John Barrowman will once again don his tights for an annual pantomime performance, this year appearing at the Birmingham Hippodrome for their production of Aladdin between 19th December and 27th January.

According to the show publicity, the production will also feature the Daleks in their very first pantomime appearance!

There is a special Aladdin website dedicated to the show, and full details on availability and booking can be found on the theatre's website.

Billie Piper has been shortlisted for a theatre award.

BBC News reports that she has been nominated in the Best Actress category of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her role in the playTreats, by Christopher Hampton.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the Savoy in London on November 27. The event will be hosted by actorRichard Wilson, who played Dr Constantine in the Piper/Eccleston episodes The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances.

Titan Publications have released a preview of the front cover image for the very first edition of their new, officially-licensed Torchwood Magazine, due to be released in January 2008.

The cover features John Barrowman as Torchwood's main character Captain Jack Harkness alongside Freema Agyeman, who guest stars asMartha Jones, crossing over from Doctor Who, in three episodes of next year's second series of Torchwood. Further information on the magazine is available from Titan's website. Click the thumbnail below for a larger image of the cover.

(Thanks to "GracieLizzy" from The Doctor Who Forum)

The British Board of Film Classification has now classified the extras for the UK DVD release of Warriors of the Deep.

Totalling nearly 68 minutes, they will include documentaries entitled The Depths - Making Warriors of the Deep andThey Came From Beneath The Sea, as well as a feature about model-maker and visual effects wizard Mat Irvine.

As reported previously on Outpost Gallifrey, the four-part Peter Davison story is to be included in a box set also comprising Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Sea Devils.

All three stories and their extras have now been classified. A release date for the box set has yet to be announced.

(Thanks to Nicholas Caluda.)

The official website of the BBC's Radio Times listings magazine has released details of its new issue, due out tomorrow in the UK, including an image of the cover. For the 15th time since the return of Doctor Who in 2005 (including multiple covers in the same week), the series is the main feature, promoting the special episode "Time Crash", due to be shown on BBC One on Friday November 16th as part of the annual Children in Need charity telethon event.

The cover image features Peter Davison and David Tennant as the Fifth and Tenth Doctors, who meet for the first time in this special episode. The preview on the Radio Times website promises an exclusive on-set report from the making of the mini-episode. Click the thumbnail below for a larger image of the cover.

Dorking Museum in Surrey is hosting a Doctor Who exhibition until the end of February 2008.

According to the museum's website, it features a Dalek, Ice Man (sic), plus "other monsters, merchandise, props, memorabilia and studio items from the first BBC series".

The museum, at The Old Foundry in West Street, is open Wednesdays and Thursdays between 2pm and 5pm, and Saturdays from 10am to 4pm.

(Thanks to Jason Dullaway.)

The BBC have officially released a promotional image of a Sontaran, the race of clone warriors from the classic series who are returning to the show in series four of the new series.

The BBC News Online report, featuring the photo, also states that their return adventure will see new companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) meetFreema Agyeman's Martha Jones for the first time. Tate, Agyeman and David Tennant are all featured alongside the Sontaran in the promotional shot.

The official website also has a report and images, one of which is included right. The image is BBC copyright, and used purely to promote the programme.

UPDATE (NOV 4): The Press Association has named the Sontaran in the picture as Commander Skorr, played by Dan Starkey.

The British Board of Film Classification has passed a number of extras for the DVD release of The Sea Devils in the UK.

Included on it will be a 36min 35sec documentary entitled Hello Sailor! - Making The Sea Devils, plus a photo gallery and continuities.

The six-part story was classified on October 29. Outpost Gallifrey reported in September that the Jon Pertwee adventure would be part of a three-story box set also comprisingDoctor Who and the Silurians and Warriors of the Deep.

It was revealed in May that The Sea Devils was being prepared for release on DVD, with the news that the Restoration Team were hoping to track down naval personnel who were involved with or who witnessed the filming - in particular, a rating believed to have shot some cine footage.

A release date for the box set has not yet been announced but the BBFC classified Warriors of the Deep on November 1 - the same day it did the extras for The Sea Devils.

Extras for Doctor Who and the Silurians were classified on October 31, and the story was classified on November 1 - with episode seven listed as "Episode 7/Doctor Who - Next Week", which implies a contemporaneous trailer for The Ambassadors of Death is included at the end.

The National Media Museum in Bradford is honouring former Doctor Who script editor and prolific author Terrance Dicks with a career retrospective later this month.

Dicks, whose work on the show stretches back to The Invasion in 1968 and who was script editor throughout the Jon Pertwee era, will be at the museum to discuss his time in TV and work as an author.

The Terrance Dicks: Three Decades in Television and Beyond event takes place on Saturday, November 24.

The museum says the interview will be illustrated with rare photographs from its collection plus clips from shows Dicks has been involved with, such as The Avengers, Moonbase 3, Space: 1999, Jane Eyre, Oliver Twist, Vanity Fair, and Doctor Who.

The discussion will be followed by a screening of his 1980 Doctor Who story State of Decay, from Tom Baker's final season.

Click on this link for more details.