For a limited time Big Finish is offering several of its two-disc, full cast Doctor Who audio plays for sale for just £5.00 each.

Peter Davison stars as the Fifth Doctor in The Council of Nicaea, in which he, Peri (Nicola Bryant) and Erimem (Caroline Morris) become embroiled in events in the year 325AD.

In Exotron, the Fifth Doctor and Peri land on a distant colony that is being terrorized by indigenous predators. This three-part adventure is accompanied by the one-part story Urban Myths.

In The Wishing Beast the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) and Mel (Bonnie Langford) meet a pair of elderly sisters on an asteroid. This three-part story is joined by the one-part The Vanity Box.

Red stars Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Bonnie Langford as Mel, while McCoy goes solo in Valhalla – up against giant termites on Callisto.

Also available for a fiver for a limited time are the three audio adaptations of the Doctor Who stageplays: The Ultimate Adventure, Seven Keys to Doomsday and Curse of the Daleks.

This offer ends on March 31.

Doctor Who have won in 5 categories at the 2011 SFX Awards.

Matt Smith beat ex Dcotor David Tennant to 'Best Actor'. Smith told SFX:
Karen Gillan won 'Best Actress'. She told SFX:

The show won 'Best TV Show' - which was accepted by Steven Moffat (see a video of his acceptance speech below) - and the 'Sci-Fi Phenomenon Award'.

Other awards for Doctor Who went to Character Options for their Eleven Doctors action figure set, which won 'Best Collectable, Model Or Toy'. Russell Tovey (Midshipman Alonso Frame, Voyage of the Damned and The End of Time, Part Two) won the 'SFX Cult Hero'.

Vincent And The Doctor lost 'Best TV Episode' to the final episode of Ashes to Ashes.

The ceremony took place at the SFX Weekender and the full list of winners and nominees on the night can be found on the SFX website.

A new exhibition relating to Doctor Who will be opening on Tuesday 8th February at the Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery (Wednesbury, West Midlands). Running through to mid-June, the museum will feature memorabilia on loan from private collector, Nigel Parkes.

Museum development officer, Stuart Lane, said:

The museum will be holding a Meet the Daleks day on Wednesday 22nd February, which will include craft workshops and quizzes.

(story/photos via the Express and Star)
 

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» The Up Close exhibition at Cardiff Bay will be closing on Sunday 27th March.
» The Doctor Who Experience will open to the public in London on Monday 20th February.

This week saw the cast and crew descend upon Charlestown in Cornwall, where filming was to take place aboard one of the square rigger sailing ships docked at the Georgian harbour. The four day shoot generated a lot of local interest, with the latter days seeing the media and hundreds of fans watching on for glimpses of the series stars in action!

As recently reported, the episode being shot includes guest stars Hugh Bonneville as the "Pirate Captain", and Lee Ross as the "Boatswain", both of which joined Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill for the shoot.

A new, dedicated Doctor Who magazine is to be published by Panini in the United States and Canada with the first issue available from April 7.


Please note that the cover used in this article may not be the actual cover of the first issue.

The actor David Walliams has revealed that he will appearing in a forthcoming episode of the next series of Doctor Who.

Speaking on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show this morning, when asked about which franchises he'd like to be in, the actor said:
(he also mentioned his Comic Relief projects including a spoof band Fake That for which he would include Catherine Tate (portraying a man) and David Tennant in the cast if he could!)

The interview is available to hear on the BBC's iplayer service (from 2:34:35) for the next seven days. BBC Radio 2 have also made the studio webcam recording of the segment available via their YouTube channel:




Walliams is a professed Doctor Who fan, and leant his vocal talents for Big Finish's audio adventure Phantasmagoria. He also appeared in a number of sketches alongside Mark Gatiss for BBC2's Doctor Who Night in 1999, and in December 2008 newspapers reported the odds on him replacing David Tennant as the Doctor dropping to 8-1.

Christmas last year also saw a Dalek checking in at FlyLo Airlines in trails for the Walliams/Lucas mockumentary Come Fly With Me.

An old name has emerged associated with the production of Torchwood!

Bad Wolf Productions LLC is the company name that was registered by BBC Worldwide Americas Inc in the United States on the 16th September 2010, and has now appeared on documentation relating to filming currently taking place in Los Angeles.

The use of the name is an in-joke by the production team - it originally featured in the first series of the revived Doctor Who, also masterminded of course by Russell T Davies. It featured throughout that series and was ultimately unveiled as a message sent back through time by the Doctor's companion, Rose Tyler: "I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them ... in time, and space. A message to lead myself here."
The company name has provided links to a couple more members of the production team:

Jill Rytie Lutz's online CV with business connnections site Linkedin indicates that she is Travel Coordinator, and joined the production in January (when filming began); prior to this she worked in a similar capacity for The Event, and has been involved in other production capacities for projects like Beneath The Blue, Deadland and We Were Soldiers

The site also cites Paris Pickard as Art Department Coordinator (from November 2010); in her entry she says: "I'm on the BBC TV show Torchwood shooting at Warner Brother's Studios.". Her previous credits include Angels and Demons, Pushing Daisies and Frost Nixon.


Finally, with action ramping up once more in the United States, some of the production team have resumed their hints of activity on set during the production via Twitter, including providing us with faces for some of the names involved!

The June Classic DVD release will be Frontios, the Fifth Doctor story first shown in 1984.

The show has been confirmed by Warner Home Video for release in North America on June 14th, with a UK release expected shortly before. The story includes a commentary with actors Peter Davison, Jeff Rawle and John Gillett, as well as script editor Eric Saward and special sounds designer Dick Mills.

Also available on June 14th will be the North American release of the first story for the Seventh Doctor, Time and the Rani. The story was released in the UK last September.

2|Entertain have confirmed via their twitter feed, that the classic Third Doctor story, The Daemons, has now been officially commissioned and is in production. It is expected sometime in 2012

For full details of the global DVD release schedule see our product page.

Here is a list of the currently known open competitions related to Doctor Who:

Quotable Doctor Who	7 Feb	Win one of three copies of the official 2011 Calendar from Blue Eyed Books
Doctor Who Adventures	11 Feb	Win a prize every day!
Doctor Who News	11 Feb	Win one of three copies of K9: Series 1 Vol 1 on DVD
Cultbox	11 Feb	Win one of two copies of A Christmas Carol on DVD
Cultbox	14 Feb	Win one of two copies of K9: Series 1 Vol 2 on DVD
DrWho Online	28 Feb	Win one of three copies of The Ark on DVD
DrWho Online	28 Feb	Win one of three copies of K9: Series 1 Vol 1 on DVD
DrWho Online	28 Feb	Win one of three copies of The War Games on audio
Petside	28 Feb	Win one of three copies of K9: Series 1 Vol 1.
Syfy	28 Feb	Win one of three copies of K9: Series 1 Vol 1.
Eye of Horus	7 Mar	Win one of ten copies of Mara Tales.
Whovian Net	n/a	Win one of three copies of the official 2011 Calendar when they reach 1000 Twitter Followers

Silva Screen have released the cover art and tracklisting for the soundtrack to A Christmas Carol. The album was originally due to be released in the UK on 21 February but has now been delayed until 21 March.


The music is composed by now Doctor Who composer of choice Murray Gold and performed by the excellent BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Crouch End Festival Chorus. The album will be released both physically (SILCD1360) and digitally (SILED1360). The TV episode was broadcast on Christmas Day at 6pm and featured Matt Smith as The Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams. They were joined by Michael Gambon as Kazran Sardick and Katherine Jenkins as Abigail Pettigrew.