The 419th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was published across the UK today, and this month’s feature is an exclusive interview with Beth Willis and Piers Wenger.

The new executive producers are, as we speak, working alongside showrunner Steven Moffat to produce the 13 brand shining new adventures that will hit our screens from next month!

There’s also a free audio adventure to download. Freakshow by Mark Morris follows the Fifth Doctor, Turlough and Tegan as they encounter a caged menagerie of the most unusual aliens. Also inside…

• THE TERROR – Steven Moffat reveals at least three frankly terrifying facts about the forthcoming series of Doctor Who in his latest Production Notes entry!
• THE HAND – The Doctor is dead, killed by Majenta Pryce, and the universe itself is at her mercy in the penultimate instalment of the latest comic strip, The Crimson Hand, written by Dan McDaid with art by Martin Geraghty.
• THE HOUND – Every dog has his day, and now it’s finally K-9’s turn! DWM goes behind the scenes of the brand new series starring the Doctor’s erstwhile companion, with exclusive interviews with the cast and crew and never-before-seen pictures.
• THE NIGHTMARE MAN - The magazine tracks down writer Donald Tosh to discover just how he helped shape the destiny of Doctor Who back in the 1960s.
• THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY’S TOMB – The Fact of Fiction unearth the secrets of the ancient Egyptian Gods as seen in the 1975 Fourth Doctor serial Pyramids of Mars.
• BEYOND BELIEF – This Month’s You Are Not Alone sees Neil Harris investigate just how important special effects are to Doctor Who, and whether or not you can make a good story without them.
• PLUS – All the latest official news, previews, merchandise reviews, competitions, and brand new pictures from the Eleventh Doctor’s first episode, The Eleventh Hour!

Doctor Who Magazine Issue #419 is out now, priced £4.20. You can check out a larger preview of its cover by clicking here.

The BBC Press Office has today confirmed that The Sarah Jane Adventures will be returning to CBBC for a fourth series later this year! And that’s not all - a fifth series, to air next year, has been given the green light too!

This is of course great news for fans of the Doctor Who spin off, because it means that we’ll be able to enjoy the adventures of Sarah Jane & co until at least the end of 2011!

As previously reported, filming for the next series, confirmed to be starring all of the regular cast, will commence in Cardiff this month, and the press release promises the usual mixture of ‘thrills, scares and fun with enemies old and new’ for the 12-part/6 story series, which will hit our screens this Autumn.

In Series 4, we’ll meet the terrors of the Nightmare Man, the sinister Shansheeth, the gang will visit an alien world, and there’ll even be a dangerous journey back into history. Phil Ford, Joseph Lidster, Rupert Laight, Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman will be writing for the series, and Nikki Wilson will be joining the team as executive alongside Russell T Davies. Brian Minchin will serve as its producer.

Meanwhile, production for Series 5, which will continue the established 12-part/6 story format, will begin next year and it will transmit on BBC One in Autum 2011.

“We are thrilled to be making many more episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures,” said Damian Kavanagh, CBBC Controller. “It is been a huge ratings and critical success on CBBC and we hope our viewers are going to be hooked on Sarah Jane’s action-packed adventures for some time to come.” And we’re sure we will be! Affirmative!

As UK fans await confirmation of the Series 5 launch transmission date – which is 99.9% certain to be on Saturday 3rd April – today news has surfaced of the start dates for the series in a couple of other countries!

Firstly, Canadian channel Space have announced via their official website that they’ll be airing the series from Saturday April 17th at 9:00PM ET.

Last month it was revealed that the series will have its premiere in the US, on BBC America, on the same day.

Meanwhile, ABC have confirmed that the series will also be screened in Australia from next month, however exact transmission times are still being finalized. We’ll keep you updated!

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