The BBC have now released an introduction for the forthcoming fourth episode of Doctor Who, The Doctor's Wife, featuring Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, and writer Neil Gaiman:


There are also two new preview clips to whet appetites for the story, alongside the "Next Time" trailer, plus the television trailer for BBC America's broadcast later in the evening:

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The Doctor's Wife will premiere on BBC1/BBC1HD at 6:30pm, 14th May in the United Kingdom; then follows on SPACE in Canada at 8:00pm ET, BBC America in the United States at 9:00pm ET, and on ABC1 in Australia at 7:30pm on the 21st May.


 

As part of the run-up to this week's episode of Doctor Who, The Curse of the Black Spot, the BBC have released an introduction to the tale, featuring head writer Steven Moffat and guest star Hugh Bonneville:

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 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.

The BBC have released a small clip from tonight's Doctor Who Confidential which features Matt Smith demonstrating his prowess with a portable camera!



Doctor Who Confidential is on tonight on BBC Three and BBC HD at 7:00pm.

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Meanwhile, BBC America released the fifth in their series of online behind-the-scenes features; this edition of Doctor Who Insider is entitled On The Set:

Following on from the first "prequel" for The Impossible Astronaut, the BBC have announced the second of their mini-episode preludes, this time providing an introduction to episode three, The Curse of the Black Spot, due to be broadcast on 7th May.

The full prequel will be available from here and the BBC website on 6:45pm Saturday, straight after the conclusion to Day of the Moon.

The BBC's Doctor Who website have launched a new quiz, entitled The Game of Rassilon.


The quiz features clips, images, exclusive new footage with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, plus other members of the cast and crew. It is aimed to test the player's knowledge on Doctor Who, with different questions every time, and themed around the episode on television that week (currently The Impossible Astronaut).

The game can be played here.

A group of fans have started a new project based on the social networking and microblogging website, Twitter.

The Doctor Who Bar, which is not a physical bar, is the name of an online group that meets every Saturday at 7pm GMT to watch an episode of Doctor Who and discuss it live on Twitter using #DoctorWhoBar to tag their tweets.

The third meeting takes place this evening from 7pm GMT and the group will be watching fifth Doctor story, Earthshock, having voted for it in an online poll. The winner was announced at 6pm GMT. To join in you need press play on your DVD,VCR or computer at exactly 7.30pm GMT so you can all stay in synchronisation with the other viewers.

You can email the bar at doctorwhobar@gmail.com for your full episode reviews and any other points of view you may wish to send. The best tweets, emails and comments will be displayed on the Doctor Who Bar website at the end of each week.

The BBC have made a special video available to introduce the opening two-part story of the new series of Doctor Who, premiering at Easter. Written by Steven Moffat, this short segment (which they have termed a prequel) stars Stuart Milligan (best known as illusionist Adam Klaus in Jonathan Creek), and sets the scene for what the Doctor can expect to encounter during the adventure ...


You can also watch a teaser for the video on the BBC website.

The Doctor Who website reports that they will be "revealing the latest iconic image for the new series at approximately one minute past midnight on Saturday morning", which will be available to download as a wallpaper. They also report that several exclusive videos featuring the cast and crew discussing the new adventures of the TARDIS crew will be appearing on-site in the lead-up to Easter's broadcast of The Impossible Astronaut.

Players of the Facebook game application Farmville were in for a surprise this week as the TARDIS materialised on the Farm! Developers for the game have just launched a new expansion entitled English Countryside, and one of the gifts players can receive for qualifying for this level is a Police Box to place somewhere on their farm. To be able to receive the Police Box, you need to get 35 neighbours to travel with you. Alternatively you can spend 60 Farm Cash, which you need to buy with real money.

IDW Publishing announced at this weekend's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) that their line of Doctor Who comics will be available worldwide for the iPad, iPhone and other iOS devices through Apple's iTunes effective immediately. They will also be launching the line of comics on the Sony PSP within weeks.

Until now, IDW's original Doctor Who comics were only available in North America which left many fans unable to view the Tenth and Eleventh Doctor's adventures. With this announcement, fans will be able to purchase and view not only IDW's original line of Doctor Who comics but also many of the classic comics from Doctor Who Magazine which have been digitally colored for the first time.