The Doctor From Gallifrey 

BBC Worldwide today announced that the new permeanent Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff Bay will open on the 20th July, with tickets going on sale at 10AM on the 14th June. 

Philip Murphy, Managing Director of BBC Worldwide Live Events said: “The Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff is going to be just minutes away from where the BBC Wales television series is made which I’m incredibly excited about. The Experience sets out to engage visitors’ imaginations from the outset immersing them in the world of Doctor Who and what better place to do this than in Cardiff the home of the show.”

It seem likely that series 7 will start being broadcast in August. 

The Guardian today reported that the first episode will be screened at the 2012 Edinburgh International Televison Festival, which this year rakes place 23rd-35th August. Last year "Let's Kill Hitler" was screened at the festival and was shown on BBC1 the next day. 

If the same happens this year the episode will air on Saturday 25th August. If this does happen it seems likely five episodes would air and then there would a gap before the Christmas Special. Of course nothing is as yet confirmed. 

You can find out about Series 7 on our guide to the series.

Tonight's Britain Got Talent featured a dalek impersonator. Martyn Crofts had the judges in stitches with his Who inspired "song" and caused "daleks" and "#exterminate" to trend on Twitter. Here's the, er, performance...

 

Every kind of dalek, except this one, will be appearing in the Series 7 opener. Check out our guide to series 7 for more.

The latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine went on sale today. Here is it's fantastic cover:

Yes, Steven Moffat has revealed the Doctor will be facing every dalek ever, including the special weapons dalek! For this and much, much more pop down the shops and buy the magazine!

Matt Smith popped up on tonight's edition of CBBC show Blue Peter to launch this year's Script to Scene competition where primary school children have the chance to write a mini-episode of Doctor Who. Last year they created Death is the Only Answer which you can view on our Mini-episodes page.

Here's the Matt Smith clip which oddly enough is a sort of sequel to the Second Doctor story "The Mind Robber". It's set in the same place anyway!

It has long been known that Elisabeth Sladen was not the actress who was originally set to play Sarah Jane Smith but she refused to tell the world who that person was. The news was revealed on the new DVD release of "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" and the original actress was April Walker.

Walker is probably best known these days for her guest role in Fawlty Towers as Jean Walker in the episode "The Wedding Party". Walker worked in rehearseals for The Time Warrior but allegedly the pairing of Pertwee's Doctor and Walker's Sarah Jane didn't work: she was a tall and more obviously strong character, along the lines of Pertwee's first companion, Liz Shaw (Caroline John).

It's believed that Pertwee was unhappy with the decision but it would ultimately have been producer Barry Letts who recast the role. Walker was reportedly paid for both The Time Warrior and the rest of that series.

Who knows what could have been? Maybe in a parallel universe there is a woman called Jean Walker starring in The Sarah Jane Adventures. For us though, Elisabeth Sladen was the perfect Sarah Jane.

During the press screening of "The Doctor The Widow and The Wardrobe" Steven Moffat gave us a few bits of information about series 7 of Doctor Who, especially regarding companions. 

The big announcement is that Amy and Rory will leave the show during series seven.

“Their story is going to come to a heartbreaking end,” Moffat promised.

He went on to add that, “The Doctor is going to meet a new friend, but I’m not going to tell you anything about he, she… or it.”

And he also informed us he believes that River Song will return in the next series too!

Two missing episodes of Doctor Who from the 60s have been rediscovered. 

The first is Episode 3 of William Hartnell's 1965 tale "Galaxy 4" and the second is Episode 2 of Patrick Troughton's 1967 story "The Underwater Menace".

Both episodes were purchased by film collector Terry Burnett at a village fete near Southampton in the early '80s, with the copies believed to have originated from the ABC channel in Australia.

They were screened this afternoon for the first time since original transmission, as part of the British Film Institute's 'Missing Believed Wiped' event. Details of a commercial release will be confirmed in 2012.

You can watch clips from both the episodes here.

Today Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has dismissed the idea of a Doctor Who movie. This comes two weeks after director David Yates told Variety he was in line to direct a film version which would "start from scratch".

Taking to Twitter this morning, the writer said: “To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot.”

Moffat contextualised Yates’ remark in another tweet, saying: “David Yates, great director, was speaking off the cuff, on a red carpet.”

In a statement issued to a national newspaper, Moffat said that Doctor Who is “a vitally important BBC brand with a huge international audience” and one which “not even Hollywood can start from scratch”.

The producer also revealed that as yet “there simply are no developed plans for a Doctor Who movie at the moment” but “if and when the movie happens it will need to star television's Doctor Who - and there's only ever one of those at a time."

The Doctor popped up on this year's Children in Need with a special scene where he took his clothes off. The BBC are auctioning the outfit worn by Matt Smith's in The Doctor's Wife in order to raise money for the charity. You can watch the scene on the BBC website here.

There was also a short trailer for this year's Christmas Special which will be titled The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe. You can watch the trailer here.