To accompany today's other new feature, Sitting Tennant, and also to mark the switch over from the previous gold standard of hotness, Ali Larter, to our new gold standard, I'm also launching another new feature: Page of the Day.
Equally simple, Page of the Day will feature a picture of Joanna Page, in this case from the BBC production The Lost World. Which is nice.
Updates and related entries
July 3, 2008: A look at Bye Bye Harry aka Liebling, wir graben Harry aus
April 29, 2008 | Reply
Surely it can only be a matter of time (given how Welsh she is as well as how hot), that Joanna turns up in a) an episode of Torchwood or b) Dr Who or c) both. My money's on everyone falling in love with her and her dying some tragic self sacrificing kind of death though, so maybe it would be safer for her in Barry...
April 29, 2008 | Reply
I can only hope. However, she's going to be in Fat Pig until September, filming the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special after that, and then she's planning on having babies. Plus who knows what shape Torchwood will be in? It's not been officially re-commissioned for a third series yet...
Still, my vote is in: Joanna Page for companion for the Doctor Who specials next year.
April 29, 2008 | Reply
Ah, was Joanna Page sweet little Candice in Mine all Mine? I loved that show...
April 29, 2008 | Reply
Despite its being written by a certain "Russell T Davies" (who he?), I really disliked Mine All Mine. Griff and his rubbish Welsh accent (he may have a Welsh name, but is he Welsh enough… sorry, Dead Ringers quote), general tattness. Allegedly, it was a contractual obligation to ITV he had to fulfil before legging it to the Beeb to do Doctor Who and I can well believe it.
All the same, I'm trying to rewatch it to see if I misjudged it. But Joanna Page running around only in shorts and bra all the time is a little… distracting. It's taking some time.
April 29, 2008 | Reply
Joanna Page running around only in ...all the time is a little… distracting. It's taking some time.
Tough job but someone has to do it. Gosh darn she is adorable in this pic ain't she?! I'd better hold off seeing too much footage featuring her in such limited clothing though as I suspect it may be too much for already flexible sense of scxualidentity...
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...that was too much information wasn't it...
Ahem...
April 29, 2008 | Reply
PS Rob - your aside about fixing the 406 error? it's NOT fixed... apparantly you are now required to be a naughty-word-free-zone which is a bit silly if you're going to taunt us with DT and JP pictures on a daily basis...! Help!
April 29, 2008 | Reply
Don't worry. The secrets of your sexual identity are safe with us.
April 29, 2008 | Reply
That seemed to work. Sorry, I switched it off for a bit to cope with the previously mentioned server problem.
I wonder what happens if I mention sex. Sex. Sex. Sex.
Seems to work fine for me now. Might be a problem for IE7 users since it afflicted TobyOB, JaneHenry and you and you're all using 'the taint'. I'm on Safari...
April 29, 2008 | Reply
Ugh. I'm tainted?
Based on that picture, I'd nominate Ms. Page to be a recurring character from the 1900 era 'Torchwood'. And the picture could serve as a suggestion for the character - charming one minute, utterly ruthless against Victorian era aliens the next.
I'd love to see "steampunk" sci-fi on the TV!
April 29, 2008 | Reply
'The taint' is a jPod reference (why did CBC cancel it? Why? Why?): McDonald's, Microsoft, buttered popcorn - it's all the same. Plus there's a golden rule in web development: design once for all the regular browsers that more or less follow industry standards, then spend the same amount of time making it work in Internet Explorer. Bloody thing.
"utterly ruthless against Victorian era aliens the next"
And Victorian era dinosaurs. Particularly pterodactyls.
April 29, 2008 | Reply
Brilliant! Hopefully I can now have my flexible sexual identity...
BTW Safari: I like the idea but faffing to set it up so that I can open all my mail accounts etc with it (since it queries EVERYTHING on first encounter) is more than my stupid IE7 brain can cope with. I know, I'm flawed...
April 30, 2008 | Reply
Maybe Firefox would be better for your needs. Remember to think in Russian, think in Russian, though.
Anyway, once I've finished Mine All Mine, I'm going to have to work out if my mind can cope with Love, Actually, where she plays a stand-in for a porn star.
April 30, 2008 | Reply
Ah yes, with Martin Freeman. Lovely!
April 30, 2008 | Reply
I think you meant to say "There's lovely".
April 30, 2008 | Reply
Oh those scenes with Martin Freeman were the best in the film I thought, but it does make it a no no for watching with the kids... I didn't realise it was her till you said.
And we'll have to agree to disagree about Mine all Mine. It was the reason I didn't gulp when I saw RTD was going to do Dr Who (given that the two previous things I'd watched of his were Queer as Folk - brilliant but not exactly suitable for family viewing - and that weird Christopher Ecclestone thing about the second coming), because I thought oh he can do cosy and funny as well as edgy. And I'm sorry. To women of a certain age, Griff always does something.... OK he hasn't aged well but I can remember him in his prime can't I?
Ditto Colin Firth, just rewatched The Hour of the Pig for the first time since 1993, and I had forgotten just how hot he was and MUCH BETTER in this then as Mr Darcy....
April 30, 2008 | Reply
"Oh those scenes with Martin Freeman were the best in the film I thought"
I'm looking forward to them. Sort of.
Still re-evaluating Mine All Mine, but the title sequence alone gives me the shudders. When you look at what ITV's trying to do now in terms of drama, you realise it's shows like MAM that got it into the mess - or at least marketing mess – that it's in now. It just scares off anyone looking for quality, even when there might potentially be quality. Fingers crossed, I'll be proved wrong though.
I figured nu-Who would be good because I remembered Rusty's first stabs at kids sci-fi: Dark Season and Century Falls.