For today only you can rent Voyage of the Damned for 13 pence from online video catch up and rental service SeeSaw.

The deal is part of the site's Christmas Advent Calendar which offers episodes at reduced price for one day only. You can rent the episode by clicking here. You get 30 days to start viewing the episode after you purchase it.

You can also rent two other Christmas Specials, The Christmas Invasion (£1.19) and The Next Doctor (99p). SeeSaw also offers some Classic Series episodes for free including The Tomb of the Cybermen.

Doctor Who is the most wanted programme to be transformed into 3D, according to a recent poll by television manufacturer Panasonic. The survey asked which shows the public would most like to see made in the growing format, with the Doctor proving most popular, followed by animated heroes Wallace and Gromit and the anarchic car show Top Gear. The poll also revealed that the 3D viewers would prefer reality show The X-Factor over Strictly Come Dancing, and soap Eastenders over Coronation Street.

Both Doctor Who and Eastenders have already tasted the 3D effect, of course, back in the cross-over special Dimensions in Time for Children in Need in 1993. And for the lead-up to the 2010 series the BBC released the 3D trailer into cinemas, introducing us to the new Doctor, Amy and their enemies.

Tonight the BBC commenced their Christmas idents for the 2010 season on television, launching with the trailer for A Christmas Carol, airing just before Strictly Come Dancing at 6:00pm. This is a shorter version of the preview trailer that was aired during Children in Need back in November, but confirms the time and date of broadcast, previously reported as 6:00pm on Christmas Day.

The trailer is available to watch on the BBC's YouTube channel, and also from the BBC's official Doctor Who site as Day Eleven in their Christmas Adventure Calendar.

The Mara Tales Boxset, comprising the two fifth Doctor Stories, Kinda and Snakedance, will be released in the UK on 7 March 2011.

The remastered discs will feature new CGI for the Mara's manifestation as a snake, as well as documentaries on the making of the series, an interview with Christopher Bailey, the author of the two stories, and deleted scenes.


Also confirmed is the release of the second boxset comprising stories which were released near the start of the DVD run, now remastered and with added extras. Revisitations 2 will be released in the UK on 28 March 2011 and will contain three stories, the Second Doctor Story The Seeds of Death, the Third Doctor story Carnival of Monsters and the fifth Doctor story Resurrection of the Daleks.

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

Former Doctor Colin Baker is appearing at the Kennet Centre in Newbury today, signing copies of his books based on his column in the Bucks Free Press, Look Who's Talking and Second Thoughts.

Filming continues on United (a film about the Manchester United team Munich plane disaster in 1958), which features David Tennant as assistant team manager Jimmy Murphy. Last week saw them filming at Carlisle United's Brunton Park, where their media officer Andy Hall said: "A couple of us had the chance to squint at a couple of pages of script that David Tennant was practising and it was powerful stuff. We thought David Tennant wouldn’t speak to us but he talked about Doctor Who and other stuff he has done. I don’t get starstruck often but it’s not every day you are set opposite a Time Lord. He said he was not much of a football fan but he’s from Paisley and said he looks out for St Mirren’s scores." (reported in the News and Star)

Filming also commenced yesterday in Bolton on Exile, a new BBC drama starring John Simm (The Master) and Jim Broadbent (The Doctor, The Curse of Fatal Death); the drama is a psychological thriller about the return of a journalist (Simm) to his hometown to be reacquainted with his father (Broadbent).

David Morrissey (Jackson Lake, The Next Doctor) will be one of the Final judges for the 2010 Costa Book of the Year; the winners are chosen and announced on 25th January 2011.

The Daily Mail has reported that Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) could be about to play Eliza Doolittle in a West End version of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. Other members of the cast could be Rupert Everett (reprising his role as Henry Higgins from the Chichester Festival Theatre production), Angela Lansbury and David Jason.

Bonnie Langford: Christmas in New York opens at 59E59 Theaters on the 14th December; part of the Brits Off Broadway festival, the show sees the star (who played Melanie Bush) perform songs from shows she has appeared in, and talk about the people she grew up with in her showbiz career.

Michael Gambon (Kazran, A Christmas Carol) is about to appear in his first US television series in a new drama from HBO called Luck; the show stars Dustin Hoffman, and follows the ins and outs of horse racing.

ABC have confirmed they will be showing the 2010 Doctor Who Prom on Boxing Day at 5pm, the same day they show the 2010 Christmas Special A Christmas Carol.

The BBC Proms are an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events which have been held annually since 1895. Taking place mainly in the Royal Albert Hall in London, the BBC took over responsibility for the Proms in 1927. The first Doctor Who Prom took place in 2008.

The Doctor Who Prom features the music of Murray Gold performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, who record the soundtrack for the television series. The Prom took place Saturday 24 July and was hosted by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill.

The Prom was shown in the UK last September. It was announced last month that it will be shown in the United States on BBC America on Christmas Day.

BBC Worldwide (@TW_TheNewWorld) have announced two new adventures for the pre-Children of Earth team of Jack, Gwen and Ianto, due to be released on 3rd March 2011.

The two stories are called Department X and Ghost Train, and are written by James Goss; no other details are known about them at present, other than they will take place after the previous Torchwood audio adventure The Dead Line.

BBC America have released a video to tie in with the Christmas special, entitled A Christmas Carol - Exclusive Inside Look.

The video features interviews with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, during which the three discuss their thoughts on the special and its guest stars, Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins.

Come Fly with Me is a new comedy programme from Matt Lucas and David Walliams in the form of a 'documentary' of life in a busy airport. The series is scheduled for Christmas Day at 10:00pm, and as part of the promotion for the series a number of clips featuring celebrities are available to watch - Doctor Who is also represented in the form of a Dalek checking in for a flight to Skaro!




Both Lucas and Walliams are fans of Doctor Who, with numerous mentions (not to mention Tom Baker) featuring in their Little Britain series; both have also provided voices in Big Finish audio adventures. Walliams 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.

A couple of cast members from the previous series of Torchwood have tweeted today on their involvement in the next series, The New World.

Confirmed last month, Kai Owen who plays Gwen's husband Rhys will be returning to the show; in a tweet this afternoon the actor reported:
Meanwhile, actor and comedian Tom Price, who played Gwen's former colleague in the police Andy Davidson, has hinted that he too would be back in the next series; in response to Owen's comment:
You can follow both actors on Twitter from their respective accounts, @kaikaiowen and @pricetom; you can also receive updates from both Eve Myles (via her fan-feed @EveMylesFans) and John Barrowman (via his official site feed @Team_Barrowman).