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Matt Smith has revealed that he’s beginning to feel “innately more settled” in the role of the Doctor now that he is more familiar with what it entails.
In an interview with ABC, the actor admits that he hopes he’s doing the part justice. “By the very nature of living in Cardiff, and knowing Karen and Arthur a bit better, you are innately more settled,” he said. “I don’t know if being more settled means I’m being more inventive with the part and doing it more justice – I hope so.”
He continued: “I hope I’ve broadened my horizons with this part. I think one of the nicest things about playing the Doctor is that every time you have a bath, you can have a bath as the Doctor, which is the most ridiculous bath you’ve ever had in the whole world! There’s something deeply rewarding about that notion, because you get to see the world through this mad, brilliant man. I’m thrilled to be part of so much.”
Series 6 premieres in Australia on ABC1 tomorrow at 7.30pm with The Impossible Astronaut, and the channel has recently launched its official website for the series, which will serve as a haven of knowledge for fans Down Under over the following weeks!
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Details have now been released regarding the third episode of Doctor Who Confidential, which will accompany The Curse of the Black Spot by Steve Thompson.
In the episode, entitled ‘Ship Ahoy!’, the Confidential team sets sail for a VIP journey on board the Doctor Who pirate ship, and Karen Gillan explains how she got to grips with swash buckling. Meanwhile, the production team reveals how they created a storm at sea, and there’s interviews with the cast, including guest actor Hugh Bonneville.
Ship Ahoy! will air on BBC Three/BBC HD at 7pm on 7th May, as soon as The Curse of the Black Spot (6:15-7pm) has premieredon BBC One/BBC One HD.
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BBC America have released a preview of their ‘Doctor Who in America’ special which will be aired this weekend.
The special will air on the channel this Saturday at 10/9c, straight after their premiere of Day of the Moon. As its title suggests, the programme ventures behind the scenes as the Doctor Who team heads to the US for the first time to film Series 6’s opening two-parter, with exclusive interviews with the cast and crew. Episode one, The Impossible Astronaut, broke ratings records for the channel.
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Some new teasers for the next episode of Doctor Who – Day of the Moon – have appeared online courtesy of Digital Spy and SFX!
Firstly, Digital Spy have shared 10 interesting tidbits from the episode, while SFX have posted 20 of their very own “incredibly vague hints”. In the episode, which will air tomorrow night at 6pm on BBC One, the Doctor finds himself locked in the perfect prison, while Amy, Rory and River are being hunted down across America.
They are reunited with the help of their new friend Canton – but who can be trusted?
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Life of Wylie has a new interview with John Simm, in which he admits that he would love to return to Doctor Who for the opportunity to “have a go” at Matt Smith’s Doctor.
The actor, acclaimed for his portrayal of the Master, has said that he would “seriously consider” reprising the role if he were to be asked. “Steven Moffat is a brilliant writer and it would be nice to see what he does with the Master,” he said. “They can do whatever they want. You’re at their mercy. But I’d seriously consider it if they asked me.”
He admitted: “I’d love to have a go at Matt Smith because I think he’s really great.”
He echoed the comments on The One Show yesterday, saying “it was such fun to do”.
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Steven Moffat has revealed that he isn’t completely against the idea of bringing former companions back to Doctor Who.
During a recent interview with Gothamist, the showrunner admitted that he’d particularly like to write for Captain Jack Harkness again, explaining: “Jack, who I wrote in the show, I’d love to have him back. I was thinking he should really be here recently but he’s busy. People talk as if somewhere there’s been some schism. There isn’t an intentional line at all. There’s no idea that we’re abandoning anything.”
He continued: “There are references to Davies’ characters – we just had a reference to Rose, in fact. In my head there is always a continuing story. The Doctor moves on from people in a rather scary but inevitable way. He won’t be nearby forever.”
Would you like to see any former companions again? Are there any you think shouldn’t return? John Barrowman has said he’d return “at the drop of a hat”, while Freema Agyeman has suggested that the door is always open for Martha to come back.
The TARDIS trio find themselves marooned onboard a 17th-century pirate ship in the episode, where they discover that its crew are being attacked by a mysterious sea creature. Becalmed and beset by cabin fever, the pirates have numerous superstitious explanations for the Siren’s appearance, but the Doctor has other ideas.
The Curse of the Black Spot’s prequel will be online on Saturday at 6:45pm.
Prince William and Kate Middleton will be getting married tomorrow, and to celebrate the historic day, we want to know what you think has been the most memorable Doctor Who wedding of recent years!
The Doctor has been to many weddings over the course of his travels (and, for all we know, several of his own…), but unfortunately not all of them have been ones to remember. The first wedding we saw in the revived series was Pete and Jackie’s in Series 1’s Father’s Day.
Their already rocky relationship was made all the more so when Pete made the ill-timed mistake of getting his fiancée’s name wrong at the alter (oops!), and there was yet more chaos in the church in the same episode when a wound in time unleashed the deadly Reapers unto the world on the day of Stuart Hoskins and Sarah Clarke’s wedding.
Meanwhile, the Doctor’s former companion, Donna, has had not one but two wedding days, the first of which took place in The Runaway Bride. As she prepared to tie the knot in a glittering ceremony on Christmas Eve, she was blissfully unaware that she was already tied up in a sinister plan to take over the world. Her fiancé, Lance, was working alongside the Empress of the Racnoss, and Donna subsequently vanished as she made her way down the aisle. Now that’s one way to make an exit! She finally got her happily ever after, however, when she married Shaun Temple in The End of Time, Part Two.
The most recent wedding was Amy and Rory’s, who tied the knot (eventually!) in The Big Bang. It was a day of joy and salvation as the Doctor made a triumphant return, and just in time to show off his groovy dance moves! It’s a good thing it all went well, as Rory had waited nearly 2,000 years to get Amy down the aisle. Good on you, mate!
Weddings have also been the settings of two spin off adventures. In The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, Sarah Jane was ready to make Peter Dalton a part of her life, but it was later revealed that it was all part of a plan put in place by the Trickster. Rhys and Gwen’s wedding in Something Borrowed, meanwhile, was made all the more stressful when the blushing bride was impregnated with an alien baby… Only in Torchwood, eh?
Of course, there have been other Doctor Who weddings, and there will no doubt be more of them to come in the future, but for now you are cordially invited to vote for your most memorable one from the selection below. Do you prefer it when things go to plan? Doctor Who and marriage don’t always go together like a horse and carriage…
The Doctor receives a distress signal from an old friend. Could there be another living Time Lord out there? Hopes raised, he follows the signal to a junkyard planet sitting upon a mysterious asteroid in a Bubble universe, populated by a very strange family.
The Doctor, Amy and Rory are given the warmest of welcomes by Auntie, Uncle and Nephew. But the beautiful and insane Idris greets them in a more unusual fashion – what is she trying to tell the Doctor? As the Doctor investigates, he unwittingly puts his friends in the gravest danger.
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A new puzzle game has been launched on the official Doctor Who website today!
‘The Game of Rassilon’ gives fans the chance to test their knowledge on the latest episode with clips and images as well as exclusive contributions from the cast. You can play The Impossible Astronaut puzzle now, and once you’re done there’s the option to compare your high score with friends. As the official site notes: “For centuries the Time Lords played The Game of Rassilon”… now it’s our turn!
What do you think of the game? How did you get on in the first instalment? Let us know!
Book your tickets for the Doctor Who Experience to be part of the adventure, and let us know how you fared as the Doctor's companion by sharing your reviews in our discussion!
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