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The Pandorica Opens
"The Pandorica Opens" is the twelfth episode of the fifth series of British science fiction television programme '' Doctor Who'', first broadcast on 19 June 2010 on BBC One. It is the first in a two-part finale; the second part, "The Big Bang", aired on 26 June. The episode was written by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat and directed by Toby Haynes. In the episode, the time-travelling archaeologist River Song (Alex Kingston) summons alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) to Roman Britain in 102 AD, where underneath Stonehenge lies a fabled prison called the Pandorica that legend tells holds the most fearsome being in the whole universe. However, it is discovered that the Doctor has been put in a trap by an alliance of his greatest enemies to save the universe from cracks in time that were caused by the Doctor's space-time vessel the TARDIS. Amy's fiancé, Rory (Arthur Darvill), who had previously been erased f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandorica
"The Pandorica Opens" is the twelfth episode of the Doctor Who (series 5), fifth series of British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'', first broadcast on 19 June 2010 on BBC One. It is the first in a two-part finale; the second part, "The Big Bang (Doctor Who), The Big Bang", aired on 26 June. The episode was written by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat and directed by Toby Haynes. In the episode, the time-travelling archaeologist River Song (Doctor Who), River Song (Alex Kingston) summons alien time traveller Eleventh Doctor, the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his Companion (Doctor Who), companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) to Roman Britain in 102 AD, where underneath Stonehenge lies a fabled prison called the Pandorica that legend tells holds the most fearsome being in the whole universe. However, it is discovered that the Doctor has been put in a trap by an alliance of his greatest enemies to save the universe from cracks in time that were caused by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kasey
Paul Kasey (born 5 August 1973) is an English actor who frequently plays monsters on ''Doctor Who'', ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' and ''Torchwood''. Kasey was born in Chatham, Kent. He has played the Cybercontroller, the Cyber Leader, Cybermen, a clockwork android, the Hoix, an Auton, a Slitheen, an Ood, the Anne-Droid and a member of the Forest of Cheem in ''Doctor Who'', and Janet the Weevil, Alien Blowfish and a Hoix in ''Torchwood''. He has also made many appearances in ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' as aliens, and frequent appearances as himself on ''Totally Doctor Who'', usually in costume. Kasey has also appeared as a zombie in '' 28 Days Later'' and has appeared in the Star Wars film series as Ello Asty in ''The Force Awakens'', Admiral Raddus and '' Edrio Two Tubes'' in ''Rogue One'', and C'ai Threnalli in ''The Last Jedi''. Filmography ''Doctor Who'' ''Torchwood'' ''The Sarah Jane Adventures ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' is a British science fiction te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Bang (Doctor Who)
"The Big Bang" is the thirteenth and final episode of the fifth series of British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'', first broadcast on 26 June 2010 on BBC One. It is the second part of the two-part series finale; the first part, "The Pandorica Opens", aired on 19 June. The episode was written by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat and directed by Toby Haynes. Following the end of the previous episode, alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) is trapped in a prison from which escape is impossible, the space-time vessel the TARDIS has blown up with the time-travelling archaeologist River Song (Alex Kingston) inside, and the Doctor's companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) has been shot and killed by an Auton replica of her fiancé Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill). As the universe is collapsing, the Doctor uses time travel to solve these problems and ultimately reboot the universe. The episode sees the climax of Amy's character arc and the story arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lodger (Doctor Who)
"The Lodger" is the eleventh episode of the fifth series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', first broadcast on BBC One on 12 June 2010. It was written by Gareth Roberts, who based the story on his 2006 ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comic strip "The Lodger". The episode features the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) stranded on Earth and separated from his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan), when an unknown force prevents his time travelling spaceship, the TARDIS, from landing. To investigate, he moves into the flat of Craig Owens ( James Corden) and attempts to fit in with ordinary humans while unknowingly playing matchmaker for Craig and his good friend Sophie (Daisy Haggard). Showrunner Steven Moffat was a fan of Roberts' original comic strip and enthused him to adapt it into an episode for the series. While some elements of the comic strip remain, Roberts wrote most of it from scratch. "The Lodger" replaced a slot held by an episode that was pushed bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who (series 5)
The fifth series of the British science-fiction television programme '' Doctor Who'' was originally broadcast on BBC One in 2010. The series began on 3 April 2010 with " The Eleventh Hour", and ended with "The Big Bang" on 26 June 2010. It was produced by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, who took over when Russell T Davies ended his involvement in the show after " The End of Time". The series has 13 episodes, six of which were written by Moffat. Piers Wenger and Beth Willis were co-executive producers, and Tracie Simpson and Peter Bennett were producers. Although it is the fifth series since the show's revival in 2005 (and the thirty-first since it began in 1963), the series' production code numbers were reset. It was the first series to feature Matt Smith as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS (a spacecraft whose exterior resembles a British police box). Karen Gillan is introduced a ... [...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] |
Beth Willis (producer)
Beth Willis (born 1978) is a British television producer, although she has worked as a script editor on ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' and ''The Amazing Mrs Pritchard''. She was the producer of the BBC drama series '' Ashes to Ashes'', and was an executive producer (alongside Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger) of the fifth and sixth series of ''Doctor Who'' (broadcast in 2010 and 2011). Willis is the granddaughter of the late Ted Willis, Baron Willis. She was educated in Blackheath, at Blackheath High School and then in Dulwich, South London at the James Allen's Girls' School James Allen's Girls' School, abbreviated JAGS, is an independent day school situated in Dulwich, South London, England. It is the second oldest girls’ independent school in Great Britain - Godolphin School in Salisbury being the oldest, founde .... References External links * British television producers British women television producers Living people People educated at James Allen's Girls' Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piers Wenger
Piers Wenger is a British television executive who serves as controller of BBC drama commissioning. Early life Wenger was born Piers John Wenger in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England on 29 June 1972. Career Wenger was appointed as controller of BBC drama commissioning in 2016, after four years as head of drama at Channel 4. Prior to Channel 4, he was head of drama at BBC Wales and an executive producer on ''Doctor Who''. As a producer, he closely collaborated with Victoria Wood over a decade on her dramatic projects. He produced her BAFTA and RTS award-winning dramatization of Nella Last's diary ''Housewife, 49,'' collaborated with her on '' Loving Miss Hatto'', Wood's dramatization of the life of classical pianist Joyce Hatto and co-executive produced ''Eric and Ernie'', Peter Bowker's biopic of the young Morecambe and Wise in which Wood also starred. In his time at Channel 4, he managed a number of popular dramas. In February 2015, ''Indian Summers'', a period drama chron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bennett (producer)
Peter Bennett is a British television producer, although he has predominantly worked as a first assistant director. Bennett's credits as a first AD began with '' Emily'' (1976)'Emily', in Variety's Film Reviews: 1975-1977, volume 14 of series (R. R. Bowker, 1989) and has continued with many other feature films, including ''The Mummy'', ''The Mummy Returns'', ''Alexander'' and ''Syriana'', as well as the television series ''Minder'', ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'', ''Sea of Souls'', the revived ''Doctor Who'' and ''Torchwood''. He has also worked as a location manager ('' For Your Eyes Only'', ''Octopussy'' and ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'') and as a production manager (''Doctor Who''). In 2008, he produced the ''Torchwood'' serial ''Children of Earth'', which led to his appointment as full-time producer (alongside Tracie Simpson) on the fifth series of ''Doctor Who'', broadcast in 2010. In 2014 he returned to Doctor Who to produce (alongside fellow producer Nikki Wilso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Moffat
Steven William Moffat (; born 18 November 1961) is a Scottish television writer, television producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and the contemporary crime drama television series '' Sherlock'', based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. In the 2015 Birthday Honours, Moffat was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama.United Kingdom: Born in Paisley, Scotland, Moffat, the son of a teacher, was formerly a teacher himself. His first television work was the teen drama series ''Press Gang''. His first sitcom, ''Joking Apart'', was inspired by the breakdown of his first marriage. Later in the 1990s, he wrote ''Chalk'', inspired by his own experience as an English teacher. Moffat, a lifelong fan of ''Doctor Who'', wrote the comedic sketch episode ''The Curse of Fatal Death'' for the Comic Relief chari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Haynes
Toby Haynes is a British television director, notable for his work on ''Doctor Who'', '' Sherlock'', '' Being Human,'' ''Black Mirror'', and '' Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell''. He also directed the Channel 4/ HBO television film '' Brexit: The Uncivil War''. He is a graduate of the National Film and Television School, and an alumnus of Falmouth University. He won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) for the Doctor Who's episodes " The Pandorica Opens" and "The Big Bang The Big Bang event is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. Various cosmological models of the Big Bang explain the evolution of the observable universe from the ..." (2010). Filmography Television Film * '' Brexit: The Uncivil War'' (2019) References External links *Toby Haynes Profileat the Curtis Brown Agency Living people British television directors Alumni of Falmouth University Hugo Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Jacobs (actor)
Joe Jacobs (m. 1983) is an English actor. Jacobs has appeared in Prime Suspect series 5 as Campbell Lafferty, ''The Bill'', ''Holby City'' and is best known for his role as PC Billy Jackson in the BBC police drama ''HolbyBlue''. The son of actor Clarke Peters Peter Clarke (born April 7, 1952), known professionally as Clarke Peters, is an American-British actor, writer, and director. He is best known for his roles as Lester Freamon in the television series ''The Wire'' (2002–2008) and Albert Lambrea ..., and grandson of broadcaster David Jacobs, he was in '' Night & Day'' (2001), ''The Lives of the Saints'' (2006), and ''The Commander''. References External links * 1983 births Black British male actors English male television actors English people of American descent Jewish English male actors British Jews English people of African-American descent Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{UK-tv-actor-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
