And the winner is...

Sadly, the nominations for the play remained as just that. Nick and James both missed out on Best Actor and the play failed to receive Best Amateur Production at this year's Guide Awards.

On a plus note though, James did scoop the award for directing the winning winning play in Best Amateur Production, so I wish him many congratulations.

The lines are closed and the votes are being counted...

Tomorrow (Monday 10 November) sees The Awards take place at The Kings Theatre in Portsmouth. You can see the full details of the nominations in my previous blog entry. I'll be at the awards ceremony and will make sure that a full report is available here before the end of the week.

Nick Scovell (the Doctor) and James George (Mavic Chen) are both nominated in Best Actor and the play is also nominated for Best Amateur Drama Production.

I would also like to apologise that there haven't been any updates for the last few weeks, but I was unexpectedly taken ill and not able to add anything to the blog. I'm a lot better now and will make sure some new content is placed here shortly.

Daleks take control of the Spinnaker Tower!

Just to let you know that there'll be a slight delay in getting the next selection of content up here as I was out as a Dalek at the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth today and this has delayed the new content slightly. More content will be available on Tuesday evening (UK time).

Dalek photos aplenty

Dalek Spy has been scouring through the vast amount of photos taken by other members of the cast and crew. Here's a selection by Jonathan Andrews (JA), one of the delegates and a Science Dalek, taken during various rehearsals. There's also a couple by Stuart Currie (SC), builder and operator of the Supreme Dalek, taken on the stage before differnet shows.

• I'm left behind while everyone else goes off for their tea break (JA)
  
• Phil Cottrill (Governor Trantis) examines the new mini Dalek species (JA)
  
• A close up of the beautiful home build of Stuart's Supreme Dalek (JA)
  
• The Supreme Dalek discovers the TARDIS (SC)
  
• The Time Destructor is prepared for its final operation by the Supreme Dalek (SC)
  

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Daleks, Daleks, Daleks!

This week, Dalek Spy has unearthed photos taken during rehearsals that originally couldn't be released as they featured not only the new colour scheme of the Daleks but also the secret weapon... Stuart Currie's magnificent Supreme Dalek. This amazing and fully realistic recreation of Dalek Sec even had a middle section that could revolve.

• James George (Mavic Chen) faces down the Supreme Dalek
  
• Nick Scovell (the Doctor) and Phil Cottrill (Governor Trantis) don't realise that the Supreme Dalek is still alive
  
• Stuart Currie (Supreme Dalek builder and operator) talks with Nick Scovell and Rob Thrush (Producer)
  
• The four main Daleks - two standard, the red Commander and the black Supreme - the two Science Daleks were still being built
  
• The Hammersmith Hardmen! The Dalek Commander and Supreme Dalek confer
  

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From the video vaults

This week's delights from the archives both feature everyone hard at work during rehearsals.

First off is a video that shows the Daleks at their very first rehearsal from 10 October 2007. This was the first time that we'd had chance to see Ashley's new colour scheme for his Daleks that had previously appeared in the production of "Evil" in 2006. As you can see, Nick Scovell was ahead of Russell T Davies by having a red Dalek in the play months before the TV counterpart was seen!

The second video is an edited version of the final rehearsal of Act One, filmed at the New Theatre Royal by Stuart Currie (the Supreme Dalek himself) on 23 October 2007. This does have some of the music and sound cues on it, although the explosions were small compared to what was used for real.

On a technical note, these videos are now hosted by YouTube, as opposed to Photobucket as with all previous ones. This is mainly due to the fact that I can upload longer videos, although the quality does drop slightly.

• The Daleks in their first rehearsal - will open in a new window


• Final rehearsal of Act One - will open in a new window

The Daleks speak out!

After a long delay, and I apologise for that, I'm proud to announce that new content will be added to this blog. I'll aim to do this once a week, normally at the weekend so that it's available by Sunday evening (UK time).



It's also a return for Dalek Spy! Here's an interview with Nick Briggs, who was the voice of all the Daleks, filmed on the stage of the New Theatre Royal shortly before the performance on 26 October 2007.

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New exclusive content coming this week

Just to let you know that two new exclusive video interviews will be available here on Sunday 28 September. Nick Briggs talks about Daleks and Nick Scovell talks about being the Doctor.

Actors and play nominated for prestigious awards

The Dalek Masterplan is up for two awards.

The daily paper for the Portsmouth area, The News, has included the play and two of its actors among the nominations this year for its prestigious awards that recognise and celebrate the local arts scene.

Nick Scovell (the Doctor) and James George (Mavic Chen) are each nominated in the Best Actor category, while the play itself is among those in the Best Amateur Drama Production section.

The closing date for votes is Friday 10 October and the winners will be announced at the awards ceremony to be held at the Kings Theatre in Southsea on Monday 10 November.

Vote online here, there are other categories but you don't have to vote in all of them.

I'll keep you posted once the winners are announced.