The Gallifreyan Embassy and Doctor Who: Podshock wish Bernard Cribbins a happy, healthy, and wonderful birthday today. He turns 81 years old. We are delighted to have him still involved with Doctor Who today after first appearing in the 1966 Peter Cushing film, Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. playing Tom Campbell. We finally see him in the TARDIS once again in the recent Doctor Who specials with David Tennant, The End of Time as the character Wilfred Mott (or just Wilf for short).

Bernard Cribbins was recently awarded with an EA British Academy Children's Award. See the video interview with him about it here: BAFTA Video: Special Award for Bernard Cribbins

The Doctor Who segment from Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties featuring David Tennant and John Simm.

Thanks to @mcfangirl and theproselytizer

More new videos coming from BBC America. A promo for the upcoming Doctor Who: The End of TIme, Part 2, plus one of David Tennant and Russell T Davies speaking of their departures.

The End of Time, Part 2 Promo

An 'Inside Look' segment from BBC America on Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part 1.

Thanks to @mcfangirl

"Blimey, trying to make an Ood laugh…"

Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 175
Running Time: 1:18:08

Live show reviewing Doctor Who: The End of TIme, Part 1 with live feedback, and more (part 1 of 2).

Hosted by Louis Trapani, James Naughton and Dave Cooper.

Ring in the new year with the Doctor! BBC America will be marathoning Doctor Who episodes starring David Tennant as the Doctor starting at midnight, New Year's Day through January 2nd with the conclusion of David Tennant's last special, The End of Time, Part 2.

It all starts at the stroke of midnight, January 1, 2010 with The Christmas Invasion, David Tennant's first full story as the Doctor after regenerating from the 9th Doctor played by Christopher Eccleston (from Christmas 2005). Each hour after that brings a new episode. 1am - New Earth, 2am - Tooth and Claw, etc.

The End of Time comes to BBC America tonight, well part 1 of it at least. Will it top the best figures BBC America received last week with the airing The Waters of Mars special? Time will tell. 1.1 million viewers turned into BBC America (of those that can receive it of course) to see The Waters of Mars making it the highest rated show ever on BBC America.

Tonight at 9pm (EST), Doctor Who returns to the cable/satellite channel with The End of Time, Part 1. Here's a taste of the episode below.

The mind boggles - no, I'm not going to rush out and "put elastic on it," and I am old enough to cut it out myself, than you very much, but, having been very impressed with Mr. Simm in person, I just don't know what I'm going to do with this mask. Hmmm.... Thanks, BBC!  Happy Holidays, everyone!!!

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/adventure_09/the_master_mask.pdf

Interesting in-depth interview with David Tennant.

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/12/doctor_who_david_tennant_inter.html

This Week In Doctor Who
December 26, 2009 - Vol 12, No 48
The weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts worldwide since 1998.
by Benjamin F. Elliott
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Paul Cornell has a series on his blog, The 12 Blogs of Christmas this holiday season.

In the latest entry, The 12 Blogs of Christmas: Eleven. Millennium Eve he features some of his fellow Doctor Who folk… included are Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Gary Russell, Murray Gold, James Moran, Noel Clarke, even a familiar name from Doctor Who: Podshock is there too.

In it, we are recounting what we were doing ten years ago as we rang in the new millennium.

Actually, it is quite humbling to be sharing such company on the same page. I thank Paul, he is a lovely person and friend. As I said in my piece included in Paul's blog, take nothing for granted.

"I love 1958. No one has seen Die Hard, or Alien, or Die Hard 2, or Aliens…"

Doctor Who: Podshock - Episode 174
Running Time: 1:29:20

Live show reviewing Doctor Who: Dreamland with live feedback, and more..

Hosted by Louis Trapani, Dave Cooper, and Ken Deep.

Not posted a blog for a while so here is a Christmas message from myself and Ian the6thdoctor on behalf of The Cultdom Collective Podcast.

Talkshoe ID 54821

http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-54821/TS-305657.mp3

Cheers, daveac

A couple new videos from BBC America include Russell T Davies talking about the thought process during his final specials and working with John Simm.

Russell T Davies on his final episodes of Doctor Who:

Join us live on the internet for a recording of Doctor Who: Podshock reviewing The End of Time (parts 1 and 2 respectively). The next two specials and the last two featuring David Tennant as The Doctor.

The next two specials, Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part 1 and Part 2 have scheduled for Christmas Day and New Year's Day respectively on BBC One and to be followed on BBC America and SPACE channels shortly afterwards. We will be reviewing both the Sunday after their transmission.

This Week In Doctor Who
December 19, 2009 - Vol 12, No 47
The weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts worldwide since 1998.
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The end of David Tennant's time in the TARDIS is near. And he goes out with Doctor Who's 5th annual Christmas event! Merry Christmas, Doctor - you're doomed! Quick premiere rundown:

BBC America has new trailer for Doctor Who: End of Time, Part One and the next David Tennant interview. Plus some new wallpapers from the specials! Happy Holidays from BBC America!

End of Time, Part One Trailer:

Lots to listen to coming up on BBC Radio 4 - luckily, we can use "listen again" on the iPlayer.  And, anyway, haven't I employed enough BBC actors by now to get to use the damn thing here? :)

Here's a cool one:  

Doctor Who - The Lost Episodes:  Shaun Ley investigates what happened to 108 missing episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s, why the tapes were wiped and how dedicated fans hunted down copies of other episodes in film collections from Cyprus to New Zealand. And while we may have lost those early programmes, Shaun hears how home recordings ensured all the audio survived.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pj0y2