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The very first Doctor Who director, Waris Hussein with West Coast Correspondent, Joshua Lou Friedman in an interview on Doctor Who: Podshock 218.

Photo credit: Joshua Lou Friedman

West Coast Correspondent, Amy Krell interviewing pioneering first Doctor Who director, Waris Hussein on Doctor Who: Podshock 218.

Photo credit: Joshua Lou Friedman

Legendary first Doctor Who director, Waris Hussein being interviewed on Doctor Who: Podshock 218.

Photo credit: Joshua Lou Friedman

Watch the full session from the Edinburgh International Television Festival with Doctor Who Executive Producer and Lead Writer, Steven Moffat and Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) from 29 August 2010 chaired by Richard Bacon.

Follow the link below and then click the right sidebar for Doctor Who: A Masterclass. Special thanks to @terrylightfoot for the heads up on it.

MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival - MGEITF 2010 - Full Sessions:

More news coming out concerning the 2011 Doctor Who series (or set of series as it is now) is that we may get a reprieve from the Daleks stories. This according to what executive producer and lead writer Steven Moffat hinted at the Edinburgh TV Festival:

Moffat: 'No Daleks in next Who series' - Digital Spy:

"Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, the Who showrunner admitted that there are currently no plans for the famous aliens to reappear, although work on the 2011 series is not yet complete.

We had the pleasure of meeting Karen Gillan (Amy Pond in Doctor Who) this past April (2010) covering the event for Doctor Who: Podshock. Although we were there chiefly to record audio and shot still photos, we did manage to capture some short video of the red carpet interviews (thanks to the iPhone 3GS). This is one.

This is Karen Gillan at the US premiere of Doctor Who (the 1st Matt Smith series) at the Paley Center for Media in NYC speaking of going from her first role in Doctor Who (The Fires of Pompeii) to a full time companion.

These Cybermen figures are out for revenge in an exclusive set available now to pre-order from Forbidden Planet. This set contains the Cyber Leader and two Mark V Cybermen along with a Cybermat for good measure is expected on the 17th of November 2010. Relive the classic 4th Doctor story, The Revenge of the Cybermen otherwise they may turn you into a cyberbomb.

Pre-order price is currently £29.99 plus shipping. For more information or to place an order, click here.

Here is Sarah Douglas talking about her role in the Doctor Who Adventure Game as the "blob-like entity" / Professor Meadows in this short video. You may recall we broke the story of Sarah's role in Doctor Who when we interviewed her earlier this year at I-CON. If you didn't catch it, it was Doctor Who: Podshock 189. DW: Podshock 189At that time she and we were unsure of exactly what her role was going to be, only that it was for an interactive animated story. We had assumed it may have been another BBC "Red Button" interactive Doctor Who episode before learning of the new Doctor Who Adventure Game series.

On a personal note, it was a real delight spending time with Sarah this past spring. We had her on our show when she during the early stage of this video game project, we would love to have back to speak more on it sometime in the future.

This Week In Doctor Who - Section A
August 28, 2010 - Vol 13, Number 30
by Benjamin F. Elliott
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All the known broadcasts of Doctor Who covered weekly since 1998. With the spinoffs too. And look - back on schedule!

While TWIDW no longer has podcast listings, most of the Doctor Who podcasts online have united for publicity as the Doctor Who Podcast alliance http://www.doctorwhopodcastalliance.org . The podcasters are doing very exciting things these days. Stay tuned.