The first teaser trailer for this year's Doctor Who Christmas special can now be viewed online.

The trailer aired on BBC One yesterday immediately following The Day of the Doctor and includes Daleks, a Cyberman, a Silent, Weeping Angels, and a tolling bell, with captions stating: "This Christmas Silence Will Fall".


The episode, whose title is yet to be revealed, is expected to be broadcast on Christmas Day, and will see the Eleventh Doctor regenerate into the Twelfth.

David Bradley and Mark Gatiss have been talking to BBC America prior to the screening of the docu-drama on the origins of Doctor Who, An Adventure in Space and Time.


The programme is also previewed in the Independent, with Ellen E Jones recommending Mark Gatiss’ cleverly resonant script. The Guardian has uploaded an interview with Gatiss, who takes the paper a tour of the set as he reflects on what Doctor Who has meant to him, and why its early years are ripe for revisiting. Radio Times also gets a tour of the sets including the fifth floor of Television Centre, close to where the design team have created a suite of retro 1960s offices, with partitions, old typewriters and pencil sharpeners.

The Los Angeles Times calls the drama a fun take on the Doctor Who birth and praises Bradley's portrayal of Hartnell as he brings a note of triumph and tragedy to the tale, while the San Francisco Chronicle calls the drama a loving salute.

The drama airs tonight on BBC Two in the UK, on Friday in the US and Canada, on Saturday in New Zealand and on Sunday in Australia.

BBC Worldwide is collecting images of fans around the world celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who this weekend.

Whether it be a dress up party at your local cinema, enjoying watching the broadcast of The Day of the Doctor at home, or any other Doctor Who events you plan on participating in this weekend, they would love to get a picture of your engagement with the 50th Anniversary.

A special email address has beenset up to which images can be sent doctorwho50@bbc.com

NB: By emailing pictures to this address you are consenting to them being used by the media, the BBC, BBC Worldwide and its partners.

The extra content for the DVD and Blu-ray release of The Day of the Doctor was revealed today - including another mini-episode.

BBC Worldwide said the 50th-anniversary episode would be accompanied by the following:

• The Night of the Doctor mini-episode
• The Last Day - a second mini-episode
• Doctor Who Explained
• Behind The Lens
• The Day of the Doctor TV trailer
• 50 Years of Doctor Who trailer

The release will also contain English subtitles for the hard of hearing, audio description, and audio navigation. The main feature will have a 5.1 soundtrack.

It will be released for Region 2 (the UK, rest of Europe, and Ireland) on Monday 2nd December (pre-order DVD, Blu-ray), and for Region 1 (USA and Canada) on Tuesday 3rd December (pre-order DVD, Blu-ray/DVD combo - two discs). Please note that the Blu-ray release will play normally on both 3D and standard Blu-ray players but the 3D will only work on a Blu-ray 3D player. Release dates for other regions are unknown at the moment.

A behind-the-scenes report on The Day of the Doctor was shown on BBC One's Breakfast today.

Presented by entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba, the four-minute piece included interviews with Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt, and Jenna Coleman.

Watch the report below. (NB: May not play outside the UK.)

The BBC have confirmed that Doctor Who's very first adventure, An Unearthly Child will be broadcast next week on BBC4 as scheduled.

Recent newspaper reports indicated that writer Anthony Coburn's son Stef had challenged the Corporation's ownership of the copyright of the TARDIS, leading to a question over whether or not his father's story could be broadcast. Coburn himself stated this morning via his Twitter account that he had been informed that the BBC were not going to show the episodes.

However, the BBC Press Office have told us:

An Unearthly Child is to be broadcast at 10:30pm on Thursday 21st November on BBC4, immediately following the television premiere of origins drama An Adventure in Space and Time, showing on BBC2 from 9:00pm.

BBC One programme introductions may be subject to interruptions by the Doctor, as witnessed this evening on the channel when he popped up before Strictly Come Dancing! The BBC have now made a clean version of that ident available to watch:



The 'interruption' was preceded by the broadcast of the 40 second version of The Day of The Doctor trailer, as released by the BBC yesterday.

The BBC is being challenged over the ownership of the copyright of the TARDIS, by the son of the author of the first Doctor Who story, Anthony Coburn.

Stef Coburn is claiming that his father created the TARDIS, seen in the very first episode of Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child, shown on 23 November 1963. He claims that he remembers his father getting the inspiration for the TARDIS during a walk on Wimbledon common. He believes the BBC is failing to give his father "the public recognition that should by rights always have been his due" for inventing the Tardis.

Anthony Coburn was a staff writer for the BBC when he was commissioned to produce scripts for the proposed new science fiction series. He inherited a concept for the show which had been produced by script writer Cecil Edwin Webber in which much of the structure of the programme had already been defined. In the original document the spaceship is described as something "humdrum, say, .... such as a night-watchman's shelter"

Stef Coburn's case is that any informal permission his father gave the BBC to use his work expired with his death in 1977 and the copyright of all of his ideas passed to his widow, Joan. Earlier this year she passed it on to him. He told the Independent
Coburn had demanded that the corporation either stop using the TARDIS in Doctor Who, or pay his family for its every use since his father's death. The BBC says it is looking into the complaint. A repeat run of a restored version of the very first story, An Unearthly Child, was announced in September, but then removed from schedules 'pending the resolution of issues'. The BBC have yet to confirm these issues have been resolved.

This is not the first time the BBC has been involved in litigation over the TARDIS. In 1998 the London Metropolitan Police argued it should own the trade mark of blue box, objecting to the BBC using the image of the TARDIS on comics, T-shirts, videos and other merchandise. The Police force lost the case, following appeal, in 2002, and was ordered to pay £850 plus legal costs to the BBC.

An extended trailer for The Day of the Doctor was broadcast on BBC One tonight, airing between Strictly Come Dancing and Atlantis at around 8:00pm.

Doctor Who's 50th-anniversary episode The Day of the Doctor will air on BBC One at 7.50pm on Saturday 23rd November.

The time was confirmed just over half an hour ago - at 2.34pm GMT - by the BBC One Facebook page.

This now finalises things for the global simulcast and cinema screenings and means, for example, that it will start at 11.50am the same day in Los Angeles and at 8.50am the next day in Auckland.

UPDATE - 4.35pm GMT: BBC America has since confirmed that it will be showing the episode at 2.50pm ET on 23rd November, and the Canadian channel Space has confirmed that its commercial-free simulcast will also begin at 2.50pm ET that day.