SJA Series 3 DVD release details announced

It's been nearly a year, but it's finally arrived (nearly)! Set to go on sale November 1st 2010, 2entertain have released the cover image for the upcoming complete third series Sarah Jane Adventures box set!

Unlike the sets produced for the previous two series', the new DVD box set only contains two discs and doesn't appear to come in a card case like its predecessors. Let's hope we'll still get some out of this world special features!

With a recommended retail price of £24.99 you'd better act quickly, Amazon is selling it for £12.99 for a limited time only.

Also, hot off the heels of the announcement that the Series 3 DVD box set will be arriving on November 1st, comes good news for American fans as well.

tvshowsondvd.com has reported that the Region 1 version of Series 3 will be released on January 4th, 2011, just two months after its Region 2 counterpart!! No word on extras, but the box art looks very similar.

Promo pics & TV spot for SJA Series 4!!!

Well, it's the beginning of a new week and the powers that be at CBBC have given us a tantalizing and mouth watering sneak peak at the upcoming series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures!! Below is the first promotional image:

The picture depicts Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), Luke Smith (Tommy Knight), Clyde Langer (Daniel Anthony) and Rani Chandra  (Anjili Mohindra) standing before an array of monsters and aliens they’ll be encountering in their new adventures, which begin on CBBC next month (October 11th is the rumored date!). Displayed behind them (left to right) is the Androvax, Shansheeth, Dark Hoard and the Graske.

Also a 15 second teaser spot for TV was released yesterday with a peek at what's to come in the 4th series!! Its full of awesome and I personally can't wait till next month. 



Let the waiting begin!...

Torchwood series 4 writers announced

Mathew Wace Peck over at Digital Journal had this interesting news tidbit, although not SJA related, it makes for some interesting Torchwood details:

The new writing team for the fourth series of Torchwood has been confirmed, and it includes names familiar to a number of US-produced series.

Russell T Davies, Torchwood's creator, head writer and executive producer, will be joined by Doris Egan, Jane Espenson, John Fay and John Shiban. They will share the writing duties with Davies – who has already written the first episode – for the rest of the 10-part series, which is a US/UK. In 2005, Davies was responsible for the successful revitalising of the BBC's long-running science-fiction drama, Doctor Who, which Torchwood is a spin-off from. He is also responsible for a number of other well-known dramas, including Queer As Folk, The Second Coming and Mine All Mine, as well as a second Who spin-off – The Sarah Jane Adventures, which stars Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith. Egan has already worked on House and Dark Angel, Espenson on Battlestar Galactica and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Shiban on Supernatural and The X Files. Fay has already written for Torchwood, sharing some of the writing duties with Davies on its third series. As reported by Digital Journal previously, the new season will tell an international story and feature an overarching story line akin to 2009's five-part Torchwood: Children of Earth mini-series. The Chicago Tribune refers to Davies's newfound love for this type of format, which allows for the telling of "one large, taut story rather than a dozen or so separate tales over the course of a season". "I absolutely love it," Davies says. "I've been writing for 20 years and it's very rare to be given a new format." Last month, Digital Journal reported that a number of new cast members would be joining John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness) and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), and casting is currently underway. Meanwhile, there is still uncertainty as to whether Russell Tovey will be reprising his Doctor Who role of Alonso Frame for Torchwood. Frame and Captain Jack were last seen going off together in The End of Time (2010), David Tennant's last episode of Doctor Who, leading to speculation that Frame would be joining the Torchwood team. However, Tovey recently told the audience at the San-Diego Comic Con that he did not know what the future held for his character. World-wide filming on the BBC Wales/Starz co-production is due to begin in January 2011, for an expected summer 2011 broadcast in the UK and North America.

Episode titles for 4th series of The Sarah Jane Adventures announced!

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine reveals the episode titles for the fourth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures!

Without further delay they are:

4.1/4.2: The Nightmare Man

Written by Joseph Lidster

Directed by Joss Agnew

Guest starring Julian Bleach as the Nightmare Man

4.3/4.4: The Vault of Secrets

Written by Phil Ford

Directed by Joss Agnew

Guest starring Cheryl Campbell as Ocean Waters

4.5/4.6: Death of the Doctor

Written by Russell T Davies

Directed by Ashley Way

Guest starring Matt Smith as the Doctor and Katy Manning as former Third Doctor companion Jo Grant

4.7/4.8: The Empty Planet

Written by Gareth Roberts

Directed by Ashley Way

Guest starring Joe Mason as Gavin

4.9/4.10: Lost in Time

Written by Rupert Laight

Directed by Joss Agnew

Guest starring Cyril Nri as the Mysterious Shopkeeper.

4.11/4.12: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith

Written by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman

Directed by Joss Agnew

Guest starring Julie Graham as Ruby White.

Julian Bleach aka. Davros as the Nightmare Man!  He's been on Doctor Who and Torchwood in the past, playing epically terrifying characters both times. That last title sounds very ominous, too. And according to writer Gareth Roberts, it's going to have a very 'doom-y feel to it'.

11th Doc and former companion Jo Grant come to SJA!!

According to the BBC press office:

Sarah Jane Smith is reunited with another of The Doctor's former companions, Jo Grant (Katy Manning), in a new series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, set to air on CBBC this autumn. They'll be joined by The Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith), in special editions penned by executive producer Russell T Davies.

The two episodes will see The Doctor and his two former time-travelling partners caught up in an alien-busting adventure that will entertain Doctor Who fans of all ages.

Elisabeth Sladen, who plays Sarah Jane comments: "It's a fantastic script and I can't wait to work with another Doctor and hope Matt has fun with us. I've known Katy for ages and I am delighted to be working with her. I last met her in LA but this time we will be in Cardiff. LA was good but Cardiff is better."

Katy Manning, who recently returned to live in the UK again, adds: "Playing Jo Grant again is something I never really considered. I was gob-smacked when they told me and I am over the moon. What an incredible little treat. I come home and this is one of the first things that happens."

Executive producer Nikki Wilson says: "We are absolutely thrilled to be introducing Sarah Jane and the gang to both The Eleventh Doctor and Jo Grant, and to have a script penned by Russell T Davies is the icing on the cake!

"Viewers are in for a real treat, with an action-packed story full of Russell's usual wit and warmth, which takes the gang inside a secret base beneath Snowdon and introduces brand-new vulture aliens, the mysterious Shansheeth. All this, plus a trip to an alien planet – a first for The Sarah Jane Adventures."

Featuring the usual mixture of thrills, laughs and scares, the fourth series promises fun with enemies old and new, including the terrors of the Nightmare Man and a dangerous journey back into history.

A galaxy of guest stars are lined up to appear in the series and include Laila Rouass (Primeval, Footballers Wives) and Cheryl Campbell (Pennies From Heaven), whilst David Bradley (Argus Filch in Harry Potter) will provide the voice of the Shansheeth.

The Sarah Jane Adventures is executive produced by Nikki Wilson and Russell T Davies and produced by Brian Minchin.

Writers on the fourth series include Phil Ford (also co-producer), Joseph Lidster, Rupert Laight, Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman. The Sarah Jane Adventures is a BBC Cymru Wales/Children's BBC production.

The new series 4 is set to start in late September or early October this fall.