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- Top off Christmas Day with a 'Doctor Who' version of Scrooge - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
- Doctor Who Comic Book - Best Licensed Series
- Doctor Who: Series 6 Silence Hints - Doctor Who TV (blog)
- Doctor Who: Series 6 Silence Hints
- Matt Smith is feeling very merry about his Doctor Who role - USA Today
- A Christmas Carol Soundtrack
- Dot's getting ready to trot - The Sun
- Advent update: Day twenty-two
- Day Twenty-Two: Matt Smith Introduces A Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Gift to Main Range Subscribers
- Final issue of official Torchwood Magazine on sale now
- BFI Discussion Online
- Geekery leverages duo into TV - Chicago Tribune
- Doctor Who Christmas special: Matt Smith and Karen Gillan belt out a carol - Daily Mail
- Early, spoiler-free review of 'Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol' - ChicagoNow (blog)
- It's a Small World!
- Torchwood Magazine Issue 25 - The Doctor Who News Page (blog)
- Torchwood Magazine Issue 25
- 'Doctor Who Christmas Special' finally materializes in the right time and place - Providence Journal
- Top kiddie flicks of 2010 - Stuff.co.nz (blog)
- ITV1 proves it has The X Factor in ratings war - The Guardian
- Q&A for Christmas Day!
- The End of Time for France
- Matt Smith reveals Michael Gambon's fashion influence
- A Christmas Carol introduction by Matt Smith
- Digital Spy praise “ambitious” Vashta Nerada game
- Watch Charlie McDonnell's first Confidential video
- The Jade Pyramid
- Doctor Who: Red Button Blog
- Soundtrack release for A Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Natter
- On Movies: 'True Grit' rides again, better than ever - St. Louis Beacon
- Top off your Christmas Day with BBC America's 'Doctor Who Christmas Special' - Bellingham Herald
- iPhone Game Review: Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time - Blogcritics.org (blog)
- Some of the year's best didn't make it to winter - Kansas City Star
- Top off your Christmas Day with BBC America's 'Doctor Who Christmas Special' - Lexington Herald Leader
- Top off your Christmas Day with BBC America's 'Doctor Who Christmas Special' - McClatchy Washington Bureau
- 'Sherlock' exec: 'Next series gearing up' - Digital Spy
- Who's going to win the battle for Sunderland viewers? - Sunderland Echo
- Farewell: the final Crip's Column - New Statesman
- Moffat: 'Tennant exit inspired Xmas Who' - Digital Spy
- The Best TV Character Deaths of 2010 - Entertainment Weekly
- Merry Christmas from Matt, Karen and the Pianoman(Arthur)
- Matt Damon wants in on District 9 director's next film, plus Harrison Ford ... - io9
- Paying the price to be the Doctor - Herald Sun
- Will Doctor Who Face Off Against Dinosaurs In Future Episodes? - Nerdles
- FAN CAST: Speed Force Casting (The Flash) By LEEE777 - Comic Book Movie
- The Twelve Blogs of Christmas: Nine
| Top off Christmas Day with a 'Doctor Who' version of Scrooge - Pittsburgh Post Gazette Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:28 PM PST
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| Doctor Who Comic Book - Best Licensed Series Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:27 PM PST  MTV Splash has named the IDW Doctor Who Comic Books as the Best Licensed Series in their review of the best of 2010.The books by by Tony Lee, Matthew Dow Smith, Al Davison, Blair Shedd, and others have been published since 2008. The 2009/10 series is sometimes marketed with the unofficial title of Doctor Who Ongoing and consists of 16 issues and one annual featuring the tenth Doctor as played by David Tennant. Lee managed to craft a series of adventures that not only played in the same world as the "Doctor Who" television series but made notable additions to it, too. The "Doctor Who 2010 Annual" and Lee's heartbreaking farewell to The Tenth Doctor in issue #16 is not to be missed, | ||
| Doctor Who: Series 6 Silence Hints - Doctor Who TV (blog) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 11:59 AM PST
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| Doctor Who: Series 6 Silence Hints Posted: 21 Dec 2010 11:56 AM PST
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| Matt Smith is feeling very merry about his Doctor Who role - USA Today Posted: 21 Dec 2010 11:17 AM PST
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| Dot's getting ready to trot - The Sun Posted: 21 Dec 2010 10:24 AM PST
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| Posted: 21 Dec 2010 10:00 AM PST Today we bring you the fourth and final instalment of our exclusive festive tale, A Leadworth Christmas! When the Doctor gives Amy a guided tour of the TARDIS library, they discover a book which claims Christmas was permanently cancelled on Earth in 2010. With Rory away enjoying a game of alien football, it's up to the Doctor [...] | ||
| Day Twenty-Two: Matt Smith Introduces A Christmas Carol Posted: 21 Dec 2010 10:00 AM PST Day Twenty-One: Matt Smith Introduces A Christmas Carol | ||
| A Christmas Gift to Main Range Subscribers Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:59 AM PST Subscribers to our main monthly Doctor Who range will have received a gift in their download folders – The Little Drummer Boy, a Short Trips reading performed by Beth Chalmers. A Big Finish regular, Beth plays new companion Raine Creevy in the upcoming Sylvester McCoy Lost Stories. Written by Eddie Robson, The Little Drummer Boy follows the First Doctor, Sara and Steven on a journey through Christmases past as they investigate the mystery of a lone child. The duration is 46 minutes, it is directed by David Richardson, with sound design by Robbie Dunlop and Christmas music performed by Jamie Robertson. So switch on the Christmas lights, grab a mince pie and enjoy. Oh and you might also need a box of tissues... Merry Christmas. | ||
| Final issue of official Torchwood Magazine on sale now Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:32 AM PST The final issue of the official Torchwood Magazine has this month been published by Titan Magazines. The magazine includes exclusive interviews with John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Russell T Davies about next year's fourth series, while James Moran presents a brand new fiction starring Toshiko Sato. There's also a countdown of the top 25 Torchwood moments, and, in the [...] | ||
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| Geekery leverages duo into TV - Chicago Tribune Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:02 AM PST
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| Doctor Who Christmas special: Matt Smith and Karen Gillan belt out a carol - Daily Mail Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:28 AM PST
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| Early, spoiler-free review of 'Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol' - ChicagoNow (blog) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:53 AM PST
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| Posted: 21 Dec 2010 06:55 AM PST Talk about meant to be! No sooner had this year's guest star for the Doctor Who Christmas special – Katherine Jenkins – auditioned for her part, the next minute and some 200 miles away she was running into Matt Smith in her hotel lobby! Talking to the Daily Express, Katherine-who will be giving her acting debut in A Christmas Carol on Christmas day-revealed how she ran smack bang into Smith merely hours after she read the lines for her part as Abigail Pettigrew. The Singer revealed:
Who says that it's not a small world?! Katherine will also be singing in this year's Doctor Who Christmas special, if rumours are to be believed. She will be starring alongside acting legend Sir Michal Gambon in what Steven Moffat is calling the most "Christmassy" episode of Doctor Who ever! A Christmas Carol airs in the UK on 25th December 2010. | ||
| Torchwood Magazine Issue 25 - The Doctor Who News Page (blog) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 06:50 AM PST
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| Posted: 21 Dec 2010 06:25 AM PST  The latest and final issue of Torchwood Magazine has been released. The official Torchwood Magazine Facebook page posted earlier today: "The final issue of Torchwood Magazine is now on sale. Make sure you get your copy as this is going to be a collector's item!".Issue contents: The first issue of the magazine was released on 24 January 2008 and was originally printed every four weeks until Issue 14 when they moved to being a bi-monthly production with a larger page count. [Wikipedia]
Some page samples for the issue can be viewed from the BBC's official Torchwood Facebook page | ||
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| Top kiddie flicks of 2010 - Stuff.co.nz (blog) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:38 AM PST
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| ITV1 proves it has The X Factor in ratings war - The Guardian Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:28 AM PST
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| Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:12 AM PST The British Film Institute have released a nice little "extra", an eight minute video of a Doctor Who Christmas special Q and A session with Steven Moffat, Matt Smith and Katherine Jenkins. Following a screening of "the most nuts episode Of Doctor Who" (the words of mediator Caitlin Moran), the team sat down to talk about their feeling on the episode and a little bit about what's next. Matt talked about his first tumultuous year as the Eleventh Doctor and how it's had an impact on his life. He also mentioned what really makes the show special. Katherine Jenkins talked of how her nerves almost got the better of her during her first days filming and also about singing a duet with Matt Smith whilst he was a shark! Steven Moffat was on top form talking about coming up with the episode and also what he felt would have made the movie Jaws more interesting. He briefly talked about his idea for next year's Christmas Special and how it's going to top what he's done this year! The full video can be seen at www.bfi.org.uk/live.video however, it does contain some mild spoilers so if you want to avoid them then watch this video after you've watched the episode on Christmas Day. A Christmas Carol will be showing on 25th December on BBC and BBC One HD. | ||
| Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:09 AM PST Francophiles and French Doctor Who fans might be interested in this reminder! La prophétie de Noël (The End of Time) has been made available on the France 4 website on streaming (both parts) starting this Saturday, until the screening on Christmas day (8:35PM). Meanwhile, a repeat of the wonderfully named Cyber-Noel (The Next Doctor) will air after The End of Time on Christmas day (at around 10:35PM) but this is not available via the website. No Doctor Who trailers have featured in France so far, aside from a handful of seconds shown in France 4's Christmas teaser alongside extracts from other shows. Also note that Series 5 airdates have not yet been announced, but we'll let you know when news is received! (Many thanks, as ever, to Aurélie!) | ||
| Matt Smith reveals Michael Gambon's fashion influence Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:42 AM PST Matt Smith has revealed that A Christmas Carol guest star Sir Michael Gambon is the reason he started to wear brightly coloured socks. "I saw him at the National Theatre, where I was doing a play at the same time, and he'd be in the cafe upstairs drinking tea wearing these mad coloured socks," the Eleventh Doctor explained in an [...] | ||
| A Christmas Carol introduction by Matt Smith Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:40 AM PST Today's Adventure Calendar from the BBC's Doctor Who site features Matt Smith (aka the Doctor) presenting a special introduction to Saturday's Christmas episode, A Christmas Carol. This video is served by the BBC may not play outside of the United Kingdom | ||
| Digital Spy praise “ambitious” Vashta Nerada game Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:25 AM PST Ahead of its release on Saturday, Digital Spy have posted their review of the brand new Adventure Game, Shadows of the Vashta Nerada. In their review, they are full of praise for the interactive episode of the series, labelling Phil Ford's story as the "most ambitious instalment yet", while drawing particular attention to its "larger setting and multiple threats". They finish by [...] | ||
| Watch Charlie McDonnell's first Confidential video Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:08 AM PST Popular YouTube vlogger Charlie McDonnell (also known as charlieissocoollike) has teamed up with Doctor Who Confidential to produce a series of behind of the scenes videos for the BBC red button. In the videos, he visits the set of this year's Christmas special, A Christmas Carol, and speaks exclusively to its stars, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Katherine Jenkins. You can [...] | ||
| Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:56 AM PST
Intercepting a distress call, the TARDIS is drawn to a Shinto shrine in medieval Japan, where the Doctor and Amy are met by village elder Shijô Sada. He explains that the ogre-like mannequins surrounding the holy site are harmless guardians, called Otoroshi. At the heart of the temple is an ancient jade pyramid, so sacred that only the monks may look at it. But the Shogun, the ruler of Japan, wants to possess the pyramid and has ordered seven samurai and a band of soldiers to come to Kokan and seize it. Whilst the Doctor is tracked by a ninja assassin, Amy discovers what happens to trespassers at the shrine. Soon the secrets of the jade pyramid – and the towering Otoroshi – will be known… Written specially for audio by Martin Day, The Jade Pyramid is read by Matt Smith, who plays the Doctor in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television. Set for release on January 6th with an RRP of £8.99, you can pre-order The Jade Pyramid from Amazon for just £4.49! | ||
| Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:47 AM PST The Doctor Who Confidential preview of A Christmas Carol is now available via the Red Button service on Freeview and Sky/Virgin media. The preview is Day One of a video blog by Charlie McDonnell, who explores the Doctor Who set. Further segments are expected at 6pm each day, leading up to the broadcast of the episode itself on Christmas Day. The schedule for the red button service is listed here. The preview is also available on the BBC's YouTube Channel: Video may not be available outside the United Kingdom. | ||
| Soundtrack release for A Christmas Carol Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:30 AM PST  Silva Screen have announced that a new Doctor Who soundtrack will be released early next year.The soundtrack, which is due for release in February, will cover music from this year's Christmas Special, A Christmas Carol and will include a performance from Katherine Jenkins (Abigail Pettigrew), who will be singing Abigail's Song The music is composed by Murray Gold and performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Crouch End Festival Chorus. The album will be available both on CD and for download. | ||
| Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:27 AM PST The countdown to Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol will soon be over and to celebrate Digital Spy have this week published video interviews with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Katherine Jenkins. As you might expect, they are mostly all about the Christmas special, but there's a bit of Series 6 banter. Check them all out below. Read more ...
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| On Movies: 'True Grit' rides again, better than ever - St. Louis Beacon Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:16 AM PST
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| iPhone Game Review: Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time - Blogcritics.org (blog) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:27 AM PST
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| Some of the year's best didn't make it to winter - Kansas City Star Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:21 AM PST
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| 'Sherlock' exec: 'Next series gearing up' - Digital Spy Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:33 AM PST
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| Who's going to win the battle for Sunderland viewers? - Sunderland Echo Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:27 AM PST
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| Farewell: the final Crip's Column - New Statesman Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:08 AM PST
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| Moffat: 'Tennant exit inspired Xmas Who' - Digital Spy Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:04 AM PST
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| The Best TV Character Deaths of 2010 - Entertainment Weekly Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:59 AM PST
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| Merry Christmas from Matt, Karen and the Pianoman(Arthur) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:36 AM PST This will bring a tear to your eye, One way or another. | ||
| Matt Damon wants in on District 9 director's next film, plus Harrison Ford ... - io9 Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:07 AM PST
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| Paying the price to be the Doctor - Herald Sun Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:05 AM PST
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| Will Doctor Who Face Off Against Dinosaurs In Future Episodes? - Nerdles Posted: 20 Dec 2010 09:56 PM PST
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| FAN CAST: Speed Force Casting (The Flash) By LEEE777 - Comic Book Movie Posted: 20 Dec 2010 06:22 PM PST
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| The Twelve Blogs of Christmas: Nine Posted: 20 Dec 2010 06:20 PM PST Your Fan Fiction. I was thoroughly heartened by the response to yesterday's blog. Having posted it, I felt sure there'd be some nastiness in return, but none has so far materialised. You lovely people. Today's offering is something I've been looking forward to for ages: a collection of our readers' fan fiction featuring characters I created. (Any copyright holders reading this, please note, it's all done for love, there's no money involved.) Everyone, please do take a look at some of these links and tell us what you think. I got my start as a writer with Doctor Who fan fiction in the fanzine Cygnus Alpha (I really hope nobody's got a copy). It's both a tremendous proving ground, and/or tremendous fun, depending on how much critique the writer seeks or is offered. I though the best way to present this list would be character by character. So let's start with... Bernice Summerfield. I created Bernice as a new companion for the Seventh Doctor in the Virgin Doctor Who novel Love and War, and since then she's gone on to star in a continuing series of audio plays from Big Finish. I'm amazed and proud that she's still around, and that there's fan fiction about her. Mark Phippen offers us a story of Professor Summerfield on a legendary lost planet, with its equally legendary, it seems, last inhabitant, in which she stumbles upon the sad and strange 'Secret of Menarios'. Benny accompanies the Seventh Doctor on a bitterwseet visit to the Brigadier and his wife Doris in Paul Scoones' 'Signifying Nothing'. Mags Halliday provides us with a story that implicitly follows on from the end of the BBC Books Doctor Who novel The Dying Days, in which Bernice, with the Eighth Doctor, discovers something about his past encounters with a historical figure, in 'The Ravages of Time'. In 'Faith' by Patrick O'Seanessay, Bernice and the Seventh Doctor discover what seems to be a new group of monsters, only to find that they have something to do with one of the Doctor's previous adventures, and things are not quite as they seem. Faiza Hussain. Faiza, young doctor, super hero fan and now the wielder of Excalibur, from Captain Britain and MI-13, seems to be a popular subject for fan fiction, and I couldn't be happier. It lets her live on, at least until she appears in a Marvel title again. Seriously, guys, thanks so much for choosing her. Faiza had some encounters with the world of British superheroics before she got powers of her own, as is revealed in 'Five Times Faiza Hussain Meets a Superhero' by Muccamukk. It was written before certain things happened in the comic, so the contradictions with canon aren't deliberate. Faiza's father was turned into a vampire during MI-13's battle with Dracula, and 'Forbid What is Evil' by Lilacsigil shows her, with the aid of her team mates, starting to deal with that situation. Redeem147 uses the visit of one of Faiza's aunts to send us on an exploration of how Faiza fits in with MI-13. It all leads to a most unusual tea in 'All in the Family'. Matt Duarte is one of the group of people who run Thought Balloons, a writing exercise site, where every week they pick a character and each write a page of comic script about them. He chose Faiza in the week I announced this story search, and encouraged his fellow scribes to try their hand. He himself produced a short and sweet encounter between Faiza and The Fury, 'Hippocratic Oath' and Ryan K. Lindsay had her meeting Doctor Doom in 'At the Centre, Lies the World'. And if you click around the site you'll find at least five more Faiza scripts. Thanks, all of you! And Teresa Jusino, of this parish, has written a festive, romantic, journey for Faiza and Dane Whitman, the Black Knight (which also, erm, I think includes a reference to my wife's band) in the form of 'Faiza's Christmas Miracle'. John Smith and Joan Redfern. The characters of the Doctor Who story 'Human Nature' were also people whose lives you enjoyed returning to. Paul Gadzikowski examines what might have happened to John and Joan had the Family of Blood never found them in 'Real', and suggests a different spin on the Doctor's punishment of the Family in 'Motivation'. In 'Those Left Behind' by Thunderemerald, intriguingly, Captain Jack Harkness goes to look for the Doctor, and finds Joan Redfern instead... 'All Roads Lead to You' by Moonmamma is a romantic epic of many chapters that brings together the continuities of the Eighth Doctor, the Tyler family and John Smith in the way that only fan fiction can. I.C. Finney looks at a moment from Joan Redfern's life subsequent to her time with John in 'After the Storm'. And another crossing of continuities takes place as the Seventh Doctor and Ace encounter John Smith in a terrible situation in Ria's 'Dear John'. The Scream of the Shalka Characters. Alternatives and might have beens are always popular with fan fiction writers, and you can't get more alternative now than Richard E. Grant's then official but subsequently unbound animated Ninth Doctor. JJPOR shows us a brief snippet of a chess match between the Doctor and the robot Master in 'Predictability'. Paul Gadzikowski, in his 'The Generals' shows us a moment from his own ongoing epic which combines the Richard E.Grant Doctor with the characters from Star Trek: Enterprise and takes the lot of them off in a whole new direction. (Something else only fan fiction does. It was always Doctor Who and Blake's 7 back in my day.) 'Tricks of the Light' by Craig Oxbrow is a full on romp of an adventure for the Doctor, Alison and the Master, taking all sorts of cues from what's been established for this Doctor and his team. And JohnAmendAll's 'The Path of Duty' is an encounter between this Tardis crew, Second Doctor companion Victoria Waterfield, and Big Finish Eighth Doctor companion Lucie Miller. Again, there's the spectrum of what fan fiction can do. Characters from 'Father's Day'. A couple of you fondly remembered Pete Tyler and, erm, the Reapers! Icebluenothing is the author of 'Father Christmas', a moving yuletide encounter between Pete Tyler and the Ninth Doctor. And Veronica Litt describes, in the form of a letter, an encounter between an ordinary person, the Doctor, and the Reapers, in 'The Strange Events that Transpired as I Studied for my Ancient Greek Exam'. Jarvis Poker, the British Joker. I'm amazed and delighted that after a single appearance in the first issue of Knight and Squire, Jarvis, a sweet British 'cover version' of the American super villain original, is getting his own fan fiction. James Fairlie has created a frankly insane mixture of, well, you'll see, as Jarvis meets Lex Luthor at the airport, and together they journey through a 'Crisis on Infinite British TV Shows', which I think may be an attempt to include just about everything I've ever written for. I don't think I'd use a word like 'poppycock', though. And John Lees allows us to join Jarvis, and a number of other British super heroes and villains, for a festive frolic in 'Merry Christmas, Mr. Poker'. I do find that tremendously pleasing. Our last two stories are both extraordinary efforts that feature stuff I didn't dream would crop up in this survey of fiction. Firstly, M.L. Zambrana presents us with 'Bells', the only, so far as I'm aware, existing piece of Pulse fan fiction, based not even on the pilot episode, but on a few preview clips! How brilliant is that? And, very flatteringly, Heretic has written 'Spring Before Summer' a prologue to my novel British Summertime, featuring Squadron Leader Douglas Leyton. Really, that's tremendously kind of you. As you'll have seen, a number of those stories were hosted by some of the specialist fan fiction communities out there on the net. They're home to many more like the above. Thank you so much to everyone who took part, and I'll see you tomorrow for more festive stuff. Cheerio!  |
Silva Screen have announced the release of the soundtrack album to Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol.
The British Film Institute has uploaded an 8 minute clip taken from the recent Q & A with Matt Smith, Katherine Jenkins and Stephen Moffat, which took place after the South Bank screening of the episode 
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