episodes are still around. And there was an animated web series running alongside Torchwood this year. The story "Web of Lies" will run concurrently with the main storyline in "Miracle Day", as ten three-minute animated episodes on the web. "Web of Lies" will star Eliza Dushku (yes, the one from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tru Calling, and Dollhouse) and Bob Harris. John Barrowman and Eve Myles will also appear as Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper, of course. Early word is that the series will also be part of the DVD/Blu-Ray release of "Miracle Day". There were also three new Torchwood radio stories starring Barrowman, Myles, and Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones (so yes, they take place before "Children of Earth"), and three "Miracle Day" prequel novels to bridge the gap between "Children of Earth" and "Miracle Day".
Elisabeth Sladen, the actress who played Sarah Jane Smith for nearly forty years in Doctor Who, K-9 and Company, and The Sarah Jane Adventures, died of cancer at the age of 63. She is survived by her husband, actor Brian Miller, and their daughter Sadie.
Doctor Who was a big part of this year's Comic Relief telethon on the BBC, which raised over £71 million for charity in Britain and the developing world. Steven Moffat wrote a special two-part story for the night — and here it is:
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.
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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