Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

Radio Free Skaro #210 – Voord To Tears

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Chris

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Radio Free Skaro #210 – Click here to listen

Warren returns to the fold this week, having thought he had escaped the worst that Doctor Who could offer by missing the commentary for Time-Flight last week. Instead, Hartnell-phobe Warren was given both barrels of black and white mediocrity in the form of The Keys of Marinus, one of the lesser lights of the debut season of Doctor Who from 1964. Actually, the Three Who Rule managed to keep themselves reasonably entertained throughout the first three episodes of Terry Nation’s best non-Dalek script that he ever wrote for Doctor Who…until the thought of having to watch three more episodes next week brought everyone back down to Earth.

Show Notes:

– Skaro Shop…Buy Our Stuff!
– Gallifrey…Guest Update!
– 2010 Christmas Special…In The Can!
– Torchwood Series 4…Writers!
– Torchwood Series 4…Gets A Title!
– Fictitious…Portal Awards!
– Seeds of Doom…On DVD!
– Vampires of Venice…DVD In-vision Commentary!
– Cold Blood…DVD In-vision Commentary!
– The Big Bang…DVD In-vision Commentary!

Commentary:

– The Keys…Of Marinus!

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Torchwood: The New World Writers Confirmed

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Steven

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According to the Chicago Tribune, Russell T Davies has cobbled together his writing team for Series 4 of Torchwood, now called “Torchwood: The New World”, to be coproduced in the UK and the US. The writers responsible for the 10-part series are, including Davies himself:

– John Shiban (“Breaking Bad,” “Supernatural,” “The X-Files”)
– Doris Egan (“House,” “Tru Calling,” “Dark Angel’)
– Jane Espenson (“Game of Thrones,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Buffy”)
– John Fay (the only other UK writer on the team who, of course, wrote two episodes of “Torchwood: Children of Earth”)

Davis has said that the new series of Torchwood will be written in more of a “writer’s room” style, where all the writers collectively write the episodes, as opposed to each writer penning an episode or episodes on his/her own. Filming on the new Starz-BBC Torchwood series will begin in January, and will feature material shot in the US and the UK.

Read the full story on the Chicago Tribune website.

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Radio Free Skaro #209 – Eevanerab! Tumal Tumal! Verram Verram! Xarak Namaan!

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Chris

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Radio Free Skaro #209 – Click here to listen

Warren ran for cover when he learned Time-Flight was the next up to bat in the Classic Series Commentaries series, so Paul from The Pharos Project podcast was strongarmed into filling his shoes. The crew did their level best to not talk about the story at hand thanks to its less than stellar production values and execution, but from time to time nevertheless felt compelled to address what was on their screens. In a cruel twist of fate, the Randomizer decided next week’s commentary was going to be for another story that one of the crew, as with Time-Flight, greatly dislikes…

Show Notes:

– Skaro Shop…Buy Our Stuff!
– The Pharos…Project!
– Steven Moffat…Writing 6 episodes for Series 6!
– Gap Year Specials…Soundtrack!
– Doctor Who Adventure Games…Top The Download Charts!
– Amy’s…History Hunt!
– Demon Quest…Part One Details!

Commentary:

– Time-Flight!!

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SPACE Podcast – July 30, 2010

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Steven

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<![CDATA[ spacebadge In the latest SPACE Podcast, The Three Who Rule weigh on on the Season 5 finale, “The Big Bang”, as seen on SPACE last Saturday. After this, the Radio Free Skaro team will be taking a much needed break from doing double duty on both podcasts. After all, they’re going to need all their energy to get through Time-Flight in the next RFS episode…

Radio Free Skaro #208 – You May Keep The Pencil

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Chris

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Radio Free Skaro #208 – Click here to listen

A rare busy news week disrupts the Three Who Rule and their summer slacking off. Series 6 ramblings, fictitious awards, DVD news and talk of the SPACE premiere of The Big Bang at least help to kill some of the time until the Christmas special. The guys soldier on with the Classic Series Commentaries by looking at the first full story recorded with Peter Davison, Four to Doomsday. Which actor will Steven fall in love with this week?, Just how saucy will the lads be in this installment? And what will the randomizer force upon them next week? There’s only one way to know – have a listen!

Show Notes:

– Skaro Shop…Buy Our Stuff!
– SPACE Airs…The Big Bang
– Series 6…Production Staff!
– RTD Talks…Torchwood Series 4!
– David Tennant Wins…Another Fictitious Award!
– Doctor Who Proms…Part 1!
– Doctor Who Proms…Part 2!
– Dance…Of The Daleks
– Doctor Who Proms…Program!
– Adventure Games…Available Outside The UK!
– Doctor Who…iPlayer Success!
– Series 5…On DVD!
– Revisitations Box Set…DVD Extras!
– North America…Cyberman DVDs!

Commentary:

– Four…To Doomsday!

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InnerSPACE LIVE: Doctor Who – The Big Bang

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Steven

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Tonight, Saturday, July 24, at 9:00pm ET, will see the North American premiere of the Series 5 finale of Doctor Who, “The Big Bang”, in both the US (on BBC America) and Canada (on SPACE). Immediately after the broadcast in Canada, SPACE will be airing a special live version of InnerSPACE featuring various guests and panelists. There will also be a live web chat featuring several Who experts, including the three hosts from Radio Free Skaro!

The live chat starts at 8:45pm ET. Clicking here will take you to the SPACE website. Join the fun, and let’s all hope the Doctor Who finale is a roaring success on North American TV screens!

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SPACE Podcast – July 23, 2010

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Steven

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<![CDATA[ spacebadge On the eve of the finale of Series 5 of Doctor Who on SPACE, the Radio Free Skaro team offer their review of Episode 12, the stupendously awesome The Pandorica Opens, on the latest SPACE Podcast.

Read more at the SPACE website! And don’t miss the big event on Saturday, July 24: The Big Bang, followed by the InnerSPACE Live Special, on SPACE starting at 9pm ET.]]>

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games Now Available Worldwide

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Steven

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The first two episodes of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games has now been made available on the game site Direct2Drive for a low price of $4.95. From the website blurb, the package includes:

Episode 1 – City of the Daleks (Included Free)
The TARDIS materializes in 1963 to find the human race destroyed by the Daleks. The Doctor must travel to the home planet of his arch enemy, the Daleks, to correct time and the save the last survivor of Humanity – Amy Pond.

Episode 2 – Blood of the Cybermen
The Doctor and Amy materialise in the Arctic – where members of a geological survey team have started turning from flesh to metal after awakening something that has been dormant for thousands of years – an army of Cybermen.

Note: Only the Windows version is currently being made available. There is as yet no word about the Mac version, and it is not known if it will be released at a later date (as it was in the UK).

Find out more at the Direct2Drive site.

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Doctor Who Series 5 DVD/BR Update

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Chris

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<![CDATA[November 9 has now been confirmed as the North American release date for the Series 5 box set on DVD and Blu-Ray, and DVD box art has now been made available (previously only Blu-Ray art was available). Along with the “Meanwhile, in the TARDIS…” content mentioned previously, the feature list confirms story commentaries. While the past few series have featured both DVD- and internet-based commentary releases, the powers that be chose to not release internet-based commentaries for Series 5, so including them on the DVDs will make a lot of fans clamouring for such content very happy.

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November North America Doctor Who DVDs

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Chris

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November 2 will see the North American release of two Classic Doctor Who Cybermen stories, Tom Baker’s Revenge of the Cybermen and Sylvester McCoy’s Silver Nemesis. Neither of these two stories is often rated very highly relative to some other Cybermen stories but they’ve both got certain charms. Unlike the UK, and as has happened a lot of late in North America, the titles will be sold separately. It should be noted the Silver Nemesis release is the transmission version rather than the extended cut issued on VHS in the 1990s.