The Waters of Mars Preview

November 8, 2009

Christian Cawley

David Tennant returns in Doctor Who on Sunday, 15th November on BBC One in The Waters Of Mars, the second of four special editions of the BBC's flagship drama series throughout 2009.

Actress Lindsay Duncan co-stars as Adelaide, commander of Bowie Base One on Mars. Neighbours, Flying Doctors and Casualty star Peter O'Brien also guest stars as Ed, Adelaide's second-in-command at the base.

You can view a short interview with Russell T Davies about The Waters of Mars on the BBC Official Doctor Who website as well as the latest trailer, which you can also see below.

Naturally as only the second episode of Doctor Who this year and with only three episodes of David Tennant's Tenth Doctor to go, The Waters of Mars has received a lot of attention from across the print and web media. I personally like this quote from Wales Online.

Tennant said of the special: "The Doctor finds himself in a situation where he knows what the end is. It's all about whether he can un-knit the inevitable. With this particular Time Lord's life coming to an end, if he starts fiddling with the fundamentals of time and space it might lead to his undoing.

(Incidentally if you're not scared yet, Blogtor Who has some freaky water zombie images. Failing that there's always the Doctor on Halloween...)

The Waters Of Mars is set to be one of the most scary episodes of the series to date, as a creeping infection beneath the Martian surface threatens not only the human race, but also the Doctor's most fundamental beliefs – with terrifying results.

Written by Russell T Davies and Phil Ford and directed by Graeme Harper, The Waters of Mars looks set to be one of the most memorable episodes of Doctor Who ever.

doctor who specials

Sunday 15th of November – waters of mars

 

Christmas day 25th December 2009 -  the end of time part 1

new years day 1st January 2010 – the end of time part 2

 

Recreating Gadgets – Adipose Detector.

Extreme Doctor who fan Richard Ashton is Recreting the amazing Adipose Detector

The current creation is still in early stages and Richard and Friends keep soldiering on to finish it

 

 

Richard Ashton Said ‘its made of a Plug, Bottle Top Ends and Wire. The project is then sent too Dave Richardson too continue the works.

 

Currently Dave Richardson is looking for a small watch too take apart too add the finishing touches.

The gadget as it stands as said earlier is made up of plug bottle ends and wire. The bits u cant see are the leds. It has 3 flashing LED's. The circuit is an ex might awful power ranger module. It's strapped to the underside of the plug and the plug was drilled to accept 2 of them and the third comes up through the screw hole. Dave added some spacers and the copper wire bobbins and Richard did the primary work.

 

Hopefully it will look good.

The Waters of Oz

Upcoming Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars will premier in Australia on ABC1 in the week commencing Sunday, 6th December 2009 reports TV Tonight.

This is three weeks after the UK broadcast and a couple of weeks before the BBC America broadcast, and is the third occasion in which Australian viewers have received new episodes close to their UK premier

The Waters of Mars of course co-stars Australian actor Peter O'Brien who starred in Neighbours and The Flying Doctors in the 1980s and 1990s before moving to the UK and appearing in Casualty and Russell T Davies' Queer as Folk and more recently in the movie Wolverine.

UK broadcast for The Waters of Mars is Sunday, 15th November from 7-8pm on BBC One.

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Waters of Mars US Airdate

As announced by David Tennant on Friday's GMTV appearance, BBC America will be airing The Waters of Mars on December 19th - a chance for some Doctor Who before Christmas on the US anglophile TV network!

Broadcast further afield is as yet to be confirmed, however it seems that not even a month after the UK is enough for some US-based fans.

There's an interesting discussion over at FlickFilosopher about this very topic and the ramifications of filesharing "illegal" downloads of TV content via the torrent peer to peer network.

While Kasterborous.com in no way advocates or condones sharing of copyrighted material cross any medium, it seems odd that The Waters of Mars should be airing on BBC America almost a full month after its UK broadcast. A months delay for scheduling on SyFy would make sense, but four whole weeks for Stateside viewers to wait to catch the show when it is broadcast on a network specifically setup to broadcast British TV?

Bonkers Broadcasting Craziness!

K-9: Waste of Time?

Desperate for a vaguely Doctor Who related fix? Happy to waste time in front of a pointless digital channel watching a pointless spin-off that makes the concept of Rose Tyler: Earth Defender sound like Hamlet?

If so, why not get yourself in front of the box and tune into Disney XD, a channel which over the weekend couldn't make up its mind which episode of the pointless, irrelevant (and as we've seen totally vapid) K-9 spin-off. The premiere of the pilot episode Regeneration was broadcast at 6pm on the subscription channel, and thankfully has gone largely unnoticed.

Sure, the producers might have managed to get John Leeson to voice the tin dog, but then the 2000 version of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) had Tom Baker and that didn't make it must-see TV.

A co-production between Jetix Europe and Park Entertainment, you couldn't even declare that the original creators of K-9 would be turning in their graves - Bob Baker himself has been involved, writing episodes of the series.

Of course, all of this is merely opinion - make your own mind up:

Find out more about K-9 at thedoctorwhosite.co.uk who have remarkably sullied their otherwise impressive website with a K-9 page!