BBC Press Office Release

The BBC Press Office has issued an extensive press release with several sections on the new series, including a feature on the show, one on Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner, one on Christopher Eccleston and one on Billie Piper. It mentions the stars and producers (including quotes), the writers, plus the "Doctor Who Confidential" series presented by Simon Pegg, the BBC Radio 2 "Project Who?" series and the official Doctor Who website. The release notes that the site will carry "over two hours of specially shot on-set videos (even the Daleks have sent in a video diary)"; the entirety of "Doctor Who Confidential" on-demand; "The Doctor Who Years," three 30 minute specially edited video compilations, mixing classic tunes and Doctor Who clips in a nostalgia tour of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties; "Conquer!" the BBC's first multiplayer online role-playing game; "hidden sites" where one can "enter the world of the programme through a series of hidden sites referenced in the TV show. Can you find the Doctor?"; classic series clips, MP3 downloads and mobile wallpaper, exclusive trailers and photos and more. Finally, it mentions the March 19 Doctor Who night on BBC TWO: "In a one-off Mastermind Doctor Who Special, four Doctor Who aficionados will be put through their paces by Mastermind host, John Humphrys to find out who will be crowned the UK's top Doctor Who fan. The prize will be presented by the new Doctor, Christopher Eccleston. So Some Things You Need To Know About Doctor Who will be packed full of Doctor Who trivia, plus there is another chance to see The Story of Doctor Who - a nostalgic archive documentary about the longest running TV drama series." Check out the press release for the full four-page document. (And ignore the big typo in it, which says that the show starts on Sunday March 26 instead of Saturday... thanks to John Bowman for noticing that!)