Gallifrey One is happy to announce one more classic Doctor Who series guest joining us, courtesy Tenth Planet Events... none other than ANNEKE WILLS, aka Polly. Anneke was last with us in 2002 and, as many people discovered both during that weekend and her previous Gallifrey One visit in 1997, she's a delight with convention audiences. Anneke joins our convention guest list which also includes Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling - two fellow co-stars from the Patrick Troughton era - and as well as Sarah Sutton, Katy Manning and John Levene, and a ton of other guests from classic and new Doctor Who that we've previously announced. We would like to thank Tenth Planet Events this year for sponsoring no less than four convention guests for us -- Anneke Wills, Deborah Watling, Katy Manning and Andrew Hayden-Smith.

Gallifrey One is delighted to welcome a few new guests to our lineup for our 2010 event:

We proudly welcome LOUISE PAGE, the costume designer for Doctor Who throughout the David Tennant years, for her first convention appearance in North America. Having joined the series for Tennant's first outing, "The Christmas Invasion," Louise Page has given us some of Doctor Who's most memorable costume creations (including the beautiful period costumes on the androids of revolutionary France in "The Girl in the Fireplace," pictured at right), contributing to the series' iconic look for the past four years. Page will be participating in several events including a slideshow retrospective of her work on the series... and we are delighted to announce that she will be participating as a judge at this year's Gallifrey One Masquerade!

We are also thrilled to welcome ANDREW HAYDEN-SMITH for his first North American event. Andrew, a popular presenter on the BBC's CBBC television programming, went on to star as Jake Simmonds, the revolutionary first introduced in Series Two's "Rise of the Cybermen" two-parter, and returned later (aiding Mickey Smith!) in the final two-parter, "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday". Andrew is being brought to Gallifrey One as a sponsored guest of our friends at Tenth Planet Events.

We also welcome two additional Doctor Who related guests to our 2010 lineup: Ed Stradling, who produces many of the features on the 2Entertain Doctor Who DVD releases, and writer Mark Wright, a returning guest, who is now co-producing Big Finish Productions' Iris Wildthyme series with Katy Manning.

We will have a few more guests to announce in the days and weeks to come, so stay tuned!

Membership for Gallifrey One: Blackjack 21 is only $60 for the entire weekend... and goes up to $65 as of the end of day Sunday, November 1. This is the perfect time to grab your membership (what we call admission) for the whole weekend! Join us and visit with our ever-growing lineup of guests, including those we just added a few days ago (see below).

Meanwhile, we have moved to a brand new Facebook page; instead of the old Gallifrey 2010 group (which was unwieldy due to its redesign), we've moved to a general Gallifrey One page at http://facebook.com/gallifreyone; this will allow us to have more interaction with attendees and post constant updates, at-con photos and video, and more!. We hope you'll join us!

Many of the pages on our website have been updated for today; also, our list of current registered members is now online.

Gallifrey One is delighted to announce a cavalcade (or make that a blackjack?) of new guests being added to the lineup for our 2010 event, Gallifrey One: Blackjack 21... a guest lineup that does, in fact, provide our largest number of Doctor Who related guests in our long history. Adding to our already confirmed lineup are no less than 11 new guests, as follows:

KATY MANNING - Best known for portraying UNIT agent Jo Grant during the Jon Pertwee era (1971-73), Katy Manning has also brought to life the character of Iris Wildthyme for Big Finish Productions. Katy is a fan favorite appearing at her second Gallifrey One event, and comes to us as a sponsored guest of the Tenth Planet Events group; she will be participating on panels as well as signing at their dealers tables, and will be joining us for our tribute to the late producer Barry Letts.

DEBORAH WATLING - On her third visit to Gallifrey One, the lovely Debbie Watling (who played Victoria Waterfield opposite Patrick Troughton in the 1960s) returns after an eight year absence in an appearance sponsored by Tenth Planet Events. She also has an autobiography coming out soon and will be promoting that as well as participating in panels and our Barry Letts tribute.

FRAZER HINES - Doctor Who's Jamie McCrimmon (from the Patrick Troughton years), Frazer was with us after an absence of many years at our 2009 event and had such a good time he wanted to come back for more! Frazer will be returning next year to the role of Jamie for a trilogy of Big Finish audio dramas as well as narrations of their Companion Chronicles.

JOHN LEVENE - A long-time friend of Gallifrey One, the man who brought Sergeant John Benton to life in the 1960s and 1970s on Doctor Who will be joining us again alongside former castmate Katy Manning and other guests to pay tribute to Barry Letts and visit with fans.

NICHOLAS BRIGGS - Best known as the voice of the Daleks on the modern-era Doctor Who TV series, and also doing voicework for The Sarah Jane Adventures and featuring in-the-flesh in an episode of the last series of Torchwood, Nick Briggs is also producer of Big Finish's Doctor Who audio adventures, a long-time writer, actor and director, and returns to Gallifrey One after several years.

GARETH ROBERTS - First gaining popularity for his Doctor Who novel work for Virgin Publishing and, later, BBC Books, Gareth also wrote for such television series as "Emmerdale," "Brookside" and "Randall & Hopkirk, Deceased" before penning several stories for today's Doctor Who series, including "The Shakespeare Code," "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and "Planet of the Dead". He's also written many screenplays for The Sarah Jane Adventures (including the series pilot alongside Russell T Davies) and comes to Gallifrey One for his first North American convention appearance.

COLIN TEAGUE - An experienced television director whose work includes "Holby City," "Trinity" and "Being Human," Colin Teague is one of two guests this year (the other being Alice Troughton) who has directed epsiodes of Doctor Who ("The Sound of Drums," "Last of the Time Lords" and "The Fires of Pompeii"), Torchwood ("Ghost Machine," "Greeks Bearing Gifts," "Sleeper" and "Meat") and The Sarah Jane Adventures ("Invasion of the Bane").

JOHN PICKARD - Currently appearing on the British serial "Hollyoaks" as Dominic Reilly, and formerly of the TV series "2point4 Children" and "EastEnders," John Pickard made his entry into the world of Doctor Who as the short-term companion Thomas Brewster, opposite Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton, in the audio dramas "The Haunting of Thomas Brewster," "Time Reef" and "A Perfect World" as well as the 12-part series "The Three Companions". He appears courtesy Big Finish Productions.

SCOTT HANDCOCK - Scott's work includes several Big Finish audio plays in their Doctor Who, Bernice Summerfield, Sarah Jane Smith and Dark Shadows lines, including "The Magician's Oath" and "The Oracle of Delphi"; he's also been a production runner on Doctor Who Confidential and The Sarah Jane Adventures, has written for the Short Trips anthology series, and has appeared in several Big Finish productions as a member of their voice cast.

AMBER BENSON - Star of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (as the fan-beloved Tara), Amber returns to Gallifrey One for an autograph session on Saturday afternoon.

LARRY NEMECEK - Author of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion book and an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager," Larry has become a well-known guest at Star Trek conventions and we've invited him to come share some of his insight with us at Gallifrey 2010.

These wonderful guests join already confirmed guests Sarah Sutton, Tommy Knight, Phil Ford, Graeme Harper, John Fay, Alice Troughton, Paul Cornell, Rob Shearman, Gary Russell, Tony Lee, Pia Guerra and Jason Haigh-Ellery, plus many more! And that’s not all… Gallifrey One expects further guest announcements in November thereafter as well, so stay tuned!

Registration for Gallifrey One: Blackjack 21 is currently $60.00 for the entire weekend. That price is only good, however, until the end of this coming weekend (the official cutoff date says October 31, but we're extending it until late Sunday night, November 1!) After that, it's $65.00 for the weekend, and higher down the road. This is a perfect time to get your full weekend membership, and help us out in the process (we budget based on pre-registration)... Register for Gallifrey 2010 today!

As an added incentive: our next guest announcement will happen late Thursday or early Friday, so if you're waiting for the big news (with at least 9 new guests, maybe a few more!) you have the weekend to think about it. It's going to be a great time...

No news is certainly good news... Gallifrey One is putting the finishing touches on what we expect will be a massive guest update for our 2010 convention this week, which we're waiting for everything to be finalized before we make our next guest announcements. So stay tuned; we will have some big names to announce by the end of the week!

Meanwhile, we invite you to keep up with Gallifrey One in real time by tuning into the following:

Gallifrey One's Facebook Group
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Gallifrey One thread on the Gallifrey Base Forum

All of us at Gallifrey One are terribly sad to have heard the news this morning that Barry Letts, the former producer of Doctor Who during the 1970's, has passed away. Barry Letts was our guest at two Gallifrey One conventions, first in 1994 and again in 2005, both in the company of his friend and writing partner Terrance Dicks. Letts was a wonderful guest, a man of many stories, as well as a true gentleman. The world of Doctor Who fandom is diminished with his passing.

We would therefore like to announce that the forthcoming "Gallifrey One: Blackjack 21" convention in February will be dedicated to the memory of Barry Letts.

It is with deep sadness that we must announce that our headline guest, Peter Davison, has had to withdraw from his appearance at next year's Gallifrey One: Blackjack 21 convention. As widely reported in the press, the busy actor recently signed to a long-term starring role in "Legally Blonde: The Musical" at the Savoy Theatre in London, and while Mr. Davison was still hoping to make the event, the demands of his new schedule prevent him from taking off the needed time for our event. We want to emphasize that Mr. Davison was torn by this decision and spent time considering all his options before having to withdraw from our convention, which he told us he had been very much looking forward to. We at Gallifrey One completely understand his decision.

Instead, we would like to announce that Mr. Davison has accepted our invitation to instead be our featured headline guest at the following year's event, the twenty-second Gallifrey One convention in February 2011.

We do apologize for any inconvenience Mr. Davison's withdrawal causes. Seldom do we ever have to announce the withdrawal of our major guests, but with all working actors, their appearances are subject to professional commitments and this year was no exception.

We do want to announce, however, that Gallifrey One is currently working on a variety of additional guests to be joining this year's convention, not only in Mr. Davison's stead but also with the Tenth Planet Events organization who will be sponsoring several guests appearing at our 2010 event. We have some big names coming very soon, from both classic and new Doctor Who, so keep watching our website for more information.

Gallifrey One is pleased to present our discussion panel list for our forthcoming 2010 convention, Gallifrey One: Blackjack 21. Gallifrey One's panel program is one of the most popular facets of our annual event, focusing primarily on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures as well as the world of science fiction and fantasy television and media, and incorporating fan topics such as costuming, gaming and conventioning. Panel discussions are led in our two panel rooms by both attending professionals as well as selected fans, with rousing dialogue that always makes for a memorable event. We have some great stuff on this year's panel track, including such notable program items as Dear Mr. Moffat; The Revolution Will Be Tweeted; The Crossplay Equation; Television in the Age of Hulu and Your Greatest Moments in Doctor Who History, plus many more.

Click on the following link to explore our current list of panels; please note that we may add some closer to the event (and we don't guarantee every panel will definitely happen).

Guest Update: Gallifrey Conventions is pleased to welcome esteemed director Graeme Harper to our 2010 lineup. Mr. Harper has been involved with both the classic as well as new Doctor Who series, including directing such serials as "The Caves of Androzani" and "Revelation of the Daleks" during the classic series run as well as many episodes from the past four years including "Rise of the Cybermen," "Army of Ghosts," "Utopia," "Last of the Time Lords," "Journey's End" and the forthcoming "The Waters of Mars". He's also directed for The Sarah Jane Adventures as well as Robin Hood, EastEnders and Coronation Street. Mr. Harper was a confirmed guest at last February's convention but unfortunately had to pull out due to directing duties, and we are delighted that he will be able to join us this year instead.

Meanwhile, we are pleased to announce a huge batch of supporting guests, many of whom are returning from visits in past years, including: Steve Roberts of the Doctor Who Restoration Team; Hugo- and Nebula-Award winning science fiction writer David Gerrold; legendary comics writer Marv Wolfman; voiceover actor and visual effects artist C. Andrew Nelson; author/editor David J. Howe of Telos Publishing; author of The Vampire Gene trilogy Sam Stone; science fiction/fantasy writer and illustrator Arne Starr; "Zombiemania" and "Howe's Transcendental Toybox" author Dr. Arnold T Blumberg; comic writer ("Logan's Run: Last Day") Paul J. Salamoff; television writer/story editor and Big Finish author Darin Henry; television director and anime writer/artist Aimee Major Steinberger; Go! Comi's David Wise & Audry Taylor; comics/horror writer Joshua Fialkov; and film & TV historian Eric Hoffman.

This is still just the beginning. Several organizations will be sponsoring major guests and we also have several other major invitations out to cover the entire spectrum of the Doctor Who universe. Though further guest announcements will be more sporadic over the next several months, we should have many big names to add to our already attending collection of guests and we'll let you know as soon as we confirm them!

Registration Update: Our membership rate has just gone up... from September 1 to October 31, a full weekend members to Gallifrey One: Blackjack 21 is only $60 for the entire weekend. The membership covers admission and attendance to everything at the convention (except the guest banquet), all inclusive! Register today... you can do so here on the website via PayPal as well as by check or money order.

Now online... complete details and rules for our 2010 convention's showpiece event, Saturday evening's Masquerade of Mandragora costume presentation! This year's Masquerade will be better than ever, and we've got our rules & guidelines up earlier than ever before so you know what to expect.

Check out the Masquerade section for further details about this year's costuming event...

Gallifrey Conventions is delighted to announce our second batch of confirmed guests for the forthcoming Gallifrey 2010 convention, including Tommy Knight from The Sarah Jane Adventures, writer John Fay (Torchwood: Children of Earth), director Alice Troughton, writer Rob Shearman ("Dalek"), and wrier Tony Lee and illustrator Pia Guerra ("Doctor Who: The Forgotten").