Doctor Who news

Series One (season 27) in the USA:
Fridays, 9pm EST on the SciFi Channel
Current episode:
8. Father's Day
Previous episodes:
7.The Long Game
6.Dalek
5.World War III
4.Aliens of London
3.The Unquiet Dead
2.The End of the World
1.Rose

Series Two (season 28) in the UK:
Saturdays, at 7:20pm GMT on BBC1
Current episode:
3.School Reunion

Previous episodes:
2.Tooth and Claw
1. New Earth

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U.S. Ratings: The Long Game saw ratings go up from last week-averaging a 1.20 household rating with an average viewing audience of 1.4 million. That's up by about one tenth of a million from Dalek, which is the series's lowest rating to date.

There are so many links to articles with interviews with Elisabeth Sladen and her return in School Reunion.it will take forever to link them all, so I'm only going to link to a few of them:
Friends Reunited (actually, the end of this article has a link to two more from BBC Norfolk and BBC Breakfast.)
from scifi wire:
Smith, K9 Beguile Who Helmer
Who Revives Sarah Jane, K9

Also, if you haven't already read about it, Who's K9 gets own show. The animated, Jetix-ed, K-9! Whoa, doggie. ;)

from Outpost Gallifrey: Series 3 writers announced! Among them are Stephen Fry (yes, the Stephen Fry, who's episode was moved from series 2 to series 3) and Steven Moffat, who wrote 2 of my favoite episodes from series 1: the Empty Child and the Doctor Dances. Check out their news page for more on the series 3 writers.

Also from Outpost Gallifrey-the Rise of the Cybermen press release. (sorry, no direct link.) They have a link to a pdf file. Although I still think the new Cybermen kind of look like C3P-O on steroids, I am fully prepared to be freaked out by the metal men, just as the first scene where the Dalek recognized the Doctor in Dalek spooked me. It's amazing how a calm adult can become a frightened kid again in a matter of a few seconds. ;)

That's all for now-have a great Doctor Who weekend!
(and yay, Sarah Jane and K-9!!!) ;)