Christopher Eccleston has been a household name for many years now; his stage debut had come in 1988 at the Bristol Old Vic where he starred in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he’d gained prominence in film and TV shows like Gone in 60 Seconds, Cracker, and Our Friends in the North. But he’s surely best known for helming the 2005 relaunch of Doctor Who.

His casting came after months of speculation…

If there was ever a man who had an in with the Doctor Who production team, it’s former showrunner Russell T. Davies.

Passing on some news from the crew, Davies said that the new show was generating a ‘real buzz’ in Cardiff, which has been the shows home since 2005.

Speaking on The One Show on Tuesdayabout the hype surrounding the first series for Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor, he told Matt Baker and…

Former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies and Hugh Grant may have just teamed up for brand new period drama, A Very English Scandal but, as the oft-told story goes, Grant could have worked with Davies 13 years ago.

Confirming an old story, Davies told The I that the Four Weddings and a Funeral star was originally in line to star in 2005’s Doctor Whorevival, with Grant rumoured as an early…

Canon. It’s a complicated matter. No two fans take exactly the same position on it. How can we? There is over 50 years’ worth of continuity to try to fit into it. There’s 26 series of Classic Who, over 150 Target novelisations (many of which tied continuity in knots by themselves), New, Past and Missing Adventures, Eighth through to Twelfth Doctor Adventures, who knows how many comic strips,…

Russell T. Davies’ latest drama, A Very British Scandal, has begun filming in the UK, and stars a few names familiar to Doctor Who fans. Davies is, of course, the former showrunner of Who, and A Very British Scandal‘s cast list consists of stars from across a couple of eras of the show, including Adrian Scarborough (A Town Called Mercy), Eve Myles (The Unquiet Dead; Torchwood), David Bamber…