Doctor Who News Round-Up

With Torchwood: Miracle Day currently airing on Thursdays, the wait for the next run of Doctor Who to begin broadcasting seems to have been made marginally more bearable for its diehard followers. That being said, news on the next season and/or new releases in the Whoniverse never comes as anything but a welcome surprise for the fanbase, and as such this week has been a pleasant one. Here's a round-up on all the latest in the world of the cult sci-fi show:

• The first of four new Adventure Games will be uploaded to the official Who website this October. Titled The Gunpowder Plot, the interactive story sees the Doctor, Amy and Rory head to the year 1605 in an attempt to stop old foes disrupting the timeline of one Guy Fawkes. Kids should certainly have a great time learning about the history of the titular failed plan, and teachers will be provided with information packs on the famous event as supplementary material for education if they so choose.
• A trailer for the second half of the sixth series will debut at ComicCon this Sunday. There are six more episodes to come, including opener Let's Kill Hitler, as well as romps involving James Corden, David Walliams, Ian McNeice and something called The God Complex. We'll have the video online courtersy of the official website at around 9pm that evening.
• Fresh from her work on Five Days and upcoming drama The Fades, Caroline Skinner has been appointed the new executive producer of Doctor Who. The move comes after Beth Willis announced she would return to Kudos Film & Television when production on the current series concluded. Now that is the case, Skinner will take over for the Christmas Special and the foreseeable future, working with Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger on the festive episode before Wenger leaves and the programme gets another exec.
• Episode 8, the Series 6: Part 2 opener Let's Kill Hitler, will be broadcast for the first time at a public screening in the British Film Institute on the 15th of August...if you're back from trying to purchase tickets and wondering why you can't, it's because they sold out within hours of the announcement yesterday. With another screening set for critics on the 26th, it's likely we'll get the episode either on the August Bank Holiday Saturday (27th) or early in September.
• Finally, details on the classic DVD release Day of the Daleks have been announced. The set will consist of two discs, one with the original broadcast version of the story and the other with a revamped version (in terms of CGI and effects), with special features including segments from Nationwide and Blue Peter at the time of filming in the 80s, plus a look at the making of the story. The DVD is out on September 12th.

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