The December issue of
BBC Focus Magazine, the leading science and technology title, is celebrating Doctor Who's golden jubilee with a ten-page feature on the incredible science behind the real and hypothetical technologies that have featured in the show.
The feature, by best-selling writer and Who fan
Brian Clegg, unpicks the science behind the TARDIS, Daleks, sonic screwdrivers and more, and takes a look at which of the show’s ideas have become science fact. Plus science fiction writer
Stephen Baxter reveals how the show’s storylines have always been a product of the age in which they were born.
The magazine is on sale now.
The November issue of the magazine
Dance Today includes an article on Dance and Doctor Who. It's an overview of how the show has used dance - from monster movement to dance-trained guest stars - and includes interview with creature performer
Paul Kasey.
When we first started filming the Cybermen, people would say, 'I just can't come over to you, because they scare me. Even on set, people have those memories of those characters, from their childhoods. In the 1960s, Doctor Who used movement to suggest the sheer weirdness of past or alien worlds. In the 1965 story The Web Planet, dancers wriggled through "insect movement" choreographed by Roslyn De Winter, while wearing fibreglass ant suits or huge translucent wings. In The Underwater Menace (1967), the Fish People perform what is basically an Esther Williams water ballet on a BBC budget.
The magazine is available
online.
A charity collection of classic Doctor Who short stories and reviews first released earlier this year is now available as a 50th Anniversary Special Edition.
Fourth Dimension, by British fan Steven Miscandlon, collects short stories and reviews that were first published in various Doctor Who fan magazines in the early 90s, and also includes “The Gallifrey Incursion”, a previously unpublished novelette-length story written in 1995. The new edition – available in hardback and as an ebook – sports revamped cover art and features a new story written to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary.
Steven Miscandlon
Since it first went on sale in May, Fourth Dimension has seen some success – peaking at number three in Lulu’s sci-fi bestsellers chart – and raised money for Unite Against Cancer. As the 50th anniversary month approached, I wanted to mark the occasion by producing a special hardback edition of the book. To make this new edition a bit different, I decided to write a new story for inclusion in the collection – ‘Blood and Bones’ features Paul McGann’s Eighth Doctor, and the story also ties in directly with the post-2005 run of Doctor Who.
The Fourth Dimension 50th Anniversary Special Edition is
available in hardback from Lulu, and in various ebook formats directly from the author. All profits from sales of the book will be donated to UK charity Unite Against Cancer, which was set up in 2012 to fund research into new cancer treatments.
Now available in the iOS App Store is a free app called
QuizUp. It describes itself as "the biggest trivia game in the world" and has already had more than 1 million players since its launch on November 7th.
The game is a fast-paced trivia quiz where you compete one-on-one against another player in a lightning "mini-quiz" of 7 questions. Your opponent can either be one of your Facebook or Twitter friends, or else a randomly-chosen user.
The game contains over 100,000 trivia questions, across more than 250 trivia categories covering Art, Geography, Literature, Movies, Music, Science, Sport, TV... including of course our favourite British programme about a peripatetic Time Lord! Yes, there is a dedicated Doctor Who category with over 500 questions, most of which were written by Gallifrey Base member
Dan O'Malley.
Apart from Who, other cult TV or movie series with their own question categories include Star Trek, Star Wars, Buffy, The X-Files and Game of Thrones, plus on the literature side, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, the Harry Potter series, plus an entire category for The Doctor's Wife & Nightmare in Silver scribe Neil Gaiman.
The best part is that for every quiz you win, you gain "experience points" and your score is recorded on the global league table for that category. So you can prove once and for all if you're the king (or queen) of Doctor Who trivia!
The Ultimate Doctor Who Quiz Book is now available.
Are you a big fan of Doctor Who? Have you watched all of the series from years gone by through to the present day? Can you name the various actors who have played the Doctor from William Hartnell to Matt Smith?
If you can tell a Hath from the Heavenly Host and a Sontaran from a Slitheen, you are certain to enjoy this fun new quiz book? What was the title of episode one of the first Doctor story, The Daleks?
Who played The Siren in the eleventh Doctor story, The Curse of the Black Spot? What companion has appeared in the most episodes of Doctor Who since its return in 2005? The answers to these brain-teasers and more can all be found inside
The Doctor Who Quiz Book. As the iconic series celebrates 50 years of production, have a go at the 500 questions in this book to find out how much you really know about the Doctor. This is a must-have tribute for Doctor Who fans of all ages.
CableTV.com have published a complete timeline of
Doctor Who from 1963 to present, including episodes, seasons, companions, villains, and more.
The Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff has now opened its Day of the Doctor exhibit. 
With full figures now available for the week ending 24th November 2013, The Day of the Doctor has been confirmed as the highest-rated programme on British television for the week. 
Just in time for Christmas, BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand are pleased to announce that a Doctor Who pop-up shop will open on Saturday 7 December at Westfield Penrith as part of their Super Saturday festivities. 
The Day of the Doctor had a final confirmed audience on BBC One of 12.8 million viewers. 
Just two weeks after the twelve cover issue of Radio Times celebrating fifty years of Doctor Who, the Time Lord once more graces the front of the magazine, this time promoting the Christmas Episode, The Time of the Doctor, and the end of Matt Smith's tenure as the Doctor. 
Tributes have been paid to Doctor Who in the House of Lords, the upper house of the UK Parliament. 
This debate necessarily starts with the record we have in public service broadcasting, of which the cornerstone is the BBC. BBC Worldwide is the largest TV programme distributor outside the major US studios, and its impact on the reputation of the United Kingdom overseas is one which increases our ability to trade worldwide and way beyond broadcasting. My noble friend Lady Bonham-Carter’s timing for this debate is perfect, following the amazing weekend marking the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Simulcast in 94 countries, setting a Guinness world record, with record-breaking figures in America, it was event TV drama at its best, delivered around the globe. That thrill of seeing all the Doctors saving Gallifrey is something my eight year-old son will remember until the 100th anniversary.
Our comic, eccentric and very British superhero, Doctor Who, who rightly has been much mentioned today, reached 50 last Saturday with a near-simultaneous broadcast in 94 different countries, as the noble Baroness, Lady Grender, mentioned. Nothing like that has ever happened before.
Programmes such as Doctor Who, Merlin and Sherlock and many others have been produced in Cardiff over a number of years but they are now produced in the BBC’s new drama facility in the recently built drama village at Roath Lock in the Porth Teigr, or Tiger Bay, area of Cardiff Bay. The drama studios there are the length of three football pitches, and more than 600 actors, camera operators and technicians are employed there—all, of course, contributing to the local economy.
Your Lordships have already mentioned Doctor Who. Its 50th anniversary special has just had a record-breaking global simultaneous broadcast—I am informed by officials that it is called a simulcast—that reached 94 countries across all the continents.
Finally, as Doctor Who has dominated the debate and I see my noble friend Lord Grade in his seat, I cannot resist wondering whether, had he known that Sylvester McCoy would regenerate into John Hurt, he would still have cancelled the programme? 
Issue sixteen of the fanzine Inferno Fiction is now available online to view. 
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, Doctor Who Adventures has teamed up with Blippar to create a special interactive edition. 
The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive is returning to the internet, courtesy of the Gallifrey Base forum. 
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