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- TV highlights Christmas Day - The Guardian
- TV Wasteland: A Cold Winter’s Night - Mania
- WhoNews Charity Appeal Updates
- Buddy films 'Knight and Day,' 'The Other Guys' - VillageSoup Belfast (blog)
- TV preview (Christmas Week): Upstairs Downstairs | The One Ronnie | Doctor Who ... - Scotsman
- Bonhams Auction Items Sold
- Advent update: Day twenty
- Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol - Gather.com
- Torchwood: Bill Pullman Joins that Cast of Torchwood - Anglotopia.net
- Arthur Darvill Interviewed
- The Chattath Factor
- Matt Smith Wants Dinosaurs On Doctor Who! + Q & A With Katherine Jenkins! - Comic Book Movie
- A Merry Little Christmas…
- Doctor Who - Cast Sings Merry Christmas, Quite Awfully - Anglotopia.net
- People Roundup - The Doctor Who News Page (blog)
- People Roundup
- What made your best of 2010 list? (That isn't from 2010.) - Entertainment Weekly
- The Hartford Courant, Conn., Roger Catlin column - California Chronicle
- Katherine Jenkins relives Gambon's practical jokes
- Katherine Jenkins describes “sweet and simple” Abigail
- Katherine Jenkins lifts lid on her Christmas Dr Who role - WalesOnline
- Dr Who + Snogging = Stressful - Sugarscape
- Arthur Darvill discusses A Christmas Carol, Series 6
- Advent update: Day nineteen
- Katherine Jenkins Interview
- Gillan Becomes Art Ambassador
- Matt Smith is full of the Christmas spirit in a Doctor Who special - Sunday Mercury
- The Twelve Blogs of Christmas: Seven
- Christmas 'Who': Q&A with Arthur Darvill - Digital Spy
- Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful
- No-One Notices Karen!
- Fancy Gary Barlow reading you a bedtime story? - Eleven
- Jenkins' Jitters
- Doctor Who – The Adventure Games comes to BBC online - Unreality TV
| TV highlights Christmas Day - The Guardian Posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:36 PM PST
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| TV Wasteland: A Cold Winter’s Night - Mania Posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:11 PM PST
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| WhoNews Charity Appeal Updates Posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:00 PM PST  From Monday there are just four days left of the WhoNews iOS app charity appeal. WhoNews is a Doctor Who news application which offers news from over 30 websites. For a full list of features please click here. Paul Gee, creator of the app is donating all profits from sales to charity between 23rd November and 23rd December. Below are updates from his blog. 9th December: From 9th - 23rd December all profits from WhoNews will be going to Cure Leukaemia, a charity that enables patients access to potentially life saving, ground breaking drugs and treatments. The charity supports the Haematology Centre at the University Hospital Birmingham, UK and also those hospitals working with the centre through joint research into the condition. This includes Birmingham Women's Hospital, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Stoke on Trent, Dudley, Worcester, Stafford, Heartlands and Sandwell. Check out their website for more details. 16th December: I thought I'd also give you a little update on Andrew the young boy who inspired the appeal. Andrew turned 13 on Monday but had to spend the day in hospital topping up his platelet levels which were very low. On Tuesday he was rushed to hospital after his speech became slurred and the Doctors suspected this may have been caused by a small clot which resulted in a mini-stroke. On Wednesday his speech had improved and he under went an M.R.I scan and we hope to hear the results very soon.. Just by purchasing WhoNews from the App Store either via iTunes or on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch you will make a donation of £1.45 in the UK or $2.80 in the US to Cure Leukaemia. Just click here to be taken to the app store. | ||
| Buddy films 'Knight and Day,' 'The Other Guys' - VillageSoup Belfast (blog) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:11 AM PST
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| TV preview (Christmas Week): Upstairs Downstairs | The One Ronnie | Doctor Who ... - Scotsman Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:08 AM PST
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| Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:05 AM PST Wednesday saw the latest Entertainment Memorabilia Sale take place at Bonhams; the auction included three items from the classic series of Doctor Who, the results of which are given below: | ||
| Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:00 AM PST Our countdown to the big day continues, and today we bring you the results of our Series 5 Awards! You've been voting in your hundreds all month, and we'd just like to say a huge thanks to everybody who contributed. Have your favourites come out on top? To find out, head over to the home page [...] | ||
| Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol - Gather.com Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:34 AM PST
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| Torchwood: Bill Pullman Joins that Cast of Torchwood - Anglotopia.net Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:02 AM PST
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| Posted: 19 Dec 2010 08:44 AM PST Doctor Who companion Arthur Darvill – Rory Williams ("Mr Pond") in the show – features in an online interview in which he discusses the seasonal episode, A Christmas Carol. Some highlights of the chat include Darvill's feelings about working with Harry Potter wizard Sir Michael Gambon (A Christmas Carol's Kazran Sardick), as well as the fact that he is part of the first married couple in the TARDIS!
There's much more in the full interview on Digital Spy. Meanwhile, in case you just landed here in the UK, the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol, airs Saturday, December 25th, Christmas Day, at 6pm on BBC One and BBC HD! | ||
| Posted: 19 Dec 2010 08:35 AM PST Fineline Productions have released the first part of a new Doctor Who adventure in their original story series:  The Chattath Factorby Will Hadcroft An inhuman creature is stalking the English countryside, leaving murder in its wake. The Doctor and Jenny arrive to investigate, but before long the Doctor is fighting for his life in the home of a dangerous scientific radical, whilst Jenny and the local vicar are besieged by creatures driven by the darkest passions. » Production Notes » Download Part One. The Chattath Factor has been a long time in development, with author Will Hadcroft commencing work on the story in 2002 after publication of his children's book, Anne Droyd and Century Lodge. On developing the story, Hadcroft recounts the influence of the successful partnership of Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks on his approach: I watched the Reeltime Myth Makers videos interviewing Barry and Terrance to remind myself how they went about putting a story together. Something that stood out was their insistence on having a theme, a thread running through the adventure. It wasn't that the writer should lecture the viewer/listener about a moral point or some political issue, but rather choose a theme that served as a foundation to the story and stick to it. It has been produced and directed by Gareth Preston:So I settled on the theme of man's dual nature, the saint and the sinner, Number Six and Number One, in the same person. I also wove in as a secondary theme my preoccupation with the spirituality versus reason debate, and had the two opposing views represented by Pastor Daniel Jacobs and Doctor Joseph Winston. Keen to make my Doctor Who story a good one, I pondered on what tended to work best in the TV series. Adventures set in the Middle Ages, the 19th century or the war years always hit the spot. The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Horror of Fang Rock, The Visitation, and The Curse of Fenric were all highly regarded. So I set my story in the 19th century. Gareth and I treated the project the way Barry and Terrence used to handle the TV series: the writer does three rewrites, and then if it still isn't up to scratch, the script editor tidies it up. This is in part a homage to the Philip Hinchcliffe/Robert Holmes era of the programme, a period myself and Will are very fond of. Probably the biggest challenge production-wise was getting the sound of the monsters right. Hope you like them. The story was recorded in 2006, but with other projects taking priority, it wasn't until last year that it was finally mixed; since then, music has been especially written by Peter Dudley for Will Hadcroft in the style of Dudley Simpson, with part two in preparation for release in the next month or so.It was also marvellous to have John Ainsworth in the cast. Back in the eighties he had played recurring timelord villain Askran in the Audio Visuals, the fan audios which originally inspired me to create Fine Line. So I was delighted to have John and his cultured voice in one of my productions. Thanks to all the actors and Will for their talents and patience with me getting around to sharing their efforts with the rest of the world. You can find the first and successive episodes of The Chattath Factor from the Fineline Productions website, along with the previous stories in the series. | ||
| Matt Smith Wants Dinosaurs On Doctor Who! + Q & A With Katherine Jenkins! - Comic Book Movie Posted: 19 Dec 2010 06:42 AM PST
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| A Merry Little Christmas… Posted: 19 Dec 2010 06:33 AM PST Ever fancied watching Arthur Darvill on piano while Matt Smith and Karen Gillan sing Christmas songs? No? Ah well, move along. If you are interested, however, then this – ahem – "rendition" (quite possibly an "extraordinary rendition" but without the waterboarding) might just tickle your fancy. Stay with it – it might seem like a bit of a caterwaul at first (and later, to be fair), but this is good fun, and let's us see what a music virtuoso Mr Darvill really is… From the Doctor Who Confidential that follows A Christmas Carol, you can see this clip in context on Christmas Day at 7pm on BBC Three. | ||
| Doctor Who - Cast Sings Merry Christmas, Quite Awfully - Anglotopia.net Posted: 19 Dec 2010 04:45 AM PST
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| People Roundup - The Doctor Who News Page (blog) Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:48 AM PST
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| Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:37 AM PST Barney Harwood (Totally Doctor Who, The Infinite Quest) is to become the 35th presenter of the long running BBC children's show Blue Peter. He joins joins current presenters Helen Skelton and Andy Akinwolere on 17 January 2011. [BBC Press release] Sophie Okonedo (Liz Ten, The Beast Below, The Pandorica Opens) was award with an OBE for services to drama in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for 2010. She received press attention when the medal fell from her dress and landed at the feet of the Prince of Wales, from where she had to retrieve it. The ceremony took place at Buckingham Palace on 17 December. Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) will feature in Sky 1's Little Crackers tomorrow (Monday) night at 9pm. Catherine has written and directed a short 10 minute film about her time as a shy schoolgirl who "would rather wet herself in class than put her hand up to ask to go to the toilet". You can watch a preview of her film and more on the Little Crackers website. David Tennant and Derek Jacobi (Professor Yana/The Master, Utopia) will be reading Bedtime Stories for CBeebies over the Holiday period. Full schedule here. Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams) and Katherine Jenkins (Abigail Pettigrew, A Christmas Carol) have done Q&A's with Digital Spy about their time working on this year's Christmas special. | ||
| What made your best of 2010 list? (That isn't from 2010.) - Entertainment Weekly Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:10 AM PST
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| The Hartford Courant, Conn., Roger Catlin column - California Chronicle Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:02 AM PST
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| Katherine Jenkins relives Gambon's practical jokes Posted: 19 Dec 2010 02:45 AM PST Katherine Jenkins has revealed that there was never a dull moment on the set of A Christmas Carol - thanks to the practical jokes pulled by Sir Michael Gambon! The opera singer, who appears as Abigail Pettigrew in the special, has told Wales on Sunday about one particular prank involving Gambon's cane prop. She explained: "The crew [...] | ||
| Katherine Jenkins describes “sweet and simple” Abigail Posted: 19 Dec 2010 02:30 AM PST DigitalSpy have released a new video interview with Katherine Jenkins, in which she reveals some more details about her character in A Christmas Carol. "I play Abigail Pettrigrew," she said. "She's a young girl who comes from a very poor background. She's very sweet and simple, but she's not very well and she's dying. She also has this gift where [...] | ||
| Katherine Jenkins lifts lid on her Christmas Dr Who role - WalesOnline Posted: 19 Dec 2010 01:10 AM PST
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| Dr Who + Snogging = Stressful - Sugarscape Posted: 18 Dec 2010 11:52 PM PST
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| Arthur Darvill discusses A Christmas Carol, Series 6 Posted: 18 Dec 2010 11:52 PM PST Arthur Darvill has spoken to DigitalSpy about Rory's role in A Christmas Carol. "Amy and Rory are on their honeymoon at Christmas time," he explained. "We're on a spaceship that's obviously in some terrible danger, so it's a slightly short-lived honeymoon! It's with the Doctor, so it's not going to be a safe holiday at all! The [...] | ||
| Posted: 18 Dec 2010 11:38 PM PST Our nineteenth advent update is now online! As you'll know, this year's Doctor Who yuletide special is based on the classic Charles Dickens story, and today we're taking a leaf out of his book and celebrating Christmas past! We've got an exclusive wallpaper featuring the heroes who have made our Christmases that little bit brighter over the past [...] | ||
| Posted: 18 Dec 2010 09:30 PM PST Doctor Who guest star Katherine Jenkins was interviewed recently by Digital Spy, who have released footage from the chat on their website. In the clip, Jenkins discusses A Christmas Carol and her casting in the 2010 Christmas special, and thanks to it being placed on YouTube the clip is available to international fans, many of whom might get their first glimpse of the loveliness that is Katherine Jenkins. Note that the spoiler-sensitive among you might wish to avoid this clip… Without going into too much detail about what is covered in the interview… oh sod it. I wasn't paying attention to a single word she said. Lovely, isn't she? (Via Digital Spy) | ||
| Posted: 18 Dec 2010 09:14 PM PST Karen Gillan is laying a pathway down for future companions and Doctors by return to her roots to become Eden Court Theatre's Arts Education Ambassador. Gillan first trod the boards at the Inverness Theatre back when she was a pupil at Charleston Academy and in the theatre's new season brochure said:
Theatre director Colin Marr said:
Along with Miss Gillan's appointment the theatre have also released highlights of their Spring season including a production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, a return visit from the Rambert Dance Company and Swan Lake on Ice. For full details of what's on and what's coming up visit Eden Court Theatre (via Press and Journal) | ||
| Matt Smith is full of the Christmas spirit in a Doctor Who special - Sunday Mercury Posted: 18 Dec 2010 08:13 PM PST
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| The Twelve Blogs of Christmas: Seven Posted: 18 Dec 2010 08:11 PM PST About the Cricket. Getting other stuff out of the way first, our friends at the BBC Archive have just put up their latest collection of programmes, images and documents, and this time it's a wonderful bunch of stuff concerning James Bond, including quite a few times BBC shows have gone on set at the various movies. Well worth a look. Someone asked me, when I revealed that I was going to be doing a much more personal series of essays for this year's Twelve Blogs, if I'd talk about my love for cricket. So you can blame him for the following. It'll be emotional, rather than technical, if that helps. People seem to assume that my love for the game comes from me also being a fan of the Peter Davison era of Doctor Who, but actually I wasn't particularly following it back then (indeed, I remember I wrote some fan fiction that spectacularly failed to understand the laws of the game). It was during my twenties that I started to pay attention. I think the moment one becomes a fan is the moment when one starts to welcome the appearance of new players rather than resent the fact that you'd been following a team and now they're changing it. (Football threw me like that when I'd started to appreciate Kevin Keegan's Newcastle side, but couldn't bring myself to just follow a brand when those individuals left.) I've never been tremendously attached to a particular county side (though I'll always cheer on Somerset and Gloucestershire, and find myself attracted to experimental or romantic sides, as when Middlesex recently started getting serious about the Twenty20 version of the game). It's the mechanism I enjoy, and the style and personality of particular players, scattered all round the counties. Mechanism and personality. Those opposing concepts are at the heart of what I enjoy so much about the game. The mechanism is the somewhat autistic joy men (mostly) take in numbers and records, and the excitement that a body of such records going back to 1877 can generate. Alastair Cook going past the highest score of (greatest player ever) Don Bradman at a particular Australian ground means something. Exactly what, I couldn't tell you. But I think it has something to do with making the observer feel time passing, more of which later. Cricket is as obsessed with statistics as baseball is, one of the many curious things the games share, not just in terms of mechanics. Both are the poetic, sad, ruthless, carefree summer games, played supposedly by gentlemen but also ruffians too, and sometimes the gentlemen are ruffians. The personality is the strange way that, in cricket, who you are, what you're like, determines the way you play, and often how well you play. Sachin Tendulkar's silent nobility, Kevin Petersen's unconcerned certainty in his own abilities (one night in the middle of a record breaking score, his only twitter message was about how odd it was that any colour of bubble bath produced white bubbles), Steve Waugh's zen warrior ethic, Ian Botham's frustrated fury and refusal to lie down. Cricket is about turning body language into sporting skill. Petersen will see a bowler coming at him, realise in an impossible fraction of a second that he can take the ball that's yet to be released from the bowler's hand and deposit it somewhere outside the ground, and skip forward as the ball's loosed, his muscles swinging with the thought, before the thought, to connect half way down the pitch, knocking it up over the bowler's head, and then not even try to run, put a hand to his eyes and watch it go, and then amble back to his crease, still unconcerned, just one more nice thing in his day, a joy to exercise his tall frame, like throwing a bale of hay onto a cart. Jonathan Trott, on the other hand, will practice his OCD ritual at the crease before every ball, tap, move, turn, get ready, don't get out, fine, let's go. And then when he connects he's off with a nervous energy that belies such a stoic face, shows fire inside. Little Ian Bell looks angry, feisty, pulling out the beautiful strokes only after he's spent half an hour psyching himself into it. Beautiful, fragile, Alastair Cook, like some lost World War One poet, will play badly but well on occasion, always too awkward to connect well, but not getting out, hacking his way to big scores, hurting us and himself all the way. And then, as in the first two matches of this series, suddenly all that work comes together, and every stroke looks finished, worked on, sublime. I've just talked about batsmen, but with bowlers too, the way they play is who they are. Cricket is a game where players talk to each other all the time. Sometimes it's abuse ('sledging', thought highly of when it's funny), sometimes it's just saying hello to try and get the batsman distracted. The Aussies will continually barrack someone like Cook, who needs all his concentration, but keep silent around Petersen, because they know how much he'll always feel the need to prove himself, that outer offhandedness hiding the consequences of rejection in his younger days. Bully him and he'll go into some sort of angry overdrive. Put those two concepts together, and you've got the human being against the mechanism, all these vulnerable people pushing each other hard into a set of rules that are designed to crush the spirit, and thus allow heroism. There's a reason they're called Test Matches. It's the form of the game I love most, five days of grand opera, with lulls, crescendos, sub plots of personality against personality, reversals, tragedy. It's always on in the background in Britain. On a summer day, you can go out in London, and pop you're head in the pubs along the way to check the score. (I want the title sequence to Channel 4's Test Match coverage played at my funeral, featuring as it does people wandering into the dark of a pub to look up at that little square of green and white and sunlight on the telly, and my hero Nasser Hussain with that 'you will not be beaten' expression on his face.) You do something else in front of the telly, or listening to the radio, or even in the stands, and look up when the quantum foam of possibility turns into fireworks. I was in a taxi in Glasgow once when England won a Test Match on the last ball, and the taxi driver had to stop so we could both jump up and down (yes, I know, he'd be the only Scot with the radio on!) I think this game is about time, about making us aware of its passing. You begin as a youngster, playing your first game of First Class Cricket (that is, for a county or state side), and as such, every detail of your performance, your personality turned into numbers, will be logged and compared to what the greats did. This very day (well, probably tomorrow unless you go really fast), you might score more than Brian Lara's 501 not out, the highest ever First Class score. You might become immortal. Or you might be out first ball. You will play against and with your heroes. As a young player, you will meet in their last matches those of the last generation, who connect you to the generation before that, and right back to W.G.Grace in a chain of about six players. As you get to the end of your career, you'll have to weigh up what things you can still do well against what your body will stand, decide whether to retire or let the buggers sack you, whether to play for a minor county or go win something for some little village, or, like Ian Botham, never touch a cricket bat again. Which is, weirdly, the most poignant thing that old bruiser ever did. This larger time is reflected in the season as well. Every year it's a plea for the sun to return from the outer darkness. It starts wet, sometimes when there's still snow. It ends with the shadows getting longer and longer, earlier and earlier, and in the middle there are crisp mornings, and long evenings, and sun baked pitches with cracks made for fast bowlers, and the whites shine. The end of the season is mournful. In the old days, players were only paid for the season, and had to scramble for winter jobs. And at the end of their careers they got one benefit match, where they got the money from every ticket sold. And if it rained that day, nothing. It's a lot better now, with sensible contracts, but still a cricketer's soul is tied to the season cycle, and to grander time beyond that, and to waiting through the winter, living for the moment when the pitch starts to be worked on, and a date for nets (practice) is set, and then the day the scores start being read on the radio. Cricket still has an astonishing suicide rate compared to other sports. Half of that is the extreme nature of the game, where how you stand or how you run or how brave you are can also make you foolish. In the days of the Empire, this was the game that best prepared you for machine gun fire. And half of it is about the death and resurrection of the sun, and wondering if this summer should be the last. It's stopped being such a male game now. Claire Taylor, the first woman to be named as one of Wisden's Cricketer's of the Year is an incredible wielder of the bat, a genius who plays strokes that make lovers of the game gasp at their beauty. She's expressing herself in an England team that's the best in the world. She's expressing herself openly, proudly, simply. Those strokes say she's free and an individual, and, at the same time, terribly, mortal. That's what this game's about. Tomorrow, more stuff! In the five days left, there'll be your fan fiction, the answers to the quiz, and all sorts of festive shenanigans. Until then, Cheerio!  | ||
| Christmas 'Who': Q&A with Arthur Darvill - Digital Spy Posted: 18 Dec 2010 07:38 PM PST
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| Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful Posted: 18 Dec 2010 07:02 PM PST Weird and Wonderful is a round-up of the some of the other Doctor Who bits and bobs around the web that caught our attention this week. WhotubeHave you ever wanted to see Amy Pond best Darth Vader in a lightsaber duel? If the answer is 'yes', you'll enjoy this. Youtube user Rick Kelvington created this incredible Doctor Who/Star Wars mash-up.
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| Posted: 18 Dec 2010 07:00 PM PST There's not much hope for the rest of us 'homely' lot when leggy, fiery haired sexpots don't get noticed these days. Karen Gillan has told the Daily Express that she gets almost no attention from Doctor Who fans she passes in the streets:
I'd like to think that it's because Doctor Who fans are nothing but distinguished gentlemen who can often be seen riding in Hackney carriages wearing fine threads and monocles – rather than just common or garden shy nerds. Her co-star and street walking partner Matt Smith has also given Miss Gillan a rather unflattering nickname:
What? I dropped my monocle in my latté! (via Daily Express) | ||
| Fancy Gary Barlow reading you a bedtime story? - Eleven Posted: 18 Dec 2010 06:44 PM PST
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| Posted: 18 Dec 2010 06:44 PM PST It seems like Welsh Soprano bombshell and acting novice Katherine Jenkins was something of a Nervous Nelly when it came to Doctor Who. Firstly, she revealed she fretted over playing tonsil hockey with fellow A Christmas Carol co-star Danny Horn and now she has told the Daily Record that she nearly didn't take the part of Abigail Pettigrew in this years Christmas Special. Understandably, not being an actress, she was reluctant to accept a part in Moffat's Christmassy episode:
But, this being Doctor Who, there was method in their casting madness:
Jenkins also went on to praise the 'iconic' show and hoped that one day the Grandkids would get a chance to see her in it. Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol airs Christmas Day 6pm on BBC 1 and BBC America. (via Digital Spy) | ||
| Doctor Who – The Adventure Games comes to BBC online - Unreality TV Posted: 17 Dec 2010 10:17 PM PST
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