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UK retailer Marks & Spencer continue their relationship with Doctor Who products this Easter with two Dalek packaged milk chocolate eggs. The packs come in Red and Blue variety and also feature some "cool" stickers. Click on the pics for bigger, chocolatier versions.

See some of last year's Easter products here:

It's a Doctor Who Easter! [Part 1]
It's a Doctor Who Easter! [Part 2]
It's a Doctor Who Easter! [Part 3]
It's a Doctor Who Easter! [Part 4]

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BBC Books have announced details and title information for three Doctor Who novels to be released on 28 April 2011, priced at £6.99 each. Read the blurbs below and click on the covers for bigger versions.

The Dead of Winter
by James Goss

"The Dead are not alone. There is something in the mist and it talks to them."

In Dr Bloom’s clinic at a remote spot on the Italian coast, at the end of the 18th century, nothing is ever quite what it seems. Maria is a lonely little girl with no one to play with. She writes letters to her mother from the isolated resort where she is staying. She tells of the pale English aristocrats and the mysterious Russian nobles and their attentive servants.

She tells of intrigue and secrets, and she tells of strange faceless figures that rise from the sea. She writes about the enigmatic Mrs Pond who arrives with her husband and her physician, and who will change everything. What she doesn’t tell her mother is the truth that everyone knows and no one says – that the only people who come here do so to die.

Hunter’s Moon
by Paul Finch
"There's no end to the horror in this place -
it's like Hell, and there are devils round every corner."

Welcome to Leisure Platform 9 – a place where gamblers and villains rub shoulders with socialites and celebrities. Don’t cheat at the games tables, and be careful who you beat. The prize for winning the wrong game is to take part in another, as Rory is about to discover – and the next game could be the death of him.

When Rory is kidnapped by the brutal crime lord Xorg Krauzzen, the Doctor and Amy must go undercover to infiltrate the deadly contest being played out in the ruins of Gorgoror. But how long before Krauzzen realises the Doctor isn’t a vicious mercenary and discovers what Amy is up to? It’s only a matter of time. And time is the one thing Rory and the other fugitives on Gorgoror don’t have.

They are the hunted in a game that can only end in death, and time for everyone is running out…

The Way Through the Woods
by Una McCormack

"The motorway bends around the woods. So did the old road. So did the Roman road. As long as people have lived here, they've gone out of their way to avoid the woods..."

England, today. Between the housing estate and the motorway lies an ancient wood. The motorway bends to avoid it. Last week, teenager Laura Brown went missing. Tonight, Vicky Caine will miss her bus and take a shortcut through the wood. And she will disappear too. England, 1917. Between the village and the main road lies an ancient wood. The old Roman road bends to avoid it. Tonight Emily Bostock and a man called Rory Williams will go to the woods.

Investigating events in the present day and back in 1917, the Doctor and Amy are desperate to find out what’s happened to Rory. He was supposed to look after Emily – and now they’ve both vanished. Something is waiting in the woods. Something that’s been there for thousands of years. Something that is now waking up...

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The BBC have issued some rather snazzy promotional pictures of Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) from last year's Radio Times photoshoot - click on them for bigger, Pondier versions.

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BBC Worldwide have announced a major new deal with Character Options' new Construction division which will see Doctor Who enter the construction toy market for the first time. The Character Building range will include 3D micro-figures, brought to life with sculpted facial features whilst play sets will be uniquely tailored to Doctor Who. Fans will be able to build their own Doctor Who world with all their favourite characters including the Doctor and Amy Pond with their famous foes the Daleks, Cybermen and Weeping Angels.

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The entire range will be displayed at the Character Options stand at the London Toy Fair with the first products set for release in Spring 2011.

Thanks to BBC Worldwide

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Coming soon from ITV (no, stick with it) is a new five part drama starring Alex Kingston (River Song), Anne Reid (The Curse of Fenric, Smith & Jones) and written by Stephen Greenhorn (The Lazarus Experiment, The Doctor's Daughter). Click on the pics included here for bigger versions and read a brief synopsis below:

Marchlands is the gripping story of three different families living in the same house in the 1960’s, 1980’s and present day. The families are linked by the spirit of a young girl – the 1960’s family’s daughter who died in mysterious circumstances.

Marchlands starts 9pm, Feb 3 on ITV1

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The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, out today, has some news on the upcoming series of Doctor Who, beginning "around April". As previously known, Series 6 (or 11.2) starts with a Steven Moffat two~parter set in 1960s USA. Episode Three is written by Steve Thompson (Sherlock: The Blind Banker) whilst Episode Four has been penned by Neil Gaiman and stars Suranne Jones (pictured below), a character that "might just turn out to be an old acquaintance with a new face." Eps Five and Six (currently titled The Rebel Flesh and Gangers) have been written by Mathew Graham (Fear Her).


The first part of next year's adventures will end with a Steven Moffat story and begin again after the Summer with Episode Eight, again written by the showrunner. Episode Nine, which was previously four in the running order, is a Mark Gatiss story starring Daniel Mays.

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Now we've all had time to digest and cogitate the entire output of Doctor Who in 2010, see the Blogtor Top 10 HERE, now it's your turn to vote in The Reader's Poll 2010. You can submit your Top Three (in order of preference) to either the Twitter feed, leave a comment below or email HERE.

Votes have now closed.
See the results HERE.

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Reader William Cuthbertson has sent Blogtor some images of a custom-made Doctor Who version of the popular card game Fluxx - click on the pics for bigger versions. The pack was designed and produced by artist Ashley Jones (of Oxford, Ohio). Blogtor will keep you up to date with any further developments...

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	Release Date: Jan 24 RRP: DVD £13.27/Bluray £16.33 Duration: 60 mins (approx.) Extras: Doctor Who Confidential Dr Who at the 2010 Proms

Only The End of Time Part 1 (review HERE) so far can claim to be a proper "story" whereas the other specials are, for want of a better word, fluff. Enjoyable and extremely well~made fluff, yes. But still fluff. This year's tale (a re~bumbling on the Dickens story, in case the title or the numerous times it was mentioned pre~broadcast didn't indicate) continued the rather jokey way in which writer and trouser~wearing Scotsman Steven Moffat plays with time.


Now, I'm just going to come out and say it now. I don't like time~travel being used so flippantly and so cheaply. For me, this year's finale was rendered almost comedy~sketch~laughable by the way in which The Doctor jumped back and forth (needlessly it has to be said) trying to save the day. He does again here. Jumping forward in time to find out the code to open a door which will allow you to alter time and save 4,000 or so people when you could have just as easily have stopped the ship leaving int he first place (which amounts to the same thing as what he's doing anyway) does leave me a bit subdued. Let's not even mention Blinovitch Limitation Effect or The Reapers...


Anyway, a small point. But a salient one. We could argue about "timey~wimey" events until the phrase has lost all meaning, so let's not bother. The notion of dilemma (the 4,000 people about to die) was also removed through The Doctor's, for want of a better phrase, fannying around marrying actresses in the 1950s. If he doesn't care, why should we? And we don't really. It's the relationships on the ground that prove to be so fascinating or, as our Hungarian friends would say, lenyűgöző.


Although we have acting heavyweight Michael "So he's in the Harry Potter films but that doesn't make him a bad person, OK?" Gambon performing an old, but lurvable bastid stoutly, he's supported by a remarkable cast. In the boys corner are Matt Smith lookalike Danny Horn and young Arthur Darvill impersonator Laurence Belcher (pictured above) both playing the younger version of Gambon's character, Kazran "The Anagram" Sardick. The latter in particular is worthy of a mention as he really steals the show, quite a feat given he gets quite a bit to work with.

Matt Smith, of course, is on top form as The Doctor and Moffat plays to Smith's superb comic timing and delivery; using material that wouldn't have looked out of place in The Moff's charming sitcom Coupling (specifically the "girl" stuff between The Doctor and young Kazran). It's not difficult to see why so many have warmed to Mazza so quickly. When the viewer witnesses his joy opening the "tomb" containing Abigail whilst wearing a Fez or Tom Baker~style scarf (a touch which, I confess, brought a tear to my eye), we feel it too, so enthusing is his performance.


The production is glorious and sumptuous in equal measure; the sets are gorgeous and certainly some of the finest seen in the show. Can't say the same for the bland and lens~flared spaceship, however, but you can't have everything. Murray Gold's score is suitably seasonal, ranging from the heart~warming choral work, through the action pieces with Clive the Shark (oh yeah, there's a shark in the story - I forgot to mention that) to the chilling Abigail's Song sung by Jenkins; truly beautiful.

Unusually for a "vanilla" or single episode release there are a surprising amount of VAMs. Well, there's only two but they're both an hour long so that amounts to double the feature. You get the Christmas edition of Doctor Who Confidential in all its glory featuring the cast and crew in some delightful locations (particularly the use of the TARDIS interior) as well as the turning on of the Cardiff Christmas Lights. Completing the collection is Doctor Who at the 2010 Proms. Again, marvelous to watch this with Murray Gold's trouser~tightening tunes and the delightful appearances from Mazza, Kazza and Azza (pictured above).


Despite my own slight disappointment of the episode itself, the extras certainly make A Christmas Carol a worthwhile purchase - three hours on one disc for about a tenner ain't bad at all. And, for those who care about such things, the "Next Time" trailer makes a return to the Doctor Who DVD with that groin~grabbingly good Series 6 teaser - worth the price alone.

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