The Doctor From Gallifrey 

There's been lots of rumour and discussion about the airdate of "Asylum of the Daleks" over the last few days. BBC America have suggested that they will be airing the episode on Saturday 8th September. There's been no offcial announcement from BBC in the UK yet but there's a slot in the schedule waiting to be announced and this week's Radio Times has gone a bit Who mad with it's "Next Issue" section.

Everything is indicating a 1st September airdate in the UK but we're still waiting for the offcial announcement to be certain.

A teaser trailer for Episode 1 of the new series, "Asylum of the Daleks", has been uploaded to the Doctor Who website. You can view it here.

Asylum of the Daleks screend at the BFI recently, to rave reviews from those who saw it. A number of pieces of news came out, as seen below: 

• The Synopsis for Episode 1, 2 and 3 have all been revealed: 

• A series of Promotional photos have been released. See them in our photo gallery here.

 

Today the BBC confirmed that Mark Gatiss will be writing a one-off drama for BBC Two about the genesis of Doctor Who. It will be 90 minutes long and will all aspects of the show from it's first broacast in 1963. It will have a close connection with the modern show too, with Steven Moffat and Caroline Skinner producing it.

Mark Gatiss said: "This is the story of how an unlikely set of brilliant people created a true Television original. And how an actor - William Hartnell - stereotyped in hard-man roles became a hero to millions of children. I've wanted to tell this story this for more years than I can remember! To make it happen for 'Doctor Who's 50th birthday is quite simply a dream come true".

And Steven Moffat of course has to have the last word: “The story of Doctor Who is the story of television - so it's fitting in the anniversary year that we make our most important journey back in time to see how the TARDIS was launched.” 

Details on broadcast and casting will be announced next year so expect the show to air around November time or even the day of the anniversary, 23rd November!

[Source: BBC Doctor Who]

The first casting news for the 2012 Christmas Special has been revealed. The BBC announced at Midnight that Richard E. Grant would appear, having previously teased him as an "iconic star". We thought that is probably the wrong choice of words and you might recognise him only as that guy from that thing. Grant has starred in over 80 film and television hits including Withnail And I, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Jack & Sarah, Gosford Park and The Iron Lady. But he's probably best known to Doctor Who fans for playing the Doctor, twice. Briefly during "The Curse of the Fatal Death", a comic relief spoof but for longer in an animated series called "Scream of Shalka". Grant said he is "honoured" to be joining the show.

Also appearing is Tom Ward, who you might recognise as Silent Witness's Harry Cunnigham. The special see Matt Smith's Doctor meet his new companion, played by Jenna Louise-Coleman. 

[Source: BBC Doctor Who]

A new trailer for Doctor Who series 7 is now online. It features footage from episodes 1-5 of the new series (though as far as we can gather nothing from episode 4). Watch it here!

It is with great sadness that we must report the death of another Doctor Who companion. Mary Tamm played the Fourth Doctor's companion Romana for six stories, which many fans consider to be amongst the best episodes of all time. Her character was intentionally different from the typical companion, with Romana being a Time Lady forced upon the Doctor by the Time Lords. The Doctor originally resented her but gradually grew to consider her a friend. 

She also took on many roles on the stage and on many other TV shows including: The Likely Lads, Coronation Street, The Return of the Saint, Bergerac, Casualty, Jonathan Creek, Wire in the Blood, Brookside, Doctors, Paradise Heights and Eastenders. 

Mary Tamm was a fantastic actress who helped create one of the greatest eras in Doctor Who history. She will forever be remembered.

[Source: Cultbox]

The latest issue of the US edition of Entertainment Weekly features a Doctor Who cover and feature. Here's the cover:

The feature investigates Doctor Who's cult status in the USA and asks whether it is now the time for the show to break big in America.

The issue will appear on newstands this Friday.

The cover of the latest issuse of Doctor Who Magazine has been revealed!  Here it is with and without the polybag:

Features include:

• When Matt 'met' Pat
• Recollection of the daleks (a look at the Series 1 Finale)
• A Tribute to the late Caroline John
• Production notes from Steven Moffat
• An interview with Chris Chibnall
• The Two Doctors in 'Fact or Fiction'
• Love and Monsters in 'Time Team'
• AND A FREE POSTER!

The Doctor Who panel at San Diego Comic Con is now over! There isn't actually that much news on Series 7 to report we're afraid but here are the main points:

- Episode Two will be titled, as rumoured, "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". 

- Episode Three will be titled, unlike rumoured, "A Town Called Mercy".

- Clips from both those episodes were shown. They will not be posted online though

- Moffat said the question "Doctor Who?" is very important. He refused to say whether there will be a Multi-Doctor story for the 50th anniversary. 

That's about it in terms of news, though there were lots of fun things from the cast about their lives and thoughts and things. Check out a couple of other interviews with them on the news page . We are disappointed there was no new trailer though but we expect one fairly soon!