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With rumors swirling of Karen and Arthur moving on after this season, and others involving Matt trying to find roles in Hollywood and the potential for a year of nothing but specials, the BBC finally confirmed via Twitter that they have ordered fourteen new episodes of Doctor Who for 2012, with Matt Smith returning to play the Doctor once again. This news was also re-confirmed by Steven Moffat.
EDIT:
It seems the BBC can't quite get their act together to properly inform the public what exact form Doctor Who will take in 2012.
There will be no full season, but it won't be slimmed back to a handful of specials like in 2009, as far as can be surmised. And yet there's been no reneging on the previous news that fourteen episodes have been commissioned.
So, will it be another split season, but starting in autumn and finishing in winter early 2013?
Your guess is as good as mine, but I'll stay on top of this.
Original story posted on The Doctor Who News Page
The latest batch of novels featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory will be released on June 23 in the UK.
Borrowed Time by Naomi Alderman
"You want more time Mr Brown, of course you do. We all want more time. Let me make you an offer..."
Andrew Brown never has enough time. No time to call his sister, or to prepare for that important presentation at the bank where he works. The train’s late, the lift jams. If only he’d had just a little more time. And time is the business of Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop. They’ll lend him some – at a very reasonable rate of interest.
Detecting a problem, the Doctor, Amy and Rory go undercover at the bank. But they have to move fast to stop Symington and Blenkinsop before they cash in their investments.
Touched By An Angel by Jonathan Morris
"The past is like a foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn’t want to live there."
In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. He receives a battered envelope, posted eight years ago, containing a set of instructions with a simple message: “You can save her.”
As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it’s up to the Doctor, Amy and Rory to save the whole world. Because this time the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon.
Paradox Lost by George Mann
"The Squall feed on psychic energy. They spread like a plague and if they are not stopped they will strip the Earth clean..."
London 1910: an unsuspecting thief finds himself confronted by grey-skinned creatures that are waiting to devour his mind. London 2789: the remains of an ancient android are dredged from the Thames. When reactivated it has a warning that can only be delivered to a man named ‘the Doctor’.
The Doctor and his friends must solve a mystery that has spanned over a thousand years. If they fail, the deadly alien Squall will devour the world.
The final season of The Sarah Jane Adventures starring the late Elisabeth Sladen will be broadcast in October.
The season consists of three 2-part stories: Sky and The Curse of Clyde Langer by Phil Ford, and The Man Who Wasn't There by Gareth Roberts.
A disturbing bit of verse related to the mid-season finale has been released, with ominous possibilities for our heroes...
Demons run when a good man goes to war,
Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war,
Friendship dies and true love lies, night will fall and the dark will rise,
When a good man goes to war.
2|Entertain, distributors of the classic Doctor Who series on DVD, have announced that the missing Episodes 4 and 5 of the classic Hartnell adventure "The Reign of Terror" will be animated for the forthcoming DVD release.
Many classic Doctor Who serials from the 1960s are either incomplete or missing entirely. In the past on VHS releases, missing episodes would be replaced with either linking narration, or a combination of the original audio track, production stills and narrating subtitles.
The first incomplete classic story to receive an animation treatment was the Troughton 8-parter "The Invasion", which is missing Episodes 1 and 4. Animation was done the studio Cosgrove Hall.
For "The Reign of Terror", the animation will be a joint effort between Big Finish (the company that has produced original Doctor Who audio dramas since 1999) and animation company Theta Sigma, whose 'Thetamation' is described as "a totally new style of animation, a hybrid of the classic anime styles of the 80s and high-technology".
"The Reign of Terror" was the final serial of the series' first season, broadcast from August - September 1964.
Original story posted on The Doctor Who News Page
