Jenkins was bitten by acting bug, Festive TARDIS right on time...

Editor's bit...

Today's picture is The Daemons - Azal by Harnois75, from the 1971 Dr Who story The Daemons - Reverend Magister (The Master) summons Azal.

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The News...

Jenkins was bitten by acting bug , Katherine Jenkins has admitted she has caught the acting bug after her cameo in the Doctor Who Christmas special, the Welsh singer would now like to do more acting, and has her heart set on a part in a musical film, even though she says she wouldn't call herself an actress yet, Katherine said: "I've not had any training and I've not had any experience of that sort of thing and this is my first ever thing like this, but I suppose now I've done this and I really enjoyed myself"

Sydney Morning Herald has Festive TARDIS right on time, Gillan, whose other roles have been small, says she felt the weight of past companions on her shoulders, "my favourite companion is Billy Piper [Rose] but I really hope I've made the role my own. I hope people like Amy but you can't think about that too much, you can't base your work on that alone", though the doctor is the focus of each episode, the role of the companion has always been an integral one, they're the eyes of the show, the audiences; the entire episode is their story because they're the ones whose lives are being impacted by this strange person from another dimension," she says.

The Telegraph has Katherine Jenkins interview, .....‘Oh yes. I was cowering behind the sofa, too. Just like everyone else,’ Jenkins admits. ‘That electronic music, the drum de dum, dum de dum. Got me every time. I loved being terrified by Doctor Who. That’s what watching it was all about’, so when Jenkins, the Welsh singer who has made classical crossover her own, selling four million albums along the way, was offered the female lead in this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special alongside Matt Smith, well, there was only ever going to be one answer....
They have also posted Is Doctor Who the new Santa?, the Doctor arrives every Christmas on BBC One to deliver a message of hope and punish the naughty. In this year's Christmas Special, he even arrives down the chimney...

Big Finish has A Christmas Gift to Main Range Subscribers, 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.
They have also released their December Podcast 004, David Richardson, Paul Spragg, Rob Shearman and John Banks preview upcoming releases for 2011. John Banks looks at his list of productions again... but struggles to remember anything about them. Rob continues to get excited by John's Russian accent, talks about his new books and admits he's scared of Northerners. But it's all perfectly healthy and inoffensive... honestly. And there are clips, naturally, and there's a new competition.

The Doctor Who News Page has K9: UK DVD release update, the official press information for the forthcoming release of K9 on DVD has clarified that it will be entitled Series One Volume One, and not The Complete Series as previously indicated by online retailers for pre-order. The first thirteen episodes are due to be released on 31st January 2011, with the latter half of the series following on 7th March.

Pick of the Blogs...

tor.com has Announcing the Twelve Doctors of Christmas!, an event that will play out right here on the site starting on December 26th, for the past few years, a Chrismas hasn’t gone by without the Doctor around, dealing out hugs and destruction in equal measure. So we and a host of special guest writers are taking the holiday to celebrate the many men (and one woman) who we know of as The Doctor, who are these special guests? Oh, you know...awesome people.....

Springfield Punx has WHOsdays; The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston), "Heh heh, I remember first seeing the nu-Who on CBC here in Canada several years back. I knew very little about Doctor Who at the time and I thought "What the heck is this? Doctor Who is supposed to have big hair and a long scarf!!...."

A Life More or Less Ordinary (Paul Scoones) has Long Ago in an English Winter, Paul Cornell has assembled an online collection of pieces of fan fiction featuring characters he had created. The stories are represented as a list of links on his latest blog entry The Twelve Blogs of Christmas: Nine. Among the stories represented here is one that I wrote sixteen years ago....

Podcasts...


Two-minute Time Lord has 2MTL 180: Trying to Be Cricket About Doctor Who's Changes, on the eve of Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, Paul Cornell's treatise on cricket prompts me to finally come to terms with Series 5.

Tid-Bits...

Who Fix has Holding Text, Mike Collins and David A Roach's illustration for Paul Cornell's Christmas Story, Daily Telegraph, 22 December 2007, and Christmas Plug, this is the closest thing Tachyon TV will get to a podcast this year as we appear on Bob Fischer's BBC Tees Radio Show to discuss Doctor Who's relationship with Christmas. It also features an interview with Toby Hadoke and a loads of cool songs that the youngsters are currently getting down to.....

Review's Roundup...

Tegan (Jeffrey Scott) has Dr. Who (The Early Years) - Part 12 "This Body is Wearing a Bit Thin ", ...one of the next episodes has the TARDIS land at the South Pole. Ben and Polly are hopeful they can catch a ride back to London, but soon discover they are in 1986, not 1966. Despite the cold weather outside, the Doctor encourages them to dress warmly so they can go out and explore for a bit. Shortly they run into a raised periscope from a base hidden beneath them....

Blogcritics has Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time, "It would make me exceedingly happy to be able to sit down and write that the new Doctor Who iPhone game, Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time, was a brilliant digital transition for our beloved Time Lord. It is not. Plagued by poor controls and uninspired gameplay, Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time feels like it has only had one of the Gallifrean's two hearts used in its development...."

Tea with Morbius has Timewym: Exodus, by Terrance Dicks (Virgin New Adventure novel), pursuing the Timewym, the Seventh Doctor and Ace discover an alternate post-war Britain under Nazi rule, "this is the first New Adventure novel I read. This is where the New Adventures began for me. I read this when I was eleven years old. Then I read it again and again. It was my favorite book for about a year"...

The Edwardian Adventurer has 051 – Flashpoint (The Dalek Invasion of Earth Part 6), the Daleks are defeated, as we knew they would be. Susan faces an impossible decision, The Daleks' Greatest Enemy: Lack of Peripheral Vision....

Bigger On The Inside has “My lonely angel, stuck on the slow path with me”, ‘Girl in the Fireplace’ begins a trend in Moffat’s stories of exploring how travelling from one year to the next and back again affects the universes perception of the time traveller. Just as in ‘11th Hour’ the Doctor becomes a young girls imaginary friend and protector, there for her her entire life without aging a day....

Shadowlocked reviews Kinda, "that Kate Bush, eh? Prolific songwriter by day, Doctor Who writer at night. Well, actually, that's not true. It was just a rumour circulating at the time that Christopher Bailey was actually a pseudonym for the eerie warbler. And I'm not too sure that Bailey would be too happy about the link....."

Elementary, My Dear Reader has Doctor Who, Series 1.6: “Dalek”, after the Doctor and Rose stumble upon the last Dalek in the universe, captive in the cellar of a museum. We discover that the Doctor is the one who destroyed both the Daleks and the Time Lords–he is a doomsday weapon, alone in the universe. This is part of the reason he is so angry when we first meet him.

Podcast Review's...

US WhoCast has released Episode 025: Review of S1E12 "Bad Wolf", Matt is joined by Donald from Donald Is LOST, Podtourage, and Re-Opening the X-Files podcasts. Together they run the gamut from classic to series 6 Who, all while remaining tethered to S1E12, "Bad Wolf"....

Pick of the Tweets...

Markgatiss Misguidedly doing the National's Christmas theatre quiz against the Hamlet team. I'm just going to say 'Simon Russell Beale' a lot.

murraygold Remember folks, it's never too early to plan your next impulse buy. Don't pack your car with children. Leave tie space.

bluegillespie Awesome! Synesthesia came 3rd in @CackBlabbath's top 10 albums of 2010 http://bit.ly/gZdfTU

vervoid Is it the end for Dennis? Or has the moment been prepared for? It's chapter 22 of Brenty Four http://tinyurl.com/brentyfour8

anghelides I have blogged about the behind-the-scenes story of "The Four Doctors": http://wp.me/ps1Ln-eV