Magazine roundup

The Amazing HuonTron at Combom has rounded up the news from the magazines!

*TV Week's article, "What's Up, Doc?":

• What promises to be scarier and more intriguing, Doctor Who crash-lands 27 August (holy bow-ties, this Saturday!). We learn here that the Doctor comes face-to-face with a war criminal, "and it's not Hitler".
• The Doctor meets up with Amy and Rory, and a mysterious new companion who forces her way aboard the Tardis.
• The shape-changing robot, Teselecta, wants Hitler dead! This robot's function is to capture and kill baddies, to put history right. (Is River a baddie!?)
• We will see more of River Song flirting and we will find out more about her. This is gonna get interesting.
•  The poisoned Doctor has but 30 minutes to live, and save the world. Who has poisoned the Doctor? River??

The Doctor Fights Hitler!

• We do see a return of James Corden from The Lodger.
• Handbots, Peg Dolls, a mole, mini Amy and Rory and an explosive grand finale. Oh my. The Doctor and Amy enter a bizarre world. And River is there….but is she good?? Or is she a baddie?

TV & Satellite Week

• Yes, yes the Tardis crashes into 1930's Nazi Germany, this time coming face-to-face with the Evil Fuhrer himself.
• We get to find out more about how the whole River/Melody thing pans out.
• We learn that the Teselecta finds itself impersonating some very interesting people. This is interesting. (Smith compares it to the Terminator---with tiny people inside of it, operating it…think numbskulls).
• We learn in this article, that the Doctor is in fact poisoned by "someone we all know and love". (River?? I'm just saying)
• Night Terrors: Something creepy lurks, frightening a poor child, the Doctor battles evil peg dolls.
• The Girl Who Waited: All about Amy, Amy winds up on a quarantined disease-ridden planet…and Amy gets to see an older version of herself.
• The God Complex: A living hotel…each room contains a different nightmare, the hotel feeds off peoples' fears. We see a creepy clown and a minotaur!
• The Doctor finds himself trapped in a dollhouse!
• We see the Doctor in a top hat. I guess top hats are cool now, too.
• Why is River out to kill the Doctor? What's really going on there? Surely he's not the good man she killed?
• We see more of the Silence. And we hear "order of the silence" The Silence are still very much around.

TV Times

• River was born to kill the Doctor.
• River and a banana. Behave.
• The Doctor and Amy occupy a bizarre world full of children and prehistoric birds. And what's with the pyramids??

Radio Times

• In a RadioTimes interview with Alex Kingston, she cannot answer how long River will be around…she can't even comment as to whether she even knows. Could River be the next companion?
• Parts of the series are scary for children. It's all about fear, children's fear and conquering it. Classic behind-the-settee Doctor Who.
• Steven Moffat guides us through the episodes:
• 608 Let's Kill Hitler written by Steven Moffat: Caitlin Blackwood guest stars. And I've already talked enough about this episode.
• 609 Night Terrors (written by Mark Gatiss): Emma Cunniffe and Daniel Mays guest star. A child's bedroom is the scariest place in the universe.
• 610 The Girl Who Waited written by Tom MacRae: Out of the Tardis and into a strange white waiting room…I've already discussed this episode above. Moffat calls this one mind-blowing and heart-breaking.
• 611 The God Complex written by Toby Whitehouse: David Walliams and Caitlin Blackwood guest star. A living, scary, bizarre and twisted hotel. Ventriloquist dummies. Eek.
• 612 Closing Time written by Gareth Roberts: James Corden and Daisy Haggard guest star. Alien threat and a baby!
• 613 The Wedding of River Song written by Steven Moffat: Frances Barber and Simon Callow guest star. "I don't want to marry you." "I don't want to murder you." The episode with all the answers. Finally
• Matt Smith confirms that he has signed on until 2013, at least. He's in love with Doctor Who. He's going to shoot 14 episodes next year, including a Christmas special. He states they may not all go out in 2012 though.