Introduction to Nightmare in Silver - Doctor Who Series 7 Part 2 (2013) - BBC One

Matt Smith and Neil Gaiman, the episode’s writer, introduce Nightmare in Silver.

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There were so many questions for our ‘The Doctor Who Tumblr Asked For My Autograph’ Poster Project that we decided to put together a VFAQ

• Question: HELP! My submission isn’t showing up on the ‘the doctor who tumblr asked for my autograph’ tag! What should I do?
• Answer: **SUPER IMPORTANT SO WE’RE PUTTING THIS ONE FIRST** We just set up this Google Form for accepting submissions. Everybody should submit their “autograph” link to the tag but you should submit it through this link as well: http://bit.ly/15RHIXe
• Question: What’s the deadline for submissions?
• Answer: End of day May 17 although we’re going to be flexible on that.
• Question: Are you taking every single submission?
• Answer: Yes. But we’re only taking one post per URL.
• Question: Why are you reblogging some posts from the tag?
• Answer: We’re reblogging random posts off of the tag in order to give people an idea of what kind of posts are being submitted.
• Question: Can we submit more than one post?
• Answer: If you submit more than one then we will pick one of your submissions at random.
• Question: If we share a blog, can we submit more than one post?
• Answer: Yes but put them in a single photoset.
• Question: Can I submit a gif/gifset?
• Answer: Sure but it won’t be animated in the poster so take that under consideration.
• Question: Can you send in fan art that doesn’t have your face in it?
• Answer: Sure! Do whatever feels comfortable to you!
• Question: Can I submit something I’ve already posted on tumblr before but add my ‘autograph’?
• Answer: Yes but be sure to do it as a new post to your blog.
• Question: Where are you going to put this poster?
• Answer: The current plan is to post it on a wall in the BBC America office so that every time Matt, Jenna, Steven, the crew, the writers, the BBC and BBC America staff, and visitors can see how great the Doctor Who fandom is on Tumblr.
• Question: Can I get a copy of the poster?
• Answer: Our current plan is to make the file available for download (.jpg and .psd)
• Question: Is there anything that would keep you from using our post?
• Answer: Yeah — if your post is deemed inappropriate or disrespectful then it won’t be added to the collage.
• Question: For the poster project, does it include fans from anywhere or just the U.S. as it’s the BBC America blog and will be displayed there?
• Answer: Anybody can participate!
• Question: I a big Doctor Who fan and I blog/reblog Doctor Who stuff BUT technically I’m a Multi fandom blog. Do you still want my autograph?
• Answer: Yes! Fandom blog, multi-fandom blog, personal blog, school blog, whatever.
• Question: I’m new to Doctor Who. Can I participate?
• Answer: If you follow the Doctor Who Tumblr, read the Doctor Who Tumblr, like or reblog posts through the Doctor Who Tumblr, have been reblogged by the Doctor Who Tumblr, have watched 796 episodes or just one.. we appreciate ALL of you so the answer is YES! (Also: welcome to the fandom!)
• Question: Will you accept a cosplay picture? Even genderbent?
• Answer: Definitely!
• Question: I’ve got a handmade [insert Doctor Who thing here], would that work for the fan-art thing?
• Answer: Yes! We believe that art is however you choose to express yourself as a fan. If you express yourself through handmade things then thank you for that.

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Doctor Who finale prequel starring Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman to screen via BBC Red Button | Radio Times

Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman will star in a special mini episode of Doctor Who – a prequel to the series seven finale – available to watch via the BBC’s interactive (UK-only) Red Button service.

Shot in a dreamlike style and set in a dusty old museum, He Said, She Said will see the Doctor and companion Clara talking directly to camera as they reflect on how little they really know about one another.

The three-minute prequel will first become available to watch following the penultimate episode of Doctor Who series seven on Saturday 11 May. Viewers will be able to access it between 7:40pm and 12 midnight by pressing the red button on their remote controls and selecting Doctor Who. They can then watch it again each evening right up until the final episode airs on Saturday 18 May on BBC1 – and the Doctor and Clara’s secrets are finally revealed…

It’s times like these I wish I lived in the UK. :/

Update: The clip will also be available outside of the UK via the BBC America YouTube channel.

We’ll post it to this blog as soon as it goes live.

Cyberman Attack! - Nightmare in Silver: preview - Doctor Who Series 7 Part 2 (2013) - BBC

The Doctor faces one of his oldest and deadliest enemies as a Cyberman attacks!

Watch Nightmare in Silver, the new Doctor Who adventure, on BBC One on Saturday 11th May at 7pm, and on:

Saturday 11th May
BBC America — 8/7c
Space (Canada) — 8/5e

Sunday 12th May
ABC (Australia) — 7.30pm
BBC Entertainment (South Africa) — 7pm
BBC Entertainment (Poland) — 6pm

Watch the first preview clip here.

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The Cyber Wars - Preview clip from Nightmare in Silver - Doctor Who Series 7 Part 2 (2013)

Clara learns the terrible truth about the Cyber wars.

The Doctor faces new, even deadlier Cybermen in this action-packed episode by Neil Gaiman. Watch Nightmare in Silver, the new Doctor Who adventure, on BBC One on Saturday 11th May at 7pm, and on:

Saturday 11th May
BBC America — 8/7c
Space (Canada) — 8/5e

Sunday 12th May
ABC (Australia) — 7.30pm
BBC Entertainment (South Africa) — 7pm
BBC Entertainment (Poland) — 6pm

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During our last contest giving away our autographed poster from Doctor Who, many of you sent us messages of concern that we were giving up our favorite part of the Doctor Who Tumblr office.

That was so cool and sweet and completely unexpected.

And it got us thinking — what could we put in its place?

And that’s when we realized… we want a new set of autographs. YOUR autographs.

Make a fan sign, a new piece of fan art, a selfie with your sonic, with your TARDIS, with your friends, in cosplay, not in cosplay — whatever you want with your Tumblr url (and a short message if you’d like.)

Post it to your blog using the tag ‘the doctor who tumblr asked for my autograph’.

And just to make sure that we receive your post, you can also submit it through this form: http://bit.ly/15RHIXe

We’re going to grab the images off of this tag (one per blog) and use them to create a ginormous poster that we’ll put on our wall.

A few tips: keep your message short, use a thick marker or crayon to ensure that it shows up when printed (we think each image will be about the size of a 3x5 index card), and use good lighting so that we can see your face (a simple desk or table lamp should do.)

We anticipate being able to assemble and print this out the weekend of the Doctor Who Series 7 finale but we may push that deadline back if there’s good reason to.

We want EVERYBODY who works on the show who walks through the doors of BBC America to see how much love there is for this show and for this fandom.

And thank you!!! We can’t wait to see our new poster!!!

The poster art for Doctor Who: Nightmare in Silver

Find a high res version in our imgur gallery.

Jenna Coleman’s Clara is right in time with ‘Doctor Who’ interview with Los Angeles Times

“Doctor Who” star Jenna Coleman has been warned. She knows that two months from now, fans at Comic-Con International in San Diego will line up in the thousands, camping overnight outside the city’s convention center to secure seats for the annual panel devoted to the BBC TV sensation. Many will wield sonic screwdrivers or wear Dalek costumes, and more than a few will come dressed as Coleman’s character, Clara.

But back in March, the hype hadn’t caught up with her.

“Everyone wants to know, ‘Has your life changed since joining the show?’” Coleman said over a lunch of baby beets and tangerine at downtown Los Angeles’ Lazy Ox Canteen. “And I’m like, ‘No, not really.’ I just go to Cardiff, and I do mad things and experience mad stuff on set, and then I come back to my London life, which suddenly seems more boring because I’ve been blasting Cybermen.”

There’s also a gallery of pics including the one above.

The first preivew images from Doctor Who: Nightmare in Silver

Neil Gaiman sets up A Nightmare in Silver

• Radio Times:
  Neil, could you give us a non-spoilery encapsulation of the story?
• Neil Gaiman:
  Easily! It just stops at about minute three. The Doctor has been talked by Clara into taking the two kids she looks after, Artie and Angie, for an excursion, a day out, and he decides to take them to Hedgewick’s World, the biggest, best and most wonderful amusement park in the galaxy, a quarter of a million years in the future, because he has a golden ticket and it gets four people in for free, gets you free ice creams and it gets you to the front of any line, which is great because the lines for the Spacey Zoomer can go on for weeks. And that’s where it starts. Unfortunately, it also starts with them discovering that Hedgewick’s World has been closed for several years and there’s almost nobody on it now except for a small army troop on manoeuvres and a mad old showman named Mr Webley who landed his spaceship there after it closed and is now there with a Cyberman that plays chess. That’s where it begins. This is also 1,000 years after the end of the big human/Cyberman war – where we won.

Behind the Scenes of The Crimson Horror - Doctor Who Series 7 Part 2 (2013)

If you’ve seen the episode, definitely check this one out. It’s very good.

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Hi there you wonderful person you!

This is your Saturday afternoon announcement that we will be livetumblring tonight’s 8pm ET BBC America Premiere of Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror.

We’ll be online from 8/7c until the end of the broadcast to reblog your gifs and fan art and reactions off of the ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘The Crimson Horror’ tags on Tumblr.

For those of you who have never been to a livetumblring before, it’s where we post moments from the episode to the blog just as they’re happening on the broadcast.

And we’re sorry, we’re so sorry but because we’re livetumblring in real time — there is no way for us to avoid posting spoilers.

If you’re going to be liveposting (or if you’ll be watching the episode in the UK) be sure to tag your posts ‘spoilers’. We’ll be using the tags ‘spoilers’ ‘dw spoilers’ and ‘The Crimson Horror’ so install Tumblr Savior if you can.

If you’re browsing your dashboard on your mobile or if you don’t understand the Tumblr Savior stuff, you can also unfollow us and then refollow us after the episode. Or whatever makes sense for you. It’s your dashboard.

After the episode, stay tuned for a new episode of Orphan Black on BBC America and Space Channel at 9p EDT. And at 10p, BBC America is airing a new episode of The Nerdist.

Meanwhile, we’ll be posting behind the scenes clips and production galleries of today’s show along with trailers for next Saturday’s all new episode of Doctor Who.

So we highly suggest that you stay put because tonight we’ll get to see the return of three of our favorite characters, Madame Vastra, Jenny, and Strax!

And we should remind you that we have a contest this weekend to win our autographed poster from Doctor Who: The Snowmen…

… this is probably our favorite thing in the Doctor Who Tumblr office and we’re giving it away… but we wanted to make sure that went to a good home so…

… to win this poster you must do something nice for someone and then post about it. Deadline is 8pm EDT tonight. See all the details here.

So get cozy and comfortable and we’ll see you at 8/7c for tonight’s all new episode of Doctor Who!

As we mentioned yesterday, we’re giving away our autographed poster from Doctor Who: The Snowmen.

It’s signed by Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Steven Moffat, and Caro Skinner.

To win it, you need to do something nice for somebody you know
on Tumblr or in real life. (Don’t tell them what it’s for. Just do the nice thing.)

1. Post something to your blog explaining or showing what you did and how they reacted.

2. Tag it: “it’s nice to do something nice for someone”

3. Do the nice thing and post about it by Saturday, 8pm EDT.

We’ll pick a post off of this tag at random to win the poster.

This giveaway is only open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States including the District of Columbia. (We tried opening this up to users beyond the US but there is no way to. Sorry.) Read all of the official terms and conditions here.

If you win and you are under 18, you will need a parent or guardian to sign for you.

Now go do something nice for somebody you know.

And good luck!

So we think we’re going to give away our signed poster from The Snowmen tomorrow…

No wait — we don’t think we’re going to do it. We know we’re going to do it.

UPDATE: the contest post is live!

So we’re going to give away a big poster from The Snowmen signed by Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Steven Moffat, and Caro Skinner tomorrow, Friday.

It’s our prized possession. If we were standing in the market at the Rings of Akhaten, it would be imprinted with the memory of the day they signed it.

We’re not sure what the contest is going to be exactly, but it will probably require you to do something nice for a Whovian friend you admire. The winner will get the poster and the friend will get a prize.

We’re still working out the details.

Expect a post around noon EDT tomorrow. Don’t worry about seeing it then as it won’t close until the 8pm EDT broadcast of Doctor Who on BBC America.

Dear hiddlebear,

For some reason Tumblr won’t let us answer your question directly so we made this post instead.

With love and sincerity,

- doctorwho.tumblr.com

btw, if you haven’t seen the video of Matt and Karen performing the Doctor Who theme song, watch it here. If you haven’t read Matt and Jenna answering questions on Tumblr, read them here.