Experience my Doctor Who Christmases of years gone by in my Christmas episode of The Library of Impossible Things.

Today is the day a very special man was born, sent to us many years ago to tell fantastic tales and bring messages of peace and understanding. Happy birthday Rod Serling!

And to you

Merry Xmas you lot.

Alastair Sim as Scrooge in Scrooge (1951). The meme daddy. So you *can* do it. Film & TV producers have made enough adaptions of Scrooge at the window to fill a whole advent calendar. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. You there boy! What day is this? To-day! Why, CHRISTMAS DAY!

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

SCROOGE: you there, boy! what day is it? BOY: i don't know, i'm like six SCROOGE: well fuckin – can you ask someone

Watched the recent #Frankenstein and it's a perfectly fine version of the story, I think. Sometimes has the air of an MCU origin story for The Monster. And sometimes very on the nose - "It is you who are the monster Victor" - but it's all for that reworked climax.

We hope everyone enjoys tonight's profile of Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd on BBC Four. We're pleased to announce we'll be publishing Innes' recently discovered memoirs. Innes Lloyd: Memory Box is edited by Charles Norton from Innes' surviving manuscripts and diaries, and will be released in 2026.

UK is VERY familiar with this song this time of year, but not sure the rest of the world is as aware of the greatest Christmas track of all time… You’re welcome! youtu.be/WM7M7zSMJcw?...

New drink invented: Crabsinthe

I just wrote an article about this and decided not to publish it yet. It is in the DOJ files (file got renamed after originally published and taken down. It’s online now). But too many unknowns about whether the letter itself is real or not. Some additional info though:

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

Salt: "You went to space. We never did that." Dinosaurs on a Spaceship: "I beg your what now?"

Also watched the mid-point "well we've been cancelled, let's nuke the premise and do a nostalgic goodbye" Christmas Special of Lee Mack's #NotGoingOut. Which feels odd now, as we prepare to move on to season 8 without a break.

Watched #CubanFury - Nick Frost's first attempt to counter the idea that he was just Simon Pegg's amiable lucky charm. It's a good solid romcom that I think has been largely forgotten now, despite a strong cast - Rashida Jones, Olivia Coleman, a Rory Kinear so young he almost has hair.

Share someone who looks stylish wearing a winter coat.

Welcome to the Hamster Book Club - the Doctor Who Book Podcast! Debate, laughter, friendship, insight…we love Doctor Who books and we hope you do too! With artwork from @devondan.bsky.social & a new theme by @jameslark.bsky.social Like & Subscribe ❤️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

If it was going to happen to him at any time of year it had to be now, I guess. RIP Chris Rea.

In honour of Charles Dickens I am also going to be poor this Christmas

❄️NEW EPISODE!❄️ We present an extremely rare interview with #DoctorWho novel writer Lloyd Rose, discussing her Seventh Doctor PDA The Algebra of Ice. It's episode 9 of our 12 Krynoid Pods of Christmas! soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

As someone who has seen one of their nearest and dearest have a nervous breakdown by working themselves into the ground I cannot explain how deeply unhelpful this kind of article is. fortune.com/article/will...

#TheWarBetweenTheLandAndSea Part 4 still fails to War properly, having the Aquakind again standing in a room talking about the stuff they'll do if humanity doesn't do something they could just as easily do themselves.

The Narked Civil Servant #AddALetterRuinAShow

Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".

ON THIS DAY... in 1989, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy by Stephen Wyatt was first released in paperback. Cover art by Alister Pearson. #DoctorWho

The Chaste #AddALetterRuinAShow

Have I Got Newts For You #AddALetterRuinAShow

Andy Crapp #AddALetterRuinAShow

Skin Sunday #AddALetterRuinAShow

The Moan from UNCLE #AddALetterRuinAShow

Dangler Man #AddALetterRuinAShow

Wanking the Dead #AddALetterRuinAShow

Breaking Bald #AddALetterRuinAShow

Bargain Shunt #AddALetterRuinAShow

Clash in the Attic #AddALetterRuinAShow (but actually improve it)

ERM #AddALetterRuinAShow

YeastEnders #AddALetterRuinAShow

Everything about AI is the worst thing about AI, but the worst thing for me is its tone of chipper flattery ("You're right!"), a tone that people apparently love to hear directed at them. I feel like a mutant because every time people talk like that to me I start looking for the hidden knife.

VD #AddALetterRuinAShow

Dastardly and Muttley in their Flaying Machines #AddALetterRuinAShow

The Wart Between the Land and the Sea #AddALetterRuinAShow

Delighted by the moment in this where the learned scholars discuss movies that have a distinct flavour about them of K9 & Company.

Oh babes! Did someone steal all your hard work and use it to take away your livelihood without credit or recompense? I. Can't. Imagine. How. That. Feels.

Happy Gauda Prime day to all who celebrate.

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower