The Great Detective and The Snowmen

Chrildren in Need was on the other night and that means either a minepisode or the trailer for the Chistmas special. This year it's both.

So first, the miniepisode The Great Detective

And the trailer for The Snowmen

Roll on Boxing Day!

The Complete Sixth Series

Things to love about the complete sixth series.

• The Doctor's Wife. Easily the most beautiful and astounding episode since... ever?
• Let's Kill Hitler. The most mental episodes
• Matt Smith
• Amy. As ever
• The opening episodes where the Doctor actually dies. As you spend the rest of the series thinking, how the hell are they going to get out of that???
• The revelation of who River Song is. I didn't see it coming and it nearly had me falling off my chair in shock.
• Closing Time. And the moment where you think are they really going to turn Craig into a Cyberman?
• Rita in The God Complex. Another to add to the list of companions who, sadly, never were.
• The loving tribute to The Brigadier in The Wedding of River Song
• Rory coming into his own.
• Alex Kingston. Need I say more?
• The Night and the Doctor mini-episodes
• Knowing it's sadly the last we'll see of Doctor Who Confidential (damn BBC cutbacks!)

And many more.

Behind the Sofa

Doctor Who is a show that's touched the lives of many. One of whom is the editor of this volume Steve Berry. And he's used his love of the show to raise money for a very worthy cause - the proceeds of this book go towards the work of Alzheimer's Research U.K.

A whole range of celebrities speak of how Doctor Who has effected their lives. This includes many familiar names such as Richard Briers, Bill Oddie, Katy Manning, John Challis, Shaun Digwell, Nicola Bryant, Stephen Merchant, Sophie Aldred, Neil Gaiman, Al Murray, Jon Culshaw, Janet Fielding, Lynda Bellingham, Terrance Dicks, Frances Barber, Julian Glover, Anneke Wills, Hugh Bonneville and (of all people) Michael Grade.

It's a wonderful and, a times, touching read. Recommended.