In a statement to fans on their Facebook page as well as in a newsletter, German DVD distributer Pandastorm Pictures announced that their release of The Five Doctors, originally planned for 26th June 2015, will now be released two months later, on 28th August 2015.

The reasons for the delay are, according to the Facebook message, "problems with the material". The newsletter adds that Pandastorm believed the german dub to exist but realised too late that it had been deleted. Thankfully a fan helped out with his recording of the german dub.

Here is the original newsletter announcement, translated from German:

Dear Doctor Who-fans,
we received a lot of positive feedback from you for the last few months. There were photos with you and the boxed sets, a self-made action figure of the Candyman and even Sophie Aldred (Ace) who can be seen on a picture, posing with our second 7th Doctor boxed set. WOW! We would like to send you all a big THANK YOU. Without you the making of these boxed sets would not have been possible.

Some of you might already know that we will also release "The Five Doctors" in Germany. We planned to release it on 26th June 2015 but we sadly have to delay the release to 28th August 2015. After some misunderstandings we now know for sure that the German TV-version had been destroyed. The good news is that our appeal to fans last summer payed off after all and a Doctor Who-fan made his recording available to us. All this took us a lot of time, so that the DVD's won't be ready in time, if we want to deliver a high quality product.

Pandastorm then continued listing all the versions of the 20th Anniversary Special that will be on the 2-Disc-Set:

• TV version in English

•  TV version in German (including German subtitles for the scenes edited out in Germany)

•  Three-part TV version in German (heavily edited, some scenes arranged in a different order)

•  Special Edition in English

•  Special Edition in German (including German subtitles for the scenes that were not shown in Germany)

So far Pandastorm Pictures released all three seasons of the seventh Doctor in season boxed sets in Germany. After The Five Doctors they are going to release two boxed sets for the complete sixth Doctor run and a 2-disc DVD release of The TV Movie.

A special event is taking place at the Livraria Cultura in São Paulo, Brazil on 16th May from 4:00pm to tie in with the publication of tenth Doctor novel O prisioneiro dos Daleks - aka Prisoner of the Daleks - originally written by Trevor Baxendale and published in the UK in 2009. The book has been translated by Camila Fernandes and published by Suma das Letras.

The event features reader chats, a special quiz O Elo Mais Forte (The Strongest Link) with four fans battling to prove who's most knowledgeable about Doctor Who, raffles and also the chance to pose with the TARDIS! The event will also celebrate the arrival of Doctor Who on Brazilian television channel TV Cultura, with episodes of the show to be shown during the afternoon.


More details can be found via the Livraria Cultura website. The event is being hosted by Doctor Who Brasil.

Doctor Who News can exclusively reveal the photo covers for the Titan Comics summer event, announced yesterday.

The 5 part series will feature the Tenth , Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, alongside the War Doctor as portrayed by John Hurt, who graces the cover of issue 1 of the series. Week 2's cover stars David Tennant, week 3's Matt Smith, with Peter Capaldi on the front of issue 4.

The story is written by Paul Cornell and illustrated by Neil Edwards, will be published weekly starting Wednesday August 12

Titan Comics have announced a special summer event which will bring the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors and their comics companions together is a special 5 part series.

Published weekly, the story written by Paul Cornell and illustrated by Neil Edwards, will be published weekly, running through August and September 2015, in place of the ongoing series. It features all three Doctors from Titan's regular ongoings.

The first issue is released Wednesday August 12, supported by the global Doctor Who Comics Day on Saturday August 15.

Writer Paul Cornell has penned classic episodes from the Doctor Who TV series ('Father's Day', 'Human Nature/Family of Blood', both Hugo-nominated), classic Doctor Who novels, as well as successful comic book runs on titles such as Wolverine, Action Comics, Demon Knights, and Captain Britain and MI:13.

The ​e​vent follows straight on from the issue #15 conclusions of Year One, with the second years of the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors beginning after the event's finale.

Three Doctors, three companions, one action-packed mystery!


NB: The series is also available with five connecting photo covers.

The covers will be revealed, exclusively on Doctor Who News, tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon at 2pm UK Time.

Wednesday May 13​ ​sees the release of Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #10 - written by Robbie Morrison (Drowntown, Nikolai Dante) and art by Eleonora Carlini.

The actor Nigel Terry has died at the age of 69.

Nigel Terry played General Cobb in the 2008 Tenth Doctor story The Doctor's Daughter.

Terry has a long career both on stage and screen and worked extensively for both the National Theatre and theRoyal Shakespeare Company.

He is best known for playing King Arthur in John Boorman’s 1981 film Excalibur. Other movie roles include playing Prince John in Anthony Harvey’s The Lion in Winter and playing the title role of Caravaggio in the Derek Jarman film. On television he appeared in Agatha Christie's Marple, MI-5, Foyle's War, Holby City, Mortimer's Law, Resort to Murder, Highlander, The Orchid House, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Denys Villiers, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Sherlock Holmes and Kenilworth.

Nigel Terry died last Thursday after contracting emphysema.

Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, a global event which celebrates the amazing world of comic books.

The event takes place annually on the first Saturday in May, when participating comic book speciality shops around the world give away comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their shops.

This year Titan, publishers of the Doctor Who Comic Books, are offering a special edition of Doctor Who comic for Free.

This special edition includes three all-new short stories featuring the Tenth Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor and the Twelfth Doctor, written and drawn by the ongoing Doctor Who comics creative teams. There is also a sneak peek of the Top Secret Summer 2015 event. Be the first to get a hint of the epic that will shake the Doctor to his very core.

Doctor Who fans can pick up this free Comic Book Day edition of Doctor Who Comic from your local comic book store. To find your local store visit the Comic Shop Locator.

In addition Titan are offering a chance to win the ultimate Doctor Who Goody Bag.

All you need to do to be in with the chance of winning a bag full of​ ​Doctor Who comics, including rare collectible covers, signed items and​ ​merchandise, including SDCC and NYCC items, is send a picture of​ ​yourself holding up a copy of the FCBD Doctor Who edition outside your​ ​local comic store.

Entries can be submitted via Twitter and must include​ ​the Titan Comics Twitter handle @ComicsTitan.

One winner and their local store will be picked after the submission​ ​deadline: Midnight EDT, Saturday May 2 and both will receive a bundle.

You will need to follow @Comicstitan on Twitter to enable Titan to contact you should you win..

BBC Worldwide have signed a deal to bring Doctor Who to the Indian channel FX.

All eight post 2005 series of the show will be screened starting 15th May 2015. The deal marks largest volume sale of the BBC series in the country. FX is owned by Star India Private Limited and is available in a million homes in the country.

Myleeta Aga, SVP and GM of BBC Worldwide in India said A Star India spokesperson commented: Brian Minchin, Executive Producer, Doctor Who says:

Doctor Who has won the British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Special, Visual & Graphic Effects in 2015

The award goes to Milk VFX, Real SFX and BBC Wales VFX for their work on the 2014 series.

It is the second year running Doctor Who has won this award, this year beating the nominees for Atlantis, David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 3D, and Ripper Street.

Danny Hargreaves of RealSFX tweetedThe winners were announced Sunday evening at the Brewery in East London.

Doctor Who has become an issue in the British General Election with the Independent reporting that the leader of the UK Independence party is calling on the BBC to stop making popular entertainment programming.

Nigel Farage told a public meeting in Rochester that the BBC should be "cut back to the bone". He said the licence fee should be cut to a third of its current value and the Corporation should be "purely a public service broadcaster with an international reach". Examples of public service broadcasting include local news coverage, arts programmes and religious broadcasts, but does not include programmes such as Doctor Who, Strictly Come Dancing, and Top Gear.

Meanwhile the Mirror, a Labour supporting paper, is reporting that Doctor Who is better under Labour governments. The paper reckons that episodes shown when the Conservatives are in power, score lower appreciation figures on IMDB than episodes shown when Labour are in charge.

The series was created in 1963 under a Conservative Government, and returned in 2005 under a Labour administration.