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The latest Doctor Who news from Outpost Gallifrey.

Clarke earns BAFTA nomination

Noel Clarke, the actor, writer and director who played the character of Mickey Smith in Doctor Who off-and-on from 2005 until last year, has been nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Rising Star Award. Clarke, who also wrote an episode for the first series of spin-off programme Torchwood in 2006, has been recognised in the category for his work on the films Kidulthood and Adulthood, both of which he wrote and the latter of which he also directed. BBC News report

New DVD Releases Announced

A new colourised version of Planet of the Daleks is due for release on DVD this year as revealed in this month's Doctor Who Magazine. Episode three of the 1973 Jon Pertwee story previously only existed in the BBC archive as a black and white film recording. However, using partly the same process recently used on an old episode of Dad's Army ("Room at the Bottom", broadcast on BBC2 last month in colour for the first time in 39 years) using information contained in the film print, and partly artif

Doctor Who Magazine 404

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, out this week, features an interview with Dervla Kirwan, Miss Hartigan in The Next Doctor, who talks about playing the beautiful and ruthless 'lady in red'. So, about that frock then...? "In her very first scene, drab, matronly, grey dress, and then she sort of transforms into this vision of red!" laughs Dervla. "We don't know how she did that really. We assume there's some handy Cyberman with needlework skills and great make-up boxes!" Also in DWM 404

BBC staff magazine tells the secret

Ariel, the weekly in-house magazine for BBC staff, has published a feature in its latest edition looking at the secret preparations that led to the announcement of Matt Smith's casting as the Eleventh Doctor in a special edition of Doctor Who Confidential last Saturday. The feature reveals that the process was entirely conducted via verbal conversations, with no written record left in e-mail form and as few people as possible made aware of the casting decision. The special edition of Confidenti

Doctor Who Production Team Takes Shape

With the casting of the Doctor now finalised, the Doctor Who Production Team are now in the process of recruiting the next full-time producer of Doctor Who to fill the role vacated by Phil Collinson. Interviews for the position take place in February, with the successful candidate assuming the role from April this year for pre-production on Series Five. The initial contract runs through to June 2010. The role of the producer in Doctor Who is cloudy at times, and there is far more to producing a