Something is happening, important to the authors, and it will be used by every reader! Either we have;

1) Pictures of Karen Gillan naked, or
2) Pictures of Colin Baker naked, or
3) Something so secret, 10 and PCJ had to kill me so I didn't say?

*Incredibly Dramatic Countdown over*

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"Great two parter. Scary and exciting in equal measure. New trailer too. With Cybermen, more fighting with Amy. Extra pirate stuff..."

"BTW so many things happen in two episodes. Try and stay spoiler free. So much stuff can be given away that will lessen enjoyment of ep."

"Very strong eps, american stuff looks great. New monster(s) very terrifying. Story poses lots of questions, some of which not yet answered."

"In new trailer Amy fighting roboty looking things that look slightly like the ones in I Robot. And the Dr says 'Yo ho ho' in the Pirate bit."

"Episode 6 has biggest cliff hanger says [Steven Moffat] bigger than 7!"

"Matt says they read Ep 6 and all said OMG when they reached end!"

"The Silence Will Fall storyline will cover all 13 eps says Steven."

"Alex Kingston says weirdest theory she's heard about who River is is that River's the Doctor."

"Matt says The Doctor isn't a part he's planning on giving up [anytime] soon."

"And [Steven Moffat] has asked press and audience not to give away major spoilers, and one in particular. Gets round of applause!"

"Re 50th anniversary [Steven Moffat] says 'yes, there are thoughts'. But says nothing more than that."

April 23rd: It begins.

He's just as excited as you are.

"Matt talks a bit about his hopes for DW's 50th anniversary in 2013. Steven reveals another episode title... Does that count as a spoiler?"

"Ok. Will tweet in one min, so look away if you don't want to know. (I think it's a new one, but for all I know everyone's known for months."

And there you have it.

"You will move ahead of us and follow my directions. This way. Immediately!"

This picture raises an interesting question: how different are the new Daleks from the original? Could you see them used interchangeably?

"The Dalicks part 1" was created by Marc137.

Nothing special :( Thanks for the Heads Up 10!

He can travel though space and time... so going out with Doctor Who is bound to play havoc with your internal body clock. And loved-up supermodel Daisy Lowe confirms that time has actually ACCELERATED while she’s been actor Matt Smith’s lover.

She says: “It’s our one-year anniversary next week, and it’s flown by, which is a good sign.”

. . . The 22-year-old says: “We hardly see each other because he works from six in the morning to eight in the evening in Cardiff during the week. So at the weekend I go and surprise him where he is staying. I give him long massages or whatever he likes because you’ve got to keep the romance alive. . . .

“I’m like the perfect girlfriend when I see him,” Daisy went on. “I cook for him, clean for him, I do everything.

“I’m getting really good now. I make him a lovely roast on a Sunday, which he really enjoys, and a nice Jamie Oliver one-minute steak stir-fry.

“And Matt loves my curves too – he loves the exotic look.”

. . . She says: “When he’s not filming he’s learning lines. He’s so into it. He loves it.

“I didn’t watch Doctor Who before, but now I do love a Dalek. I watched the first episode he was in, and then the next week I met him at Coachella festival in California and we’re still together.”

Sylvester McCoy is so mean, he coats hard boiled sweets with epoxy resin, to make them last longer.

"Death Is Not an Option"

Looks like Mickey, right? Nope. It's Rex.

What classic Torchwood!

Classy.

Poor Rhys . . .

"Season Three was transmitting on BBC One around the time that I moved to Los Angeles to work at BBC Worldwide Productions. Russell T Davies had also moved there and was looking for new challenges and wanted to try for a US career. [Seeing how well it did in the US, we thought) maybe there was another chapter of Torchwood to be told. And very happily we were able to see the title to Starz."

The pillars of the show are actually the same. But I think the difference is that because of the quality of the co-production partnership between Starz and the BBC, we have an opportunity to tell a big story over ten episodes. The fact that we are transmitting on a pay premium cable channel means that we have to compete production-value wise in that environment. We're filming at the moment and from what I have seen so far we are able to do that.

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There's this utterly insane rumor going around that Paul McGann is "very likely" going to make an appearance as the Eighth Doctor in the upcoming series. Much as I would love to see a return appearance by his Doctor - and I still hold out some hope this will happen in a fiftieth anniversary special in 2013 - this rumor is completely bonkers, patently untrue, and doesn't make even the slightest bit of sense. 

The main evidence for this seems to be the fact that the latest trailer appears to feature the previous console room - the one used by the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, and not the Eighth, just so we're clear about how ridiculous this entire thing is - and the fact that the Doctor mentions the Time War, which was most likely fought by the Eighth Doctor. This of course will be like all the previous times the Doctor mentioned the Time War in the new series, and every time we then cut to a flashback of Paul McGann...or, you know, nothing even remotely like that ever happened. And I thought the David Tennant rumor was ridiculous...

SFX have some Doctor Who location photographs, we have seen some before though!

Its the Doctor verus the Nazis, as filiming took place for series six saw the crew back at Cardiff’s Temple Of Peace again (previously used for “The End Of The World”, “Gridlock”, “The Fires Of Pompeii” and “Cold Blood”). And if the story is set in World War II, then it looks like Amy has certainly been using some gravy browning to create that authentic stockings appearance...

See them here.

First, if you don't know what I'm talking about, check out the covers of the new DWM, here.

Steven Moffat tells this months Doctor Who Magazine - We're not lying, we're not cheating, one of those four people is going to die! When I came up with this heart-wrenching twist, I thought "We'll kill off one of the leads in the season opener." It lures you in.

So lets look at the facts so far;

River Song died in Series 4.
The Doctor ceases to exist in Series 5.
Rory dies in Series 5.
Amy died in Series 5.

But as we all know, time can be rewritten, so the Doctor is the only one who hasn't actually died recently (yeah, I remember Turn Left). But its his series, and if hes dying, he is also coming back as he is in the rest of series 6.

In my eyes it has to be River Song, killing her will mess up the time lines, and the Doctor will probably need a little more than a large Elastoplast to put things right, perhaps time lines messing up are the rise of the Silence? Who knows. But River is in the later episodes, as is everyone, so what is happening?

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"...There is no doubt he was the most loved by fans..." —Tom Baker

The next Doctor Who Bar Session will be a very special for all of us. 'Remembering Nicholas' Celebrates the Life and Joy of the wondeful Nicholas Courtney who sadly passed away on 22nd February this year. Nicholas played the reaccuring great that is Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart In over 100 episodes. 'Five Rounds Rapid' was The Brig's Most famous line as the Chief of UNIT whose job was to Protect Earth from Attack. . . . 

So to Celebrate the Wonderful character played by Nicholas Courtney we bring you another Doctor Who Bar special - Remembering Nicholas. 

Over the next week we'll be bringing you our favourite memories of Nicholas, Some special tributes and lots more. On Saturday (9th April) we will be watching one 'Brig' story to celebrate his commitment to Doctor Who and to show what a great Actor and man he was. So please give us your Brig story suggestions from Early episodes to the recent Sarah Jane Adventures episodes, The Enemy of the Bane. we will be making a list of your comments and then putting them into a poll soon.

And we saw two clips. One from the first two-parter, in which Mark Sheppard's character, Delaware, is drinking in a bar when he gets recruited for a government mission. Delaware has left the FBI but President Nixon wants him for a secret mission. "You were my second choice for this mission," Nixon tells Delaware. "That's all right," Delaware replies. "You were my second choice for president." And meanwhile, in the TARDIS, River Song is telling the Doctor and friends about Delaware and his mission. 

Rory in the old TARDIS

And the second clip was from Neil Gaiman's episode, "The Doctor's Wife." The Doctor, Amy and Rory are on the spaceship graveyard planet, meeting a group of four or five people — including an Ood. Amy is alarmed by the Ood, but the Doctor tells her not to be scared. The Ood has a broken speech globe, but the Doctor repairs it — at which point, a babble of weird voices comes out until it shuts off. 

The Doctor is incredibly freaked out, and starts asking who else is there. Just The Room, explains the older woman in the group of natives. They're inside the Room and standing on it — the whole planet is The Room. The Doctor can meet The Room if he likes. The Doctor is very eager to do so — and Amy asks what those voices were. "Time Lords," the Doctor explains. Near here someplace, there are "lots and lots of Time Lords."

"Nixon is scary. Talk about Steven writing monsters."

The Junkyard spaceship world

"It's called "The Doctor's Wife"... It's episode four. It was going to be episode eleven of the last season. But I got a sad email as they started shooting the last season, when they got up to the point where they were going to be shooting my episode. It said, "We've run out of money, so we're going to be shooting "The Lodger" instead because we can shoot that in a flat around the corner. And we can't make your episode in the flat around the corner.

"[Once filming did happen] . . . They took other other episodes in the bike-shed around back and beat them up and took their money.

"Rory didn't exist [in the earlier Series 5 draft], and that was during Rory's transient non-existent bit, so suddenly getting Rory back meant I had to do a draft of the script that was actually more fun. I was so grumpy at having to write a new draft, and then I discovered I could write these great lines for Rory, and Rory and Amy together."

"Amy tells Rory off for leaving the Doctor on his own, and Rory says, 'Well, he's a Time Lord, he'll be fine." And she looks at Rory wit infinite compassion and says, 'Rory, it's just what they're called. it doesn't mean he actually knows what he's doing.'"

Gaiman said the character of Idris in his episode "might possibly be an old acquaintance with a new face." He raved about the fact that "they never tried to rein me in," even though he had a "mad idea for a story." But he did face budgetary and time constraints that he wouldn't face when writing comics or novels. 

He wanted his episode to start as if it were in the middle of a totally different episode, where Amy and the Doctor have been captured. He wanted it to be like the Simpsons, where you think it's going in one direction and then it changes course. They got as far as making costumes for that scene, and did it in the read-through, but it had to be cut at the last minute because they didn't have enough time in the filming schedule. But then he realized it probably would have been cut down for timing reasons anyway.

"Before I ever discovered the Egyptian or the Greek or the Norse or the Aztec mythology, I knew what a Dalek was. I could tell you what the initials for TARDIS stood for, back then. I used to worry about red Daleks, because I had a copy of Dalek World, which was one of these annuals... and it would talk in there about the fact that Daleks couldn't see the color red... and there were these red Daleks, and I had this vision of the Daleks going, 'What was that? I just saw these bumps floating past.' I had this huge body of knowledge to draw on when I started writing my episode."

". . . [Matt] brought [the lines I wrote] in deeper and sometimes funnier and definitely odder than I ever believed in. . . . [He brings] the idea that the central entity and the body are two very different things."

"This may be my own opportunity to ever write an episode of Doctor Who so I’m going to put everything I’ve ever loved about Doctor Who into this one episode. And the whole of Doctor Who began in a junkyard. So I thought, let’s start it in a junkyard.

"But you've got to look behind you!"

"I got to put everything into the episode that I love about Doctor Who. I got to put funny stuff, and scary stuff, and exciting stuff, and heartbreaking stuff and running down corridors. All of these things are in there."

The writer of "The Doctor's Wife" also admitted that K-9 was not one of things he's loved about Doctor Who. He additionally referred to his episode as being "almost River-free". But, wait, "almost" . . .?

What does it take to market a cellphone in Japan these days? Try an immense xylophone contraption that slowly plays out Jesu, Joy of Man's Desire in the middle of a large, mossy wood.

Images from the Nazi filming on Doctor Who Episode Eight have continued surfacing. My personal favorite is this one, found on Doctor Who Spoilers, with Rory overly saluting a German guard before punching him in the face. Meanwhile, Amy has the sonic screwdriver in her pocket. So just where is the Doctor? Matt has only filmed a handful of scenes here.

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WE SHALL TRANS-FER THESE CON-FEC-TION-A-RY TREATS!

Source credit and massive thanks go out to Who Fix.

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And there are a lot more of the same here.

There are four different covers this issue, if you only intend to buy one magazine, and want a collectable one, I suspect the Rory cover will end up the rarest!

We talked about this earlier today, here.

Nixon in the Oval Office.

This is from WonderCon yesterday, snapped during a tech rehearsal. It clearly shows Nixon in "that" scene we learned about.

And here are two banners, tweeted here and here.

Outside of WonderCon.

Inside of WonderCon.

Keep up with more at BBC America's Twitter account.

My favourite cover.

Doctor Who Magazine has exclusively revealed that the latest covers—emphasis on the plural—will be released very soon. We'll have them soon after they're up, of course. But what can we expect? Let's turn to DWMtweets.
First came the announcement.

"A warning: Very soon, we'll be revealing the covers. If you literally want to know NOTHING about the new series... well, you've been warned."

Then came the questions.

"Hmmm, we can't really say how much of a spoiler this spoiler is. It depends on your definition. What can we say? It's a *possible* spoiler."

And the questions kept coming . . .

"However, people are bound to be talking about this tomorrow [now today] – so, well, we've tried to warn you now! Don't be cross when we tweet tomorrow!"

And they kept coming . . .

"Not saying anything more tonight, and we know not everyone will see these warnings... but we've done our best... Goodnight for now!"

And they were still being fired out!

"Oh, blimey, stop asking us exactly how spoilery it is! It gives SOMETHING away, okay? Something you might not want to know... yet."

At least UpperClassTwitr had an intelligible question.

"can you at least say if it's anything to do with the title of episode 4?"

. . . To which DWM intelligibly but succinctly answered.

"No, it isn't."

So check back here today (probably) for the latest Doctor Who Magazine covers, if they're not already up at the time of posting this (probably not).

I went to see an old neighbour in hospital yesterday afternoon, he knows I am a Doctor Who fan and he asked about the blog, then went on to tell me this interesting story...

John Alderton was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (my original home town) but grew up in Hull, my friend Tom grew up with John Alderton in Hull and was his friend, but hasn't seen him for many years, he recalls going for a drink with him in Gainsborough at the Jack and Jill pub in the 1980s, and remembers this story from the 1970s he told him, as Tom was always a Doctor Who fan, and is sure he has seen every episode on its original transmission!

I have filled in some facts, based on what Tom has told me - In late 1973 (after John Alderton appeared in Upstairs Downstairs), and after Tom had seen a Dalek story on TV (Planet of the Daleks), John Alderton was approached by someone he knew called David (probably director David Maloney) looking for someone to play a currently unnamed navy Doctor, who was to be a bit of a buffoon (Toms words), and hopefully become a semi-regular character.

John Alderton said he never turned it down, but it was only a chat, and told David he'd think about it. The part eventually became Harry Sullivan and was played by the late Ian Marter, John Alderton heard nothing more about the part.

Its certainly an interesting story, and I can see John in the part, but I think it went to the right actor.

A photoshoot for the 1973 10th anniversary Radio Times special.

Source credit and massive thanks go out to Who Fix!

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In The Lodger, The Doctor introduces himself to the alien timeship as Captain Troy Handsome of International Rescue. Please state the nature of your emergency, referencing both (Thunderbirds International Rescue is the name of their organisation) and Star Trek Voyager (Please state the nature of your medical emergency is the first thing Voyagers Emergency Medical Hologram.