Matt and Karen will be on The One Show Friday 7 pm BBC 1

Huge thanks toTania for sharing the below interview

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COULD MATT Smith be on his way to Australia and what is his new project? Newspaper columnist, freelance journalist and fan Tania Phillips had 15 minutes phone time with the rising star at Easter and found out!

WE all know Matt Smith is fast becoming the toast of the TV world in the UK with his performance on Doctor Who wowing both critics and viewers alike.
More than eight million people switched on to watch his debut episode “The Eleventh Hour” on Easter Sunday.
But rather than rest on his laurels Mr Smith is currently on his way to the US for a quick promotional tour ahead of the launch of the new series of Doctor Who on BBC America on April 18 (yep we’ve all seen those amazing trailers – the channel is going all out to attract viewers).
And with the program also due to hit Australian screens that same weekend – well ahead of our usual six-week lag time– some antipodeans could be excused for thinking “What about us”?

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http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com has a audio trailer
from Paul O’Grady’s show listen to it here

A few articles online
first one from The People has a “interesting” picture of Matt view it here

Nice article/interview about the Doctor’s costume it also talks about Amy’s read it here

Matt Smith: “I think it has to be an extension of me. We had three huge fittings that went on for hours. I was originally going to have either a black leather coat or a blue swashbuckly one. I was always very keen that the element of the professor would come out. I was reading loads about Einstein at the time. I wrote loads of stories, actually, about the Doctor and Einstein, in Egypt. And that’s how the pyramids were made, because the Doctor rocked up. Because I had six months to prepare it was the only way I could get in contact with the Doctor.”

Matt will be on Jonathan Ross tonight BBC One 10.35pm BBC have released some press information below Source

New Time Lord Matt Smith talks about becoming the Doctor: “My Doctor [is] clumsy, a little reckless, [but] becomes more assured as the series develops.”

He also reveals: “I couldn’t tell anyone for three months,” and says: “To my mind it’s the best part in British TV history.”

He tells Jonathan that he took advice from David Tennant and that he’s eager to take on his mantle: “I spoke to David briefly, he said ‘enjoy the ride’.”

On the TARDIS, he reveals there have been some changes: “It’s bigger on the inside, has different levels, other rooms including a library, [and is] a different shade of blue outside.”

Finally, he says he’s here to stay: “I hope to do at least another year, it’s a wonderful part and I want to keep it.”

And there’s an exclusive sneak preview of the Doctor’s encounter with vampires.

Thanks to Stuart who sent me the following information view the site
for more information and to subscript to the magazine http://www.gaytimes.co.uk

As Doctor Who returns with a new team and a new look this Easter, we eagerly stepped on board the TARDIS for Matt Smith’s first ever interview with the gay press. And in 47 years of the show, he is the first Doctor to ever hold the cover spot of a gay magazine.

We also have unprecedented coverage of the new series, with exclusive content including the first ever interview with the latest addition to the cast, Arthur Darvill. We speak with the Doctor’s assistant Karen Gillan, head writer Steven Moffat, executive producer Piers Wenger and a selection of other characters and creatives, both returning and new.

What’s more, writer Gareth Roberts reveals that Matt Smith is set to appear pretty much naked in episode eleven, while costume designer Ray Holman tells us what kind of underwear the new Doctor prefers…

Matt Smith on his new role as the Doctor:

“What’s gorgeous about it is that I get to sort of confess to my imagination every day. So I get to play around in a mad, imaginary world every day, which is limitless and timeless, and endless and boundless. You know, that is as close as you get to sort of magic really, I suppose, in many ways.”

On being described by executive producer Steven Moffat as “Patrick Moore in the body of an underwear model”:

“The thing is, right, I’ll take Patrick Moore, fine. But I definitely haven’t got an underwear model’s body, no way, not on this schedule. All my gym’s gone out the window. God no, I take that as a gross over-compliment to be honest. And also! When the hell has Steven Moffat seen me in my pants alone?”

April’s issue of GT Magazine is on sale 24 March and also features exclusive ineterviews with Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, plus Jamie Campbell Bower, Debbie Reynolds, Tracy-Ann Oberman and the real Phillip Morris.

Some nice few articles  http://www.dailystar.co.uk

Actor Matt, 27, admitted: “The new Dalek eye stalks are designed to meet the level of my own eyes.

“They made them from my measurements.”

And a show source added: “We’ve had to make a new set of Daleks especially for Matt.

“They are a bit smaller and they will be unveiled later in the series. They look sensational.”

There are quite a few articles about the Doctor Who tour but I thought I would just link the 2 from Matt and Karen’s hometowns here and here.

You can read a clip of the SFX interview here

The sun have another article on filming in cardiff here

The below is a press release from BBC about a Doctor Who tour from here

Doctor Who will begin an exciting national tour across the UK in March, introducing the new Doctor to fans of the series in five different locations spanning the length and breadth of the British Isles.

The tour will introduce the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, and his Companion, Karen Gillan, to fans of the BBC One show and offer them a unique chance to meet the stars.

Each location will also host a regional premiere of episode one, The Eleventh Hour, for local children, working alongside BBC Outreach to enable kids to get a first look at the new Doctor in action.

Matt and Karen will travel around the UK on a specially themed Doctor Who tour bus, featuring the new TARDIS logo and iconic imagery.

BBC Outreach proactively takes the BBC into specific communities and sections of society, and has been integral in organising and supporting the tour.

The focus of the tour is to reach relatively under-served communities by the BBC.

The Doctor’s maiden voyage will commence on 29 March in Belfast, and then travel to Karen Gillan’s home town, Inverness, for a screening on 30 March.

The bus will then move on to Sunderland that afternoon and Salford on Wednesday 31 March before finishing later that day in Northampton – Matt Smith’s hometown.

Following the tour, from 1 to 3 April, the BBC will also hold events for three days at selected BBC Big Screens across the UK giving Doctor Who fans in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Plymouth and Swansea the chance to interact directly with the show in their home towns.

The events will feature exclusive footage – including the chance to see the Doctor Who trailer in 3D – and giveaways, and fans can also get their photo taken tumbling through the giant vortex.

Visitors will be able to meet some of the scariest monsters that have had viewers watching from behind their sofa for generations as well.

Piers Wenger, Executive Producer, and Head of Drama, BBC Wales, said: “This is a great opportunity for the new Doctor and his Companion to interface directly with the people who matter most to Doctor Who: the fans.

“The chance to visit them in their hometowns will ensure that the 11th Doctor’s maiden voyage is an utterly magical one.”

Alec McGivan, Head of BBC Outreach, added: “Outreach is all about getting face to face with people so they can get involved and experience the BBC in a different and exciting way – we’re delighted to be able to take one of the BBC’s best loved brands out to its audience.”

You can view more filming pictures from the last couple of days
here here and here you can also see some videos of the filming here.

I’ve scanned in the interview from the Guardian here

There is a interview of Matt with the Guardian here

You can read some of it below and click read more and view the picture in the gallery

His drama teacher, Mr Hardingham, nurtured Smith. When he didn’t turn up for rehearsal, he gave him a second chance. “Like great teachers do, they change your life. He got me forms for the National Youth Theatre. And I didn’t fill them in.” Mr Hardingham persisted. Eventually Smith did fill in the forms, won a place, went on to study drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia and discovered that acting gave him a similar buzz to football. “There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.”

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