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Matt Smith is making his directing debut on Sky Arts programme Playhouse Presents. The current Doctor is directing the one-off drama entitled Cargese and was written by award-winning playwright Simon Stephens. 

Sky Arts describe the drama as a "unique piece of poetic realism which mines the tragic seam of adolescent love and loss". It stars Craig Roberts (Submarine), Joe Cole (Skins, The Hour) and Avigail Tlalim (The Town) as a group of disaffected teenagers in south London. The name comes from a village on the West Coast of Corsica which one of the characters mentions. 

“Sky Arts offers creative opportunities that many other channels don’t," Smith said. "To collaborate with Simon Stephens in this capacity was a thrilling and rare opportunity and one we both were keen to embrace.” 

The drama starts filming next week and is due to air on 25th April 2013. Idris Elba (Luther) and Marc Warren (Elton Pope in Love & Monsters)  are also making their directing debuts for the new series of Playhouse Presents, which starts in March and features Anna Friel, Vanessa Redgrave, Ricky Tomlinson, Suranne Jones (Idris in The Doctor's Wife), David Harewood, Ian Hart, Mathew Horne and Kylie Minogue (Astrid in The Voyage of the Damned).  

We think this is great news and look forward to the time Matt Smith directs an episode of Doctor Who itself. If he is sucessful as a directer than surely that is inevitable isn't it? 

[Source: Radio Times]

Jessica Raine, star on BBC1 drama Call the Midwife and guest star of an upcoming episode of Doctor Who has been discussing what it was like to work on Who when interviewed by the Radio Times.

She said: "[It is] very different from Midwife. On Doctor Who it was all mind machines and strobe lighting.

"But it was a magical experience and something I was very happy to do. It's a very different character and genre - you have to throw yourself into it and take it very seriously.

"I hadn't realised what an institution Doctor Who is. I got offered the part and didn't think that much about it. Then you go on set and you see this blue police telephone box, and suddenly the weight of what you're doing hits home."

She also had lovely things to say about our current Doctor, Matt Smith, saying he brings a "darker edge" to the show and that "he's a brilliant actor. He has a very long career ahead of him".

The interview also confirmed that Neil Cross' episode will indeed be titled Phantom of the Hex as had previously been rumoured.

[Source: Digital Spy]

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We shall be bringing you all the latest Doctor Who news in the 50th Anniversary year! It's never been a better time to be a fan of Doctor Who! We've already begun by updating our guide to series 7 with a look ahead at what is to come (spoiler free of course!) 

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The two covers for the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, Isse #452, have been revealed. There is a cover for the other two episodes in the first half of series 7, The Power of Three and The Angels Take Manhatten. 

The final ratings for Asylum of the Daleks have been released. There were 8.33 million viewers, which is nearly two million more than the overnight figure of 6.38 million suggested. We always find it's best to ignore the overnights and wait for the proper figures. These figures don't include iPlayer and given the episode is still 7th 9 days later tells us that'll be pretty big too. The show had 34.4% of the audience share.

The episode did pretty well around the world too:

• In the USA on BBC America 1.5 million tuned in, making it the most watched program on the channel ever and the most watched non-sports program on cable TV in it's timeslot.
• On SPACE in Canada it reached 620,000 viewers making it the most watched program on Canadian TV in it's timeslot.
• In Australia it got 549,000 viewers in the five major cities making it the most watched drama of the day and 8th most watched TV show overall. It also set a record for the view in a day on iView (the equivalent of iPlayer) with 75,900 view in the first day. 

This is Moffatgate as the internet has decided it's called. Steven "the Moff" Moffat, current Doctor Who exec producer and showrunner, has left Twitter. The online fanbase have gone wild with speculation about why this is. 

Sue Vertue, the Moff's wife, tweeted that Moffat "is well and currently having a family lunch but he's got a huge amount on and twitter was proving a distraction".  

We think this seems fair enough but is there more to it. Well Moffat had been asking the day before how to limit @replies and he did get a lot of abuse. Whether that caused him to leave Twitter or not is impossible to tell. We hope it's not the case and that Moffat is just really busy. He does have the rest of series 7 to finish, the 50th anniversary to sort out and the next series of Sherlock, probably amongst other things as well. S

Still, it's perfectly ok for you to have opnions, even negative ones we suppose, but there's no need to be abusive to people is there? 

Various things from the Whoniverse have been nominated at this year's BAFTA Cymru Film, Television and Interactive Media Awards. They are:

• Television Drama: Doctor Who
• Television Sound: Doctor Who
• Digital Creativity and Games: Doctor Who The Adventure Games: The Gunpower Plot
• Children's Programme: The Sarah Jane Adventures.

With only four days to go until Asylum of the Daleks airs, the media are getting all excited. We've got various magazine covers to show you. 

Last week Doctor Who Magazine revealed the first of three covers for issue #451 and below you can see the other two. 

Apologies for the size but we can't find any smaller versions. Next up is the Radio Times which has a Doctor Who cover, feature and a free dalek wallchart. 

And finally here's the cover of TV and Satellite Week:

In other news, there's some great new promo pics for Asylum of the Daleks in our special gallery of the episode. And don't forget that the prologue to Asylum of the Daleks, Pond Life is online this week, with a new episode arriving at Noon each day. Follow us on Twitter for live updates or check out the offcial Pond Life page here.

It was revealed today on Twitter that Issue 451 of Doctor Who Magazine will have three different covers. Two will be revealed next week but the first can be seen below: 

The first episode of Doctor Who series 7, "Asylum of the Daleks" will air in the UK on 1st September at 7.20PM on BBC1! It will air at 9PM on BBC America in the US and Space in Canada!