The BBC has announced that Sir Michael Gambon (of The Singing Detective and lately as the second Dumbledore) will be appearing in this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special. Word is it’ll be some play on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

The BBC have unveiled the new logo for the forthcoming Steven Moffat-led, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan’s legs-starring 2010 series of Doctor Who. Quick opinion: I think the type they’ve used looks nice. I think arranging it so it looks like the TARDIS is tacky, but not nearly as tacky as the lens flares. Nothing says “I just got a copy of Photoshop!” quite like lens flares.

Never have I felt more justified in my decision to f* off and be somewhere else when this series - the series I’ve followed since I was two years old - finally dies. This isn’t Doctor Who. It isn’t even sophisticated enough to qualify as fan-fic.

Lawrence Miles weighs in on “Planet of the Dead”. See, this is why I have been and will continue to hold my tongue over the new Star Trek movie. I would sound batshit insane and any rational person would ask the question: Why do you even care anymore? So the series has moved on and rightly or wrongly it no longer represents what it once did to you.

But eh, crazy is still fun to read.

Robert Mugabe is reported to own long-lost episodes of Doctor Who.

The President of Zimbabwe apparently possesses tapes of some early episodes of the science fiction series that could be thirty or forty years old, according to The Sun.

The Sun wouldn’t make something like this up would they?

Via a special episode of Doctor Who Confidential, the BBC will be announcing the Eleventh Doctor at 3:35PM GMT. The Cook’d & Bomb’d crowd is worried it could be a freak with a strangely-shaped head.

Captain Jack Harkness minus the subtlety.