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).

Doctor Who Magazine have released the cover for Issue 429, via their Twitter account. The magazine, to be published on 16th December, will feature an exclusive preview of A Christmas Carol, and comes with three bonus art cards.

BBC America have confirmed that the 2010 Christmas Special, A Christmas Carol, will be released on DVD/Blu-ray in North America on February 15th.

It was previously announced that the story will be released in the UK on January 24th, 2011.

The Discs will include the hour long version of Doctor Who at the Proms.

The TARDIS has returned to Portmeirion for the Christmas period! Talking to the Daily Post, Estates Manager Meurig Jones said:
The police box will be on-site until the 3rd January 2011.

Meanwhile, the Lynn News reports that another police box is materialising in King's Lynn today, as part of a local police "Town Talk" event to provide information and advice to people in the town's Vancouver Centre.

As reported last week, some twenty-two police boxes were seen packed onto lorries, off to a mysterious destination.

GT Magazine are currently holding an auction to raise money for the Terrence Higgins Trust. A number of Doctor Who related items are featured in the auction, including signed posters of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, a signed picture of Katherine Jenkins from A Christmas Carol, and a signed Eleventh Doctor Crash Set, plus signed photos including Matt Smith's from Christopher and his Kind. More items are expected to be added in the next couple of days.

You can find an auction list on Ebay here, via the gtnakedauction account.

Former Doctor David Tennant joined a number of celebrities (including current James Bond actor Daniel Craig and singer Geri Halliwell) who took to the ICAP trading floor in order to raise money for Prince Charles's charities, Youth Business International and Prince's Teaching Institute.

Having announced having a role in the forthcoming The Hobbit film back in October, the official press conference for the film formally confirms Sylvester McCoy as playing wizard Radagast the Brown; other names in the film include Martin Freeman (who plays Watson in Steven Moffat's other popular show Sherlock), Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, and the return of Cate Blanchett (who played Elven Queen Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings trilogy).

Christopher Eccleston attended a special charity screening of what he has called his most important work, Hillsborough, after which he gave a 30 minute discussion about the film with attendees; the actor had nominated the drama to be shown as part of fund-raising for the Clapperboard Youth Project.

Writer Stephen Gallagher (Warriors Gate, Terminus) will be writing and producing a new drama for Fox Television: The Danger List will be a medical thriller in which a doctor with a complicated past investigates medical abuses, crimes and conspiracies.

The latest star to join the Doctor Who 'family', Sir Michael Gambon (in this year's Christmas special A Christmas Carol), is in the Stage's shortlist for the Greatest Stage Actor; the public poll also includes the likes of Sir Ian McKellen, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.

The BBC have started to promote the forthcoming Christmas special, A Christmas Carol as part of their "Everyone's Home for Christmas" trailers for Drama, airing on the BBC channels. A number of clips from the story appear in the trailer, though these have all appeared previously in the Doctor Who trailer broadcast during last month's Children in Need.


You can still find last year's drama trailer featuring Doctor Who on the BBC's YouTube site.