Doctor Who coming to the PlayStation Store

Sunday, 28 November 2010 - Reported by Harry Ward
The official PlayStation blog has announced that full episodes of Doctor Who will be made available on the US PlayStation Network Video Store from December.

Grace Chen, Senior Manager of the PlayStation Store wrote on the blog post:
This is all part of a new television content offering from the BBC, making classic and current seasons of popular TV shows from BBC AMERICA available on the PlayStation Network. Each week, the “Video” section of the PlayStation Store will add additional BBC AMERICA programming, including Doctor Who, the channel’s record setting science fiction series featuring the eccentric galactic protector, plus many more hits set to debut in both High Definition (HD) for $2.99 and Standard Definition (SD) for $1.99 on the PlayStation Store throughout December.

UK users can access the BBC iPlayer via their PlayStation 3 consoles by connecting it to the internet, selecting the TV icon on the XMB (Xross Media Bar) and then BBC iPlayer.

The PlayStation Store offers a range of downloadable content both for purchase and available free of charge. Available content includes full games, add-on content, playable demos and movie trailers. [Wikipedia]




FILTER: - USA - Online

BBC America to show Doctor Who Prom

Saturday, 20 November 2010 - Reported by Marcus
BBC America have confirmed they will be showing the 2010 Doctor Who Prom on Christmas Day, the same day they show the 2010 Christmas Special A Christmas Carol.

The BBC Proms are an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events which have been held annually since 1895. Taking place mainly in the Royal Albert Hall in London, the BBC took over responsibility for the Proms in 1927. The first Doctor Who Prom took place in 2008.

The Doctor Who Prom features the music of Murray Gold performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, who record the soundtrack for the television series. The Prom took place Saturday 24 July and was hosted by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill.

The Prom was shown in the UK last September.






FILTER: - Music - USA - BBC America - Broadcasting

USA gets Christmas Special on Christmas Day

Wednesday, 17 November 2010 - Reported by Josiah Rowe
BBC America has announced on its Twitter feed that this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, A Christmas Carol, is to be broadcast in the US on Christmas Day. This marks the first time that a Doctor Who Christmas special has aired in the United States on the same day as its UK premiere.

The episode will be broadcast at 9:00pm Eastern Time; the time of broadcast in the United Kingdom has yet to be announced.





FILTER: - Specials - USA - Broadcasting

Matt Smith on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Wednesday, 17 November 2010 - Reported by Chuck Foster
Matt Smith appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night, during which he discussed his trip to America, being the Doctor, and filming in Monument Valley.
 

The entire show was dedicated to Doctor Who, in Ferguson's anarchic style. More clips are available on the show's website.




FILTER: - USA - Matt Smith - Broadcasting

Utah Filming Dates Confirmed

Thursday, 11 November 2010 - Reported by Josiah Rowe
The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development has confirmed that principal photography for the previously announced US filming will take place in Utah from November 17 to November 19. The state's Motion Picture Incentive Fund has authorized a filming rebate of up to $30,000 for location filming in the state. The exact location of filming has not been revealed, and fans are not being encouraged to attend filming; a BBC representative told a member of the Utah Film Commission in a private email that he "feels that it would be doing the production a disservice to have fans of the show watching it being filmed as certain story arcs and plot lines could be exposed prematurely and be spread over the internet."






FILTER: - USA - Series 6/32 - Production

US DVD Release Dates

Thursday, 28 October 2010 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: The TV MovieThe 1996 TV Movie will finally get its North American release on February 8, 2011.

In August we reported that, for the first time, the rights to release the story outside the UK had been obtained by 2|entertain. The feature length episode is the only televised adventure of the Eighth Doctor played by Paul McGann.

The story was released in the UK as part of the Revisitions box set. In North America it will be released as a single story on two discs, containing the same extras as the UK version.

It has also been confirmed that the Third Doctor story, The Mutants, will be released in North America on the same day, February 8, shortly after it's released in the UK.

Both North American covers can be seen at TV Shows on DVD.




FILTER: - Canada - USA - Classic Series - Blu-ray/DVD - Paul McGann

Yellow Dalek exclusive for Hastings Entertainment

Monday, 27 September 2010 - Reported by Chuck Foster
Yellow Daleks!Yellow Daleks!
Underground Toys have announced that entertainment store Hastings will be selling an exclusive Yellow Dalek action figure as part of a promotion that will run in association with BBC Worldwide.

Stores in the North American chain will feature a special 6x4ft display unit to highlight key merchandise from Doctor Who.

For more details, see the Undergound Toys and Hastings Entertainment websites.





FILTER: - Merchandise - USA

TV Movie coming to North America

Wednesday, 25 August 2010 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: The TV Movie2|entertain has confirmed the 1996 TV Movie will be released on DVD in North America.

The news was given by the Commissioning editor of the Doctor Who range, Dan Hall, in an exclusive interview with Hoo on Who.

The TV Movie stars Paul McGann in his one television appearance as as the Eighth Doctor. It was made as a co-production between Universal Television, BBC Television, BBC Worldwide, and the Fox Network and as a result the DVD rights outside the UK were not, until now, available to 2|entertain. Following discussions between 2|entertain and Universal the situation has now changed giving North American fans a chance to own a Region 1 version of the story for the first time.

The DVD is expected to be released in North America within the next twelve months. It will also be released in Australia and New Zealand.




FILTER: - Canada - USA - Classic Series - Blu-ray/DVD - Paul McGann

2010 Series DVD Boxset

Wednesday, 28 July 2010 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who: Series Five BoxsetDetails have been released of the 2010 series boxset which will be released in the UK on 8th November 2010 and in North America on November 9, 2010.

Branded The Complete Fifth Series the boxset is available in DVD and Blu-ray formats. In the UK, as well as the general release, a number of sets will be available in the form of a specially limited edition.

Special features include additional scenes written by Steven Moffat and exclusive to DVD.
  • Additional scenes: Meanwhile in the TARDIS, written by Steven Moffat and featuring Matt Smith & Karen Gillan, telling the story of what happens between episodes. Why was Amy floating in Space above Starship UK, and what happened after 'that' kiss between the Doctor and Amy?
  • Monster Files - The Monster Files will get under the skin and inside the minds of the latest Doctor's most challenging opponents. With previously unseen footage and exclusive comments from cast and crew, the Monster Files take fans old and new even further behind enemy lines.
  • Outtakes
  • In-vision commentaries
  • Video Diary
  • Confidential Cut Downs
  • BBC Trails and Promos to New Series 5



See our full Release Schedule




FILTER: - Steven Moffat - Canada - USA - UK - Karen Gillan - Matt Smith - Blu-ray/DVD - Series 5/31

BBC America Ratings

Tuesday, 20 April 2010 - Reported by Marcus
Doctor Who on BBC America has broken records for the channel with 1.2 million viewers watching the series premier, The Eleventh Hour last Saturday evening.

The audience was for those watching Live or Same Day and aged above 2.

The programme also gave the channel its best Live + Same Day audience in the 25-54 age group and ranked BBC America number 2 among all ad-supported cable networks in its time period for this age group. The rating is higher than that achieved by the SyFy channel in this age group for the season premiers of Series 1-4.

Doctor Who is also currently the Number 1 TV series in the US and Canadian iTunes store.





FILTER: - USA - Ratings - Series 5/31