Christel Films: ARNIE – The Hunt Begins

The first story in Captin Franko’s Doctor Who spin-off series, ‘ARNIE’, has now been released on his blog. ‘The Hunt Begins’ sees the robotic ARNIE team up with an investigator known as Parris, who both appeared in the first series of Christel Doctor Who. This first episode is an excellent start to the series, with incredible animation and a great storyline.

‘The Hunt Begins’ was created by Captin Franko, and is now available to watch on Christel Films.

Doctor Who Series 6 Utah Filming Video

Doctor Who Series 6 Utah Filming Photos

A few photos from the filming of the next series in Utah have now been released online, and show Matt Smith and Karen Gillan behind-the-scenes on the story. The photo featuring Amy Pond shows her with dark marks on her arms, whilst running along the desert road.

The image of Amy running was taken by ActionFigure, and more photos of the filming can be seen in the album of ZetaSigma18. Both of the photos used here were originally posted by Combom.

Doctor Who Series 6 Opener Cast Revealed

It has been announced in Doctor Who Magazine that the American-born Stuart Milligan has joined the cast of the dramatic season opener to the sixth series of Doctor Who, which is currently being filmed on location in Utah.

Milligan is most famous for being a regular character in the popular detective drama Jonathan Creek, as well as having played the voice of General Stark in the 2009 animated Doctor Who story ‘Dreamland’. He also starred alongside Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor in the Big Finish audio adventure ‘The Reaping’.

Other cast members confirmed for Episodes 1 and 2 of the new series include Marnix van den Broeke, Chuk Lwuji, Mark Griffin, Kerry Shale, Glenn Wrage, Jeff Mash, Sydney Wade, Tommy Campbell, Peter Banks, Nancy Baldwin, Kieran O’Connor, Alex Giannini, Adam Napier, Henrietta Clemett, Paul Critoph, Ricky Fearon and Emilio Aquino.

Doctor Who Utah Filming Dates and News

The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development has revealed that the main filming of the location scenes in Utah will take place between 17th November 2010 and 19th November 2010.

The Motion Picture Incentive Fund has authorised a filming rebate of up to $30,000 for location filming in the United States. The exact location of filming has not been revealed yet, and fans are being encouraged not to attend the filming.

A BBC representative told a member of the Utah Film Commission that he “feels that it would be doing the production a disservice to have fans of the show watching it being filmed as certain story arcs and plot lines could be exposed prematurely and be spread over the internet.”

Doctor Who Series 6 River Song Stunt Video

A video showing the filming for the sixth series of Doctor Who has been posted on Youtube, and sees a stunt double for Alex Kingston fall backwards off a building, after being menaced by two men holding guns up to her.

Doctor Who Series 6 Alex Kingston Filming

The cast and crew for the sixth series of Doctor Who were seen in public yesterday, with filming taking place at an unfinished building near to Cardiff Bay. The evening saw scenes taking place with guest stars Alex Kingston and Mark Sheppard.

Gallifrey Newsbase have posted a short snippet of dialogue between River Song and Mark Sheppard’s character.

Mark Sheppard: Stop! Don't move!
River: There are loads of them. They're everywhere.
Mark Sheppard: America is being invaded!
River: America was invaded a long time ago, America is occupied.
(River moves back a little more)
Mark Sheppard: Don't move! There's no way out!
River: Oh really?

River Song then falls of the edge of the building, which required a stunt woman dressed in Alex Kingston’s costume. The cast and crew gave a big applause to the stunt lady afterwards.

Mark Sheppard Guests in Doctor Who Series 6

It has been reported that the actor Mark Sheppard has secured a role in Series 6 of Doctor Who, after the US convention ValleyCon 36 announced that Sheppard had to pull out of their event due to new work commitments on Doctor Who.

Their press release states: “We had just booked Mark’s airline tickets a week ago when less than 12 hours later he got the dream job of any kid who grew up in England-and many kids here too. He landed a huge role in the new Dr. Who but they needed him there the next day. There was no way we were going to stand in the way of that and so Mark took the job but with his deepest apologies. We will try to work out an appearance with him in the future and wish him great luck with Dr. Who!”

It is believed that Mark Sheppard will appear in the opening two-parter of the series, which began shooting this week with Toby Haynes directing.

Doctor Who Series 6 – Toby Haynes Directs Episodes 1 and 2

It has been announced that Toby Haynes will direct Episodes 1 and 2 of the upcoming Series 6, which are believed to go into production in a few weeks time, and will be broadcast in Spring 2011.

Haynes previously directed the two-part Series 5 finale, ‘The Pandorica Opens’ and ‘The Big Bang’, as well as recently completing work on the Doctor Who 2010 Christmas Special.

These new stories will make Toby Haynes the Director of five consecutive episodes to be broadcast in a row. The only other confirmed Director for Series 6 at the moment is Richard Clark, although it was unofficially revealed that Adam Smith will be returning to the show.