Fans of the BBC’s Doctor Who in Britain and America will get a festive treat today, with a brand new Christmas special, “The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe” showing later on tonight. Meanwhile, away from the television cameras, a new Doctor Who online multiplayer game has been getting ready for launch and is now available on a preview basis – just in time for Christmas!

“Doctor Who: Worlds in Time” is a browser-based online game. Players are time travellers helping the Doctor solve a mystery that threatens the very fabric of the time stream. The game includes monsters from both the original and new series of the show, as well as host worlds and other locations which will be instantly familiar to fans.

And what does all this have to do with me? Well, I was very happy to be asked to provide the voiceover for the Official Game Trailer, which is now online. You can see it here.

The game trailer was produced in the USA, and our voiceover session was conducted over ISDN from my home studio, with the producers dialling in to ProComm Studio Services in Fletcher, NC to direct me – in this case, their best advice was to “try and sound like an excited teenager!”

Working via ISDN, phone patch or even on Skype means you can be anywhere in the world and work with me in my studio at a convenient time, so get in touch if there’s a project you’d like to discuss.

Merry Christmas, Who fans!

• To play “Doctor Who: Worlds in Time”, visit www.doctorwhowit.com right now!
• “Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow” and the Wardrobe shows on BBC One/HD at 7pm on Sunday 25th December, and on BBC America at 9pm ET.

Here’s a TV commercial I voiced recently about microchip implanting for pets, for UK-based Peddymark. According to the Peddymark website:

“Every year more than 300,000 animals go astray in the UK alone. Most of them cannot be returned home because their owners cannot be identified. The lucky ones end up in an animal home.

Microchipping is the most effective way of identifying a lost pet, chips don’t come off like collars can.

Each PeddyMark microchip has a unique number which is stored on a national database owned by the Kennel Club called PetLog. A quick scan of the chip by a dog warden, shelter or Vet reveals the owner’s name and address and contact numbers from the database’s records therefore reuniting the animal with its owner quickly with the minimum amount of stress for all involved.”

So, that seems like a good idea then, right?

The commercial was narrated by me in my home studio, and produced by London-based PMG TV and it’s airing in the UK now.

•  If you’ve got something similar in mind, please do get in touch and we can discuss how a professional voiceover track can bring your own project to life.

A couple of short promos from early 2009 for Europe’s most successful home shopping channel.

Some festive promos for Europe’s biggest home shopping channel. You can hear audio to the left – better still click here and here for video (Quicktime required – download here)

A more menacing treatment for a big disaster just waiting to happen. Scared? You should be…

A radio commercial for the International Organisation for Migration, broadcast on local radio in the Birmingham area.

A short promotion for Film24 to promote content on their website at Film24.com. Recorded at Pinewood Studios. Now how many voiceover artists can claim that?