Further to our earlier story, The Web of Fear Episode 1 will be airing on BBC4 on Saturday June 26 at 8:50pm. This broadcast, from restored masters, is part of the BBC's Sixties event; see earlier news reports for details. (Thanks to David Harold)

A couple of brief press mentions (thanks to Steve Tribe, Rich Kirkpatrick & Paul Engelberg, among others)

Over the past few days we've received numerous emails and heard various pieces of gossip alleging that Christopher Eccleston may have quit the new series production. Indeed, several of our readers have picked up on this on anotherwebsite (Sci-Fi Online). Though some of the rumors of the past couple of days have come from quite reliable sources, we think it's a bad rumor gone wild, and at this point Outpost Gallifrey has heard nothing to indicate that this might be true and would like to assure our readers that we'll report this if and when we see anything official.

The Doctor Who Appreciation Society's newest edition of "Celestial Toyroom" (#316) has a note from Christopher Eccleston to the DWAS readership. "I won't be giving interviews on Doctor Who until I've got something to brag about," Eccleston writes. "But here's a quote: I'm very excited to be the ninth Doctor Who, I want to honour its past but also bring something new, I look forward to the reaction of your readers/members."

Writer Steven Moffat says he is "a little embarrassed" that the new series has already picked up its first award even before filming has begun. "Even before a single frame has been shot, we have already picked up an award for Best New Hope from a science fiction magazine. I did feel slightly embarrassed about receiving it." Moffat, meanwhile, told the Paisley Daily Express on June 14, "I was well known in TV circles as a Dr Who fan and I'd always made it known that I'd like a go at writing it if the opportunity arose. ... Doing this, I think, ends your position of being a fan."

North Carolina's Winston-Salem Journal featured a Q&A article about the new show, in response to a question if PBS would be carrying the series. The answers are quite familiar... being as though they were taken from the Outpost Gallifrey new series FAQ (with all due credit given in the article!)

Purple People, a new compilation CD from Purple Records, is out in June and features a special bonus track of Jon Pertwee's "Who Is the Doctor"? There's also details on the site of the history behind this song. (Thanks to Keith Hollinshed)

Shada, the BBCi webcast starring Paul McGann and Lalla Ward, is now back up and able to be played from the officialDoctor Who site. (Thanks to Rich Kirkpatrick)

According to the Bucks Free Press on June 7, Colin Baker recently visited Wycome High School in Marlow Road last Thursday for a discussion with students about the science fiction genre. "Legends and myths have always fascinated me," Baker told the Press. Students were quite pleased and seemed to take more interest in science fiction, one student discovering that like himself, Colin is a John Wyndham fan. (Thanks to Paul Engelberg)

Artist Jeff Cummins, whose many covers for the Target Doctor Who novelisation range includes "The Talons of Weng-Chiang," "Horror of Fang Rock," "The Three Doctors" and the exquisite painting for the cover of "The Face of Evil," has a new website in which he showcases his Target covers and other pieces of illustration including the sleeves for out of print records he designed. Visit the site at www.jeffcummins.com. (Thanks to Jeff Cummins)

This Sunday's Points of View on BBC1 will feature a brief on the TARDIS in the new series... a question about whether or not it'll be in the shape of a London police box! The program airs on June 13 at 3:45pm. (Thanks to David Brider)

Updates on two forthcoming books from Mad Norwegian Press. The re-release of Lawrence Miles' Dead Romance, originally printed by Virgin as part of the New Adventures series, will be this August, not October as we had previously reported. And due to work on another project, MNP has delayed the release of I, Who 4 to "sometime in 2005"; the book is the fourth in their series examining Doctor Who fiction, both printed (Virgin, BBC Books, Telos) and audio (Big Finish, BBV). (Thanks to Lars Pearson)

Issue #69 of Time Space Visualiser, the journal of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club (and one of the best DW fanzines still in print today, in our opinion!) is out and features Rob Shearman's episode by episode critique of Season 21, Paul Cornell's experiences writing Scream of the Shalka on his New Zealand honeymoon, Fan video productions in New Zealand, Invasion of the Dinosaurs reappraised - with the aid of diagrams, The Horns of Nimon gets taken Beyond the Sofa, Andrew Pixley documents cut script extracts from The Daleks' Master Plan, the full results of the TSV 40th anniversary survey, reviews of the latest DVDs, audios and books and much more. For ordering details go towww.doctorwho.org.nz. (Thanks to Paul Scoones)

The play Forever Mine, a black comedy fantasy written by Rob Shearman, the popular Doctor Who audio dramatist and writer of one of the forthcoming episodes of the new series, will be broadcast on Radio Four on Monday June 14 at 2:15pm. The radio play stars Richard Briers ("Paradise Towers"), Pauline Collins, Janie Dee and Jane Goddard, and is directed by Martin Jarvis ("Vengeance on Varos"). Check it out! (Thanks to Rob Shearman)