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- Doctor Who: Cast & Crew Interview: The Daleks (video)
- Official plot details for The Beast Below released
- Classic Who on UK Sci-Fi
- The Beast Below - Details
- The Beast Below Details
- The Tardis makes it's own appearance!!!
- Patrick Troughtons 90th Birthday
- K9 - UK and Australian premier on 3rd April
- Official Site Revamped!
- Matt Smith - “Funny and friendly”
- 5 new official filming shots from The Eleventh Hour
- Doctor Who Confidential, episode one details
- What’s in an Age?
- The 11th Doctor Embarks On His Maiden Voyage With A Whistle-Stop Tour Presenting Five Regional Premieres Across The UK
- SFX on The Eleventh Hour
- Promo on SPACE for 2010 Series in Canada
- Examiner.com Interviews Doctor Who: Podshock (video)
- Daily Mail objects
- Official Website updated
- Hack of the Week!
- Coming Up
- Paradise 5 - Reviewed
- “Blood on his hands…”
- Gay Times with The 11th Doctor
- New Matt and Steven interviews on official site
- Matt: “The Doctor’s got a lot of blood on his hands”
- New series feature in latest issue of Gay Times
- Watch the first 60 seconds of The Eleventh Hour this weekend
- New episode still of the young Amy Pond
- Brand new Doctor Who Confidential logo revealed
- Official site regenerated for new series
- Series 5 Time Confirmed
- Regeneration for Doctor Who Adventures!
- The March Podcast
- Karen Gillan Describes Amy Pond (video)
- First Minute of The Eleventh Hour
- Welcome to the New Site
- Matt Smith & Steven Moffat Exclusive!
- Doctor Who Confidential Returns
- Running the Show!
| Doctor Who: Cast & Crew Interview: The Daleks (video) Posted: 25 Mar 2010 09:25 AM PDT From BBC America - Doctor Who: Cast & Crew Interview: The Daleks Matt Smith, Alex Kingston, Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger talk about the Doctors mortal enemy and why the Daleks continue to menace the galaxies.
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| Official plot details for The Beast Below released Posted: 25 Mar 2010 05:18 AM PDT The BBC Press Office has today been updated with scheduling details for Saturday 10th April – the day on which The Beast Below will be broadcast on BBC One/HD! While an exact transmission time for the episode is still to be finalized, listings suggest that Over the Rainbow will be screened on the channel from 6:30-8:00PM. An 8:00PM start for Doctor Who is virtually [...]  |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2010 05:16 AM PDT  The UK Sci-Fi channel is devoting much of the Easter holiday weekend to repeats of episodes from the classic series of Doctor Who.Stories from the 4th, 5th and 6th Doctors are being shown starting at 2pm on Good Friday. Schedule Friday 2nd April 1400-1600 - The Ark in Space The Doctor investigates sinister goings-on at a space station used as a deep-freeze for the whole future population of Earth. He discovers that the station has been invaded by giant alien insects, the Wirrn. 1600-1800 - The Face of Evil The Doctor meets the Tribe of Sevateem on a jungle planet - and finds himself hunted as the Evil One. 1800-2000 - Pyramids of Mars When an archaeologist uncovers an ancient Egyptian tomb in 1911, he also awakens Sutekh, the alien god of evil, who is trapped in his prison on Mars. 2000-2200 - Ark in Space (Repeat from 2pm) Saturday 3rd April 1400-1600 - Face of Evil (Repeat from Friday) 1600-1800 - Pyramids of Mars (Repeat from Friday) 1800-2000 - Logopolis The Doctor and his companions travel to Logopolis, a planet of brilliant mathematicians, in order to repair the chameleon circuit in the TARDIS. It's Tom Baker's last adventure as The Doctor. 2000-2200 - Earthshock The Cybermen plan to crash a spaceship into prehistoric Earth, deleting the human race from history. Sunday 4th April 1200-1350 - Logopolis (Repeat from Saturday) 1350-1540 - Earthshock (Repeat from Saturday) 1540-1730 - Revenge of the Cybermen The Doctor faces an old enemy on the planet of gold. 1730-1930 - The Caves of Androzani When the Doctor faces a shadowy adversary on the planet Androzani Minor, he and companion Peri are lethally poisoned with Spectrox. 1930-2200 - The Two Doctors Two versions of the time-travelling hero face both the warrior Sontarans and an alien race that is obsessed with food in Spain. Monday 5th April 1200-1350 - Warriors of the Deep In 2084, a cold war rages on Earth while deep beneath the oceans, intelligent reptile creatures from the time of the dinosaurs plot to destroy the human race. 1350-1540 - Revenge of the Cybermen (Repeat from Sunday) 1540-1740 - Caves of Androzani (Repeat from Sunday) 1740-2010 - The Two Doctors (Repeat from Sunday) 2010-2200 - Warriors of the Deep (Repeat from earlier) http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2010 02:22 AM PDT The BBC Press Office has released details of the second episode of the new series The Beast Below. The story by Steven Moffat will air in the UK on 10th April. The time not confirmed at present, but the talent show Over the Rainbow is scheduled for 6.30-8.00pm, implying Doctor Who could be on as early as 5.45pm. All schedules are provisional and will be confirmed next Wednesday. The Doctor takes Amy to the distant future, where she finds Britain in space. Starship UK houses the future of the British people, as they search the stars for a new home. But as Amy explores, she encounters the terrifying Smilers and learns a deadly truth inside the Voting Booth. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:43 AM PDT  The official synopsis for the second episode of Series 5 of Doctor Who has been released by the BBC. Check it out below (minor spoilers). The Beast Below
The episode is set to air on Saturday 10th April. Time still to be confirmed.  |
| The Tardis makes it's own appearance!!! Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:27 AM PDT This Easter, in celebration of the launch of the brand new Eleventh Doctor action figure, Toys R Us in Brent Cross will be hosting a Doctor Who extravaganza and will be offering guests an exclusive first look at the new generation TARDIS.  |
| Patrick Troughtons 90th Birthday Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:22 AM PDT Today would have been Patrick Troughtons 90th Birthday, But still I say Happy Birthday Patrick. Gone buit most definately not forgotton.  |
| K9 - UK and Australian premier on 3rd April Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:09 AM PDT  The K9 adventure series will premier in the UK and Australia on Saturday 3rd April 2010.In the UK the series will launch at 4pm on the Disney XD channel with episode two showing the following day also at 4pm. In Australia series will launch at at 9.30am on the TEN network The new 26 episode children's series features an animated version of the robot dog which appeared in Doctor Who from 1977-1981 before returning in the 2006 story School Reunion. The series has been jointly created by Bob Baker and Paul Tams. Baker, working with his then writing partner, Dave Martin, created the original K9 for the fourth Doctor story The Invisible Enemy. John Leeson once more voices the character of K9. The series is currently showing in Scandinavia where it premièred in January. It was shot between December 2008 and May 2009 in Brisbane, Australia. It is co-produced by Stewart & Wall Entertainment and London-based Park Entertainment. K9 - Episode One - Regeneration Whilst Starkey and Jorjie are trying to escape the police they take refuge in a large detached house, now the residence of reclusive scientist, Professor Gryffen. They come across two Jixen warriors and a robot dog, K-9 Mark I. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:06 AM PDT
The new address is www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw - get it bookmarked! Complete with a countdown clock to The Eleventh Hour (which at the time of writing is counting down to this Saturday…) the new look site has a cool banner, a new colour scheme and fits into the current and beta versions of the BBC website. Most importantly, the site currently holds some exclusive features - Matt Smith and Steven Moffat video interviews, while fans of previous Doctors can access content from 2005-2010 via the "Past Series" link. Curiously, there is no obvious way to access content covering 1963-2005. Anxious fans without digital TV will be happy to know that the first minute of The Eleventh Hour appears on the revamped official site this Saturday at 6.25pm! What do you think of the new-look BBC Doctor Who website? Have you found the link to the classic series content? Let us know below!  |
| Matt Smith - “Funny and friendly” Posted: 24 Mar 2010 11:38 PM PDT
Eden and Merin Monteath are from Wing in the Leighton Buzzard area and it seems they were sent the scripts quite early - they didn't know if they would be working with David Tennant or the new Doctor, Matt Smith!
They're no strangers to stardom, however - both Eden and Merin actively attend Cheddington Youth Drama Club while Merin is also currently starring in a Coleman's chicken fajitas advert on TV. While the girls are unable to give anything away, the event proved what a small world it is - while their parents and grandfather are all actors, the headmaster of one of the girls also taught Matt Smith…
Don't forget - The Eleventh Hour will be aired on Easter Saturday, April 3rd!  |
| 5 new official filming shots from The Eleventh Hour Posted: 24 Mar 2010 11:20 PM PDT With The Eleventh Hour now just a stone throw away, the BBC have today released five brand new production shots that were taken on location during filming for the opening episode last Autumn! Check out the images below: The new series of Doctor Who begins Saturday 3rd April on BBC One and BBC HD.  |
| Doctor Who Confidential, episode one details Posted: 24 Mar 2010 10:21 PM PDT TV listings have now been updated for Saturday 3rd April, and as such we have the details of the first Series 5 instalment of Doctor Who Confidential! Episode one is entitled Call Me the Doctor and will broadcast on BBC3 at 7:25PM, straight after The Eleventh Hour has finished on BBC One/HD. You can read its synopsis below: Go [...]  |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 10:00 PM PDT
Since the casting of Matt Smith, the youngest Doctor yet, there has been a great deal of hoo-hah about his age. Even Steven Moffat, when making the announcement, evidently felt obliged to made heavy weather out of Smith's combination of youthfulness and old age, as if to assuage the old guard that the series wasn't about to become Skins in space. However, despite the case for the prosecution being characterised by cries of "too young" (or even "too ugly"), you have to wonder how the casting of a substantially older Doctor would go down. We all know the disapprobation Smith's casting has received will inevitably die down as fandom 'unexpectedly' realises, "I wasn't sure at first, but now he's my favourite Doctor!". There is an undeniable trend toward youthfulness in the media, giving a corresponding inevitability to the casting of a twentysomething Time Lord. Quatermass has been supplanted by programmes like Primeval, with 'hot' young casts. Robin Hood has gone from a 39-year-old Douglas Fairbanks, or even 36-year-old Kevin Costner, to a mid-twenties Jonas Armstrong. Even Bond villains have gone from the likes of Donald Pleasance and Charles Gray to Robert Carlyle. An indicator of our societal shallowness? Well, yes, probably. Not that there's anything inherently awful about younger interpretations of recurrent characters, or inspirational figures, but you'd have to look to geriatric crimefighters like Miss Marple or Jessica Fletcher to find older actors in even broadly similar roles (and Murder, She Wrote is all repeats anyway).
What's most ironic is the short-sightedness concerning the oldest of Doctors, the First. Because though Hartnell's portrayal is very much that of an old man, he also originated the incongruous agelessness with which Steven Moffat ushered in the Eleventh Doctor. All the Doctors have their share of the childlike, but perhaps most plainly it's there in Hartnell's often overlooked warmth, and giggling, impish sparkle. Just think of his glee when he realises his part in the burning of Rome… Such a figure wouldn't play well with the upper echelons of the BBC in the current media climate. Given that children's TV presenters have gone from 'favourite uncle' figures of the Johnny Ball variety, to the permatanned Andrew Hayden-Smith, it's as if the media has made us so terrified that everyone over 35 is a paedophile that there's a genuine abhorrence of presenting children with substantially older role models. While this general marginalisation of visible older characters on TV and film is upsetting, in terms of the Doctor specifically, there is no reason to think younger is worse. After all, there have been three 'young' Doctors before anyway! And, had fandom had its act together in the seventies, the casting of Tom Baker would no doubt have caused widespread outrage. The whippersnapper! Given the inherent changeability of the character, it seems absurd that anyone's really upset about the prospect of a Doctor barely out of short trousers. (Maybe it's just that no-one likes to be older than the Doctor?) It's true there is an authority about him which seems to be synonymous with age, but perhaps the real reason is that we're worrying what this means for the future – will this set a precedent for a run of interchangeably young, trendy Doctors? Given that, in retrospect, the Ninth Doctor's unprecedented bovver boy leather jacket didn't lead to a spate of hyper-masculine Doctors, it doesn't look like we have anything to worry about. Yes, Matt Smith is young. Fortunately, it also looks like he will be great. Neil Clarke writes the Doctor Who reviews page 'Shall We Destroy?': http://shallwedestroy.blogspot.com/  |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 07:50 PM PDT Belfast, Inverness, Sunderland, Salford, Northampton... Doctor Who will begin an exciting national tour across the UK in March, introducing the new Doctor to fans of the series in five different locatio...  |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 06:37 PM PDT Behind the rest of the press pack, SFX gave The Eleventh Hour an online thumbs up this week, giving the new Doctor Who time to breathe before delivering their verdict.
*Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith is "impish, occasionally school mastery, often slightly unhinged" *The Eleventh Hour itself is "a perfect blend of pure, unashamed adventure and the genius ideas that characterised Moffat's previous Who scripts…" *The night-time shooting has a wonderful fairytale quality to it *Oh and what's more, The Eleventh Hour is the "best season opener since Who's 2005 return" Find out more about what SFX thought about the return of Doctor Who at sfx.co.uk.  |
| Promo on SPACE for 2010 Series in Canada Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:27 PM PDT Promo for the 2010 series currently running on SPACE in Canada.  |
| Examiner.com Interviews Doctor Who: Podshock (video) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 01:46 PM PDT Last month while Doctor Who: Podshock was in Los Angeles, CA at Gallifrey 21 for our annual live on stage there, the tables were turned on us a bit when Chris McKeon interviewed us (Ken Deep, James Naughton, and myself) for the Examiner.com. See that article here: GallifreyOne 2010 interviews: Doctor Who Podshock - Ken Deep, Louis Trapani, James Naughton Here is the video of the interview. Be sure to check out the article though for other interviews from Gallifrey 21.
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| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 11:57 AM PDT  The Daily Mail has taken exception to the length of Amy Pond's skirt in the upcoming series of Doctor Who.Writing in the Femail section, columnist Allison Pearson displays a woeful ignorance of the series when she asks "since when was Doctor Who's assistant supposed to be sexy?" and makes a plea to keep Doctor Who as family TV. As any Doctor Who fan could tell her, the Doctor has a long tradition of travelling with sexy companions in short skirts which dates right back to the sixties. What's next she asks, "Cybermen become Cyberchicks with metal boobs?" Perhaps she should view Torchwood's Cyberwoman. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 10:51 AM PDT  The official BBC Doctor Who website has been updated in preparation for the launch of the new series on April 3rd.The website features exclusive videos and features on the new series as well as archive material from the programme's long history. The first minute of The Eleventh Hour will be available online from Saturday at 6.25pm, one week before the series launch. The website also confirms the return of Doctor Who Confidential. The first episode, Call me the Doctor, captures all the backstage excitement from Matt Smith's first episode and gives a taster of life as the Doctor. There's an exclusive look at the read-through for The Eleventh Hour and Production Designer Edward Thomas and Matt Smith give a guided tour of the new look TARDIS. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 10:14 AM PDT
But while Doctor Who is generally loved and appreciated, the Daily Mail is largely ridiculed - and columnists like Allison Pearson don't exactly help matters. This week, she took umbrage with Amy Pond's mini skirt.
Now, this statement on Karen Gillan's interpretation of Amy Pond has got Allison Pearson of the Daily Mail a little mixed up. She has reacted with the most insane response:
Presumable Ms. Pearson has never seen Doctor Who. If she has, she certainly hasn't seen Michelle Ryan in a catsuit, Lalla Ward in a school girl outfit, Billie Piper in a tight Union Flag t-shirt, Freema Agyeman in anything, Mary Tamm in a furry white "ice queen" outfit, Katy Manning in most of her outfits as Jo Grant… or even the classic Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot, with a tight, glittery catsuit clinging to her shapely rear while she clings to the TARDIS console (above). In fact, Ms. Pearson, could you be so good as to accept this Hack of the Week award, and perhaps stick to writing about what you know?  |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 09:50 AM PDT With the new series just around the corner, prepare for a deluge of UK television and radio coverage! As with Christmas, the Doctor Who News Page is presenting a summary of coverage, which you can find from our Coming Up menu tab at the top. If you come across anything we haven't listed, please do let us know! http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 09:00 AM PDT This months Big Finish Doctor Who Lost Stories is the best yet. Can I say that in a review? Sure I can, it's my review! Paradise 5 was originally planned for The Trial of a Time Lord season and was to have featured Mel as the companion, but for unknown reasons it never happened. At the time writer PJ Hammond (Sapphire & Steel, Midsomer Murders) had only completed episode one – which became episode two on the audio release – part of one other episode and then the basics story outline. So when it came time to revive the story in audio form, Big Finish not only needed to adapt the script for audio, they needed to finish the script.
Since the story was originally part of The Trial of a Time Lord season a new episode one was necessary as the story was book ended with trial scenes. And as mentioned above, Mel had to be written out and Peri put in her place. Perhaps these changes are what makes this story work so well for me. We are not exactly hearing a 100% 80's script, so we get some more modern story telling and modern characterizations. Nicola Bryant is given some proper material to play with as an actress and some great character developments in Peri's life. The interactions between the Doctor and Per also seem less aggressive than the previous stories, which hopefully marks start of the changes in personalities we saw in Colin and Nicola's first and second TV seasons. If this is the case than that is a welcome touch to the Lost Stories as they will nicely bridge that character gap we saw on TV. When listening to the story I was struck but how easily it could have slotted into a season of the new series (that is if it were Earth bound) as the story holds up in today's world. That could be due to Andy Lane again though as he made some changes to the aliens intentions to modernize the story. But overall the characters and their motives and interpretations would match anything the new series has given us. Colin Baker clearly enjoyed himself with this story as well. It allowed his Doctor to come up with a plan and operate behind the scenes rather than just blundering into an accidental adventure. If only this is the Doctor they allowed us to have on TV, Colin might just have beat Tom baker's record. All in all, the lost stories have been a joy to hear. To have this lost piece of history brought back to us in any form is a great pleaser to behold. And while I may have commented that they hold up to "New Series" story telling, they still hold true to their 1980's roots in that they Big Finish team have decided to use 80's sound effects and similar sounding music scores to add to that era's feel. Director Barnaby Edwards delivered a fantastic tale this month and really got the best out of each and every actor involved. Do yourself a favor and pick up this treat and enjoy a piece of history.  |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 08:38 AM PDT Doctor Who star Matt Smith has given Wired.com an insight into why the Doctor is so intent on travelling on and on through time and space. With just a few days left before The Eleventh Hour, there continues to be no respite in press coverage - Smith, Karen Gillan and Steven Moffat have all been providing interviews for various mainstream outlets, both print and online. Smith gives an interesting view, one that has been touched upon by predecessors but never given the same clarity that he brings to the answer. He builds up the answer too:
For more from this fascinating insight, visit Wired.com.  |
| Gay Times with The 11th Doctor Posted: 24 Mar 2010 08:27 AM PDT Gay Times with The 11th Doctor News Dated: 24/3/2010 As Doctor Who returns with a new team and a new look this Easter, we eagerly stepped on board the TARDIS for Matt Smith's first ever interview with the gay press. And in 47 years of the show, he is the first Doctor to ever hold the cover spot of a gay magazine. We also have unprecedented coverage of the new series, with exclusive content including the first ever interview with the latest addition to the cast, Arthur Darvill. We speak with the Doctor's assistant Karen Gillan, head writer Steven Moffat, executive producer Piers Wenger and a selection of other characters and creatives, both returning and new. What's more, writer Gareth Roberts reveals that Matt Smith is set to appear pretty much naked in episode eleven, while costume designer Ray Holman tells us what kind of underwear the new Doctor prefers… Matt Smith on his new role as the Doctor: "What's gorgeous about it is that I get to sort of confess to my imagination every day. So I get to play around in a mad, imaginary world every day, which is limitless and timeless, and endless and boundless. You know, that is as close as you get to sort of magic really, I suppose, in many ways." On being described by executive producer Steven Moffat as "Patrick Moore in the body of an underwear model": "The thing is, right, I'll take Patrick Moore, fine. But I definitely haven't got an underwear model's body, no way, not on this schedule. All my gym's gone out the window. God no, I take that as a gross over-compliment to be honest. And also! When the hell has Steven Moffat seen me in my pants alone?" April's issue of GT Magazine is on sale 24 March and also features exclusive ineterviews with Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, plus Jamie Campbell Bower, Debbie Reynolds, Tracy-Ann Oberman and the real Phillip Morris. [Source: Stu Hurford]  |
| New Matt and Steven interviews on official site Posted: 24 Mar 2010 07:42 AM PDT The official Doctor Who website has posted two brand new interviews with Matt Smith and Steven Moffat! The Eleventh Doctor actor describes the latest incarnation as “brilliant, insane, mad, loving, non-loving, articulate and non-articulate”. “Steven’s sort of made him everything and anything,” he concludes. “I think the Doctor is always the Doctor, but I think it’s hard to [...]  |
| Matt: “The Doctor’s got a lot of blood on his hands” Posted: 24 Mar 2010 07:41 AM PDT Wired have posted an exclusive interview with Matt Smith, in which he shares his personal theory on why the Doctor continues to travel through time and space. “I think the Doctor’s got a lot of blood on his hands, and I think if he didn’t travel the universe, he would probably end up hanging himself,” the actor explained. “He wouldn’t [...]  |
| New series feature in latest issue of Gay Times Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:56 AM PDT Matt Smith has become the first ever Doctor to be featured on the cover of Gay Times, as the latest edition of the magazine runs a feature previewing the forthcoming series! Inside the issue, which is out now, there’s an exclusive interview with the new Doctor himself, as well as showrunner Steven Moffat, Amy Pond actress Karen Gillan, [...]  |
| Watch the first 60 seconds of The Eleventh Hour this weekend Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:11 AM PDT The BBC has confirmed that they’ll be releasing the first 60 seconds of The Eleventh Hour online this weekend! We’ll be able to watch the preview on the official website from 6:25PM this Saturday, 27th March. It’ll also be screened on a loop on the BBC’s Red Button service. Episode one sees the Doctor left with just 20 minutes [...]  |
| New episode still of the young Amy Pond Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:01 AM PDT The BBC have released a brand new episode still from The Eleventh Hour, featuring Caitlin Blackwood - the real life cousin of Karen Gillan – who will be appearing as the young Amy Pond in the episode. The young actress is also featured in the preview clip, released last week, which has now been posted on the official website. The new [...]  |
| Brand new Doctor Who Confidential logo revealed Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:53 AM PDT The BBC’s newly-regenerated Doctor Who website has unveiled the brand new logo for the forthcoming series of Doctor Who Confidential! The image features the title against a backdrop of the new-look vortex, and it’s possible that the graphics are similiar to the ones that will feature in the revamped opening titles for the main series too! Inkeeping with tradition, each new episode of Doctor Who Confidential - taking [...]  |
| Official site regenerated for new series Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:21 AM PDT Those of you who have tried to log on to the official Doctor Who website this afternoon will have found themselves being mysteriously redirected to The Sarah Jane Adventures site instead. The reason for this is the Doctor Who site is currently undergoing a mass regeneration in time for the new series, and, while it’s not officially open yet, here’s [...]  |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 01:15 AM PDT  The BBC has at long last officially confirmed the UK start time for the fifth series of Doctor Who. Episode one, The Eleventh Hour will air on Saturday 3rd April at 6:20pm on BBC1, five minutes earlier than originally thought. A new series of Doctor Who Confidential will follow on BBC3 at 7:25pm, with the first in the series entitled "Call Me the Doctor". For our US readers, Series 5 will begin on Saturday April 17th at 9pm/8C on BBC America.  |
| Regeneration for Doctor Who Adventures! Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:49 AM PDT
Inside the revamped issue, which goes on sale two days before the new Doctor's first episode airs on BBC, is the first in a series of exclusive diary reports from actor Matt Smith. Issue 160 of the magazine sees Matt write about auditioning for the part of The Doctor and meeting The Doctor's new companion, Amy Pond, played by Karen Gillan. In addition there is a sneak peek at The Doctor's first episode, The Eleventh Hour, a star interview with Matt Smith, a free TARDIS clock and the chance to win your very own life-size Dalek. Other new features include a brand new 'Fast Fact' page, which allows readers to cut out and collect fact files on all their favourite Doctor Who characters and a fresh new Doctor Who Adventures comic strip. There is also the introduction of a secret code; this runs throughout the magazine and allows readers to decode hidden Doctor Who facts and information. Favourites, such as puzzles, quizzes and posters also feature. Moray Laing, Editor of Doctor Who Adventures says:
The magazine will retain its weekly cover price of £2.10 and continue to give away Doctor Who free gifts, the first of which is a TARDIS clock.  |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:43 AM PDT It's here! It's here! It's here! Finally... The March Podcast. Nicholas Briggs and David Richardson, with Paul Spragg even further away from the microphone than ever before, are here to tell you about everything new in the Big Finish world (Doctor Who, Stargate, Dark Shadows, Jago and Litefoot, Sherlock Holmes...). There are clips, trailers, convention reports and some sweets. But most importantly, there's the Podcast Competition... oh, and your letters answered too. And something rather special at the end. Download or stream to enjoy! With all our best wishes!  |
| Karen Gillan Describes Amy Pond (video) Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:26 AM PDT Actress Karen Gillan describes her character in Doctor Who, Amy Pond in the upcoming new series launching in April. See video below (Warning: The embedded video may take to their site without asking when it is completed).  |
| First Minute of The Eleventh Hour Posted: 23 Mar 2010 08:00 PM PDT Doctor Who returns to BBC One on Saturday, 3 April but the good news is you can see the beginning of the first episode right here this weekend!  |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:55 PM PDT Welcome to the regenerated Doctor Who site! The new Doctor hits BBC One on Saturday, 3 April and we've got a fresh look for his exciting new era.  |
| Matt Smith & Steven Moffat Exclusive! Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:50 PM PDT The Eleventh Hour explodes onto BBC One on Saturday, 3 April and frankly we can't wait to see the Doctor back in action! There's a lot to look forward to with a revamped TARDIS, the magnificent Amy Pond, brand new monsters and the return of the Daleks and Weeping Angels.  |
| Doctor Who Confidential Returns Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:40 PM PDT The new series of Doctor Who means the return of Doctor Who Confidential, the BBC Three show that takes you behind-the-scenes and gets you up close to the cast and crew.  |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:30 PM PDT Steven Moffat is the man who created the Weeping Angels, dreamt up River Song and terrified us with the simple line, 'Are you my mummy?'  |
We've been waiting for this for literally months (ever since the previous version got revamped into a poor attempt at a blog for Dreamland) but the BBC have finally come up trumps with a redesigned Doctor Who website!
A pair of young sisters are among the guests in Matt Smith's first outing as the new Doctor Who - appearing in The Eleventh Hour was 
The popular sci fi magazine - whose website has recently experienced its own long-overdue regeneration - give little away about the plot, but do make the 
A bastion of Olde Englande, morality and sympathising with fascists, the Daily Mail has a unique place in British culture - just like Doctor Who.
Due to PJ Hammond being a rather busy writer these days (you may know his work on such recent series as Torchwood) Big Finish got permission to bring in a writer to help finish the script. PJ agreed and Andy Lane (A Thousand Tiny Wings) was the chosen one. Mr. Lane seems to have been the perfect choice, working off of Hammond's original notes, he not only completed the story but he also wrote a completely new episode one. A fact I did not know until after I finished the story and I can honestly say you can not tell.
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