Editor's bit...Todays picture is Bill and Ted meet the Daleks by Christopher Jones.The News...
The Doctor Who News Page has 2011 Episode Update, Steven Moffat has announced changes to the episode order for the 2011 series of Doctor Who, speaking to Doctor Who Magazine, the executive producer revealed he has shuffled the running order of the series with the Mark Gatiss penned story moving into the second half of the season, due in the Autumn, the story was originally scheduled to run in the first part of the series due in the spring. The empty slot will now be filled by an episode written by Steve Thompson. Although new to Doctor Who, Thompson is an established writer who is best known for his work with Moffat as the author of the second Sherlock episode, The Blind Banker. He won the Arts Council's Meyer-Whitworth Award for new writing for his fist play, Damages, in 2004, Thompson's script will run as the third episode in the series, with the long awaited Neil Gaiman script moving into position four.
Mirror.co.uk has Tom Baker brands fellow Doctor Who Jon Pertwee an "insufferable know-all", Baker, 76, said: “Jon Pertwee was an insufferable know-all… Jon found it physically impossible to buy a drink”, he added: “he liked the idea of big sums of money for voiceovers, so I would say in Jon’s earshot that someone had offered me £15,000 for a voiceover, but I turned it down because it was going to take a whole hour, “this wasn’t true, but I could hear Jon’s heart pounding. In fact, he died of a heart attack shortly after that. I think that’s why”, Baker also told Dr Who Magazine how he failed to persuade the BBC to let him snog his female co-stars, or to have a “talking frog or badger” assist the Time Lord....Scanner selected posts...
The Doctor Who News Page also has Verity Lambert: Life of the Day, Oxford University Press have updated their Oxford Dictionary of National Biography this month with the biographies of some 216 people who died during 2007; the list includes Doctor Who's original producer Verity Lambert, who died on the 22nd November of that year, though much the Dictionary is only available free to some educational institutions, their Lives of the Day articles are accessible to the general public for a week, and you can read the article on Verity Lambert on the ODNB site until next Tuesday.WhoTube....
Matt Smith on Graham Norton, Matt Smith's reaction on seeing the Titan Merchandise exclusive maxi-bust from Forbidden Planet!
Pick of the Blogs...
Bert's All-New Citrus Sarcophagus has Monsters At Home: The Weeping Angels, traditional Monster Files just don’t tell us everything we really want to know. In the spirit of scientific investigation, let’s have a think about what really goes on behind closed doors after a hard day’s stalking, scaring and savaging....Tid-Bits...
Rich's ComixBlog has Outrage of the Zygons - 25, dismissing Stormer, the Misfits peel out in their van with Eric Raymond. The Holograms are in hot pursuit. Eric has them turn down into the "Stingers Sound" studio parking lot in order to force a confrontation....
Who Fix has The Second Worst Dalek Redesign, here's one he prepared earlier...Review's Roundup...
Tea with Morbius has Battlefield, "I really like Battlefield. It's definitely among my favorite Doctor Who stories. Yet at the same time I have to try hard to be really objective about it. There are an awful lot of things about Battlefield which really drag it down. Just like Ghost Light in the same season, it is a story badly weakened by a clear failure in both script editing and direction. Oddly, however, Ghost Light seems to have a better reputation among fans....
Doc Oho's Big Finish audios reviews has Here There Be Monsters written by Andy Lane and directed by Lisa Bowerman, the distant future. The TARDIS, with the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara aboard, is drawn out of the Vortex and lands aboard the Earth Benchmarking Vessel Nevermore, where Captain Rostrum is navigating by punching holes in the very fabric of space. The Doctor is appalled by this act of vandalism, and fearful that it could unleash monsters from the dark dimensions.....
Classical Gallifrey has Serial 97: The Invasion of Time, ...the Williams era is, in my mind, a much maligned era, and how could it not be? He's coming right after three seasons of ridiculous high quality under producer Phillip Hinchcliffe, who had a much firmer grasp on his vision of what he wanted the show to be and was thusly able to execute it that much more effectively than Williams. In addition to that, the show's budget was slashed as hard times fell on England...
The Edwardian Adventurer has 066 – The Wheel of Fortune (The Crusade Part 3), there are some standout moments in this episode that really can be held up as examples that classic Who really could achieve great drama and acting. First, we have the desperation of Haroun ed Diin, a man who saw his daughter taken by El Akir because he took a fancy to her. Haroun was not terribly pleased with this, and his wife was killed as an example. He has nursed vengeance ever since, and if not for a second daughter, Safiya, he may have pursued this vengeance with more abandon....
Total Sci Fi has Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens, academic assessment of the Eleventh Doctor’s debut season, there’s little escaping the fact that this thought-provoking Doctor Who tome has a dog’s breakfast of a cover, featuring a side view of Matt Smith, the back of Karen Gillan and a supersized TARDIS, underlining the unofficial nature of the book....
Shadowlocked reviews Enlightenment, ...is a big return to form after the patchy Terminus . It has a lot in common with the other season 20 winner Snakedance . Both contain deep and meaningful moral messages about greed and knowledge. Both are superbly directed by Fiona Cumming. Both are cracking adventure tales with a dash of quirkiness and mysticism.Podcast Review's...
Doctor Who Book Club Podcast has Link to Our First Episode & Our Next Selection, it's here! Our first episode--our discussion on The Sorcerer's Apprentice, we hope you enjoy it--seriously, we do. Otherwise, there would be no point in our doing it....
Articles of the Shadow Proclamation has Shadowcast - Article 10, in our tenth episode we discuss Doctor Who series 5, episode 10 - Vincent and The Doctor, which we agree is our favorite episode of the season. Can you believe it? We agreed on an episode. And, as you will hear in the podcast, I’ve promised to post some useful links relating to Vincent Van Gogh, so you may find them below. Thanks for your patience, and we hope that you enjoy the podcast....
US WhoCast has released 029: The Stowaway S2E01 “Dissecting the Unearthly Christmas”, Matt is reunited with James from the Unearthly Child Podcast, and together they meet the 10th Doctor, and Gareth from the Dissecting Dexter Podcast exhibits a strange side-effect of the blood control device in this episode, covering the events of The Christmas Invasion.....Outer Space Book and a Pick of the Tweets...
 | fishcustardzine Want to review the Doctor Who Christmas episode for the next Issue of Fish Custard Fanzine? Details here: http://tinyurl.com/4p25dfw |
 | alun_vega Jack's back! (Though BBC tweet was deleted!) “@HazzW: RT @BBC_Torchwood: There's lots of excitement here today, Captain Jack is on his way!” |
 | KaiKaiOwen I'm sitting in the bar of the Hilton Hotel Universal City, LA. Crazy! Bloody Crazy! |
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 | Markgatiss Back onstage tonight, though with a stinking cold alas. Cheered by the wonderfully appalling Ripper doc on Ch 5. Anyone see? WOW |
 | murraygold Dreamt of unending labyrinths and swirling chaos caused by a man removing his ripe sock in the subway. |
Spoiler and Speculation Alert...
Doctor Who Spoilers has A few more Episode One and Two bits and pieces, a poster tells us that at some point The Doctor is wearing a fez again. He goes on to tell us that the scene has something to do with a joke involving Laurel and Hardy and was filmed in front of a green screen which means that a background is going to be added to the scene in post-production, he also tells us that the story takes place at an earlier point in River’s past than the stories of Series Five. There is apparently a scene during which The Doctor flies the TARDIS silently which the poster theorises is The Doctor showing River how to, so that she can show him how to fly it silently in The Time of Angels… holy paradox Batman! He adds that The Doctor is flying the TARDIS silently in order to sneak in to the Oval Office and use the TARDIS scanner to spy.....
Doctor Who TV has Who's the Marked Man?, most of you will remember that the recent Doctor Who Series 6 trailer featured River Song (Alex Kingston) and Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) with mysterious tally marks all over their skin in scenes from the opening two-parter. Many had assumed a connection between the characters as the pair were the only ones seen with the markings....
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