Doctor Who might not have a panel at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, but there's a chance its fans could steal the spotlight (twice) at the first-ever mtvU Fandom Awards.

Presented by MTV's college network spin-off, online voting is now open in several categories for the awards, which will be presented on July 27 and air in the US on both mtvU and MTV that evening at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Nominees were announced on July 9.

Doctor Who is listed among TV Dramas including Supernatural, Teen Wolf, Game of Thrones, The Vampire Diaries, Sherlock, Breaking Bad and Pretty Little Liars. According to mtvU, the awards will be handled in a "bracket" system, with the top vote-getters moving on to the next round. Doctor Who is directly competing against Breaking Bad and if it wins will move on to the next round. If it makes it past Round 3, the series will be placed head to head against top nominees in the Movies, TV Comedies and Animation categories for the final prize.

The series is also nominated in a special BFF (Best Fandom Forever) category, where its competition is Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sherlock and Batman. (What, no Star Trek?) Votes will be tallied in the form of how many "likes" and reblogs each franchise receives off the voting page.

To cast your vote (registration at MTV.com required) or to get liking and reblogging for the BFF category, click here.

A new book from Mad Norwegian Press is being published to mark Doctor Who's 51st Birthday.

The Doctor's farewell to Rose in Doomsday has been voted the greatest moment in sci-fi, horror and fantasy by readers of the magazine SFX, it was revealed today.

To mark the publication of issue 250 of the monthly magazine, readers were asked to vote for a definitive list of the 250 greatest moments of sci-fi, horror and fantasy in genres covering cinema, television, books, comics and video games. A total of 96,300 votes was cast and Doctor Who came top with that emotional scene set in Bad Wolf Bay. Originally broadcast on 8th July 2006, the concluding part of the two-episode story that ended Series Two was written by Russell T Davies - who was the showrunner at the time - and directed by Graeme Harper.

In a statement, SFX said:
David Tennant told SFX: SFX recruited some of the biggest names in the world of sci-fi to share their favourite moments, with Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Anthony Head among those agreeing that John Hurt's chest-burst scene in the 1979 film Alien was their greatest.

He said: The Top 10 greatest moments in sci-fi, horror and fantasy as voted for by SFX readers are as follows:

• 1: Doctor Who - The Doctor and Rose say farewell at Bad Wolf Bay in Doomsday
• 2: Avengers Assemble - The Hulk destroys Loki
• 3: Alien - The chest-burst scene
• 4: Firefly - Mal Reynolds kicks a bad guy into Serenity's engine intake (The Train Job)
• 5: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - Luke discovers that Darth Vader is his father
• 6: Blade Runner - Roy Batty's "Tears in rain" monologue
• 7: Game of Thrones - "The Lannisters send their regards" (The Red Wedding)
• 8: The Matrix - Neo dodges bullets in the bullet-time scene
• 9: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (novel) - Dumbledore's death
• 10: Back To The Future - "Where we're going, we don't need roads."

The full list is printed in issue 250 of SFX, which is on sale as of today and also features contributions from Davies and current showrunner Steven Moffat.

UPDATE - 8.20PM: Since the result was announced, the BBC has uploaded the scene to its official Doctor Who YouTube channel. Watch it below:

Doctor Who has won two awards at the 35th Banff World Media Festival which took place in Canada over the last three days.

The series was awarded the Rockie Award for Best Science Fiction, Action, and Fantasy as well as getting the prize for Best Scripted Programme, just beating The Big Bang Theory.

The awards jury comprises a large number of media and television executives from around the world.

Bonhams' latest entertainment memorabilia sale will once again include items from Doctor Who, with Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures also featuring.

The sale - taking place at the showroom in Montpelier Street, Knightsbridge, London, on Wednesday 25th June from midday - consists of some 367 items, with lots 94 to 121 being of particular interest to DW, TW and SJA fans.

They include an original rehearsal script for The War Machines episode 2 (which is given the story title Doctor Who and the War of the Machines on the front page) as well as sets of draft and rehearsal scripts for all six episodes of The Abominable Snowmen and a set of four camera scripts for The Time Warrior, plus a screen-used panama hat signed by Sylvester McCoy. Items from The Sarah Jane Adventures include the costume worn by Elisabeth Sladen for Invasion of the Bane and her wedding dress from The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, while the Torchwood lots include costumes worn by Eve Myles.

Full list of DW, TW and SJA auction items

Doctor Who:
Lot	Description	Estimate (£)
94	Original rehearsal script for The War Machines episode 2	250-350
95	Complete set of six rehearsal scripts for The Abominable Snowmen	1,000-2,000
96	Complete set of six draft scripts for The Abominable Snowmen	2,000-3,000
97	Set of five rehearsal scripts for The Web of Fear	1,000-1,500
98	Original handwritten postcard from Patrick Troughton to Henry Soskin (Henry Lincoln)	300-500
99	Three rehearsal scripts for The Dominators	500-700
100	Set of four camera scripts for The Time Warrior	500-600
101	A Time Lord robe from The Deadly Assassin	2,000-2,500
102	An original costume design for Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor	4,000-4,500
103	A collection of scripts from the Sylvester McCoy era plus light and floor plans	600-800
104	An original screen-used panama hat signed by Sylvester McCoy	800-1,200
105	An original control panel from Remembrance of the Daleks	300-500
106	A Haemovore head from The Curse of Fenric	250-300
Torchwood:
Lot	Description	Estimate (£)
107	James Marsters' costume from Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang	300-500
108	Bryan Dick's costume from Adam	250-300
109	Nikki Amuka-Bird's costume from Sleeper	250-300
110	Camilla Power's costume from From Out of the Rain	300-500
111	Eve Myles's costume from Adrift	250-300
112	Gareth David-Lloyd's costume from Day Two and Day Three	250-300
113	Eve Myles's costume from Day Five	250-300
The Sarah Jane Adventures:
Lot	Description	Estimate (£)
114	Elisabeth Sladen's costume from Invasion of the Bane	300-500
115	Tommy Knight's costume from Eye of the Gorgon	200-300
116	Yasmin Paige's costume from Warriors of Kudlak	250-300
117	Daniel Anthony's costume from The Last Sontaran	250-300
118	Anjli Mohindra's costume from Prisoner of the Judoon	250-300
119	Elisabeth Sladen's wedding dress costume from The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith	300-500
120	Elisabeth Sladen's costume from The Nightmare Man	300-500
121	Sinead Michael's school uniform costume from Series 5	250-300

A PDF of the catalogue can be downloaded here. Viewings are being held on 22nd June from 11am to 3pm, 23rd and 24th June from 9am to 4.30pm, and from 9am to 10am on the day of the sale itself.

Doctor Who News, in association with Jokers' Masquerade, is offering you a chance to win a brand new Weeping Angel costume.

Officially endorsed by the BBC, the Weeping Angel fancy dress costume is brand new for 2014 and designed & manufactured by official license holder Rubies Masquerade.

The Doctor Who costume includes robe, soft EVA wings, EVA face mask and a pair of gloves. It's available in two sizes. We have one standard size costume to give away.

To enter answer the following question Entries should be sent to comp-angel@doctorwhonews.net. Please include your name and location.

Closing date is Friday 16th May 2014.

Only one entry per person. The winner will be selected at random from the correct entries. The editors decision is final.

COMPETITION CLOSED

Congratulations to Ellie Cook of Cambridge, who wins the costume. Correct answer was Grandmother's Footsteps

A revised version of the book Fifty Years in Time and Space: A Short History of Doctor Who is now available at a special price for readers of Doctor Who News.

Complete with a new cover, from Doctor Who Magazine illustrator Roger Langridge, the book has been updated following its initial publication last year. Written by Frank Danes, Head of English at The King's School, Ely, in Cambridgeshire, the book tells the story of Doctor Who from 1963 to 2013, covering the action on screen and behind the scenes.

The initial edition was well recieved and reviewed in many papers including The Southland Times of New Zealand who said

The book retails at £11.95, but United Kingdom readers of Doctor Who News can order a signed copy for just £8.25 including postage. Overseas readers can order the book for £15 including postage.

Orders should be sent to the publisher at info@stmarkspress.com, please mention you saw the item on Doctor Who News to apply the special offer.

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is to mark 50 years of Doctor Who in comic-strip form this year as part of its line-up of events.

The festival is taking place at various venues in Kendal, Cumbria, from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th October, and with Doctor Who believed to be the longest-running licensed science fiction comic strip globally, it will be paying tribute to this format.

The first Doctor Who comic strip appeared in issue 674 of TV Comic, cover dated 14th November 1964, with the adventure The Klepton Parasites that unfolded over ten weeks (although a spoof, called Doctor What And His Time Clock and featuring a William Hartnell lookalike, appeared in Boys' World between 30th May and 3rd October 1964).

Doctor Who would go on to appear in - take a deep breath, folks! - Countdown, Countdown for TV Action!, TV Action in Countdown, TV Action + Countdown, TV Action, TV Comic Plus TV Action, TV Comic Plus Tom and Jerry Weekly, Mighty Midget Doctor Who Comic, Mighty TV Comic, and TV Comic With Target before its move to Doctor Who Weekly in 1979, with DWW eventually becoming Doctor Who Magazine. It is also in comic-strip form now in the UK in Doctor Who Adventures, which began in 2006, and has been published as a comic strip in the USA by IDW, with Titan recently picking up the licence.

Dez Skinn - the first editor of Doctor Who Weekly - will be giving an insight into the publication's evolution, including meeting with the BBC and touring the country with Tom Baker, in The First Doctor of Doctor Who at the town library on Friday 17th October at 7pm - the exact 35th anniversary of the cover date of the first edition of DWW.

Also on the festival programme is Doctor Who: 50 Years in 50 Minutes on Saturday 18th October, which is being held at the library as well. Starting at 5.30pm, this will have a panel, hosted by former DWM editor John Freeman, that will comprise artists Mike Collins and Martin Geraghty plus writers Scott Gray, Nick Abadzis and Robbie Morrison.

Others appearing at the festival who have a Doctor Who connection will be the artists Dave Gibbons, Mark Buckingham and Gary Erskine plus cartoonist Kev F Sutherland.

Print subscriptions are now open for the two new Doctor Who comic series Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor and Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor, which will be published on July 23, 2014.

Please note that although these titles are available in print and digital in the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, due to rights issues, only digital copies will be available in the UK and Eire.

A new book drawing analogies and parallels between the world of Doctor Who and the Syrian conflict is now available.

The Doctor, The Eye Doctor and Me is written by Aboud Dandachi, a Syrian activist and refugee from the city of Homs, The book is a unique interpretation of Doctor Who as it marked its fiftieth anniversary, and a first-hand account of the most devastating period in Syria's modern history.

It is both the story of one person's journey through the different stages of the Syrian conflict, and the lessons and insights into the meaning of the events of that journey as gleaned from parallels and analogies with one of the century's most remarkable cultural achievements.

The book is available for free at the following eBook stores;

• iTunes
• Barnes and Noble
• Smashwords
• Amazon.UK
• Amazon.COM

More details on the official Facebook page.