Doctor Who Nominated for Bafta Craft Award

Special effects companies Milk VFX, Real SFX, and BBC Wales VFX have been nominated for the Special, Visual, & Graphic Effects award in this year's Bafta Craft Awards. The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, April 26 at the Brewery in London and will be hosted by Stephen Mangan.

BAFTA Cymru Holding Doctor Who Screenings

BAFTA Cymru will be holding screenings of Doctor Who episodes next month into January. Included will be an early screening of the season finale at the National Museum of Wales.

The programme of six events, devised and coordinated by Film Hub Wales and BAFTA Cymru, and hosted in partnership with BBC Cymru Wales and 6 key venues around the country, will offer fans of the series a chance to see monsters from key episodes of the cult classic on the big screen and hear from the creative team working on the series.

The events will be held between November 2014 and January 2015 and will be part of Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, the BFI’s landmark season dedicated to cinema’s most spectacular genre, presented together with 02. Tickets will be available to BAFTA members and the general public.

The first event in the series, to be held in partnership with Chapter pop up cinema on 4 November at the landmark National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, will be a preview of Death in Heaven, the current season finale, which will be screened ahead of its broadcast on BBC One and will be attended by cast and crew.

The wider programme of events includes The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe at Ffwrnes in Llanelli on 1 December ; The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky at Scala Cinema and Arts Centre, Prestatyn on 12 December; The Unquiet Dead at the Savoy, in Monmouth on 12 January; ending with The Five Doctors on 27 January at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. An additional double bill screening of Mask of Mandragora and The Prisoner will be confirmed to take place in January at Theatr Harlech.

The events will each have a specific theme, focusing on one creative department within the Doctor Who production team.

Tickets can be bought from the following venues starting at £8.

Doctor Who: Death in Heaven
Tuesday 4th November 7pm
Reardon Smith Theatre, Cardiff
www.chapter.org/doctorwho
029 2030 4400

Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Monday 1st December at 7pm
Theatr Ffwrnes, Llanelli
www.theatrausirgar.co.uk
0845 2263510

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem & The Poison Sky
Tuesday 16th December 7pm
Scala Cinema and Arts Centre, Denbighshire
www.scalaprestatyn.co.uk
01745 850197

Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead
Monday 12th January 7pm
Monmouth Savoy Theatre, Monmouth
www.monmouth-savoy.co.uk
01600 772467

Doctor Who: Doctor Who Masque of Mandragora & The Prisoner
Saturday 17th January at 7pm
Theatr Harlech, Snowdonia
www.theatrharlech.com
01766 780667

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Tuesday 27th January at 7pm
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk
01970 623232

BAFTA Television Award Results

As previously announced, both The Day of the Doctor and An Adventure in Space and Time were nominated in the 2014 BAFTA TV awards. The Day of the Doctor won out in the Radio Times Audience Award, which was voted for by the public. An Adventure in Space and Time was nominated for the Best Single Drama award, but lost to Complicit.

Doctor Who Wins at BAFTA Craft Awards

Doctor Who won two awards at the BAFTA Craft awards last night. Milk VFX, Real SFX, and The Model Unit all received the Special, Visual, & Graphics Effects award for The Day of the Doctor. Vickie Lang also received the Make Up and Hair Design award for An Adventure in Space and Time.

The rest of the BAFTAs will be announced on May 18th. Don't forget to vote for Doctor Who in the Radio Times Audience Award, which will be presented at that ceremony.

Doctor Who Nominated for BAFTA Awards

Doctor Who has been nominated for two awards in the BAFTAs. An Adventure in Space and Time has been nominated for the Single Drama award, while The Day of the Doctor has been nominated for the Radio Times Audience Award. Fans can vote for the latter award here.

The winner will be announced in a ceremony on May 18th.

Doctor Who Nominated for BAFTA TV Craft Awards

The Day of the Doctor, Doctor Who at the Proms, and An Adventure in Space and Time have both been nominated for the 2014 BAFTA Television Craft Awards.

Milk SFX, The Model Unit, and Real SFX have been nominated for the Special, Visual and Graphic Effects Award for their work in The Day of the Doctor. Three people have been nominated for their work on An Adventure in Space and Time: Suzanne Cave for Costume Design, Philip Kloss for Editing Fiction, and Vickie Lang for Make Up and Hair Design. Huw Thomas, Bernie Davis, Keith Ware, and Eryl Ellis have all been nominated for the Entertainment Team Craft Award for their work on Doctor Who at the Proms.

The winners will be announced on April 27th.

Steven Moffat on 50th Anniversary Rumors

Steven Moffat spoke at the BAFTA awards yesterday about rumors involving the 50th anniversary. He stated that the only things he's revealed about the anniversary is what's been filmed outside, and he's quite careful about that. He also warned fans not to believe everything they read on the internet.

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Montage at the BAFTAs

Doctor Who featured at the BAFTA awards earlier tonight. There was a special 50th anniversary video montage and a special scene with the Doctor and Clara inside the TARDIS. Afterward, Jenna-Louise Coleman and Brian Cox presented the award for best comedy program.


Video courtesy of Doctor Who TV