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December 2010
Doctor Who: Podshock 229 Cover
Cover art for Doctor Who: Podshock 229 Extra Edition for Podshock Supporting Subscribers featuring an interview and Q&A with Daphne Ashbrook from the November 25th Anniversary event for Gallifreyan Embassy.

The Doctor Who iPhone Game " The Mazes of Time" Video & BBC iPlayer International
BBC America, has put up the first Video look at the soon to be released for iPhone iPod Touch and iPad, "The Mazes of Time game" see below. So far still no date of release only coming soon and before Christmas. To this BBC.com announced that the international BBC iPlayer will be due out the Middle of next year. As far as anyone can glean it will be an iPad app in North America, but I am hoping that there will be an online browser option too.

You're Going to Need a Bigger Boat - Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
The BBC Press Office released more information about the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special for 2010, titled, A Christmas Carol. The special will be transmitted on the BBC and BBC America on Christmas Day.

BBC - Press Office - Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol introduction:

Tameside UK has it's own Dr Who Christmas Special
Tameside UK has it's own Dr Who Christmas Special

Full size image on my Photobucket site here:- http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x202/dac100/drwhobits1/?action=view¤t=santawhomoon.jpg

The Craig Ferguson "Lost" Doctor Who Opening Song (Video)
If you watched The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson a couple weeks ago with special guest, Matt Smith, you would know that they prepared a song that in the end they could not transmit on the show due to not having the clearances. That didn't stop Craig Ferguson from suggesting or hinting that someone should put it up on YouTube… Here's the "musical extravaganza that never made the show."

Character Options Start on the Classic Companions.

Character Options has finally started on bringing out classic companions that are not robot based such as K9. First out of the gate is Peri and joining her in this outing is not the 6th Doctor, but Sil. This set is taken from the Vengeance on Varos story from Series 22. If you are in the UK the set is available from the link below, US sources should follow soon.

Sarah Jane Adventures Final Viewing Figures
The final viewing figures for the Sarah Jane Adventures has been released. On average the show got 0.52 milion on BBC One alone and the same again on CBBC per episode, and even beats Blue Peter which during the same time had an average of 0.44 million viewers. Lost in time achieved the highest combined viewing figures of 1.57 million viewers. The average total overall per episode for the series is 1.29 million viewers which is up form last years 1.01 million. See the graph below for full figures and spreads.
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A New Sonic Newsdriver is Available and New Doctor Who: Podshock Episodes are Coming!
For those that follow me on Twitter probably know I had been fighting off some nasty bug shortly after the GE anniversary event, then came the Thanksgiving Day holiday here in the US... Long story short, it delayed production of all shows coming from ATP including Doctor Who: Podshock of course. Fear not though, there will be new episodes coming down the vortex soon starting with a DWP Extra show for supporting subscribers. We will try to step up production to catch up on the last couple weeks.
First up is a new episode of The Sonic Newsdriver. Available on The Sonic Newsdriver feed and on the Sonic Newsdriver Podcast App for the iPhone / iPod touch. See details below.








The Snowmen
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe