Published on the 10th PLANET website and obtained at a recent media conference, BBC WORLDWIDE has released the first OFFICIAL photographs from the new series (still expected to air in the UK for late March 2005).

All too 'London', middle-class, white and with little attention to detail.

Risk-averse BBC again.

Oh, the second part of DWM THE COMPLETE FOURTH DOCTOR is on the shelves. Now, he was an incarnation!

Ahead of the official announcement of the New Series launch date/time, the new 21st century DOCTOR WHO logogram has been revealed on the official WHO website.

About the size of RIZLA packet, the lozenge-shaped design is...well, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Five people have worked on it, with the initial contribution of Russell T Davies scribbled on the said cigarette papers packet, for several months. And this is it.

RTD has got it wrong.

In 1996, DOCTOR WHO branding adopted the Pertwee-style logo to solid effect, consolidating the heritage and awareness of the series across print, on-line and audio-visual material. A strong logo design that works at varying sizes from 1cm to 1M in size. It's not gimmicky, subject to 'design-fashion' or the whims of graphic designers.

This new design has the naive overtones of the McCoy season's logo, which lacked style and substance.

If necessary, the branding for the New Series should have adopted the Pertwee style logo, changing the colour to orange.

If nothing else, at least the new design has used the EOH colour scheming of reds, orange and black. Thanks.

• HORROR OF FANG ROCK
• THE MIND ROBBER
• THE CLAWS OF AXOS

EOH expect a number of the following to be released (provisionally);

• SURVIVAL
• THE WEB PLANET
• MARK OF THE RANI or ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN
• CASTROVALA

Genius. Pure genius.

BIG FINISH's Nicholas Briggs has 'let-slip' that the company is planning a mini-series (in the same vein as GALLIFREY and UNIT) featuring the Cybermen. This follows several stunning DOCTOR WHO releases like SPARE PARTS.

More details? Featuring the Doctor? The Cyber Controller? Check back soon.

In the same vein as EASTENDERS REVEALED which goes behind the scenes look at the BBC soap-drama, the new series of DOCTOR WHO will have the same.

DOCTOR WHO CONFIDENTIAL (DWC) ('...CONFIDENTIAL'? Sounds like something that THE X-FILES would have attributed to their series. A series lead by a man and woman, on equal terms, exploring spacial and time phenomena. Sounds familiar at the moment?) will be broadcast on the BBC free-to-air digital channel, BBC3, directly after DOCTOR WHO is shown on BBC1.

This is a behind the scenes review of DOCTOR WHO which will be 'themed' each week and could include an 'original' series element to it. 30 minutes of DVD Extra-like footage, interviews and gaffs.

In September 2003, EOH was leaked information about DOCTOR WHO being repeated midweek on BBC3. We hope that this is still true but DWC is a fantastic second-best.

MANCHESTER ONLINE has a revealing interview with Russell T Davies, in which... read it for yourself.