The hit BBC series, Who Do You Think You Are? has returned to television for a brand new series, and this time it features another Doctor Who star in the form of Matt Lucas, who will be seeing where he comes from. Lucas of course played the part of Nardole, alongside Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor and then became a fully fledged companion, paired with Pearl Mackie’s Bill Potts. Making his…

Paul Hayes’ new book, The Long Game, is an impressively researched and very enjoyable account of the attempts to bring Doctor Who back after the TARDIS spun off into franchising limbo at the end of the 1996 TV Movie. The Long Game is based on interviews with some 30 of the key people involved in trying to resurrect Doctor Who in the years between 1996 -when the TV Movie was screened – and 2003,…

MCM Comic Con is upon us again, taking place at the Excel Centre in London over this weekend (25- 27th October) and it promises to be something of a treat for Doctor Who fans.

I attended the previous Con in May and I must admit, while I thoroughly enjoyed myself, I was dismayed at the lack of Doctor Whocontent. Of course, this was down to a number of different reasons, not least because the…

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…

The Ninth Doctor. Only a few years ago, they were words we would never hear – we thought. And then we got two! Seriously though, the return of Doctor Who has been analysed immensely, with all sorts of opinions based on fact, fancy, and fish written across the media and Internet. But one thing is constant throughout the discourse and readings of the first 13 episodes of 21st Century Who.…

One of the most annoying things about Doctor Who serial titles – aside from the messy business of deciding whether it’s The Edge of Destruction or Inside the Spaceship – is trying to remember which begin with “The”. Some are easy. The Long Game. Easy. The Twin Dilemma. Easy. The Web of Fear. Easy. These simply wouldn’t sound right without “The” at their beginnings. The Evil of the Daleks? Always…

While Christopher Eccleston is a wonderful actor, and frankly a joy to watch in everything he’s in, it’s fair to say not all he’s appeared in has been lavished with praise. But even the most critically-acclaimed series and films should be viewed in different lights. Yesterday, we covered his appearances in the Marvel Universe, as a member of The Beatles, and in an ITV thriller which is due back…

Can it really be more than a decade since Series 1 ended? Coming up to 12 years this summer since the Ninth Doctor breathed his last, his gallant effort to save his companion causing his demise? Doctor Who Series 1 did a lot of things right. The Ninth Doctor? Tick. A fantastic relevance? Tick. Proper drama? Double tick. And of course: monsters – always a key ingredient in Doctor Who, and that…