The release of the official soundtrack for the Doctor Who 2009 Specials ('The Next Doctor', 'Planet Of The Dead', 'Waters Of Mars', and 'The End Of Time'), composed by Murray Gold and conducted by Ben Foster, has now been confirmed by Silva Screen.
Although, nothing has been heard of any track listings or even a Series 5 soundtrack, Amazon.co.uk has also revealed the probable release date of the soundtrack and the official cover of it...
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According to Amazon UK, Doctor Who: Series 4 The Specials Original Television Soundtrack is due for release across the UK on September 20th 2010 and they also say the soundtrack will have two discs.
Doctor Who-authorised audio play company Big Finish has released a teaser trailer and a press release for their upcoming 10-minute animated adventure for the popular novels and audio only companion Bernice Summerfield.
For those who don't know, the archaeologist character originated in the 1992 Virgin Adventures novel 'Love and War' when she joined the Seventh Doctor aboard the TARDIS and continued to do so throughout a total of 45 novels before departing for the final time in 1997's 'The Dying Days'. Bernice then gained her own series of 22 novels later in 1997 that would then be made in full-cast audios by Big Finish the following year with Lisa Bowerman's first 'appearance' as the character, a role which she has continued to play ever since.
Lisa Bowerman is back as Benny, who is returning to her roots as an archaeologist – although it isn’t long before she’s being pursued through the ruins of an alien world by a deadly adversary.
Dead and Buried is animated by Alex Mallinson, who has been working on the project for months.
“I’ve created animated trailers for Cyberman and Dalek Empire in the past but this is a much more complicated prospect,” he says. “John Ainsworth and Eddie Robson have written a cracking yarn which is proving a joy and a challenge to animate.
"It’s taken weeks of patient construction, animation, rendering and compositing but it doesn’t truly spring to life until Matthew Cochrane’s evocative sound design is added. However it’s still proven more work than any of us imagined, which is why Benny Series 11 has been delayed a month. I hope this will make up for it!”
The Bernice Summerfield: 'Dead And Buried' animated adventure is due for release on September 1st 2010 for free on the Big Finish website and will lead into the events of the Bernice Summerfield audio Series 11 episode 1.
Images have emerged of a prototype at this month's San Diego Comic Con 2010 of Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor Sonic Screwdriver toy in final colour paint and full packaging. It also includes two electronic sounds, a full description of the Third Doctor on the packaging, and a lenticular card of Jon Pertwee's Doctor as well.
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UPDATE: The Third Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver will be available some time in September for around £10.
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Remember quite a few weeks back when Matt Smith mentioned to BBC's entertainment news correspondent Lizo Mzimba that he was having a costume fitting for Series 6 because he wanted a warmer coat?
Well, now we have our very first (and fleeting) glimpses of the new coat from the filming of this year's Christmas special, and it seems any fan of the tweed jacket won't be too disappointed as the new coat isn't actually that much different. We can also see the Eleventh Doctor's red bow tie will be staying!
Bow ties are cool...
Hold on, no fez?
What are your thoughts on the new jacket?
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The covers have been officially released by Penguin Books of two brand spankingly new Doctor Who Decide Your Destiny books entitled 'Judoon Monsoon' by Oli Smith and 'Empire of the Wolf' by Neil Corry. which will be published on 2nd September.
"Join the Doctor and Amy Pond as they journey through time and space and influence their travels with your very own decisions. It’s up to YOU to choose the direction the story takes, meaning a brand new adventure is waiting for you with every read."
Previously, the successful Decide You Destiny series of semi-interactive Doctor Who adventure books have only ever been released for the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones and has not been reprised until now.
Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series DVD box set will be available in lenticular packaging, as well as an extra-special, silver, numbered limited edition DVD box-set.
The DVD box set also features some brand new extra features including...
Two 'Meanwhile in the TARDIS...' exclusively filmed scenes written by Steven Moffat, giving an insight to what's happened inside the TARDIS between the televised episodes.
Matt Smith's video diary.
Doctor Who Confidential episodes for each episode.
Monster Diaries from each 'vanilla'-edition DVD volume.
Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series DVD box set and the limited edition versison are both set for release in November 2010 for £69.99.
What are your thoughts on this box set? Are you going to buy it?
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Michael Ausiello, of Entertainment Weekly.com, has published details on a few of the main characters that will appear in the next series of Torchwood after being asked in an online Q&A with him.
Ausiello was asked, "Any whisperings on the new Torchwood you’d care to share?"
He replied: "Whisperings? More like shoutings. Among the casting intel I’ve gathered on the new season (airing on my new favourite cable network, Starz), the show is out to cast a new series regular — Rex Matheson, a wickedly funny (operative word: wicked) CIA agent born to make waves. Almost as key to the new season are recurring characters Esther Katusi, a CIA grunt in her early 20s who learns what she’s really made of only when she’s forced to, and Oswald Jones, a convicted murderer and pedophile who will be as shocked as anyone to learn how easily infamy and fame can be exchanged for one another."
Do not take this as any official confirmation as it certainly is not and I certainly don't think good old 'Rusty' Davies would have a new Torchwood member as a paedophile. It has been bandied about that a casting call for the US version of Channel 4's [excellent] Shameless has been mixed up with that of a Torchwood one, and this supposed "convicted murderer and paedophile" character does, I think, fit in with a comedy like Shameless. Then again I also cannot for the life in me see CIA members appearing in any version of Shameless, so maybe different characters for different shows have cropped up in media circles and Michael Ausiello is confusing them? It certainly seems more probable.
In other Torchwood news, both John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness) and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) have now confirmed that filming on Torchwood Series 4 begins January 2011 and is expected to broadcast in Summer 2011.
