The 61st issue of Doctor Who Battles in Time was released today in all good newsagents across the UK and Ireland at the price of £2.50. This issue comes with a usual packet of Devastator cards. Inside the issue you can read about the Cybershades. Also inside the magazine;

Character Options, the company known to Doctor Who fans for their huge range of merchandise for the show have now renewed their contract with the BBC and so they will continue to make Doctor Who merchandise throughout 2009 and 2010. The company are planning to release 11th Doctor merchandise in the Summer of 2010 with new packaging.

BBC Magazines has now kindly sent the Tardis Base the cover and details for Doctor Who Adventures issue 96 which was released on Friday. The cover can be seen to the left and below is the press release;

New year, new Time Lord, and new issue of Doctor Who Adventures!

In the latest issue of Doctor Who Adventures, out now, you can find out loads of essential information about the Doctor’s latest adventure – The Next Doctor – and about the man who we all thought was a future version of the Time Lord.

And if, like us, you love the scary Cybershades you’ll be desperate to get your hands on the cut-out mask.

Also, in this issue’s comic strip, the Doctor is joined on his travels by a new friend, Heather McCrimmon.

Heather is the result of a Doctor Who Adventures competition to create someone to travel with the Doctor… and you can read her first adventure here!

The issue comes with a FREE Time Agent Planner – perfect for drawings, addresses, storing monster facts… and most importantly, being in the right place at the right time!

PLUS:

o Posters: Miss Hartigan and her Cyber friends, the Other Doctor and Cybermen posters
o Tales from the TARDIS: Rose destroys the Daleks!
o How to draw: A creepy Cybershade!
o Doctor’s data: The horrible Miss Hartigan
o Comps: Win loads of goodies!
o Subscription offer: Subscribe today and get a Sarah Jane Adventures CD!
o ALL THIS AND MORE!

Doctor Who Adventures issue 96, priced £2.10, is out now. Don’t miss it!

This issue of Doctor Who Adventures is on sale across the UK and Ireland. Issue 97 will be released on Thursday, and the issue will come free with Sticker Pack and will have facts about the Void.

After the special episode of Doctor Who Confidential ended and after the new Doctor was revealed, the official Doctor Who website uploaded an extended version of the interview with Matt Smith from Doctor Who Confidential. You can watch the interview below;

Matt Smith! At the young age of 26, Matt is officially going to play the Doctor. The actor will make his first appearance as the 11th Doctor in the fifth series of the show, due to air in Spring 2010. He was cast during Christmas and will begin filming for the fifth series in the summer. Matt said: "I've got this wonderful journey in front of me where I've got this six months to build this Time Lord - and that's such an exciting prospect." Piers Wenger, the head of drama at BBC Wales said that as soon as he had seen Matt's audition he had "knew he was the one". "It was abundantly clear that he had that 'Doctor-ness' about him," he said. "You are either the Doctor or you are not." Matt Smith's television debut was in the 2006 adaptation of The Ruby in the Smoke, which also starred Billie Piper. He has acted opposite Billie Piper in the follow-up, The Shadow in the North and in ITV2's Secret Diary of a Call Girl. In 2007 the actor had a leading role in BBC Two's political drama Party Animals. Matt Smith's previous stage work has included appearances with theatre companies such as the Royal Court and National Theatre. Matt Smith was born in Northampton in 1982 and has studied drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Click here to see the BBC's press release.

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In a special episode of Doctor Who Confidential that will get its debut on BBC One today, the name of the actor to play the eleventh Doctor will be revealed. The episode of Confidential will take a look at the past 10 Doctor's, and it will feature an interview with the actor who is replacing David Tennant. You can view a trailer for the programme below;

Make sure you tune in at 5.35pm on BBC One today to watch the episode of Confidential, entitled The Eleventh Doctor. The programme was previously named The Ten Doctor's but now has been changed, but maybe the BBC had planned to do that the whole time. Make sure you come back to the Tardis Base shortly after the programme finishes for some coverage. Who do you think the eleventh Doctor will be?

After the success of the Torchwood audio drama Lost Souls, the BBC have now commissioned three new audio drama's that will broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. Amazon has the three drama's listed for release on CD for the 4th of June, each at the RRP of £9.99. An extract from Torchwood magazine issue 13 regarding these audio's can be seen below;

Just a reminder that Doctor Who at the Proms, the event that took place earlier this year at the Royal Albert Hall in London will be shown on television for the first time today, at 1.50pm on BBC One. The programme will run for one hour and it will show the highlights from the event which is presented by Freema Agyeman and it also features a special mini episode of Doctor Who, Music of the Spheres, which stars the Doctor and the Graske. An uncut version of the proms will be available on the BBC’s Red Button service from January 11th, and on the official Doctor Who website the next day. After Doctor Who at the Proms is over, BBC One will show a repeat of The Next Doctor at 2.50pm.

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