Rose Trailer Transcript plus Screen Grabs

Thursday, 17 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
Another transcript, this time of the "Rose" trailer that has been aired on CBBC. This 20 second trailer aired on 15th March before Newsround, and on the 16th March after Grange Hill. Click on the SPOILER tag to read it. Also below are screen captures from the trailer. (Thanks to Pete Gurr, Matt Evenden)
ROSE TRAILER TRANSCRIPT by Pete Gurr

- The TARDIS interior. Rose stands by the console. During the following, the camera pulls back slowly from a head and shoulders shot of Rose, revealing the Doctor standing to her left. He is standing perfectly still. The console is to her right. The hum of the TARDIS interior is very noticable.
- Rose looks up at the camera
- Rose: I've got a choice. Stay at home with my mum... my boyfriend... my job. Or chuck it all in for danger... and monsters... and life or death.
- Theme music 'scream' kicks in.
- Rose: (Nods towards the Doctor, but asking the audience) What d'you think?
- BBC program title card. Bottom of card comes to 3/4 mark on previous shot, "Doctor Who" in white text over. Voiceover starts, trailer footage fades to black, top of card comes down. Male announcer voiceover: "Doctor Who. Coming soon to Saturdays on BBC One."




FILTER: - Series 1/27 - Broadcasting

New Series Trailer Transcript

Wednesday, 16 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
For our readers who haven't seen it (since we obviously can't upload it and it hasn't been put onto the official site yet), here's a complete transcript courtesy Outpost Gallifrey reader Glenn Harrison of the actual new series trailer that hit BBC Television yesterday. Click on the spoiler tags to read it (so it doesn't fill up the entire news page column!) (Thanks to Glenn Harrison)
THE NEW SERIES TRAILER:

- Tunnel - the same one as in the brief "TARDIS escaping" trailer. Explosion. Flames visible at the end.
- Eccleston inside TARDIS (back to doors), hands on railings either side of the door, looking down. Head whips up, accompanied by a percussion sting.
- Closeup of tunnel end, a shadow cast on the wall.
- Repeat of the above Eccleston shot.
- Tunnel floor. Flames reflected. Feet running towards the camera, in slow-mo.
- Eccleston to camera: "D'you wanna come with me?"
- Camera rushing down tunnel towards fire. TARDIS materialisation sound effect.
- Eccleston pushes up off the railings, walks up the ramp from the doors towards the console. Materialisation sound effect continues. "Cause if you do, then I should warn you." (Reverb effect on "warn you".)
- Camera circling around TARDIS console, steady and level (nice clear close-ups, plus we get to see some seats by the console). Canera pulls back, giving a nice overview of the console and console room (doors just visible to the left of shot here). Old Grainer/Derbyshire theme sample here (just the first sound). Eccleston's last words are repeated with heavy reverb here. (Would you believe this is just the first 15 seconds?)
- Camera angle changes; still the console room, console now on right of screen, doors more visible to left, Eccleston walking up ramp towards the console. Dialogue reverb continues. New theme kicks in, in earnest!
- Silhouette running away from flames. Rather out-of-focus. Looks to be in the tunnel again.
- Eccleston, walking towards the console: "You're gonna see all sorts of things."
- Tunnel. Eccleston running away from fireball (very clear this time).
- Eccleston walking across console room: "Ghosts from the past."
- Another circle around the console, but this time it's active - time rotor in motion, dry ice. Camera height/angle is varied.
- Previous shot of Eccleston continues as he walks behind active console. "Aliens from the future."
- Tunnel again; feet running towards camera, flames in the background.
- Previous shot of Eccleston continues as he emerges from behind the console. "The day the Earth died in a--"
- Extreme closeup of Eccleston as he finishes his line: "--ball of flame."
- Tunnel. Fireball rounds the corner. Eccleston glances back over his shoulder and runs towards the camera.
- Medium shot of Eccleston in the TARDIS: "It won't be quiet."
- Close-up of Eccleston, as before: "It won't be safe."
- Slightly less close shot of Eccleston, as before: "And it won't be calm." (At least, I think he says "calm". It's a little unclear.)
- Slightly less close again, as before: "But I'll tell you what it will be."
- Medium shot of Eccleston fleeing the fireball.
- Eccleston in TARDIS, hands behind back, smiling, as camera moves closer (possibly re-used shot from earlier teaser, footage played backwards?). "Tell you what it will be" reverb'ed over.
- Fireball erupting along tunnel.
- Close-up of Eccleston, as before: "The trip of a lifetime." (This is the 35-second mark)
- Long CGI pullback from Earth to space. (Recycled from first teaser and "Rose", played backwards.)
- CGI spacecraft flying over St. Paul's, past camera. ("Aliens of London")
- Same spacecraft flying away from camera towards Big Ben. ("Aliens of London")
- Quick shot of spacecraft "wing" tearing through the face of Big Ben. Looks like miniature work but could be CGI. ("Aliens of London")
- Horse-drawn carriage in darkened street coming towards camera. ("The Unquiet Dead")
- Overview of similar street, with snow. ("The Unquiet Dead")
- CGI missile flying over the English Channel towards the White Cliffs of Dover. ("Aliens of London")
- Camera pulls back from chained-up Dalek. ("Dalek")
- Tunnel; fireball engulfs camera.
- Eccleston and Piper by the TARDIS console, re-used from earlier teasers. "Trip of a lifetime." reverbs.
- BBC program title card. Bottom of card comes to 3/4 mark on previous shot, "Doctor Who" in white text over. Voiceover starts, trailer footage fades to black, top of card comes down. Female announcer voiceover: "Doctor Who. Coming soon to Saturdays on BBC One."




FILTER: - Series 1/27 - Broadcasting

Broadcasting Notes

Wednesday, 16 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
Some new updates on broadcasting over the next two weeks (see the Calendar section at right for more details):

Several Outpost Gallifrey correspondents were present for the taping of the Mastermind Doctor Who special that airs this Saturday as part of the "Doctor Who Night" on BBC2. While we won't tell you who won, the prize, a glass trophy, was presented by Christopher Eccleston himself. Eccleston commented that he has taken the role very seriously, that there will be plenty of humour, but not the nostalgia/self referential type of thing that sends the show up. "Mastermind" airs at 8.40pm on BBC2 on Saturday, March 19, as part of the "Doctor Who Night" hosted by Jon Culshaw, which includes "The Story of Doctor Who" at 7.30pm and a new documentary, "Some Things You Need to Know about Dr Who" at 8.30pm.

UK Gold are showing "The Story Of Doctor Who" all day on Saturday the 26th finishing at 7pm. This will feature 5 original series stories -- "The Time Meddler," "The Daemons," "Pyramids of Mars," "Attack of the Cybermen" and "Dragonfire" -- as well as interstitials featuring interviews with cast members. In essence these will be a re-edit of those produced for the Doctor Who@40 weekend shown in 2003, however, some new footage has been added to reflect the changes since the anniversary, according to a source at UKTV.

BBC Radio Wales will be airing "Back in Time", a documentary series which according to Radio Times is as follows: "Julian Carey looks at the links between the Time Lord and Wales, including giant maggots in Brynmawr and Dalek road signs in Llangollen." The first broadcast is scheduled for thirty minutes, although the duration of the repeat is listed as only 27 minutes, which is likely to be more accurate. Parts two and three will presumably air in the same slots on 2/3 April and 9/10 April.




FILTER: - Series 1/27 - Radio Times - Broadcasting

First "Proper" Trailer Airs, plus Screen Grabs

Tuesday, 15 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
The BBC showed an actual trailer (instead of a mere teaser) this evening. As our correspondents note, "The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) directly addresses the viewer standing inside the TARDIS doors - they're closed, so you basically see the white doors behind his back. Shots in the clip include a chained-up Dalek and a CG spacecraft flying over London and damaging Big Ben. Intercut with this are shots of Eccleston running down the tunnel, with fire behind him. There's a shot of him near the console from the earlier short trailers, and some very nice closeups of the console. The trailer ended with the BBC's current generic programme details cards - basically, solid red moving up from the bottom of the screen to the 3/4 mark, the show's title in white lettering directly below this point, and then red moving down from the top to the same mark, with the time directly above (in this case, "Coming Soon")." Click on the screen grabs below for larger versions.

Update: Apparently there are several versions of this trailer; in addition to the main showing during "Eastenders" today, it's also been shown after "Holby City" and immediately before "Mastermind" on BBC2. There are apparently both a 30 second and a 50 second version. The 30 second trailer is made up from shortened segments from the 50 second trailer, however the shot of the space ship over London is totally different between the two trailers. In the 50 second version it's flying over St Paul's Cathedral and it's over the Tower Bridge in the 30 second version. (Thanks to Glenn Harrison, Jeff Album, Robert Franks, John Molyneux, Steve Chapman)




FILTER: - Series 1/27 - Broadcasting

Monday Press Notes

Monday, 14 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
Last Friday, BBC1 began showing a new Doctor Who series teaser trailer in which the TARDIS was shown dematerialising in some kind of underground pedestrian walkway slowly filling with a fire ball. It was first shown mid-day during afternoon programs, and then again before the news that evening prior to the Comic Relief telethon (before which they also showed one of the existing teasers of Billie in the control room.) The trailer has been added to the official site, on this page.

The official site has an online RealMedia interview with Christopher Eccleston, taken at last week's press launch of the new series.

This morning (14 March)'s Media Guardian has a report on bbc.co.uk's plans for the official Doctor Who site and its importance for the success of the new series. The relaunched site is described as "one of the BBC's most ambitious online projects to date [...] the series will depend on its official online companion to hook a new generation of viewers." As well as noting plans to include the various elements of online viewing already reported here and in DWM, the piece notes that "['Rose'] features a conspiracy theorist who has been following the Doctor's exploits through time [...] the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred further by making his site available to fans on the BBC website." The print version is illustrated with a photograph of the Moxx of Balhoon, and the story is available online here.

The Culture programme on BBC2 on March 17 at 7:00pm will be running a feature on the return of Doctor Who (advertised with the standard promo shot of Eccleston lounging against the TARDIS in this week's Radio Times). The program will be repeated at 11:20pm. Details available at the Culture website.

BBC7 has some audio teasers going out this week, a taster for the new series, though there will also be a full-length radio trailer with Christopher Eccleston himself next week. The current run of the teasers begin today, Monady March 14, and run through next Sunday, March 20; non-listeners may be able to catch them at the BBC7 website.

Today's Times ran a piece about Cardiff Millennium Stadium, including a few side mentions of its use in a future new Doctor Who series episode.

(Thanks to Paul Engelberg, Steve Tribe, John Bowman, Andrew Harvey, Dave Tanner, John Leivers, Alistair Moore, Matthew Godley, Martin Montague)




FILTER: - DWM - Series 1/27 - Radio Times - Broadcasting

Radio, TV Broadcasting - Updated

Saturday, 12 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
Latest Update: 12 March 0930 GMT (I've left today's items on the list temporarily...)

Chris Eccleston will be on GMTV on March 11 on the Lorraine Kelly section at approximately 8.35am. (Roy Barton, Doug Inman)

BBC Radio Leeds will be re-running a six minute report on "one Yorkshire fan's reaction to the new series hype, and details of his own Doctor Who influenced amateur films" which will run at 0210 GMT (or thereabouts) in the early hours of Friday 11 March. BBC Radio Leeds can be heard live online at bbc.co.uk/radioleeds.

BBC Breakfast News stated that Russell T Davies will be on the program being interviewed on Friday morning 11th March.

Doctor Who will once again be the subject on "Newsnight" on BBC2, March 17 at 11pm.

Chris and Billie will be on "Blue Peter" on March 21 from 4:55pm to 5:20pm on BBC1; the episode will probably be repeated the same evening at 18:00 on the CBBC channel. The Radio Times confirms the listing.

On the electronic Radio Times it states that Billie Piper will be a guest on Parkinson (ITV1, 10.10-11.15 on 19 March) where she will discuss her new role in Dr Who.

According to Radio Times, Saturday, March 19 will feature showings of "Doctor Who and the Daleks" (1965 film) at 3:50pm, "The Story of Doctor Who" (2003 documentary) at 7:30pm, Some Things You Need to Know about Dr Who" (a new documentary short) at 8:30pm, "Dr Who Mastermind" at 8:40pm, and "Parkinson" featuring an interview with Billie Piper at 10:15pm.

On the "On Show" program on BBC1 Wales on March 20, Sian Williams talks to Russell T Davies about his past work and his reinvention of Doctor Who. There's also a listing for BBC2W (the Welsh BBC digital service opt-out), of this "On Show" on Thursday 17th March 9-9:30pm with Russell Davies. (Not having this available to me, I can't get more detailed, sorry! -editor)

The Radio 2 Doctor Who site has just added an unconfirmed interview with Billie Piper on his show on Thursday 24 March. As usual, that's 2pm.

Christopher Eccleston will be on "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" on 25 March, alongside Julian Clary and Sally Lindsay (Coronation Street actress).




FILTER: - People - Radio Times - Broadcasting

Update on Broadcasters

Friday, 11 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
While the UK, Canada and New Zealand count down until their broadcasts of the new Doctor Who series, there's still no final confirmation from an Australian broadcaster but that is expected to be announced soon. Meanwhile, the BBC Prime satellite network, carried in Europe, Asia and Africa, has announced on its FAQ page that it will not be carrying the show, nor any reruns of classic episodes. And while there's no confirmation of this whatsoever, Outpost Gallifrey has been told by a source to be on the lookout for some sort of possible announcement about an American broadcaster in early April -- could there be hope on the horizon for the US? Stay tuned! (Thanks to John Wilkins for the BBC Prime info)




FILTER: - Series 1/27 - Broadcasting

BBC Online Confirms Date

Wednesday, 9 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
The official Doctor Who website now confirms that the first episode of the new Doctor Who series will air Saturday, March 26 at 7:00pm; they've got a countdown clock on the front page counting down until the time it's on.




FILTER: - Online - Series 1/27 - Broadcasting

ALERT: Broadcast Times for New Series Trailers

Tuesday, 8 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
According to Steve Roberts of the Doctor Who Restoration Team: "We've just been given the OK to tell you that the first trail for the new series will be tonight at 7.29pm, just before Eastenders. There will be four peak time trails tonight on BBC1 including this one and two on BBC2." The following is a list of the actual times expected for each trailer (with thanks to Steve Roberts and "peterawl")

Mini Trailer 1 on BBC1 at 19:29, 20:00, 20:58, 21:58

Mini Trailer 2 on BBC2 at 22:30. (6 seconds inside console room)

Mini Trailer 3 on BBC2 at 23:52




FILTER: - Series 1/27 - Broadcasting

March 26 Date Announced on "Front Row"

Monday, 7 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
Tonight's edition of BBC Radio 4's "Front Row" announced that the date of transmission is Saturday, March 26 at 7:00pm in the UK, this after an interview with Russell T Davies about the new series. At the moment, there is still no official word from BBC1, but their radio announcers certainly are being kept up to date, and it was explained fairly matter of factly at the end of the interview that the show would be airing at that time and on that date. This should be as good an indicator that March 26 is the date to expect the new series, despite 'official' word from the broadcaster.




FILTER: - Radio - Press - Broadcasting