Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat continues his steady rise up through the ranks of the Media Guardian's top 100 most powerful people in UK Media.

The writer and producer comes in at number 84 in this years chart, a rise of three places from the 2013 list. Moffat entered the chart in 2011 as number 92.

The list, which has been running since 2001, attempts to quantify the people with the most influence over the British media and is complied by a team of judges drawn from across the industry. Other BBC personnel listed include the current controller of BBC Drama commissioning Ben Stephenson at number 71, controller of BBC One, Charlotte Moore, at number 25, and the Director of BBC Television, Danny Cohen at number 12. The current Chief Executive of the BBC, Director General Tony Hall was the top British listing coming in an number 4 while the new head of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the BBC, Rona Fairhead, was number 17.

The head of the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, Tim Davie, and the man ultimately responsible for selling Doctor Who around the world, was number 42.

The most influential actress is deemed to be Sheridan Smith at number 62. The former Big Finish actress was lauded for he role playing Cilla Black in the recent ITV biopic.

The top three places in the list were taken by the heads of Google, Facebook and Apple respectively.

ABC Australia has confirmed the Christmas episode of Doctor Who, Last Christmas, will be broadcast on ABC 1 on Friday 26th December at 7.30pm

Transmission times have now been confirmed for the UK, Christmas Day at 6,15pm, the USA and Canada, Christmas Day at 9pm ET and Germany, Christmas Day at 9.30pm

Other broadcasts follow during the week with full details listed here.

Looks like that trifle is going to be gone soon,

The Doctor has arrived and he's brought along his spoon.

The idea of a good Dalek may be considered shocking,

Especially when one decides to hang up a Christmas stocking.

This month in BBC Doctor Who Adventures you’ll find the first pictures from the Christmas episode plus an exclusive interview with actress Jenna Coleman who talks about the upcoming episode. Coleman also tells what she likes about Christmas Day, the first Christmas she remembers and what present she thinks the Doctor would get her. The issue comes with a free monster kit, which includes four characters to build.

Plus

• 25 awesome facts for every day until Christmas.
• What would the Doctor’s enemies get him for Christmas?
• A seasonal adventure for the Doctor and Clara in an exciting comic strip.
• Race Against Time with a cool board game.
• Cut out a scary Snowman mask!
• Read a guide to Christmas monster invasions.
• Make Monster gift tags for your presents.
• Read a festive behind-the-scenes feature.
• Mega prize page, puzzles and four posters – including a stunning image from the Christmas special. You can win the Complete David Tennant years and loads of Doctor Who books, too.

The new Christmas issue of BBC Doctor Who Adventures, Issue 359, is on sale for four weeks from 3 – 30 December, priced £3.99.

Clara hopes to find a soldier underneath her Christmas tree,
Let's hope it's Danny Pink and not the one we see!

The BBC has released new pictures from this year's Christmas special, Last Christmas.

The story can be seen on BBC One at 6.15pm on Christmas Day, followed by screenings around the world.

German DVD distributer Pandastorm Pictures released a picture of the cover of the Season 25 boxed set, titled Siebter Doctor Volume 2, as well as a promotional picture on their Facebook page.

The 5 discs set will contain all the content of the UK releases, including the extras, and will include the German dub and the original English version. It will be released in Germany on 27th February 2015.

Volume 1, containing all episodes of Season 24, was just released a week ago. It can be ordered from  Amazon Germany. More season sets of the Classic Series are planned to come out in 2015.

BBC Worldwide have given an update on the status of the last classic story expected to be released on DVD, The Underwater Menace:


The highly anticipated DVD will include the only known existing episode that has yet to be made officially available to own, episode two (rediscovered in 2011).

Zavvi are to release an exclusive steelbook for the second Peter Cushing movie outing, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.. The Blu-Ray release will be a limited edition of 2000 and is due out on 15th May 2015; it is available for pre-order from today.