The third and final “Developer Diary” for Doctor Who game The Eternity Clock is now available to watch. This one is titled “Making an interactive episode”. It also features Matt Smith in a motion capture suit.

See it in the player below:

The game will be released globally for PS3 on the 23rd May via PlayStation Network. The PS3 UK retail version of the game will be released on 25th May.

It’s time to reveal the results of last week’s poll, this time to find out your favourite Dalek story of Doctor Who’s revival. Let the countdown begin once more…

6. Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks

Not too surprising, in last place was the third series two-parter with only 4% of the vote.

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It’s been a while since we’ve had a Doctor Who rumour from the The Daily Star. Today they are reporting that one of Series 7′s episodes will have the outrageous title of Dinosaurs On A Spaceship.

They state:

DOCTOR WHO chiefs are making their own version of the blockbuster Snakes On A Plane called Dinosaurs On A Spaceship.

BBC bosses have decided to base an episode of the new series on the 2006 movie starring Samuel L Jackson in which hundreds of serpents cause terror aboard a flight.

In the sci-fi show, the Doctor (Matt Smith, 29) and companions Amy and Rory (Karen Gillan, 24, and Arthur Darvill, 28) land on a spaceship. They are unaware that lurking inside the craft are a bunch of prehistoric monsters including a T-Rex, stegosaurus, raptor and pterodactyl.

A source said: “When we said we had a monster series lined up, we meant it.

“This will be a whopper of an episode.”

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard dinosaurs will make an appearance this series. Back in March, there were reports of animatronics being prepped, and then there was that similar sounding title from the usually unreliable IMDB.

It’s hard to know what to make of this one. We know Steven Moffat is pushing for more in-your-face titles like Let’s Kill Hitler, so it’s a possibility. We also know that episode 2 will be called [Spoilers] on a [Spoiler], so this could fit. Although all the footage we’ve seen on that so far looks like it’s set in ancient Egypt. But we’ll just have to wait and see…

The Star close their report with this:

There will also be the annual Christmas Day special. The episode, rumoured to be a ghost story, will mark the arrival of the Doc’s new companion Jenna Louise Coleman, 25.

Weird and Wonderful is our look at the some of the other Doctor Who bits and bobs around the web that caught our attention over the last week or so. This week: Doctor vs Darth and more in Awesome Art; Doctor Who Lego; The TARDIS is late; The Tale of a Madman in a Box, What is Doctor Who?

Awesome Art

Doctor Who vs Darth Vader, by Drombyb.

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Steven Moffat has spoken to Digital Spy about his recent BAFTA award. He moves on to talk about Doctor Who, including the scheduling change for Series 7, the new companion and trying to keep secrets.

On the scheduling change this year:

“I don’t know, on this occasion, that the thinking particularly came from me, actually. I’ve always been open to anything that shakes [the series] up. I think that decision actually came from the BBC.

“But I’ve been well up for anything that we can do to shake up the transmission pattern, the way we deliver it to the audience and how long we make the audience wait, simply because that makes Doctor Who an event piece.

“The more Doctor Who becomes a perennial, the faster it starts to die. You’ve got to shake it up, you’ve got to keep people on edge and wondering when it will come back.

“Sherlock is the prime example, as far as that goes. Sherlock almost exists on starving its audience. By the time it came back this year, Sherlock was like a rock star re-entering the building!

“So keeping Doctor Who as an event, and never making people feel, ‘Oh, it’s lovely, reliable old Doctor Who – it’ll be on about this time, at that time of year’. Once you start to do that, just slowly, it becomes like any much-loved ornament in your house – ultimately invisible. And I don’t want that to ever be the case.”

On when we will learn who Jenna-Louise Coleman is playing:

“Christmas! But don’t expect to learn everything! We’ve got a good story and there are some proper legitimate surprises in it. I’m excited by it. I think we’re going to do some fun stuff.”

On trying to keep the new companion’s identity a secret:

“We can’t really contain everything, because people will crawl all over us with cameras and sneak views of scripts and call-sheets. Something will get out. But we’ve been fairly sly, so let’s wait and see.

“Again, a lot of the audience that I talk to specifically avoid any spoilers and I’m absolutely certain they have a better experience of the show. As I’ve always said, if I could make it on the dark side of the moon, I would, but you can’t do these things.

“I got pilloried by somebody at some deep level of naivety about the industry – they were angry that I’d revealed the fact that Amy and Rory were even going to leave! But y’know, actor’s agents really do have to advertise their client’s availability – I had no choice but to announce they were going to leave. But in an ideal world, you wouldn’t even do that.”

Moffat also confirmed that plans for the 50th anniversary had began earlier in the week.

Steven Moffat is to be honoured with a Special BAFTA Award for his “outstanding creative writing contribution to television.”

Bafta chairman Tim Corrie explained: “Steven has had an outstanding year with Doctor Who and Sherlock, not to mention the feature film The Adventures of Tintin, and we are delighted to honour his contribution to television and the arts at the Bafta ceremony on May 27.

“He is one of the finest exponents of his craft and his award, presented in honour of the late, great Dennis Potter, is very well-deserved indeed.”

Moffat said: “Blimey. A Special Award. I didn’t even know I was ill. So thrilled by this – especially after two years of Sherlock and Doctor Who, my two favourite shows ever.

“Of course the work, and the people I get to work with, has always been all the reward I need – a fact I’m very glad that Bafta has disregarded.”

Moffat will receive the award at the British Academy Television Awards, to be broadcast on BBC One at 8pm on Sunday 27 May.

Congrats Moffat!

Guest contributor John Hussey makes the case for the most controversial era in Doctor Who’s history.

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Karen Gillan has spoken about filming Doctor Who for the final time.

Speaking to the Daily Record, she explained: “It was a weird, serene day where everyone was feeling it. We don’t film in chronological order so the last shot we filmed was me, Matt and Arthur going into the TARDIS. Then Matt closed the door for the last time and we were in darkness.

“We hugged and started crying. It was kind of tears of happiness. It was a feeling of ‘Look at what we’ve done’. It was lovely.”

Karen added: “I didn’t get to keep any Pond stuff because everything related to Doctor Who goes into exhibitions. But I might have taken a little special something from the TARDIS.”

She later admitted: “[It was] a pair of binoculars. They look really weird in my house, just sitting there.”

Next up for Karen is a leading role in the film, Not Another Happy Ending, which begins shooting in July.

A second video or “Developer Diary” for Doctor Who game The Eternity Clock is now available to watch. This one focuses on the four main monsters in the game: the Cybermen, Daleks, Silurians and the Silence. They also tease a new creation and the Weeping Angels.

See it in the player below:

The game will be released globally for PS3 on the 23rd May via PlayStation Network. The PS3 UK retail version of the game will be released on 25th May.

The winning entry for this year’s Script to Screen competition will premiere on TV next week.

A special Doctor Who mini-episode will be shown during next Thurday’s edition of Blue Peter, which begins at 5.45pm on the CBBC channel.

For those of you unfamiliar with Script to Screen, it is a competition where primary school children aged between 9-11 years old can have their script brought to life.

This year’s mini-episode is Olympic themed and will feature Matt Smith.

Catch last year’s winning entry, Death Is The Only Answer, in the video below.

[Thanks to EternityDragon]