New Series Begins Easter Weekend (Saturday 30th March)..

Basq

Confirmed by the Beeb..

We can confirm that Doctor Who returns to BBC One during the Easter weekend on Saturday, 30 March, 2013.

The Doctor is back in a fantastic adventure written by the show’s lead writer and executive producer, Steven Moffat. The episode - the first in a run of 8 - is directed by Colm McCarthy whose previous credits include Hustle, Spooks and Endeavour.

Later adventures in the run include episodes written by Mark Gatiss (Victory of the Daleks, Night Terrors) and Neil Gaiman.

Steven Moffat has promised us that in terms of Doctor Who, 2013 will be a ‘tremendous’ year and we’ll be bringing you more about the forthcoming adventures soon. But if you can’t wait for the TARDIS to return on 30 March, you can take a brief look now at what’s in store for the Doctor, Clara and some familiar friends… and foes!

Das Kitty

Easter feels like Easter again.

bradyle

Wow...my brain actually went oh no I'm going to be in Paris that night...

Doctor Who> Paris

Sleepy

And Game of Thrones returns the night after... woohoo!

flazio

flazio wrote: »

What date is Easter Saturday? That's been the launch date for a few years now.

What did I tell ye?
Now to see if Moffat has written anything, canon or not canon, for Comic Relief again.

yayyyy

Daemos

bradyle wrote: »

Wow...my brain actually went oh no I'm going to be in Paris that night...

Doctor Who> Paris

Compromise, bring a City of Death DVD to watch while you're there

allanb49

and now we play the waiting game

allanb49

waiting game sucks who wants to play hungry hungry hippos?

pixelburp

Not sure where to put this, but observant people have spotted that the

Ice Warriors

can be seen in a newly-released promo pic:

http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/sneak-peek-of-the-...

allanb49

crap i'll be at a stag this weekend

Das Kitty

allanb49 wrote: »

crap i'll be at a stag this weekend

You need to check your priorities!

:P

allanb49

I was tempted to ask them could we get the stripper an hour later so I could watch Dr Who....

flazio

allanb49 wrote: »

crap i'll be at a stag this weekend

It's not back this weekend.

allanb49

flazio wrote: »

It's not back this weekend.

when I meant this weekend meant the weekend of March 30th.

Das Kitty

New trailer at 6pm apparently.

DirtyBollox

Funny story, I'm being made redundant on the 29th of March, i've a calendar in work i'm crossing the days off on. People think its until my last day but it isnt. I'm crossing off the days until this starts back again!!!

pixelburp

And to get everyone in the mood, here's the new trailer. Ice Warriors! Also, am really liking the new Cybermen design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRQu3MvRySA

yay!

BaconZombie

I was REALLY hoping they were not going to play fecking Dubstep during the trainer.

pixelburp wrote: »

And to get everyone in the mood, here's the new trailer. Ice Warriors! Also, am really liking the new Cybermen design

pixelburp

BBC America also has its own trailer, as narrated by Mark Sheppard doing his best trailer-voice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1pzCjPN9xs

Anyone know what time this is likely to broadcast at? I'm meant to be in work til 5pm that day...need to know if I need to swap shifts to be home to watch this!

Daemos

6.10pm, according to the Radio Times

Edit: link contains episode title, so don't look if you want to avoid it

http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/vxr98/doctor-who--series-7---7-the-bells-of-st-john

Apparently it is liable to change, but IMO by no more than 5 minutes

bradyle

Prequel to the start of 7b online at 12:00 Sat

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/Prequel-for-The-Bells-of-Saint-John-Here-on-Saturday

Also says the show is airing at 6.15pm

Mr.Saturn

bradyle wrote: »

Prequel to the start of 7b online at 12:00 Sat

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/Prequel-for-The-Bells-of-Saint-John-Here-on-Saturday

Also says the show is airing at 6.15pm

Boom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IROtC6cAT4

Basq

^

Could see it coming... but decent nonetheless!

Art_Wolf

pixelburp wrote: »

BBC America also has its own trailer

They appear to be going all out - marathon of season 5/6/7 starting tomorrow night.

Professey Chin

9 minutes. Eeeeeeeee

Manach

Monks are always cool.

MMAGirl

Just watched the first of the new season. Easily the worst episode i've seen.

flazio

MMAGirl wrote: »

Just watched the first of the new season. Easily the worst episode i've seen.

Why? What went wrong?

gufnork

It wasn't that bad. Wasn't the best episode I've ever seen I'll give you that. I'm not a fan of a lot of the episodes that are set on earth. I dunno, they just don't seem to have me on the edge of my seat like a lot of the ones set on other planets. Also, anyone else noticed a distinct bit of 'deux ex machina' in a good deal of the episodes with Matt Smith with regard to the sonic screwdriver? I was watching some of the old Tom Baker episodes on utube a little while ago and it barely gets an airing from one episode to the next.

I'm liking Clara though, first impressions only of course.

Wibbs

gufnork wrote: »

Also, anyone else noticed a distinct bit of 'deux ex machina' in a good deal of the episodes with Matt Smith with regard to the sonic screwdriver? I was watching some of the old Tom Baker episodes on utube a little while ago and it barely gets an airing from one episode to the next.

I've thought similar since the reboot kicked off, but Matt's Doc uses it a lot. The Tardis has been used a lot in this way too. Back in the day, most of the time the Tardis showed up at the start and rarely got involved in the plot itself. I don't mind BTW, just noticed it.

Henry Ford III

Missed this last night. Will it be repeated soon?

flazio

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Missed this last night. Will it be repeated soon?

BBC Three, Friday 7pm.