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29 November :: Christmas is coming...

I haven't written for a while but today seems a good opportunity what with the announcement of the Christmas double issue of the Radio Times.

You might have noticed the news elsewhere here and/or seen some of the images that are now propagating on the web - the best of which in our opinion currently is to be seen on the excellent UNIT News site.

I love the cover, although a very kind person over on the Outpost Gallifrey forum was good enough to suggest that our image of the TARDIS with the lamppost would have been better. It's very flattering to get that kind of comment and I'm pleased people like it, some of you (members of our mailing list and friends of the site) might even be seeing a far larger 'exclusive' version as a little festive pressie so look out for that.

As has been noted elsewhere this is one of the rare occasions that a single programme has featured on the Radio Times Christmas edition cover and we should be justifiably proud of that fact. It reflects the amazing success of the programme since it's rebirth earlier this year and I suspect none of us 'old' fans would or could have predicted the level of that success or the esteem in which the programme is now so obviously held in by the BBC.

It's a very different climate to the one we endured from the mid to late 80s and thereafter and all the more amazing for those of us who remember that period.

Having seen an all too brief glimpse of David Tennant in the Children in Need special earlier this month (did you enjoy it? We did!) we have the Christmas Special to look forward to and then, some three months later, the second series. As if all this weren't enough we have a guaranteed Christmas special in 2006 and a third series in 2007. It's becoming a somewhat hackneyed phrase but we truly have never had it so good.

Enjoy it!

P.S. Don't forget the Christmas Radio Times is on sale from the 6th of December.

Published @ 2:51 PM (UK local time)

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