Series 7 will contrinue the trend started by series 6, in that the episodes will air the same day in the UK and US. The UK will get the episodes a few hours earlier due to the time differences, but Americans won't have to wait for weeks at a time to be on the same footing as the Brits (even though, to be fair, the Brits paid for it).
The first five episodes of series 7 will air this fall, with a Christmas special in December, and then the remaining eight episodes airing next spring. Here's a glimpse at the schedule of episodes:
September 1: "Asylum of the Daleks" (Season Premiere)
September 8: "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"
September 15: "A Town Called Mercy"
September 22: "The Power of Three"
September 29: "The Angels Take Manhattan"
So, there it is. Like a brief breeze during a hot day, Doctor Who's series 7 will be gone just as soon as you know it, not even making it to October. There's a reason the episodes are divided this way, though: these first five episodes will feature an arc that will eventually culminate in the Doctor having to say goodbye to Amy and Rory, who will depart from the series (under as-yet unknown circumstances) in "The Angles Take Manhattan." Undoubtedly it will be an episode that draws plenty of viewers to tears.
Doctor Who Series 7 will premiere September 1 in the UK and the US. Glad we can fnally have that cleared up.
Perception stars McCormack as a brilliant but mentally damaged neuroscientist/professor named Dr. Daniel Pierce, who is brought in to help the FBI with some of its harder to solve cases. He was recommended for the job by his former student Kate Moretti (Rachel Leigh Cook), who now works as a special agent at the bureau. Other cast members include Arjay Smith (Nickelodeon's former "Allen Strange"), The O.C.'s Kelly Rowan, Battlestar Galactica's Jamie Bamber, and Star Trek: TNG's LeVar Burton as Dr. Pierce's boss at the university.
It was announced on Wednesday that John Barrowman would be joining the cast as a “well-dressed man” who is “as mysterious as he is wealthy … he is an acquaintance of the Queen family and a prominent figure in Starling City," according to Entertainment Weekly, who broke the news. The role will be a recurring one.
The DC Universe is filled to the brim with mysterious wealthy men, and since my knowledge of those men is limited to Bruce Wayne, I'll leave speculation on the comic counterpart of Barrowman's new character to the more qualified comic book experts. EW speculates that Barrowman will be playing Stanley Dover Sr., who in the comics tries to use his son's pet monster, a benevolent demon, to open a gateway to Hell. I don't know if Arrow will be venturing into the arcane, but this seems to be too strange a role.
Whoever Barrowman is playing, I'm certainly getting "big bad" vibes from his character description. A mysterious, prominent figure with ties to Queen's family? Seems like the perfect combination for a moonlighting supervillain who becomes Queen's biggest enemy.
Barrowman's certainly got the acting chops to pull it off; his biggest role is of Jack Harkness in both Doctor Who and spinoff series Torchwood, for which Barrowman has received considerable acclaim. The 45-year-old actor has also appeared in a recurring role on ABC's Desperate Housewives, with other appearances in various British television shows.
Arrow is slated to premiere on the CW Wednesday, October 10.
Referencing the network's hit zombie drama The Walking Dead in his comments, Ergen noted that most of their customers "live on farms and ranches" and apparently wouldn't want to watch AMC programming because of their rural location. The other metric the esteemed chairman used to determine viewer interest was his family, as Ergen couldn't recall anyone in his family ever watching "one second" of the other channels that were to be bundled with AMC, including IFC, WEtv, and Sundance.
Regarding AMC's other critically-acclaimed series such as Mad Men and Breaking Bad, Ergen claimed that they weren't widely viewed by Dish's audience and that customers could go to iTunes and download the shows at the same time they air on television. In fact, he went so far as to suggest that it would be cheaper for Dish to foot the entire iTunes bill for their customers than to pay for the AMC Networks package. Content to let history decide his fate, the effusive satellite magnate acknowledged that the analysts would have their opinion next year.
Although the "New York" part of his comment was apparently directed toward an AMC promotional event in NYC, the irony is that virtually the entire Walking Dead series has taken place in rural areas and on a farm. If you have Dish Network, will you be switching providers to keep up with your favorite AMC programs?
The character will be encountering an older version of himself the second episode of season 2, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, the elder version of the character won't be played by actor Jake Johnson in make-up. Instead, he'll be played by Justified actor Raymond J. Barry.
Barry will play a character who claims to be an older version of inventor Nick. When he shows up at Nick's bar claiming to be from the future, Nick is fascinated to hear the drunken man's version of his future.
New guest stars for New Girl's second season include Parker Posey, Anna Maria Horsford, and Nelson Franklin.
The shows official Twitter feed announced early last night it had a large casting announcement to be made at midnight today. Further news on the role he is set to play is yet to be announced, although Grant has already played the main role of the Doctor on two occasions. Once in a comedy sketch for Comic Relief and once in a animated webcast of the show.
True Blood alum Michael Raymond-James was announced to have been added to the series on Saturday. His role will be a recurring one, though ABC and Once Upon a Time executive producers have been extremely tight lipped about exactly which role he'll be playing.
Raymond-James is perhaps most famous for playing True Blood's first big villain; he played Rene in the show's first season. Following that, he nabbed a starring role on FX's canceled-too-soon Terriers. He also showed up in The Walking Dead's second season for one episode ("Nebraska"), in which he played a potential threat of a character who was quickly dispatched by Rick Grimes when he attempted to kill our heroes. Once Upon a Time will return for its second season with the episode "Broken" September 30 on ABC.
It was a long-anticipated episode that proved to be one of the best of the season, and left many fans wondering about how long it would take for Gaiman to come back to the show with another episode. The answer is, apparently, sooner than you'd think.
According to some new spoilers released from DoctorWhoTV, Gaiman will be penning an episode of the season's second half. And while "The Doctor's Wife" was a quirky one-off story featuring an all-new villain, it appears Gaiman's next entry will feature one of the show's most famous monsters: the Cybermen. According to DoctorWhoTV, Gaiman's installment will "totally reimagine" the Cybermen, the great metallic monsters who last appeared in series 6's "Closing Time." They certainly need reinvention -- they were defeated by love in that outing. If this is true (at this point, we're marking it as 'highly plausible'), we'll probably be watching the best Cybermen story since 2005 next year.
Along with that tidbit about Gaiman, some more spoilers were released -- so don't read any further if you don't want some big hints about what's to come.
Most notably, the fifth episode of the series, which will see the departure of regular companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams, has gained a title: "The Angels Wept." I was personally hoping for "Angels in America," but I'll take it.
Here are a few more spoilers, in rapid succession. Season premiere "Asylum of the Daleks" will see disguised Daleks kidnap Amy, Rory, and the Doctor, and force them to complete a mission for them. In "The Angels Wept," the angels turn the TARDIS to stone. The Ice Warriors will return for the Mark Gatiss-penned story "The Cold War," which will air in the second half of the season. The TARDIS interior will be redesigned in the second half of the series, as will the show's opening credits and theme music (to celebrate the show's 50th Anniversary).
Again, none of these are completely confirmed, but they're highly probably true. Check out the full, more specific details over at DoctorWhoTV.
Doctor Who will return for its seventh series later this month.
