Though we don’t intend to promote all things WHO on this website, it is only fitting that we show you the preview trailer for the new Doctor Who special Planet of the Dead as it will be broadcast just weeks before our event.  It will be shown on TV tonight before The Apprentice but here is a sneak peek.

It was described by a friend as a cross between Dune and Pitch Black on a BBC budget.  Click the link below and tell us what you think?

Planet of the Dead Trailer

We don’t plan to be a news service posting about everything we hear in the Doctor Who universe (or whatever show we’re running a convention for at the time).  I’m sure you’re signed up to enough of those already.  But some things just make us go Squee! and on those rare occasions we’ll pass on the news.

The BBC has released a trailer for the new 5-part Torchwood story Children Of Earth.

If you can’t see the embedded trailer above (sometimes the BBC limit access to their video content to people inside the UK) then try this YouTube link.

From the BBC’s Torchwood site:

In one epic story told over five nights the new series, to be broadcast for the first time on BBC One (UK) and BBC America (US) later this year, promises to be Torchwood’s greatest adrenalin-fuelled, high octane adventure yet.

Torchwood: Children of Earth re-joins Captain Jack (John Barrowman), Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) and Ianto Jones (Gareth David Lloyd) who are still coming to terms with the death of two of their closest friends. Despite their pain, they have a job to do.

This time they are faced with their fiercest threat to date – one which throws the future of Torchwood and the entire human race spiralling into danger. They battle against the odds but do they stand a chance of saving mankind?

I’m still not sure what to think about the drastic change in format for Doctor Who and Torchwood this year but at least I’m starting to get excited about it again.  It’ll be interesting to see how it went down at the NYCC and what other bits of news come out of the panel with Eve Myles and (director) Euros Lyn.