Sci-Fi Storm

BBC America will air this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, “A Christmas Carol”, on Christmas night this year, so it will only be hours after the U.K. viewers get to see it. Along with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, the special will also feature Arthur Darvill (Rory), along with Michael Gambon (Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films) and Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins. “A Christmas Carol” will air at 9PM EST.

Now if only I got BBC America in HD…

Doctor Who releases have shunned the High Definition format until David Tennant’s last “movie” episodes – mainly because they weren’t recorded in HD. [sfs=1038]Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series[/sfs], released last week ([sfs=1039]on DVD as well[/sfs]), is the first full series released on Blu-ray. So how does the video – and the new Doctor – fare?
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Haven’t received your [sfs=1039]Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series[/sfs] discs yet? Well, you don’t have to wait to check out the two “mini-episodes” included – check them out right here!

These minis fill in between two episodes, with the Doctor explaining to Amy about things, and Amy grilling him on his past companions – some brilliant dialog, including why the Doctor likes to have companions…
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What happens when the Doctor’s most fearsome enemy meets the world’s most powerful blender? You find out when Tom Dickson of Blendtec’s “Will It Blend?” series meets up with Sebastian J. Brook of Doctor Who Online with his Dalek…
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Fancy a chance to experience a little time travel? The BBC is opening the Doctor Who Experience on February 16th, 2011 at London’s Olympia Two, where it will stay until sometime in 2012 when it will relocate to Cardiff for the longer term (and be near the current production offices). The exhibit will include costumes, the Tom Baker-era TARDIS exterior, and the TARDIS sets from both David Tennant and Peter Davison – along with newer items like the Pandorica and monsters and enemies from across time. And there will also be an interactive experience, where you can star in your own serial! “The Doctor Who Experience is a fan’s dream come true – a fully interactive adventure that will allow viewers of the show to get as close as possible to some of the scariest monsters from the series,” according to producer/writer Steven Moffat. “It will also be the first time that Doctor Who artefacts from all the show’s 47 year history – classic and new – will be on display together, many of them being seen for the first time. And never mind that, this is the day the Doctor teaches you how to fly the TARDIS through time and space, and takes you into battle with all his deadliest enemies in a brand new adventure. So steady your nerves and bring your own sofa – the Doctor needs you!”

Note – this should be spoiler free, but it does talk about a line in the Sarah Jane Adventures episode that aired today in the UK (part 2 of “Death of the Doctor”), so if you don’t want to be spoiled about a line irrelevant to the plot, don’t read on.

So it seems the entire Whodom universe got its knickers in a twist about a throwaway line, although that was helped by things that Russell T. Davies said in the days leading up to it.
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Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy, while speaking at Armageddon Expo down in Auckland, NZ, confirmed that he has been offered the role of Radagast the Brown (one of the Istari – wizards – like Gandalf and Saruman) in The Hobbit – all that remains is signing the contract. Rumors also continue to swirl around Tenth Doctor David Tennant getting a role as well…

The BBC is now confirming rumors that the first two episodes of the upcoming 6th season of Doctor Who will indeed be filmed in the U.S., in Utah.

It’s a question as old as time – just how many times can the Doctor regenerate? We know the canonical answer – 12 – which dictates that there can only be 13 Doctors, and then he’s dead. But we also know that there are ways around it (the Time Lords offered the Master another regeneration, and he’s cheated it several times already). And, of course, it’s science fiction – they can just come up with something new. But it sounds like we will get a definitive answer – at least for the Doctor – in an upcoming episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

The two-part episode “Death of the Doctor” (to air as episodes 5 and 6), airing towards the end of this month in the U.K. (no U.S. airings are scheduled yet), is being written by Russell T. Davies and will feature Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor, and the return of Jo Grant (Katy Manning), one of the Third Doctor’s companions. And among some teaser lines provided by Digital Spy (who saw a sneak peak), “The Doctor doesn’t have to be white. And he can regenerate more than 12 times – a lot more!”