2010 Christmas Special director Toby Haynes’ agent’s website is reporting the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special will be 90 minutes in length. Confirmation of this information from elsewhere, such as a formal announcement from the BBC, has yet to materialize; however, agent websites in past have proven to shed light on details not previously released officially. Radio Free Skaro earlier this year broke the news of an extended run time [ Read More ]
A clip from the upcoming Sarah Jane Adventures episode Death of the Doctor went out on CBBC earlier today. While Death of the Doctor features Matt Smith, he does not appear in the clip – however Katy Manning is seen in her return as Jo Grant. Enjoy!
Congratulations to Russell T Davies and friend of the show Phil Ford on their Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form Hugo award for The Waters of Mars, presented earlier today at Aussiecon 4 in Melbourne. This Hugo is the fourth win for Doctor Who since its revamp in 2005 and the first for any writer other than Steven Moffat. The Waters of Mars was, at least for the Radio Free [ Read More ]
Doctor Who head writer Steven Moffat has announced that the next series of Doctor Who would be split into two halves, with a “game-changing cliffhanger” separating the two. Speaking at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Moffat said that seven episodes would start airing near Easter, with the following six episodes airing in the Autumn. Click here to read the full article at The Guardian. And click here for [ Read More ]
According to the CV of new Doctor Who production designer Michael Pickwoad, Adam Smith and Richard Clark will be returning to the director’s chair for Series 6 of Doctor Who, set to begin filming shortly. Adam Smith, in our minds, was the directorial star of Matt Smith’s first series as The Doctor, successfully bringing The Eleventh Hour, The Time of Angels, and Flesh and Stone to the screen with great [ Read More ]
It appears that two new Doctor Who video games, one for the Nintendo DS and one for the Wii, will be released in the UK on October 29 (Play.com lists the release dates as November 17). Not many details are known about the games, produced by Asylum Entertainment, but what we can show you are the covers for each game. Above is the cover for Evacuation Earth (Nintendo DS); below [ Read More ]
The first two episodes of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games has now been made available on the game site Direct2Drive for a low price of $4.95. From the website blurb, the package includes: Episode 1 – City of the Daleks (Included Free) The TARDIS materializes in 1963 to find the human race destroyed by the Daleks. The Doctor must travel to the home planet of his arch enemy, the Daleks, [ Read More ]
The organizers of Gallifrey One, the largest Doctor Who convention in North America, today announced a major guest update. Joining previously announced guests such as Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Matthew Waterhouse, Tracie Simpson and others are new series and Torchwood producer Peter Bennett, Ian McNeice who portrayed Winston Churchill in Victory of the Daleks, Sarah Sutton, new series director Ashley Way, friend of the show Steve Roberts and more! Check [ Read More ]
You may remember a few weeks ago on Radio Free Skaro that our own Warren Frey had an article coming out at Eurogamer in early June in which Warren talked with Phil Ford, writer of the first three episodes of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. Well, Eurogamer dragged their heels on releasing the article and it was never published. However, over at Warren’s long running blog, www.freyburg.com, the full article [ Read More ]
For the keen-to-know, the BBC has released the titles for the Series 5 finale episodes via their Series At A Glance web page. Those who don’t wish to know the titles will want to avoid the link, of course! Episode titles can sometime be indicative of the episode content, but regardless if that holds true in this case or not it’s certainly a pair of evocative titles. Episode 12 has [ Read More ]
