Well not really. This title is a bit mean for those of you that you found the post via Google Search. Lizo Mzimba, he from the BBC with close links to Doctor Who, bumped into Hannah Murray today and asked her the obvious question. For those not aware there has been a number of rumours going around that she has signed on the line as Doctor Who’s new assistant when Matt Smith takes over.
Anyway Lizo has this announcement to make about the encounter.
News hot off the press. Just spoke to the lovely Hannah Murray who says she definitely isn’t going to be Matt Smith’s assitant in Dr Who. (From http://twitter.com/lizo_mzimba/statuses/1621533863)
I’m proper sorry for those that had put money on her. I was not at all excited by the rumour as I’d personally like to see someone a bit older (Gillian Anderson perhaps – ha ha ha). So anyway perhaps we can put that particular rumour to bed and get on with the important task of make up new shit.
The Contrast have announced another live date for 2009. As soon as they come out of the studio after recording their 6th album (first for Wicked Cool) they will play a May Day festival on home turf. Details are below:
Radius, Northminster, Peterborough
http://www.bizwiki.co.uk/night-clubs/411603/radius.htm
The Contrast will be supported by
(First band on at 8.30pm – Admission FREE)
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Gillian Anderson
The media are having a feeding frenzy again about who is cast opposite Matt Smith’s 11th Doctor. SFX have posted a story about a story that ran in the Telegraph. Are you keeping up with this? Apparently it pained them to post this rumour because they don’t normally do that sort of thing. Be that as it may, it sounds like someone somewhere may have seen one and one and made eleven or three. Both of which are sort of right depending on who you ask. Chinese whispers can be a dangerous thing. I’ll wait for a proper announcement from Mr Moffatt and Co.
Here is an excerpt from their article.
Normally we don’t bring these kind of stories to your attention, because the British press so often gets the wrong end of the stick (or in the case of some newspapers, make things up entirely). But we thought this story from The Telegraph was worth mentioning because a) it’s The Telegraph, not usually prone to reporting utter bobiins and b) because, to be honest, we want it be true: The X-Files’ Gillian Anderson to play The Rani opposite Matt Smith’s Doctor.
via SFX: the leading science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine.
The Rani? Why o why o why would anyone bring back that 2 dimensional piece of crap character. In the Telegraph article they mention first that there were going to be new monsters and villans, then in the next breath come out with this horse chestnut. If she was going to to be a companion… now that would get my vote.
Kasterborous, also keeping up their usual standards of high quality journalism have also run the story peppered with the standard amount of daft comments and practically insulting remarks. This immediately caught my attention. My emphasis…
An appearance by one of the hottest women in sci-fi is another matter entirely of course, especially if this is only half a rumour, and Anderson is in fact lined up as the visibly mature companion to young-looking Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor.
Visibly mature! What is that supposed to mean? Gnash gnash snarl snarl. I used to really like that site but most times that I go there these days I come back with something else that pisses me off.
The original Telegraph article is here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/5204395/Gillian-Anderson-being-lined-up-for-Doctor-Who-appearance.html I’m off to put my head in the sand until it all goes away.
Real live Wookiee?
It was really difficult not to post this image. It is a lazy article (both on here and the guardian) but still pretty funny.
I always imagined Iran to be kind of sandy, so big men covered in grass with guns should stand out like a Wookiee.
Does this also mean that some of those Australian Jedi that I’ve been hearing so much about are available as back up?
Or perhaps Tim needs to get this book: 
Tim Dowling on how to tell an Iranian sniper from Wookiee? | World news | The Guardian.
Joe Bua 11:30 pm on April 27, 2009 Permalink |
I still want it to be true so I’m gonna sit here with my eyes shut really tight and will it to be true.
Starting … now!