Yes, these are actual clips, not just photos, and not a quilt of teeny clips stitched together, but actual scenes from the first episode of the second half of season 6. This is so great! Much has been speculated about that new person you’ll see in the second clip, especially what if any role she’ll play in future episodes, maybe even future seasons, but NOTHING has been confirmed. Doctor Who Speculation ought to be a sport in the 2012 Olympics, given some of the stretching we’ve seen, and the giant leaps…

Doctor Who returns with all new episodes to the UK and the US on August 27; in the US it’s 9/8c on BBC America.