No Amassadors this year, Carnival extras, Cybermen Swimming Cap, plus more reviews

Editor's bit...

Todays picture is Clockwise Around the Question Mark by Jeff Carlisle

Due to ongoing restoration issues, the Ambassadors of Death DVD will now not be released in 2011.

The News...

The BBFC gave the English language video DOCTOR WHO - CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS - DVD EXTRAS DISC 2 a rating of U on Tue, 25 Jan. The video is directed by N/a. The cast includes Peter Halliday, Cheryl Hall and Katy Manning....

• 00:23:10:22 DESTROY ALL MONSTERS! (THE MAKING OF CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS) (FEATURETTE)


• 00:16:08:03 ON TARGET - IAN MARTER (FEATURETTE)


• 00:02:54:09 PHOTO GALLERY


• 00:11:21:08 THE A TO Z OF GADGETS & GIZMOS (FEATURETTE)


• 00:18:00:17 MARY CELESTE AND OTHER MARITIME MYSTERIES (FEATURETTE)

Tid-Bits...

ActiveDad has Doctor Who is now (unofficially) LEGO Compatible!, the Character Building range of Doctor Who toys has nothing to do with LEGO but the bricks and characters work together. We had a play at Toy Fair 2011....

Dinlos and Skilldos has Cardiff Expo, "In my first outing of the year I shall be attending the Cardiff International Comic Expo in the company of many other Doctor Who comicsy folk. I'll have a new batch of those big yellow Doctor Who prints for sale and will be sketching and signing for anyone who wants me to. I'll have some other Doctor Who stuff to sell and original art...."

Fasionably Geek has Cybermen Swimming Cap, apparently, this Doctor Who Cybermen cap was worn by a competitor at the recent UK Cold Water Swimming Championships. Can’t imagine that it did much to improve his lap times—a little too much drag.

Review's Roundup...

Doc Oho's Big Finish audios reviews has Three’s a Crowd written by Colin Brake and directed by Gary Russell, on an almost lifeless planet in a remote star system, Earth Colony Phoenix is struggling to survive. The colonists, utterly dependent on transmat technology and unable to leave the security of their Habitat Domes, have developed severe agoraphobia... not to mention an inability to deal with visitors...

He has also posted The Veiled Leopard written by Iain McLaughlin & Claire Bartlett and directed by Gary Russell, this is the Peri I know and love; the good time gal who gets a kick out of her adventures not the bull-in-a-china-shop psychotherapist that we got in Three’s a crowd. Once again Peri is the seasoned traveller and she is mentoring Erimem, a nice parallel with Ace watching over Hex’s first mission. Peri is dressed up as an Egyptian and she is lucky to have the genuine article doing her make up....

Classical Gallifrey has Serial 90: The Robots of Death, "that's right, ladies and gents, we've returned once again to the famed Season Fourteen of Doctor Who with a little story called "The Robots of Death". And there's really no other way to describe this story other than one of Gothic-style horror....."

The Edwardian Adventurer has The Death of Doctor Who (The Chase Part 5), this episode is an improvement over the previous two. Granted, it still isn’t great, but it is a step in the right direction. We have a new planet with enough time to get a good look around and establish some threats (the fungus creatures) and some mysteries. The primary mystery is the corridor of light that runs through the otherwise dark jungle, and the occasional bursts of light whenever the fungus creatures attack....

Podcast Review's...

The Krynoid Podcast has 016: Enlightenment, it's the 1983 Peter Davison story Enlightenment, of course - the subject of the latest Krynoid Podcast. Jim and Martin take a long look back at this twentieth anniversary tale which not only features the hilarious joke above but also draws to a close the Black Guardian trilogy of stories....

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

TobyHadoke Londoners! Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf comes to Dulwich this Fri (28th Jan, Alleyn's School Theatre). More dates: www.tobyhadoke.com/blog

alun_vega Blogged: Torchwood contact lenses http://t.co/so3zaNp

TachyonTV 10 Things We'll Miss at Gallifrey 22 and an Interview with Joe Lidster: http://tachyon-tv.co.uk/

Doctor Who Filming TW filming back at Rhossili Bay today (and tomorrow). DW filming is remaining stubbornly hard to find. Is TW in the UK being used as a smokescreen for episode seven furtiveness?