Anyways, I’m back so hello to all our frequent visitors and major apologies for my disappearing act, to celibrate my return to doing what I do worst, here is a good enough reason to watch the 5th series of doctor who, the lovely Amy Pond, aaah I love Doctor Who.

Post Your Comments, let me know what you will be doing and don’t forget, time is running out, visit www.DoctorWhoBlackpool.com before it’s too late!!!!!!

Dr Who and Donna Road Feature - Sarah Myerscough with finished product

Sarah Myerscough is an artist based in the North West of England and currently working for Blackpool Illuminations.Her website is a showcase of her work at the Illuminations and previously as a model maker / artist at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and includes dozens of behind the scenes photos

Her own artwork is also offered for sale and the site features a timeline of her career in art so far.

Sarah Myerscough with Dalek Maquette

Illuminated road features of the Doctor, Oods, Sontaran Companions, etc.. along with animated 3D Daleks and Tardis have been lighting up Blackpool promenade from September to November, with more characters being added each year. Well worth a visit!

Tardis Road Feature - Sarah Myerscough with completed feature

 For more information about Blackpool Illuminations, Blackpool Illuminations official website is as follows:

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For more information on the Blackpool Doctor Who Museum, please visit:

Blackpool Doctor Who Museum

Note: Although she works for the Illuminations, the www.sarahmyerscough.co.uk website is a personal website. It does not represent the views of, nor is it endorsed by, Blackpool Illuminations, Blackpool Council or Visit Blackpool.

Ed’s Note:

I would like to thank Sarah for taking the time to submit all this information which highlights the great work that the team at Blackpool Illuminations HQ are doing, Blackpool has come on leaps and bounds over the past few years and has never been a more exciting place to visit, this has only been achieved by hard work and dedication of people like the Illuminations team coming up with new innovative ideas to attract today’s potential visitors, keep up the good work!!!!

Bleazy

“This will be the most exciting episode Doctor Who have ever done. We really wanted to get all the companions back on board as a fitting send-off to David and of all the enemies for him to face in his final episode it makes sense for The Master to be the main one. Getting Billie Piper to agree is a real coup, but fortunately she loved working on the show so much that it didn’t take much convincing.”

It should be noted however that there has been no official confirmation stating that this is true so at the moment these are only rumours. They may turn out to be true or may turn out to be false so at the moment it’s best that they are taken with a pinch of salt. You can view The Sun’s article about these rumours here and more information will be posted here on this site if and when it becomes available. What do you think about these latest rumours?

Star David Tennant was snapped with new sidekick Lindsay Duncan filming the second of four Time Lord specials in a snowy-looking Newport early on Saturday morning.

Tennant was seen demonstrating his sonic screwdriver to his new co-star. Two other actors emerged from the Tardis and ran away.

Duncan, who won acclaim for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in BBC2 drama Margaret this past week, plays Adelaide – described as the doctor’s cleverest and most strong-minded companion.

The Tony award-winning classical actress said: “I’m thrilled to be involved in Doctor Who. I’ve never done anything like this before and I’m really looking forward to working with David Tennant and the Doctor Who team.”

Former EastEnders star Michelle Ryan is set to take the role in the first of this year’s specials, Planet of the Dead, which is due to air over Easter.

The spinoff series will include 13 half-hour episodes that have been co-produced by the original creator of K9, Bob Baker. It stars Robyn Moore (Undead / The Horsemen) as June Turner, newcomer Daniel Webber as Darius, and Keegan Joyce (who appeared in Superman Returns) as Starkey.

The first two episodes are part 1 and 2 respectively in a story titled ‘Feast of the Merrons’.

K9 Gets his own show!!!

K9 will be brought to the screen as both an animatronic prop and in CGI form.  K9’s new updated design has yet to be released, but according to the producers he will be sleek and different to anything seen before – but recognisable to new and old fans.

The image above is the first time the logo has been seen.

Paul Tams, the show’s co-creator and co-associate producer, told The Doctor Who News Page: “As eagle-eyed people may spot, I based the new logo on K9’s old-type font of Westminster, with an update. The font is also used on K9’s new body.”

The series is well and truly into its production with principal photography due to complete in May.  Although air dates have not been confirmed the first episodes are expected to air on Australia’s Network 10 later this year.  Yes, K9 is an Australian production by the Film Finance Corporation.

Get Your Own Remote K9 Here

The actor, who plays Captain Jack in the Doctor Who spin-off series, has penned the original strip with his sister Carole.

John, 41, said of the strip – called Captain Jack And The Selkie, which will feature in the first 100-page issue of the bi-monthly magazine: “I think we see Jack’s compassion… maybe his guilt. Plus his wicked skills with a harpoon!”

Fans of the series will see in the strip Captain Jack facing a deadly threat on a remote Scottish island, where people are disappearing one by one.

John added: “I’m astonished. It’s brilliant work. The panels with the selkie are completely breathtaking… and Jack looks so damn good.”

He’s best known for appearing in front of the cameras in hit sci-fi show Torchwood.

But his not inconsiderable CV boasts a history of singing, dancing and TV presenting.

Now the 41-year-old star has turned his hand to comic book writing – and penned a 15-page strip starring the programme’s Captain Jack character.

Some of the artwork that will appear in the strip The Selkie, printed in this month’s Torchwood magazine has now been revealed. providing a sneak peek of the comic’s content and style.

The story sees Jack arriving on the Orkneys’ Seal Island where men’s bodies are being washed up drained of blood.

As he investigates the slayings he finds he is himself entwined in the mystery.

Barrowman hinted readers would see a compassionate character riddled with guilt – who’s pretty handy at defending himself with a harpoon.

Torchwood magazine hadn’t planned on a comic strip until the Scottish-born thespian approached them with artists Tommy Lee Edwards and Trevor Goring – who he met at a comic convention in San Diego.

Barrowman, who lives in Sully, said: “Trevor and Tommy thought a collaboration sounded like a great idea, and on the way home from Comic Con I knew that if we didn’t pursue the idea of the four of us working together right away, we’d all get busy with our individual work and it would never happen.”

Barrowman is a long standing comic fan who grew up reading Superman, Spiderman, Batman and Captain America.

He said: “I don’t think Torchwood magazine expected a comic strip but given that we’d just hooked up with two of the best artists in the comic world, as far as I was concerned, it made sense to pitch a comic.”

Later he remembered brainstorming with his sister about the “myth of the Selkie”.

He said: “I thought it’d be a perfect plot to adapt for what, in my head, I was already calling a Captain Jack Tale.”

Initially his sister’s story had nothing to do with Torchwood.

“We worked that out between us,” he said.

“ I’d always wanted to do something that put Jack in Scotland and (my sister’s) original story was set on an island off the Orkneys.”

He added: “We’d already agreed to tell a story that showed a side of Jack and a part of his history that hadn’t been explored too much in other media. I wanted to give fans something original about Jack.”

Barrowman and his sister came up with the idea for a comic while the pair were working on his autobiography Anything Goes.

The pair had wanted to do one since reading Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602.

That was an eight-issue series published between November 2003 and June 2004 that saw superheroes living in Elizabethan England. The pair say the finished product is better than they could have hoped.

Carol said: “When Tommy and Trevor sent the first coloured panels, I just stared at them in stunned admiration.”

Her brother went on: “I’m astonished. It’s brilliant work.

“The panels with the Selkie are completely breathtaking.

“And Jack looks so damn good!”

Torchwood magazine editor Martin Eden was over the moon the one-off piece was finished in time. Work only started in December.

He said: “The actual mystery does tie in to his own background because when he investigates the murders he starts to realise that it is not unrelated to his own life. It’s to do with his past.”

Kristian Barry, who owns Cardiff shop Comic Guru Presents, welcomed Barrowman’s stab at comic books.

He said: “Anything that gets people reading comics is a good thing. I see no reason why someone who plays the part could not have a damn good go at writing it too.”

He thought the artwork “realistic and edgy”, adding: “I run a Doctor Who specialist shop remember, so I’m sure it will lead to a large increase in website sales. That’s what tends to happen.”

Torchwood magazine, issue 14 is on sale on February19

Being a “Sandgrown” born and bred in Blackpool I did used to think that everybody in the entire planet must have heard of the Blackpool Illuminations, of course as i’ve grown old and bald I’ve realised that Blackpool is in fact not the center of the entire universe and not everybody on the planet knows about this fantistic free lights display.

The Blackpool Illuminations is an annual festival of lighs abd has been a popular tourist attraction since they were first illuminated on 18th September 1879. They always run through the Autumn and when switched off, that marks the end of the Blackpool tourist season.

                          The Blackpool Illuminations or simply “lights” as they are known locally normally run for exactly sixty days, they run for six miles (almost 10km) they are not simply rows of bulbs (as they were during their first years) The Illuninations include state of the art laser shows and displays and illuminated trams which frun on tracks along the promenade.

Each year the Blackpool Illuminations have a “Big Switch On” which takes place from a custom built stadium from BBC Radio 2. Last year the switch on was made by DAVID TENNANT to mark the lates series of Doctor Who and also the new DOCTOR WHO Illuminations displays.

The switch on was a phenomenal success and thousands turned up to see David Tennant, and with the Hyde Fundraisers just to the front of the stadium at the Doctor Who Museum we had an amazingky busy evening with the last visitors coming into the museum just after midnight!

Due to the amazing feedback from the Doctor Who Illuminations Displays they have been expanded for this years switch on (which will take place August 29th and be switched on By Boyzone and the BBC2 TOP GEAR TEAM) to include full-size TARDIS and DALEK displays, but just to wet your apetites, here are a few of the displays from the 2007 event!

On Bank Holiday Monday (25th August 2008) we are delighted to announce the arrival of SYLVESTER McCOY and the Hyde FundRaisers to the Doctor Who Museum.

Sylvester will be meeting his fans on the day we’ll be running Competitions and Signings so your sure to be in for a fantastic time! The Hyde Fundraisers are no stranger to the Blackpool Museum and aways offer a fun day for the whole family to enjoy, who can forget the fun antics during the 2007 Illuminations switch on when monsters and robots ran wild through the corridors, and davros (unaware of his forthcoming doom) terrorised our customers into taking photos of his ugly mug!

The fun starts at around 11am and there are sure to be many suprises in store, so get yourself down the museum for a great days entertainment!

For more details you can call the Doctor Who Museum Office on 01253 297522

If you would like more details on the Hyde Fundraisers and their work you can visit their official website: http://www.hydefundraisers.com/