Advent Calendar Day Five: Another Jigsaw!

I know they're not to everyone's taste, but some people I do believe like them a lot:

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Click to play. Let me know how you got on.

Here is a new cover for Radio Times, promoting the Doctor Who Christmas Special, A Christmas Carol. It depicts the Doctor, Kazran Sardick and Abigail riding on a sleigh pulled by...a flying shark?

The new Radio Times  is out on Thursday. Subscribers get it today.

The Sarah Jane Adventures Meets Primeval: The BBC is clearly cutting back

Today the first trailers from Lost in Time came in.

First thing I noticed?

Last year the BBc bought off ITV the rights to Primeval. This looks like they're borrowing their Anomaly effect for Saraah Jane!

It is a good effect. And it looks like a good story  too!

Fact of the Day: Peter Grimwade

(8th June 1942 - 15th May 1990)

Peter Grimwade was the director of the stories Full Circle, Logopolis, Kinda and Earthshock. He also wrote Time-Flight, Mawdryn Undead and Planet of Fire.

FACT: He both introduced and killed Adric, in his first and last episodes directed.
He wrote the following serial with an appearance from Adric, as a vision to persuade the TARDIS crew not to go any further. In reality, this was included in order to maintain the shock of the character's death by giving actor Matthew Waterhouse a billing in the Radio Times!

Peter Grimwade died in 1990 of Leukemia.

Thanks to TARDIS Wiki for the date feature that I found events on. This was written entirely by me.

Radio Times Invents More Stories For The Sun To Spin Into Rumours

This time, Eccleston has actually said it. It's interesting he's being honest yet not having the issue at hand I decided to use The Sun's article:

Former Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston says he quit the BBC1 show because he couldn't stand the way the cast and crew were treated.



Eccleston, 46, became the Time Lord when the show was revived in 2004 - but left after one series. At the time, the BBC said he left because he was "tired" and didn't want to be typecast.


But they had to apologise after he said that was not true. He told Radio Times: "They handled it very badly but issued an apology."


Eccleston said of playing the Doctor: "I didn't enjoy the environment and the culture that we, the cast and crew, had to work in. I wasn't comfortable. I thought: 'If I stay in this job, I'm going to have to blind myself to certain things that I thought were wrong.' I think it's more important to be your own man than be successful."


Eccleston, who stars as John Lennon in new BBC4 drama Naked Lennon [sic] next week, was replaced as Doctor Who by David Tennant.