Doctor Who
- Verity Lambert, the series' first producer, has died
- Doctor Who dating an assistant?
Film
- Featurette on shooting the Dark Knight in IMAX
- Russell Crowe to replace Brad Pitt on State of Play?
- Teaser trailer for Rambo
- Maggie Q to play Wolverine's girlfriend?
- Jesus to get an evil twin
British TV
- Ken Stott to play Tony Hancock for BBC4
- Max Headroom to be the new face of digital TV
US TV
- Marie's Gods Behaving Badly to be adapted by Ben Stiller's production company as a TV series!
- No room for Journeyman finale?
- Jerry Seinfeld toying with new idea for sitcom
- Showgirls star Elizabeth Berkley to play the Carusobot's ex-wife on CSI: Miami - wouldn't she have been 10 at the time?
- John Michael Higgins to play US version of Father Ted
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November 26, 2007 | Reply
RIP Verity.
Most bizarre reaction I've seen to this:
When we look at the long list of her achievements, I want to know why she wasn't more celebrated in Who fandon circles. I mean, what? I didn't even know about her ... the only two I've heard mentioned are RTD and John Nathan-Turner ... I am not amused by this. I am assuming the fanboys were scared.
Yes, there's been a secret conspiracy on the part of those male fans who remember a time before RTD to erase Verity Lambert from history. I mean, think of all those Who guides written by fans ('zines, online fansites, Wikipedia, professional publications etc) which deliberately make no mention of her contributions. And you'd never see a post about her on Usenet.
November 26, 2007 | Reply
Where on Earth did you see that? The "I only go to Outpost Gallifrey and read stuff written by 10 year olds" forum? What a strange claim. There are plenty more DW producers languishing in obscurity than VL, who was very well documented. I dare the average Who fan to name even two producers of Patrick Troughton's era without recourse to Wikipedia, et al.
All the same, she deserves more of a bigging up than she got, for DW as well as her many other shows.
November 26, 2007 | Reply
Just as well I was primed with my own good news before I read about Pyjamagate...
November 26, 2007 | Reply
He does have a type, doesn't he?
November 27, 2007 | Reply
Great news for Marie. I await digital spy updates... well if you don't get them first natch
;)
November 28, 2007 | Reply
I saw it in the comments of a LiveJournal thread:
http://melengro.livejournal.com/28085.html
The commenter claims to be 31 and has only attended conventions for the last couple of years. Apparently, it was too much trouble for her to read a book. Or even watch the gazillion Channel 4 Top 100 shows which feature Lambert herself.