Outpost Gallifrey has learned that the new trailer for The Sarah Jane Adventures will air on BBC1 on the following days and times:

• Monday 25 December - 8.00pm
  
• Tuesday 26 December - 11.53am
  
• Thursday 28 December - 5.05pm
  
• Friday 29 December - 11.42am

Ain't it Cool News is featuring an interview with Graeme Harper, director of several classic Who episodes including The Caves of Androzani and Revelation of the Daleks. He has also had his hand in the new series directing Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel. Read the interview here.

Meanwhile, the two-hour season finale of series 2 airs tonight with Harper's Army of Ghosts andDoomsday on the Sci Fi Channel in the US. "Army of Ghosts" airs in the normal 8:00pm timeslot, while "Doomsday" airs at 9:00pm (previously Battlestar Galactica's timeslot). The Sci Fi Channel is also airing a marathon of Series Two episodes all day today.

David Tennant's appearance as guest presenter on Channel 4 entertainment show The Friday Night Project, reported at the beginning of this month on Outpost Gallifrey, is scheduled to be broadcast on January 5 at 11.05pm.

As the celebrity guest in the first edition of the fourth series, alongside comedians Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr, he will be providing an opening monologue, as well as performing comedy sketches and participating in games.

It is not known if there will be a question-and-answer session with the audience, as there was last January when Billie Piper was a guest host.

It's just three days to the UK premiere of The Runaway Bride on BBC1, and in anticipation of this year's Christmas special, we have a small collection of photos for you, below; click on each for a larger version. (All photographs are copyrighted to the BBC and used here solely for promotion of this event!)

The Doctor Who Annual has topped the Christmas chart for children's books, toppling the traditional number one The Beano into second place.

The Doctor Who Annual, which has held the top spot for a total of eight weeks now, has broken the million-pound barrier by so far selling 271,000 copies.

According to Saturday's Guardian, "This is the first time the Beano annual has been beaten since accurate electronic sales figures began to be collected in 1998, and indeed, the book trade believes, the first time since soon after it was initially published in the 1940s."

The article goes on to say that "the boost from Doctor Who's two prime time Christmas Day specials in a row is envied by all other publishers of annuals".

Unofficial overnight figures show that Torchwood Episode Ten, Out of Time was watched by2.3m viewers a 10.1% share of the audience. This is an increase of 100,000 over last week. The show was the 4th most watched programme on BBC2 on Wednesday and the 31st on all British Television.

Julie Gardner, executive producer of Doctor Who, will be on the Richard Evans show on BBC Radio Wales on Friday 22 December from 1-2pm. Gardner will take phone calls on a variety of topics concerning the programme, including commissioning Russell T Davies to bring back the Doctor, the success of the show's spin-off Torchwood and the series Life on Mars. Fans can call in on +44 8100 100 110, text message +44 7786 20 10 40, or send email with questions.

Radio Wales can be listened to online by following the link on the BBC Wales Website

The Sun today continued its in-depth interview with Billie Piper, as featured yesterday.

Piper said that leaving Doctor Who still made her cry but added that she felt it was time to leave lest she got "complacent".

She was quoted as saying: "It was such a hard decision. I still cry about it, I'm such a cry baby.

"I don't know if I'll be able to watch the next series. I'll probably have to sit behind the couch with a cushion over my eyes.

"I just thought it was time to do something new - not because I felt tired, the material was crap or the people were nasty - but just because I felt like doing something else.

"I'd spent nine months filming in Cardiff and that's a long time to be away from your family and friends. I'm a real London girl, I absolutely love it. I found it increasingly hard to be away. I felt like if I'd stayed there any longer I would have become a bit complacent. And, suddenly, you've been doing it for five years and you're too scared to leave."

She said how hard it had been to tell Russell T Davies of her decision, but added that although they were both upset he had supported her completely.

"But life has to move on and there are great things happening in British TV. I just hope I don't regret leaving!"

Discussing David Tennant, Piper calls him "a lovely guy, super-duper down to earth, super-duper smart", and adds: "I think David will be the Doctor for a while, he really loves the show."

Also in The Sun Catherine Tate said she was disappointed she wasn't asked to continue as the Doctor's companion after appearing in the Christmas special.

She was quoted as saying: "They didn't ask me and I tend not to dwell on my failures.

"It was just such a fantastic job to get. It was like making an action movie. It was great but they didn't ask me."

David Tennant is quoted as saying: "An unconventional pairing but we'd have made a great team. I'm very disappointed."

For Doctor Who fans in the US and Canada, head to your local comic shop this week. Doctor Who Magazine #377, should be available as you read this. Also of interest is Second Flight,Shaun Lyon's reference book covering the second series of Doctor Who, published by Telos(item number SEP063812) as well as Doctor Who: The Inside Story by Gary Russell (item number JUL063679). If you can't find these books, ask your comic book retailer to order them for you.

Issue #20 of Doctor Who Adventures will be out on January 3, 2007; a preview from BBC Magazines is below. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version of the cover. (Thanks to Victoria Goddard/BBC Magazines)