Doctor Who: Dreamland casting update

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As the Doctor Who gap year draws to a close any new information about the upcoming stories is a like an elusive oasis found in an endless desert, no matter how small the find. Today, the oasis is the announcement that actor Clarke Peters, known to US audiences as Lester Freamon in the police drama The Wire, will join the voice cast of the upcoming animated Doctor Who adventure, Dreamland. Peters will voice the role of the character Night Eagle, a Native American. As of mid-October little is known about the animated adventure; the Doctor will visit a diner in Roswell, New Mexico, and discover an alien artifact which leads him on a quest to rescue Rivesh Mantilax from the double threat of the Viperox and the American military.

Joining Clarke Peters in the voice cast are David Warner, who plays the Viperox, Stuart Mulligan as Colonel Stark, and Lisa Bowerman, known among fandom as the voice (an occasionally photo-model) of Seventh Doctor former-companion Prof. Bernice Summerfield. Bowerman's role in Dreamland is as yet undetermined. Georgia Moffett also lends her voice to the animated drama, in the role of Cassie Rice, the Doctor's companion for the story. Moffett, daughter of Fifth Doctor Peter Davison, previously worked alongside David Tennant as Jenny, the artificially-created daughter of the Doctor in the 2008 Doctor Who episode The Doctor's Daughter. Despite rumors of the character's return to the series in 2009, there is no evidence Cassie Rice and Jenny are one and the same.

Doctor Who-Dreamland is the second fully-animated series story, following 2007's The Infinite Quest starring David Tennant and Freema Agyeman, with Anthony Head. Dreamland will be broadcast via BBC's Red Button Service and the official Doctor Who website in seven separate six-minute installments. A broadcast of the full approximately forty-five minutes story will later appear on BBC Two and BBC HD. The story's producers are Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, and Piers Wenger, with Gary Russell as director and Phil Ford (head writer of The Sarah Jane Adventures) as the writer. As an interesting side-note, with this story and his co-writing credit of the upcoming Doctor Who television special The Waters of Mars, Phil Ford will have become the only writer other than Russell T Davies to have written for Doctor Who, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

A link to the BBC's Dreamland blog is available here. Please note that site video may not play outside of the UK.