Kaldor On Your Desktop: For Kaldor City fans, we've made available some new desktop/mobile wallpaper based on some of the preliminary photos for the covers of Kaldor City: Storm Mine and Occam's Razor. You can download and use them here.

Our Apologies: ...for the downtime this weekend. Apparently DH2.net, our ISP, had a fire at their premises on Saturday which affected their servers for a while. The problem has now been resolved, but if you ordered any CDs over the weekend, they might be a day or two slower in reaching you than usual.

29/04/08

Urgent Stop Press: Gabriel Woolf will be signing "Faction Paradox: Body Politic" CDs at The Who Shop in East Ham (details on our Events Page) on Saturday May 3rd.

23/04/08

Body for Launch:  We can now announce that Faction Paradox: Body Politic will be released on 3 May 2008. Everyone who preordered a CD through us will, post permitting, receive their CDs on that date.

Competitive Bodies: As usual, we're holding a prize draw to celebrate the release of "Body Politic": if you order or preorder through us, your name goes into the Sutekh mask for a copy of the script for "Body Politic," signed by the entire cast. If you've preordered before this announcement, don't worry: your name has retroactively been entered in the competition.

06/04/08

Body For Preorder: Faction Paradox: Body Politic is close to completion now, so we've made it available for preorder on the Orders Page. Stay tuned for official release dates and other news!

16/03/08

Body Blurb:  The back blurb for the new Faction Paradox audio, Body Politic, is now online.

The Prisoner Unleashed: ITV have announced that The Prisoner  will be airing on ITV4  every Wednesday at 8 PM, starting on March 19th, repeating Thursdays at 10.25 AM and 3 PM. If you haven't already, now would be a good time to buy a copy of Fall Out: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner!

Also, we'll be back on Southside Radio on Saturday on what is rapidly becoming our regular 1:30 PM slot.

02/03/08

Full Cast List: A full cast list for the new Faction Paradox audio, Body Politic, which is now in post-production, is online.

22/02/08

Return of the Serious Article:  A brief leap back into episode review mode now, as we look at "The Wheel in Space." It's got Zoe in it, and that's all you need to know.

08/02/08

Iago and Landerchild on Southside: This week, Peter Miles will be appearing on  Southside Radio at 1:00 on Saturday, and Paul Darrow at 2:00; we'll be on there too. And check out their podcasts!

08/02/08

Carnell on Southside: Scott Fredericks will be appearing on  Southside Radio at 12:30 on Saturday; other guests include Sally Faulkner, Graeme Harper, and us as usual.

01/02/08

Southside Update: Gregory de Polnay will be appearing on  Southside Radio at 11, and we'll be on there again at 1:30.

18/01/08

Important Announcement: Dh2.net, our ISP, have recently installed some strong spam filters on their system-- a bit too strong, since we've found out that it's been deleting quite a lot of legitimate mail as well! In view of this, we've created an emergency alternate email with no spam filter, kaldorcity@yahoo.co.uk; we'll be checking it about once a week, so, if you find you're getting error messages or you haven't had a response after a reasonable amount of time, drop us an e-mail care of that address and we'll sort things out for you.

21/12/07

Happy Holidays:  We'd like to wish all our listeners and readers the best of holidays and a great 2008. To celebrate, we've put up the latest installment of the Doctor Who Confidential Drinking Game, to get you in the mood for David Tennant and Kylie Minogue, and we're also going to be on Southside Radio again tomorrow afternoon, so those of you in the North can tune in!

08/12/07

Southside News: This afternoon from 12:30, Alan Stevens and Alistair Lock will be featured on Southside Radio; David Howe's interview, as well as one of Alan Stevens' many interviews, are now available in the podcast section.

17/11/07

More on Southside: This week's Southside Radio media programme features Alan Stevens, David Howe, Glenn "Timelash" McCoy and Graeme Harper. If you missed it, the podcast will be available in following weeks as usual.

09/11/07

Body Coverage:  The forthcoming Faction Paradox CD, Body Politic, now has its own dedicated page, currently showing the cover and a handy advertising banner for those of you who like to cut and paste-- more, including blurb and updated cast list, to come.

TARDIS Released: Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who, Manchester University Press' newest media studies volume, is now in release, and contains articles by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore, and Daniel O'Mahony.  Available from the publisher's link above, Amazon, or your favourite local bookshop.

31/10/07

More Broadcasting: Alan Stevens will again be interviewed on Southside Radio this Saturday at 2 PM; you can also download podcasts of Philip Madoc, Brian Croucher, Rob "The Prisoner: The Official Companion" Fairclough, and Graeme Harper from the website, with more to come.

11/10/07

Kaldor City Broadcasting: More Kaldor City people will be featured on Southside Radio this Saturday-- Brian Croucher will be interviewed at 10 AM, and Alan Stevens will be interviewed again at 1:30 PM.

06/10/07

Radio Kaldor: For those in the Middlesbrough area, Alan Stevens will be interviewed again by Southside Radio at 11:15 today, so tune in!

04/10/07

Emergency Stop Press: The Tardis ID event in Darlington has been indefinitely postponed  due to illness.

30/09/07

First Guest Casting Announcement: We can now announce that Peter Halliday (star of various Doctor Who serials, A for Andromeda, and of course Kaldor City) will be playing Anubis in the new Faction Paradox CD, "Body Politic."

Event Update: More Kaldor City guests will be at the Tardis ID Event (see the Events Page)-- Trevor Cooper, Greg de Polnay, John Leeson, Daniel O'Mahony and Peter Halliday have all confirmed subject to commitments. Alan Stevens, Peter Miles and Philip Madoc promoted the event earlier this week on Southside Radio-- check out the site later this week for listen-again features.

16/09/07

2/09/07

Faction Paradox News:  We can now announce that the next Faction Paradox CD by Lawrence Miles will be called "Body Politic," and will continue the story begun in Coming to Dust and The Ship of a Billion Years. Guest cast announcements coming soon.

Convention News: Next month we'll be at the Tardis In Durham convention (which is in Darlington)-- see the Events Page for details.

28/08/07

Fall Out Released: We're back from a post-convention holiday, and would like to say thank you to everyone who made the launch of Fall Out: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner at PM2007 such a great event!  A post-event report will soon be up on The Unmutual website, and the book itself can now be ordered through your favourite terrestrial or online shops, or direct from Telos by clicking here.

15/07/07

Peter Tuddenham Tribute: We've uploaded a brief tribute to Peter Tuddenham, by Alan Stevens, to our People section.

Book Launch Info: Yes, we will be having a book launch for Fall Out: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner. It'll be at the PM2007 charity event on 19 August in Portmeirion (for those who don't know, the Welsh village resort in which the series was filmed); we'll be doing a special signing and an interview panel in the Hercules Hall. The day will also include screenings of a rare 1959 Patrick McGoohan TV play,interviews with actor Earl Cameron and cameraman Jack Lowin, and Q&A with Robert Fairclough, author of   The Prisoner: the Official Companion and editor/annotator of the two-volume The Prisoner script books (among other accomplishments), as well as enjoying the beauty of the Welsh coast and the Village itself. Click here for the announcement, and here for more details plus how to order tickets.

13/07/07

Peter Tuddenham: Like many in the Blake's 7/Doctor Who fan communities, we were deeply saddened at the news of Peter Tuddenham's passing earlier this week. Peter was a great friend and supporter who added considerable charm and gravitas to the role of Strecker in Occam's Razor and Death's Head, and also reprised his Blake's 7 roles of Orac, Zen and Slave for our earlier not-for-profit B7 audios.  He will be greatly missed by all of us.

07/07/07

Storm Mine Review: A great review of Kaldor City Storm Mine by Luca Signorelli at the Doctor Who Ratings Guide.

01/07/07

At Last it Can Be Told: We can now make an official announcement that the Faction Paradox series will continue, with Gabriel Woolf confirmed to appear in at least two more installments.We'll be announcing details like story names, guest stars, completion of recordings and so forth later on, so stay tuned.

No One Is Safe: Continuing the Celestial Toyroom Doctor Who Confidential Drinking Game Series, this month we take on Torchwood Declassified. An adult show, for adults who like drinking games!

Finding Fall Out: As for our earlier book Liberation, we've now set up a dedicated page for Fall Out: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner, where we'll be keeping you up-to-date with reviews, interviews, launch activities, and anything else related to the book.

29/05/07

Let the Games Commence:  More, and more frequent, news soon, but in the meantime, here's Installment Two of the Doctor Who Confidential Drinking Game, as featured in Celestial Toyroom, to keep you entertained.

29/04/07

16/04/07

Post Convention: Just a note to say hello to everyone we met at Star One; we had a great time, hope you all did too.

10/04/07

Star One:  We'll be at the Star One Blake's 7 convention next weekend, selling CDs, conducting interviews, and answering any and all of your questions about Magic Bullet's enterprises. Hope to see you there!

19/03/07

Fall Out  Preorder Info: Fall Out: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner is now available for preorder from Telos Publishing, either in paperback or (while stocks last) as a limited-edition signed and numbered hardback. To preorder your copy, click here.

05/03/07

Now It Can Be Told:  Telos Publishing have issued a press release announcing a follow-up to Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore's successful  Liberation: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake's 7: Fall Out: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner. We'll be bringing you more details as they become available, but for now, you can view a jpeg of the cover here, and read the full press release below:

PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW GUIDE TO THE PRISONER

World Fantasy Award winners Telos Publishing are pleased to announce the forthcoming release of a new addition to their Cult TV range: Fall Out: the Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to The Prisoner, by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore with a foreword by Ian Rakoff, to be released August 2007.
 
The Prisoner's impact upon society was explosive, transforming art, storytelling and popular culture like no other television programme before or since. Patrick McGoohan spearheaded the project in his role as an unnamed man, held against his will in a strange isolated Italianate village, tormented by a succession of individuals, each calling themselves 'Number 2', whose true motivations and intentions towards him remain a constant mystery. The man, known only as 'Number 6', attempts escape, is befriended and betrayed, undergoes hallucinogenic journeys, and experiences strange revelations, before the series achieved its cathartic climax.

The Prisoner was ahead of its time, and in this book, Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore, authors of Liberation: the Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Blake's 7, take on the task of debriefing the programme and attempting to make sense of the many interpretations and readings which have been placed on it. This is not the book with all the answers.... but it may help you ask the right questions.
 
Telos' range of Cult TV and Film titles is one of the most varied and exciting around, including books on Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Survivors, British horror film, Stargate SG-1, Charmed and 24. For more information and to check out other Telos ranges, please visit www.telos.co.uk.
 

***ENDS***

28/02/07

27/01/07

Time for a Drink: As the countdown to the new series of Doctor Who (and thus of Doctor Who Confidential) commences, we present the first installment of  The Doctor Who Confidential Drinking Game, subsequent editions to follow over the next couple of months. Grab a glass and play along!

04/12/06

Craig Hinton: It has been announced on a  number of websites and newsgroups that Doctor Who book and audio writer Craig Hinton  has passed away this weekend. Craig was a good friend of all at Magic Bullet and a fervrent supporter of the Kaldor City series, and he will be greatly missed.

03/12/06

...And That's It:... till January. We'll still be taking orders (and don't forget to check out our holiday special offer on the Orders Page!), and answering e-mails, and we'll be back soon with more news, reviews and articles.

On The Good Ship: You can now read the text of Vanessa Bishop's Review of Faction Paradox: The Ship of a Billion Years for Doctor Who Magazine in our Reviews section. 

Give like Santa, Save like Theodore Maxtabile: Christmas is a time for Victoriana and remote-controlled Daleks, so what better article to do than The Evil of the Daleks? In which the Daleks discover the hippie movement, the Second Doctor discovers Beatnik culture and Jamie discovers mini-kilts. 

16/11/06

Only 38 Shopping Days Till Christmas: For the upcoming holidays-- a special online-only offer till January 15th, 2007. When you buy any two Kaldor City CDs, you get a free Faction Paradox CD, or when you buy any two Faction Paradox CDs, you get a free Kaldor City CD! Just go to the Orders Page, and specify which CDs you want in the handy PayPal-provided message box on your order form.

10/10/06

Joking Around:  In a new development for the Kaldor City site, our latest feature article is a humour piece by Alan Stevens, The Death of Doctor Who. A lightheartedly morbid look at how all the various Time Lords shuffled off this mortal coil, and what David Tennant has got to worry about.

10/09/06

Destiny of the Daleks: It may be remembered as The One Where Davros Comes Back And He's Not Played By Michael Wisher, but the KC Reviews team do find rather more to enjoy in it..

Anniversaries in the News: The first of this month also marked the fifth anniversary of the release of the first CD to bear the Magic Bullet label, "Occam's Razor." Take time to celebrate-- give the Kaldor City CDs a relisten!

3/09/06

An Audience with Peter Miles: Peter Miles will be appearing on November 11 at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, for an evening of comedy, drama and reminiscence about his career in television, film and audio. Details are on the Events Page.

30/07/06

David Maloney Tribute: A brief Tribute to David Maloney is now available in the People Section.

2006 Series Overview: As promised, we bring you our feelings on the highs and lows of the latest series of Doctor Who, and our hopes and fears for its future.

21/07/06

David Maloney: According to newspaper and online reports, David Maloney, producer of the first three series of Blake's 7 among many other things, passed away on July 18th. David was always supportive of Magic Bullet's activities (even writing the forward to our book Liberation), and we would like to convey our regrets to his family and friends.

30/06/06

Fanzine News: The second issue of "Scorpio Attack" is now available, featuring a new comic set in the Blake's 7 universe and scripted by Alan Stevens. For more info or to order a copy, contact Jonathan Helm at jonathanhelm90 (at) hotmail.com.

11/06/06

Bad Woolf: With "The Satan Pit" having aired on Saturday, we're pleased to bring you an interview with the voice of Satan (and Sutekh) himself, Gabriel Woolf, airing his opinions of "Pyramids of Mars," Faction Paradox, and the new Doctor Who series.

21/05/06

Competition Winner: We're pleased to announce that the winner of a signed script for Faction Paradox: The Ship of a Billion Years is Peter Gilham of Derby. Congratulations, and thanks to everyone who took part!

Six Degrees of Russell T. Davies: It's also recently been announced that Gabriel Woolf, who stars as Sutekh in the Faction Paradox audios, will be appearing in the new Doctor Who story "The Satan Pit" as the voice of Satan. One to listen for!

01/05/06

14 Left: We've still got 14 signed CDs left over from our preorder signing binge-- so if you're quick, you just might be able to get your hands on a CD signed by Peter Miles and Lawrence Miles. But, since we've only got those 14, you'll have to hurry!

01/05/06

Christmas in May: To celebrate the launch of the first DVD of the new Doctor Who series, we're reproducing the Review of "The Christmas Invasion" which appeared in Celestial Toyroom last January-- a promising start to the second season...

For Those Who Have Just Joined Us: Faction Paradox: The Ship of a Billion Years (starring Julian Glover, Isla Blair and Gabriel Woolf as Sutekh, and guest starring Peter Miles) was launched on April 15th, to great acclaim; if you didn't preorder your copy, you can still enter our competition to win a signed copy of the script up until May 15th, and you can also take advantage of our special Buy-Ship-And-Get-Any-Kaldor-City-CD-For-£5 Offer.