It's been a VERY long time since I updated everyone (unless you follow me on Twitter in which case you get the news immediately) SO! News...
Firstly...Series Five now has 2 Extra Episodes...these are 'The Essence Chronicles' which tell the short but interesting stories of the other Incarnations of the Doctor looking for the Essence in their spare time.
The first entitled 'Execute' (Part One) features the Seventh, First and War Doctor's battling enemies Past, Present and Future for parts of the Essence. It also features Cameo's from the Twelfth, Fifth, Eleventh and Fourth Doctors who are on hand to help. This episode will now become Episode 3* and will likely be released Mid-Late October.
The second is entitled 'Terminus' (Part Two) and follows on from the War Doctor's story as well as with the Sixth and Ninth Doctors. This episode features cameos from the Eighth, Second, Tenth, Third and Twelfth Doctors. This episode is the 2nd half of the Chronicles and so is the final part of this section, with a Mini-Finale feel to it. This is now Episode 4 and is expected to be released November/Early December.
Now you will have realised these two Extra episodes have shifted most of Series Five up so that now the Series is a total of 13 Episodes and much later than first planned.
The Current Plan is as follows:
5.1: The Prequel - (Released 23rd Nov 2014)
5.2: The Years Of Trenzalore - (Released 7th Feb 2015)
5.3: The Essence Chronicles: Execute - (Expected Mid Oct 2015)
5.4: The Essence Chronicles: Terminus - (Expected Nov/Dec 2015)
5.5: Devoted To The Box - (Expected Early 2016)
5.6: The Lambent Ones - (Expected Early 2016)
5.7: The Critters Of Nostalgia - (Expected Early 2016)
5.8: The Jarkartah Expedition - (Expected Early 2016)
5.9: A Siege Submerged - (Expected Early 2016)
5.10: War Rivals - (Expected Early 2016)
5.11: Steel Deception** - (Expected Early 2016)
5.12: The Final... - (Expected Early 2016)
5.13: ...Farewell - (Expected Early 2016)
As you can see from the current plan, Series Five (the main lot 5.5-5.13) will not
reach your feeds until 2016. This was a rather annoying but realistic quote for these episodes.
By now you should be aware that I am now settled in to my new accommodation for University which means that majority of the FA stuff I had is now miles from my reach.
My initial plan was to have filmed all of Series Five before starting University so that it was only editing that needed to be done...unfortunately that has not happened. I start my course on Monday 5th October. My time from now on will be a lot shorter...
Apart from the fact that I wasn't going to finish and don't know when I will finish Series Five, I asked my 500 odd followers on Twitter for their opinion on this decision. A majority agreed that it would be best that 5.5-5.13 would be a constant weekly run for 9 weeks. It also means that you'll have 9 weeks of Who at the start of 2016 while we eagerly await Series 10 (Most likely Autumn 2016).
As for Production of Series Five...
5.3 is 88% filmed and editing on the opening sections has begun.
5.4 has nearly been fully written (final stages) and filming commences next week.
5.5-5.11 have already been written.
Filming on 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7 wrapped in August and editing has begun on these episodes.
Filming on 5.8 and 5.9 are being filmed as we speak and are just under halfway.
Filming on 5.10 and 5.11 will commence soon.
5.12 and 5.13 are currently in early stages of writing, as the Finale these are taking longer than normal but will most likely start filming in December.
It's going well, slow but steady!
I've introduced these two new episodes to bring you some sort of FA to bridge the gap between Trenzalore and 5.5-5.13.
As part of this Update, there is a BRAND NEW TRAILER on my YouTube Channel,
featuring clips from 5.3-5.9. I hope you enjoy it and hope you're still reading at this point.
Any more updates will be publicly shown either on Twitter, YouTube, here as a Blog or on Facebook. Links can be found on my YouTube Channel to all of them.
5.5-5.13 are labelled as Early 2016 because I do not want to give an exact date and end up changing it again. I will release a date as soon as most of the episodes are done and i'm happy with them.
They will most likely be Jan, Feb or March time, I am not 100% at the moment.
That I think is all for now, there will be a few 'new' type of videos on my Channel so there is at least something to watch! Sorry for the delays, hope you understand the situation and this is definitely my last Series, I will officially leave*** FA after 5.13 has aired, whenever that is.
Thank You and See You Soon!
* - Episode 3 because Episode 1 was 'The Prequel' and Episode 2 was 'The Years of Trenzalore'.
** - Originally titled 'Endured Pain', it has now been re-named to 'Steel Deception'.
*** - I was originally meant to leave 24th November 2015, however that is not likely due to S5.
