“You know what’s another great thing about Doctor Who? Its own official tumblr, which has always been a spot of joy in this fandom.”
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Karen Gillan’s Dalek impersonation
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Doctor Who has been recognised with three nominations for this year’s BAFTA Cymru Film, Television and Interactive Media Awards.
The prestigious nominations came in the categories of Television Drama and Sound with the Adventure Game, Doctor Who: The Gunpowder Plot nominated in the Digital Creativity and Games section. And we’re delighted that The Sarah Jane Adventures has been nominated in the Children’s Programme category.
The winners will be announced at the BAFTA Cymru Awards on Sunday, 30 September 2012 at the Wales Millennium Centre. Good luck to all our nominees!
So be careful. The internets will be full of spoilers.
And we PROMISE you, this is one that you’ll want to know nothing about before watching it.
In this new video, Doctor Who’s head writer and Executive Producer, Steven Moffat, discusses the Daleks, talking about their weaknesses and how he wanted to make them scarier than ever in their new adventure.
For those of you who may have missed our post about this weekend’s season premiere of Doctor Who Series 7, we’ve constructed this handy dandy click-and-drag game to tell you where you should watch “Asylum of the Daleks” and when.
Click on each gif and drag it in order to find out when you’ll be watching this weekend’s premiere, who you will watch it with, what character you will cosplay as, and what you will post to Tumblr about it.
Of course, this game is not valid in all territories and if it determines that you should travel three continents just to see the premiere, we suggest taking it less as a directive and more as a modest suggestion.
Of course, if you want all of the Doctor Who Series 7 premiere info now, you could just click through to the Series 7 Premiere Date Superpost instead.
Cheers.
From the Doctor Who Blog:
Pond Life is the new mini-adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy, Rory and some surprise familiar faces! It picks up the story of the Ponds and follows their lives in the way that only Doctor Who can, culminating in a cliff-hanger that leads us into Asylum of the Daleks.
Directed by Saul Metzstein (Dinosaurs on Spaceship/A Town Called Mercy), the first part of Pond Life will premiere on the BBC Doctor Who site at noon (UK time) on Monday (27 August). Part 2 – 5 will be released daily at noon throughout the rest of the week and the omnibus edition will be available online and on the BBC’s Red Button on Saturday, 1 September – the day that the new series returns with Asylum of the Daleks!
Pond Life’s writer, Chris Chibnall (42, The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood) commented, ‘It opens with the Ponds at home and gives us an insight in to just what happens when the Doctor drops in and out of their lives,’ and Caroline Skinner, Executive Producer, described it as ‘beautiful, heartfelt and wickedly funny… a truly heart-warming piece about our best-loved companions and their madcap relationship with their raggedy Doctor.’
In the video above, Executive Producers Steven Moffat and Caro Skinner discuss Pond Life and you can watch Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill introducing the mini-adventure now!
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Here’s everything that happened today.
The broadcast premiere of Doctor Who Series 7 was announced in the UK to be Saturday, September 1 at 7:20p:
Followed by an announcement by BBC America stating a start date of Saturday, September 1 at 9/8c:
The Canadian broadcast premiere was also revealed to be September 1, 2012 at 9p ET on SPACE.
The Australian premiere will on September 8th at 7:30p on ABC1. Australia also gets a repeat airdate Tuesdays at 9:30p on ABC2. UPDATE: Aussies can watch Doctor Who online via iview the same weekend as the UK and the US!
The BBC America Tumblr made the announcement via a gif:
The first trailer with the new airdate went up on the BBC America YouTube channel:
The UK announced a 5-part Doctor Who prequel focusing on the life of The Ponds to debut Monday, August 27th. It is titled “Pond Life”.
We have yet to recover.
The UK also posted a video of Karen and Arthur setting up Pond Life. The also seem to have an idea for a theme song.
And lastly, for those in the NYC area, BBC America is giving away tickets to the Saturday US premiere screening of Doctor Who Series 7: Asylum of the Daleks. Click through to enter. The screening is to be followed immediately by a Q&A with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Executive Producer Caro Skinner.
So that’s it. If you take nothing else away from this post let it be that the premiere of Doctor Who Series 7 IS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!
We’ll have more news in the coming days so be sure to follow the Doctor Who Tumblr — YOU WILL DASH IT ON YOUR LOVEBOARD!!!
From the BBC America trailer for Doctor Who Series 7.
Promo shot from Doctor Who Series 7
Most of these images you have probably seen if you’ve watched the Doctor Who Series 7 Launch Trailer but they’ve just been released embiggened by the BBC.
There are more images posted to the Doctor Who Tumblr so come by to see the rest.
When Steven Moffat said that each episode would feel like a mini movie, he wasn’t kidding.
Download a desktop image-worthy shot of it here.
If you’re clever (and we know you are) you may figure out what’s going on in these temptingly awesome yet spoilery pics from the first three episodes of Doctor Who Series 7.
We’ve hidden them behind a ‘Read More’ so click through if you’d like to see them.
If you’d like to see the other new photos released today including the main art of The Doctor, Amy, and Rory from Series 7 Episode 1 and the amazing movie-like poster image for Asylum of The Daleks, visit the Doctor Who Tumblr page.
