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	3 March Less than a week until my next episode of Doctors! 'Bleeding' is on BBC1 on Tuesday 9th March at 1.45pm, and on BBC HD at 6pm the same day. (It will also be on iPlayer all week.) I've watched it already, and I'm delighted with the end results. Please tune in if you can.
	7 January  I'm pleased to announce that I'm adapting Howard Overman's Merlin TV episode 'Lancelot and Guinevere' into a novel for teenagers to be published by Random House Children's Books later in the year.
	4 January 2010  I've just been told that my next episode of Doctors got a mention on Digital Spy back in November...! There's an interview with ex-Hollyoaks actor Barry Sloane here.
	12 November Last week I had the very great pleasure of watching my latest episode of Doctors being filmed. Massive thanks to director Rob Rohrer, actors Chris Walker, Tom Roberts, Barry Sloane and Marcquelle Ward, and the entire team, for putting so much work and energy into this. Thanks also to Neil Irvine, my script editor, for driving me to the location. I can't wait to see the end results.
	16 October 'Bleeding', my eighth episode of Doctors, has been locked off.
	7 September I've started work on 'Bleeding', a new episode of Doctors. If all goes to plan it'll be on BBC1 in March 2010 - but first things first, let's get the script done...
	18 August At the end of the month I'll be at the Greenbelt arts festival, talking about Doctor Who and/or comics. More details here.
	24 July In October I hope to be attending a 'pubcon' in Manchester celebrating the world of Doctor Who novels. You can get tickets from here.
	24 April 2009 We're off to the TV BAFTAs again on Sunday!
	10 December I've just been told that Crisis Control begins its run on CBBC on Friday 2nd January at 4.30pm. If you (or your children!) are fans of things like Scorpion Island and Raven, do tune in!
	29 November BBC1 are showing my next episode of Doctors on Monday 8th December. 'Pink Ribbon' stars Paul Moriarty and Hazel Ellerby (best known for roles in EastEnders and Peak Practice respectively).
	25 September My little self-contained comic strip 'The Alice in Wonderland Circuit' appears in Doctor Who Adventures issue 83, out today.
	2 September Just a reminder that my Doctors episode 'The Horrors', starring Ashley George and Emily Aston, is on BBC1 on Monday 8th September at 1.45pm.
	21 August Part one of my new comic strip, 'Attack of the Mange Mites!', appears in the current issue of Doctor Who Adventures. It will be followed by my first three-part story, 'By Order of the Bone Menders'.
	15 August My latest episode of Doctors has been signed off. All things being equal, 'Pink Ribbon' will be transmitted in early December.
	2 August I have just finished work on all thirteen episodes of series one of Red Alert (now likely to be called Crisis Control).
	8 July Doctors have commissioned me to write another episode, provisionally entitled 'Pink Ribbon'.
	23 June I'm delighted to say I've been asked to open the new library at the Park School in Yeovil on Thursday.
	21 May I'm about to start working on Red Alert  (provisional title), a new series for CBBC.
	30 April 'The Horrors' has been signed off, and will be on BBC1 in early September.
	1 April I'm writing 'The Horrors', another episode of Doctors.
	7 February Part one of 'The Halls of Sacrifice' appears in Doctor Who Adventures issue 50, out today. The comic strip concludes next week, and is followed by another two-part story, 'The Old Kings of Skarab'.
	2 January 2008 I will be speaking at the Yeovil Community Arts Association event at the Johnson Studio on 10th January. If you happen to be in the area, do come along!
	30 October My Doctors episode 'Angels and Shadows' is on BBC1 on Friday 9th November at 2.05pm. It stars Martyn Read, Simon Scott and George Pensotti.
	19 July My comic strip 'The Last Soldier' starts in the latest issue of Doctor Who Adventures, published today. The story concludes in two weeks.
	2 July My next Doctors story has been signed off. It will be transmitted in November. The audiobook version of Wooden Heart is released today; there is a little review of it on the BBC Doctor Who website here.
	24 May Part one of my first ever comic strip, 'The Green, the Bad and the Ugly', appears in Doctor Who Adventures today. Part two will be along in a couple of weeks.
	17 May I've been commissioned to write another episode of Doctors - and I'm going to the BAFTA TV awards on Sunday!
	19 April 2007 Doctor Who: Wooden Heart, my novel featuring the tenth Doctor and Martha Jones, is officially published today. (If you would like to order it online, it's available here and here, and doubtless elsewhere.) It will be released as an (abridged) audiobook in July, read by Adjoa Andoh.
	7 December Just a reminder: my Doctors story 'All You Need is...' will be transmitted on BBC1 on 18th December. It stars Gareth Hunt, Tim Briggs and Heather Bleasdale. As reported in Doctor Who Magazine and elsewhere, I'm working on a novel for the BBC featuring the tenth Doctor and new companion Martha.
	17 November No Man's Land is now in the shops. (Incidentally, here is my  (unused) version of the back cover blurb.)
	4 August The Doctor Who audio play No Man's Land (formerly We are the Dead) has now been recorded. It stars Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Philip Olivier, Michael Cochrane, Rob Dixon, Rupert Wickham, Oliver Mellor, Ian Hayles, and Michael Adams. More details here.
	10 July 'All You Need is...' has been signed off. (I'll just note here, in passing, that Doctor Who: The Sleep of Reason was voted third best Eighth Doctor novel (out of 73) in the final online Doctor Who Novel Rankings . Thanks to all who voted for it.)
	23 May My next episode of Doctors - 'All You Need is...' - has been commissioned.
	14 March 2006 'ASBO' stars Josef Altin, Julia Worsley, and Jeanne Mockford (who you might remember as Senna the Soothsayer from Up Pompeii!). 'We are the Dead' has been pencilled in for a November release.
	26 September I have been commissioned to write We are the Dead for Big Finish 's Doctor Who range.
	16 September My third episode of Doctors has been signed off. It will be transmitted on 21st March 2006. My last Doctor Who novel was voted second best of 2004 by readers of Doctor Who Magazine.
	15 July I've been commissioned to write 'ASBO', another episode of Doctors.
	27 January 2005 My latest story for Doctors has been signed off, and it will be transmitted on Tuesday 24th May (BBC1).
	8 December I have been commissioned to write a second script for Doctors called 'The Girl Who Came Back'. Doctor Who - A Christmas Treasury, featuring a short story of mine, is published this month (and can be ordered here).
	25 October Magazine reviews of The Sleep of Reason have been positive. SFX called it "one of the most elegant Doctor Who novels ever written" (and awarded it five stars); Doctor Who Magazine concluded: "Filled with disturbing scenes and horrific images, The Sleep of Reason is one of the grimmer Eighth Doctor books - and also one of the best recently." There is an interview with me on the BBC's Doctor Who site here. The Discontinuity Guide, a Doctor Who reference guide written with Paul Cornell and Keith Topping, is about to be reprinted by MonkeyBrain Books in the US. I will be attending the Gallifrey convention in LA in 2005 (more details here).
	22 July The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine carries a mini-interview with me as part of a 'Coming Soon' piece on The Sleep of Reason, which is officially due out on 2nd August. The novel can be pre-ordered here. I will also be doing a book signing at the Tenth Planet shop in Barking on 31st July.
	16 June My first story for Doctors has been signed off the producer. It will be transmitted on BBC1 on Friday 7th January 2005 at 2.05pm.
	3 June I've just received the draft cover of my Doctor Who novel, The Sleep of Reason. Click here to see it.
	11 May 2004 I have been commissioned to write a script for Doctors entitled 'True Romance'.