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The Day of the Doctor Trailer Available Online! (Updated) [VIDEO]

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

I was disturbed last night by the news that one of the trailers for The Day of the Doctor has been leaked online; and I use the word “disturbed” in both senses. Surely a better hold could have been kept onto these trailers in Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary year?

Ah well, who knows how the BBC works?

So, in summary: one of the two reported trailers appeared online late Friday evening with Spanish (forgive me if it’s Portuguese!) voiceover and captions accompanying the very English dialogue of Matt Smith, John Hurt, Billie Piper, Jenna Coleman and more. Since then, the trailer has been officially published on the BBC’s official website.

And it is jaw-droppingly impressive.

Among the shocking scenes are this very spoilery image found on Twitter:

The Day of the Doctor Leaked Trailer Spoiler

John Hurt's TARDIS. #SaveTheDay pic.twitter.com/nncTqZzKv7

— CombomBlog (@Combomblog) November 8, 2013

Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Meanwhile, we’re currently adding screencaps from the trailer to our Facebook Page. Head on over there to see what’s what in the trailer in more detail.

The originally-released trailer with Spanish subtitles can be found below… we kind of like it

Post by Dalek Nat.

That’s if you can’t wait a few hours…

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The Day Of The Doctor Sneak Peek Clip! [VIDEO]

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

The BBC has released a short snippet from The Day of the Doctor, the increasingly anticipated 50th anniversary episode which airs later this month.

There is nothing to say. It is impossible. Just click play. Again, and again, and again…

(Via BBC | Thanks to Nick)

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Comic Con Trailer for Sunday Night?

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

We’ve already brought you news of a new Doctor Who trailer this weekend, and today the BBC has announced a second trailer – possibly from San Diego Comic Con – to air on Sunday evening!

Via the official BBC Doctor Who page we’ve learned that along with the brand new trailer at around 8pm BBC One on Saturday (just before Atlantis, but also available online), a second trailer will be released on Sunday:

Versions of this trailer have been seen at industry events but this is the first time it’s been released in its finished form, complete with the kind of special effects that help make The Day of the Doctor so epic.

From what we know, two events – SDCC and Edinburgh International Television Festival – have previously aired the trailer, although calling SDCC an industry event in this day and age is like describing a premier league match as a PFA members meeting.

Regardless, it seems likely that the infamous Comic Con trailer is finally going to be screened!

(Thanks to Nick and Joe)

 

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Doctor Who In BBC America 50th Anniversary Takeover!

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

BBC America has announced a barnstorming 50th anniversary schedule for Doctor Who fans in the USA, with a week of TV shows and specials to celebrate the global phenomenon!

In honoring the legacy of the longest-running and most successful sci-fi series in history, BBC America presents new programming dedicated to the iconic series, culminating in a groundbreaking television event – the global simulcast to more than 75 countries of Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor on November 23. Written by lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, the special stars Matt Smith, David Tennant, companion Jenna Coleman with Billie Piper and John Hurt.

The crown jewel of the TV takeover is the global simulcast on Saturday, November 23 at 2:50pm of The Day of the Doctor, With BBC AMERICA encoring the special in primetime at 7:00pm ET with exclusive Inside Look interviews with Matt Smith and David Tennant.

Accompanying this, BBC America will present a week-long Doctor Who Takeover starting Monday, November 18, at 9:00am ET with marathons of favorite Doctors leading into new specials including a look into the science behind the iconic series with rock star-turned-physicist Professor Brian Cox (Wonders of the Universe, Wonders of the Solar System). The primetime specials will roll out throughout the week with Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS premiering Monday, November 18, 9:00pm ET followed by The Science of Doctor Who with Brian Cox at 10:00pm ET, Doctor Who Explained on Friday, November 22, 8:00pm ET, and a look back at Matt Smith’s time on the iconic series, Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited –The Eleventh Doctor on Sunday, November 24, 8:00pm ET.

Meanwhile if your tastes are more towards classic Doctor Who, BBC America will premiere the new film An Adventure in Space and Time on Friday, November 22, 9:00pm ET. From Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss and directed by Terry McDonough (Breaking Bad), the film starring David Bradley (Game of Thrones, Broadchurch), Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife), Sacha Dhawan (After Earth) and Brian Cox (The Bourne Identity, X2: X-Men United) tells the story of the genesis of Doctor Who and the unlikely production team behind the series.

This is how the takeover will shape up:

 

Doctor Who BBC America Takeover Schedule
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Doctor Who:  The Doctors Revisited Marathon – 9:00am – 9:00pm ET

The First through Tenth Doctor

 

U.S. Premiere

Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS – 9:00 –10:00pm ET

An all-new special, Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS, features the series’ actors and producers sharing their experiences and memories of the world’s longest-running sci-fi show. The special features exclusive interviews with principal cast members from the show’s 50-year history, including actors who have played the Doctor: Matt Smith, David Tennant, Tom Baker, and Peter Davison, actors who have played companions: Jenna Coleman, Karen Gillan, Freema Agyeman, and William Russell, as well as the current lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat. The discussion includes how the actors got cast, how the roles changed their lives, how a ‘regeneration’ is recorded, and how filming the show in the 60′s compares to today.

 

U.S. Premiere

The Science of Doctor Who with Brian Cox – 10:00–11:00pm ET

A former rock star and Britain’s popular TV physicist, Professor Brian Cox explores the universe of the world’s favorite Time Lord when he takes the audience on a journey into the wonderful universe of Doctor Who, with the help of celebrity guests. In this exclusively recorded special from the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Brian reveals the science behind the spectacle and explains the physics that allows Doctor Who to travel through space and time. Fun, but filled with real science, it’s a special night for Who fans and anyone with a thirst for understanding.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Marathon – 10:00am –11:00pm ET

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20
Doctor Who – The Tenth Doctor Marathon – 2:00am –11:00pm ET

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Doctor Who – The Eleventh Doctor Marathon Part I – 9:00am – 11:00pm ET

The Eleventh Doctor – Matt Smith

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Doctor Who – The Eleventh Doctor Marathon Part 2 – 9:00am – 8:00pm ET

The Eleventh Doctor – Matt Smith

 

U.S. Premiere

Doctor Who Explained – 8:00pm – 9:00pm ET

An all-new special, Doctor Who Explained, explores the mysterious and two-hearted alien who is the Doctor. Through exclusive interviews with principal cast members from the show’s 50-year history, including actors who have played the Doctor: Matt Smith, David Tennant, Peter Davison, and Tom Baker as well as actors who have played companions: Jenna Coleman, Karen Gillan, and Freema Agyeman, viewers get an insight to what happens behind-the-scenes of the award-winning sci-fi show.

U.S. Premiere

An Adventure in Space and Time – 9:00pm ET

What do you get when you mix C.S. Lewis with H.G. Wells, and sprinkle in a bit of Father Christmas? An alien Time Lord exploring space and time in a Police Box spaceship called the “TARDIS” (Time And Relative Dimension in Space).  Written by Mark Gatiss, the BBC AMERICA co-production, the film stars David Bradley (the First Doctor, William Hartnell), Brian Cox (BBC Head of Drama, Sydney Newman), Jessica Raine (Producer, Verity Lambert) and Sacha Dhawan (Director, Waris Hussein). An unlikely trio of misfits set out to create a genre series that all ages would love.  William ‘Bill’ Hartnell, displeased with his career, was presented with a chance to break out of the hard-man roles he’d become known for.  And with the instincts of first time producer, Verity Lambert and first time director, Waris Hussein, the Doctor was born. As the success of the show grew, William went from unhappy curmudgeon to beloved television star who relished his career resurgence and found a new lease on life.  But all good things come to an end. How will Bill face leaving behind the part that has made him a hero to millions of children? And can the show survive without him? Journey back fifty years through space and time to witness the exciting beginning and untimely end of the First Doctor in this touching drama.

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23
Doctor Who – The Eleventh Doctor Marathon Part 3 – 1:00am – 2:00pm ET

The Eleventh Doctor – Matt Smith

 

World Premiere

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor – Global Simulcast – 2:50pm ET

The centerpiece of BBC AMERICA’s celebrations is the global simulcast of Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary special, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor, written by Steven Moffat. The Doctors (Matt Smith and David Tennant) embark on their greatest adventure across space and time. In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London’s National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor’s own dangerous past comes back to haunt him. Starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman, with Billie Piper and John Hurt. Last seen as the Doctor on January 1, 2010, this will be the first time David Tennant has reprised his role as the Tenth Doctor. During his reign as the Time Lord, Tennant appeared in three seasons as well as several specials. He was first revealed as the Doctor in the 2005 season finale, The Parting of the Ways. Meanwhile Billie Piper, who played companion Rose Tyler for two seasons following the reboot in 2005, will appear in the show for the first time since featuring in David Tennant’s last episode, The End of Time in 2010. The special is directed by Nick Hurran, executive produced by Steven Moffat, Faith Penhale and produced by Marcus Wilson.

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor encore primetime broadcast – 7:00pm ET. BBC AMERICA will premiere exclusive Inside Look interviews with Matt Smith and David Tennant during the broadcast.  The special will be followed by the premiere of new fantasy-adventure series Atlantis at 9:00pm ET.

 

U.S. Premiere

The Graham Norton Show with guests Matt Smith and David Tennant – 10:00pm ET

Doctor Who stars Matt Smith and David Tennant make their first appearance together on BBC AMERICA’s hit talk show The Graham Norton Show. Emma Thompson, singer Robbie Williams and comedian Jimmy Carr will also be guests.

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Doctor Who – Matt Smith Countdown – 9:00am – 8:00pm ET

BBC AMERICA counts down the top 11 episodes from the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, as voted on by fans.

 

U.S. Premiere

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited –The Eleventh Doctor – 8:00pm –10:30pm ET

BBC AMERICA celebrates the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, in a new special of Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited. Matt Smith first stepped into the TARDIS in 2010 and, after starring in the 50th Anniversary Special on November 23, will regenerate in the Christmas special. The Doctors Revisited begins with Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman (companion Clara Oswald), Karen Gillan (companion Amy Pond), Arthur Darvill (companion Rory Williams), lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, among others, examining the human side of this Doctor and taking a look at how his extraordinarily long life has affected him. The special is followed by the Eleventh Doctor two-part story, The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon, in which a strange summons reunites the Doctor, Amy (Karen Gillan), Rory (Arthur Darvill) and River (Alex Kingston) in the middle of the Utah desert and unveils a terrible secret the Doctor’s friends must never reveal to him. These were the first Doctor Who episodes to be filmed in the U.S.

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Fans Set to Converge at Melbourne Pop-Up Shop

Jonathan Appleton is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

A treat for fans in Australia ahead of the 50th anniversary as BBC Worldwide launches its latest pop-up shop in Melbourne.

Following the overwhelming popularity of the Sydney and Brisbane Doctor Who pop-up shops where fans queued for more than two hours to get into the store, this special one-off Melbourne pop-up will feature some exclusive merchandise not currently available in Australian stores.

Shoppers will be able to get their hands on the Who Home range boasting ‘a selection of stylish homewares, such as teapots and mugs, plus notebooks, tea towels and more’. There will also be a limited number of the special edition Tenth Doctor in tuxedo Titan figurines , along with the silver collectible coin from the New Zealand Mint.

To celebrate the store opening at 9am on Saturday 9 November, fans are invited to dress up as their favourite Doctor Who character with a small gift given to the first 20 fans to arrive in costume. The shop can be found at Shop 2, 177 Bridge Road, Richmond.

There will also be special celebrations in store on the weekend of the 50th Anniversary – keep an eye on www.doctorwho.tv/events/pop-up-shop-australia for details.

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Davison: I’m A Gay Icon, Thanks To Doctor Who

Rebecca Crockett is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Is the Doctor a gay icon?

In the last 8 years of the show’s history, the topic of the Doctor’s sexual identity is one that has come up more and more often. Most recently, Fifth Doctor Peter Davison spoke to Radio Times about the apparent lack of any sexual identity in the character of the Doctor and how he feels that had the show included more elements of romance and sexual tension during his tenure at the controls of the TARDIS, it would have been “easier to write a better [female] character”

Now we have some of his thoughts on the show’s gay fan base.

I’m not sure if I wasn’t a gay icon, actually…

Doctor Who does have – and all power to it – quite a big gay following. I don’t know if that’s because he’s a bit of an outsider I don’t know what that particular appeal is, but in terms of the fans that you meet along the way, as well as the straight ones there’s a gay fandom, so that’s fun.

In those days it was more difficult to be in that situation and I think the Doctor was something [gay people] could latch on to, as a slightly odd and out of place and not-quite-accepted character, and that had great appeal for them.

Having a character who suffers from the same struggles you face in your own life is what makes stories go from good to great and what really touches us. When those struggles are vastly different from what other people go through, finding someone or something to connect to is even harder and something to be cherished.

As a show that started out life as something meant to be educational, if one person is helped, then it’s done its job.

Kasterborous’ own James Lomond discussed all of what Davison had to say in a recent commentary.

(via Radio Times.)

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An Adventure in This Week’s TV Guide!

Drew Boynton is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

In this week’s TV Guide, An Adventure in Space and Time is Matt Roush’s featured review… and he loved it!

He gives it an impressive 9/10 and especially points out how good David Bradley is. Alongside the article, there’s a great publicity photo of Bradley as First Doctor, William Hartnell standing between the TARDIS in the background and a BBC camera in the foreground. It’s really cool to see TV Guide give the docu-drama that kind of press and such a good review!

The Mark Gatiss-penned drama is set to air on Thursday 21st November in the UK on BBC Two, and Friday 22nd on BBC America, both at 9pm.

And you can find out more about An Adventure in Space and Time here on Kasterborous. We can’t wait!

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Prisoners of Time #10 Out Now

Drew Boynton is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Just the other day, IDW Publishing released the newest issue of their Prisoners of Time comic book series. If you are not familiar with it, this is an ambitious 12-part maxi-series that features a different Doctor in each issue. The new issue, #10, features (of course) the Tenth Doctor and companion Martha Jones in an adventure to the Griffith Observatory in 1950s-era Los Angeles.

Written by David and Scott Tipton (IDW’s Star Trek and Angel comics) with what looks to be stunning art and likenesses by Italian illustrator Elena Casagrande (Hulk, True Blood), Prisoners of Time #10 will be one of the last issues of Doctor Who-related comics that IDW publishes.

Last summer, the company lost its Doctor Who license and their final Who-related comics will appear at the end of 2013. As an effect, longtime IDW Who-writer and fan-favorite Tony Lee recently announced on his Facebook page that he will be cutting back on his convention appearances, especially in 2014.

It appears that the upstart Titan Comics company may be taking over the Who license next year.

IDW’s Prisoners of Time #10, with cover art by Francesco Francavilla, is available online and at your finer comic book establishments. The cover price is $3.99.

See a full preview of the comic at Comic Book Resources.

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OFFSTAGE Presents: The Days Of The Doctor

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The OFFSTAGE Theatre Group are presenting The Days of The Doctor, a 50th anniversary spoof show, for one day only on November 16th 2013.

This unique show will be spoofing the 50th anniversary special before it’s even been shown! As group spokesman, Kasterborous‘ own Barnaby Eaton Jones says:

‘We’re pre-empting the half-centenary celebration…by staging our spoof of the episode BEFORE we’ve even seen it! You can’t get more topical than that!’

Fans can look forward to John Hurt’s Doctor as ‘The Storyteller’, with a focus on the new series but with some kisses to the past classic era.

The OFFSTAGE Theatre Group were well-known for putting on the first Doctor Who comedy shows to be written specifically for conventions and convention audiences. These ran from 2005 to 2007 and included specially-written cameos from Colin Baker in two of the shows. As Jones says:

‘We’ve been brought out of our retirement to regenerate again and to take hold of the TARDIS controls once more. So come with us on a silly journey to Gallifrey and beyond. We’re back and it’s about timey-wimey.’

The venue is The Cockpit Theatre, Avoncroft Museum, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire and there’ll be four performances during the day. For ticket details visit their official site.

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1963: The Space Race and The Queen of Time Out Now

Meredith Burdett is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

More Doctor Who fun comes courtesy of Big Finish this month as they release two new titles for the Sixth and the Second Doctor.

Continuing the loosely themed main range 1963 trilogy with The Space Race, written by Jonathan Morris, finds the Sixth Doctor and Peri find themselves smack bang in the middle of the Cold War and in the presence of a lady who may be far more than she seems:

November 1963, and the Soviet space programme reigns supreme. Having sent the first animals, then the first men beyond Earth’s atmosphere, now they’re sending a manned capsule into orbit around the Moon.

 

Just as Vostok Seven passes over into the dark side, however, its life support system fails. Only the intervention of the Sixth Doctor and Peri, adopting the identities of scientists from Moscow University, means that contact with the capsule is regained.

 

But something has happened to the cosmonaut on board. She appears to have lost her memory, and developed extreme claustrophobia. Maybe she’s not quite as human as she used to be…

Starring Colin Baker as the Doctor and Nicola Bryant as Peri, 1963: The Space Race is available now on CD for £14.99 or via download for £12.99

Continuing with their release of previously unmade adventures, Big Finish also offer this month Doctor Who – The Lost Stories: The Queen of Time.

This tale finds the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe outside of our Universe but you can guarantee they won’t be meeting House anytime soon:

Somewhere outside our universe, she is waiting.

 

A god-like immortal, living in a realm of clocks. The hours tick slowly by as she plots and plans. She is readying her trap. A trap for a very special man in a very special police box.

 

Hecuba has all the time in the world. But for the Doctor, time is running out.

This outline comes from writer Brian Hayles (The Ice Warriors) and is adapted by Catherine Harvey. Starring Frazer Hines as Jamie (whilst also supplying another fantastic Patrick Troughton impression) and Wendy Padbury as Zoe, The Queen of Time is available now on CD for £12.99 or via download for £10.99.

To order your copies visit Big Finish now.

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