New Series of Doctor Who

[Neon Ignition]

First image of Jenna in character:

[djtickle]

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/

Oh god did anyone else fall asleep during that?

[Wil]

Series 7 trailer as premiered at the Dr.Who nerdcon (sorry, convention) at the weekend

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/03/26/doctor-who-series-7-first-trailer/

[Neon Ignition]

Looks alright, the western set ep looks pretty lavishly done, definitely has that vibe that Amy's time is due.

[Daragon]

First image of Jenna in character:

Hopefully not the final costume choice, despite being painfully appropriate for a Christmas special as it has a real "Granny knitted gift" vibe to it. I remember Matt's first image with him dressed in a black suit though, so we can but hope that this is still a work in progress too.

[CMcK]

Better quality video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLKGe...e_gdata_player

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/

In their newsfeed they mention how ahead of the Bafta's Moffatt commented on complaints that Doctor Who and possibly Sherlock were too complicated:

"There's been a weird backlash among, I presume, fairly stupid people about the fact the shows are complicated and clever, but they're both huge international hits. We make no apology. Don't expect to do the ironing; sit down, pay attention and think about it. Audiences like complexity. They follow intricately plotted soap operas all the time. It depresses me when people say, 'It's all far too clever,'"

Additionally at a festival in late August there will be the premier of the opening episode of Series 7 making a BBC1 launch over the Bank Holiday likely.

[Tig]

"There's been a weird backlash among, I presume, fairly stupid people about the fact the shows are complicated and clever."

Someone must have pointed out that season 6 didn't make any sense.


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[Wil]

I would never say that Dr.Who was clever. Currently, it's deliberately obtuse in order to create speculation and mystery over the season but it generally unravels and disappoints when everything's revealed and explained in the end. Like Lost (although I did love Lost) I guess it proves that it's easy to create mystery but not so easy to resolve it well.

I kinda like new Who but it's more for the fact that I can sit down with my son and have a telly event we can both get something from. Sometimes it touches on great but mostly it's just a bit of nonsense that has grown to think it's cleverer than it actually is.

New series. Meh.

[Neon Ignition]

The yearly childrens competition where kids write a short episode and the winner has there's made has now closed and the winning entry is now out:

[Neon Ignition]

First official pic of the two together

http://www.tvfanatic.com/2012/06/doctor-who-first-look-the-new-companion/

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/56616

The title of the first episode in Series 7 is:

SPOILER

->Open Spoiler<-

Asylum of the Daleks

[QualityChimp]

Heh, I watched an old Tom Baker episode last night on Virgin called "City of Death".

It was quite funny as the old format told one story over several episodes and there was a lot of fluff in the first episode. The Doctor and his companion spent a great deal of the episode running around Paris.

I remember seeing the end of the episode when I was little and the monster was really scary!
At the reveal of the end of the episode last night, he was quite...rubbery!

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/24320/tv-news-walking-true-who-newsroom

The crush of more than one generation Diana Rigg will be appearing in the second half of Series 7 or Doctor Who which airs 2013 alongside her daughter.

[nakamura]

When does the new series start?