Mission DALEK is your chance to create brand new adventures for the Doctor! It’s an opportunity to bring battles with the Daleks to life and share all those brilliant, bonkers ideas you’ve had about Doctor Who! And on top of that, it might just propel you into the Time Lord’s real world where you’ll encounter Daleks and meet the Doctor himself – Peter Capaldi!

So, what do you need to know?

Mission DALEK is part of the BBC’s Make it Digital season and we’re inviting you to use your imagination and digital skills to create an adventure for the Doctor. We know many Doctor Who fans make amazing videos or are fantastic at cosplay and love to get involved in a million marvellous ways. For those guys, this is a chance to hone and harness your passion and showcase your digital skills to the universe!

But what if you’ve never dabbled in digital, never shot a video or made up a story?

DON’T WORRY! We’re here to help with loads of down-to-earth videos offering top tips from the Doctor Who team as well as a range of digital tools to get you started. We would LOVE you to take your first steps with us and the Doctor… To unleash your creativity and to have as much fun as humanly possible as you make it digital!

What next?

Easy as pie! Just visit our gleaming Mission DALEK site where you’ll find all the info you’ll need about what sort of adventure we’re after, how you can make it, and what prizes you can win! It’s all there. Right now. Wow. It’s a roller coaster, isn’t it?

FIND OUT MORE!

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The BBC has posted a trailer for something called ‘Doctor Who: Mission Dalek’. Here it is.

Jenna Coleman has been spotted filming the news series of Doctor Who

The stunning actress, who plays Clara Oswald, was seen on set in costume at Ed’s Easy Diner in Cardiff.

With her glossy tresses scraped back in a neat ponytail, she was wearing a white collared royal blue dress and was also noticeably sporting an apron, suggesting her character may have landed a job as a waitress.  During a recent interview, Jenna revealed the surprising lengths producers have to go to in order to make her appear as tall as her co-stars on-screen.

Jenna Coleman has been spotted filming the news series of Doctor Who.

The stunning actress, who plays Clara Oswald, was seen on set in costume at Ed’s Easy Diner in Cardiff.  With her glossy tresses scraped back in a neat ponytail, she was wearing a white collared royal blue dress and was also noticeably sporting an apron, suggesting her character may have landed a job as a waitress.

During a recent interview, Jenna revealed the surprising lengths producers have to go to in order to make her appear as tall as her co-stars on-screen.  The BBC recently released its new trailer for the show, in which the Doctor’s assistant can be seen climbing off her motorbike and wielding quite a large weapon in the same manor Torchwood’s Gwen Cooper did.

Could this mean Clara helps brings Torchwood back and begins to fight for Earth without the Doctor’s help? Or could she have followed in Martha Jones’ footsteps and joined UNIT?

Time will tell when Doctor Who returns on September 19 on BBC One.

News Source: The Mirror

Join Balmoral at Clevedon’s iconic Victorian Pier for a cruise lasting about an hour to the beautifully restored pier at Penarth. Here you will be met by private coaches which will transport you the short distance to Cardiff Bay where you will arrive around noon. Cardiff Bay offers a wide variety of interesting attractions and a range of refreshment and dining options. Your tickets include timed entry to the exciting Dr Who Experience with a variety of entry times between 1.00pm and 2.30pm.

After time to explore Cardiff Bay, private coaches will transfer you back to Penarth Pier leaving Cardiff Bay at 4.45pm. Balmoral will return to Clevedon Pier at 6.45pm

Please note all children, 16 and under, must be accompanied by an adult. Like the television series the Dr Who Experience includes scenes that young children may find frightening, so parental guidance is recommended.

BOOKING FOR THIS UNIQUE CRUISE OPTION WILL CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY 19 AUGUST

Departs: Clevedon – Tuesday August 25th 2015 10:15 Trip finish time: 18:45

News Source: MV Balmoral (Thanks also to Mr. Gavin Skinner for forwarding us the information)

The former Doctor Who star reflects on his exit in a “blaze of glory” and looks ahead to new film Pleasure Island.

It’s been nine months since Doctor Who star Samuel Anderson was “sacked in style”. Those are his words, not mine, and he has nothing but affection for his time spent on Britain’s biggest sci-fi series. “They were such a great team, you can do nothing but wish them the best – beautiful, beautiful people,” he tells RadioTimes.com.
“I would love to be back on there, of course. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever done by far.”

But reappearing on the show might prove difficult. Anderson’s character Danny Pink was killed off not once but twice last December – the second time as a Cyberman – leading to his love interest Clara (Jenna Coleman) bidding a wrenching farewell to her man during a Christmas Day dream. “Steven Moffat put me away in style,” he recalls. “I’ve lost a few jobs in my time but never gone out in such a blaze of glory.”

However, that hasn’t stopped him thinking up ways to engineer his return. “Maybe in an alternate universe? I wouldn’t mind approaching him in a different way. Or maybe just come back as Orson Pink [a descendent of Danny’s who appeared in series eight episode Listen] because then it changes the dynamic between him and the Doctor.

“If it’s Orson Pink I think the relationship would be totally different because instead of a soldier – which is the kind of person the Doctor can’t bear – you’ve got another scientist who could be quite interesting with their relationship. And then instead of it being a love interest with Clara and Danny, it would be a family affair with grandmother and grandson but at the same age.”

Has he pitched this to Steven Moffat? “I do remind them that Orson is alive. #BringBackOrsonPink.”
Regardless of a physical comeback, Anderson reckons the memory of maths teacher Danny will continue to play some sort of role in the show when its ninth series begins this September. “Steven is very clever with the arcs that he writes and I suppose that the relationship with Danny and Clara was integral to how the relationship with Clara and the new Doctor was going to go. I imagine there will be something there [in series nine] for sure.”

While he’s no longer required to keep Who’s secrets – something he says he “loved” doing – Anderson does credit the show with giving him “a lot of confidence” going forward.
“It’s such a huge show and responsibility like that – when you get through a good eight months of filming – it just gives you some added confidence. The hard work to that point has been worth it and it’s just a great thing to have on your CV when you sit down in an audition or meeting. People can’t help but take you a little more seriously.”

Since he left the Whoniverse, Anderson’s appeared in a play – State Red – which he reveals Peter Capaldi came to see him in during the month-long run at London’s Hampstead Theatre. The Doctor even popped backstage afterwards: “there he was, sat with his flat cap on – I think that was him trying to be incognito.”

But for those looking to see Anderson back on screens, pay a visit to the cinema this weekend to see Pleasure Island – a new film by writer/director Mike Doxford. Set in Grimsby, it follows soldier Dean as he returns from the army in search of his childhood friend Jess whose struggles as a single mum see her slip under the thumb of a network of thuggish criminals. It’s a moody, tense feature in which Anderson provides some light relief as Nate – Dean’s friend and the manager of the local amusement arcade. “He’s a deadbeat with good morals,” he explains. “There’s a bit of a hopelessness about him.”

Shot entirely on location in the north-east of England, the film – released in cinemas on Friday 14th August – is, in Anderson’s words, “a good bit of independent filmmaking”.
“It was just one of those films where you think to yourself, if I don’t get it, I can’t wait to see it. It has a rawness to it without trying too hard.”
In the meantime, he’s got the fifth series of Sky1’s Trollied coming up, and is heading to the west country this autumn to shoot a new comedy – Witless – alongside Him & Her’s Kerry Howard and Charity Wakefield (Wolf Hall). Although his Saturday evenings are still reserved for new episodes of Doctor Who: “I can’t wait.” Neither can we.

News Source: Radio Times

Clifford Earl, who played the Station Sergeant in the Christmas Day 1965 episode of The Daleks’ Masterplan (The Feast Of Steven) and Major Branwell in 1968’s The Invasion opposite Patrick Troughton – both for director Douglas Camfield – has died at the age of 81. Better known in certain quarters of the outside world under his given name (Ken Earl) his achievements for real servicemen – versions of whom he often played in fiction – are worth noting alongside his not unenviable acting credits.

Camfield was well known for demanding authenticity from those he cast in uniform and he definitely got the real thing from Earl, who, in his second and best role in the show, portrays a cooly efficient Major who helps the Doctor defeat the Cybermen with a little help from companion Zoe’s calculations. After his missiles have wiped out the Cyber-fleet he compliments the mathematical genius by declaring that “she’s much prettier than a computer”. Such reflections of their time aside Earl is vital in helping to keep the drama heightened during those tense moments of the final episodes when the soldiers wait to see if their attack will succeed. His solid presence and grim determination keep the tension bubbling right up to the epic story’s climax. His turn in The Daleks’ Masterplan a few years earlier is a much lighter affair, reflecting the Christmas frippery the production team are after in this long lost one-off.

It should be no surprise that Earl had had military experience, but his was blighted by a scandal that has rightly rocked the establishment. In 1953 as an RAF medic on National Service he volunteered to be a guinea pig in order to help with work to find a cure for the common cold at the Porton Down research establishment. He was subjected to the same test as – and just two days apart from – a young airman, Ronald Maddison, who died 45 minutes after being exposed to the nerve agent Sarin. Earl and other veterans maintain that they were never told the truth about the experiments done on them and in 2008 the Porton Down Veteran’s Support Group, which Earl founded, won £3 million in compensation for the thousands of servicemen unwittingly subjected to dangerous exposure. The money, and accompanying apology from the government (but no admission of liability by the Ministry Of Defence), came too late for the many who had already died. Those like Ken who did survive suffered ill health (in his case spondylosis, liver cists, prostate and skin cancer, a heart murmur and depression) for the rest of their lives – ill health that they attributed to what had been done to them at Porton Down. He nonetheless considered himself lucky “At least I’m alive and I have had three score years and ten,” he told the BBC in 2004, “poor old Ronald Maddison got only 45 minutes”. His stoical character and dogged determination on behalf of his fellow servicemen meant that Earl was much admired, respected and liked in veteran circles.

Earl’s other television credits – many of them in uniform as either policemen or soldiers – included Scotland Yard (1959), Danger Man (1960), Bootsie And Snudge (1960/61), No Hiding Place (1963/67) Gideon’s Way (1965), The Baron, (1966) Man In A Suitcase (1967), The Avengers (1967/68), Dixon Of Dock Green (1967/69) Softly, Softly (1968/69), Department S (1969), Paul Temple (1969), Randall And Hopkirk Deceased (1970), Edward And Mrs Simpson (1978), Danger UXB (1979), Ike (1979, as Mountbatten), The Professionals (1980) and The Upper Hand (1990). On the big screen he appeared in Scream And Scream Again (1970), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Tales From the Crypt (1972) and The Sea Wolves (1980). He was also a familiar face to forces personnel as he appeared in a number of MOD training films. He later became a news reader and continuity announcer performing In-Vision for Southern Television in the 1970s and out-of-vision for TVS in the 1980s.

He is survived by his wife Beth, a son and two daughters.

News Source: Toby Hadoke

The Doctor and Clara return to save the universe. Doctor Who returns Saturday 19 September.