Doctor Who Series 2, it’s fair to say, is a mixed bag. If you listen to the fandom as a collective, you’ve got the highs of The Girl in the Fireplace and The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit and the lows of New Earth and Love & Monsters. It could be argued that that’s true of any season, but these contrasting opinions perhaps feel more prominent after the welcome reception Series 1 received.

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We were hungry, to say the least. I compare it to 1987 when Star Trek: The Next Generation came on the air. Us Trek fans were so eager to get a taste of more that we ignored the first two very shaky, uneven, and at times awful stories. But that was Star Trek, still under the guiding hand of creator, Gene Roddenberry, who was no longer the creative force he used to be. This was Doctor Who, and it…

Christopher Eccleston’s new memoir, I Love The Bones Of You, is out now, and in it, he details how dear Doctor Who is to him, although politics got in the way, and, alongside body dysphoria, led him to give up the role. So what would’ve tempted him to carry on playing the Ninth Doctor?

Eccleston praises his co-star, Billie Piper, who played Rose Tyler, as well as The Empty Child/ The Doctor…

It was the news we didn’t want to have to publish: John Hurt passed away at his home in Cromer, Norfolk, on Wednesday 25th January 2017. We were all shocked and, of course, saddened to know that our War Doctor was no longer with us. But this week, we’ve been exploring the smallest taste of his extensive credits: from Watership Down to Whistle and I’ll Come to You; Big Finish to Alien. And that’s…

Say what you want about 2016, but it’s produced a startlingly brilliant array of television. The small screen is really shining brightly; for every cringe-worthy reality show, there are five more fantastic dramas. You won’t go far without spotting a few familiar faces, ones you’ll likely recognise from Doctor Who. Here are just a few TV shows from 2016 worth watching. The A Word An intimate…

20Television has expanded exponentially recently, thanks largely to streaming, but if we go back just over a decade, things were very different. Forget Game of Thrones, Great British Bake-Off, and The Walking Dead: This issue of Doctor Who: The Complete History takes us back to when Doctor Who was the biggest show in the universe. Such was the success of Series 1 that the Radio Times did…