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BBC's 2008 DW Advent calender

Is it definite yet that "The Next Doctor" will air on Christmas Day?

Why wouldn't it? The Christmas Special always airs on Christmas Day.

Yes, but:

Although Christmas Day is the natural assumption, especially for a high-profile show like Who, it's perfectly possible to run a Christmas special on one of the surrounding days instead. In some early discussion of "The Next Doctor" I remember RTD saying that he expected it to air on Christmas but that hadn't been confirmed yet, so it's a fair question.

Thank you! :)

Although Christmas Day is the natural assumption, especially for a high-profile show like Who, it's perfectly possible to run a Christmas special on one of the surrounding days instead. In some early discussion of "The Next Doctor" I remember RTD saying that he expected it to air on Christmas but that hadn't been confirmed yet, so it's a fair question.
Indeed, he says exactly that in DWM #301, which I was reading just this morning.

I assume you mean 401? :p

I have one of those "early" Christmas TV schedules from The Sun, and it does say that the Christmas special will be on Christmas Day at 7pm.:)

Oh good. Thanks for the confirmation!
 
The BBC Press Office has released its programme listings for the last couple weeks of the year; they show "The Next Doctor" airing from 6:00 to 7:00 on Christmas Day. The countdown on the BBC's Who website also shows it starting at 6:00. It may have been moved back an hour recently, to run against Emmerdale rather than Coronation Street.
 
You should have voted him out in 2004.

Not my fault, Bubba. I've never voted for the Son of a Bush, not even when he ran for Guv'ner of Texas (where I resided at the time). I've always known he was a bozo.

I can only, as I do so often, apologize for the majority of my easily-bamboozled countrymen. :)
 
NBC.com and MTV.com frequently block some or all of their video content.

MTV blocks it all, but on NBC, i was able to watch a trailer for the Heroes: Going Postal webisodes, a trailer for Knight Rider and a behind the scenes thing, but i couldn't watch the actual Heroes webisodes...
 
I have one of those "early" Christmas TV schedules from The Sun, and it does say that the Christmas special will be on Christmas Day at 7pm.:)

Fantastic! Me, the family, the boy Tennant and a big box of After Eights. It's what Christmas Day was made for! :angel:
 
Today's advent offering was a wonderful.....NOT AVAILABLE IN YOUR AREA.

*Sigh* Oh well, I guess I'll post a link of the video titled "A Day Off With Who" as soon as it turns up elsewhere. ;)

For those of you who are able to view it, how is it?
 
Today's treat is a game involving the tardis and a black hole.

Warning: The game goes on, and on, and on. In fact, I'm not sure there is an ending ~ unless you lose/lose interest and quit.

But it's a neat little time waster, and I appreciate that it's available to everyone. :techman:
 
Today's treat is a game involving the tardis and a black hole.

Warning: The game goes on, and on, and on. In fact, I'm not sure there is an ending ~ unless you lose/lose interest and quit.

But it's a neat little time waster, and I appreciate that it's available to everyone. :techman:

Yeah, it keeps going until you die.

Also, if you get a high enough score you get a special "Bonus", a new image from "The Next Doctor."

If you want to see the new image without playing the game, see below.

Day5.jpg
 
The 6th has brought us printout postcards with new images from the Christmas Special.

I don't think it's a spoiler that the cybermen play a role in this upcoming special. But I'll place this particular image in spoiler code:

cybermen2008.jpg
What's with the cyberleader's sunglasses? :p
 
The 6th has brought us printout postcards with new images from the Christmas Special.

I don't think it's a spoiler that the cybermen play a role in this upcoming special. But I'll place this particular image in spoiler code:

cybermen2008.jpg
What's with the cyberleader's sunglasses? :p
this is going to lead to

Cybermen doing Horatio Caine impressions?

just added one of the wallpapers as my wallpaper, I am glad the BBC do wide screen photos
 
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Today's gift is another game. This one (perhaps less directly related to DW) is far more enjoyable than the last. It's a steam-punk version of the ol' paddle and ball arcade game.

What's cool is that after each round you 'win' a wallpaper image from the Christmas special. The last round brings you a script excerpt. The whole thing takes about 5-7 minutes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/misc/advent08/december_08

:techman:
 
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