The final series of The Sarah Jane Adventures starring the late Elisabeth Sladen is expected to be shown during what has now become its 'traditional' month of October on CBBC and BBC1(HD), reports Doctor Who Magazine.
The titles of the three, two-part stories that make up the fifth series are Sky by Phil Ford, The Curse of Clyde Langer also by Phil Ford, and The Man Who Wasn't There by Gareth Roberts.
The series features the regular team of Daniel Anthony as Clyde and Anjli Mohindra as Rani, with Tommy Knight returning properly as Luke for the final story. Other guest stars announced for this series include Peter Bowles, Christine Stephen-Daly and James Dreyfus. It was produced as part of the same recording schedule as series four by Brian Minchin.
The BBC will be launching a new theme to their Sarah Jane Academy quiz on the Sarah Jane Adventures website from next week; Alien Encounters"promises fresh challenges and more monsters, including our old friends, the Sontarans!".
Frazer Hines, who played the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon from 1966 to 1969, will be performing his one-man show "The Time Traveling Scot" in New York City on Friday, July 8. The performance will be held at The Producers Club Theatre on West 44th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues in Manhattan. The evening will also feature autograph signing and a short Q&A hosted by Ken Deep of Doctor Who Podshock.
The event is hosted by Who York; tickets are available via the Who York website for $25 in advance, and will be $30 at the door.
Yesterday we reported on the three Torchwood novels to be released this summer; we can now confirm the titles of the books as First Born by James Goss, Long Time Dead by Sarah Pinborough, and The Men Who Sold The World by Guy Adams.
The novels are set after Children of Earth, and are a direct prequel to Miracle Day; Davies described the stories in Doctor Who Magazine as being able to "exploit the narrative gap in a way which would be impossible for radio".
The series will be published on a fortnightly basis, but the dates have yet to be confirmed, being dependent upon when Miracle Day is broadcast in the United Kingdom. (with thanks to Steve Tribe)
A number of Internet Security sites have reported that several marketing scams are in progress using the promise of a clip from this Saturday's mid-series finale A Good Man Goes To War as a premise to visit their sites and potentially collate personal information.
The scams running on YouTube purport to point to a video elsewhere that is too large for the site, but then require the visitor to perhaps fill out a survey or sign up to an offer before gaining access to the alleged clip.
GFI Software security researcher Chris Boyd commented:
The same thing happened when the last series finale was due to air. There was also a bit of an issue with various Doctor Who games doing the rounds, too. As always: avoid.
Everything we’ve seen so far is the usual fake video/survey nonsense, but there could well be malware in the offing between now and Saturday.
Please note: the only official clips from A Good Man Goes To War are available free to watch courtesy of the BBC.
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The titles of the three new Torchwood radio plays recorded in May have now been revealed by Russell T Davies in the latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine; these are Submission (Ryan Scott), House of the Dead (James Goss), and The Devil and Miss Carew (Rupert Laight). The three episodes are separate stories, though all based on the theme of possession, and Davies reported their settings ranging from an old folk's home, a haunted pub, and the depths of the Mariana Trench.
The plays are set before Children of Earth and so enables popular character Ianto Jones to have further adventures with Jack and Gwen - voiced of course by his off-screen persona Gareth David Lloyd. The actor had previously been rumoured to be involved with the plays after his band Blue Gillespie had to pull out of Live and Unsigned in May, citing "Gareth has got to go to America for a couple of weeks and the trip unfortunately falls over the time of the gig."
Davies has also reported that Torchwood would team up with UNIT for their first official joint mission!
No transmission date has been announced at present, though BBC Drama indicated that they would be broadcast later in the summer.
As well as the radio adventures, three new novels will also be published during the summer, with Davies explaining that they would "exploit the narrative gap in a way which would be impossible for radio". For more details see our follow-up article.
The BBC have released a couple of previews for this Saturday's episode, A Good Man Goes To War:
Preview One: A Good Man Goes To War, BBC, via BBC Website
Preview Two: A Good Man Goes To War, BBC, via BBC Website
Digital Spy talked to Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill about what to expect in the mid-series finale:
Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill interview, Digital Spy, via YouTube
Karen Gillan chatted to TV & Satellite Week over the impact of Amy's revelation last week:
It is really, really emotional for Amy what she goes through. I think any woman watching will really feel for her. It is something that I actually found quite difficult to understand so I had to speak to my mum about the labour scene and just tried to make it really horrific. ... (Giving birth) is going to change her in a big way for the long run and I think we are going to get to see Amy in a really different light.
I didn’t know until we started shooting it because everything is really last minute on Doctor Who, so you just get the script. Then there was a dummy ending on the episode seven script so none of us knew what was actually going to happen until the readthrough when Steven Moffat took us outside and showed us on his laptop.
There are lots of monsters in this one and it really feels like a finale. There are lots of old familiar things coming back and lots of storylines that have been going on for many years will be resolved.
Guest stars Simon Fisher-Becker and Danny Sapani spoke to Cultbox about their characters and appearances in the episode:
Dorium is at heart a good guy, but he lives in the murky depths. Think of him as Arthur Daley. Oh, you’re probably too young to remember Arthur Daley! He works in the murky world of black marketing, so that’s why River Song went to him to get the vortex manipulator.
Everyone always talks in code - and I’m very bad at picking up code - everything is kept quite secret, so any development of the character I have to find from the page and in-between the lines.
Because my character is in it throughout, I did have a complete script. Our very first scene that we filmed, we were all together, but it was all out of context, it was all in the wrong order, so it was all very confusing. We had no idea what was going on, but it was an absolute hoot!
What I will say is that a lot of questions will be answered, but then a whole bucket load of new questions will come forward. And the cliffhanger is very good, as you would expect!
Read the full interview, including details on episode thirteen, on the Cultbox website.
Manton is a powerful leader, a scary man and a fearsome soldier. He understands and respects the religious, but is more interested in power. He is obsessed with killing the Doctor.
It is a very complex story with many strands involving many characters from the past and present. I felt it really challenged my need for a back-story, to flesh out the character and know how they relate to the story as a whole, but in the end it made for a more spontaneous experience. I trusted the direction. I am sure it will be great.
Early character study from REIGN OF TERROR based on available promotional still (2|Entertain, via yfrog)
2|Entertain have announced that the missing episodes four and five of the William Hartnell adventure The Reign of Terror are to be animated as part of the forthcoming DVD, which the company previously reported would provisionally be released late 2012.
The animators for the project have been named as Big Finish - long-term Doctor Who audio producers, and whose Real Time and Shada adventures were animated for the BBC Doctor Who website - and animation company Theta Sigma, whose Thetamation is described as "a totally new style of animation, a hybrid of the classic anime styles of the 80s and high-technology".
The release of this story's surviving episodes on DVD leaves only those of the incomplete The Tenth Planet and The Ice Warriors still to be scheduled. Prior to this, The Invasion received a similar treatment in 2006 when its missing episodes one and four were re-created by award-winning animators Cosgrove Hall.
Eliza Dushku BBC Worldwide Productions (photo: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic.com)
Entertainment Weekly have published a few more details about Torchwood: Web of Lies, and have confirmed the hints by writer Jane Espenson that actress Eliza Dushku would be starring in the web-based tie-in series.
The series is being produced by BBC Worldwide Productions and will be made up of ten three-minute episodes, written by Espenson and Ryan Scott. The episode format has been described as animated "motion comics" (believed to be similar in style to previous BBC web-based presentations like Death Comes To Time or Scream of the Shalka).
Russell T Davies spoke about the project in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine:
This is a hugely exciting innovation, a fully-scripted animated adventure with interactive elements, with fantastic voice talents - John Barrowman and Eve Myles reprise their roles as Jack and Gwen, alongside special guest star Eliza Dushku, and co-starring Bob Harris.
The adventures will run in weekly installments, parallel with the event of Miracle Day, adding new clues, new insights, and new dangers, as everyone races to find out the truth behind the mysterious Miracle...
No other details are known at present, or whether the series will have a restricted audience or be made available worldwide.
The final series of The Sarah Jane Adventures starring the late Elisabeth Sladen is expected to be shown during what has now become its 'traditional' month of October on CBBC and BBC1(HD), reports Doctor Who Magazine.
Frazer Hines, who played the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon from 1966 to 1969, will be performing his one-man show "The Time Traveling Scot" in New York City on Friday, July 8. The performance will be held at 
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