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- Matt Smith's Grandfather Has Fun With Dirty 'Doctor Who' Fanmail (VIDEO) - TV Squad
- A Jewish Christmas: Chinese food, a movie and Doctor Who - Pittsburgh Post Gazette (blog)
- Review: Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol - Monsters and Critics.com
- A Christmas Carol debuts down under - The Doctor Who News Page (blog)
- Doctor Who Experience: Pilot test days
- Doctor Who Christmas Special - A Christmas Carol - Episode Review - Unreality Shout (blog)
- WHAT'S UP DOCTOR WHO? - Daily Star
- DR WHO HELPS BBC TO WIN THE FESTIVE VIEWING BATTLE - Express.co.uk
- Upstairs Downstairs / Boxing Day, BBC1 Doctor Who / Christmas Day, BBC1 Come ... - Independent
- Watch Now: 'Doctor Who' Series 6 Teaser Trailer - Geeks of Doom
- Christmas television viewing at 10-year high despite 'unimaginative' schedule - The Guardian
- Doctor Who 2011 Series Trailer
- Christmas TV gets stuck in the old routine - The Guardian
- 'Doctor Who' 'A Christmas Carol' Review - Starpulse.com
- A Christmas Carol: UK press reaction
- Doctor Who second most watched Christmas show
- Write you own Sarah Jane adventure - Stourbridge News
- Doctor Who Season 6 Trailer: The Doctor Comes to America? [Video] - Babble (blog)
- Doctor Who Christmas Day Ratings
- John Barrowman is hooked on Strictly Come Dancing - New Magazine
- The Best of 2010 — Television - San Antonio Express
- Torchwood Star John Barrowman Beats Fern Britton And Vince Cable To Win ... - Peace FM Online
- Doctor Who blog: A Christmas Carol - The Yorker
- A Christmas Carol
- Barrowman wins Christmas Strictly - shropshirestar.com
- 'Doctor Who' - 'A Christmas Carol': Gone fishin' - HitFix (blog)
- Happy Doctor Who Day!
- Pamela Stephenson gets sexy and festive as she struts her stuff in short Miss ... - Daily Mail
- What David Did Next…
- Christmas Day Ratings: EastEnders Tops 11 Million Viewers - ATV Today
- Barrowman wins 'Strictly Come Dancing' Christmas special - BreakingNews.ie
- Strictly Come Dancing: Pamela Stephenson sizzles in sexy Santa outfit - Mirror.co.uk
- Best Doctor Who Christmas Special - ATV Today
- Dr. Who takes on world's Scrooges - Victoria Times Colonist
- John Barrowman: I've got grey hair but I dye it for my man - Now Magazine Online
- Dr. Who rejigs a Christmas classic - Vancouver Sun
- Dr. Who takes on world's Scrooges - Victoria Times Colonist
- 10.3 Million watch A Christmas Carol
- John Barrowman wins Strictly Christmas Special - ATV Today
- Dr. Who rejigs a Dickens classic - Edmonton Journal
- Dr. Who rejigs a Dickens classic - Edmonton Journal
- DOCTOR WHO Season 6 Trailer - Daemon's TV
- Replay the best of 2010 - The Guardian
- Best TV series to enjoy on DVD - Courier Mail
- Doctor Who Season 6 Trailer - River Song and the United States? - Gather.com
| Matt Smith's Grandfather Has Fun With Dirty 'Doctor Who' Fanmail (VIDEO) - TV Squad Posted: 26 Dec 2010 03:36 PM PST
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| A Jewish Christmas: Chinese food, a movie and Doctor Who - Pittsburgh Post Gazette (blog) Posted: 26 Dec 2010 02:17 PM PST
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| Review: Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol - Monsters and Critics.com Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:39 PM PST
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| A Christmas Carol debuts down under - The Doctor Who News Page (blog) Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:22 PM PST
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| Doctor Who Experience: Pilot test days Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:30 AM PST  BBC Events are offering fans the chance to take part in pilot days to test the Doctor Who Experience attraction before opening up to everyone.The test days will take place on Saturday 5 February and Wednesday 9 February. You can enter the random draw at any time until 4pm on Friday 14 January. More information below from the events listing. Step into the TARDIS and be part of the adventure. BBC Worldwide invites you on a journey of a lifetime. The Doctor Who Experience promises to be an unmissable adventure featuring an exhilarating and unique walk-through experience and an awe-inspiring exhibition. You'll be invited to step through a crack in time to become the Doctor's companion on an adventure. Your challenge will be to reunite the Doctor with the TARDIS whilst fending off threats from a Dalek spaceship and Weeping Angels along the way, before exploring the wonders of Doctor Who at an out-of-this-world exhibition. Prior to opening to the public on Sunday 20 February 2011 at Olympia Two, we are inviting an audience to take part in two pilot days to fully test the attraction. These audiences will be the first lucky people to view the new attraction, therefore their patience and understanding will be required due to the fact that it will be a test day. The test days will take place on Saturday 5 February and Wednesday 9 February. Due to the popularity of this attraction we are operating a random draw and limiting ticket requests to four tickets per household per day. You can enter the random draw at any time until 4pm on Friday 14 January. Further information: The Doctor Who Experience operates a timed ticket entry. You will be allocated an arrival time between midday and 2.30pm. Guests are asked to arrive 20 minutes before their allocated time slot to allow for queuing time, ticket checks and security checks. Like the television series, the new Doctor Who Experience includes monsters and scenes that young children may find scary, so parental guidance is recommended. Visitors are not permitted to take any pictures, video or audio recordings of the Doctor Who Experience pilot event or disclose any other information about the Doctor Who Experience pilot event without BBC Worldwide's prior written approval. BBC Worldwide reserves its right to bring legal action for breach of this condition. CCTV will be in use at this event for your security and safety. Please note filming will be taking place, by attending you give BBC and BBC Worldwide the right to use the whole or part of your contributions in all media and markets throughout the world. Please note that by applying for tickets you are agreeing to your details being passed to production who may contact you before the event. To enter the random draw visit the BBC Events Website or call the BBC Ticket Line on 0370 901 1227. | ||
| Doctor Who Christmas Special - A Christmas Carol - Episode Review - Unreality Shout (blog) Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:16 AM PST
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| WHAT'S UP DOCTOR WHO? - Daily Star Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:06 AM PST
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| DR WHO HELPS BBC TO WIN THE FESTIVE VIEWING BATTLE - Express.co.uk Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:05 AM PST
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| Upstairs Downstairs / Boxing Day, BBC1 Doctor Who / Christmas Day, BBC1 Come ... - Independent Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:02 AM PST
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| Watch Now: 'Doctor Who' Series 6 Teaser Trailer - Geeks of Doom Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:02 AM PST
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| Doctor Who 2011 Series Trailer Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:10 AM PST BBC America have posted the trailer for the 2011 series of Doctor Who to their Anglophenia blog. The trailer originally aired after the end credits of A Christmas Carol. The next series of Doctor Who is expected to air sometime in Spring. You can read our summary guide for series 6/32 by clicking here. | ||
| Christmas TV gets stuck in the old routine - The Guardian Posted: 26 Dec 2010 06:05 AM PST
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| 'Doctor Who' 'A Christmas Carol' Review - Starpulse.com Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:04 AM PST
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| A Christmas Carol: UK press reaction Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:35 AM PST UK press coverage in the aftermath of A Christmas Carol have been muted so far, with only a few of the broadsheets reviewing the episode; of those, both Dan Martin from the Guardian and Phil Hogan from the Observer were positive on what they saw: Dan Martin: Moffat scripts are always ingenious, but A Christmas Carol is a remarkably small-scale caper. There's no malevolent alien invasion force – just Michael Gambon perfectly cast as a lonely old man with a grudge against the world in general and Christmas in particular. Because we need a behind-the-sofa sequence there's the flying shark, but "Clive" (as she was dubbed by the production team to ward off spoilers) turns out not to be a baddie after all. And while we don't want to belittle the lives of 4004 people, the stakes are remarkably low – no threat of enslavement of a population, no nuclear Armageddon circling the Earth, no madmen flirting with the end of reality. Which feels right – because Christmas isn't really about those things. It's about the kind of warm and shameless sentimentality in which this episode deals, a time where it always snows and love always saves the day. A Christmas Carol riffs magnificently and faithfully on the beauty and simplicity of its source material. At Christmas people always talk about the Greatest Story Ever Told in other terms, but this is a sumptuous triumph from start to finish. Read the full review here. Phil Hogan: It was a pity that Sardick's journey to niceness via fear and self-loathing had to bring so abrupt an end to his excellent scathing wit, but I suppose you don't want an audience grinning too much through the heart-thawing and ground-out repentance. Things worked out in the end, though not without some syrupy longueurs as the now twentysomething Sardick fell in love with the fragrant Katherine (playing the fragrant Abigail) only to find – after umpteen slightly uneventful secret outings from her cold prison – that she only had one day left to live. I'm sorry to say that in my mind's eye I could only see hordes of philistines wandering off to the kitchen for a mini pork pie during her big aria, but what's the point of hiring a world-class Welsh mezzo-soprano if you're not going to give the girl a bit of quality emoting time? Read the full review here. However, not everybody was happy with the Christmas serving of Doctor Who, with Chris Harvey of the Telegraph being quite negative about it: Phew, that was a bit rich, wasn't it? I think I've eaten too much. I'm not sure if it was that festive sleigh-ride across the rooftops in a carriage pulled by a giant fog-breathing shark that had been tamed by the sweet song of a cryogenically frozen maiden that did it, but I actually feel rather queasy. Of course, Matt Smith's first Christmas Special as the Doctor had been written with the word "Christmassy" in mind, it's not really for old curmudgeons like me, who got more of a kick out of Michael Gambon's miserly Kazran Sardick when he was sneering and snarling at the beginning of the episode than when he had been thoroughly heartwarmed by the end. But there was just something so overblown about the whole thing, it reminded me of the worst excesses of the Russell T Davies era, when everything just kept getting bigger, louder, more operatic… feebler. Read the full review here. In other places, the Metro concentrated on how Katherine Jenkins was being received by people on social communication tool Twitter, quoting several fans for and against the singer's first acting role. Further reviews may be found from Seenit, Den of Geek and On The Box; further links will be added via Doctor Who in the Media over the forthcoming days. | ||
| Doctor Who second most watched Christmas show Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:15 AM PST Overnight ratings have revealed that A Christmas Carol was seen by an impressive 10.3million people last night! With nearly 40% of the total TV audience, Doctor Who was the second most watched programme of the day, coming just behind the hour-long EastEnders, which had 11.4million (43.2%) watching. Meanwhile, 207,000 stayed with the Doctor to watch the Christmas Confidential on BBC Three afterwards, a [...] | ||
| Write you own Sarah Jane adventure - Stourbridge News Posted: 26 Dec 2010 03:01 AM PST
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| Doctor Who Season 6 Trailer: The Doctor Comes to America? [Video] - Babble (blog) Posted: 26 Dec 2010 02:24 AM PST
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| Doctor Who Christmas Day Ratings Posted: 26 Dec 2010 02:12 AM PST
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| John Barrowman is hooked on Strictly Come Dancing - New Magazine Posted: 26 Dec 2010 01:55 AM PST
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| The Best of 2010 — Television - San Antonio Express Posted: 26 Dec 2010 01:39 AM PST
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| Torchwood Star John Barrowman Beats Fern Britton And Vince Cable To Win ... - Peace FM Online Posted: 26 Dec 2010 01:24 AM PST
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| Doctor Who blog: A Christmas Carol - The Yorker Posted: 26 Dec 2010 01:13 AM PST
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| Posted: 26 Dec 2010 01:12 AM PST A review for a good Doctor Who episode usually writes itself. Yet with A Christmas Carol I've found myself "umming" an "ahhing". This is the sixth Doctor Who Christmas special that I have reviewed. In that time I have seen aliens trying to take over the Earth with voodoo, giant spiders under the Thames, space liners in attempted insurance scams, Cybermen building a giant Cyber-King under the Thames and the Master replicating his DNA into every human on Earth. Wildly entertaining stuff to one degree or another, but nothing that actually screams out "It's Chrisssssstmasssss!" So what's the problem writing this review? Probably the fact that there is so much going on with this episode. It's more than just a rewrite of A Christmas Carol; if you want a genuine pastiche of the Dickens classic head towards Ben Elton and Richard Curtis' 1988 classic Blackadder's Christmas Carol, but if you're looking for something as deep and as meaningful as the original then Steven Moffat is the man for you. What The Grand Moff has done with A Christmas Carol is basically succeed in blending a serious threat with a true and meaningful Christmas tale that mixes the old timey-wimey nature of Moffat's Doctor Who with a recognised parable. Now almost a day later I have been baffled by some posts on Facebook, Twitter and the like expressing dislike for the episode. I am absolutely bewildered by what these people were expecting in an episode called A Christmas Carol. Cybermen? A mouthy bride? John Simm over-eating? Timothy Dalton over-acting?
There have been a few voices of discontent over the wonderful Karen Gillan following Series 5; where they not content to see the actress sidelined in favour of the guest case? And just what did the noisy types who have been dismissing this episode think of Matt Smith, an actor who seems to inhabit the Doctor more and more each time he is on screen? Did no one notice how at times he outshone his illustrious guest star? A Christmas Carol naysayers seem to have not "got" the episode; but what was there to "get"? Was it as empty and vapid as some have claimed? Well at risk of turning this into a defence (which the story does not need) rather than a review, A Christmas Carol features such dark themes as terminal illness, child abuse, a crashing spaceship (carrying Amy and Rory in full adventurous honeymoon attire plus over 4000 others), killer sharks in a child's bedroom and the horrifying idea that passengers should have to sing for their lives. And at the centre of all of this is a man who made it all happen, Kazran Sardick. A miserly bully played with absolute perfection by none other than Sir Michael Gambon. Names like that don't just wander into Doctor Who every day. As one of the key cast members of the Harry Potter movies, Gambon has held a few audiences in the palm of his hand on Christmas Day, and A Christmas Carol was no different. Rising to the task as a younger Sardick was hitherto unknown Danny Horn, whose scenes with the beautiful Abigail Pettigrew did enough. Enough to carry final scenes of Abigail and the older Sardick beyond "young girl and old man" and into the narrative state of life-long lovers. While the clues to Abigail's short lifespan were there for anyone paying attention to see, the final scenes of A Christmas Carol, where we learn that not only does she possess a wonderful, day-saving voice but that she will enjoy one last Christmas with snow before dying was very, very moving for this particular Doctor Who fan. Katherine Jenkins may never have acted before but the combination of her own natural talents and a superb script, coupled with some expert direction from Toby Haynes prevented this from ever becoming an issue. Previous special episodes of Doctor Who wrapped up in the framing of a Christmas themed adventure have failed to deliver anything more than spectacle. A Christmas Carol is not one of them. As a long term admirer of The Christmas Invasion, a few hours of reflection on the issue of "which Doctor Who Christmas special does the job best?" has lead me firmly to the conclusion that A Christmas Carol isn't just the first truly "Christmas" special, but it is also the best of the bunch to date. | ||
| Barrowman wins Christmas Strictly - shropshirestar.com Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:53 AM PST
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| 'Doctor Who' - 'A Christmas Carol': Gone fishin' - HitFix (blog) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 10:24 PM PST
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| Posted: 25 Dec 2010 10:07 PM PST
What are you doing reading this blog? As part of its 12 Days of Spacemas, Space is holding its Doctor Who Marathon right now! You can watch all the Christmas specials in order, leading up to the Canadian debut of A Christmas Carol at 9 PM tonight (ET). And to make the day more fun, we have TARDIS files for you! We have entries for every story seen today including:
We probably won't have a TARDIS file for A Christmas Carol til tomorrow or the day after, but we'll have a place for you to discuss it up after it airs (NO SPOILERS til then!) And for those who are asking…with the DWIN site hacked earlier this month, we lost a year's worth of data and a year's worth of TARDIS files. We're working on putting back up Series 5 (several of the entries were completely lost) and then Series 1 (and finishing it) and Series 2. | ||
| Pamela Stephenson gets sexy and festive as she struts her stuff in short Miss ... - Daily Mail Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:56 PM PST
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| Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:19 PM PST It's been almost 12 months since David Tennant was last on our screens as the Tenth Doctor in The End of Time. But what has he been doing since then? We all have shows that we love, Doctor Who being our one common bond that brings us to places like Kasterborous. Sometimes those who create the show each week might not share our same enthusiasm it. Sometimes you find an actor that goes above and beyond the call of duty and Doctor Who has been lucky in that it had many actors in it's family that felt this way. So it should come as no surprise that retired Doctor, David Tennant, can out of the shadows to record a DVD special feature for the fans of Doctor Who. And this will drop in at number five in our "top 5 things David has done since he left Doctor Who". 5) Recording a special DVD feature for the Revisitations II Boxset. While some other Doctors I could name left the part behind them for a long time after they departed the show, David is like the gift that keeps on giving. And for that, I am thankful. Due out sometime next year you can be this feature will be one that the fans are most anxious to see. 4) David on PBS. It might not mean much to some fans out there not aware of what PBS is, but here in America PBS stands for Public Broadcasting System. Sort of like the BBC in that the public pays for it, but instead of a license fee it is strictly donations. PBS is where most of the US Doctor Who fans would have first discovered Doctor Who or as most will call him "The guy with the Scarf?" So having a former Doctor Who hosting Masterpiece Contemporary made a nice circular return to PBS for me. 3) Best Dressed. What? "Doctor Who" and "Best Dressed"? Well, maybe not Doctor Who, but Dr Tennant was awarded the Best Dressed award from GQ online (so says his fan site www.david-tennant.com, so who am I to argue?) I was particularly glad to hear this because I for one thought David was a very stylish guy. 2) Welcome to America. David Tennant did more than just PBS. David snagged himself a sitcom pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, and a role in two films, Fright Night and How To Train Your Dragon. While it may not be the break though into the US market that many had hoped it would be, it's a start. The man has talent and anyone can see that, he'll be back I'm sure. 1) Single Father. Go on, try and tell me you didn't watch this series with watery eyes. Sad, sad, sad, yet so good and uplifting too. Which we saw many ranges of emotions from David in his Doctor Who years, none more powerful that his parting episodes, they don't hold a candle to the emotions put forth in this extremely moving story. Quite frankly I'm not sure how he survived it without needing a psychologist. | ||
| Christmas Day Ratings: EastEnders Tops 11 Million Viewers - ATV Today Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:08 PM PST
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| Barrowman wins 'Strictly Come Dancing' Christmas special - BreakingNews.ie Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:56 PM PST
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| Strictly Come Dancing: Pamela Stephenson sizzles in sexy Santa outfit - Mirror.co.uk Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:16 PM PST
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| Best Doctor Who Christmas Special - ATV Today Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:15 PM PST
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| Dr. Who takes on world's Scrooges - Victoria Times Colonist Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:12 PM PST
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| John Barrowman: I've got grey hair but I dye it for my man - Now Magazine Online Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:10 PM PST
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| Dr. Who rejigs a Christmas classic - Vancouver Sun Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:04 PM PST
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| Dr. Who takes on world's Scrooges - Victoria Times Colonist Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:56 PM PST
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| 10.3 Million watch A Christmas Carol Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:39 PM PST  Unofficial overnight figures show Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol was watched by an audience of 10.3 million on BBC One and BBC One HD last night.The programme was the second highest rated for the day with EastEnders taking the top place with 11.4 million. The new Matt Lucas / David Walliams comedy, Come Fly With Me was third with just a few thousand viewers short of Doctor Who. Once again the BBC triumphed with eight of the top ten places. Against Doctor Who ITV scheduled Emmerdale, which got 7.2 million watching. Doctor WHo got a share of 39.8% of the total audience. So far Doctor Who is the fourth most watched programme for the week, behind one Coronation Street and two EastEnders. 1.3 million watched the programme on BBC One HD. Last year, Doctor Who achieved an overnight rating of 10.4 million watching on BBC One and BBC HD, and was third for the day. On BBC Three Doctor Who Confidential had 207,000 watching, a 0.8% share of the audience. It is important to note that the overnight figures are an initial estimate. Final figures, including those who record the programme and watch it within a week, will be published by BARB in around 8 days time.   NB: The 9am Christmas Day repeat of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Death of the Doctor, got an overnight rating of 1.4 million, far higher than its initial showing on the channel. | ||
| John Barrowman wins Strictly Christmas Special - ATV Today Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:26 PM PST
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| Dr. Who rejigs a Dickens classic - Edmonton Journal Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:11 PM PST
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| Dr. Who rejigs a Dickens classic - Edmonton Journal Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:00 PM PST
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| DOCTOR WHO Season 6 Trailer - Daemon's TV Posted: 25 Dec 2010 06:59 PM PST
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| Replay the best of 2010 - The Guardian Posted: 25 Dec 2010 06:00 PM PST
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| Best TV series to enjoy on DVD - Courier Mail Posted: 25 Dec 2010 05:14 PM PST
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| Doctor Who Season 6 Trailer - River Song and the United States? - Gather.com Posted: 25 Dec 2010 03:15 PM PST
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Doctor Who was the second most watched show on Christmas Day 2010, according to early overnight viewing figures.
Did these viewers not appreciate the sumptuous costume and set design, the wonderful dressing of the locations used to evoke Sardicktown? Was the CGI not good enough? Did they not appreciate the more balanced use of a soundtrack that allowed both music and dialogue to be heard at the same time?
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