A bunch of Doctor Who Linx <cough> for you, most of which contain minor spoilers. It is now D-16 days and possibly time to revive the 24 countdown clock.

From The Times:
New Doctor Who confesses: I never used to watch it
Our space opera
A review of Rose

From The Media Grauniad (registration required):
Media Monkey’s Diary
Carry on Doctor

A story from BBC Breakfast, including video report from the launch in Cardiff. This includes the editor of Doctor Who Magazine‘s verdict: “If the kids don’t like that, the kids don’t deserve to have any television shown to them ever again.”

And, saving the best for last, from The Sun:
Who’s Who of monsters (picture spoilers)

Meanwhile, Nick points to a chance to hear the new theme.

As it was the 41st anniversary of Doctor Who yesterday, we watched the first episode of The Talons of Weng-Chiang on DVD. Top stuff.

Before that, though, was BBC2’s excellent new comedy (previously shown on BBC3), The Smoking Room. The BBC have announced that a Christmas special will be on at, er, Christmas, which is most welcome. And Robert Webb off of The Smoking Room appears with his comedy partner David Mitchell in the second series of Peep Show, Channel 4’s best current comedy series. I picked up the first series at Virgin at Gatwick Airport and it’s now on the DVD shelves having been devoured in the space of two days.

Sheffield MP Meg Munn suggests a new political party that is now, happily, redundant.

In all elections in the United Kingdom, the names of candidates are currently listed on the ballot paper in alphabetical order using the surname. When the election concerns parties, such as in the European elections, they are also listed alphabetically. Consequently, someone with the surname “Blair” would find themselves listed above someone with the surname “Howard”, or, indeed, Kennedy. The Ant Liberation party, should such a party exist, would appear above the Bring-Back-Doctor-Who party or the Flat Earth party.

(Source: Hansard)

Despite a shaky start, a less than polished performance and the denigration of Sylvester McCoy’s Doctor, British Television Explained was pretty funny. My battery’s running low so I won’t go into detail but, along with some of my own gags from the past I was amused to see in a show, there were some good bits about regional TV, swearing and the IRA. Off now to see Stewart Lee.