In a report from The Sun, the host of a dozen Doctor Who-related interviews (many of which have been included on Doctor Who DVD releases) will resurrect his formerly-traditional Christmas special for audiences. The show last appeared in 1999 and involved sending cameras out with Noel as he presented emotionally-resonant, and sometimes exhorbitant, gifts to ordinary Britons.

Episode 89 of Doctor Who: Podshock is now available.

"There we go, universal roaming. You'll never have to worry about a signal again."

Note: This episode was recorded LIVE on the net on the 15th of July 2007. The audio quality is not to our usual standards due to how this special live over the net episode was recorded. Warning: this podcast reviews the 2007 series AKA"Series 3", and may contain spoilers. If you have not seen the entire 2007 series, you may want to save this podcast episode until you have seen it.

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Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 89
For the Week of the 16th of July 2007. Recorded LIVE on the net
Running Time: 1:05:22

Live Roundtable Episode Discussing and Reviewing the 2007 series (AKA "Series 3"), featuring our regular contributors Colin Bordley, West Hubbard, Dave Cooper, Darth Skeptical, and returning contributor Joe C. ("Omega" in our forums), with live listener feedback. Hosted by Louis Trapani and Ken Deep. Recorded live on the net via TalkShoe on Sunday, 15th of July 2007. Note: This is part one of two.

Brought to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and presented by Outpost Gallifrey.

Doctor Who: Podshock features the latest Doctor Who news and discussions from both US and UK perspectives. Hosted by Ken Deep and Louis Trapani in the US and James Naughton in the UK, with segments by correspondents in Australia and Canada. Presented by Outpost Gallifrey and brought to you by The Gallifreyan Embassy.

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The issue gives all but one of the story titles for the season, matching books already listed on amazon.co.uk.

The first story, by Garth Roberts, remains untitled, but the remaining are:

• "Eye of the Gorgon" by Phil Ford as novelized by Phillip Stratford
• "Warriors of the Kudlax" by Phil Gladwin as novelized by Gareth Roberts
• "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?" by Gareth Roberts (novelization status unclear)
• "The Lost Boy" by Phil Ford (novelization status unknown)

As in an earlier Doctor Who Magazine poll, Tom Baker was his runner up. However, the distance between them in this poll was much greater. David got 8866 votes to Tom's 2891. Also, unlike the DWM poll, Christopher Eccleston very nearly unseated Tom for the number two spot.

Full results:

Tennant 8666
T. Baker 2891
Eccleston 2694
Pertwee 1527
Troughton 513
Davison 392
Hartnell 373
C. Baker 331
McCoy 314
McGann 140

It is being developed by Top Trumps, manufacturers of popular media-themed card games. A brief advertisement for the game began appearing inside the newest iteration of the Doctor Who Top Trumps card pack.

No trailer or details for the game have yet been released. While a PC release would seem to make the game available to customers worldwide, it is unclear at this point whether the NextGen versions will be released in NTSC for Region 1 customers. There's also no word yet whether Trumps will develop the game wholly on their own, or perhaps combine with Ubisoft or other games makers, as they have done with other releases.

Creator Tim Kring says of a possible Invisible Claude return, "We're not making it official, but the truth is we would love to have Christopher back. We are going to pursue it with the hopes we can do it."

This squares with, but is slightly more forceful than, a quote Kring provided in an online chat at nbc.com on the day after the final episode of series one aired.

Eccleston became a recurring guest artist midway through season one, after having turned down the role of the main villain, Sylar.

According to a May 2007 article from The Stage, Jacobi will play the central role of "Grandfather"—a part more akin to that of Professor Yana than the Master. Grandfather is a man destroyed by gambling away his curiosity shop in an effort to carve a better life for himself and his granddaughter, Nell Trent. Wanamaker will play Mrs. Jarley, the owner of a travelling waxworks, who eventually employs the pair after Grandfather's loan shark, a dwarf named Quilp, takes possession of the shop.

Doctor Who fans will remember that Russell T. Davies expressed a desire to adapt the Dickens classic himself in a long interview with The Telegraph this March.

The ITV1 special will be at least the 11th time the story has been adapted for English-language film since 1911.

According to a July 12 report from Digital Spy, both series will be broadcast later this year.

Clarke will tackle the familiar setting of a London council estate with his drama W10 LDN. It will follow the lives of several teenagers residing at the estate. It will be produced by Kudos, who also produced Life on Mars.

Whithouse will continue plying the supernatural in Being Human, about a trio of housemates who are, in reality, a vampire, a ghost and a werewolf. It will film, but may not be set, in Bristol.

Long a bastion of "vintage" reruns and daytime reality shows, BBC America has been undergoing a gradual retool since Garth Ancier—who has also been president of NBC, FOX and the WB—took over in February.

Over the back half of the 2006-2007 season, he ushered in the concept of "themed" programming blocks, in which certain nights of the week offered a fare suitable for a particular kind of demographic.

This approach will see even greater flower this fall, when Steven Moffat's Jekyll makes its premiere to the American audience that partially paid for it. The show is a bit of an experiement for Ancier: the first in what may be a string of BBCA-BBC1 co-productions. It will debut on Saturday, August 4th, at 8pm—sharing Saturday nights with Torchwood for a part of the fall.

Published by Titan Magazines, the magazine will be somewhat similar to Doctor Who Magazine, in that it will be a mix of news, interviews and even comic material. Titan's comic publishing rights also extend to stand-alone graphic novels. This means they will likely be the first to publish full-length comic stories set in the Doctor Who universe since Colin Baker's one-off Sixth Doctor adventure in 1994, The Age of Chaos, which detailed what had happened to Peri after "Trial of a Time Lord".

Titan is a comic-publishing powerhouse in the UK, with a history of obtaining the UK rights for American properties—particularly those in the DC and Star Wars universes. Their magazine division has long presented original periodicals covering a wide range of popular television shows such as Grey's Anatomy, 24, and Smallville. Doctor Who fans may know Titan best as the place John Freeman went after his long term editing Doctor Who Magazine during and after the end of the Sylvester McCoy era.

Since the magazine will publish at best only four issues before the second series of Torchwood concludes, there is some fan speculation that a third series is made more likely by the announcement.

Sarah-Jane.tv have now revealed that at least two are coming in early November, further confirming a fall premiere for the show itself.

The Thirteenth Stone and The Golden Storm will not be full-cast audios, but they will be read by Elizabeth Sladen. Both involve plots which separate Luke from Clyde, Sarah and Maria. Both appear to be readings of hardcover books, to be released simultaneously.

The amazon.co.uk website also seems to be differentiating between types of SJA book. Some are being listed as paperbacks "based on an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures", while The Golden Storm, in particular, is simply listed as a hardcover novel. Whether this means that we will see the return of novelizations to the Doctor Who universe is still unclear, but the possibility, at least, seems to exist.

Indeed, novelizations seem to be undergoing a renaissance of late, with audio recordings of old Target novelizations being released in November as well by the BBC. Of particular interest to SJA fans is Tom Baker's new recording of Terrance Dicks' "Robot" novelization, Doctor Who and the Giant Robot. It will be the first of a new range of audio recordings of novelizations, which will also include Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion, read by Martin Jarvis.

This early wrap date gives credence to a CBBC press release issued last Tuesday, which finally declares SJA as a "programme confirmed for the autumn". Until Tuesday, the BBC had been cagey with the SJA release date, leaving open the door to a premiere as late as 2008.

Though we now know Elizabeth Sladen and friends will be returning well before Christmas, the Beeb have failed to give anything more definite than "autumn" as a start date.

Episode 88 of Doctor Who: Podshock is now available.

"I don't need anyone."
"Yes, you do. Because sometimes, I think you need someone to stop you."

Note: This episode was recorded LIVE on the net on the 9th of July 2007. The audio quality is not to our usual standards due to how this special live over the net episode was recorded. This podcast is going out as it was recorded without any post production work applied to it in order to expedite our podcasts and catch up with the BBC transmissions. Warning: this podcast reviews the animated adventure of 2007 "The Infinite Quest", and may contain spoilers. If you have not seen this episode yet, you may want to save this podcast episode until you have seen it.

Outpost Gallifrey Presents:

Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 88
For the Week of the 9th of July 2007. Recorded LIVE on the net
Running Time: 1:25:00

Live Roundtable Episode Discussing the Latest Casting News and Review of "The Infinite Quest", featuring our regular contributors Darth Skeptical, and returning contributor Joe C. ("Omega" in our forums), with live listener feedback. Hosted by Louis Trapani. Recorded live on the net via TalkShoe on Sunday, 8th of July 2007. Note: This is a "Rough, Ready, and Raw" version -- this podcast episode is going out as it was recorded, with no post production work... (well, very little at least).

Brought to you by the Gallifreyan Embassy and presented by Outpost Gallifrey.

Since there was no post production work applied to this episode, there is no Enhanced Podcast AAC version of this episode. Our Enhanced Podcast versions will return with our regular format 'studio' recorded podcasts.

Doctor Who: Podshock features the latest Doctor Who news and discussions from both US and UK perspectives. Hosted by Ken Deep and Louis Trapani in the US and James Naughton in the UK, with segments by correspondents in Australia and Canada. Presented by Outpost Gallifrey and brought to you by The Gallifreyan Embassy.

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-> Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 88 (MP3 format, 19.6 MB)

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