Tonight's British Academy Television Awards

 

This year's British Academy Television Awards will take place tonight at the Royal Festival Hall in London and the ceremony will also be screened live on BBC One from 8pm till 10pm. Doctor Who has received a nomination in the 'Best Drama Series' category for it's fourth series which aired last year and saw The Doctor and Donna encounter many alien races. The three other shows that have been nominated in this category are; Shameless, Spooks and Wallander. Einstein and Eddington, a one-off drama which starred David Tennant, has also been nominated in the 'Best Single Drama' category and you can view a full list of this year's nominees here on the ceremony's official website. If Doctor Who or Einstein and Eddington win their respective awards, the results for this year's ceremony will be posted here on this site tomorrow. Will you be watching the British Academy Television Awards when the ceremony airs live later tonight?

Fake Doctor Who Trader Jailed

 

Trading at the annual Neath Fair, Wales in 2007, Malik Aftab Hussain was spotted by trading standards officers on patrol who identified that both the Doctor Who merchandise and other toys were counterfeit and unsafe - helped along by spelling mistakes and incorrect labels on the packaging.

Hussain was ordered to pay more than £34,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 this week, as well as jailed for 10 months.

Appearing before Neath magistrates last year, 33-year-old Hussain - who hails from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire - pleaded guilty to 29 offences that contravene both the Trade Marks Act 1994 and the Consumer Protection Act 1987. Due to the number of offences, the case was then transferred to Swansea Crown Court.

It's good to see that Trading Standards officers are on the ball with this particular issue - low grade replicas with lead based paints and choke hazards are certainly not the sort of toys Doctor Who fans of any age want to be buying.