Alexander Armstrong, the voice of super-computer Mr Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures, has promised fans that they won’t be disappointed by the forthcoming series.

The actor told DigitalSpy that he’s currently recording his lines for its 12-part fourth series, which is set to begin airing on CBBC this Autumn. He teased: “This very afternoon I’m heading back into town to voice more. There’s some brilliant things coming up. I’ve done the first four episodes, which were great.”

He also offered some hints as to just what we can expect to see in the new adventures, the titles of which were unveiled by Doctor Who Magazine back in June. He said: “Luke goes off to Oxford University and there’s some intrigue surrounding that. There’s a nasty nightmare creature. And K-9 goes off with Luke – there’s a very sweet moment between Mr Smith and K-9. They sort of admit their grudging respect for each other.”

He also admitted that he’d give his “eye-teeth” to appear on-screen in the spin off.

Online retailers are now taking pre-orders for two new original audiobooks from The Sarah Jane Adventures which are set to be released during the transmission of its fourth series in November.

All that’s known at the moment is that the releases are called Deadly Download and Wraith World, and that the exclusive-to-CD adventures will be available to buy from 4th November, both at the RRP of £5.99. We’ll bring you all the cover, plot and reader details as and when we get them.

The 12-part fourth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures begins on CBBC later this year.

BBC Blast has unveiled details of an exciting contest which is looking for young designers to help create a new game to feature on The Sarah Jane Adventures website.

The competition is aimed at people aged 13-19 who have a passion for sound and visual design. Entrants focusing on sound will need to make three sound effects (SFX) - each up to 10 seconds in length - for the Krulius alien, including one for his movement, another for his breathing, and one for the digital bio-converter and modem on his wrist.

Visual designers, meanwhile, have been offered the chance to design a spaceship for the Krulius (pictured on the right), which must include a special feature which is particularly useful to him.

Entries must be accompanied by a 200-word description detailing how you came up with yours ideas, why your entry is perfect for the Krulius, and why you think your entry suits its specific audience.

The closing date for entries is 5PM on Monday 11th October 2010, and up to 8 winners will be chosen to attend a two day master class over 23rd/24th October 2010 alongside leading industry professionals.

Entries can either be uploaded to the BBC Blast website, sent to ‘Game Design Competition’, BBC Blast Online, MC3 D2, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7T along with your name, age and email address, or emailed to blast-gamecomp@bbc.co.uk.

Full competition details, including downloadable resources and useful tips, can be via this link, and Anjili Mohindra, who plays Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures, has also recorded an overview of the contest which you can watch below.

Best of luck to any of our visitors or anybody you might know who will be entering!

The 12-part fourth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures begins on CBBC later this year.

We’re incredibly excited to have been given the opportunity to speak to Elisabeth Sladen at the London Film and Comic Con 2010 this weekend.

Over the next few days we’ll be compiling our interview, so if you’ve got anything you’d like us to ask her, now’s your chance to let us know!

Please leave your questions for Lis in a comment of this post, and we’ll pick a handful of our favourites.

You can also send them to us via the contact form and tweet them to us at @wnfeed. Please get your questions in by Saturday at the latest. Thank you!

Thanks for all your questions. We’ll try and use as many as possible. The interview will be posted online shortly.

Update - When we arrived at the London Film and Comic Con 2010 earlier today, we were introduced to Lis who generously agreed to spare us a few minutes of her time to speak to us. As we were about to begin, we were told that for contractual reasons, reasons unforseen by us and the event organisers, the BBC had asked Lis not to take part in our interview. While it’s a pain that we didn’t get to speak to her, understandably she had no other option but to oblige, however we’d just like to thank her for the short time that we were lucky enough to spend with her as she was extremely welcoming and friendly. We’ll keep hold of all of your questions as we may get another opportunity to speak to her in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience everyone – it’s just one of those things!

DigitalSpy have posted a new Q&A with Phil Ford, the writer of the brand new Adventure Game, Blood of the Cybermen, which is released on the official website tomorrow.

In the interview he also comments on the fourth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, for which he has penned episodes 3 and 4, The Vault of Secrets. He promises a “very different and exciting” feel to the CBBC series when we return to Bannerman Road in the Autumn.

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine confirms the episode titles for the fourth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures!

The 12-part series will air later this year and, inkeeping with tradition, is to be made up of six two-part stories. Sarah Jane & co will return in The Nightmare Man, written by Joseph Lidster, which will be followed by Phil Ford’s The Vault of Secrets. Episodes 5 and 6, titled, rather intriguingly, Death of the Doctor, are written by Russell T Davies, and will feature the Eleventh Doctor and Jo Grant!

Meanwhile, Gareth Roberts pens the fourth adventure for the team, The Empty Planet, and, in episodes 9 and 10, our heroes are set to be Lost in Time in the penultimate two-parter written by Rupert Laight. Finally, the series finale, co-written by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman, has been named as Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith.

For full details see Doctor Who Magazine #423 , out tomorrow at its usual price of £4.20.

Gareth Roberts has revealed that there’s a distinct “doom-y” feeling in the air during the Series 4 finale of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

The writer, who penned the story with Clayton Hickman, told DigitalSpy that the climax is a “storming” and “emotionally-charged” adventure for Sarah Jane & co. ”I wouldn’t say “armageddon”, but it’s full-blooded and dramatic, to show that children’s television can be like that,” he explained. ”We asked to the director to pretend it was the last one ever!”

Roberts is also behind this week’s episode of Doctor Who, The Lodger (Saturday, 18:45, BBC1/HD!), of which he notes: ”James Corden and Daisy Haggard, who plays Sophie, are both absolutely fantastic, I couldn’t have been happier. When the rushes started to come through, I was jumping up and punching the air.”

The 12-part fourth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs this Autumn on CBBC.

The Bafta Cymru Awards 2010 were held at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff yesterday, and as BBC News reports, for Doctor Who and its spin offs it was a night of success!

Producer Peter Bennett and editor Will Oswald won Best Drama Series and Best Editor for their respective work on Torchwood: Children of Earth, while Doctor Who added Best Design and Best Make-Up to its trophy cabinet. In addition, The Sarah Jane Adventures reigned supreme in the Best Interactive category!

Overall, the Big Three won 5 out of the 7 gongs they were nominated for. Director of BBC Cymru Wales, Menna Richards, said: “I am thrilled to see so many BBC Cymru Wales programmes picking up such well-deserved awards, and in such a broad range of categories. They are a real tribute to the very talented people who strive to produce such high quality and distinctive content for BBC Cymru Wales.”

From all of us, congratulations to all at Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane!

Matt Smith has returned to Cardiff to shoot his guest scenes for the new series of The Sarah Jane Adventures!

Thanks to the beady eyes of avid fans, we know that he’s already been filming his appearance for the past week or so, however we were given solid confirmation earlier this afternoon, when journalist Benjamin Cook tweeted: “On the set of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Matt Smith is here. So is Lis Sladen. So is Katy Manning. And cool stuff. It is good. That is all.”

The two-part story, which is written by former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies, will transmit on CBBC later this year as part of the spin off’s fourth series. Sarah Jane will meet the Doctor’s new incarnation for the first time, and our Time Lord will also be reunited with his former companion, Jo Grant, who first appeared in 1971.

When production has wrapped, it’s thought that Smith will be filming his role as Christopher Isherwood in the new BBC2 drama, Christopher And His Kind, before returning to South Wales in July to begin production on Series 6 of Doctor Who.

Lucie Jones has announced that she’ll be making a brief appearance in the forthcoming series of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Speaking to Metro recently, the former X Factor contestant revealed: “It’s a tiny cameo but apparently it’s quite funny.”

Filming for the new series of the CBBC spin off is underway in Cardiff and will also feature appearances from the Eleventh Doctor and former companion, Jo Grant.