Just a quick dispatch from the South Bank!

I attended the recording of an episode of Have I Got News For You last night, and was greatly surprised when the guest host turned out to be Tom Baker! 

Lots of Who references on the night (though how many make the cut I don’t know – 2 hours of recording are cut into 30 minutes) and Tom was on great form. 

It airs in the UK tonight (Friday 31st), so will be on Youtube soon enough I would imagine. Well worth a watch if you get a chance. 

JP

Your bumbling correspondant is aware that over the last few weeks he’s promised this and that to those of them what he knows, in the form of YouTube videos. This evening he hit upon an idea – instead of emailing the links, why not just post them? Genius. He’ll go far, that one. But before he does go too far, here are some of the links to start things off – fee free to add your own in the Comments section. Hell, feel free to comment, even.

For Al: We’ve all seen the great Star Wars Titles as done by Saul Bass clip. Excellent stuff. But how about the Dr Who titles done in the style of Hustle? Nice!

For Dave: Courtesy of Jamas, here’s the Daddy of all them Existential Questions put about by the cast of Doctor Who over the years. No McGann, sadly, but I bet the actor himself may have well asked the same question at the time, y’know, in his head. While acting.

For my beloved Candy- I mean, for Al again, here’s a fan-made (no, wait! Come back!) video about the Time War. Oh sit down. You’ll be fine if you don’t click on any of his other ones.

You want sophistication? Too bad.

And finally from me, Only Fools and Horses improves Arc of Infinity no end.

How about you? Watcha got?

EARTH DOESN’T EXPLODE, UN SEC GEN THANKS TORCHWOOD
No? Well, maybe in six months, given it’s off-line for the moment. It’s bound to happen.
Good old Torchwood Cardiff.

MCGANN NOT RETURNING
Everybody get back to your work. Sigh.

COME BACK, RETURN OF THE CYBERMEN!
Spoilers for Christmas. Or not. Obviously it was a big dilemma for RTD regarding whether to finsh the over-length Journey’s End on the now de rigeur ‘what-what-what’ spot and undermine the fanw sadness with a teaser for the next ka-rayzey yuletide romp. So a trailer, without the story title proper was made. Now we know the title, have an idea of what the story’s likely to be based on about, and we’ve even got a picture of the removed scene. But are we any happier? Eh? I ask you.

OH GREAT, NOW HE’LL GET TO DO THAT ALONS-Y THING ALL OVER AGAIN…
Is Russell T Ovey, aka Midshipman Frame in the frame to play the Doctor? A clue: no.
Still, sells newspapers, right guys?

LEAVE SYLVESTER ALONE!I
It must be a very slow day in the Tolkien sandpit when they all start talking about a ten year old story added to a year-old even and make an insta-theory. Add to that speculation based on twenty-year old photos (ooh – he does look like Ian Holm! In Ghostlight) and you get the same sort of high hoping that gave us all McGann conniptions last month? Will the next Hobbit movie have a Syl-bo as its lead? A clue… no.

TARDIS MONEYBANK BAFFLES BLOGGER
by the blogger.

The TARDIS Moneybank is sheer genius fun. I’d have loved one when I were a kid but microchips were still the size of houses back then, and I’ve had never have filled the money box with the cash I had. Eee we were poor.

Anyway, for all the Martha-rasping, top-lamp flashing, cash-injecting Vwoorp-vwoorp action you can muster, this’ll do. And it’s to scale with those knock-off figures you got from the warehouse – at last, a home for Space Pig and Chip! but there are problems with bits of it, and I’m not just talking about how the sample of the Doctor sounds like he’s saying the machine stands for ‘Time And Relative Dimensions In Spayn’ (the wag) like this…

Rose? She’s in there too?

You think I’m going to bit the top of my money box? What, am I trying to get in to find Rose or something? I give up!

AND FINALLY…
Some people thought ‘Handlebars’ was a doff too far, apparently. Davies Master Plan? Phssh. What would Brian Boitano do? (hat tip: Dave)