The official BBC Doctor Who website is asking its visitors to vote for the monster they have found the scariest in the new series.

Most of the menagerie is here, presented in order of appearance from Rosethrough The Runaway Bride.

The results of the votes will be announced in a few weeks.

Vote now!

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.)

Due to the changing launch date of the new series of Doctor Who on BBC One, issue 381 of Doctor Who Magazine, containing an extensive feature on the making of Smith and Jones, will now be published one week later than previously advertised, on Thursday 5th April. This is so that readers don't discover what happens in the episode before they get the chance to see the story on television.

As a result, all future issues of DWM will also move by one week, to enable DWM 381 to have a full four weeks on sale. Therefore, DWM 382 will now be on sale on Thursday 3 May, with DWM 383 available on Thursday 31 May etc.

The next DWM Special Edition, In Their Own Words Volume 3: 1977-1981 has also moved its publication date, to Thursday 19 April.

The new edition of Radio Times - issue dated 24-30 March - has joined the countdown to the start of Series Three with a column entitled "All New Who" in its weekly "Behind The Scenes" feature.

It lists what readers can expect to come in the publication, among which will be a guide by Russell T Davies to every episode of the new series, and includes quotes from David Tennant, Freema Agyeman and Phil Collinson.

Tennant says: "Each script that comes in just seems to be bigger than the last - that's what has kept it so exciting. The scale is bigger, the locations are more extraordinary."

Agyeman tells of the pressure of the show, saying: "I've been filming since August and it's crazy. Every time I think I've got it under control, something else comes up - so I'm not taking anything for granted!"

And Collinson talks of the pressure of thinking up new monsters. "This year there's probably a bigger selection - we've gone a bit more monster-y," he says.

The Doctor Who special edition of The Weakest Link is one of the RT Choices for March 30, while the "Next week in RT" strap at the back of the listings magazine carries a picture of Tennant and Agyeman and trumpets the publication's 14-page preview of the new series that will be included.

The Radio Times covering the first episode of Series Three, ie, issue dated 31 March to 6 April, should reveal the titles of episodes three, five and 13 - the last remaining unknown ones.

A small feature in the latest issue of the Doctor Who Adventures reveals that the Zygons will not be appearing in Series Three, quashing the rumours that have been circulating for the past few months. The feature also states that the Zygons are back, but only in the new series book Sting of the Zygon, which features the Tenth Doctor and Martha.

The book will be released in April.

The Manchester Evening News has an interview with Martin Wilkie, son of the late classic era visual effects designer Bernard Wilkie, in his capacity as a special effects adviser and director of the Up Close exhibition, which opens in the city at the end of March.

Martin, whose surname is spelled "Wylkie" in the article, tells how he and his brother (Simon) acted as guinea pigs when their father brought home prototypes and new characters from Doctor Who to see how scary they found them.

He says of the exhibition: "These are all genuine props from the series, so it is as near to behind the scenes as you can get. The kids won't be too scared - we find it is the parents who are generally more scared than the kids."

The online article has a gallery of seven images.

Bernard Wilkie, who co-founded the BBC's special effects department with Jack Kine, died in May 2002. Kine died in January 2005.

(Thanks to Tim Shaw.)

Design a monster or alien and you could win Doctor Who and Torchwood goodies courtesy ofLastbroadcast.co.uk. Click on the link for full details of the prizes.

Entrants must e-mail Lastbroadcast.co.uk with their details and design.

The organisers say: "The image can be a drawing/painting you've done and scanned in, a picture you've done on your computer, a photo of yourself making a scary face or dressed up in a costume - anything really.

"And the design can be as rubbish or amazing as you wish! The best and funniest entries will be displayed on the site - and don't forget to think of a name for your alien or monster."

The competition closes on June 25, 2007.

Also on the website is a link to an interview with Carole Ann Ford, who played the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan Foreman.