We’re less than an hour out from an all new episode of Doctor Who on BBC America. Less if you take the TARDIS.
If you don’t, watch The Rings of Akhaten on the channel with us now.
We weren’t going to do a livetumblring announcement today but then our inbox was flooded with “WHERE’S THE LIVETUMBLRING ANNOUNCEMENT?” asks so….
We are livetumblring tonight’s U.S. BBC America Premiere of Doctor Who: Cold War!
Привет, товарищи! (Hello Comrades!)
This is your friendly weekly announcement that we will be LIVETUMBLRING tonight’s U.S. premiere of Doctor Who: Cold War.
If you’ve never joined us for a livetumblring before, let us tell you what it’s all about.
Livetumblring is a ritual of the Doctor Who Tumblr where Whovians gather around their TVs and Tumblr dashboards to watch the new episode of Doctor Who.
We live-reblog your gifs and pics and reactions to this episode as soon they happen on The Old God television. If we were all in a room together we’d sort of look like this:
Livetumblring starts at 8pm EDT and ends around 9:15pm EDT. After that, we comb all of the episode-related tags so we can find for more of your posts.
And we’re sorry. We’re so sorry, but because we’re doing it in real time — there is no way for us to avoid posting spoilers.
If you need to avoid spoilers, install Tumblr Savior. Click this link for instructions on how to install it for all browsers.
We will tag all of our posts ‘Cold War’ and ‘Spoilers’ so blacklist these two tags.
If you cannot install Tumblr Savior or if you’re using the Tumblr app,you should consider unfollowing and refollowing us later.
If you plan on liveblogging tonight’s episode, make sure to warn your followers as well because unintended spoilers are everywhere!
After Doctor Who, BBC America is showing an all new episode of the what we think is the insanest new sci-fi show on television, Orphan Black…
…and then there’s an all new episode of The Nerdist with a special appearance by Arthur Darvill!!!!!!
No really for real! You can watch a clip of Arthur on The Nerdist as one of “The Cool Dudes” here.
So see everyone in a few hours. In the meantime, we’re going to form a new fandom called Fans of The Cool Dudes, create a Tumblr blog for our fandom, start our own roleplays, get into heated arguments about who the band’s OTP is, and then decide to break off into separate fandoms for each band member. But we’ll all remain fans of Arthur’s post-Who beard.
Cheers!
btw thx to amywiliams for helping fix our Russian!
The BBC Doctor Who Blog has an excellent write up to prepare you for this weekend’s episode, Cold War:
The Doctor’s next adventure is called Cold War and it explodes onto screens tomorrow (Saturday). The TARDIS lands on a damaged Russian Submarine in 1983 as it spirals out of control, plunging into the ocean depths. An alien creature is loose on board, having escaped from a block of Arctic ice. With tempers flaring and a cargo of nuclear weapons on board, it’s not just the crew but the whole of humanity at stake! The episode is written by Mark Gatiss (The Unquiet Dead, Night Terrors) so we’re assured of scares, great moments of humour and some unexpected twists… All that, plus the return of the Ice Warriors makes this an umissable episode!
The fearsome Martians made their debut in the Second Doctor adventure The Ice Warriors and were an instant hit, returning about a year later in The Seeds of Death. These two stories established the Ice Warriors as a proud but cruel race, ruthless and relentless when pursuing their goal, which in both instances had been the planet Earth.
But interestingly, when they next crossed the Time Lord’s path in the Third Doctor adventure The Curse of Peladon, they had reformed, renouncing their militaristic ways and eschewing violence except in cases of self-defence. The Ice Warriors’ code of honour came to the fore and they even joined forces with their former foe. Their final appearance to date came in 1974’s The Monster of Peladon in which a rogue faction of Ice Warriors threatened the Doctor.
Read the rest at the BBC Doctor Who Blog.
Premieres Saturday, April 13 on BBC One, BBC America, SPACE.
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The Doctor and Clara land on a damaged Russian Submarine in 1983 as it spirals out of control into the ocean depths. An alien creature is loose on board, having escaped from a block of Arctic ice. With tempers flaring and a cargo of nuclear weapons on board, it’s not just the crew but the whole of humanity at stake.
Episode credits: Written by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and directed by Douglas Mackinnon (Silent Witness).
An intelligence report from Strax… And a news item from Trafalgar Square with Matt Smith.
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ARTHUR DARVILL, MATT MIRA & JONAH RAY start a band - The Nerdist on April 13
Matt Mira and Jonah Ray travel to London and meet up with Arthur Darvill. They hit it off so well they start a band called The Cool Dudes, and the rest is history.
Be sure to watch more of the Nerdist Lads in London on the all new episode of The Nerdist Saturday April 13 at 10pm/9c on BBC America, after Doctor Who and Orphan Black on Supernatural Saturday.
If you watch one video today, make it this video. And watch it twice.
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I’m one of the living dead, but I used to be human. And like a human being, if I fall down, I get back up.
Karen Gillan from last night’s episode of The Nerdist.
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@nerdist: If you’re near a TV tonight, Nerdist show on @BBCAMERICA has zombie talk w/ @RobertKirkman @Michael_Rooker & zombie @KarenGillan2! 10p EST!!
Livetumblring tonight’s U.S. BBC America Premiere of Doctor Who: The Rings of Akhaten
Greetings, Whovians!
This is your friendly weekly announcement that we will be LIVETUMBLRING tonight’s U.S. premiere of Doctor Who: The Rings of Akhaten.
For those of you who have joined us before, you know the deal. If you’ve never joined us for a livetumblring before, WELCOME! Please direct your attention to the rest of this post while we demonstrate the livetumblring features of this blog.
Beginning at 8pm EDT we will all gather around our Tumblr dashboards with you to watch Doctor Who: The Rings of Akhaten together. We will livepost your gifs and pics and reactions to this episode as they happen on the tele.
And we’re sorry. We’re so sorry, but because we’re doing it in real time — there is no way for us to avoid posting spoilers.
If you need to avoid spoilers, install Tumblr Savior.
Click this link for instructions on how to install it for all browsers.
We will tag all of our posts ‘The Rings of Akhaten’ and ‘Spoilers’ so blacklist these two tags because today is already full of spoilers just dancing around your dashboards like The Doctor just took them ice skating on the River Thames in 1814.
If you cannot install Tumblr Savior and find it impossible to live without Surprised Patrick gifs Tumblr for the evening, you should consider unfollowing and refollowing us. If you plan on liveblogging tonight’s episode, make sure to warn your followers as well!
So that’s about it. On behalf of the Doctor Who Tumblr we’d like to thank you for joining us for this blog post. We know you have a choice of blog posts to read and we want to thank you for reading this one with us.
See everyone tonight in the snog box.
ENCORE of BBC AMERICA’s Supernatural Saturday TONIGHT
Here’s your chance to catch encores of last week’s Doctor Who, Orphan Black, and The Nerdist before this Saturday’s all-new episodes. Kicks off tonight at 8/7c!
Supernatural Saturday on a Thursday? Weirder things have happened…
Here’s a reminder of our reminder about our reminder.
