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- The slow-burning storylines of Doctor Who - Den Of Geek
- The Shadow Line, BBC Two, preview - Telegraph.co.uk
- Line of morality blurs - Herald Scotland
- Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 2 - Day of the Moon: A Review - Collective Review
- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley names World's Sexiest Woman - WalesOnline
- Is Doctor Who getting too scary or too complicated? A minor backlash is brewing - io9
- The Rebel Flesh Preview
- Gig review: Panic! at the Disco - Scotsman
- Interview: Marcella Evaristi, playwright, actor and screenwriter - Scotsman
- The Shadow Line - Express.co.uk
- Culture Club: Doctor Who - The Independent
- The Shadow Line - BBC2, 9pm - Mirror.co.uk
- New Episode 3 clips and Hugh Bonneville interview
- The Curse of the Black Spot - Clips
- Doctor Who complete reviews: The Long Game - Shadowlocked (blog)
- No more Sarah Jane episodes, final stories to air
- 'Red Faction: Origins' TV Movie Trailer - TheSixthAxis
- 'Doctor Who key part of Saturday lineup,' says BBC - Digital Spy
- New Schedule from Week Four
- Sarah Jane Adventures Update
- Curse of the Black Spot Clips
- Team Jerry! Colin Farrell Is Ready to Give Twilight Fans a New Vampire to ... - ReelzChannel.com
- Are children terrified of new Doctor Who? - First Post
- Last 6 Episodes to Air on CBBC...
- Sarah Jane Adventures Official Press Release. The Rumours Stop Here.
- The Sarah Jane Adventures
- Is Doctor Who now too scary for children? - The Guardian (blog)
- Doctor Who - Q&A Video
- The Impossible Astronaut BARB viewing figures.
- New Comic Book Shows Schooling for Student Scoundrels - Wired (blog)
- The Impossible Astronaut - Chart Position
- BF at Chevron 7.6
- Updated: 'Sarah Jane Adventures' Will Not Continue Without Sladen - Airlock Alpha
- 'Sarah Jane' writer denies series rumours - Digital Spy
- SJA Series 5 Completion: Update
- My Asimov's Cover
- Gillan O'Grady
- Sarah Jane Adventures to continue without Elisabeth Sladen - The List
- 'The Sarah-Jane Adventures' to continue without Elisabeth Sladen? - NME.com
- Doctor Who and Torchwood convention coming to Cardiff - WalesOnline
- The Sarah Jane Adventures 'to continue without Elisabeth Sladen' - Metro
- BBC reveals that The Sarah Jane Adventures will go on without Elisabeth Sladen - Unreality TV
- White Van Man DVD - FemaleFirst.co.uk
- The Mail's Campaign Against Scary
- Even couples who click should never share email - Telegraph.co.uk
- Harris Tweed mill is up for fashion Oscar - stv.tv
- May Podcast 001 - 04 May 2011
- Our Place in the Universe
- The Impossible Astronaut lands on PRIME
| The slow-burning storylines of Doctor Who - Den Of Geek Posted: 04 May 2011 05:43 PM PDT
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| The Shadow Line, BBC Two, preview - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 04 May 2011 05:31 PM PDT
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| Line of morality blurs - Herald Scotland Posted: 04 May 2011 01:06 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 2 - Day of the Moon: A Review - Collective Review Posted: 04 May 2011 12:16 PM PDT
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| Rosie Huntington-Whiteley names World's Sexiest Woman - WalesOnline Posted: 04 May 2011 11:31 AM PDT
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| Is Doctor Who getting too scary or too complicated? A minor backlash is brewing - io9 Posted: 04 May 2011 10:51 AM PDT
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| Posted: 04 May 2011 10:38 AM PDT
The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People – the two-parter comprising episode 5 and 6 of Series 6 – isn't airing for a few weeks, but here's some new details from Doctor Who Magazine. Episode in a nutshell:
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| Gig review: Panic! at the Disco - Scotsman Posted: 04 May 2011 10:07 AM PDT
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| Interview: Marcella Evaristi, playwright, actor and screenwriter - Scotsman Posted: 04 May 2011 10:07 AM PDT
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| The Shadow Line - Express.co.uk Posted: 04 May 2011 10:06 AM PDT
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| Culture Club: Doctor Who - The Independent Posted: 04 May 2011 10:01 AM PDT
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| The Shadow Line - BBC2, 9pm - Mirror.co.uk Posted: 04 May 2011 10:01 AM PDT
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| New Episode 3 clips and Hugh Bonneville interview Posted: 04 May 2011 09:23 AM PDT With The Curse of the Black Spot just around the corner, the official Doctor Who website has today been updated with its usual mid-week array of preview clips and more! The Siren comes a-calling in the first clip, while, in the second, a pirate falls victim to the mysterious and beautiful sea creature. Meanwhile, its episode [...] | ||
| The Curse of the Black Spot - Clips Posted: 04 May 2011 09:07 AM PDT The BBC have released two previews for this week's episode, The Curse of the Black Spot, which will be broadcast on BBC1/BBC1HD this coming Saturday at 6:15pm The Curse of the Black Spot Preview One, BBC, via BBC Website The Curse of the Black Spot Preview Two, BBC, via BBC Website The BBC have also released an interview with guest star Hugh Bonneville, who plays Captain Avery in the episode: You can also watch the "Next Time" trailers for the episode via our previous article. | ||
| Doctor Who complete reviews: The Long Game - Shadowlocked (blog) Posted: 04 May 2011 08:29 AM PDT
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| No more Sarah Jane episodes, final stories to air Posted: 04 May 2011 06:14 AM PDT The BBC has confirmed that they have no plans to film any more episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures, meaning the series will reach its end when Elisabeth Sladen's final stories are aired in her memory later in the year. The beloved actress passed away from cancer last month, but press reports had suggested that show [...] | ||
| 'Red Faction: Origins' TV Movie Trailer - TheSixthAxis Posted: 04 May 2011 04:55 AM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who key part of Saturday lineup,' says BBC - Digital Spy Posted: 04 May 2011 04:03 AM PDT
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| Posted: 04 May 2011 03:19 AM PDT  BBC One is to change its Saturday line up from 14th May, switching Doctor Who and So You Think You Can Dance Live meaning episode four of Doctor Who, The Doctor's Wife, is now scheduled for broadcast at 6.30pm.The change, which will please many fans, is seen as a vote of confidence in the show, which has been the only BBC One programme achieving strong ratings on Saturday evenings. Doctor Who will follow the live dance show which also sees its results programme being moved to Sunday for this week. The previous Doctor Who lead in, Don't Scare the Hare, which has been getting poor ratings and appalling AI figures, has been moved to before the early evening news. The Eurovision Song Contest Final is at 8pm. Doctor Who will now face New Animals Do the Funniest Things and Sing if You Can on ITV1. BBC Two will be showing an evening of programmes dedicated to the late comedy writer John Sullivan. | ||
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| Posted: 04 May 2011 02:54 AM PDT Two clips for The Curse of The Black Spot have been released by the BBC. Check them out below. Clip 1 -
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| Team Jerry! Colin Farrell Is Ready to Give Twilight Fans a New Vampire to ... - ReelzChannel.com Posted: 04 May 2011 02:52 AM PDT
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| Are children terrified of new Doctor Who? - First Post Posted: 04 May 2011 02:36 AM PDT
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| Last 6 Episodes to Air on CBBC... Posted: 04 May 2011 02:01 AM PDT Simon Brew over at Den of Geek is reporting that the last 6 episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures that were filmed will be aired on CBBC as a tribute to Elisabeth Sladen. As quoted from Den of Geek: "Contrary to press reports today we can confirm that no new episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures will be filmed following the tragic death of actress Elisabeth Sladen in April, 2011. As a tribute to Elisabeth the six episodes that were recorded with her last year will be broadcast on CBBC at a date to be confirmed." This news brings mixed feelings for this fan-sadness and happiness. Although Sarah Jane will no longer be fighting new aliens and monsters in the distant future, she will be gracing our screens with new adventures for one last time. Of course, for as long as there are fans remembering, she will never truly disappear from our hearts. ( You can read the full article over at Den of Geek)  | ||
| Sarah Jane Adventures Official Press Release. The Rumours Stop Here. Posted: 04 May 2011 01:51 AM PDT
The BBC released this on the Doctor Who Website earlier today.
"Contrary to press reports today we can confirm that no new episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures will be filmed following the tragic death of actress Elisabeth Sladen in April, 2011. As a tribute to Elisabeth the six episodes that were recorded with her last year will be broadcast on CBBC at a date to be confirmed." | ||
| Posted: 04 May 2011 01:27 AM PDT  The BBC have confirmed today that there are no plans to make any further episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures, which starred the late Elisabeth Sladen. Their statement reads:Contrary to press reports today we can confirm that no new episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures will be filmed following the tragic death of actress Elisabeth Sladen in April, 2011. As a tribute to Elisabeth the six episodes that were recorded with her last year will be broadcast on CBBC at a date to be confirmed. The statement comes after an article published by The Sun this morning indicated that the series would be continuing without the actress. | ||
| Is Doctor Who now too scary for children? - The Guardian (blog) Posted: 04 May 2011 12:41 AM PDT
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| Posted: 04 May 2011 12:18 AM PDT There's not much said but interesting all the same.
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| The Impossible Astronaut BARB viewing figures. Posted: 04 May 2011 12:15 AM PDT
So after all the big newspaper ranting that Doctor Who is unpopular in the UK, the official Viewing figures have been released by BARB. 8.86 Million people watched the episode with an Audience appreciation Index of 88 and it was the 6th most watched programme in the week. Now as far as fans are concerned the last bit is the one that counts. The competition are Soap Opera's and reality shows who in all fairness have multiple episodes in a week. It's going to be another week wefore we know what the final figures for "Day of the Moon" are. | ||
| New Comic Book Shows Schooling for Student Scoundrels - Wired (blog) Posted: 03 May 2011 11:51 PM PDT
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| The Impossible Astronaut - Chart Position Posted: 03 May 2011 11:46 PM PDT  Barb have now issued final ratings for the week ending 24 April making Doctor Who: The Impossible Astronaut the 6th most watched programme of the week.The chart is dominated by soaps with Lewis in 19th place and The Reckoning at 20th the only other non soap programmes to make the top 20. The overnight chart saw the show in 13th place, the rise being due to the large number of people who record Doctor Who for viewing later in the week. The Impossible Astronaut becomes the 44th episode of Doctor Who to achieve a top ten place. It is a higher chart placing than any other season premier in the show's history, apart from the Eleventh Doctor's first episode, The Eleventh Hour, which was 3rd. Out of 771 Doctor Who episodes broadcast, only 13 have achieved a higher chart placing. | ||
| Posted: 03 May 2011 11:13 PM PDT It's convention time again, and this time it's for Stargate! Writer/script editor/man about town James Swallow will be heading up to Birmingham this weekend (that's 6th-8th May, date fans), as will producer/assistant/general irritant Paul Spragg, for Chevron 7.6. Jim and Paul will be on stage on Saturday from 12.15 to 13.00 (also known as 1pm), chatting Stargate and taking questions. Don't miss it! As if that's not enough, as well as bringing along the Stargate audio series to buy with some special deals, we'll also have a few copies of the brand new Highlander - Series Two box sets and a smattering of the latest Doctor Who releases for purchase and a pile of free Vortex magazines up for grabs. Vortexes? Vortexii? Vortices? The latest convention from the stable of Massive Events, Chevron 7.6 is a huge UK Stargate convention, and is being headlined by the mighty Richard Dean Anderson, aka Colonel/General Jack O'Neill. Also appearing are the ever-delightful Teryl 'Dr Fraiser' Rothery, the unmissable Gary 'Walter' Jones, stuntman extraordinaire Dan Shea and Fulvio Cecere, who played Colonel Davidson in Stargate SG-1 and has been in almost every other US Sci-Fi series ever. While all the Gold tickets are now sold, there are still a few Silver and General tickets available; snap them up at the website here before they're all gone! | ||
| Updated: 'Sarah Jane Adventures' Will Not Continue Without Sladen - Airlock Alpha Posted: 03 May 2011 10:54 PM PDT
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| 'Sarah Jane' writer denies series rumours - Digital Spy Posted: 03 May 2011 10:30 PM PDT
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| SJA Series 5 Completion: Update Posted: 03 May 2011 10:17 PM PDT Some press reports have indicated that the BBC intends to complete the fifth series of the hit show The Sarah Jane Adventures despite the sad passing of Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith, from cancer last month. However new information has come to light thanks to Twitter that this is not the case. A source close to the matter stated to The Sun that although the writers and production staff were unsure whether to continue on with production in the wake of Sladen's passing; however the tabloid claims that the scripts could be re-worked in such a fashion that the season did not have to be abandoned However despite the fact that this would be great news in many ways, it isn't as simple as all that. Speaking on Twitter this morning, series writer Phil Ford summarised the situation in the following fashion:
Many thanks to The Sun for causing another pointless Whoniverse storm. Additionally, thanks to Digital Spy, a website that often forgets that it is nothing more than a very jumped-up fansite (albeit a fansite of EVERYTHING) that nevertheless remains unable to either correctly cite sources or check their facts. We got caught out with this; sorry for any confusion caused. (Via Digital Spy | thanks to Nicola) Update
Hopefully this will serve to clarify the situation for everyone concerned. | ||
| Posted: 03 May 2011 09:42 PM PDT (Just found out: if you've got a Kindle, you can get this now! Just go here and download it for £2.49 if you're in the UK.) I'm delighted to present the cover (I don't yet know the artist, or indeed if that's a painting) to the July issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, which will be on sale in physical form from May 10th. They've printed my title so hugely! This is the first time I've appeared in one of the big American SF digests, and this represents rather a dream come true for me.  The story, 'The Copenhagen Interpretation' is the third of my Jonathan Hamilton stories, which started with 'Catherine Drewe' and then earned me a Hugo nod with 'One of our Bastards is Missing'. Once the e-edition of the magazine is out, typically some time after the print edition, (unless you've got a Kindle) I'll put up a link and instructions as to how to download it. It's not just selfishness on my part to show the world the story; everyone should know the wonder of an issue of Asimov's. To celebrate Free Comic Book Day, by the way, I'll be doing a signing this Saturday, from 11am or so, at Nostalgia and Comics in Birmingham. Do pop along. Until then, Cheerio!  | ||
| Posted: 03 May 2011 09:23 PM PDT Karen Gillan and James Corden will be parking their collective bottom on Paul O'Grady's luxurious chaise longue for a chinwag for this Friday's Paul O' Grady Live – and you're invited to post your questions via Twitter! Gillan and Corden will be popping along to share some secrets about Series 6 and possibly some on Corden's welcome/unwanted return to the Who-fold as Craig Owens in what is being billed as a "sequel" to 2010′s The Lodger. We reckon that you should feel free to tweet him about that! Joining them will be 'ard-as-nails Ross Kemp and The Feeling. A certain train of thought suggests that you should also feel free to tweet them to stop immediately! Paul O' Grady Live airs this Friday 9pm on ITV 1. (via WhovianNet) | ||
| Sarah Jane Adventures to continue without Elisabeth Sladen - The List Posted: 03 May 2011 09:02 PM PDT
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| 'The Sarah-Jane Adventures' to continue without Elisabeth Sladen? - NME.com Posted: 03 May 2011 08:56 PM PDT
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| Doctor Who and Torchwood convention coming to Cardiff - WalesOnline Posted: 03 May 2011 08:53 PM PDT
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| The Sarah Jane Adventures 'to continue without Elisabeth Sladen' - Metro Posted: 03 May 2011 08:44 PM PDT
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| BBC reveals that The Sarah Jane Adventures will go on without Elisabeth Sladen - Unreality TV Posted: 03 May 2011 08:44 PM PDT
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| White Van Man DVD - FemaleFirst.co.uk Posted: 03 May 2011 08:04 PM PDT
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| The Mail's Campaign Against Scary Posted: 03 May 2011 07:55 PM PDT Sometimes to see the full picture you have to dig a little deeper. Go beyond what seems contentious or firmly held so that, in pleasing your own inquisitive sense of injustice, you can connect something that seemed arbitrary to a wider, like minded audience. So that after time others can see that, thanks to your chivalrous actions, a wider more focused debate could take place. Or you could just crib some opinions off a blog, ignore 99 per cent of the debate around the issue, use leaps of logic and grammatical sleights of hand so massive and convoluted that if trapped inside a perspex box in the Tate, they'd be worth millions and generally stir up ignorance based on your Newspapers pathological hatred of the BBC. The Daily Mail (who else?) are again pounding their own conclusions into the dirt with a gob-smacking piece entitled: Now Doctor Who Scares off Another One Million Viewers. I know what you're thinking. Yet another year and another ratings debate brought on by tabloid journalists' inability to understand the changes in audience viewer patterns thanks to the myriad ways in which that content can now reach that same audience. But lets not treat The Daily Mail with the same contempt that they treat other's endeavours. Remember that first paragraph? So with that same spirit here's an attempt to engage with the Mail on this issue of parental concern over the complex and dark turn the series has taken. The main thrust of the piece comes from a review of The Impossible Astronaut by Digtial Spy's Morgan Jeffery. In his complementary review Jeffery makes two concessions towards the potential traumatic experiences that younger viewers may have had, the first is the Doctors demise which he calls "questionable" in the sense that some children may find the idea of their hero being shot and subsequently given a Viking send-off less than a thrilling twist and more of a heartbreaking and shocking image that'll be burnt into their nightmares. Perhaps all of this underestimates the savvy of children – most will have know that, despite how disconcerting the moment may be that there were still 12 odd episode to go with about 35 minutes of the one their watching still left to play. The moment had to be desperate, and it had to break through the groans of the casual adult viewers sat with them. Who, lets face it, should have been playing along with the show, telling the little tykes: "How's he going to come back?" In what was a great long to be talked about moment from parent to child. As interesting as that moment is, it's not the one the Mail decided, based on Jeffery's concern, should be the basis for their argument. The problematic moment was Amy's bathroom break and the subsequent Watchmen-style disintegration of Joy, the White House employee; Jeffery's comment was:
Catch the slightly self-conscious tone of that statement? The honesty of saying he was concerned but also felt a little uneasy at saying it? Gone. The Mail dropped the 'Mary Whitehouse' comment (too soon guys?) and instead started with the 'it's debatable' comment leading in. It might seem a fairly innocuous thing to say that something might start a debate – after all, all you're doing is registering the fact that something is contentious, and there's no leading statement there. But if a debate can be had because someone says so, then by God The Mail will find that debate.
So I slapped that quote into Google and before you know it found the blog from which the paper had cribbed its avid fan and mother quote from:
It should be noted that the "mother" doesn't actually say which moments scared her "daughter" in the episode. In her full quote she says since he took over – so that would include, for arguments sake, back when ratings were 'higher' and episodes like the utterly uncomplicated and not very scary The Time of Angels aired. The Mail have assumed that instead of her registering her general concern in an article using the same Digital Spy quote the paper used that she also found the same moment horrifying. There's a difference in being afraid of the tone of an episode and being afraid of one element of it. Remember when the BBC edited out the sound of cracking skulls from Moffat's own two parter The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. That was one specific moment that went in some peoples minds too far in a very foreboding set of stories. There's an obvious line of enquiry from this quote and the image it paints of Steven Moffat and his 'scary' 'complex' story lines for this season and the language used by The Mail seems to have settled on him being hell bent on generally making everything the visual equivalent of a haunted clown leaping out of your closet yelling quadratic equations at you with equal parts horror and bemusement. The supposed slump in ratings doesn't stem from apathy towards Moffat's tropes but from the general change in viewer figures across the board- if anything it justifies the money spent by BBC Worldwide on making the iPlayer such a viable platform. Something you feel the analogue Daily Mail wouldn't approve of. | ||
| Even couples who click should never share email - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 03 May 2011 07:53 PM PDT
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| Harris Tweed mill is up for fashion Oscar - stv.tv Posted: 03 May 2011 07:38 PM PDT
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| Posted: 03 May 2011 07:34 PM PDT Oh no! Nick Briggs is still alone, but hopefully for the last time this month... In this first podcast for May, Nick takes the opportunity to inform everyone about his BF May production diary, there's a special feature on the Seventh Doctor's new companion Raine (Beth Chalmers, pictured left), a full trailer for the Tom Baker stories (starting in January 2012), plus listeners' emails and the April competition result. Oh, and there's also news about The Companion Chronicles Volume 3, out this month. Download Podcast Here | ||
| Posted: 03 May 2011 06:21 PM PDT Hugh Bonneville, he's a bit flavour of the year right now isn't he? Not only has the actor received great acclaim for the role that he plays in Downton Abbey, he has also had another success with the BBC2 comedy series Twenty Twelve. And like all actors who are versatile and talented, he was sought out by the Doctor Who production team and made to be in the show. Okay, not made, obviously he wanted to be a part of the greatest show in the history of television and so his wish was granted as he got to play an uber cool role as the Captain of a pirate ship! As Doctor Who meets the wonderful world of Pirates of the Caribbean this Saturday, Bonneville plays Captain Avery who has his hands full with not only a mysterious siren that seems to be angry at the crew of his ship but also the appearance of the Doctor and his friends to deal with as well. The crew all have their own superstitions as to what is actually going on but of course it's going to take the Doctor to really solve the problem and naturally he and Avery do not see eye to eye at first. But that isn't the case off camera as Bonneville revealed to the Daily Express what a wonderful time he had filming his episode:
And continuing this year's slightly more adult theme in Doctor Who, actor Bonneville states that his episode has plenty of meat for you to get your emotional teeth into:
This looks set to be one of the most fun and daring adventures that the Doctor and his friends have ever had! The Curse of the Black Spot will air Saturday 7th May on BBC One and BBC One HD at 6pm | ||
| The Impossible Astronaut lands on PRIME Posted: 03 May 2011 05:49 PM PDT  New Zealand have finally found out when the new series of Doctor Who will arrive!Broadcaster Prime TV have reported via Twitter that they will premiere The Impossible Astronaut on the channel on Thursday 19th May at 8.30pm. Prime have a dedicated Doctor Who section on their website. (with thanks to the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club) |
In response to some press rumours to the contrary, the official website has confirmed that The Sarah Jan 
I'm not a journalist and I can only guess how The Mail went about constructing this 'debate' by working backwards from the piece itself.
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