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KAREN GILLAN TO JOIN THE OFFICIAL DOCTOR WHO CONVENTION

BBC Worldwide confirmed today that Karen Gillan will be joining her co-stars Matt Smith and Arthur Darvill at the Official Doctor Who Convention taking place on the 24th and 25th March at Cardiff’s Millennium Centre.

Karen Gillan said: “I’m really looking forward to the Convention and meeting all of the wonderful Doctor Who fans!”

The Convention brings the makers of the Doctor Who together for a full day, in-depth event designed to reveal the inner workings of the series. On the main stage live pyrotechnic demonstrations will thrill attendees, while in detailed prosthetics masterclasses fans will see a monster made flesh in front of their eyes. Throughout these sessions the secrets of their craft will be revealed by masters of the trade including Danny Hargreaves, Doctor Who’s SFX Supervisor and Neill Gorton co-director of Millennium FX, Europe’s leading supplier of cutting edge prosthetics, animatronics and special make-up.

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What an awesome line-up now for the Convention with Karen completing the main cast stars along with Matt and Arthur, who are also attending both days! I hope everyone who is fortunate to go, really enjoys this experience!

Karen Gillan and Stephen Fry are among the stars who will feature in Sky Arts’ series of programmes celebrating the works of Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward.

The In Love With series, which will air in February and March, will feature stars of stage and screen performing readings of the authors and playwrights’ finest works.

Miriam Margolyes, Simon Callow, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Douglas Booth will pay tribute to Dickens.

Doctor Who’s Gillan – who will tackle the voiceover from Brief Encounter – Patricia Hodge, Celia Imrie, Robert Sheehan and Sheila Hancock will appear in the Noel Coward show.

Fry, Paterson Joseph, Caroline Quentin and Being Human star Russell Tovey will head up the Oscar Wilde tribute.

Sky Arts channel director James Hunt said: “I couldn’t imagine a better cast to celebrate the colourful work of Dickens, Coward and Wilde. The performances are remarkable. This is a fitting tribute to the body of work they celebrate and to the craft of delivering monologue.”

In Love With… Dickens airs on February 21 at 8pm on Sky Arts. The Coward special follows on March 12, while the Wilde tribute airs on March 19.

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News is a little on the quiet side at the moment, although a couple of interesting tit-bits are listed below:-

• *  Filming on Doctor Who Series 7 has been confirmed to commence from February 20th – it is unclear whether this includes Karen at this stage, but we know she’ll be back at some point to film Amy’s final episodes.
• *  Following the screening of We’ll Take Manhattan on BBC4 last month, a UK HD screening has finally been confirmed for February 15th on BBC HD at 22.30pm! It was also confirmed that the US screenings on Ovation will simultaneously screen on the standard definition and HD channel.

Actress Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) has signed to star in Romeo And Brittney, the follow-up movie from comedian David Baddiel (The Infidel). The current Doctor Who companion will play Brittney, a high school student from New Jersey who finds herself in the 13th-century, stuck in the plot of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet as the female lead.

Gillian Anderson (The X Files) will be playing both Gillan’s mother and a nurse in 13th-century Verona, while Robert Sheehan (Misfits) has been cast as a nerdy student and Romeo.

The $7 million movie, summarized as “Shakespeare In Love meets Clueless”, starts shooting May.

Arvind Ethan, producer:

“[David Baddiel and I] love literate teen comedies and we wanted to do our own version. After all, 10 Things I Hate About You was based on The Taming Of The Shrew just as Clueless was based on Jane Austen’s Emma and Easy A is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. And what is Twilight if it’s not Romeo & Juliet with vampires and werewolves?”

This is certainly exciting news, particularly if you love Karen Gillan and Robert Sheehan — who’s particularly charismatic as Nathan in Misfits. The premise doesn’t sound like a simple case of time-travel (as a few actors are playing dual roles), more like a reality-bending fantasy similar to Lost In Austen (the ITV miniseries where a modern woman was transported into the novel Pride & Prejudice). Agree?

My only reservation is the involvement of David Baddiel; a decent comedian back in the early-’90s and a talented writer, but his recent movie The Infidel was toothless and a tedious disappointment, with limp direction. Will he fare better with a more imaginative concept and a bigger budget?

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I’ve also added a bunch more HQ’s from the National Television Awards, courtesy of My Poncho Boy and my lovely friend Annika, so many thanks to them!

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Karen Gillan cleaned up at the National TV Awards so it’s no surprise she’s going to keep her prize – by her bath.

The Inverness-born actress won the Best Female Drama Performance gong on Wednesday night for her role as Amy Pond in Doctor Who. Karen – who pipped Suranne Jones, Eve Myles and Jaye Jacobs to the award – said: “I’m going to put it in the bathroom.

“I could keep it on the side of my bath next to the shower gel.

“It’s fantastic I won on Burns Night. My parents are going to be so proud of me.

“I wasn’t expecting that and then to stand in front of that many people in the O2 Arena just screaming, I was trembling afterwards.”

Karen, 24, revealed she only just made it on stage.

She said: “I was late because of the crazy traffic in London. So I got there and then they called out my name. So there wasn’t a second to spare.”

Winning the award is a nice goodbye for Karen, who will leave Doctor Who this year.

She said: “I am so sad to be leaving Doctor Who. I have had the best years of my life on this job

“But it’s time to go on to other things and all stories come to their natural end.”

Karen will film in Scotland for the first time since becoming a star when she shoots a Glasgow-set rom com Not Another Happy Ending. She said: “I play an eccentric writer.”

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Karen looked stunning, and congratulations to her again on her award win! Also congratulations to her co-star Matt Smith for winning Drama Performance (Male) too, although sadly Doctor Who lost out to Downton Abbey for Best Drama!

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