Schedule Update

Thursday, 15 April 2010 - Reported by Marcus
Flesh and StoneThe BBC Press Office has released details for the second part of the Weeping Angels story, Flesh And Stone. Episode 5 of the new series will be shown in the UK on Saturday 1st May. The episode summary contains spoilers for part one of the story.
There's no way back, no way up and no way out. Trapped among an army of Weeping Angels, the Doctor and his friends must try to escape through the wreckage of a crashed space liner.

Meanwhile, in the forest vault, the Doctor's companion, Amy Pond, finds herself facing an even more deadly attack.

Meanwhile schedules for the 24th April have been confirmed with the first half of the story, The Time of Angels, scheduled for 6.20pm on BBC One and BBC HD.

The programme is once more scheduled between Total Wipeout and Over The Rainbow. ITV1 will be offering the Best of You've Been Framed with Harry Hill. Viewers not wanting to face a Weeping Angel can face Jeremy Paxman on BBC Two in a special Saturday election edition of Newsnight with Channel 4 offering Channel 4 News. Five will be showing the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

Doctor Who Confidential will be at 7.05pm on BBC Three and at 8:25pm on BBC HD and reports on Matt Smith being photographed, scanned and 'rotoscoped' for the new online Doctor Who Adventure Games.




FILTER: - UK - Series 5/31 - Broadcasting

New Clips Online

Thursday, 15 April 2010 - Reported by Marcus
Three new clips from Victory of the Daleks, as well as an introduction to the story from Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, are now available on the official BBC website.

Video content may not be available outside the United Kingdom.




FILTER: - Online - Broadcasting

Victory of the Daleks - Trailer

Sunday, 11 April 2010 - Reported by Marcus
The BBC has released a trailer for Episode Three of the new series, Victory of the Daleks.

The episode is written by Mark Gatiss and stars Bill Paterson, Ian McNeice and Nicholas Briggs. It can be seen in the UK next Saturday at 6.30pm on BBC One and at 8.25pm on BBC HD.





FILTER: - Series 5/31 - Broadcasting

The Time Of Angels - Press Release

Thursday, 8 April 2010 - Reported by Marcus
Victory of the DaleksThe BBC Press Office has released details of the fourth episode of the new series The Time Of Angels.

The story by Steven Moffat will air in the UK on 24th April at a provisional time of 6.25pm. Schedules will be fixed next Wednesday.

The episode sees the return of two Steven Moffat creations, The Weeping Angels from the Series Three story, Blink, and River Song played by Alex Kingston, from the Series Four stories Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead.

The Doctor is recruited by Father Octavian to track the last of the Angels through the terrifying Maze Of The Dead.

Meanwhile, the mysterious River Song re-enters the Doctor's life – but can he trust her?




FILTER: - UK - Series 5/31 - Broadcasting

Week Three - Schedules (Updated)

Thursday, 8 April 2010 - Reported by Marcus
Victory of the DaleksSchedules for the 17th April have been changed slightly with Episode Three of the new series, Victory of the Daleks, now being broadcast on BBC One at 6.30pm.

NB: The BBC HD showing will be delayed until 8.25pm because BBC HD will be showing live football earlier in the evening.

On BBC One the programme will again be preceded on BBC One by Total Wipeout and followed by Over the Rainbow.

On ITV 1 Doctor Who is up against You've Been Framed, Extreme, a series with Harry Hill featuring the best camcorder and mobile phone calamities, the last showing of which was watched by 5 million viewers on 20th March. The last half is up against a new game show The Whole 19 Yards. 19 yards is the distance the contestants have to travel to reach their buzzer - over, under, across and through a gruelling obstacle course. The big hitter in the ITV lineup is the return of Britain's Got Talent at 8pm, the series which launched the career of Susan Boyle last year and the programme which is likely to win the night in ratings terms.

BBC Two offers football with Match of the Day Live and the game between West Bromwich Albion and Middlesbrough, while Channel 4 has Channel 4 News. On Five you can see the 1965 film Major Dundee, an offbeat western starring Charlton Heston and Richard Harris.

Doctor Who Confidential is on BBC Three at 7.15pm, with story writer Mark Gatiss meeting the curator of the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum to see what the conditions were like at the epicentre of the British war effort. Confidential is repeated on BBC HD at 9.10pm.




FILTER: - Broadcasting

BBC America Launch Day

Thursday, 8 April 2010 - Reported by Marcus
BBC America has cleared its schedules to bring its viewers nothing but Doctor Who in the run-up to the new series launch in the United States on Saturday April 17.

Starting at 5am ET, the channel will show the final half of Series 4, starting with The Doctor's Daughter and going right through to Journey's End. From 1.30pm it moves onto the gap year specials with The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars and The End of Time, taking viewers to the end of the Tenth Doctor's time on the show.

At 8pm it will show Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide, described as a "BBC America original, all-access look inside the universe of the world's biggest, most successful sci-fi television program", before launching Matt Smith to the American public with The Eleventh Hour at 9pm ET.

After an hour's 'Who' break, the channel will repeat The Ultimate Guide and The Eleventh Hour at 11pm, with a further repeat for West Coast viewers at 2am.

The Eleventh Hour gets a further repeat on Sunday April 18 at 5pm, although this will be a cut down version to fit into an hour slot, complete with commercials. A further repeat will be shown on Saturday April 24 at 8pm ET before the US premiere of Episode Two, The Beast Below at 9pm.




FILTER: - USA - Broadcasting

The Beast Below - Trailer

Tuesday, 6 April 2010 - Reported by Marcus
The BBC has released a trailer for Episode Two of the new series, The Beast Below.

The episode, which stars Sophie Okonedo, Terrence Hardiman, Alfie Field and Catrin Richards, can be seen in the UK next Saturday at 6.15pm on BBC One and BBC HD.





FILTER: - Series 5/31 - Broadcasting

Matt Smith on One Show - Tonight

Thursday, 1 April 2010 - Reported by Marcus
One ShowMatt Smith joins Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley in the studio for tonight's One Show on BBC One at 7.00pm.

The show is available on the BBC iplayer for the next seven days.




FILTER: - Matt Smith - Broadcasting

Victory of the Daleks - Press Release

Thursday, 1 April 2010 - Reported by Marcus
The BBC Press Office has released details of the third episode of the new series Victory of the Daleks.

The story by Mark Gatiss will air in the UK on 17th April. The time is provisionally set as 6.20pm - 7.25pm, although there has been no indication that the episode is any longer than the usual 45 minutes. The extra time listed probably belongs to Casualty which is currently listed as 30 minutes long. Final schedules will be released next Wednesday.

The Doctor has been summoned by an old friend, but in the Cabinet War Rooms far below the streets of blitz-torn London, it's his oldest enemy he finds waiting for him, as the time-travelling adventures continue. The Daleks are back – but can Winston Churchill be in league with them?




FILTER: - Series 5/31 - Broadcasting

The Beast Below - Schedule

Wednesday, 31 March 2010 - Reported by Marcus
Schedules for the 10th April have now been fixed and Episode Two of the new series, The Beast Below, will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD at 6.15pm, one of the earliest slots in which the show has been shown since it returned in 2005.

The programme will be preceded on BBC One by All New Total Wipeout, a new series of what is described as TV's biggest, brashest, daftest game show. Doctor Who will be followed by the latest edition of the search for Dorothy in Over the Rainbow.

For the first time, Doctor Who will face opposition from FA Cup football on ITV 1 where they are showing the Semi-Final between Aston Villa and Chelsea. The last FA cup match to be shown in this timeslot was Chelsea V Stoke on 6th March, which got 3.46 million watching.

BBC Two will be showing the 2004 biopic The Aviator, charting the life of eccentric film director Howard Hughes over a 20-year period. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett. Channel 4 will show reality series Come Dine with Me while Five has the 1994 film I Love Trouble, a romantic comedy about two rival reporters who constantly try to out-scoop each other, starring Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte.

Doctor Who Confidential is on BBC Three at 7.00pm and finds out just what makes the sinister Smilers tick as well as talking to Oscar-nominated actress Sophie Okenedo  about creating her extraordinary character. BBC HD is showing Golf: The Masters on Saturday so the HD broadcast of Confidential will be on Sunday 11th April at 6.10pm.




FILTER: - Series 5/31 - Broadcasting