As reported elsewhere, the DVD release of Ghost Light has been moved back one week, and will now take place on September 20. According to Steve Roberts of the Restoration Team, this is just due to "technical reasons," likely something to do with the pressing of the DVDs, and nothing to be concerned about; the extra week is just to give time to make sure they're done before release.

Outpost Gallifrey has learned that the new series production is now back in Cardiff, having taken a trip to London early in the month to do some location photography, and then (we presume) into the studio. There are signs that the production will be filming in public areas of Cardiff this coming week; we have a set report from Jez Connolly who was in Cardiff today (click on the spoiler tag for more details).

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine, issue #347 now on sale, notes that the director for the second "block" of episodes -- episodes 2 and 3, to be exact -- is Euros Lyn. His previous directing credits include "Cutting It," "Belonging III," "Casualty," "Pam Fi Duw?" and "Sunday Stories". Meanwhile, the director of photography will be Ernest Vincze, whose work incldues "Sea of Souls," "Holby City" and "Linda Green". The issue also notes that the visual effects supervisor will be David Houghton of MillTV, who also worked on the Doctor Who charity special "The Curse of Fatal Death". The magazine features an interview with Houghton and more detail about Lyn and Vincze.

As we previously reported, the forthcoming DVD release Lost in Time will feature 90 seconds of film from the long-lost Doctor Who serial The Space Pirates starring Patrick Troughton, film that was located, we have learned, in some old canisters of film from the series "Dad's Army". The film footage featuers model spacecraft shots and some live action "space walk" footage from the first episode. Through a coincidence, one of the people looking through the canisters was Ralph Montagu of the Doctor Who Restoration Team... who promptly returned the material to the archives so that it could be used on the DVD release. The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine has a bit more detail on this and a couple of photographs; meanwhile, Outpost Gallifrey has been sent two photographs unused by DWM which features the Beta Dart undocking from the Alpha 1 beacon, and Alpha 1's compartments drifting apart. Click on each below for a larger version. (Thanks to Steve Roberts and the Restoration Team)

Roadshow New Zealand have announced in their monthly e-Newsletter that The Green Death won't be out on DVD until September, a full month after its release on DVD in Australia. (Thanks to David French)

Lots of reports coming in from the various press outlets building on rumors that the Daleks, now confirmed as being in the series in the first season, will be given legs in the new series. "Show bosses are looking at the exterminators being able to climb stairs, fly and hover," says The Sun (obviously not being aware that the Daleks hovering was established in the original series, in "Remembrance of the Daleks"). "Their legs may be like those of Star Wars robot R2D2. Or the BBC could use our ideas -and have the Doctor's enemy with Penny Lancaster pins or Hobbit-like tootsies from The Lord of the Rings." Tim Hancock of the estate of Terry Nation is quoted as saying, "We all accept that the Daleks were designed in the early Sixties and need to be updated. They have got to be able to move, be mobile, but they have also got to retain the initial look of the original Daleks about them." The Daily Telegraph notes about the various Dalek stories, "Whoever's in charge of the PR for the new Dr Who series has been doing a knockout job" and notes about the various press leaks involving the negotiations around bringing the nasty metal monsters back. Various other news journals including the Register (with a second article here), Ananova and local media. (Thanks to Steve Tribe, Mark Healey, Paul Engelberg)

The following is a list from the British Board of Film Classification of cleared extras from the Lost in Time DVD set, with running times and other miscellaneous items. We don't know what the "Untitled" items are, but otherwise, no big surprises from the lists published previously. (Thanks to Richard Bignell)

Great news this morning: the BBC and the Terry Nation Estate have achieved an agreement that allows the Daleks to return to Doctor Who in the new TV series, despite word to the contrary earlier in the year. Tim Hancock of the Terry Nation estate told BBC News, "I am absolutely delighted that the Terry Nation estate and the BBC have been able to reach agreement on terms for the use of the Daleks in the new Doctor Who series. We look forward to working closely with the production team in the forthcoming months." The Nation estate, said BBC News, had accused the BBC of trying to "ruin the brand of the Daleks" by trying to wrestle control of the image. "We are absolutely delighted that the Daleks will be back," publicist Antony Wainer of the DWAS told BBC News. "Doctor Who without Daleks would be like Morecambe without Wise or Wimbledon without strawberries." By the way, for those wondering: this was NOT a publicity stunt. According to several sources, this went straight down to the wire, a desire by both sides to reach an equitable agreement. There was never any attempt to use the "will they/won't they" as a publicity tactic for the new series (and we get that straight from the source). The Sun newspaper, naturally, is claiming "victory" in their "campaign" to bring back the Daleks (obviously unaware that they likely had nothing whatsoever to do with it) and the Media Guardian has an amusing quote in their August 4 edition: "Oh Lordy. Stand by for a gloating 'It was the Sun wot won it' style headline in tomorrow's current bun, after the BBC today announced that the Daleks would, indeed, be returning to give Chris Eccleston the willies in the new Doctor Who series. The Sun will no doubt be claiming its Save The Daleks campaign - launched last month after the BBC said negotiations with the estate of Doctor Who writer Terry Nation to bring the croaky-voiced baddies back had broken down - made all the difference. Maybe they have a point. After all, the impact of plastering a Dalek with Sun stickers, a Sun hat and a cross of St George flag and wheeling it through New York's Times Square, accompanied by reporter Bryan Flynn, should not be underestimated."

We're keeping track of the various news reports that come in as this story breaks (thank you Paul Engelberg, Steve Tribe, Chuck Foster, Richard Kirkpatrick); the following is the running list of news reports as we get them.

Official Doctor Who Site (BBC) BBC News The Scotsman Waveguide The Sun The Register News.com.au Sydney Morning Herald Telegraph (second article) Brand Republic The Age (Australia) The Guardian (subscription)

Reuters Irish Examiner The Telegraph The Examiner Ireland Online The Guardian Yahoo! News NewsWales The Independent The Mirror IC Wales FilmForce

Also covered in the Associated Press, the Daily Mail, Belfast Telegraph, South Wales Echo, the Times, the Journal, the Birmingham Post and various other publications and online sources.

The following is a press release issued by the BBC a short while ago (with thanks to the BBC website).

According to today's BBC press release about the return of the Daleks (see below), in addition to the three names we've already mentioned as cast in the new series -- Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke and John Barrowman -- two new ones appeared: Penelope Wilton and Annette Badland. Penelope Wilton (at right, left side) is the former wife of actor Ian Holm ("Lord of the Rings") and has starred in the films "Cry Freedom," "The French Lieutenant's Woman," "Blame it On the Bellboy," "Calendar Girls," "Pride and Prejudice" and "Clockwise". She's also played Simon Pegg's mother in "Shaun of the Dead," and on television, starred in "Ever Decreasing Circles" alongside Richard Briers, the BBC telefilm "The Borrowers," "Victoria and Albert," "The Tales of Beatrix Potter," "Tom's Midnight Garden," and with new series producer Russell T Davies in "Bob and Rose". Wilton was given the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth in 2004. Her IMDb profile is here. Annette Badland (at right, right side) is a character actress with extensive television credits including "Poirot," "Jackanory," "Holby City," "All Creatures Great and Small," "Casualty" and "Doctors," as well as roles in "Secret Society," "Little Voice," "Beautiful People," "Hollow Reed," "Out of Order" and "Sacred Hearts"; you might remember her from the small part of Griselda Fishfinger in Terry Gilliam's "Jabberwocky". Her IMDb profile is here.

As reported by Outpost Gallifrey some time ago about the story being on the 2005 list of DVD releases from BBC Worldwide, Roadshow/ABC Video in Australia - the licensees responsible for releasing the Doctor Who DVDs in that country - have announced that The Claws of Axos starring Jon Pertwee will be released there in April 2005 on DVD. This is in addition to the previously announced "The Leisure Hive" (October), "Lost in Time" (December) and "Ghost Light" (February). Of course, the date is always subject to change and no word as yet has been received as to its "official" status as a UK release, though it will likely be early in the year. (Thanks to Richard Gray and dvdbits.com)