This month sees the seventeenth annual National Television Awards take place at London's O2 Arena on Wednesday 26th January.

Last year saw Doctor Who win the Best Drama category, with outgoing Doctor David Tennant winning the Best Drama Performer award. After nominations took place in the summer, this year's shortlist reflects the same category entries, with the series in the Drama category and new Doctor Matt Smith up for Drama Performance.

However, Steven Moffat's other big series of 2010, Sherlock is also in the frame, with the show up against Doctor Who in Drama, and its star Benedict Cumberbatch in the Drama Performance category.

The final round of voting is currently open and results will be revealed live on ITV1 from 7:30pm.


The NTAs can also be followed on Twitter at @officialntas.

MTV Splash has named the IDW Doctor Who Comic Books as the Best Licensed Series in their review of the best of 2010.

The books by by Tony Lee, Matthew Dow Smith, Al Davison, Blair Shedd, and others have been published since 2008. The 2009/10 series is sometimes marketed with the unofficial title of Doctor Who Ongoing and consists of 16 issues and one annual featuring the tenth Doctor as played by David Tennant.

The Mill have won the 'Digital Effects' award at this year's Royal Television Society Craft and Design Awards.

The visual effects company were rewarded for their work on The Pandorica Opens.

The the RTS explained:


Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's Sherlock won three awards; best picture enhancement, best tape and film editing in a drama, and best original title music.

The Mill have also produced visual effects for Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Vincent and the Doctor, written by Richard Curtis has been nominated in the Drama category at this year’s Mind Mental Health Media Awards.

The nominations will be judged by an independent panel of media professionals and mental health service users. The awards, which celebrate the best portrayal of mental distress and reporting of mental health in broadcast media, will be held at the British Film Institute on Monday 22nd November 2010.

See the the full list of nominations here.

The Director of Photography on the Australian K9 series, Tony O'Loughlan, has been awarded two Bronze awards at the 2010 Queensland and Northern Territory Cinematographer Awards held in Brisbane last Saturday.

The awards were for Episode 23, Angel of the North and Episode 26, The Eclipse of the Korven.

The series, created by Bob Baker and Paul Tams, was shown on the TEN network in Australia and in Europe on the Disney XD channel. The series is due to make its terrestrial début in the UK on Five this Christmas.

A second series is currently in pre-production.

Fans in London can meet the team behind the series at a special event at The Who Shop in Upton Park on Saturday 11th December. Bob Baker and Paul Tams will be signing exclusive merchandise from 1pm to 4pm.

Karen Gillan and Steven Moffat have both been nominated in Screen Category in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland awards. The awards scheme honours Scots who aim to exceed all expectations in their chosen fields across Scotland's rich cultural spectrum. Other nominees in the category are Paul Welsh and Martin Compston.

An error has been reported on one of the Series 5 soundtrack tracks. SilvaScreen have issues a statement saying "The CD is being repressed with the amended track and this will be available soon".

DVD Commissioning Editor Dan Hall has confirmed on twitter that a commentary recording for the Fifth Doctor story Frontios has been recorded and edited. Conformation of a commentary is no indication of a story's imminent release.

Doctor Who is one of the programmes up for nomination in the annual People's Choice Awards.

The programme is one of twelve listed in the Favourite SciFi/Fantasy Show category. Voting can be done on the website. The programmes will be short-listed on November 9th with the top rated show going forward to the final.

Meanwhile Matt Smith will be a guest on CBS's The Late Show with Craig Ferguson on 16th November. Fans in Los Angeles can apply for tickets to the 3.30pm recording from the show's website. Smith will be joined on the show by Jeff Goldblum.

The Sarah Jane Adventures has been nominated for an award in the BAFTA Children's Awards. The series is listed as one of ten shows in the Television Category, facing opposition from other popular children's programmes like Horrible Histories, Deadly 60, Tracy Beaker Returns and The Wizards of Waverley Place.

Votes can be entered on The BAFTA Kid's Vote 2010 until 26th November, and the ceremony takes place a couple of days later at the London Hilton, hosted by children's (and Totally Doctor Who) presenter Barney Harwood.

For more details on the Award ceremony, visit the BAFTA website.

As with last year, Doctor Who is nominated for an award from The Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Series five writers included within the nomination for Best Television Drama Series are Steven Moffat, Toby Whithouse, Simon Nye, Mark Gatiss and Chris Chibnall.

Once again, the show is up against last year's winner in this category, Whithouse's successful 'horror' series Being Human; and for this year the other show in the running is another sci-fi/fantasy series, Ashes to Ashes.

The awards ceremony takes place on Sunday 21 November 2010.

The guild is a trade union for professional writers and the awards are deemed to be special because the work of writers is honoured by their peers and colleagues.

Nominations have opened for the 2011 National Television Awards, with Doctor Who one of 33 nominees in the Best Drama category along with Steven Moffat's other hit from the summer, Sherlock.

Matt Smith and Karen Gillan are both nominated for Best Drama Performance, along with 48 others.

Initial voting is now open until Monday 11 October and the winners will be announced at the ceremony on ITV1 in January. Doctor Who has won the last five awards for Best Drama.