Doctor Who

Doctor Who will be back on our screens this August when Peter Capaldi will be making his first full appearance as the twelfth Time Lord.

The news was announced in a teaser trailer uploaded by the BBC to the official Doctor Who website yesterday.

The 16-second teaser trailer features a silhouette of the new Time Lord with his Tardis console ablaze in the background, a reference to the cliff hanger at the end of 'The Time of the Doctor', last year's Christmas special.

Audience first met Capaldi's incarnation back in December, when Matt Smith eleventh Doctor was given a new lease of life by the Time Lords and regenerated.

The episode ended with Capaldi's Doctor asking his companion Clara Oswald if she knew how to fly the Tardis as they are about to crash.

Although fans were given the briefest of glimpses of Capaldi's Doctor in the 50 anniversary special, with a fleeting shot of his eyes and the dogged determination in them to save Gallifrey from destruction.

Fans have been fed titbits over the last several months, Keeley Hawes, Ben Miller, Tom Riley and Frank Skinner will be guest starring in the new series.

Samuel Anderson has also joined the cast as Danny Pink, a recurring character, who teaches at Coal Hill School with Jenna Coleman's Clara.

Sherlock writer Steve Thompson has written an episode, which will star Hawes as Ms Delphox, a character with a dark secret. While comedian Miller will be playing a villain, his comedy partner Alexander Armstrong has previously starred in the long-running science fiction series.

Showrunner Steven Moffat has said that the Doctor will be heading to Lanzarote, the last time the Time Lord was there was back in 1984.

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Hoss_sl said:

I saw Captain Jack at comicpalooza last weekend. He said there were no plans to bring him back that he knew of. Where do I write to correct this injustice?

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The new series of Doctor Who will see some of the biggest changes to the show since it returned in 2005, according to showrunner Steven Moffat.

"We haven't made much of a change to Doctor Who since it came back in 2005. It's been the same show, it's maybe amped some things up and lowered some things but it's basically the same."

"I just feel it needs to be a bit more different now and it needs to be surprising again. We've got the hang of this, we need to change it," he added.

Moffat also said that he chose The Thick of It star, Peter Capaldi, to play the 12th incarnation of the Doctor because he wanted to keep the show fresh.

"Can you imagine if we'd cast another handsome yet quirky young man with entertaining hair? It would have just exposed the formula," he explained, going on to say, "the show would have just become that little bit more ordinary".

Capaldi's casting was a departure from the previous actors who have played the Doctor in the new series.

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Maester Chuk_sl said:

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Asmadai_sl said:

I don't have enough care in my body to watch that review for myself, but is that an 7 min video reviewing that 16 second trailer we got a few weeks back?

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Maester Chuk_sl said:

dude was just pointing out some new stuff in the trailer like the images in his eyeball and changes to the interior of the tardis. its not mindblowing, but its interesting.

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