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The ever-growing archive grows some more. Check out the June 2011 issue!

Matthew Graham, co-creator of Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes and writer of the May Doctor Who episode The Rebel Flesh, is less than enthusiastic about his audience, or at least one age-group: 'Doctor Who fans can be very fascistic. But I don't really take them seriously. I don't write it for 45-year-old men.' (Total TV Guide, 21-27 May) [MPJ]

Alex Kingston, River Song in Doctor Who, took up the tale on the Graham Norton Show. Graham: 'Fans are incredibly resourceful; Alex, you've just been filming Doctor Who in the desert.' Rob Lowe: 'Oh, the Who fans have gotta be nuts.' Alex: 'Yeah. They are.' Graham: 'Weren't you out in the middle of Utah somewhere?' Alex: 'We were in the middle of Utah ... and we'd never filmed Doctor Who in America before, obviously. And the American fans are amazingly resourceful because of Twitter. Everyone now knows that the minute they catch sight of one of you it goes out, and people know where you are. We were in the middle of Monument Valley, the middle of nowhere, and suddenly these fans just appeared, out of the scrub and the desert. They wear those funny anoraks.' Graham: 'So you know who they are!' Alex: 'It's a bit like trainspotters really, it's awful to say but they kind of are.' (27 May) [JCx] But were they all 45-year-old men? We need to know.