The Year of Martha Jones from Big Finish is what happens when actor availability becomes a blessing for a company, and where having company becomes the opposite of that for the character played. But it’s also a release that, no matter how much further suffering Martha Jones will be put through, fans of the franchise have been waiting on for a long time. The boxset kicks off in an American diner,…

The premiere of Series 3 of Doctor Who was once again in the hot seat. It was unknown if Series 1 was even going to be acceptable as the same Doctor Who, much less a bonafide hit. Going into Series 2, there were major concerns about having to replace Christopher Eccleston with the relatively unknown David Tennant. Series 3 would be without Billie Piper for the first time, so there were still some…

Freema Agyeman is returning to the world of Doctor Who as Martha Jones, in a new set of audio adventures for Big Finish! After more than a decade away from the TARDIS, the Tenth Doctor’s companion will be back in The Year of Martha Jones, to be released in December 2021. Set between the 2007 TV episodes The Sound of Drums and The Last of the Time Lords, these new stories explore the year that…

How many people have played the Doctor? Yes, yes, Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, all the way up to Whittaker; and then there’s Jo Martin, and Peter Cushing and — look, the point is, there’s one more person you might not have counted: Steven Moffat. The former showrunner played the Tenth Doctor in the highly-acclaimed episode, Blink. Oh sure, David Tennant was better known for the part, but as…

The final Doctor Who lockdown rewatch organised by Doctor Who Magazine‘s Emily Cook happens tomorrow (Sunday 28th February 2021) – and for the first time, it’s a triple bill. Fans across the globe will be getting together, albeit virtually, to watch Utopia, The Sound of Drums, and Last of the Time Lords, the Series 3 finale. Astonishingly, these tweet-along rewatches have been happening, on and…

The actor Louis Mahoney died at the end of June. He was 81. He was known to Doctor Who fans for two stories of the classic era – Season 10’s Frontier in Space and Season 13’s Planet of Evil – and one of the seminal stories of the modern era: Series 3’s Blink. But Doctor Whowas just a small part of the man’s career. He was one of the first black actors to appear with the Royal Shakespeare Company…

Tomorrow (30th May 2020), fans will get together to tweet along to a double-bill rewatch of New Earth and Gridlock, respectively from Series 2 and 3 – but it will be the penultimate watch-along.

These joint rewatches of Doctor Whoepisodes have been a real highlight of the lockdown (resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic), but, of course, all good things come to an end, and organiser, Emily…

The next tweet-along rewatch of Doctor Who during lockdown takes place this Friday (24th April 2020), and will follow a fan-favourite serial: Human Nature/ The Family of Blood.

Writer Paul Cornell, director Charles Palmer, and Daughter of Mine/ Lucy Cartwright actress, Lor Wilson will all be taking part. Fingers crossed Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) will also take part; and perhaps David…

Doctor Who Series 2 has The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit. Doctor Who Series 4 has Donna Noble in every episode. Ah but Doctor Who Series 3 is my favourite Tenth Doctor season. It’s a tough call, but in 2007, Doctor Whowas fresh and exciting again. It was scary and beautiful. It introduced Martha Jones (Freema Agyman) who I fell for immediately. And yet, it has the distinction of featuring the…

It looks like two additional seasons of Doctor Who have been confirmed, though not yet announced by the BBC. The existence of Doctor Who Seasons 13 and 14 were unveiled in a presentation made about HBO Max, the upcoming streaming service.

HBO Max will include 11 series of the programme, i.e. all seasons since Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor revived the show in 2005, all of which will be…

Freema Agyeman is returning to the worlds of Doctor Who for Big Finish in 2020, starring once more as Martha Jones in a special Torchwood story, Dissected.

The audio adventure explores what Martha did after leaving the TARDIS. Freema played sometimes-doctor Jones throughout Doctor Who Series 3 before returning for a few episodes in the following series and during TorchwoodSeries 2. Since…

HBO Max has bagged the exclusive US streaming rights for all 11 series of “NuWho“, aka Doctor Who, 2005- present. As part of the deal with BBC Studios, they will also stream Series 12, starring Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor, sometime after it airs on BBC1 and BBC America.

The exclusivity doesn’t mean American fans can only see episodes via HBO Max; they’ll still be on standard channels,…

Doctor Who Series 1 to 10 – i.e. so-called “New Who” – will be re-released on DVD across three sets for American audiences.

Don’t ever say that signing up for company mailing lists can’t teach you something.

I’m on the BBC America mailing list, and this morning I got an email alerting me to the fact that they’re going to be putting the whole of New Whoout again via new packaging. This was the…

Pull up a chair, folks: we’re going to have a story. It is a cautionary tale of making promises you can’t easily keep, something many newly married couples and the Brexit delivery team have learned the hard way. It will not be easy reading, but there is a point, if you squint hard enough. It starts on a warm Monday afternoon and yours truly is about to do something rash.

“Listen,” I say to Phil…

Spoilers. They can be fun, in that exciting sort of way. Almost like watching the story for the first time. But then, what happens the real first time you see a story after you have read or seen a spoiler? For me, personally, the episode can seem old. Almost as if I had seen it before, more like a second viewing rather then the much-anticipated first. Not to say that those stories weren’t…

Carey Mulligan, who played Sally Sparrow in Blink (2007), was asked to be a companion to the Tenth Doctor – but turned it down! Many may hold up Blink as a modern-day classic… but star, Carey Mulligan apparently doesn’t! Writer, Steven Moffat recently revealed: “Blink, I say immodestly, is a very famous episode and yet Carey Mulligan, who was the star of it, I’m almost certain wouldn’t even…