Less than a week to go, and here's a more extensive preview for the series:

For those that missed them, here are the original CBBC clip and then teaser trailer:

Of course, which version of the series on television will be the best to watch - we'll have CBBC, BBC1 and BBCHD to choose from? The HD version will of course be the best quality picture, but there's the danger of DOGging for the "kept" version. CBBC will almost certainly be DOGged, so mayhaps the BBC one will be cleanest - though of course they all might be prone to verbal diarrhea!!!

Also next week there's a special showing of "Death of the Doctor" at the BFI which I've got tickets to go to - I know it'll be a couple of weeks before transmission but it feels like a "can't wait" story!

Matt Smith and Karen Gillan appeared on The One Show tonight, reportedly getting the show out of trouble when guests couldn't be booked for Chris Evans's inaugural show. Plenty of discussion about the duo's kissing session from Flesh and Stone, but perhaps unsurprisingly they wouldn't be drawn on what could be expected from the Christmas Special!

Though we did get a promo photo to keep us going!

Other hijinx included a bit of scholarly education from Matt and Karen on the various states of batter(!), which you can also now see on YouTube!