The BBC have released this picture of the forthcoming new animated Doctor Who story Dreamland. The 45-minute story will be broadcast in six installments on BBC2 and BBC HD this autumn. David Tennant will be joined by Georgia Moffet as new companion Cassie Rice. Moffet of course played The Doctor’s Daughter, and is also really the Doctor’s Daughter in real life - that is, Peter Davison’s daughter. She’s also David Tennant’s girlfriend. David Warner, who Peter Davison once recommended to this blogger as the person they should cast as the Doctor in the new series, is also in Dreamland, playing Viperox, allegedly the stories villain. Warner, well-known to sci-fi fans for his role as “Evil Genius” in Time Bandits, has acted with David Tennant in Doctor Who before - in the Doctor Who Unbound audio play Sympathy for the Devil, only on that occasion Warner was playing the Doctor and Tennant was playing UNIT Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood (and Nicholas Courtney reprised his role as Lethbridge-Stewart for the only Tennant-Courntey Doctor Who story to date).

The new animation pic looks cool and I think is a nice change from the previous style of animation used for The Infinite Quest and other animated-features for Who done by Cosgrove Hall. But I do wish for once that they could come up with a promotional image that doesn’t feature the Doctor wielding the Sonic Screwdriver as a weapon!