More Who goodness

[khaosworks]

Preliminary reports indicate that this coming weekend's episode of Doctor Who, written by uber-fan and scriptwriter Mark Gatiss, "The Unquiet Dead", will send children scurrying for the back of the sofa. We have modern day Swansea and Monmouth masquerading as 1869 Cardiff, we have Simon Callow as Charles Dickens, and we have dead people coming to life. So parents, be prepared to reassure them that it's just a television show and that the scary old lady isn't going to get them.

Also, the BBC Shop already has the vanilla DVD releases of Series 1 on their site, but Play.com has put up the pre-order page of the complete Series 1 boxed set, with all the extra crispy bits, to be released November 21.




Finally, in news that brings a fanboyish glow to my heart, the upcoming Episode 5, "World War Three", will see the return of my absolute favorite Doctor Who concept: the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. With an alien spaceship crashing in the Thames, the city of London cordoned off and the world put on red alert, it's about bloody time to call in the experts.

Comments

[cadhla.livejournal.com]

Is this a UK-only release, or will it be coming out for the US as well?

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

No US release has been announced yet. Not even a US broadcaster. Canada might, though, since the first series is showing there now, but nothing's been heard from that front yet.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Just so's you know, it's Gatiss - pronounced "gay-tiss".

Any chance of a cut-tag to hide the Ep5 info? Doesn't affect me much, but may do others.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Done, although it's actually in a BBC Press Office release...

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so's a vast amount of spoilery material. Their own publicity machine's made a bit of a mockery of their "we want you to be surprised" stance over the release of episodes on the net. =:o\

Ah well, at least we can say we tried.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

...And thanks.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Nifty box, that!