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Jun 18, 2012 - 2:52 PM
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Lee Binding has reported that an announcement about The Ambassadors Of Death will be made in the next week or so. The graphic designer recently completed the DVD cover, saying: "Ambassadors sleeve submitted to @classicdw. No Liz Shaw on the front, sadly. No decent pics. Rest: kinda classy, which is nice. « I'm sure the usual #doctorwho ming-mongs will complain anyway. 'It's not GREEN. Ambassadors is a GREEN story!' *rolls eyes* «" Meanwhile, an image of the colourisation process for the story undertaken by Richard Russell was shared on Twitter by Stuart Humphryes (aka @Babelcolour), who himself is working on episode one of The Mind of Evil.
Brian Hodgson recently mentioned that he had recorded a commentary for the incomplete Patrick Troughton adventure The Moonbase. It is currently unknown if this is for a Revisitations makeover of the 2004 Lost In Time collection of existing, isolated episodes, or if it will form part of a special release of the story with an animated reconstruction of the missing episodes one and three. The Special Sound Designer also mentioned a commentary for Fury From The Deep, though this seems more likely to be for The Underwater Menace, of which episode two was recovered last year - again, the context of such a release is currently unknown.
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/06/dwn150612200208-dvd-update.html
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Jun 21, 2012 - 8:41 AM
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Hopefully Ambassadors will include some kind of tribute.
The actress Caroline John - who played companion Liz Shaw - has died, it was announced today. The news came via a tweet from the BBC on the Doctor Who Twitter feed.
She passed away on 5th June but the news was not disclosed by the family until after the funeral took place yesterday in south-west London. The cause of death is unknown as yet.
Born in York in 1940, John trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama then worked in theatre, touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
In 1969, she won the part of scientist and companion Dr Elizabeth Shaw opposite Jon Pertwee as the Doctor when the show was revamped for its seventh season, seeing the title character exiled to Earth. Liz Shaw appeared as a regular character for one season in 1970, playing two roles in the final story of that year, Inferno, the other character being Shaw's alternative-universe counterpart, Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw.
John returned to the series in 1983 for the 20th-anniversary special The Five Doctors, in which she played a fake Shaw. She reprised the role of Shaw for the 1993 BBC Children In Need special Dimensions In Time.
Married to Geoffrey Beevers, John appeared as Madame Salvadori with him in the Big Finish audio drama Dust Breeding, which was released in 2001. She also portrayed Liz Shaw for Big Finish for four stories in the Companion Chronicles range, starting with The Blue Tooth in 2007 and most recently in Binary, which was released just three months ago in March. In addition, she appeared as Shaw in the straight-to-video P.R.O.B.E. stories of the 1990s, which were written by Mark Gatiss and co-starred Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy.
Paying tribute, Companion Chronicles producer David Richardson said:
Carry was the first assistant I ever saw in Doctor Who, and through meeting and working with her many times she remained a favourite over the years. She was an accomplished actor, and the most lovely, warm person you could ever hope to spend time with. Carry loved working on the Companion Chronicles and came in to record what would be her final contribution, The Last Post, on January 26.
Big Finish executive producer Nicholas Briggs said:
I met Carry many years ago while filming. She was the Detective Inspector and I was her assistant. We had such a laugh working together, and when we came to record a Myth Makers interview a few weeks later, we just couldn't stop giggling. She was a lovely lady who was always so much fun to be with, and even though she could enjoy a saucy joke or two, there was also something of a delightful prudishness about her. When I think of her smile and her warmth now, it brightens my heart.
John and Beevers also starred together in the Agatha Christie's Poirot episode Problem At Sea on ITV in 1989. In addition, the couple had roles in the Channel 4 adaptation of the political thriller A Very British Coup in 1988. They had three children: a daughter, Daisy, and sons Ben and Tom.
John's most recent notable screen appearance was in the film Love Actually - the 2003 rom-com written and directed by Richard Curtis.
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/06/dwn210612123117-caroline-john-1940-2012.html
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Aug 2, 2012 - 12:04 PM
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Replacing the version released on DVD back in 2005, the BBC and Warner Home Video have announced that on November 13th they will put out in North America a 2-disc set of Doctor Who - Story #057: The Claws Of Axos: Special Edition. Priced at $34.98 SRP, you'll get 4 episodes from 1971 (about 97 minutes total, with digitally remastered picture and sound) starring Jon Pertwee as the 3rd Doctor, Katy Manning as companion Jo Grant, Nicholas Courtney as UNIT's Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart, and Roger Delgado as The Master. You'll also get a lot of extras, including Audio Commentary, "Axon Stations!," "Now & Then," "Directing Who," "Studio Recording," "Living with Levene," "Photo Gallery, "PDF materials: Radio Times Listings," Production Note Subtitles, and more! Here's the package art:
http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Doctor-Claws-of-Axos-SE/17321
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A clean version of the cover artwork for the forthcoming special edition release of The Claws of Axos by Lee Binding has been published via the Tea-Lady Design Facebook page.
Special features have yet to be formally announced, though as well as items from the original release the new two disc set will also include a new documentary Axon Stations!, plus feature Living with Levene. Full details will be released shortly.
The special edition is currently available for pre-order at Amazon, expected to be released in the United Kingdom on 22nd October, and in North America on 13th November.
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/
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