Monday's Podcasts and Reviews....

Editor's bit...

Todays picture is Halfway out of the Dark by vanbriesen.

A stupid rumour suggesting the BBC Doctor Who site is to close due to a funding cut to BBC Online Services is going round the web, this of course is utter rubbish.

Todays Release....

Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol
Amy and Rory are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way The Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser, in a festive edition of the time-travelling adventure, written by Steven Moffat. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?' Joining Matt Smith (The Doctor), Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) and Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams), Michael Gambon plays Kazran Sardick and Katherine Jenkins plays Abigail.
Special Features
Doctor Who Confidential Christmas Special 2010
Doctor Who at the Proms 2010
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Podcasts...

The Sideways Tower Podcast has Episode 036 – Doctor Who and the Multiverse, we start off with Doctor Who. He was fun when we were younger, and the newer stuff is great. Check it out on Netflix if you haven’t already, the Doctor leads into a discussion of using the multiverse theory to broaden games....

Adventures in Time, Space and Music has released Episode 12 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Paddy Kingsland – Part III – Paddy Kingsland Interview Part II, in this episode we'll be featuring the second part of an interview with BBC Radiophonic Composer Paddy Kingsland with guest co-host Tony Gallichan of the Flashing Blade Podcast joining me at the central console. Recorded the 9th of December, 2010...

Tid-Bits...

Velvet Jacket has the alternative cover for Meglos, who better to get to do your dirty work than the Doctor?

Who Fix has Dalek Gun Wedding, I now pronounce you husband and mouth on legs.

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Review's Roundup...

Tea with Morbius has The Sea Devils, "I love the idea that the Doctor and other renegade Time Lords were at the Academy together. You can just imagine the scene- The Doctor trying to prove he's cleverer than Borusa, the Master pulling the Rani's pigtails, Runcible hiding a porno mag in his textbook, Drax making paper spaceships and Borusa holding his head in despair and thinking that going into politics would be a pushover after this....."

Doc Oho's Big Finish audios reviews has Dreamtime written by Simon A. Forward and directed by Gary Russell, unmemorable to be honest, the Doctor spends most of the story floating about in the Dreamtime talking a load of spiritualist nonsense. His relationship with Baiame lacks interest because they never once share a single line of natural dialogue with each other.....

The Edwardian Adventurer has 074 – A Flight Through Eternity (The Chase Part 3), as the title suggests (with the help of a line about being chased through eternity), The TARDIS and The Dalek Timeship fly through time, materializing in two different periods where The TARDIS must collate more data before continuing, or something. Each stop enables The Daleks to close the lead The TARDIS has. This episode is really a couple of vignettes where we visit two periods of time, primarily for comic effect....

Shadowlocked reviews The Awakening, ah, Sir George. Another in the long line of hammy, shouty panto villains. Strutting around like a man who's just come fourth in a Captain Hook lookalike contest, Sir George's lunacy knows no limits. He's perfectly happy to let the villagers take part in the war games, so that his master - a giant devil face thing called The Malus - can feed off all that hatred to grow in power.....

Podcast Review's...

The Eleventh Hour Podcast has A Christmas Carol, less than one entire month after the showing of "A Christmas Carol", and about two weeks since they recorded the episode, Joe and Chris are here to tell you what they thought, as well as their thoughts on some of the other Christmas specials and many other things not even close to being on topic. You will learn what Any and Rory have in common with Cassandra and Rodney from Only Fools and Horses and which Star Trek star appears in Joe's sexy, sexy dreams....

Geekshow has The Doctor’s Companion Ep. 36 – G.I. Doctor, the Silurians are out of hibernation and into Scott and Matt’s hearts for the Jon Pertwee 7-part serial “The Silurians”. The Doctor is stranded on Earth and working with UNIT to investigate some murders in an underground research facility; only to discover a group of pre-historic, intelligent reptiles who want control of Earth. Can the Doctor convince the humans and the Silurians to live together in peace?...

Outer Space Book and a Pick of the Tweets...

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