While the tour of his very successful current play Bedroom Farce(also starring Leela actress Louise Jameson) made a stop in Cardiff, Sixth Doctor Colin Baker was invited to visit the location filming on the 2007 Christmas Special Voyage of the Damned.

Mr. Baker writes about the experience in his Bucks Free Press column. An excerpt is below; please visit here to read the entire article.

A pensioner thought Kylie Minogue was a real-life waitress during filming for the Doctor Who Christmas special, reportsBBC News today.

Minogue plays the role of Titanic waitress Astrid in Voyage of the Damned, and while filming was taking place outside Morgan's hotel in Swansea an elderly customer confused the singer for a member of staff.

An eyewitness said: "It was absolutely comical. Kylie is an international star but obviously this old dear didn't know who she was.

"She said to Kylie: 'Excuse me, love, is it too late for a cup of tea?'

"Kylie saw the funny side and just laughed."

FOOTNOTE: The Sun reported today that Minogue had been comforting David Tennant over the death of his mother from cancer.

The BBC Persian website has posted an interview with Freema Agyeman.

She begins and ends by speaking in Farsi, but for the rest of the eight-minute-plus piece she speaks in English that is dubbed into Farsi.

Agyeman's mother is Iranian and the actress revealed during her interview onFriday Night With Jonathan Ross in May that the tattoo on her right arm includes the word "free" in Farsi in recognition of her heritage.

The interview is currently near the bottom left-hand side of the page.

(Thanks to David C MacKenzie.)

UPDATE - JULY 30: The interview has now gone from the page but if you click on its replacement towards the bottom left-hand side you get the Agyeman interview as an option on the RealPlayer pop-up.

According to the Sun, Doctor Who and Torchwood star John Barrowmanhas been tipped to host a new Saturday night show for the BBC. The Kids Are Alright is a primetime show in which adults battle super-smart kids.

The new show will see a team of seven brainy kids battling against four adults in a series of challenges. For every event the adults win, they pocket thousands. The kids can also get top prizes.

The show is being made as a pilot but will become a series if it goes well. No word yet on air date and time.

John Barrowman will also be guest host on the Friday Night Project on Friday 27th July, on Channel 4. In previous series, David Tennant and Billie Piper have appeared as guest hosts, alongside regular presenters Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins.

SCI FI WIRE reports on a panel with Steven Moffat at the Television Critics Association press tour in California. Despite being there to promote his own series Jekyll there were questions concerning the future of Doctor Who. He particularly addressed rumors that the possible departure of Russell T. Davies at the end of series four would also be an end to the series. "Here's an answer that people should listen to. No broadcaster lets go of a show like Doctor Who. They'd have to be out of their f---ing minds."

Moffat goes on to mention the popularity of the series and Outpost Gallifrey but neither confirms nor denies rumors he would replace Davies.

John Barrowman was a guest star today on the new series Animal Rescue Live.

While on the BBC1 show, he talked about his dogs Lewis and Tiger - the latter of whom was a Dogs Trust rescue animal originally called Tegan.

He told interviewer Selina Scott that he and partner Scott Gill decided to give a pet a home rather than swap rings for their civil partnership so went to the Dogs Trust - where a dog called Tegan had just been taken.

Telling the co-host of the Doctor Who connection, he said: "So I figured it's fate and it had to be."

Barrowman is a celebrity patron for Dogs Trust.

View his appearance here.

(Thanks to Dan.)

BBC News reports that, starting 23 July, Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison will be taking over the role of King Arthur in the West End production of Monty Python's Spamalot. The show is currently running at the Palace Theatre.

Bill Ward, from the ITV soap Coronation Street will be joining the cast at the same time as the sexually disorientated Sir Lancelot.

The producers of the show are also launching a new family friendly performance on Fridays at 5:15pm, aimed at kids and young audiences.

The entertainment section of today's edition of the Toronto Star features a full page interview with Freema Agyeman. In the interview, Agyeman discusses how she got the part and what effect being in Doctor Who has had. We also learn about jobs she has held as well as some of her favourite television series.

The full interview can be read on the Star's website.

A second item in today's Toronto Star gives a list of The essential Doctor Who companions.

Star Week, a television listings magazine distributed with the Toronto Star features the episode Gridlock as one of their "Best Bets" for Monday night viewing.

The BBC has revealed that Martha Jones, as played by Freema Agyeman will join the cast of the Doctor Who spin off Torchwood for three episodes next year.

She will then return to Doctor Who, rejoining the show in the middle of Season Four.

To replace Martha a new companion will join the Doctor, staying for the entire thirteen week run of the series.

An announcement on casting is promised very soon.

Update 0800: news sites have started to pick up on the story: the Mirror, the Times,
GMTV, and the Sun (who still insist she was 'axed'!). The ITV1 programme GMTV also reported on who might be cast as the companion (in the Spoiler section below).

0915: The BBC Press Office have now formally reported on Freema's future in the two series, and that the role of new companion is currently vacant and to be announced shortly.