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This Week On Doctor Who - 05 - 15 -10

The Doctor (Matt Smith) and Amy (Karen Gillan) try to figure out how to deal with the Weeping Angels. Photo copyright of the BBC.

SPOILER ALERT!! - Surrounded by the Weeping Angels, the Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy (Karen Gillan), River Song (Alex Kingston) and their military colleagues are forced to make their way through the twisted maze of the crashed space liner in an effort to escape. Meanwhile, in the forest vault, Amy faces an horrific danger that could abruptly cut short her time as the Doctor's new companion...or worse. Flesh and Stone airs Saturday, May 15th @ 9:oo p.m. EST/PST on BBC America.

River Song (Alex Kingston), The Doctor and Amy manage to locate the control room of the crashed star liner. Photo copyright of the BBC.

Father Octavian (Iain Glen) and his remaining troops do their best to provide some protection for the Doctor and River as they try to help Amy. Photo copyright of the BBC.

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This Week On Doctor Who - 05 - 08 - 10

The mysterious River Song (Alex Kingston) returns this week on Doctor Who. Photo copyright of the BBC.

SPOILER ALERT!! - If you thought the Weeping Angels were gone forever, then be afraid, very afraid, and make sure not to blink, because they're back! The Doctor (Matt Smith) is recruited by Father Octavian (Iain Glen) to track down the last of the Weeping Angels, but in order to do this, the Time Lord must traverse the Maze of the Dead. Also making a return appearance is River Song (Alex Kingston), a woman from the Doctor's future who audiences first met in the season four episode Silence in the Library. Back then she risked her life to help save his, but can she be trusted now? The Time of Angels airs Saturday, May 8th @ 9:00 p.m. EST/PST on BBC America.

Amy (Karen Gillan) and The Doctor (Matt Smith) inside the TARDIS. Photo copyright of the BBC.

A somber arrival for The Doctor. Photo copyright of the BBC.

Amy, The Doctor and River Song. Photo copyright of the BBC.

Is there something lurking in the shadows and waiting for The Doctor? Photo copyright of the BBC.

What has surprised River Song? Photo copyright of the BBC.

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New Doctor Who Arrives On BBC America In April

Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor in Doctor Who. Photo copyright of the BBC.

BBC America announced today that the new era of the BBC's iconic BAFTA-winning drama, Doctor Who, will make its U.S. premiere on Saturday, April 17th, 2010, soon after the UK broadcast. Doctor Who, BBC America's highest-rated series ever, continues its tradition of rebooting with new lead actors and creative team. Matt Smith debuts as the new, Eleventh incarnation of the famous Time Lord alongside a new traveling companion, the enigmatic Amy Pond (Karen Gillan).

"Britain has a tradition of reinventing its iconic characters, like James Bond, Sherlock Holmes - and Doctor Who. In introducing the Eleventh Doctor, writer Steven Moffat is opening the show to a whole new audience, while serving fans with an exciting mix of intergalactic time travelling adventures. We can't wait to meet his new Doctor!"comments Richard De Croce, Senior vice President Programming, BBC America.

BAFTA-winning writer Steven Moffat, creator of some of the most frightening and award-winning Doctor Who episodes to date, takes over as lead writer and executive producer. Writers for the new series include Richard Curtis (The Boat that Rocked, Love Actually), Chris Chibnall (Law & Order UK, Torchwood), Toby Whithouse (Being Human, Torchwood), Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentleman, Sherlock) and Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly, Hardware). Guest stars include SAG Award winner Alex Kingston (ER, Flash Forward), Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo (The Secret Life of Bees, Hotel Rwanda) and Tony Curran (24).

Travelling both through time and space, the new series has the mysterious Doctor and Amy Pond together exploring 16th century Venice, France during the 1890s and the United Kingdom in the far future, now an entire nation floating in space. The first three episodes of the 13-part series have been confirmed as The Eleventh Hour, written by Steven Moffat, The Beast Below, also by Moffat, and Victory of the Daleks by Mark Gatiss.

Moffat's work includes the hit comedy Coupling, the critically-acclaimed thriller Jekyll, the new BBC series Sherlock and, along with Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, the screenplay for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which is being directed by Steven Spielberg.

Piers Wenger and Beth Willis (Ashes to Ashes) also serve as executive producers on Doctor Who. It is a BBC Wales production for BBC ONE and distributed by BBC Worldwide.

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