The Doctor and Martha will soon be making their IDW comic book debut in a six-issue series. The fine folks at newsarama.com have an interview with comic writer Gary Russell and artist Nick Roche which hits the highlights of what to expect from the new series. Click here to read the interview and find out more.

In a recent interview with BBC NEWSROUND Philip Pullman, author of the Golden Compass, said he would consider writing an episode of Doctor Who and that writing for the Doctor "sounds like enormous fun."

Pullman also talked about the end of series two of Doctor Who - when Rose Tyler was left in a parallel world - and how similar some people say it is to his own Dark Materials series. "I was flattered by it," Pullman said.


"That's how stories work. Stories are made out of other stories. I borrowed things for His Dark Materials. He [Russell T Davies] took my ending and twisted it to fit his story. That's fine."

Last night saw the first teaser for the new series of Torchwood, broadcast just before the finale of Heroes on BBC2. The trailer featured a brief phone "conversation", with Peter Petrelli from Heroes calling Captain Jack to give him a message.

The series was announced as coming to BBC2 on Wednesday evenings, early in the new year. Though no actual date has been stated so far, Digital Spyreported on the preview screening that took place this week (warning, spoilerspresent in the article), and have suggested that it will broadcast from the 16th January.

The trailer is available to view, for UK users only, on the official Torchwood website, here.

The official BBC Doctor Who website has announced that the forthcoming Christmas special, Voyage of the Damned, will be 71 minutes long - longer than either of the two previous festive episodes, and the longest single episode of the programme since its return in 2005.

The site confirms the start time for the episode - 6.50pm on BBC 1 on Christmas Day, Tuesday the 25th of December. The episode will also be repeated on New Year's Day at 2.15pm, and with in-vision signing for the deaf at 1.15am on December 27th.

The BBC have also revealed that a brand-new one-hour Doctor Who Confidential, listed as a Kylie Special, will be shown on BBC 3 on Christmas Day. The programme starts at 8.30pm and is to be repeated at 2:25am.

Doctor Who has been nominated for the prestigious South Bank Show Awards. The South Bank Show, broadcast on ITV, is a magazine programme covering both popular and "high" art, and it gives awards for different areas of British arts. Doctor Who was previously nominated for the award in 2005 (given in January 2006), but lost to a Channel 4 drama about Elizabeth I. This year, Doctor Who is up against two Channel 4 dramas, Iraq War drama The Mark of Cainand the adaptation of the novel Boy A. The awards will be presented on January 29, 2008, and the ceremony will be broadcast on ITV on February 3, 2008.

BBC Worldwide Americas have announced changes to their previously released plans for the first classic series releases of 2008. "The Complete Davros Boxed Set" and the stand-alone "Remembrance of the Daleks Special Edition" have been indefinitely pulled for now. In their place, March 4 will see the release of Planet of Evil and Destiny of the Daleks, both starring Tom Baker. In April, two more titles will be released: The Time Warrior starring Jon Pertwee, and a new addition to the schedule, Timelash with Colin Baker. The general release rate for the year is increasing but there may be some irregularities to the schedule thereafter. (Thanks to Steve Manfred for the news)

On Monday 3 December, a BBC film crew could be seen filming with the TARDIS, a Dalek and K9 near St Paul's Cathedral in London.

However, it wasn't for Doctor Who but for long-running BBC soap operaEastEnders.

Actors Charlie Clements and Lacey Turner were seen on the location; Clements' character on EastEnders has been established as a Doctor Who fan.

A tent set up outside the cathedral bore a sign reading "Doctor Who - The Time Lord Revisited", suggesting that the EastEnders characters will be shown visiting a Doctor Who exhibition.

The TARDIS and Dalek props were provided by an effects company that makes props for Doctor Who and Torchwood; the K9 prop was a fan-made replica.

The Sun has a short item on the EastEnders filming.

Doctor Who and EastEnders have interacted before, most notably in the 1993 Children in Need charity sketchDimensions in Time, which saw several Doctors and companions meet EastEnders characters in a romp in Albert Square.

More recently, a specially shot clip of EastEnders actress Barbara Windsor in character was seen in the Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts.

UPDATE - 5 December: EastEnders' filming continued on Tuesday 4 December, with classic series-style Cybermen spotted at the St Paul's location. The Sun has photos of the Cybermen, K9 and actress Lacey Turner. (NB: This latter Sun article has a major spoiler regarding the Series Four finale.)