To coincide with the BBC's official announcement of the air date for Series Three (31 March), the official BBC Doctor Who website has updated its look. The index page shows Martha, the Doctor and the TARDIS standing in front of a series of six locales from the upcoming series, including the moon, New York, Shakespearean London, and others, before fading into a shot of the Black Dalek (which will exterminate you, so be careful!) and a countdown to air time.

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Macworld has run a feature on its Gadgetbox blog about a man who has built a Tardis arcade machine. It contains a link to instructions to build your own.

(Thanks to Nigel Curson and Cliff Shelton.)

A new 40 second trailer is available online at the official BBC Doctor Who site. It features specially shot material contrasting the Doctor and Martha Jones, ending with brief clips from the first 5 episodes. No transmission date is given, merely that Doctor Who is "coming soon".

More details about the trailer can be found in the spoiler space.

As things really begin to gear up for the start of Series Three, the official Doctor Who website has released a new publicity picture of Martha Jones, as played by Freema Agyeman.

It joins the other desktop wallpaper pictures featuring the Doctor and Martha that are available by clicking here.

Earlier this month, the site released a Series Three promo pic showing the couple running away from a fireball.

Also among the images are illustrations from the animated adventure The Infinite Quest, which will form part of the second series of Totally Doctor Who.

The official Doctor Who website has been updated with a video of two very short teaser trailers for the forthcoming third series of the programme. The teasers feature short clips of the Doctor and Martha looking at the camera, accompanied by the tagline "Two worlds will collide."

A deal has been struck between the BBC and Google to allow video clips to be shown on the popular video sharing site YouTube.com.

Two Doctor Who clips have already been added to the website.
The first is David Tennant's Video Diary and the second is Freema Agyeman's Video Diary.

The deal is the first major partnership for Google outside the US. For the BBC it means it can display and specially commission promotional content linked to its popular series such as Doctor Who and Life On Mars.

Acccording to a BBC Press Release, eventually YouTube will host three BBC "channels".

The first will be for the BBC itself. This channel will consist of a range of specially-created video diaries including the David Tennant and Freema Agyeman diaries.

The second will be BBC Worldwide and offer archive material from popular shows. This channel will feature Google's advertising which will feed back to BBC funds.

The third will be BBC World News which again will be ad-funded. This channel will not be available in the UK and will launch later than the first two.

The move has been welcomed by Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-Founder of YouTube. He said "The BBC is a premier source for quality programming. We hope to open up an entirely new audience for their content."

The BBC Trust have given their provisional approval to the BBC's proposals for making their television output available via their website for "on-demand" access. This ought to enable Doctor Who episodes to be made available from the official site later this year.

However, this is only provisional approval; the Trust will reach its final decision before 2 May 2007, after taking account of the responses it receives during the consultation period.

The BBC Trust must give its approval to this service before the BBC can launch it as the Trust exists to safeguard the interests of UK licence fee payers, ensuring that the BBC provides high quality output and good value. The on-demand service, which has been trailed with a number of BBC2 programmes over the past year, would be a major shift in broadcasting for the corporation if rolled out across all their television output.

The online programmes would be available for 30 days after initial broadcast and would be restricted by use of Digital Rights Management. The trust's press release gives some more information on the nature of the DRM:

There are only 328 shopping days left until next Christmas, but if you and your bank balance are still recovering from the effects of the last Christmas, the BBC's official site have given you a reason to remember the good things about Christmas 2006, with a bundle of new photographs from The Runaway Bride.

The BBC's Doctor Who website has announced that an animated Doctor Who cartoon is being produced, to air as part of Totally Doctor Who next year. David Tennant andFreema Agyeman will voice the Doctor and Martha in the animated story, and Anthony Head will play Baltazar, Scourge of the Galaxy (not Mr. Finch from "School Reunion"). Toby Longworth (who has played many roles for Big Finish Productions' line of audio dramas) will also appear.

The cartoon will have 13 parts, comprising a single story titled "Infinite Quest". Russell T Davies describes the story: "The Doctor and Martha follow a trail of clues across wild and wonderful alien worlds, to find the location of the legendary lost spaceship, the Infinite." The story is written by Alan Barnes and directed by Gary Russell.

Full details are available on the BBC site here; the story was broken by the Daily Mirror here.

27th Jan: the image of the Doctor and Martha is shown on the BBC News Entertainment pages as The Big Picture.

The MediaGuardian's Media Monkey diary column has featured Doctor Who for the second time this week (requires free registration to view). This time the reference is to Outpost Gallifrey, and specifically a plan apparently being put together by fans on this website's forum to use the new download rules of the UK pop music singles chart to propel Murray Gold's song "Love Don't Roam" into the Top 40. The song, which was sung by Neil Hannon of the band The Divine Comedy, featured in the recent Christmas special episode "The Runaway Bride", and as well as being included on Gold's Doctor Who soundtrack CD is also available to buy online from music downloading sites such as Apple's iTunes service.

"The world of Doctor Who fans is awash with plots and rumours at the moment," claims the report. "The Outpost Gallifrey fan site is cautioning that Monkey's suggestion on Wednesday that Jason Statham will be the next Doctor is mere speculation. Anyway, now a new conspiracy has been hatched: now that the singles chart takes account of downloads, Whovians have spied an opportunity to send a ditty of their choice into the charts."

The report further quotes Outpost Gallifrey forum users "Christopher M Wadley" and "Perfecto" on plans to organise mass downloads of the song, before concluding that: "Given the power of these campaigns - remember the 390,000 people who classed themselves as Jedi in the 2001 census - expect Love Don't Roam to materialise into the top 40, or the hit parade as they called it in William Hartnell's day.