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Dr Who bandwagon starts to rollNew series starts 15 AprilPublished Friday 31st March 2006 08:47 GMT Geek TV Update your smartphones, Doctor Who fans: the timelord finally has a time slot. The new Tennant-hued Who starts ay 7pm on Easter Saturday (15 April), together with a new batch of Doctor Who Confidential documentaries on BBC Three. There are games to be played too. Meanwhile, slake your thirst with the first trailer, "early evening" on BBC1 this Saturday. The Who publicity machine has gone berserk this week. First they dispatched important Who folk to do personal appearances around the country, with Tom Baker leading the charge at London's SciFi Collector store on 12 April. Old Whos out of the way, the current lot have been treated to endless press conferences and a screening at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff. The newspapers were particularly excited by Tennant's hint that he'll hang around for a while: "I have had a ball...I might still be here in 40 years." The only guarantee is that he and his bosses will keep us on our toes. The kiss shared by the Doctor and Rose in the new series has also been much-discussed. "We did not do tongues," confirms Piper, though she is quoted by the Mirror as saying that Tennant is a more "intense" kisser than Christopher Eccleston. "It was quite sexy," ventured the woman who married Chris Evans. Peter Kay's guest appearance has also generated much speculation, with Tennant describing it as "unlike anything you'll have seen in Doctor Who before," and Billie paying tribute to Kay's "Dalek bread" gags. We look forward to having the Dalek bread concept explained in a DVD extra. Other TV programmes have continued to exist amid the Who madness; even the really old ones that you thought were dead. The original Planet of the Apes TV series is being released as a 14-disc Ultimate Collector's Edition DVD, which features all the original films and shows, including the never-before-released animation Return to the Planet of the Apes. Sell your mother and look lively: just 12,000 numbered sets go on sale next Monday (3 April) for a Kong-sized £149.99. Five to watch this week:Green Wing, Friday 31 March, C4, 9pm
First on the Moon: the Untold Story, Friday 31 March, Discovery Channel, 10pm
TV Heaven, Telly Hell, Sunday 2 April, C4, 9.30pm
Planet Earth, Sunday 2 April, BBC1, 9pm
Battlestar Galactica, Tuesday 4 April, Sky One, 9pm
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