Steven Moffat Teases the Plot for This Year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, Joy to the World

Steven Moffat Teases the Plot for This Year's #DoctorWho Christmas Special, Joy to the World

Former Doctor Who showrunner, Steven Moffat, has revealed part of the premise for this year’s festive special, Joy to the World. We’ve already seen a hotel in previews of Joy to the World, and Moffat further explains: “I can tease something about the Christmas special. Imagine in the far, far future, imagine that a hotel chain got hold of the idea of time travel. What’s the first thing a hotel…

You Could Own the Thirteenth Doctor's Screen-Used TARDIS for Children in Need

You Could Own the Thirteenth #DoctorWho's Screen-Used TARDIS for Children in Need

The Thirteenth Doctor’s TARDIS exterior, as used in Eve of the Daleks, is going up for auction, raising money for the charity telethon, Children in Need. The auction, via Propstore, starts on Friday 15th November, the night of Children in Need, at 5pm and runs until 5pm on Saturday 23rd November 2024, aka Doctor Who‘s 61st anniversary. The TARDIS is expected to reach between £10,000 and…

Big Finish Reveals the Cover and Synopsis for Sacha Dhawan's Call Me Master: Inner Demons

Big Finish Reveals the Cover and Synopsis for Sacha Dhawan's Call Me Master: Inner Demons

The cover and details have been announced for Sacha Dhawan’s return as the titular evil Time Lord in Big Finish’s Call Me Master: Inner Demons. Dhawan played the Master between Spyfall in 2020 and The Power of the Doctor in 2022, and comes back now, with new plans to disrupt time and space — with no Doctor around to stop him. The box set’s guest cast includes Richard Fleeshman (Coronation…

Doctor Who to Mark 61st Anniversary With Series 14 Deleted Scenes

#DoctorWho to Mark 61st Anniversary With Series 14 Deleted Scenes

The BBC has teased new Doctor Who content to be released on 23rd November 2024 — although it won’t be a new episode. Instead, it’ll be deleted scenes from Doctor Who Series 14, teased with a brief clip of Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) speaking to the TARDIS in 73 Yards. We don’t know what these deleted scenes will entail, but it’ll nonetheless be interesting to see new sequences with Ncuti…

Underrated Doctor Who Moments: Rose

Underrated #DoctorWho Moments: Rose

Doctor Who is one of those rare TV shows that does a lot of its best worldbuilding in absence. What happened during the Time War? How did Captain Jack Harkness eventually become a vending machine-sized head in a jar? Why, under any circumstance, would someone choose to live with James Corden? Though those whys and hows and whats are sometimes expanded on in Who, the tantalising crumbs they leave…

The Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts Return in Big Finish's Doctor Who -- War Stories

The Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts Return in Big Finish's #DoctorWho -- War Stories

Big Finish has announced the winner of this year’s Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity, and the winning story features the Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts, played respectively on TV by Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie. Big Finish Productions lost a cherished friend and colleague on 8th May 2014 when Paul Spragg, the cheerful and much-loved person at the heart of the audio company, passed…

Candy Jar Books Announces New Lucy Wilson Anthology, The Twelve Days of Christmas

Candy Jar Books Announces New Lucy Wilson Anthology, The Twelve Days of Christmas

Get ready for the festivities with a new anthology of stories from Candy Jar Books starring Lucy Wilson, the Brigadier’s granddaughter! The Twelve Days of Christmas features twelve stories by author Steven Walton, all set just before Christmas 2021. The collection begins with Twelve Drummers Drumming and concludes with A Partridge in a Pear Tree, following the traditional English carol’s…

Former Doctor Who Companion, Wendy Padbury, Joins Wellbeing Hub as Volunteer

Former #DoctorWho Companion, Wendy Padbury, Joins Wellbeing Hub as Volunteer

Our nomination for good news story of the week comes with the announcement that Wendy Padbury, who played Zoe Heriot alongside Patrick Troughton’s Doctor, has signed up as a volunteer at Pershore Wellbeing Hub in Worcestershire. Currently undergoing her induction, Wendy will soon be engaged in the Hub’s valuable work supporting people in finding services to help them take control of their…

Reviewed: Doctor Who's On Ghost Beach – a Fifteenth Doctor Audiobook

Reviewed: #DoctorWho's On Ghost Beach – a Fifteenth Doctor Audiobook

The Fifteenth Doctor, played on screen by Ncuti Gatwa, comes to audio with On Ghost Beach, one of two new titles from BBC Audio. Written by Niel Bushnell and read by Susan Twist, the story sees the Doctor and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson on screen) arriving on Seaham Chemical Beach on the north east coast in 1958. It’s the kind of British post-industrial setting that would perhaps have felt more…

Two Classic Doctor Who Stories Starring Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor Disappear From BBC iPlayer

Two Classic #DoctorWho Stories Starring Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor Disappear From BBC iPlayer

Two Fourth Doctor stories have vanished from the Whoniverse section of BBC iPlayer, leaving newer fans bereft of much-loved classic tales. Terror of the Zygons and The Seeds of Doom have been taken down from the UK streaming service, apparently due to licensing issues — as both are written by the late Robert Banks Stewart, the agreement is presumably with his estate. Terror of the Zygons stars…

Janet Fielding Writes a New Doctor Who Story for her Companion Character, Tegan Jovanka

Janet Fielding Writes a New #DoctorWho Story for her Companion Character, Tegan Jovanka

Janet Fielding has written a new short story starring Tegan Jovanka, the character she played in Doctor Who with Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor and Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor. Little Did She Know is in the latest collection, Doctor Who: The Adventures Before, published at the start of this month (October 2024). Janet’s story takes place between Time Flight and Arc of Infinity, and features the…

Candy Jar Books Announces Its Third UNIT Novel, The Secret of Foxfell Forest

Candy Jar Books Announces Its Third #UNIT #DoctorWho Novel, The Secret of Foxfell Forest

Candy Jar Books has announced the third novel in its UNIT range, The Secret of Foxfell Forest, by popular writer Nick Walters — and the book includes the return of the Valethske from his 2001 Past Doctor Adventure, Superior Beings! Range Editor Tim Gambrell tells how this book came about. He says: “Nick contributed one of the early Lethbridge-Stewart novels, Mutually Assured Domination, so it…

Reviewed: Doctor Who's The Black Archive -- The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit

Reviewed: #DoctorWho's The Black Archive -- The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit

With Halloween just around the corner, it seems apt to revisit one of Doctor Who‘s scarier stories, via Obverse Books’ Black Archive series of monographs. Doctor Who has always treaded the line between science fact and science fantasy, but it wasn’t until 1971’s The Daemons that the show turned its attention to the mythical, the mystical, and the Occult. Introducing and rationalizing Wicca and…

Doctor Who's Ncuti Gatwa and Julie Gardner Win BAFTA Cymru Awards

#DoctorWho's Ncuti Gatwa and Julie Gardner Win BAFTA Cymru Awards

Two members of the Doctor Who cast and crew have won at this year’s BAFTA Cymru Awards. Ncuti Gatwa has won Best Actor at the BAFTA Cymru Awards for playing the Fifteenth Doctor, while the show’s executive producer, Julie Gardner MBE, was given the Outstanding Contribution Award, two huge honours, notably for Gardner who’s made a lasting impression on the Welsh TV landscape. Gatwa beat…

The Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, and Audacity Face the Mara in Big Finish's Deadly Strangers

The Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, and Audacity Face the Mara in Big Finish's #DoctorWho Deadly Strangers

The Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) and his companions, Charley Pollard (India Fisher) and Lady Audacity Montague (Jaye Griffiths) return for Deadly Strangers, a brand-new box set due out in December 2024, that sees them face the nightmarish Mara (from Kinda and Snakedance)! A luxury sleep clinic, where a rich elite lay dormant through the dark times of their planet, is the perfect hunting ground…

The Director-General Highlights Doctor Who-Disney Deal as Future for BBC Funding

The Director-General Highlights #DoctorWho-Disney Deal as Future for BBC Funding

It feels a rather pertinent time to recall what the Director-General of the BBC, Tim Davie, told the Royal Television Society — stressing the importance of deals with streaming services as has happened for Doctor Who. Why? Because there’s a lot of talk right now about Doctor Who‘s future and whether it’s linked to co-producers/distributors, Disney+. When talking about the future of the BBC,…

Coming Soon, Raising Money for Charity: The Complete Doctor Who, Adventures in Type and Space

Coming Soon, Raising Money for Charity: The Complete #DoctorWho, Adventures in Type and Space

Ten Acre Books is releasing a special edition hardback collecting together two of its title sequence-focused bookazines, the original Adventures in Type and Space, and the new Sid Sutton Collection. And all proceeds are doing to Unicef! Adventures in Type and Space is a charity bookazine exploring the title sequences of classic Doctor Who from 1963 to 1989. Highlights include new in-depth…