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The new ‘Doctor Who’ season will hit home video with a tantalizing extra

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I just got word that the BBC is poised to announce that ‘Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series’ will hit Blu-ray and DVD on November 9 and that it will contain a truly tantalizing extra: two newly filmed sequences, both written by Steven Moffat and available only in this collection.

They are called ‘Meanwhile, in the TARDIS ... ‘ and, as that title suggests, they are drop-in moments that show what happens between the episodes -- I suspect they’re the comedy mortar between the story bricks, and with Moffat’s wry sensibility and the daft charms of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, I’m guessing these interstitial escapades have a chance to be pretty entertaining.

Down at Comic-Con International on Thursday, there are two panels and a screening that should interest the Whovians, the big one being the 8 p.m. screening of the season’s two-part finale. It’s the U.S. premiere of the season’s big finish, which met with strong reviews back in the U.K. when aired June 26.

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Smith’s first year in the TARDIS was a romp; the upgrades to the show in production values, the shake-up in the creative team and the deft casting of Smith and Gillan took the series onward and upward in a way I didn’t think possible after David Tennant’s departure from the lead role. If you missed it, the home-video release might be a, uh, timely way to jump on board with a show that looks to have bigger and better things ahead.

-- Geoff Boucher

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