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Some countries have all the luck. At least, thats the feeling you might have if youre a Doctor Who fan living outside of England next February. The BBC is starting up a new Doctor Who permanent exhibition in London called the Doctor Who Experience, and its definitely something for those of us els ...

When The Doctor (Matt Smith) materialized in World War II last season only to come up against a new Dalek plot, fans expected fireworks. Instead, what they received was a grade-B invasion scheme hatched by some technicolor Daleks that resembled Teletubbies. In the episode, the old Daleks from Rus ...

I'm sure this is hardly a news flash for most people who have frequented Airlock Alpha over the years, or at the very least this column. But before 2005, I really wasn't that much of a "Doctor Who" fan. Sure, I had seen episodes here and there from the Tom Baker years, and maybe a little from the ...

What made David Tennant's final days as "Doctor Who" so compelling was that he knew an end was coming and he simply didn't want to go. But, it looks like that piece of drama -- as far as The Doctor is concerned overall -- is being removed from the series for good. BBC revealed that Matt Smith ...

As Ianto Jones laid in the arms of Capt. Jack Harkness, gasping his final breaths of life, the audience of the "Torchwood" special season "Children of Earth" was hoping for some miracle to happen. But it didn't. Gareth David-Lloyd's time on "Torchwood" was over, and the pain of John Barrowman's c ...

"Doctor Who" took home its fourth Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form, but it's not quite a win for new showrunner Steven Moffat just yet. The BBC series picked up the award for "The Water of Mars," written by Russell T. Davies and Phil Ford, and directed by Graeme Harper. "Doc ...

It's going to be hard to top the "Children of Earth" miniseries BBC aired last year, so Russell T. Davies is looking to some of America's finest writers to help him get the fourth season of "Torchwood" off the ground for Starz! Among those joining Davies in the "Doctor Who" spinoff's writing room ...

Fans will definitely miss David Tennant and Russell T. Davies. At least those who took the time to participate in Airlock Alpha's 2010 Portal Awards. Tennant won Best Actor/Television (by a landslide) and Davies picked up the Gene Roddenberry Award for lifetime achievement on this third try as "D ...

One of my great regrets this year was having to cancel my planned trip to Comic-Con in San Diego. Having heard so much about the convention, Jill and I had planned to go, but setbacks and circumstances were just too much to overcome. While watching the coverage of the event from home, I was struc ...

Right now, it's July. It's time for barbecues, summer parties and afternoons in a beer garden. But in Wales it is also Christmas ... for "Doctor Who" at least. Production is now underway on the 2010 Christmas special episode, a tradition of the series since it returned in 2005, with a few fam ...