The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 2 - Begins Today!

The Sarah Jane Adventures returns today with it's highly anticipated second series: Here's the schedule:

TODAY (29th September)

The Last Sontaran: Part 1 - 4:35pm - BBC One

The Last Sontaran: Part 2 - 5:15pm - CBBC

SATURDAY (4th October)

The Last Sontaran: Part 1 (repeat) - 5:00pm - CBBC

Both episodes will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer soon after their broadcasts. The Sarah Jane Adventures continues next week on BBC One at 4:35pm with The Last Sontaran: Part 2 and The Day of the Clown: Part 1 over on CBBC 15 minutes afterwards.

Doctor Who Adventures - Issue 83

The cover and info on this week's edition of Doctor Who Adventures magazine:

Sarah Jane Returns!

The Doctor’s former companion returns to CBBC on Monday for the next action-packed series of The Sarah Jane Adventures. To celebrate, this week’s Doctor Who Adventures has a sneak preview of the first episode - The Last Sontaran. There’s also a fact file on schoolgirl turned alien investigator Maria Jackson and a Sontaran mask for readers to wear. Sontar-ha!

We also look ahead to Christmas when an old enemy will stomp back on to our screens. What do the Cybermen want this time? And how will the Doctor cope on his own without Donna by his side? This week’s issue has got two brand-new features. In Blast from the Past we journey back in time to the former Doctors’ adventures. This week it’s City of Death and the moment the Count turns into the yucky Scaroth. Also, Action Replay puts some of the scariest moments from Doctor Who under the microscope. The issue comes with a free sonic pen and Tardis sticky notes.

PLUS:

• Three posters! The Weeping Angels, Luke and Commander Kaagh, and Jenny and the Doctor.
• Fact file: The Hooverville heroes.
• Ultimate Companions: Part three of K-9’s guide to team Tardis.
• Activity: Cut out and wear the Sontaran helmet.
• Comic strip: The Alice in Wonderland Circuit.
• Rel Race: Complete all the puzzles in 300 Dalek Rels to avoid extermination!
• Woven wordsearch: Solve the puzzle and you could win a copy of Doctor Who - Shining Darkness.
• Win: Doctor Who DVDs and a Wii up for grabs!
• Subscription offer: Subscribe and you’ll get free Doctor Who Files on the Doctor and the Tardis.
• All this and loads more!

Issue 83 of Doctor Who Adventures magazine is on sale from today at all good newsagents until 1st October priced £2.10 per copy.

Trip of a Lifetime!

The BBC Press Office have released details of a once-in-a-lifetime event for Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures fans in honour of Children in Need. Read on for more info:

Fans of smash-hit shows Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go behind the scenes at the studios where the shows are filmed.

On Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th November, the BBC will be opening the studio doors just outside Cardiff to 100 lucky competition winners and their friends and families.

The money-can't-buy-experience is being run to help raise money for this year's BBC Children in Need appeal.

Doctor Who: Backstage will take fans to the heart of the action at the BBC Wales studios.

Visitors will tour the closely-guarded sets, come face-to-face with some of the Doctor's mortal enemies, and meet the behind-the-scenes teams who make it all happen - including the set designers, costumiers and make-up artists.

Russell T Davies says: "This is so exciting - giving fans the opportunity to take a behind the scenes look at where we film Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures is just brilliant."

"It'll be the perfect opportunity for the whole family to experience something unique and truly extraordinary. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience - and the best thing is that all the money raised will go towards BBC Children in Need."

To be in with a chance of winning a place on the tour, all people have to do is answer one multiple-choice question.

The all-important question will be announced on Friday 26 September, live on the Chris Moyles show on BBC Radio 1 as well as BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru.

It will also be available on the Doctor Who website - bbc.co.uk/doctorwho - along with the full terms and conditions.

The competition phone lines will be open from 8:00am on Friday 26th September 2008. Callers must be over 16 and have the bill-payers' permission. Each winner will be able to bring up to three guests who must all be aged five or over.

The tour is taking place during a brief gap in the production schedule.

Doctor Who will return to BBC One this Christmas in The Next Doctor and filming resumes early in 2009 on a number of specials, followed by series five.

BBC Children in Need's aim is to positively change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.

BBC Children in Need 2008 will broadcast live from BBC Television Centre on Friday 14th November from 7:00pm.

This year's fundraising theme is Do Something Different and in the weeks and months leading up to the televised appeal people are being encouraged to get creative and take up the challenge.

For inspiration there are lots of fantastic ideas in the new fundraising pack  go to bbc.co.uk/pudsey or call 0345 607 3333.

From this press pack, the BBC have confirmed that this year's Doctor Who Christmas special is titled The Next Doctor. More to come!

Doctor Who: The Forever Trap - Cover & Info

The cover and info on a new exclusive Doctor Who audiobook adventure:


THE FOREVER TRAP, written by Dan Abnett, read by Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate reads this exclusive thrilling story, in which the Doctor and Donna are imprisoned on the Edifice - and become neighbours to a terrifying assortment of aliens. 

When the Tardis is invaded by a holographic marketing scam, the Doctor and Donna find themselves trapped on the Edifice, a purpose-built complex of luxury apartments in space. Their new environs leave much to be desired: millions of beings from across the Universe have been gathered to live side by side in similar apartments. Instead of creating neighbourly affection, it's led to terrible battles being waged in the corridors and on the stairwells.The Doctor and Donna must cross the paths of deadly alien mobs as they search for the Edifice's ultimate authority. Who - or what - lies at the heart of the incredible complex? What destructive scourge is eating away at the Edifice itself? And are the Doctor and Donna trapped forever in this living hell?

Doctor Who: The Forever Trap is on sale from 9th October priced £9.99 per copy.

Doctor Who: New Adventures Audiopack - Cover & Info

BBC Audio have revealed the cover and info of a new Doctor Who audiobook triplepack titled New Adventures:

 
MARTHA IN THE MIRROR, written by Justin Richards and read by Freema Agyeman

Castle Extremis - whoever holds it controls the provinces on either side that have been at war for centuries! Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the strange little girl who haunts the castle? What is the secret of the book the Doctor finds, its pages made from thin, brittle glass? Who is the hooded figure that watches from the shadows? And what is the secret of the legendary Mortal Mirror? The Doctor and Martha don't have long to find the answers - an army is on the march, and the castle will soon be under siege once more...

SNOWGLOBE 7, written by Mike Tucker and read by Georgia Moffett

Earth, 2099. Global warming is devastating the climate. The polar ice caps are melting.

In a desperate attempt at preservation the Governments of the world have removed vast sections of the Arctic and Antarctic and set them inside huge domes across the world. The Doctor and Martha arrive in Snowglobe 7 in the Middle East, hoping for peace and relaxation. But they soon discover that it's not only ice and snow that has been preserved beneath the Dome. While Martha struggles to help with an infection sweeping through the holidaymakers the Doctor discovers an alien threat that has lain hidden since the last ice age. A threat that is starting to thaw.

THE MANY HANDS, written by Dale Smith and read by David Troughton

Edinburgh, 1759. The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard. That doesn't explain why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died. It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor. And about the many hands of Alexander Monro.

Doctor Who: New Adventures is on sale from 9th October priced £25.99 per copy.

Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - Cover & Info

The cover and synopsis on a new Doctor Who reference book:

 THE WRITER'S TALE

"Writing isn’t just a job that stops at six-thirty… It’s a mad, sexy, sad, scary, obsessive, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There’s not the writer and then me; there’s just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it."

A unique look into the BBC’s most popular family drama, Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale is a year in the life of the hit television series, as told by the show’s head writer and executive producer. A candid and in-depth correspondence between Russell T Davies and journalist Benjamin Cook, the book explores in detail Russell’s work on series four, revealing how he plans the series and works with the show’s writers; where he gets his ideas for plot, character and scenes; how actors are cast and other creative decisions are made; and how he juggles the demands of Doctor Who with the increasingly successful Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures spin-offs.

Russell’s scripts are discussed as they develop, and Russell and Benjamin’s wide-ranging discussions bring in experiences from previous series of Doctor Who as well as other shows Russell has written and created, including Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, and The Second Coming. The reader is given total access to the show as it’s created, and the writing is everything you would expect from Russell T Davies: warm, witty, insightful, and honest.

Fully illustrated with never-before-seen photos and artwork - including original drawings by Russell himself - The Writer’s Tale is a not only the ultimate Doctor Who book, but a celebration of great writing and great television.

According to the book, this year's Doctor Who Christmas special is titled The Next Doctor, the BBC have yet to confirm this. Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale is on sale 25th September priced £29.99 per copy.

Doctor Who: Series 4 Soundtrack - Cover & Info

Silva Screens have revealed the cover and tracks of the Doctor Who series four soundtrack:

• Opening Credits
• Noble Girl About Town
• Life Among The Distant Stars
• Corridors And Fire Escapes
• Sybilline Sisterhood
• Songs Of Captivity And Freedom
• UNIT Rocks
• Doctor's Daughter
• Source
• Unicorn And The Wasp
• Doctor's Theme
• Voyage Of The Damned
• Girl With No Name
• Song Of Song
• All In The Mind
• Silence In The Library
• Greatest Story Never Told
• Midnight
• Turn Left
• Dazzling End
• Ruful Fate Of Donna Noble
• Davros
• Dark And Endless Dalek Night
• Pressing Need To Save The World
• Hanging On The Tablaphone
• Song Of Freedom
• Closing Credits

The Doctor Who series four soundtrack is on sale from 18th November priced £9.99 per copy.