After six months of waiting - for us, and of filming for the actors - since the special episode Last Christmas, the BBC revealed the official trailer for Doctor Who's Series 9, starring Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) and Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) for a second full series. 90 seconds of new characters, returns and surprises, in the order.


19''. New characters, new monsters. Metal soldiers (not Cybermen), hands coming from the ground, a guy with dark eyes ... it looks like the Doctor hasn't seen everything in the universe.

23''. We are (almost) sure that the greatest enemies of the Doctor, the Daleks, will be part of the ninth series. Unless the video would show the back of Rusty, a "good" Dalek appeared in Into The Dalek.

25'' New characters with two heads in one, wearing a Chinese hat. An other one three seconds later, more human.

30''. Missy is back. Revealed as the woman version of the Master in Dark Water/Death In Heaven, we ignore if this character played by Michelle Gomez will fight with or against the Doctor and Clara.



38''. Apparently an alien city. An other view at 51''.

40''. A man in a cave. Are we back in Karn, the planet where the 8th Doctor (Paul Mc Gann) became the War Doctor (John Hurt) in The Night Of The Doctor? We're not sure.

43''. Not surprising that Clara Oswald still travels with the Doctor in the TARDIS. But notice the orange spacesuit weared by the Doctor in The Waters of Mars (with David Tennant), Hide (with Matt Smith) and Kill The Moon (with Capaldi).

50''. Friend or enemy? He has similar eyes as the guy at 19''.

53'' The 12th Doctor hugging Clara, it's rare. But we love it.

55''. A little girl kidnapped by a Zygon. Oh, you probably discovered Zygons in The Day Of The Doctor, but we think they forget to be good after saving London.

57''. The coolest moment of the trailer: the Doctor plays electric guitar in the TARDIS. Electric guitars are cool. Capaldi, you rock.



64''. "I'm the Doctor, and I save people." Saving the universe by wearing sunglasses is cool, doesn't it, Matt Smith?

79''. "What took you so long, old man?" The most waited moment for Series 9. We discover finally Maisie Williams, starred as Arya Stark in HBO's Game Of Thrones, in her mysterious role in Doctor Who's double episode The Girl Who Died/The Woman Who Lived.
According to the video's comments about Williams' words, she could play Jenny, appeared in The Doctor's Daughter where she promised to find the Doctor again, with a new face. Or, better, Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter - after a regeneration - who appeared in Doctor Who's all first episode An Unearthly Child, broadcast in 1963. If Maisie Williams plays a Time Lord, she could be Jenny or Susan. Or someone else?


Take a sticky note, sonic screwdriver and TARDIS fans, a remember this date: Saturday, September 19. Series 9 will start with The Magician's Apprentice, whose we are waiting the teaser. By the way, a tenth series has been confirmed on July 14th. Ready, time travellers?

Watch also:
BBC's Doctor Who Blog | Series 9 : Everything you need to know



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Forget all what you know about science. The complexity of your brain and your head. No molecules, no electric signal, no neurons. Replace all that by five people representing emotions in the Head quarters. Joy makes us happy and does everything to keep in mind our best moments. Sadness is almost pessimistic about all and loves tears. Disgust is the rebel against green vegetables (unless they come from a plane). Fear hates to take risks or he screams. And Anger loves to play with fire and authority, whilst reading a newspaper.
That is the "point of view" of Pete Docter who make the story of Inside Out, in theatres in France since June 17, and in the US on June 19.

Five emotions who manage - since the birth - the life of Riley Anderson, 11 years old, a young girl loving ice hockey who will discover San Francisco with her parents. The head of Riley - and of everyone - is a Headquarter whose emotions create for each moment a "memory sphere", colored based on emotions (yellow for Joy by example). Before Riley's moving in San Francisco, we can see a majority of yellow spheres. But since she entered her new home, there are more purple, green and red spheres ...



The first day of school can bring Joy spheres again, but Sadness accidentally touches reminds, becaming blue, and attracts Joy into the Intern Memory, a library of colored spheres. Meanwhile in the Headquarter, Anger, Fear and Disgust, alone in front of the "life commands", try to manage Riley without happiness and tears, but problems come one by one : anger during the dinner, lost of the passion of ice hockey ... and the worst is yet to come: Riley ran away to return in Minnesota. In Riley's head, it's the panic: islands - made by the best memories - are falling one by one in a big hole containing lost memories. Family, Honesty, Ice Hockey, Humor ... all are destroyed.

Between the worlds of subconcience, imagination, abstact and Dream Productions, Joy and Sadness, with the help of Bing Bang - Riley's best imaginary friend - will do everything to come back to the Headquarter and to save Riley. Finally arrived, Riley come back to home in San Francisco in tears, but happy. Joy and Sadness create a huge memory represented by a blue and yellow sphere, creating a big island.

The Anderson family come back to home town where Riley grew up, and the library starts to be full of mixed emotion spheres and bigger islands. The team of emotions received for Riley's 12th birthday a new "life control panel" whose the "puberty" button (Joy thinks first it's not so important). All is fine now in the family, but the question is: what could be happenned at 12 years old ?

If Pixar's Inside Out received a great majority of positive reviews, it's normal : very creative, powerful and worked, even that Pete Docter had specialists of emotions and childhood as weapons to make the story. After watching the movie (available in 3D for a great experience), we want to imagine these little voices in the head in Inside Out's way. By the way, much people want to see a sequel of the movie, watching Riley at 12, 13 or 16 years old. Ask the question to Pixar, we hope a positive answer of Joy.




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The next Tony Hawk is definitely this girl. After 75 tries, Sabre Norris, a 9-year-old skateboarder, lands a 540 on a halfpipe. The video of the trick became viral and has already about one million views.

Coming from Newcastle (New South Wales, Australia), Sabre is the daughter of Justin Norris, bronze medal winner for the 200-metre butterfly at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and 3-time Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning swimmer. But instead of following her dad’s way, she took the way of skateboarding at six years old.

« My skating all started because I wasn't allowed to get a bike because we don't have a garage. So my mum bought us skateboards instead. I started from rolling down my dad's business car park. I've been skating for about 3 years. My favorite trick is a 540. I watched Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins do it on the internet, and I just had to do it. »

Sabre attempted exactly 75 times to land the 540. At the 75th, she finally did it.


« Every time I tried one and didn't land it I put a rock on the table. It ended up being my 75th rock. I was frothing.  I did some 720s too. Not proper. I called it "540 to revert to splat". I didn't cry though. My goal is to do 100 of them before this Saturday. I'm up  to 75. I still can't ride a bike, but I can do a 540. »



And it is not finished. Sabre Norris is at nine the female champion of the 2014 Australian Bowl-riding Championships (as you can see in the picture above), and plans to win an Olympic gold metal in skateboarding which might be included in the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Henceforth, we have to monitor Sabre’s career, wait a perfect 720 and hope first places at the next championships !

Source : Dailymail
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In January 2014, the twelfth Doctor Peter Capladi begins the filming of the Series 8 of Doctor Who with Jenna Coleman. About five months later, the BBC revealed a first 15-second teaser trailer with Capaldi in the TARDIS, like the picture above.

As you know, the first episodes of Series 8 will be broadcast in August. Who says new series says new characters ; the Doctor and Clara Oswald are naturally here. We also learnt in January that Neve McIntosh (Madame Vastra, with Strax and Jenny) will be back for the series.

On February 24, Samuel Anderson has been announced as reccurent character Danny Pink, a teacher and a colleague of Clara at Coal Hill School (school we saw in "The Day Of The Doctor"). The next month, Keeley Hawes is cast as Ms Delphox for episode 5. Then, the BBC announced Tom Riley, Ben Miller, Hermione Norris and Frank Skinner in guest roles.

But the first teaser revealed by the BBC doesn't show all these characters. So we have to wait a second trailer to discover a bit who they are and who they play.


On May 24, YouTube user "John Smith", known for the video "WHOLOCK - Sherlock meets the Doctor", unveiled a fan 'Rain' Trailer he made for Series 8. We can see the TARDIS, arriving on a planet where it's raining ; the Doctor and Clara Oswald go outside the TARDIS, and watch a mountain with a moon in background. The video has been viewed about 300,000 times in four days.


Still in the fan trailers, user SupremePyroViper revealed on May 25 a trailer using BBC and John Smith videos, plus moments of "The Day of the Doctor" and "The Time of the Doctor". You can watch the video here : youtube.com/watch?v=MJZYaxWZb5g.

Ready for new episodes and new kidneys ?

Sources : BBC, The Verge, Wikipedia...

"It started." Filming for Series 8 of 'Doctor Who' has begun today. A great day for Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) and Peter Capaldi who is now the Doctor.

In "The Time of the Doctor" (broadcast on December 25 and watched by around 10.2 million fans) we saw Doctor's 13th regeneration and the first 30 seconds of Capaldi on the series. "Kidneys ! I've got new kidneys ! I don't like the color. [...] Do you happen to know how to fly this thing ?" A funny sentence as the Eleventh made with his "And still not ginger !".

Filming for Series 8 begins today in Cardiff Studios, and first picture shows Capaldi with Eleventh's clothes, apparently for preparing a scene of the first episode (written by Steven Moffat) where the Doctor and Clara, both in the TARDIS, are crashing. Other pictures posted on Twitter revealed that Neve McIntosh (Madame Vastra), Catrin Stewart (Jenny) and Dan Starkey (Strax) are also in filming. By the way they will appear in the first episode.

#DoctorWho is being filmed at my work today!! Seen an alien #Sontaran but no sign of the Doctor yet! pic.twitter.com/xsBwTlQc43
— Simon Clements (@BlueBotDesign) 7 Janvier 2014

"New job, first day, slightly nervous", Peter Capaldi said. "Just like the Doctor, I'm emerging from the TARDIS into a whole other world."

The Series 8 whose Doctor Who fans wait would contain 13 episodes and would be broadcast in the second half of 2014, according to Steven Moffat. A long wait before we'll know more infos about the episodes, but we already know the new goal of the Doctor : come back to Gallifrey ...

Sources : BBC and Cultbox...

Goodbye Matt Smith, hello Peter Capaldi. Doctor Who's 2013 Christmas special "The Time of the Doctor" was broadcast on BBC One at 7:30 PM (London Time). Matt Smith was on his last episode as the Doctor, and what better than Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) to finish the special ?

The plot is already on Wikipedia. Don't read it if you didn't watch the special. For fans who watched it, you certainly retained the highlights.

First, the Doctor was ... naked. Even if we see he wore clothes at Oswald's house and in Tasha's church. Strange and funny moment between the Doctor and Clara, same thing in "Journey's End" when the other Tenth Doctor was naked in front of Donna Noble, remember ? "You're naked ! - Yes !"

Second, a town called Christmas. Certainly because the episode was broadcast on Chirstmas Day. "How can an Isle be called Easter ?"
But a town called Christmas in a planet called Trenzalore. If you understand, the Doctor and Clara come to Trenzalore a second time, but years before they see graves and the giant TARDIS and before they killed the Great Intelligence ("The Name of the Doctor"). That's why the Doctor managed to land the TARDIS on the planet. At this period (probably) the Doctor's timeline didn't exist yet.

Third, the crack of Amelia's wall is back. It appeared on several episodes, first time in "The Eleventh Hour". Actually, the Time Lords use this crack in the universe, to demand help to the Doctor, and this from the pocket universe in which Gallifrey was trapped (created by the 13 Doctors in "The Day of the Doctor"). And it is from the crack that a message comes : "Doctor who ?" You know the story : if the Doctor answers the question, Time Lords will be saved, but a new war will be born, in which the Doctor will die. Instead of this, Time Lords give to the Doctor a new cycle of 12 regenerations through the crack. So 24 regenerations available in all, so 25 Doctors.

And fourth, the surprise by Steven Moffat. We had Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor) as the Curator in "The Day of the Doctor", now we have for (only) twenty seconds Karen Gillan as Amelia Pond, before the Doctor's regeneration. "Raggedy man ... goodnight.", she said.

Now we have to wait several months before watching the eighth series, planned for late summer/autumn 2014. We are sure that the first episode of this series will be written by Steven Moffat, and that the beginning of it will be probably the moment where the Doctor and Clara are in the TARDIS, crashing ...
Last thing. First words of the 12th Doctor : "Kidneys ! I've got new kidneys ! I don't like the color." First appearance and first funny sentence. Do you think that this new Doctor will be great ?

See also : 12 quotes we loved from "The Time of the Doctor" on doctorwho.tv...

This masterpiece marked the beginning of 3D era in cinema. And movie's fans will be happy : Avatar will have three sequels which will be released between 2016 and 2018.

Avatar, released on December 2009, became the heighest-grossing film, with 2.78 billion dollars gross, surpassing Titanic (released in 1997). A 2 hours 40 minutes movie showing Jake Sully, coming to Pandora, rebelling against his people with Norm Spellman, Dr Augustine, Max and Trudy, to protect Neytiri and the Na'vi.

On August 1, Cameron announced that the movie will have 3 sequels, planned for 2016, 2017 and 2018. And on December 16, after reaching an agreement with the government in Wellington, he revealed that these sequels will be filmed on New Zealand from October 2014. The New Zealand government would raise its tax rebate system for filmmaking between 20 and 25 %. Each film will have a budget of 500 million dollars, while the budget of the first movie was 237 million.

An idea for Avatar 2, launched by the Canadian film director, is that Jake Sully's adventures will be in aquatic environment, in Pandora oceans. This idea comes from the fact that Cameron was on 26 March 2012 the first man to explore the Mariana Trench in a submarine called Deepsea Challenger, at about 10,900 meter deep.

Sources : Europe 1 (french) and Wikipedia...

Doctor Who fans don't stop to talk about the 50th anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor", and for good reason : the BBC revealed finally pictures and videos from the long awaited episode.

On 19 October, several weeks after revealing that David Tennant, Billie Piper and John Hurt will star in the special, the BBC offered us a 50th year trailer, showing the eleven Doctors and some of their enemies and companions, and in which the Eleventh Doctor said :
"Our future depends on one single moment, of one impossible day, the day I have been running from all my life, the Day of the Doctor."

But no real scene or something from the special was in the 50th trailer. But since 16 October we discover the first photos of the special in the Facebook page for Doctor Who, whose by example the Tenth Doctor in the old TARDIS (Allons-y !).


Later, Matt Smith celebrated his 31st birthday (on October 28). And on 4 November the BBC reveals the official short synopsis for the episode :"The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure in this 50th anniversary special. In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London’s National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor’s own dangerous past comes back to haunt him."

Then, a new website has been opened for the hashtag #SaveTheDay. More there are posts with #SaveTheDay on Facebook posts, Google+ posts and tweets on Twitter, much a gold TARDIS will be revealed in 3D, whose the posts are on this TARDIS, and so the 5 sneak previews will be revealed to Doctor Who fans.
But some people have managed to unlock the first sneak preview using the website's source code (available here). 10 seconds with the Doctor and Clara watching a painting ... of Gallifrey in flames. By the way the video shows a girl, Oswood, wearing Fourth Doctor's iconic scarf.

Finally, on 8 and 9 November, we saw the two first TV trailer for "The Day of the Doctor", including scenes of the special.




The two videos have in total at least 5 million viewers, proving that we can't wait for watching the episode. And by the way, see that in the second trailer it shows a funny scene showing the Tenth Doctor discovering Eleventh's TARDIS and saying "Oh, you've redecorated ! I don't like it." These are the same words the Eleventh said to Craig Owens when he discovered Craig's new house in "Closing Time" (series 6, episode 12).

Meanwhile, new photos from the special have been released. You can see them in Doctor Who's and DEwil's Facebook pages, and also in David Tennant News blog.

As Rose Tyler said, "the moment is coming". So be ready for 23 November. Like the Doctor we hope you'll reveal the sneak previews with the hashtag #SaveTheDay, and that you'll enjoy the special, on BBC One, France 4 and other TV channels which will broadcast it.

Allons-y, Geronimo !...

The BBC give us more news about the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special, whose the name of this episode (7.15) which is "The Day of the Doctor".

Earlier, the BBC announced the come back of David Tennant (the Tenth Doctor) and Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) who starred on Series 2, 3 and 4. In "The Name of the Doctor" (7.14) we also learnt that John Hurt will play a unknown incarnation of the Doctor. The Daleks will be here too, but the question is how they found the Doctor(s) while normally they don't know anymore who is the Doctor (thanks to Oswie Oswald in "Asylum of the Daleks"). Add to this the Zygons who only appeared in 1975 in "Terror of the Zygons" in which Tom Baker played the Fourth Doctor.

The episode, filmed in 2D and 3D, will be 75 minutes long and will be screened on BBC One, BBC America and in many TV channels in the world. Several shows about Doctor Who will be also diffused on BBC channels :
• "An Adventure In Space and Time" : written by Mark Gatiss, about the beginning of Doctor Who in 1963 ;
• A BBC Two lecture by Professor Brian Cox on the science behind the hit show ;
• An Unearthly Child: BBC Four will introduce new audiences to Hartnell, with a re-run of the first ever story. The 4 episodes are being shown in a restored format, not previously broadcast in the UK ;
• Me, You and Doctor Who : presented by Matthew Sweet on BBC Two's The Culture Show is to explore the cultural significance of the BBC's longest running TV drama ;
• Who Is The Doctor? : A 90-minute documentary on BBC Radio 2 with newly-recorded interviews and exclusive archive material.

By the way, the BBC revealed on September 11th the official poster for "The Day of the Doctor" :



Other great new : Doctor Who won Best Drama Series and the Outstanding Contribution Award during TV Choices Awards on September 9th.

A bit more than 70 days and finally this special will come. Geronimo !

Sources : BBC, CultBox & Facebook...