Posts Tagged ‘doctor who’

Moths Ate My Sony Nomination

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

tobyhadoke.jpgNo reason to ignore this just because it’s Doctor Who (see www.kasterborous.com for more) - it’s still comedy, and the observational humour/diary timelined child and adolescenthood of Toby Hadoke - recalled so evocatively in his one-man show has been nominated for an award.

It’s not just any award either - the radio version of Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf (now available from BBC Audiobooks) has been nominated for a Sony award.

The Sony Awards are prestigious with radio broadcasting, so a win in this category would be great for Hadoke.

Carry On Doctor Who

Monday, March 17th, 2008

daemonover.jpgAccording to a certain respected newspaper, Doctor Who was at one point considered as a subject for a Carry On movie!

A series that has had top comedy writers such as Douglas Adams and Steven Moffat writing for it, Doctor Who with all of its wondrous idiosyncrasies, would be perfect Carry On fodder.  Third Doctor Who jon Pertwee meanwhile appeared in Carry On Cowboy and Carry On Screaming before taking the TARDIS controls in 1970.

Carry on Doctor Who was one of 10 unmade Carry On films. Location scouting had been carried out in London in 1990 but finances fell through

Imagine that!

Just two years prior to Carry On Columbus, one suspects that the finances were well to hand, but BBC permission wasn’t. In fact, Carry On regular Jim Dale was once linked to a Doctor Who movie - perhaps this was in fact that project?

You can read more on this item at Doctor Who webzine Kasterborous.com