#James Cooray Smith

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Check out Black Archive scribe James Cooray Smith's excellent breakdown of the real "season 6b": the TV Comic era set between The War Games and Spearhead from Space!

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Radio Free Skaro #852 - Happy Times and Places

Radio Free Skaro #852 - Happy Times and Places - BREAKING NEWS: David Tennant and Catherine Tate return to #DoctorWho - @TobyHadoke on Ncuti Gatwa and @HadokePodcasts

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs852.mp3 Download MP3 BREAKING NEWS KLAXON! Everything old is new again as only a week after the introduction of Ncuti Gatwa as the new Doctor, the BBC and Russell T Davies have announced the return of David Tennant and Catherine Tate to the show in a series of specials that…could be pretty much anything, given Mr. Davies’ proclivity for mystery. What are…

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Reviewed: Obverse Books' The Black Archive - The Night of the Doctor

Reviewed: @obversebooks' #DoctorWho The Black Archive - The Night of the Doctor (@theblackarchive)

James Cooray Smith is once again contributing to The Black Archives series of extended essays on Doctor Who, published bimonthly by Obverse Books. Smith has previously written Archives on The Massacre and The Underwater Menace, so another tome from him is certainly exciting. He is in good company, with other entries penned by Una McCormack, L.M. Myles, and The Doctor Who Companion��s very own…

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“Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy both trained for life within the church before becoming actors. There are peculiar patterns in the casting, such as how several actors who have played Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four have also played the Doctor. Maybe it’s something to do with the programme’s innate anti-authoritarianism. Perhaps the role’s mystical nature is why, as well as the aspiring clergymen mentioned above, it has been filled by two actors – David Tennant and Gatwa – whose fathers were ministers.”

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Black Archive - Update

Latest from the news site: The latest edition of The Black Archive looks at the 1970 Third Doctor story The Silurians. The story raises issues of land rights, the 1970s energy crisis, technological innovation, animal experimentation and the role of the military. Science is presented as the solution to many of the problems, but terrible acts result from the morality of the choices made by both humans and Silurians – and an exiled Time Lord. The book is written by Robert Smith? (the question mark is part of his name), a mathematician, writer and editor. He is an award-winning professor of disease modelling at the University of Ottawa in Canada. The Black Archive is Obverse Books’ series of critical monographs about individual Doctor Who stories. The range has recently acquired a new editor. Paul Driscoll, known to readers as the author of previous Black Archives on The God Complex and Doctor Who (1996), as well as for his work with fiction imprint Altrix Books. He will join Philip Purser-Hallard and Paul Simpson as joint editor of the series. He begins his work this year, on books to be published from 2021 onwards. The first six Black Archive titles for 2021 have now been announced. Paul Driscoll himself will examine Richard Curtis’ 11th Doctor episode Vincent and the Doctor, while long-serving Black Archivists Jon Arnold and Simon Bucher-Jones look respectively at 1970s staples Invasion of the Dinosaurs and The Hand of Fear. New authors Andrew Orton and Billy Seguire will be writing on 1976’s The Deadly Assassinand 2005’s Dalek respectively. Theologian James F McGrath, editor of the academic essay collections Religion in Science Fiction and Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith, will be exploring the 13th Doctor’s first season finale, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos. The rest of 2021 will bring further releases, some of which will particularly please fans of the fifth Doctor, who so far has been rather underrepresented in the range. In other news, while the catalogue of titles for 2020 remains the same, unforeseen circumstances behind the scenes mean that two forthcoming Black Archives will be delayed. James Cooray Smith's book on The Underwater Menace and Jonathan Dennis’ on Vengeance on Varos will now be published in April 2020, alongside William Shaw’s Black Archive on The Rings of Akhaten. The current schedule for 2020-21 is therefore as follows: * January 2020 – The Black Archive #39: The Silurians by Robert Smith? * April 2020 – The Black Archive #40: The Underwater Menace by James Cooray Smith * April 2020 – The Black Archive #41: Vengeance on Varos by Jonathan Dennis * April 2020 – The Black Archive #42: The Rings of Akhaten by William Shaw * May 2020 – The Black Archive #43: The Robots of Death by Fiona Moore * June 2020 – The Black Archive #44: The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang by Philip Bates * July 2020 – The Black Archive #45: The Unquiet Dead by Erin Horáková * August 2020 – The Black Archive #46: The Awakening by David Evans-Powell * September 2020 – The Black Archive #47: The Stones of Blood by Katrin Thier * October 2020 – The Black Archive #48: The Tenth Planet by Michael Seely * November 2020 – The Black Archive #49: Arachnids in the UK by Sam Maleski * December 2020 – The Black Archive #50: The Day of the Doctor by Alasdair Stuart * December 2020 – The Black Archive #50A: The Night of the Doctor by James Cooray Smith * January 2021 – The Black Archive #51: The Deadly Assassin by Andrew Orton * February 2021 – The Black Archive #52: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos by James F McGrath * March 2021 – The Black Archive #53: The Hand of Fear by Simon Bucher-Jones * April 2021 – The Black Archive #54: Dalek by Billy Seguire * May 2021 – The Black Archive #55: Invasion of the Dinosaurs by Jon Arnold * June 2021 – The Black Archive #56: Vincent and the Doctor by Paul Driscoll Doctor Who News http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2020/01/black-archive-update.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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— James Cooray Smith (@thejimsmith) April 3, 2020

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The government whipping against itself and losing is the most Theresa May thing ever.

— James Cooray Smith (@thejimsmith) March 13, 2019

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[NEWS] Seven links, from drugs in Germany to dolphin cuisine to dual nations in Australia

[NEWS] Seven links, from drugs in Germany to dolphin cuisine to dual nations in Australia

Johann Hari writes for Open Democracy about what may be the beginning of the end of the drug war in Germany.

I am not in agreement with Joseph Couture’s argument in NOW Toronto that the Internet has ended gay communities. (Convince me.)

Samantha Edwards reports in NOW Toronto controversy regarding the Parkdale feminist street art event. Was it really intersectional?

James Cooray Smith wonders–or…

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You said that the Eighth Doctor/Faction Paradox era and the Third Doctor era have many strange connections inside and outside of the DWU. Aside from the Pertwee morgue story, Mal'akh in Inferno (where) and the tattoo, could you care to name a few more of them please? You have only piqued my curiosity. The morgue story just sticks out to me in the context of the TV movie and Interference, it's jarringly frightening and hysterically funny (in a dark way) at the same time)

This great article by James Gent at WeAreCult describes how – thanks to Tom Baker’s disinterest in returning to his role – the Third Doctor was the most visible Doctor Who of the 90s, a regular on the fan circuit and appearing in all sorts of commercials like this, to the point that he was essentially the archetypal Classic Doctor in the minds of fans in that period. So it’s no surprise that when Lawrence Miles wanted to royally subvert Classic Who in Alien Bodies and Interference, it was Pertwee’s Doctor who got the starring role! As he put it:

The reason I used the Third Doctor was because, more than any of them, he represents the Doctor. If you use the others it's almost like you’re summoning the presence of the actor, you’re tying the Doctor to one particular point in history, but because the mythology of the programme’s mainly rooted in the ’70s (for most people, anyway)  the Third Doctor becomes... definitive, really. You could make the same argument about the Fourth, but most of the appeal there comes purely from Tom Baker’s performance and it doesn’t work as well on paper. In both Alien Bodies and Interference I had to use an old Doctor as something symbolic rather than as a piece of fan-wank, so Pertwee seemed the best option.

(See also this piece touching on the same topic by James Cooray Smith!)

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Paul Simpson Announced as New Range Editor of The Black Archive

Paul Simpson Announced as New Range Editor of The Black Archive

Paul Simpson has been appointed the new Range Editor of Obverse Books’ successful Black Archive range, alongside Philip Purser-Hallard, James Cooray Smith, and publisher, Stuart Douglas. The Black Archive was launched in March 2016 as a series of critical monographs on individual Doctor Who serials; the first title was Jon Arnold’s Rose, while subsequent releases include Simon Guerrier’s The Evil…

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Obverse Books Announce Black Archive Spin-Off Range, The Silver Archive

Obverse Books Announce Black Archive Spin-Off Range, The Silver Archive

It’s with great excitement that we announce an upcoming range from Obverse Books, The Silver Archive – a spin-off from the publisher’s Black Archive books. Whereas The Black Archive is a series of critical assessments of Doctor Who serials, The Silver Archive takes the same approach to other cult shows – from early BBC science fiction, through the folk horror specials of the 1970s and the…

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Exclusive Interview: The Black Archive's Philip Purser-Hallard, Kate Orman, and Jon Arnold

Exclusive Interview: The Black Archive’s Philip Purser-Hallard, Kate Orman, and Jon Arnold

Obverse Books is on a mission: The Black Archive range critically analyses Doctor Who serials between 1963 and the present day. Edited by Philip Purser-Hallard, the series, as of May 2017, consists of 11 titles: Rose; The Massacre; The Ambassadors of Death; Dark Water/ Death in Heaven; Image of the Fendahl; Ghost Light; The Mind Robber; Black Orchid; The God Complex; Scream of the Shalka; and…

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Reviewed: The Black Archive #2 – The Massacre

Reviewed: The Black Archive #2 – The Massacre

It’s fair to say that the majority of fans know comparatively little about The Massacre, or The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve, if you will. Even fewer will have ever seen it, the four-part serial having been lost to the decades, meaning our only exposure to it is the audio recording, a couple of rare pictures, and the Target novelisation. The result of the tapes being wiped is an added layer…

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The Black Archive 2017/2018 Schedule Announced

The Black Archive 2017/2018 Schedule Announced

Obverse Books have announced the upcoming schedule for The Black Archive – the exciting, eclectic, and exhaustive series of book-length explorations of single Doctor Who stories from 1963 to the present day. Joining the Archive this time around will be Doctor Who tie-in authors Ian Potter and Una McCormack, along with returning authors Simon Bucher-Jones and Paul Driscoll, who wrote popular…