The Big Doctor Who Christmas Schedule Thread

[Milky Tears]

A thread shamelessly stolen from another Doctor Who forum with loads of bits added. I think Pip also did something similar last year. Or maybe I dreamt it!?

There's loads of new Doctor Who and Whoey-related stuff on this Christmas...


Monday 18 December
5pm, Channel 4 - Catherine Tate on the The New Paul O' Grady Show
BBCi/News 24 - The Runaway Bride/Press Screening feature

Tuesday 19th December
Press Screening feature/David Tennant on Breakfast
5:25pm, CBBC1 - Possible Press Screening feature on Newsround
10:30pm, BBC Three - Torchwood: Out of Time repeat 10/13

Wednesday 20th December
1:50am, BBC Three - Torchwood: Out of Time repeat 10/13
9:00pm, BBC2 - Torchwood: Out of Time repeat 10/13

Thursday 21st December
7.30am, Virgin Radio - David Tennant plays Buttons in Cinderella panto.

Friday 22nd December
9:00pm, BBC Three - Torchwood: Out of Time repeat 10/13
9:50pm, BBC Three - Torchwood Declassified: Time Flies repeat

Saturday 23rd December
1:55am, BBC Three - Torchwood: Out of Time repeat 10/13

Christmas Eve
The Sunday Times is publishing a new Doctor Who short story written by Paul Cornell
1:30pm-2:00pm, BBC Radio Wales - Doctor Who Back In Time
4:30pm, BBC Radio Wales - The Doctor Who Concert
6:00pm or Midnight BBC Radio 7 - 'The Chimes Of Midnight' pt 3 and 4 (repeat)
7:25pm, SCI FI - Doctor Who and the Daleks, Worship Peter Cushing!!
9:30pm, BBC Three - Torchwood: Combat 11/13

Christmas Day
3:10am, BBC Three - Torchwood: Combat repeat11/13
4:00am, BBC Three - Torchwood Declassified: Weevil Fight Club
1:00pm, BBC1 - Doctor Who Confidential: Music and Monsters
1:50pm-7pm - BBCi on BBC1 red button thingy including The Doctor Who Concert with The BBC National Orchestra of Wales
4pm-7pm, BBC Radio 1 - Jo Whiley Meets Dr Who
7:00pm, BBC1 - The Runaway Bride
8:50pm-4:00am (1:45am on Freeview) - BBCi on BBC1 red button thingy including The Doctor Who Concert with The BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Boxing Day
7:00pm, BBC2 Wales (Sky Digital 991) - On Show featuring the design work of the Cardiff based Doctor Who Art Department.
10:30pm, BBC Three - Torchwood: Combat repeat 11/13

Wednesday 27th December, 1:50am, BBC Three - Torchwood: Combat repeat 11/13
8:00pm, BBC Three - The Runaway Bride repeat
8:30pm, BBC1 - The Ruby In the Smoke, with Dame Billie Piper and The Mighty Don Gilet
8:50pm-4:00am (1:45am on Freeview) - BBCi on BBC1 red button thingy including The Doctor Who Concert
10:00pm, BBC2 - Torchwood: Combat repeat 11/13

Thursday 28th December
9:00pm, BBC1 - Dracula, with Marc Warren and Sophia Myles
9:00pm, ITV1 - Perfect Parents, with Christopher Eccleston and Susannah Harker (NOT SCOTLAND)

Friday 29th December
9:00pm, BBC Three - Torchwood: Combat repeat 11/13

Saturday 30th December
1:30am, BBC Three - Torchwood repeat
2:25-3:25am, BBC1 - Sign Zone repeat of The Runaway Bride
9:45pm, BBC Three - Torchwood: Out Of Time repeat 10/13
10:35pm, BBC Three - Torchwood: Combat repeat 11/13

New Year's Eve
00:55am, BBC Three - Torchwood repeat
01:45am, BBC Three - Torchwood repeat
6pm or Midnight, BBC Radio 7 -Doctor Who: Blood of the Daleks, new radio epic with Small McGann
10:20-10:50pm, BBC2 - Dead Ringers Christmas Special Repeat of last year, with Who sketch


2007

New Year's Day
4:50pm, BBC1 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion Of The Bane
6:20pm, BBC1 - The Wind In The Willows, with Mark Gatiss and Anna Maxwell Martin
9:30pm, BBC3 - Torchwood Finale: Captain Jack Harkness/End of Days

Tuesday 2nd January
1.05am, BBC Three - Torchwood Finale Repeat
2:40am, BBC Three - Torchwood Declassified 12/13
7:00pm, BBC Three - The Runaway Bride Repeat
7:50pm-4:00am (not Freeview) - BBCi on BBC Three red button thingy including The Doctor Who Concert with The BBC National Orchestra of Wales
10:30pm, BBC Three - Torchwood Finale repeat

Wednesday 3rd January
1:35am, BBC Three - Torchwood Finale repeat
9:00pm, BBC2 - Torchwood Finale repeat

Thursday 4th January
9:00pm, BBC Three - Torchwood: Captain Jack Harkness rpt 12/13 followed by Torchwood Declassified repeat

Friday 5th January
1:00am, BBC Three - Torchwood repeat
9:00pm, BBC Three - Torchwood: End Of Days repeat 13/13 followed by Torchwood Declassified repeat
11:05pm, Channel 4 - The Friday Night Project, presented by David Tennant

Saturday 6th January
00:30am, BBC Three - Torchwood repeat

It should also be worth checking out GMTV, Newsround and Blue Peter over the next week.

[SiHart]

That's nice and comprehensive. Thanks James!

Just caught Catherine Tate on BBC Breakfast!

Si xx

[Wayne]

James' most impressive post ever.

[Milky Tears]

I managed to miss the Breakfast stuff as I thought it would be on after 8:30am. Guessed it would be a press screening pre-record, but Tennant's website made it sound like it was a sofa interview.

James' most impressive post ever.

About 50% was a cut and paste job.

[Rob McCow]

Yay! Great list... if only DWA and DWM were as comprehensive

Are you going to bother watching any of that, James?

[Wayne]

He'll watch it all.

He is 'The Man Who Fell To Earth'.

[Rob McCow]

He is 'The Man Who Fell To Earth'.

So do women pee themselves when he takes his contact lenses off then?

[Wayne]

So do women pee themselves when he takes his contact lenses off then?

I'd better let the Milky One answer that!

[Milky Tears]

The Milky One can't come up with an answer that isn't piss-poor predictable.

Some good stuff on Breakfast and from Lizo on today's Newsround. I've posted a link in The Runaway Bride (spoilers) thread.

Shame I only got 8/10 on Newsround's Review of the Year Quiz (BBCi/Freeview Channel 302), though. I want to be a Roving Reporter and meet Ellie/Laura/Sonali/Lizzie/Lizo/Adam/Gavin.

Should've been 9/10, but my fat fingers ruined it.

[Jonno]

It's not comprehensive enough, Milky - what about the terrestrial viewers watching Torchwood on BBC2? Eh? And what about the elephants?

[Milky Tears]

Some more Doctor Who: A Celebration/Red Button Cardiff Concert info before I bugger off to the pub. There's also some stuff on the excellent PS News Page (Ant's paying me 1 per mention ) and this from the BBC site:

How to watch the Children in Need concert.

You can watch the full "Doctor Who - A Celebration" concert on interactive television over the Christmas period. The concert took place at the Welsh Millennium Centre in aid of Children in Need, hosted by David Tennant.

Red Button Broadcasts

Christmas Day: after Doctor Who Confidential, on BBCi by pressing red on BBC One between 1.50 and 7pm.

Christmas Day: after Doctor Who Christmas Special 'The Runaway Bride', on BBCi by pressing red on BBC One between 7.50pm and 4am (ends 1.45am on DTT)

Wednesday 27 December: on BBCi by pressing red on BBC Three, 8.50pm-4am (ends 1.45am on DTT)

Tuesday 2 January: on BBCi by pressing red on BBC Three, 7.50pm-4am (not on DTT)

Wednesday 3 January: on BBCi by pressing red on BBC Three, 7.50pm-4am (not DTT)

During the programme viewers can press the blue key on their remote control to access the concert running order.

Additional info posted by omegaRoger6 on OG:

Hi - the video stream will last 90 minutes and will be broadcast "as live", so I assume this will be 45 minutes of concert, then a jump (during the interval) straight to the second 45 minutes. In addition to the times given in the first post, this stream will also be available by pressing the red button on BBC One on Christmas Day at any time between 09.15 and 13.00. This means there will be three slots tomorrow, not just two.

You can click the blue button at any time during the stream to tell you how far into the concert you currently are. This will be useful when you first enter as you might find it's already started when you join, so you may want to wait until it loops round again.

If you have any problems or queries, you can call the BBC Information call centre (24 hours a day) on 0870 901 6789.

All the best!

[buglass]

A thread shamelessly stolen from another Doctor Who forum with loads of bits added.

Yes. And, pray tell, which particular forum did you appropiate said thread information from? Hmm?

[Pip Madeley]

Does it particularly matter? It's hardly exclusive information.

[buglass]

You say that like I'm being serious.

[Pip Madeley]

We've got lots of emoticons - they're very useful to get across your tone of post

[buglass]

I am well-versed in the art of smiley usage.

And emoticons also.

*#:-)


Scottish.

[Milky Tears]

Yes. And, pray tell, which particular forum did you appropiate said thread information from? Hmm?

About 30% from a thread on OG (it was a bit sketchy with loads of stuff missing... especially the multichannel and repeat info. ), 20% from BBC listings, 20% from BBC Press Office site, 20% from Radio Times.com and 10% I made up.

[Pip Madeley]

10% I made up

Aha! Damn you Lindsay, I thought that "New Year's Day 4:50pm, BBC1 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion Of The Bane" was a bit of a fairy story.

[buglass]

About 30% from a thread on OG (it was a bit sketchy with loads of stuff missing... especially the multichannel and repeat info. ), 20% from BBC listings, 20% from BBC Press Office site, 20% from Radio Times.com and 10% I made up.

You should've come over to the forum I moderate on. There was a big Chrimbo schedule thread there you could have nicked.