Look Who's Going To America...

There's been some internet buzz for a while now but the BBC have just confirmed, courtesy of one of their ever-effusive Press releases, that the first two episodes of the forthcoming sixth season of Dr Who, will be filmed over in America, for broadcast next Spring. The episodes, written by showrunner Steven Moffatt, will again star Matt Smith as the Doctor, Karen Gillen as "feisty" Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as her long-suffering new husband Rory Williams. Making an early reappearance in the series for these episodes will be Alex Kingston reprising her now semi-regular role as the mysterious Professor River Song. The episodes, co-funded by BBC America (where the recent season achieved consistent record ratings for the channel), will be shot in and around the plains of Utah and are set in the 1960s in a story which will take the Doctor deep into the heart of the American administration, into the Oval office itself.

With the fourth series of 'Torchwood' due to film Stateside from next January, can we reasonably expect Sarah Jane Smith and her Bannerman Road gang to pop across the Atlantic to battle the Slitheen atop the Empire State Building next year? Can we have our sci-fi shows back when you've finished with them please, Uncle Sam, you've got enough of your own?

Here's a teaser...