BBC7 Radio is currently airing The Paradise of Death drama starring Jon Pertwee again, Mon-Fri at 6pm; they will be repeating the follow-up, The Ghosts of N-Space, next week in the same time slot. The airing of "Paradise of Death" is the pick of today's Guardian TV and radio listings. (Thanks to Steve Tribe, Tony Gallichan)

As part of the BBC's upcoming "Summer of the Sixties" season, a program set for broadcast in June, Time Shift - Fantasy Sixties will feature Doctor Who clips, among others. The BBC has posted a press release about the broadcast. (Thanks to Phillip Madeley)

India Fisher, who plays Charley Pollard opposite Paul McGann in the Eighth Doctor audios from Big Finish, will be on this evening's installment of the "Dead Ringers" comedy program at 9pm on BBC2, in at least one sketch originally recorded for the DR Christmas Specials according to writer Nev Fountain. The episode will be repeated this Saturday on the same channel, time to be announced. (Thanks to Paul Hayes)

The Sunday issue of the Guardian features an obituary for Anthony Ainley, almost a week after the one came out last Monday in the "Independent" which was the first word that Ainley had died. Says the Guardian obit, "The Master was to BBC Television's Doctor Who what Moriarty was to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes." Outpost Gallifrey has learned that Mr. Ainley's funeral was held the middle of last week. Meanwhile, the Doctor Who Appreciation Society has posted its own obituary and tribute for Mr. Ainley on their website. (Thanks to Chuck Foster, Andrew Harvey)

A few press mentions, with thanks to Paul Engelberg, Steve Tribe, Ed Stradling and Andrew Foxley:

The town of Penarth could soon be the new home of the Doctor, according to the This is Penarth website. New Doctor Christopher Eccleston has "been spotted property shopping in the town. The acclaimed star, who is taking on the title role of the cult science fiction television series, was seen looking at exclusive homes at Penarth Marina on Saturday." The article states that "it is understood that most of the shooting will be done around Wales, co-ordinated in BBC Llandaff, and it is known that the BBC has a policy for housing their actors close to the place of filming."

A May 9 article in the Sunday Times discusses the new season of "Coupling" and writer Steven Moffat, who's penning two episodes of the forthcoming Doctor Who series. "Not that Moffat need worry about returning to America for work," says the article. "He has other projects to keep him busy, like working on the new Doctor Who, for instance. He says it will be much like it always was but with more laughs and less shaky walls. 'There's no point in doing it if it isn't the same, so it will be the way you remember it when you were 11 -though I'm not sure if Bacofoil will take over the world,' says Moffat." The article mentions he'd written a Dalek into episode two of "Coupling" before he was offered the Doctor Who job (Oliver runs a sci-fi book shop).

Keith Aitken's editorial in the May 6 Express on the Daleks in the new series is called "BBC is Right to Pay Up." Says the article, "Can't share, I'm afraid, in the hoo-hah over the Beeb shelling out a quarter of a million to the estate of Terry Nation for the right to revive his brilliant creation, the Daleks, in its new version of Doctor Who. The BBC knows it wouldn't be Doctor Who without Daleks. That's the measure of Nation's genius in rising above his budget to create a monster that, uniquely, didn't look like an actor in a rubber suit, and which is still the scariest sci-fi baddie of all."

Empire Online has this bit about the Daleks on their website: "Daleks Can Fly? We know it's not film, but it is intriguing. There are reports that the Daleks, set to return in the new Doctor Who series, will have acquired some new abilities, including the ability to fly. While we are having rather confused visions of flying dustbins as a result, this would put paid to the Dalek's central weakness: namely, that one could generally escape them by running upstairs."

The next issue of Doctor Who Magazine, #344 is due out May 27 in the UK. In the issue is more news about the forthcoming show including Russell T. Davies production notes and an interview with the new show's production designer. Meanwhile, "DWM celebrates its 25th anniversary with a trawl through the back issues in the first part of Happy Times and Places! Comic strip adventure in Sins of the Fathers as Space Monkeys attack! Andrew Pixley examines the Doctor's natural home of Saturday evenings on BBC1 in Part 4 of Scheduled for Success! The Telesnap Archive continues with Part Three of Marco Polo! The Time Team meet the boggle-eyed Fourth Doctor as their quest to watch every single Doctor Who episode continues! Plus all the Reviews, News and Previews to keep you sated for another four weeks!" The cover is at right. (Thanks to Tom Spilsbury/DWM)

Adam Richards, a Doctor Who fan and member of the Derby Whoovers, a local DW group in the UK, collapsed and died suddenly this afternoon, according to a post on the Restoration Team forum. Our sincerest condolences to his family and friends

Shaun Sutton, the former Head of Serials at the BBC Television Drama Group from 1966 to 1969, where he was directly responsible for oversight of the Doctor Who program, died Friday, May 14. Says his obituary in the Telegraph, Sutton was "a tireless champion of quality television whose good fortune was to preside over what is regarded as the golden age of television drama." Sutton was a great patron of Doctor Who at the BBC, although he was not a science fiction fan per se, and as such was involved in such decisions as the casting of Frazer Hines as Jamie, and advised Jon Pertwee to play the Doctor "as Jon Pertwee" -- in fact, it was Sutton who took Pertwee out to dinner several times convincing him he should do it. Sutton was the one man producer Barry Letts and writer Terrance Dicks would have a drink with in the BBC bar - unthinkable during the 1980's. He would later also be among those who oversaw the casting of Tom Baker.

Sutton later moved to the position of acting Head of Drama Group, then was formally appointed to the position in 1969. Following his retirement he published his memoirs, "The Largest Theatre in the World: 30 years of Television Drama" (published in 1982), where he admitted his fondness for the show; he later participated in interviews with various Doctor Who outlets, including appearing alongside Brian Blessed in Bill Baggs' documentary video "The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel".

Sutton had been a writer and director of children's television and, later, successful dramas such as "Z Cars." Says the obit: "At the height of his career, Sutton exercised benevolent control over a national theatre of the air which each year produced 120 single plays and hundreds of hours of series and serials (none of which could be labelled 'soap')." Outpost Gallifrey salutes the many contributions Sutton made to British television and to Doctor Who specifically; his support of the show was one of the reasons it kept going for many years as a mainstay of the small screen. (Thanks to Chuck Foster, Matthew Kilburn, Anthony Flynn, Simon Burt)

Retailer Galaxy 4 has a blurb in their "coming soon" list about the rumored 'missing episodes' box set due out in November in the UK. According to Galaxy 4, it's called Doctor Who: The Orphan Collection and includes "18 episodes from incomplete 'lost' stories from the Hartnell and Troughton eras. Episodes include: The Daleks Masterplan 2, 5 and 10, The Faceless Ones 1 & 3, The Wheel In Space 3 & 6, The Moonbase 2 & 4, The Abominable Snowmen 2, The Web Of Fear 1, The Enemy Of The World 3, The Space Pirates 2, The Celestial Toymaker 4, The Crusade 1 & 3, Evil Of The Daleks 2 and The Underwater Menace 3. Also includes rare archive footage and clips from other missing episodes. All digitally remastered. This is the first chance to see the newly discovered episode 2 of The Daleks Masterplan- found in 2003 after being missing from the archives for 30 years!" Of course, BBC Video has yet to officially confirm any of this and so it's highly subject to change. (Thanks to Galaxy 4)

The Liverpool Echo ran a piece on Monday called "Former Brookside producer hailed as a prize soap star" referring to new Doctor Who producer Mal Young's at the UK television soap awards, to be televised on ITV1 this Wednesday. Says the article, "Young scooped a special achievement award at the British Soap Awards on Saturday night. The Huyton-born executive spent many years on the now-axed soap Brookside, working his way up from design assistant to producer. Young, 46, is now one of the most powerful men in TV with control over 500 hours of BBC programming every year." There's no mention of Doctor Who in the article, of course. (Thanks to Kenny Davidson)