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The Christmas Invasion
"The Christmas Invasion" is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2005. This episode features the first full-episode appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and is also the first specially produced ''Doctor Who'' Christmas special in the programme's history. In the episode, principally set in London, the alien race the Sycorax invade Earth, demanding that either humanity surrenders or one third of them will die. Plot The newly regenerated Tenth Doctor takes Rose back to her old estate, and collapses in front of Mickey and Jackie. They take the Doctor to Jackie's flat where they put him to bed. The Doctor tells them that his regeneration has gone wrong and theorises that the energy of his regeneration is luring an unseen foe to him. He passes out again. Early on Christmas morning, the Mars space probe ''Guinevere One'' is intercepted by a giant spaceship heading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Tennant
David John Tennant (''né'' McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. He rose to fame for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor (2005–2010 and 2013) in the BBC science-fiction TV show '' Doctor Who'', reprising the role from 2022 to 2023 as the fourteenth incarnation. Other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial ''Casanova'' (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in the fantasy film '' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' (2005), Peter Vincent in the horror remake ''Fright Night'' (2011), DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series ''Broadchurch'' (2013–2017), Kilgrave in the Netflix superhero series '' Jessica Jones'' (2015–2019), Crowley in the Amazon Prime fantasy series ''Good Omens'' (2019–present), and Phileas Fogg in ''Around the World in 80 Days'' (2021). Tennant has worked on stage, including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of ''Hamlet'', later filmed for televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Anderson (actor)
Paul Anderson (born 19 November 1978) is an English film and television actor who came to prominence for portraying Arthur Shelby Jr. in ''Peaky Blinders'', Mr Anderson in the 2015 film '' The Revenant'', and Sebastian Moran in '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows''. Career Anderson decided to pursue acting in the mid 2000s, after working for many years as a ticket scalper and aspiring musician, and enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He began his acting career by appearing in plays written by his friend Gregory Burke, and made his screen debut with Burke's critically acclaimed 2014 film '' '71''. He had his first leading role in the 2009 British movie, ''The Firm''. Anderson's break came when, in 2013, he was cast as a main character in the BBC Two show ''Peaky Blinders'' as Arthur Shelby, a gangster in post First World War Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attack Of The Graske
"Attack of the Graske" is an Interactivity, interactive mini-episode of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' that was first broadcast on the BBC Red Button service on 25 December 2005. It was then made available as an online game on the official ''Doctor Who'' website. Plot The Tenth Doctor welcomes the viewer into the TARDIS. He tells them that he has been watching the viewer for some time, as they have been watching him, and that he has been impressed enough to want to take the viewer to help him on his next adventure. His current companion, Rose Tyler, Rose, has been dropped off at Wembley in 1979 for an ABBA concert. He then imbues the viewer's television remote control with the power of his sonic screwdriver, allowing the viewer to take part in the proceedings. To start, the Doctor shows his new assistant a family of six celebrating Christmas in a living room, by means of the TARDIS scanner – a family, it seems, like any other, except that one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Earth (Doctor Who)
"New Earth" is the first episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 15 April 2006. The episode is set five billion years in the future on New Earth, a planet humanity settled on following the destruction of the Earth in the 2005 episode " The End of the World". In the episode, the alien time traveller the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant), his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), and their old enemy Lady Cassandra (Zoë Wanamaker) uncover many artificially-grown humans having been infected with every disease in a luxury hospital by the Sisters of Plenitude as a way of finding cures for the diseases. The Face of Boe makes his second appearance before his last appearance in "Gridlock", the third and final sequel episode to the "New Earth Trilogy". Plot The Tenth Doctor takes Rose to the year 5,000,000,023 to a world humanity settled on after the destruction of the Earth called "New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Parting Of The Ways
"The Parting of the Ways" is the thirteenth episode and the season finale of the revived first series of the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. The episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 June 2005. It was the second episode of the two-part story. The first part, "Bad Wolf", was broadcast on 11 June. In the episode, the Dalek race invades the human satellite Satellite Five in the year 200,100, intending to make more Daleks by harvesting dead humans. The alien time traveller the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) plans to use the satellite's transmitter to try to destroy every Dalek, while at the same time sending his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) home to keep her safe. The episode featured Christopher Eccleston making his final appearance as the Ninth Doctor and marks the first appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. Plot The Ninth Doctor uses the extrapolator on the TARDIS to generate a protective shield around it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children In Need
''BBC Children in Need'' (also promoted as ' in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity. Since 1980, it has raised over £1 billion for disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. When adjusting for inflation in 2020, it totals £1,493,556,399 from 1980 to 2019. One of the highlights is an annual telethon, held in November and televised on BBC One and BBC Two. "Pudsey Bear" has been BBC Children in Need's mascot since 1985, whilst Sir Terry Wogan was its long-standing host for 35 years. A prominent annual event in British television, Children in Need is one of three high-profile British telethons. It is the only charity belonging to the BBC, the other telethons being Red Nose Day and Sport Relief, both supporting Comic Relief. Following the closure of the BBC Television Centre, the telethon broadcasts took place at the BBC Elstree Centre from 2013 to 2020. For many years, the telethon was up to 7 hours long, although due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the telethon for 2020 wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Gold
Murray Jonathan Gold (born 28 February 1969) is an English composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio. He is best known as the musical director and composer of the music for ''Doctor Who'' from 2005, until he stepped down in 2018 after the tenth series aired in 2017. He has been nominated for five BAFTAs. Born in Portsmouth to a Jewish family, Gold initially pursued drama as a vocation, writing and playing music as a hobby, but switched to music when he became musical director for the University of Cambridge's Footlights society. Television Gold has been nominated for a BAFTA five times in the category Best Original Television Music, for '' Vanity Fair'' (1999), '' Queer as Folk'' (2000), ''Casanova'' (2006) and twice for ''Doctor Who'' (2009 and 2014). His score for the BAFTA winning film '' Kiss of Life'' was awarded the 'Mozart Prize of the 7th Art' by a French jury at Aubagne in 2003. He has also been nominated four times by the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Gardner
Julie Ann Gardner (born 4 June 1969) is a Welsh television producer. Her most prominent work has been serving as executive producer on the 2005 revival of '' Doctor Who'' and its spin-off shows ''Torchwood'' and ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. She worked on ''Doctor Who'' from 2003 to 2009 before moving to Los Angeles to work at BBC Worldwide. In 2015, Gardner co-founded the production company Bad Wolf, best known for the BBC TV series ''His Dark Materials'', on which Gardner also serves as an executive producer. Early life Gardner was born in Neath and grew up in the Pont Walby area of Glynneath, where her parents ran a local shop. She attended Llangatwg Comprehensive and Neath Port Talbot College, where she was an outstanding student of A Level English, History and Drama. She read English at Queen Mary University of London and initially worked as a teacher at Rhondda College, now part of Coleg Morgannwg, teaching English at GCSE and A Level, before in the mid-1990s she dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Collinson
Philip Collinson (born 26 August 1970) is a British television producer. He was initially an actor, before switching to working behind the cameras in the industry as a script editor and writer on programmes such as ''Springhill'' and ''Emmerdale'', later becoming the producer of ''Peak Practice'', ''Doctor Who'' and ''Coronation Street''. Career Collinson has produced several series for the BBC, including the comedy drama ''Linda Green'', and the first seasons of 1950s-set ''Born and Bred'' and paranormal thriller ''Sea of Souls''. In January 2004, he started work as the tenth full-time in-house producer of the BBC science-fiction programme ''Doctor Who''. While he was an actor, the role of Alexander in the 1999 Channel 4 drama '' Queer as Folk'' was written especially for him by his friend Russell T Davies. However, after Antony Cotton auditioned for the production team, Davies and his fellow producers felt they had no choice but to offer the role to him instead of Collinson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Raynor
Helen Raynor (born March 1972) is a Welsh television screenwriter and script editor from Swansea. She is best known for her work on the relaunched BBC science fiction series ''Doctor Who''. She previously worked as a theatre director. Besides television episodes, Raynor has written theatrical plays, radio plays, and short stories. Early life Raynor was born in Swansea and attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Her initial career was in the theatre, where she worked for eight years as a director and assistant director for the Bush Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, the Royal Opera House, English Touring Opera and Opera North. Her RSC Fringe production of ''Soho'' by Rebecca Lenkiewicz won a Fringe First at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival. She also wrote ''Cake'', a fifteen-minute television short for BBC One's ''Brief Encounters'' strand shown in May 2006, and for radio, a sixty-minute play ''Running Away with the Hairdresser'' for BBC Radio 4, broadcast in June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell T Davies
Stephen Russell Davies (born 27 April 1963), better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer whose works include '' Queer as Folk'', '' The Second Coming'', ''Casanova'', the 2005 revival of the BBC One science fiction franchise ''Doctor Who'', ''Cucumber'', ''A Very English Scandal'', '' Years and Years'' and ''It's a Sin''. Born in Swansea, Davies had aspirations as a comic artist before focusing on being a playwright and screenwriter. After graduating from Oxford University, he joined the BBC's children's department, CBBC, in 1985 on a part-time basis and held various positions, which included creating two series, '' Dark Season'' and ''Century Falls''. He eventually left the BBC for Granada Television, and in 1994 began writing adult television drama. His early scripts generally explored concepts of religion and sexuality among various backdrops: '' Revelations'' was a soap opera about organised religion and featured a lesbian vicar; '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hawes
James Hawes is a British television director. He has worked in British television drama since the mid-1990s, and has also produced documentaries for British and American television networks. His work has ranged across high-end period pieces and prime-time adventure drama, including the re-launch of ''Doctor Who'' and '' Enid'', a biopic starring Helena Bonham Carter about the celebrated children's author Enid Blyton, which won Hawes a BAFTA nomination as Best Director at the 2010 ceremony. Early life Hawes was born in Wimbledon, England, but his father's career in the mining industry soon moved the family to South America. Hawes started school in Lima, Peru. Eventually returning to the UK, the family settled in Cornwall where Hawes attended the local Constantine Primary School before moving on to Truro School. He read law at the University of Warwick, combining his studies with acting and directing in the student drama society. Around him at the time was an unusually talented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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