Writers Announced For Matt Smith’s First Series and Matt Smith: 'My Doctor is less tolerant' plus a Pick of the Blogs

British Board of Film Censors has...

• DOCTOR WHO - THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT [Additional material, Audio commentary, Parts 1-4] passed PG
  
• DOCTOR WHO - CREATURE FROM THE PIT - DVD EXTRAS [Additional material] passed PG

BBC iPlayer (UK only) has The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 1: The Lost Boy - Part 1, a couple appear claiming to be Luke's real parents.



SFX has Who Writers Announced For Matt Smith’s First Series, Doctor Who Magazine has announced the list of writers who'll be contributing to the next series.

Mirror.co.uk has New Doctor Who Matt Smith hails 'sexy' mini-skirt of new assistant Karen Gillan - plus the sexiest Doctor Who assistants ever!, flame-haired Karen Gillan, 22, who plays feisty Amy Pond alongside new Doctor Matt Smith, insisted on showing a shapely leg despite the freezing conditions.

The Doctor Who News Page has New Eleventh Doctor Image, the BBC has released a new image on the Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith. The image is available on the BBC Website along with an image of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. The new picture forms the basis for the cover to the revamped Doctor Who Magazine which is available in the United Kingdom from today.

Digital Spy has...

• Matt Smith: 'My Doctor is less tolerant', the Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith says that he will play the role in a different way to his predecessors.
• Karen Gillan "intimidated" by Matt Smith, ...when she first met the eleventh Doctor Matt Smith.
• 'Doctor Who' filming unaffected by snow, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan are spotted filming for the new Who series despite the snow.
• Barrowman, Tovey 'have great chemistry', ..they found it easy to work together on Doctor Who.
  

Two-minute Time Lord has released 2MTL 93: An Academic Fan in Cardiff, meet Dr. Matt Hills, senior lecturer in media and cultural studies at Cardiff University, whose book Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating "Doctor Who" in the Twenty-first Century is hot off the presses (ed: added to the pods and audio button on the editors bit).

Doctor Who Online have WhoCast episode 157, "we heard a rumour that there was a regeneration about, so we tuned in our TVs to BBC 1 on New Years Day in the hope of seeing it, luckily enough, End of Time Part 2 was on (ed: added to the pods and audio button on the editors bit).



Blogtor Who has Matt Smith - Promo pics, the BBC have released some new images of The Eleventh Doctor.

The Gallifrey Vortex has Doctor Who Adventures #148, BBC Magazines have now sent us the cover and details for issue 148 of Doctor Who Adventures which was released today.

The Tardis has ABSOLUT TIMELORD Wallpaper, a take-off on the Absolut vodka adds, one with caption, and one without.

Life, Doctor Who & Combom has the cover for Doctor Who Magazine Issue 417.

Tardis Base has Two New Torchwood Radio plays, some online retailers have two new Torchwood audio dramas listed for a CD release on the 6th of May, which confirms that new Torchwood plays are being made, and will most likely broadcast on BBC Radio 4 later in the year.

Dr Who Interview Archive has...

• John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd, Naoko Mori & Julie Gardner (2008), a heavily edited version of the Torchwood panel at the Comic Con in San Diego
• Tom Baker (1970’s), ..conducted for Australia’s ABC Television to promote the fifteenth season, and includes a lengthy digression onto the subject of what would happen in the Doctor met Superman.
  

Doctor Who Methadone 2008-2010 has "Planet of the Dead", the first Doctor Who story of 2009 is a simple tale of the Doctor trying to rescue some people on a bus that has travelled through a wormhole.

Behind the Sofa has Their Reward, The End of Time Part Two, ...for starters, the explanation we're given for how/why the Doctor "destroyed" the Time Lords and Daleks doesn't align quite right with the cryptic hints we've gotten all along.

Radio Free Skaro - The Chronic Hysteresis reviews Full Circle 1 and 2.

The Daily Drew has "The Space Pirates - Episode One", the TARDIS arrives on Beacon Alpha 5, an unmanned communications and navigation satellite somewhere in deep space.

Blogging The Classics has Doctor Who #42: The Dark Flame (2003), the Cult of the Dark Flame has long been dead, or so the universe thought.



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Life, Doctor Who & Combom has Doctor Who Series 5 Filming At Llancaiach Fawr Manor Report & Photographs.