BBC America have confirmed they will be showing the 2010 Doctor Who Prom on Christmas Day, the same day they show the 2010 Christmas Special A Christmas Carol.

The BBC Proms are an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events which have been held annually since 1895. Taking place mainly in the Royal Albert Hall in London, the BBC took over responsibility for the Proms in 1927. The first Doctor Who Prom took place in 2008.

The Doctor Who Prom features the music of Murray Gold performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, who record the soundtrack for the television series. The Prom took place Saturday 24 July and was hosted by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill.

The Prom was shown in the UK last September.

BBC America has announced on its Twitter feed that this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, A Christmas Carol, is to be broadcast in the US on Christmas Day. This marks the first time that a Doctor Who Christmas special has aired in the United States on the same day as its UK premiere.

The episode will be broadcast at 9:00pm Eastern Time; the time of broadcast in the United Kingdom has yet to be announced.

Matt Smith appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night, during which he discussed his trip to America, being the Doctor, and filming in Monument Valley.

The entire show was dedicated to Doctor Who, in Ferguson's anarchic style. More clips are available on the show's website.

Matt Smith has revealed that there will be a special broadcast on BBC Radio One in the lead-up to the Christmas Special on BBC1/HD. This radio special was mentioned during an interview with Matt and Karen Gillan on the Fearne Cotton Show this morning, as part of their promotion for the release of the Series Five Boxed Set today. The interview will be available to listen on the BBC iplayer after the live show has finished.

The two stars had earlier appeared on the ITV1 breakfast show Daybreak - UK viewers can watch their interview on the ITV website.

This afternoon they will be signing the boxed set at London's HMV on Oxford Street (please note that this is a limited signing by wristband allocation).

Press details are now available for the final three stories in the current series of The Sarah Jane Adventures

4: The Empty Planet
Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 November, CBBC

5: Lost In Time
Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 November, CBBC

6: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 November, CBBC

Australian sources are reporting that the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special will be fast tracked to ABC Television where it will be shown on Boxing Day.

In previous years the Christmas Specials have taken a couple of months to travel down under with The End of Time being shown in the middle of February.

The programme, which co-stars Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins, will almost certainly be shown in the UK on Christmas Day, although schedules will not be confirmed until the end of next month. A fast track to the USA and Canada is also likely.

The BBC have announced that a series of special shows will accompany The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC. The specials, entitled Sarah Jane's Alien Files, will allow Sarah Jane and her friends to "recount their adventures each week – the ultimate guide of everything you could possibly need to know when facing hostile aliens."

The first episode of Sarah Jane's Alien Files will follow part one of The Nightmare Man, at 5:45-6:20pm on CBBC.

Note: the 'terrestrial' repeat of The Nightmare Man will be on BBC2 on Wednesday 13th/Thursday 14th October (due to Commonwealth Games coverage) - the series will continue on BBC1 for the following adventure, The Vault Of Secrets.

The BBC has released synopsis for The Nightmare Man, the first story in the new series of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

The series will premiere on CBBC on Monday 11th October at 5.15pm, with Part Two being shown the following day.

In a change to the DWM infomation, the BBC One repeats will now be on Wednesday and Thursday at 4.30pm.

Doctor Who Magazine reports that The Sarah Jane Adventures will return to BBC Television on Monday 11th October 2010.

The series will be shown twice each week, with episodes first being shown on CBBC on Mondays and Tuesdays before being repeated on BBC One on Thursdays and Fridays.

Dates are subject to change and will be finalised the week before transmission.


The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series Four.

• 1: The Nightmare Man
by Joseph Lidster
• 2: The Vault of Secrets
by Phil Ford
• 3: Death of the Doctor
by Russell T Davies
• 4: The Empty Planet
by Gareth Roberts
• 5: Lost in Time
by Rupert Laight
• 6: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman

The Doctor Who Prom was broadcast on BBC Three on Monday where it was watched by 0.52 million people, according to unofficial overnight figures. The programme had a 2.2% share of the audience and it was the tenth most watched programme on multi-channel Television for the day. The first half was the most watched programme on multi-channel TV between 8.30 and 9.00pm, but the second half was out-rated by Benidorm on ITV4.

The Prom is now available to viewers in the UK on the BBC iPlayer and an extended edition will be broadcast on Friday on BBC Three at 7pm.

A High Definition version of the 60 minute programme will be broadcast on BBC HD on Saturday 11th September at 5.25pm.

Extra material is now available on the BBC Red Button service at the following times.
The service is not available on Freesat.