Starting on Friday, the 29th of June, you will be able to vote for Who is the Greatest Doctor Who? at BBC's UKTV Drama website. The vote leads up to their Doctor Who Weekend on the 14th and 15th of July.

So be sure to vote, not for Saxon, but rather for Who is the Greatest Doctor Who? In addition to the vote, UKTV Drama will be creating a fansite forum where sites such as the Gallifreyan Embassy among others can express why their favourite Doctor should win the vote.

> Link to the website: UKTV Drama

However, a mystery still seems to lie in the difference of the allotted times for the initial broadcast on Saturday, wherein 50 minutes are given on BBC1, and the repeat broadcasts on BBC3, where "Last of the Time Lords" is afforded 55 minutes.

Freema Ageyman's main fansite is quoting a run-time of 51.5 minutes.

Does this wide range of "time slots" mean anything about the version one might see on a given evening? Are there multiple copies? Why allow 55 minutes if the episode is only about 52? What will this mean for the episode's upcoming broadcast on the American SciFi Channel? As of today, these are all unanswered questions, sure to force dedicated Doctor Who fans to tape each broadcast and check for possible differences.

As reported last weekend on Outpost Gallifrey, Radio Wales began a three-episode series on the afternoon "Blink" debuted. Called Doctor Who: Back in Time, the series will put out a new episode on at 1pm on 9, 16 and 23 June. Julian Carey is the host of the series, which seeks to connect Welsh listners to their homegrown flagship programme.

The first in the series, which has obviously already aired, features Carey in an in-depth interview with David Tennant. Coming up this Saturday is an exploration of the economic and social impact the production of Doctor Who is having on Wales. On the 23d, a more free-form episode debuts, which will allow cast and crew to answer questions from various members of the Welsh public.

Each episode is available worldwide for a week after its initial broadcast.

In a 12 March 2007 interview with SFX magazine, the subject of brand maintenance was discussed with Russell T. Davies. He spoke of some specific issues in keeping up the quality of licensed merchandise, and eventually came round to reveal he thought the record-breaking 2007 Annual had room for improvement.

Here's an extract:

"So yeah, [we try to keep the ''Doctor Who'' brand consistent] in the way that a Hollywood studio looks after Harry Potter. It’s that important to do, to keep the consistency. It’s like when you were a kid you used to buy those famous old Doctor Who annuals that were so mad, and disconcerting, and you wouldn’t sit there on Christmas Day going, ‘Hurray! What a marvellous annual!’ I mean, they were mad! You wanted pages full of Daleks and Cybermen and secrets of the TARDIS and things like that. And I don’t think the annual was good enough this year, to be honest - they had a reprinted comic strip in. This year they’re not going to get away with that I hope, we’ve been sending off memos. It was a lovely piece of work and it made the headlines cos it outsold The Beano; nonetheless - not good enough. The annual was good, but it could get better. So you give notes on things like that, although they don’t always listen to you."

The full text of the wide-ranging interview—which also includes a detailed rationale for keeping the show Earth bound for now—is available online.

This failure has prompted Beano publishers, DC Thomson, to start a new version of The Beano—called The BeanoMAX—which will feature the Daleks appearing alongside traditional Beano characters in its inaugural issue.

This new version of the classic British comic will appeal to a slightly older crowd of kids, offering longer stories, deeper characterization, and (like the BBC's other 2006 smash hit, Doctor Who Adventures) giveaway toys with every issue.

The sales figures for the 2007 Doctor Who Annual weren't simply down to a higher price point, but an absolute victory in terms of units sold. According to a report in The Guardian, the annual sold 271,551 units versus The Beano's 187,172. Other also-rans included the Disney/Pixar Annual at 80,703, the Star Wars Annual at 63,053 and the Manchester United Annual at 50,851.

The 2007 Annual was the first time that the Doctor Who Christmas staple had been offered by a branch of the BBC itself. Coupled with the runaway success of Doctor Who Adventures—which itself has been the top weekly seller in the UK comics charts—BBC Children's Books have already had the best single year of marketing Doctor Who tie-in kids' publications in the history of Doctor Who merchandising.