This year's Doctor Who Christmas Special "Joy to the World" is the most Steven Moffat of Christmas specials you can possibly get, melding timey-wimey shenanigans, snarky comedy and farce, surprising emotional insights, and a tear-jerker ending. Christmas Specials might be considered a bit outside of the usual series stories, but Moffat is in Maximum Showoff […]
Doctor Who: The War Games is this year's remastered, re-edited, and colorized story designed to introduce new and younger fans to the classic series. It's not just a cleaning up of the video to make it pretty for modern audiences but added some surprises that may have retconned the story to bring it in line […]
Tom Baker, best known for playing the Fourth Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who has recorded a very special Christmas message for all of his fans around the world and beyond. This video was produced by Cygnus Alpha Events. You probably don't need to be told he played The Doctor longer than any other actor, […]
Jon Pertwee's debut season as the Third Doctor will be the next release to join the Doctor Who Blu-ray collection. Fans can continue to build their own home archive on Blu-ray with a seven-disc box set of Season 7, starring Jon Pertwee and Caroline John as companion Liz Shaw. Containing four classic stories, this limited-edition set is also […]
"Joy to the World" might be the most eagerly anticipated Doctor Who Christmas Special in years, partly because it's only the second one post-60th anniversary but mostly because it's written by former showrunner and the series' cleverest writer Steven Moffat. And he makes sure it's as Christmassy and Doctor Who as possible… "The Most 'Doctor […]
Mark Gatiss is one of the MVPs of modern Doctor Who and much of 21st-century British television. Not only was he one of the key figures and writers from the 1990s Doctor Who fandom, out of which emerged Russell T. Davies, Steven Moffat, and David Tennant, but he has also written scripts for the modern revival of […]
Another classic era story from Doctor Who is getting colourised and a re-edit for modern audiences. This year, it's "The War Games," the Second Doctor's (Patrick Troughton) final adventure, and the final story to be filmed in black and white. The Doctor, Jamie (Frazier Hines), and Zoe (Wendy Padbury) have to fight The War Chief […]
Doctor Who fans always find something to wring their hands over, and the biggest is the series ratings. Haters like to gloat that the series' current ratings are lower than they used to be when it was at its peak, but live UK TV broadcast viewership doesn't paint the whole picture since we now live […]
You could say Peter Capaldi played the Ultimate Doctor Who. Then, the showrunner created his Doctor as probably the last of the older incarnations to explore as many facets of the character they both wanted over Capaldi's three-series run. After his final story and regeneration into Jodie Whittaker, Capaldi has vowed that he would never […]
The BBC has announced the official premiere time for this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special. "Joy to the World". We all know it will be transmitted on a live broadcast on BBC One in the UK on Christmas Day, but everyone has wondered if it might premiere on Disney+ streaming earlier at midnight on Christmas […]
Oh, look, it's a new sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who! The Fifteenth Doctor's Sonic screwdriver toy is now up for sale. Not only that, there's a third version of it, this time in a different colour! Fans can get an extra special edition of the Fifteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver. A replica of this will be […]
The Cybermen are the most popular villains on Doctor Who after the Daleks. Kids love them and they're ratings winners whenever they show up like the Daleks, but did you know they never got a definitive origin story, unlike the Daleks? Well, that's about to change. Their original creator wrote an origin story that's going […]
It's Doctor Who Day! To mark 61 years since our favourite TV show began, Big Finish is making a full-cast audio adventure available for free. In "The Five Companions," the Fifth Doctor meets up with his distant past: the schoolteacher who settled down, the space pilot who became a King, the security agent who died […]
The classic Doctor Who story 'The War Games" is returning in stunning new colourisation to air on BBC Four and iPlayer on 23rd December. Originally aired in 1969, The War Games marked the end of an era for the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), following him and his companions Zoe and Jamie as they land on a battlefield that appears […]
Blake's 7, the cult 1970s space opera series created by Terry Nation, who also created the Daleks for Doctor Who is getting a US Blu-Ray release on top of the UK edition. Hurrah! The Federation was the evil empire in this series, and the heroes were a bunch of escaped convicts who couldn't stand each other […]
After years of being passed from one production company to another, former Doctor Who writer Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling London fantasy book series Rivers of London is finally getting a TV series. Sky Studios has picked up the TV adaptation of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London and is developing it with Tom Winchester's drama indie company Pure Fiction. […]
Nye is a major play starring Michael Sheen staged at London's National Theatre in 2023 – and it has a Doctor Who connection. The playwright Tim Price was previously involved in an episode of Doctor Who, namely "The Tsuranga Conundrum" in Jodie Whittaker's first season. You can stream Nye for free on YouTube until November 11th, and it comes highly recommended. It's […]
Steven Moffat might be the ultimate showrunner of Doctor Who next to Russell T. Davies, having been in charge of the show for seven whole series, longer than any showrunner or producer in the show's history. Moffat has written a total of fifty episodes for the series, with the upcoming Christmas Special "Joy to the […]
Doctor Who is considered Science Fiction, though the writers have always played fast and loose with those perimeters. It's more like Science Fantasy, so they could fudge things to just have stories to fill airtime. What the series does best has always been to scare kids (and some adults), and it does that with more […]
Doctor Who may have started with the brief to teach children about history and some science, but it's really the monsters that kids and viewers tune in to see that have made the series popular for over sixty years. The series has almost as many recurring baddies as Batman. Their popularity and longevity have been due […]
