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Two new CDs released this month.

Melanie Bush States The Obvious

Available now for the first time on CD. All your favourite moments from Doctor Who when companion Melanie Bush explains things which are already clearly visible on screen to even the most inattentive viewer.

This CD contains some material previous released on the albums The Division Mel and Screams In The Key Of Life.

Track Listing:
1. A Mayday Call, We Have To Respond!
2. No One Sends A Mayday Call Unless It's A Matter Of Life And Death!
3. The Quickest Way Out Of This Is To Solve The Mystery!
4. Looks Like Someone's Been In A Fight For Their Life!
5. Never Mind The Just-So Stories. That Guard Looks Trigger Happy To Me!
6. I'm As Truthful, Honest, And About As Boring As They Come!
7. How Utterly Evil!
8. Something's Going Wrong! I Can Sense It!
9. Destroy Us And You Destroy Yourself!
10. I've Had Enough Of This Drivel!

Also included as bonus tracks, the duet with Commodore Travers

Since You've Put In Appearance, First A Passenger, Now My Communications Officer, And A Guard Have All Gone Missing. Two If Not All Three Murdered But... You Can't Tell Me What's Happening Can You? (I Can. You've Got A Killer On Board!)

Plus, Commodore Travers' solo single

Whoever's Been Dumped In There Has Been Pulverised Into Fragments And Sent Floating Into Space. And In My Book That's Murder!

Re-released This Month

The Dominators Help
Studio album by The Dominators
Released 6 August 1965
Genre Pop Rock
Label Maagaphone
Producer George Martian

Merchandising News Update

Doctor Who Computer Game Exclusive

A Doctor Who computer game is under development and it will feature new Doctor Who Matt Smith.

The game Doctor Who Goes Skiing has been licenced from an existing property, and the savings this has produced, in both costs and development time, mean it should be released around Easter to coincide with the start of the new series.

To provide the Next Generation graphics and content that current gamers expect the graphics from the original property have been modified and there will be an exclusive cut-scene in which new Doctor Who Matt Smith knocks himself out on the TARDIS console and dreams about a time he went skiing.



Doctor Who Goes Skiing will be available on the Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3. No details have emerged yet about pricing.



In Other News
Pop group Village People reveal new line-up.

Merchandising News

Animal Magnetism has announced it is discontinuing its range of Doctor Who costumes.
Two costumes were issued for the first wave of releases Sisters of Plenitude: My Kitten Dress-Up Kit (from the episodes New Earth and Gridlock) which came with a whimple, thermometer and guide to training your kitten to take your temperature, pictured left, and Tritovore: My Fly Dress-Up Kit (Planet Of The Dead), pictured below actual size.
Sales of both costumes were lower than hoped but the final decision to cancel the range came after the company's headquarters was badly damaged while testing the next release Judoon: My Rhinoceros Dress-Up Kit (Smith and Jones, The Stolen Earth, and Sarah Jane Adventures: Prisoner Of The Judoon); several employees were also gored.

News Update

Back in April this year Shouting Into A Well asked if the Doctor was correct when he claimed that,” water always wins.” Results at the time gave water an actual victory rate of 81.81818% . With the broadcast of The Waters of Mars those results can now be reassessed.

Water does not score a clear victory in The Waters of Mars. It is undoubtedly on the way to winning when play is interrupted by Captain Adelaide Brooke's detonation of Bowie Base One. In the event the judging panel decided that this result was a draw bringing water's final victory rate down to 75%. With nine wins, two defeats and a draw water now goes on to meet Blackburn in the semi-final.

Merchandising Update

With the new year approaching Shouting Into A Well takes a look at the latest batch of calendars due to hit the shops soon.

The 365 Sontarans A Year Wall Calandar: A daily calendar featuring 365 individual pictures of a race of clones who all wear the same type of battle armour.
Rating: Monotonous.

Naked Cybermen: Cybus Industries' latest doomed attempt to convince the public to have their brains scooped out of their heads and placed in metal shells. A series of pictures of Cybermen in various states of undress which, according to the press release aims to,” show that under the skin of iron is a warm beating human heart.” This is only too clearly demonstrated in the picture for October which looks like a scene from Hellraiser.
Rating: Unbelievably disgusting.

The Official Vashta Nerada Calendar: Initially disappointing effort from the microscopic creatures who live in shadows, it appears to be nothing but twelve blank, black pages. However the Vashta Nerada assure Shouting Into A Well that each calendar is impregnated with billions of eggs guaranteed to hatch, swarm and devour purchasers when night falls.
Rating: To die for!

Waterskiing Werewolves: An unusual charity calendar produced by the Brethren of St Catherine's Glen Monastery. Impressive photography raising money for a worthy cause, a pound from each calendar sold goes towards infecting Prince Charles with Lycanthropy, makes this an excellent buy.
Rating: lupus magnus est, lupus fortis est, lupus deus est.

Just Daleks In Hats: Like the title says, twelve A4 sized pictures of Daleks going about their daily business enslaving other races, making Pig Slaves, and plotting the total destruction of all matter in the universe while wearing a selection of hats. Interestingly enough one of the Daleks in the photo for July, (Daleks in berets destroy the Eiffel Tower, caption:”ooh la-la!”) is also wearing a cravat.
Rating: Stylish.

Great Moments in Merchandising

First up an old classic, the Doctor Who Easter egg which, with a little adaptation, could probably still be used should Peter Davison decide to advertise Viagra.
Thanks to www.richardwho.com for the Suchard Easter Egg picture

Secondly, the cover for The Macra Terror audio CD on which some airbrushed crazed artist has drawn fangs and given the cover star a shave to remove all that unsightly facial hair.

A Macra, yesterday.

Now with fangs! Extra frightening!

Sadly none of the other audio CD covers have been artistically enhanced to such a degree but take a close look at the cover for The Invasion which appears to feature a tidal wave of fire hidden under the Doctor Who logo.

Tragical Misery Tour

NEW THIS SPRING FROM TEAR-SPECKLED PRESS

Tear-Speckled Press is proud to announce the latest in its bestselling series of Tragic True Life Stories; Tin Man: How Can You Love If You Don't Have A Heart? by Francis Wilson.
When Bill had his brain scooped out and placed in a metal exoskeleton he thought his life had hit rock bottom; no love, no freedom, no hope and no emotions. Then a Doctor claims to want to help but does he?
Is he secretly plotting with his friends to make Bill's head explode?
Harrowing and inspirational, Tin Man: How Can You Love If You Don't Have A Heart? by Francis Wilson describes one man's struggle against a world which scooped his brain out of his body and then tried to leave him on the scrapheap.

OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK

If you'd lost it all how could you begin again? Bill Giles' acclaimed biography of Professor Zaroff tells the story of a man who lost his chance at life and then found it again under the sea.
Zaroff tells of one man's struggle against a world that never understood him. His loves; his hopes; his dream of raising Atlantis from the seafloor; and his other dream of turning shipwrecked mariners into Atlantean Fish People by fitting them with plastic gills and then forcing them to harvest food from the ocean; and his other dream of destroying the world. Moving and tragic, Zaroff by Bill Giles shows us the man the world never saw.

Awakened after a sleep of millions of years No Way Back by Bernard Davey tells of the struggle of the Silurians a brave race of refugees in a world that they can no longer call their own. Their one desire is a world fit for their children. Their one hope a lab-bred killer plague. Or, failing that, a machine to destroy the Van Allen radiation belt.
Tragic and >>SUB PLEASE INSERT SYNONYM<< No Way Back by Bernard Davey is a fitting tribute to a race that time truly forgot.