The first two parts of the new animation are now available online and a new part will be available from 4pm everyday via the official Doctor Who website or on the BBC Red Button up until next Thursday when it finishes. The animation will be shown in full on Saturday the 5th of December at 10am on BBC 2, and at 5.55pm on BBC HD, and it will be released on DVD on the 2nd of February next year. You can watch part 1 and 2 of the animation below.

Earlier tonight the preview from The End of Time part one was shown during the Children in Need telethon. The clip shows the Doctor visiting the Ood Sphere, meeting Ood Sigma, and the other Ood. The preview is below.

David Tennant also left a message during the show asking for people to donate, and there is also a new trailer for Doctor Who Dreamland, which starts online tomorrow on the official website and on the BBC 1 Red Button.

Don’t forget that the third series of The Sarah Jane Adventures concludes today with part two of The Gift at 4.35pm on BBC 1/HD. The Children in Need telethon is also on tonight on BBC 1, and at some point between 8 & 8.30pm a three minute preview of The End of Time part one will be shown.

Earlier today the first part of The Gift aired on BBC1/HD, and if you are within the UK you can watch it on the BBC iPlayer here. A new trailer for part two of the story was shown after, and it can be viewed in high-def below.

The series concludes tomorrow afternoon at 4.35pm on BBC 1/HD.

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Monsters from Mars

This week’s Doctor Who Adventures magazine is all about The Waters of Mars. We investigate the planet Mars and find out if it is a place you should visit or avoid. If you were to visit Mars with the Doctor what would you take? Find out with Doctor Who Adventures’ essential checklist.

Meet the brave woman who helps the Doctor – Adelaide Brooke. Discover who she is and how she ended up at Bowie Base.
This week’s Top 10 is all about watery moments. Water bombs, raining in reverse and sea monsters; who will come top in this slippery countdown?
All this plus…

· Find out how well you know The Waters of Mars in this week’s quiz

· A Doctor Who note book and pencil

· Claim a free Dalek rucksack

· Part 1 of life-size Doctor Who poster

· Loads of cool goodies to win!

· Subscription offer – subscribe today and get two free DVDs

Issue 142 of Doctor Who Adventures magazine is out Thursday 19 November, price £2.99!

The final story of third series of The Sarah Jane Adventures begins today with part one of The Gift. In this story the Slitheen return, and we meet their cousins, the orange Blathereen. The synopsis for The Gift part one is below.

Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Rani face an old enemy, the green Slitheen, in the penultimate episode of this series of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

When the Slitheen’s latest scheme is halted, their rivals, the Blathereen, arrive. Declaring peace between the planets, they offer Sarah Jane a gift – one that might change the future of the human race forever.

The Gift part one airs from 4.35-5pm on BBC One and on BBC HD, and will continue with part two of the episode tomorrow at the same time. Come back after the episode for the next time trailer for part two of the story.

  

The draft covers for a new Doctor Who boxset featuring all of the 2009 specials including; The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars, The End of Time, and the final special, have appeared online and can be seen above. The set will be released on the 11th of January next year at the RRP of £39.99 on DVD, and £49.99 on Blu-ray, or at a reduced price from Play.com.

The 23rd issue of the The Doctor Who DVD Files was released in all good newsagents across the UK and Ireland today. This issue of the magazine comes with your next DVD which includes the series three episodes "Planet of the Ood" and "The Sontaran Stratagem". Inside the issue you can read about the Cyber Leader, the Sontaran Battle Pods, UNIT, the Ood, and much more. The issue also goes behind the scenes on the episode scripts and also includes two new episode guides for the episodes which came on the DVD. This issue is on sale now at the RRP of £6.99 and issue 24 will be released in two weeks time, on December 2nd, and it will come with your next DVD with the series 3 episodes "The Poison Sky", and “The Doctor’s Daughter".

Last night after The Waters of Mars finished, the first trailer for the next special, The End of Time, was shown. You can watch the trailer in HD below, it shows new clips of the Master, Donna Noble, Wilf, Lucy Saxon and more.

Some screenshots from the trailer are below, thanks to The Doctor Who Site.

In other news The Waters of Mars got overnight ratings of 9.1 million viewers, and the front cover for an updated version of the book The Writer’s Tale, called The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter has been released online. It is written by Russell T Davies & Ben Cook, out the 7th of Jan, priced £16.99.

The long awaited Doctor Who special episode, The Waters of Mars, gets it first broadcast on television tonight! The special stars David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan and see’s the Doctor going to Mars, and it will be followed by a trailer for The End of Time, the final specials that see the regeneration of the 10th Doctor. Don’t miss the episode, tonight at 7pm on BBC One/HD.