Countdown Catastrophy

The producer of Doctor Who: The 11th Regeneration and 11th Doctor, Jaime Carroll, has released a statement regarding the release of Countdown to Christmas, "As you may all be aware, the release of the episode Countdown to Christmas has be postponed once again. The reason for this is because on Friday 4th January, Nathan Ewing who plays Nip was expected to turn up for filming at around 9.30am. Myself and Dale Farrow, who plays Strider, were up around 7.30am in order to get ready. However, Nathan Ewing failed to show up for filming. I received a phone call around 11.30 from Nathan Ewing stating that the reason he didn't turn up for filming was because 'he had an appointment.' Naturally, myself and Dale were fuming at this and a day's filming was cancelled. Fortunately, we resumed filming Saturday 5th January, however, we had to film all of Friday's schedule as well as Saturday's so we failed to get it all done as I have work at the weekends. This is not the first time Nathan has either been late for filming or not shown up at all. In fact, this is the SIXTH consecutive time he was either late or failed to show. Because of his failure to show up for filming once again, Nathan Ewing's future as Nip remains in doubt. This decision has not been taken lightly. Myself and all the other cast members of 11th Regeneration, and of course, you, the fans are all fuming and livid at the fact another episode has to be released later than scheuled because of one's unreliability."

Countdown to Christmas as thus been moved to a Wednesday 9th January release.