this was probably nothing - just a journo filling some space.

apparently the upcoming announcement (which was about comedy finds) has now been put back till next Monday

November 1st: Today in WHO-story

Births
1898 - Philip Ray (Professor Daniel Eldred in The Seeds of Death)

1902 - Max Adrian (King Priam in The Myth Makers)

1922 - John Westbrook (Megron in the BBC Radio 4 story Exploration Earth)
1933 - Ralph Carrigan (Monoid in The Ark, Cheerleader in The Macra Terror, White Robot in The Mind Robber, Cyberman in The Invasion and an extra in The Myth Makers)
1934 - Philip Bond (Ganatus in The Daleks and Griffith in Big Finish Productions' Torchwood story Forgotten Lives; father of the Sarah Jane Adventures' Mrs Wormwood actress Samantha Bond)

1938 - Frances White (Cassandra in The Myth Makers)

1940 - Yvonne Antrobus (Dyoni in the movie Dr. Who and the Daleks)

Deaths
1989 - Peter Childs (Jack Ward in The Mark of the Rani) aged 50

1996 - David Dodimead (Doctor Barclay in The Tenth Planet) aged 77

2015 - Stephen Hancock (First Mate in the Big Finish audio Here There Be Monsters) aged 89

Episodes
1975 - Pyramids of Mars, Part Two: 11.3 million viewers
1980 - Full Circle, Part Two: 3.7 million viewers
1986 - The Trial of a Time Lord, Part Nine [Terror Of The Vervoids, Part One]: 5.2 million viewers
1989 - The Curse of Fenric, Part Two: 4.0 million viewers
2010 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Empty Planet, Part One (CBBC): 0.99 million viewers
2014 - Dark Water: 7.34 million viewers

Introductions
1986 - Bonnie Langford's first appearance as Melanie Bush

Releases
1979 - Issue 4 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

1990 - Issue 167 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1993 - Resurrection of the Daleks and The Two Doctors (VHS)
1999 - The Five Doctors: Special Edition (DVD - region 2)

2006 - Issue 16 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2007 - Invasion of the Bane, Revenge of the Slitheen, Eye of the Gorgon and Warriors of Kudlak (Penguin Character Books - The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations)
2010 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete Third Series (DVD and Blu-ray - region 2)

2012 - Sleepers in the Dust (AudioGO); issue 293 of Doctor Who Adventures (Immediate Media Co.)
2013 - The Time Machine (Big Finish and AudioGO)
2016 - Black Orchid (Obverse Books)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Rewrites to the interactive game Attack of the Graske were made
2010 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Ferril's Folly took place

2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Elixir of Doom took place

2013 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the Doctor Who novel The Romance of Crime took place
2017 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Helliax Rift took place

Pic of the Day # 646
 

River Song and the Doctor discover a Weeping Angel in the 2012 story The Angels Take Manhattan.

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November 2nd: Today in WHO-story

Births
1936 - Andrew Staines (Sergeant to Benik in The Enemy of the World, Goodge in Terror of the Autons, the Captain in Carnival of Monsters and Keaver in Planet of the Spiders; nephew to Doctor Who writer, producer & director Barry Letts)

1947 - Michael Gordon (Xeron in The Space Museum)

1952 - Michael Kerrigan (director of Battlefield and the Sarah Jane Adventures stories The Day of the Clown and Secrets of the Stars)

1964 - Loraine Velez (Spanish Maid in Turn Left)

1977 - John Pickard (Thomas Brewster [Fifth & Sixth Doctors' companion, Big Finish Productions])

Deaths
1983 - Michael Spice (Morbius voice in The Brain of Morbius and Magnus Greel in The Talons of Weng-Chiang) aged 52

1998 - Tommy Duggan (Senator Alcott in The Mind of Evil) aged 89

Episodes
1968 - The Invasion, Episode One: 7.3 million viewers
1987 - Delta and the Bannermen, Part One: 5.3 million viewers
1988 - The Happiness Patrol, Part One: 5.3 million viewers

Introductions
1968 - First appearance of John Levene as Benton

Releases
1992 - The Aztecs and Mawdryn Undead (VHS)

2017 - The Five Doctors (BBC Audio); 100 Illustrated Adventures (Penguin Character Books); Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 224 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
1982 - Launch of BBC Two's Five Faces of Doctor Who repeat season

2001 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Maltese Penguin took place

2009 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story The Macro Men (retitled The Macros) took place
2011 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Phantoms of the Deep took place

It's from The Mirror!

Doctor Who Christmas special scrapped after bosses 'run out' of ideas

"Doctor Who will not have a Christmas Day outing this year for the first time since the reboot in 2005.

Instead, 13th Time Lord Jodie Whittaker will have an hour-long special which runs at New Year – with a storyline that relates to the arrival of 2019.

The move comes after bosses claimed they had “run out” of Yuletide storylines following 13 years of making them."

why not a 90 minute special? then that way we can have a story that breathes and less mile-a-minute jokes!

Perhaps Jodie only wanted to do two years and it's a regeneration episode.

Pic of the Day # 647
 

Dodo Chaplet under the control of super computer WOTAN (back) in the 1966 story The War Machines.

November 3rd: Today in WHO-story

Births
1910 - Richard Hurndall (The First Doctor in The Five Doctors)

Episodes
1979 - The Creature from the Pit, Part Two: 10.8 million viewers
2008 - The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mark of the Beserker, Part One (CBBC): 1.43 million viewers

Releases
1986 - Revenge of the Cybermen (VHS - omnibus edition [re-release])
1994 - The Seventies (Virgin Books)

1997 - Ghost Devices (Virgin Books); The E-Space Trilogy (VHS box set)

2008 - The Complete Fourth Series (DVD box set - region 2)

2011 - Serpent Crest, Part Three ('Aladdin Time') (AudioGO); issue 242 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)

2016 - The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume Two (Big Finish Productions)

Behind-the-Scenes
2005 - Recording of the BBC Children in Need special took place; recording of Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith story Buried Secrets took place

2006 - Recording of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield story The Tub Full of Cats took place

2009 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story The Macro Men (retitled The Macros) took place

Pic of the Day # 648
 

The Adherents Of The Repeated Meme from 2005's The End of the World.