The Next Doctor Guide

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its twentieth door today, marking the date, the 20th December. Today's feature is the site's guide to the Christmas special, The Next Doctor. The guide has not been up at all until now, and with it comes many new wallpapers, a fear forecast, and all the trailers laid out to get to them easily. There are twelve wallpapers at the moment of the page, and all show many scenes of the special, including some promotional pictures. There are two trailers up at the moment, and the fear forecast you can read below;

• 0 min - This looks familiar. "Perhaps XXXXXX is behind the TARDIS," grins Adam.
• 1 min - The family cheer!
• 2 min - Harry: "Cool!" Samuel: "How?"
• 3 min - Amy's suddenly concerned.
• 4 min - Rosita springs into action. Harry demands an explanation.
• 5 min - Amy whispers to Dad, "Why doesn't he... ?"
• 6 min - Harry's delighted with a vision.
• 8 min - Amy clutches Dad's leg.
• 9 min - Mum harrumphs significantly. Samuel announces that he is a fish.
• 10 min - The kids have never seen the sonic screwdriver used like that before.
• 11 min - Watch and learn. The kids are agog.
• 13 min - The Doctor recalls the night he regenerated. "It makes sense now!" says Samuel gleefully.
• 14 min - A sudden appearance alarms Amy. Adam has his doubts.
• 16 min - Amy feels quite sorry for the Doctor.
• 17 min - The Lady in Red outrages Samuel.
• 18 min - Amy's eyes widen in apprehension. Harry groans in dismay.
• 20 min - Why is Dad talking about his nice cardigan?
• 23 min - The Doctor reveals his favourite personal technology for the very first time.
• 26 min - Samuel's initial reaction reveals something about last week.
• 27 min - Samuel is delighted to see a very familiar face.
• 29 min - Mum and Dad are horrified.
• 31 min - Amy feels musical.
• 34 min - What is the racy nightmare?
• 35 min - Samuel slaps his forehead. "Why did the Doctor do that?"
• 36 min - The kids cheer!
• 38 min - Samuel is impressed.
• 40 min - What makes Amy wriggle in her seat?
• 41 min - The kids debate royal nomenclature.
• 42 min - Samuel whoops. Harry grins.
• 43 min - Harry's advice to the XXXXXXXX is: "Run!" So why are they slowing down?
• 45 min - "He's called what?" asks Adam.
• 46 min - Gasps and cheers. The watching parents are misty-eyed.
• 47 min - The boys are hugely impressed.
• 49 min - "It's like XXXXXXXX!" says Samuel. "It's a scary XXXX with XXXXX-XXXXXX!" says Harry.
• 51 min - Samuel realises something about the Doctor... but which one?
• 53 min - "Wooaaahh!" gasp the kids.
• 55 min - "The cloister bell!"
• 56 min - "This is even better than last year!" decides Adam.
• 57 min - The Doctors have an appointment to keep.
• 60 min - "Very good show!" declares Harry, and the whole family agree.

You can view the guide here, or the fear forecast here!
You can see all days of the advent calendar on the main page here.

Jobsworth Judoon

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its ninteenth door today, marking the date, the 19th December. Today's feature is another fun game to play! The game is called Jobsworth Judoon. The main aim of the game is for the Doctor to use his Sonic Screwdriver to break the security codes made by the Judoon on the Tardis so that The Doctor can escape. It is a game of strategy, where you have to join a link up, and actually requires some skill, rather than just making the Doctor run around everwhere battling monsters. It is a good game, and has three settings; Easy, Medium and Hard, and each has three levels. You can play the new game here.

You can see all days of the advent calendar on the main page here.

Prom Preview

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its eighteenth door today, marking the date, the 18th December. Today's feature is an exclusive clip (or trailer), of the Doctor Who Prom. The whole program will be broadcast onto our screens on New Year's Day, on BBC One at the time of 1:50pm to 2:50pm. The event was part of the BBC Proms, and was held inside the Royal Albert Hall on 27th July this year, and was hosted by Freema Agyeman. The version we will see will be cut, with just the main highlights, to one hour long. On the red button after broadcast you can watch an extended edition which is fifteen minutes longer, while the whole thing shall be on the DVD release of The Next Doctor, out in January. This preview shows part of the piece 'All the Strange, Strange Creatures', and monsters such as the Cybermen, Judoon and the Sontarans walked around scaring everyone as the music was being played. The whole clip is aproximately one minute, thirty-four seconds long, but bear in mind that this is not the complete tune. They say it is a trailer, but it doesn't really look like one! Watch it here. If it is uploaded onto Youtube soon, I will put it on here as soon as possible.

You can see all days of the advent calendar on the main page here.

Comic Maker Returns!

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its seventeenth door today, marking the date, the 17th December. For today, Comic Maker, the fabulous online feature of the BBC Site is back! It was closed not so long ago for major updates, and to work and look its best, so now it works as it should, and is actually a lot better than it was. There are more character, backgrounds, things to do and you can actually now print the comic to keep, so check it out now!

You can see all days of the advent calendar on the main page here.

Murray's Unit

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its sixteenth door today, marking the date, the 16th December. Today's feature is an exclusive video of a piece of music, composed by Murray Gold. The music is another part of the Unit theme, but not the loud, militaristic tune. It is one of the cues for a scene in the Series 4 episode, The Sontaran Stratagem. The music is quite dark and pretty sinister, just right for Unit and gradually builds up to when we hear a variation on Donna's Theme. It a good addition to the advent calendar, which you should get some please out of, and you can hear it here!

You can see all days of the advent calendar on the main page here.

A New Trailer Tonight...

There have been rumours spreading very lately about a new trailer for the Christmas special, The Next Doctor, and that it will be broadcast for the first time on television today. Well, now it has been confirmed as true, but we have actually already seen the trailer! It was released a week ago yesterday, and you are able to view it on an earlier post. It is not a very different trailer, in fact, comparing it to the one that was released just after David Tennant announced that he was leaving, live on the Natinal Television Awards. Before this, it had been shown at the Comic Con event, held in America a long time before that. This is the official 'TV Trailer', and we now know that it will be airing on BBC One this evening, just before 8pm, as the advent calendar on the official BBC site is hinting it. So to catch it fully on television, either watch it at that time, or go back to the site and watch it at the same time.

Behind The Scenes of The Next Doctor

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its fourteenth door today, marking the date, the 14th December. Today's feature are new pictures from behind the scenes of the Christmas special, The Next Doctor. There are five images in total and all show what goes on behind the cameras of the episode. There isn't really much else to say, apart from you can view them all here, or below, and click to enlarge each one.

You can see all days of the advent calendar on the main page here.

Turn Yourself Into A Cybershade...

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its thirteenth door today, marking the date, the 13th December. Today's feature is how to make a Cybershade mask. The Cybershades are a new type of Cyberman, who will first appear this Christmas in The Next Doctor. You have to download three parts to the mask, and then use the step-by-step guide to make it, using pictures with the information on. And when you've made it, why not wear it on Christmas day? The instructions are on the site, but you can download all three parts of the mask here, here and here. To go to today's feature, where all the instructions lie, click here.

You can see all days of the advent calendar on the main page here.

How Well Do You Know The Cybermen?

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its twelfth door today, marking the date, the 12th December. Today's feature is a quiz on the Cybermen. There are a wide variety of questions, like matching different pictures with the right story, Classic Series and New Series. Each one has an image in the background, and there are an overall of ten questions for you to have a go at. You can test your knowledge on the metal creatures here. How did you do? Put your score in the comments!

You can see the advent calendar on the main page here.

Part 2 of Gallows Gate

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its eleventh door today, marking the date, the 11th December. Today's feature is the second part of the story called Number 1, Gallows Gate Road. The first part of the story was behind door four. It is written by Rupert Laight, and the illustrations for the story are by Brian Williamson. You can see this story here, or view a snippet of it below;

'Never mind all that,' said the Doctor, turning to address a full dining room. He'd summoned every member of the household to a meeting, Robert at his side. 'You're all in deadly danger. A force in this house is sucking away your potential, like a sponge absorbs water, and not one of you is capable of the teensiest hint of motivation or - '

'How dare you!' interrupted the Major. 'I could walk out that front door this very minute and achieve anything I put my mind to. We all could.'

'Go on then!' urged the Doctor.'

You can see the advent calendar on the main page here.

Festive Monster File

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its ninth door today, marking the date, the 9th of December. Today's feature is a new monster file for Christmas. Captain Jack (John Barrowman), who has narrated many other files for the site, which were put up after each episode of Series 4, does the same for this video. The file is mostly set in a festive room in a normal house, with a family and a fire, but they start to get strange presents, relating to past Christmas episodes, and Captain Jack and clips are shown on the television they have in the room. It's actually a great piece of drama, showing many useful facts, and at the end of it, we have a sneak preview of Christmas, but these clips are not really anything we haven't seen before. The video has not been added onto the video page, but you can see it here, from the link on the advent calendar.

You can see the advent calendar on the main page here.

Colliding Cosmically

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its eighth door today, marking the date, the 8th of December. Today's feature is a new exciting game. The game is called Cosmic Collider, and it is actaully an old game, made into a Doctor Who game. What you have to do is use a 'paddle' at the bottom, and use your arrow keys on your computer to move it. A ball goes up, and you move the paddle, so the ball bounces and hits the blocks at the top. You have to get all of them down to win, but you only have three lives on each one, and you lose one when a ball misses your paddle. Each time one block is hit, part of a promotional picture to the left appears. In the end, each round you win, you get one wallpaper for your computer. There are 5 in total, with the sixth one being a script extract. The first one has the other Doctor, the second, Miss hartigan, the third, and behind the scenes picture of both Doctors, the fourth, an up-close of a Cybershade and the fifth, the Doctor and Rosita. Below, you can view all these in the sizes shown;

• Desktop 1: Widescreen - 1024 x 768 - 800 x 600
  
• Desktop 2: Widescreen - 1024 x 768 - 800 x 600
• Desktop 3: Widescreen - 1024 x 768 - 800 x 600
• Desktop 4: Widescreen - 1024 x 768 - 800 x 600
• Desktop 5: Widescreen - 1024 x 768 - 800 x 600
• Script Extract: Widescreen - 1024 x 768 - 800 x 600
  

You can see the advent calendar on the main page here.

Our Advent Calendar

We were just wondering here at atts if anyone actually regularly views the merry christmas page. We've had a few competitions now, and there haven't been many people entering and stuff. Because if not many people go onto the page, there isn't much point in carrying on, even though there are some bigger features nearer Christmas. There will be quite a few more things you can take part in, and we really would like you to co-operate, otherwise the place just looks deserted. We really need your views and opinions, so please make a comment in this post if you have something to say. I will not put the seventh day up until I am satisfied that the page isn't just up there for no reason. Thank You!

4 Desktop Wallpapers

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its seventh door today, marking the date, the 7th of December. Today's feature is a bunch of desktop wallpapers, avaliable for you to use for your computer. There are four wallpapers in total, and all of them show new promotional pictures for The Next Doctor. These are the first wallpapers we have had from the BBC at the moment, but you can only get onto them via the advent calendar, and not the images section. There are three sizes you are able to use for them, so they can adjust to your size of screen on your computer. They are widescreen, 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600. The first picture shows an image we have previously seen on the main advent calendar, and it is the background image for it. It features both Doctors, Miss Hartigan, the Cyber Leader, in a Victorian landscape, with sbnow, mist and a Christmas Tree! The second shows the proper Doctor and Rosita in an image from the preview seen on Children In Need. The third is just a normal Cyberman, in a graveyard and the fourth shows Miss Hartigan in a room with the Cyber Leader. Below is a list, linked to each picture and size, so choose the right one!

• Desktop 1: Widescreen - 1024 x 768 - 800 x 600
• Desktop 2: Widescreen - 1024 x 768 - 800 x 600
• Desktop 3: Widescreen - 1024 x 768 - 800 x 600
• Desktop 4: Widescreen - 1024 x 768 - 800 x 600
  

You can see the advent calendar on the main page here.

BBC Advent Calendar Cards - Pictures

As previously reported, the Doctor Who BBC Site have their sixth day up, and behind the door are four Christmas cards, which you can print off. I thought these were actually really good promotional pictures, so now I have them here, on this site for you to see. To actually print off the cards to make into the cards, then find the links in the earlier post, you can see here. All cards have pictures from The Next Doctor, and should work well as early Christmas cards for anyone you want! Have a look below, and click to enlarge each one!

Cards for Christmas

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its sixth door today, marking the date, the 6th of December. Today's feature is a set of new Christmas Cards. You are able to print them off, cut them, stick them and all else, oh, and folding, and make fantastic cards to give to all your friends and family! All the cards show promotional pictures, not yet released as proper images, on the front covers of all cards. There are four of them in total. The first shows both Doctors, Miss Hartigan, the Cyber Leader and a normal Cyberman. The second has a picture of Miss Hartigan. The third, the original Doctor, and the fourth shows the Cyber Leader, with two ordinary Cybermen by his side. Here are the links to print them off: No.1 - No.2 - No.3 - No.4. Or if you want to visit the page on the site with all of them on, click here.

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The Tardis and a Black Hole

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its fifth door today, marking the date, the 5th of December. Today's feature is a brilliant new game, called Black Hole. You have to guide the Tardis away from a black hole, using asteroids and power ups to get further away from it. With great colours, and a lot of fun involved, it's a fantastic game which should keep you entertained for a short while! When you click on the fifth day on the calendar, you are greeted by a picture top promote the game, and a little message to tell you what it's about, which you can read below;

The TARDIS is out of control and being sucked into a black hole. Help the Doctor use the gravitational energy of asteroids and comets to stop the TARDIS falling into a parallel dimension!"

To visit this game, click here, and have fun!
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Number 1, Gallows Gate Road

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has opened its fourth door today, marking the date, the 4th December. Today's feature is a new story, called Number 1, Gallows Gate Road. It is part 1 of the story, and so we can presume that there will be at least one following part in the future. It is written by Rupert Laight, and the illustrations for the story are by Brian Williamson. You can see this story here, or view a snippet of it below;

The Doctor was standing in a small attic bedroom with a low, sloped ceiling and peeling, yellowed wallpaper. It was furnished simply with a narrow single bed and a chest of drawers, on top of which were his clothes, neatly folded.

He turned back to the dust-covered window and saw what had been making the tapping sound. The uppermost branches of a tall oak tree were scratching against the pane.

Got to find out what's going on, thought the Doctor, and he pulled on his clothes and flung open the bedroom door.

'Hello, Doctor,' said a voice on the brink of breaking. 'Did you sleep well?'

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David's Christmas Message

I remembered that I hadn't posted this before, so here it is. The first day of the BBC Site's advent calendar had a festive greeting from Mr. Tennant (aka. the Doctor). It was a good start to the calendar, and the video was quite... um... short! But, it's a nice thing to see, even if he only says five words! And it's in the Tardis, with some nice Deck the Halls music, so it's not too bad. Anyway, you can see this video below. Enjoy!

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A Day With David's Stunt Double

The BBC Doctor Who Advent Calendar has its third door open today, marking the date, the 3rd December. Today's feature is a video with the stunt double of David Tennant, Collum Sanson-Regan. He has had many parts in Doctor Who, usually scenes which are too dangerous for David, and when the producers/directors don't let him do it, and we normally just see the back of his head, or it would rather give the whole game away! He recently been Journey's End, as one of the two Doctors, but it all gets very confusing, because they can only view Collum from the side or back, and when we want David Tennant's face, they have to swap over suits, and it goes on in much more detail, so I'll stop now. The video has been uploaded onto Youtube, so we can all watch, right here;

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