And there was much rejoicing. BBC America and the BBC Doctor Who Blog have confirmed that the new season of Doctor Who premieres Saturday, September 1 on BBC One AND on BBC America! AND we have a brand new trailer announcing it, that we will watch over and over and over again until the 1st!
Trailer: Doctor Who Season 7 – BBC America Exclusive
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNHEEZ_I74U&hd=1[/youtube]
In addition to the season premiere, the BBC Doctor Who Blog also confirmed a web series – Pond Life – that will premiere on Monday, August 27 there. Here are the details:
We are delighted to confirm that the Doctor returns to BBC One on Saturday, 1st September with the incredible, Asylum of the Daleks. But you won’t have to wait until then for new Doctor Who as Pond Life premieres online on Monday, 27th August.
Matt Smith returns as the Doctor and called Asylum of the Daleks ‘a cracker’, adding, ‘Steven [Moffat] has written an absolute belter and we have made the Daleks scary again’. But before that, we have Pond Life to look forward to!
Featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, this five-part mini-adventure premieres on this site at noon on Monday with parts 2-5 stripped daily across the week. Written by Chris Chibnall and directed by Saul Metzstein, the omnibus version of Pond Life will be shown on the BBC’s Red Button on Saturday, 1stSeptember.
Chris Chibnall commented, ‘Pond Life provides us with a lovely opportunity to catch-up with Amy and Rory since we saw them at the end of the last series. It opens with the Ponds at home and gives us an insight in to just what happens when the Doctor drops in and out of their lives. Travelling with the Doctor is one of the greatest things you can do, but it’s fun to spend a few moments looking at the chaos he can also bring.’
Caroline Skinner, Executive Producer, said ‘Chris has written a beautiful, heartfelt and wickedly funny piece about the adventures the Ponds have been having with the Doctor since we last saw them on-screen. It’s not long till the series itself will be back with a vengeance – but in the meantime, Pond Life is a truly heart-warming piece about our best-loved companions and their madcap relationship with their raggedy Doctor.’
Hopefully we’ll be reporting later today that the same is planned for BBC America…
Doctor Who Season 7, starring Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill, premieres Saturday, September 1 on BBC One, and at 9/8c on BBC America.
