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In series four the team will be meeting the Nightmare Man and the Shansheeth. What more can you tell us?
“The Nightmare Man is part of a really big emotional journey for Luke which involves him facing his fears and excitement about the future. The Shansheeth are vulture undertakers who get embroiled with the gang on a big adventure for the middle of the series.”

Also the group will be visiting an alien world for the first time – will that be difficult production-wise?
“It’s part of a bigger episode – we’re not setting a whole two episodes on an adventure off Earth so it’s fairly containable. With Sarah Jane it’s very much rooted in contemporary London and Bannerman Road will always be the heart of the show. We’re not Doctor Who so we don’t go flying off around the universe but this is an opportunity for us to get a glimpse of that.”

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Good news!

Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures has been recommissioned for two new series, it has been announced.

The fourth and fifth series will each run to 12 episodes, airing in Autumn 2010 and Autumn 2011 respectively.

Show creator and executive producer Russell T Davies, who left as showrunner on Doctor Who earlier this year, will remain in the role on both new series of SJA.

Nikki Wilson, producer on series three, has been promoted to executive producer, while Torchwood‘s Brian Minchin has joined the team as a producer.

“We are thrilled to be making many more episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures,” said CBBC controller Damian Kavanagh. “It has been a huge ratings and critical success on CBBC and we hope our viewers are going to be hooked on Sarah Jane’s action-packed adventures for some time to come.”

The fourth series, which begins filming in Cardiff later this month, sees regulars Tommy Knight (Luke), Daniel Anthony (Clyde) and Anjli Mohindra (Rani) return alongside Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane).

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The Inbetweeners and Mistfits are among the nominees at the 2009 Royal Television Society Programme Awards.

Both shows – homegrown comedies from E4 – have been recognised in two categories ahead of the March 16 event.

Inbetweeners goes up against Miranda and The Thick Of It in the ‘Scripted Comedy’ category, while the show’s writers Iain Morris and Damon Beesley will battle scribes from Miranda and Getting On in the ‘Comedy Writer’ section.

Meanwhile, Misfits has received nods in the ‘Drama Series’ and ‘Drama Writer’ categories.

Other notable contenders include The Sarah Jane Adventures, which is nominated for ‘Children’s Drama’, and The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, which will go head-to-head in the ‘Entertainment’ section.

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It’s only natural for a Time Lord to have an excellent sense of timing. In his new guise as a wedding crasher, The Doctor shows up in the nick of time to prevent not only his former companion Sarah Jane-Smith from matrimony, but the story itself from flatlining under a weight of superfluous (if often amusing) padding material. From then on, it’s an absorbing tale full of twists that’s bolstered by the emotional poignancy of the brilliant final scenes.

After acquiring the services of David Tennant, The Sarah Jane Adventures could have fallen into the trap of establishing the central threat only for The Doctor to singlehandedly save the world while the regular cast look on as passive admirers. Quite wisely though, The Doctor was used more as a mentor to bring out the self-belief in the Bannerman Road youngsters, thus allowing Daniel Anthony to excel as the determined Clyde and trick the Trickster.

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According to Doctor Who Magazine, the stories in the third series are as follows:

• S03E01/E02: ‘Prisoner of the Judoon’
• S03E03/E04: ‘The Mad Woman in the Attic’
• S03E05/E06: ‘The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith’
• S03E07/E08: ‘The Eternity Trap’
• S03E09/E10: ‘Mona Lisa’s Revenge’
• S03E11/E12: ‘The Gift’

The third series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is expected to air on BBC One and the CBBC Channel from the Autumn.

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David Tennant will make a guest appearance as the Doctor in the new series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, it has been confirmed.

The Time Lord will reunite with his one-time companion Sarah Jane Smith, played by Elisabeth Sladen, for a two-episode stint in the upcoming third series of the kids spinoff.

“Viewers thought they may have to wait until November for the next full episode of Doctor Who, but this is an extra special treat,” said Russell T Davies, executive producer on The Sarah Jane Adventures. “And it’s not just a cameo from David – this is a full on appearance for The Doctor as he and Sarah Jane face their biggest threat ever.”

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The Red Nose Day edition of The Sarah Jane Adventures was watched by around 8.3 million viewers according to unofficial overnight figures, out rating Emmerdale on ITV1.

The David Tennant part of the evening had an average of 9.2 million watching, peaking at 11.3 million at 8pm. Comic Relief peaked at 9pm with 12.7 million watching.

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Old interview.

On joining the cast:
“It’s been really great, because sometimes when you come into a show everyone’s already all tight in a performed group and you feel a bit intimidated but absolutely not at all. I completely feel part of the team, and it’s just fantastic coming into a group of mates that are already formed but welcome other people in as friends.”

On when her character joins the series:
“Fairly near the start, after saying farewell to the third sidekick, I kind of have a bit of a nosey into the lives of the world-saving team and kind of butt my way in!”

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