BBC America has started airing their own trailer for the new series of Doctor Who, featuring Matt Smith as the eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond. This new trailer includes new footage not seen in the recently released BBC trailer, so more freeze-frame fun for us fans to over analyze the footage to tide us over until the series begins in April.
From the voice over:
“The Universe is vast and complicated. Sometimes, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
New Doctor Who series producer Steven Moffat had a chat with the folks on BBC Breakfast this morning about the new series and has a few words to say to calm the fears of fans who are worried the new Doctor can’t be as good as the old one.
Moffat also talks about some of the returning monsters we’ll see this series, including the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Weeping Angels, and confirms the long-standing rumor that the reptilians you see in the first trailer are indeed the Silurians. Read full Video: Steven Moffat Talks New Doctor Who Series & Matt Smith...(120 words, 10 images, estimated 29 secs reading time)
The new Doctor Who Series 5 (or 31, depending on how you’re counting) trailer which was revealed at the end of yesterday’s the Eleventh Hour premiere in Cardiff has made it onto YouTube. It features a voice-over from new companion Amy Pond which leads into a voice over from the Doctor.
There’s a montage of highlights from the new series including Daleks, a space dogfight, “Pete’s World” Cybermen, and another worrying shot of the Doctor holding a gun. I’ve added the video below, as well as a video of the 30 second scene from the beginning of The Eleventh Hour below that. Read full Video – New Doctor Who Trailer For Series 5...(221 words, 10 images, estimated 53 secs reading time)
Very exciting: the first episode of Matt Smith’s first series of Doctor Who has premiered in Wales at a BBC press launch today, March 18th. A number of clips from the premiere (or related to it) have been posted to YouTube already and I’ve gathered several here for you to view.
Warning: contains minor spoilers for the episode and the new series, but probably nothing you haven’t heard already.
First, a short intro interview with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, leading straight into a short clip of the new Doctor in action in “The Eleventh Hour”:
The Guardian has posted an interesting interview with Matt Smith on their website a few days ago which is well worth reading. This is the first extensive interview with Matt Smith I’ve seen online and gives a few tantalizing looks into how he will be playing the eleventh Doctor.
I’ve had a really good feeling about Matt Smith as the Doctor since first seeing “The Eleventh Doctor” confidential last year (see video below), and this interview as well as the interview with Steven Moffat in the March 2010 issue of Doctor Who Magazine are leaving me very eager to see the new series. Read full Interview With Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith During Filming for His First Series...(146 words, 10 images, estimated 35 secs reading time)
As I mentioned in my last post, since I wasn’t able to attend the recent Gallifrey One Doctor Who convention in LA, I’m living vicariously by posting some of the great videos which Doctor Who fans at the con have been sharing with the world.
The latest two are recordings of videos they played on the convention screens, so the picture and sound quality isn’t the best. The first one is a greeting from new showrunner Steven Moffat to the fans attending the convention — this one was shared almost immediately online, unlike the second one. (Note: the first video is a Flickr video and won’t work without Flash, unfortunately. It was the only copy of the video I could find after a pretty exhaustive search) Read full Peter Davison and Steven Moffat Videos From Gallifrey One 2010...(225 words, 10 images, estimated 54 secs reading time)
During the Gallifrey One convention held in Los Angeles in February of 2010, I was following the Gally discussion via the TARDIS Databanks Twitter account and noticed a lot of mentions of this Doctor Who sketch put on during the masquerade.
I also heard a lot of people praising this guy throughout the weekend on his spectacular Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart costume which you see featured during the skit.
Check out the full (and very funny) skit “The Unsung Hero” from the Gallifrey One Doctor Who convention in February 2010:
I wasn’t able to make it to this year’s Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, but I lived vicariously and somewhat enviously through people tweeting during the convention weekend.
I decided I’d collect some of the videos from the con here on the TARDIS Databanks so some of the best are gathered in one place and help others live vicariously too.
To get the ball rolling, I thought I’d share a few videos of a fan-made Dalek that was roaming the halls of the LAX Mariott. I’d love to have seen the thing up close (heck, I’d love to OWN the thing!) – it looks amazing from the videos. And clearly, the fan operating it was having a blast, too. Read full 5 Gallifrey One Dalek Videos...(136 words, 10 images, estimated 33 secs reading time)
Rich has posted the latest page from his ongoing Third Doctor story "The Stalker of Norfolk".
I've been enjoying Rich's work since discovering The Ten Doctors comic strip a couple of years ago. He's clearly a big Doctor Who fan and he does a great job of capturing the different Doctors look and personalities.
Use the link below to view part 28 of The Stalker of Norfolk.
Rich has posted the latest page from his ongoing Third Doctor story "The Stalker of Norfolk".
I've been enjoying Rich's work since discovering The Ten Doctors comic strip a couple of years ago. He's clearly a big Doctor Who fan and he does a great job of capturing the different Doctors look and personalities.
Use the link below to view part 28 of The Stalker of Norfolk.
