Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True - Love & Monsters

After the events in Love and Monsters, Ursula left Elton for a pile of gravel.

An original thought by 10th Planet.

Doctor Who Program Guide Volumes 1 & 2 Download

FIXED - NOW CORRECT LINK :)

The Doctor Who Programme Guide was a two-volume set of books by Jean-Marc Lofficier, published by Target Books in 1981, covering the history of the Doctor Who series and spin-off productions, of course aired up to that date. The first volume, subtitled The Programmes, covered the serials of the first four Doctors. The second volume, subtitled What's What and Who's Who, was a mini-encyclopedia of characters and behind-the-scenes personnel on the series, again to 1981.

In this archive are both volumes as PDFs, grab it here. More about the books here.

If you need help, look here.

Manta World Music Version Of The Doctor Who Theme Video

Thanx Dan for the heads-up :)

Twitter Achieves 20 Billionth "Tweet"

No, it's not Who-related, but it's an interesting story. As the BBC earlier reported:

Twitter, the social networking site which lets users say something in up to 140 characters, has had its 20 billionth message posted. The landmark and rather opaque tweet was sent at 1544 GMT Saturday by GGGGGGo_Lets_Go. It said: "So that means the barrage might come back later all at once."

Twitter took four years to reach its 10 billionth tweet, in March this year, and less than five months to double it. . . . The Japanese send nearly 8m tweets a day, about 12% of the global total and second only to the US, according to the San Francisco-based micro-blogging service.

Don't forget to check out Steven Moffat's new Twitter, and you can always follow this blog on our successful Twitter account.

The Continuing Story of Neil Gaiman's Doctor Who Script — The "Empire" Strikes Back

Neil Gaiman (far right, next to the Moff) has recently posted again on his blog, and he has once more updated us on the progress of his Doctor Who script for Series 6, thought to be the third episode (remember that Moffat will be writing more).

As of 2:30 this morning I was certain I'd be blogging again today. I'd just sent off the finished draft of the Doctor Who script, and I was done.

Then I got up somewhat later this morning, and read an email from my script editor at the BBC a) giving me a thumbs up for all the new stuff [which I wrote for practical and budget reasons, but which will, I think, actually be much cooler than the stuff it replaced] and b) having formatted everything correctly according to BBC rules, letting me know that the script's actually a good ten pages too long.

So there will be another draft, over the next couple of days. By the end of it, all redundancies, slow bits, things that can be thrown overboard, or lines of dialogue that the author is particularly proud of will have gone, and it will be ten correctly formatted pages shorter.

And I will keep them in reserve in case they call to tell me that the episode's coming in short, and can I write three pages of sudden conversation?

Then, on the next post, the incredible author referenced his (at that time) upcoming trip to Australia.

If you are on a plane to Australia today and you hear the sound of weeping coming from a nearby seat, it will be me, fighting to lose ten pages from a pretty tight script. (I bet I will lose two or three pages easily. Then the pain will start.)

Don't forget to keep up with more of Neil Gaiman's humorous blog posts such as this one. But to answer his earlier question: it might be a bit awkward if the Doctors just suddenly bursts into conversation at the end of the episode. Though, of course, even if it's overtime, you can't just it off mid-sentence, right in the middle of

Doctor Who of the Day - The Shakespeare Code

The Shakespeare Code working titles was Theatre of Doom and Loves Labours Won.