The forthcoming issue of SFX Magazine, Issue #194, not only features a fantastic 3D cover to mark the launch of Series 5, but inside there’s also a brand new interview with the man who will be portraying the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith!

And the SFX website has today released a snippet of the interview ahead of the release of the magazine later this week, in which the actor offers a few tantalizing hints as to what we can expect from his first episode, The Eleventh Hour!

“I think there’s a magic to it. Steven has written a rather brilliant fairytale, in such a magical way,” he teases. ”The Doctor’s getting to know his new body, which is just brilliant, all the great stuff that Steven’s done with that.”

He adds: ”What’s interesting about this particular series is that it has a thread twining through it. And you learn about that in episode one. And the Doctor’s scoping it out. It’s quite important for the rest of the tale.”

You can read the full interview, as well as interviews with Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) and showrunner Steven Moffat, in SFX Magazine #194, to be published this coming Wednesday!

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It was confirmed today that Matt Smith and Karen Gillan will be taking part in an epic voyage around the country later this month to promote the launch of the long-awaited fifth series of Doctor Who, their first in role as the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond!

The nationwide tour will kick off in Belfast on Monday March 29th. Gillan’s hometown, Iverness, will be taking centerstage on Tuesday March 30th, and they’re set to arrive in Sunderland later that day. They’ll be heading to Salford on Wednesday 31st March, finishing that afternoon in Smith’s hometown of Northampton!

And that’s not all - they’ll be travelling to each destinaton in a specially-themed tour bus, featuring the brand new logo and TARDIS insignia on its exterior, and at each location they will also be introducing an exclusive regional preview of their first episode, the 65-minute Series 5 opening adventure, The Eleventh Hour!

Executive producer Piers Wenger said: “This is a great opportunity for the new Doctor and his companion to interface directly with the people who matter most to Doctor Who: the fans. The chance to visit them in their hometowns will ensure that the 11th Doctor’s maiden voyage is an utterly magical one.”

Meanwhile, from April 1st-3rd, the BBC will be hosting a series of exclusive screenings at BBC Big Screens in the cities of London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Plymouth and Swansea, which will give fans the chance to see the launch promo trailer in all its 3D glory, as well as to get up, close and personal with various foes and monsters from the series!

Exact details for both events are still to be confirmed. Series 5 of Doctor Who is expected to start on April 3rd on BBC One/HD. Stay tuned for the very latest!

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The Sun have today posted a few more images taken on location during recent filming for the forthcoming series of Doctor Who!

As we previously reported, this week scenes - believed to be for episodes 7 and 11 of the new series - have been filmed involving Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) holding a fish on a plate, the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) pushing a trolley bursting to the brim with household objects, and the latest incarnation of our beloved Time Lord having a kick about with guest star James Corden! All in day’s work, eh?

And the pictures released today by the tabloid depict the Doctor mysteriously falling out of the TARDIS and staring up in horror at the blue box. Just what is going on? Feel free to share your theories below!

Filming for Series 5 is expected to wrap in just under three weeks time, and it will begin airing on BBC One/HD at Easter.

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The Guardian has today published a great new interview with Matt Smith which they recently conducted from inside his very own trailer on the Doctor Who set!

The Eleventh Doctor actor talks about his past, present and future, and you can read the full article by clicking here.

It’ll undoubtedly be the first of many features focused on the forthcoming series as its long-awaited Easter transmission date fast approaches. Matt Smith and Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) are also heavily featured inside the latest issues of Esquire and InStyle magazines.

There’s definitely no chance that the launch of the new series will go unnoticed, and we wouldn’t have it any other way! Stay tuned for the very latest!

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With Series 5 just around the corner, this week various news sites have been publishing snippets of Matt Smith’s new interview which will appear in the upcoming edition of Esquire magazine.

In the issue, the Eleventh Doctor actor describes how he was forced to bury his original ambition to become a professional football player when a sudden back injury led him down the path of peforming arts instead. ”It was very tough,” The Sun quotes. ”I remember crying, because that was all I’d ever invested in.”

Meanwhile, The Daily Mail have posted an extract in which he reveals that, ironically, friends have been likening him to the Doctor for years, all thanks to his Tom Baker-esque scarf that he wore at university. “I had a big coloured scarf and people often said, ‘All right, Doctor Who?’” he revealed. “I thought, I rather liked the notion!”

He goes on to admit that he wasn’t phased by the challenges he faced when he accepted the role. “I give everything I have to this show,” he explained. “I go in, do 14 hours on set, then come home and learn lines. I’m saying reams of mad dialogue, and you can’t blag that, you have to know it inside out.” 

And, according to him, our beloved Time Lord is a ‘busy’ character, someone who ‘finds humans fascinating’, and someone who’d be ‘in real trouble’ if he stopped saving the world! “Imagine if you’d travelled round for 900-plus years on your own with this great weight behind you?” he said. ”He’s an addict!”

You can read his full interview in the latest issue of Esquire, out Thursday 4th March. The fifth series of Doctor Who will launch with The Eleventh Hour next month. Stay tuned!

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The News of the World has today posted a preview image of a suited and booted Matt Smith, taken from a recent photoshoot to be featured inside the April edition of Esquire, out March 4th.

Our new leading man is also interviewed inside the issue and, naturally, the topic of conversation is his first series of Doctor Who which is set to kick off on BBC One/HD this Easter. Of the iconic Time Lord, the Eleventh Doctor actor said: “He’s an inter-galactic genius, a superhero-ish, mad, fumbling, bumbling, science geek.”

Esquire, billed as ‘the magazine for men who mean business’, is released monthly and you can find out more about it over at its official website by clicking here.

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Matt Smith and Karen Gillan took a short break from filming the new series over the weekend to represent Doctor Who at the BBC Showcase in Brighton alongside its showrunner Steven Moffat!

The event, now in its 34th year, serves as a selling point for the BBC to interest worldwide buyers with their various programming. Gareth David-Lloyd, who played Ianto Jones in Series 1-3 of Torchwood, was also reportedly in attendance.

At the television market BBC Worldwide announced that they have signed a brand new deal with Sony Pictures Television to continue to broadcast Doctor Who, Torchwood and Primeval in countries across Central and Eastern Europe, including in Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Montenegro.

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According to an article published by The Northampton Chronicle today, all of the Eleventh Doctor figures have completely sold out in the area after fans and friends bought the entire first batch of models based on their local hero.

There were reportedly queues of people outside every available shop upon its release, including the actor’s mother, Lynne Smith, who was fortunate to get her hands on one before they disappeared off the shelves!

“The likeness is incredible. It’s amazing, I think it’s a really good model of him,” she told the newspaper. “And he’s my son, so I’ve obviously looked at it really closely. It was fabulous to see his first model, it was really exciting for us all.”

The figure is now available in shops for £8.99, however it’s selling so quickly that eBay, which currently has one auctioning for £30, may be your best bet! Stay tuned!

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In a new interview with DigitalSpy released today, Billie Piper has revealed that the atmosphere was ‘weird’ when she filmed her short scene as Rose Tyler for The End of Time - because she had no idea what the rest of the episode was about!

“I didn’t have a full script and I had to do it in three hours,” she said. ”It was after filming Secret Diary of a Call Girl in the day and it was too short! I wish I’d been there for the whole episode - but that would have been a bit tedious!”

She continued: “I hate it that [David] has left, but then I know Matt Smith really well and I love him and I think he’s such a brilliant actor. The role couldn’t have gone to a better guy. He’s capable of that. He’s got big shoes to fill, but I’m certain he can do it.”

She said of a return in the future: “I think it’s done now, that ship has sailed. That old, wooden ship! I really loved doing it, but Doctor Who has moved on, and I can’t keep going back. It’s ridiculous! It’s time to move on.”

The actress recently made similiar comments regarding a comeback while speaking to The Independent.

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We’ve still got the Tenth Doctor for a few more days yet (make the most of it!), but already Radio Times are looking into the future with a feature in their latest issue detailing the people to watch in 2010, and 3rd on the list is Matt Smith, who will soon be welcomed into the Doctor Who universe as the Eleventh Doctor.

And Steven Moffat promises that the actor has “restored the more professorial aspect of the character”.

“At times he’s very quiet,” the Series 5 head writer told the magazine. “The strong, quiet man. Some of his most powerful moments are when he’s very, very quiet… very, very gentle, in a way that a very powerful person can be. There’s a scene I watched just recently in which he was chillingly good: a big confrontation-with-the-alien scene, and instead of playing it - as he could have - in a much more bombastic way, he was very quiet, very matter-of-fact, very simple.”

He finished: “He’s a very distinctive actor, and he has the most extraordinary face. And the camera loves him, so you’ll be seeing a lot of that face, suffering, in close-up, I tell you!”

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