It's interesting that the modern era of Doctor Who sets Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) as the main template for companions in the series. Every companion ever since has been compared to her even when it's not always an apt comparison. It's not hard to understand. Rose is an ordinary teenager with a normal life in […]
There's been a lot of speculation about the future of Doctor Who, and Russell T. Davies has said he has no intention of being the current showrunner forever. That makes sense. He has a whole career outside of Doctor Who writing drama and socially relevant drama and is already going back to that with a […]
Catherine Tate, beloved British comedy queen and possibly the more beloved Donna Noble on Doctor Who, The Office, and her scorching eponymous television show, will top the bill at this year's London Palladium Pantomime, Sleeping Beauty, which is a perennial Christmas Panto. Her casting is a big event for the festive extravaganza to celebrate its 10th anniversary since […]
A grand exploration of time and space began in San Diego on March 15, 2025, as the U.S. premiere of the Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder: Where Science Meets Fiction exhibit debuted at the Comic-Con Museum. Comic-Con Museum is also the first to include a never-before-seen section of the exhibition that features all 17 of […]
If you've been wondering what former Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall has been up to, the answer is here: he wrote a murder mystery novel called Death at the White Hart that will be made into a TV series on ITV. Chibnall will script and showrunner the television adaptation of the book, which will be published in the UK later in March […]
Years before she became internationally known as Donna Noble on Doctor Who, Catherine Tate was already a TV star in the UK with her own comedy sketch show called The Catherine Tate Show. Here's your chance to watch the original pilot of the hit series, courtesy of the BBC Studios channel on YouTube. Before Doctor […]
Another day, another totally unsubstantiated rumour for Doctor Who. Ncuti Gatwa is leaving! David Tennant might be returning to play the Doctor? Oh, noes! It's more doom and gloom for Doctor Who! This year's Christmas Special is cancelled! The show is cancelled! Disney is pulling out! And the internet and the fans eat it all […]
David Tennant may have left Doctor Who for now, but he hasn't left Science Fiction or Fantasy behind since he's currently (reportedly) wrapped filming the finale movie of Good Omens, and despite taking on many "realistic" mainstream dramas, he's more than willing to do another Science Fiction project if a good one comes along. The […]
Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat seems to be living his best life now that he's no longer in charge of the show and doesn't seem to have any further involvement in the current series unless he's invited to write another episode. That makes him the best ambassador for the show because he's happy to […]
One major mystery in Doctor Who may have been solved in EastEnders when Mrs. Flood made a surprise appearance in the long-running BBC soap opera! That's right! Mrs. Flood is really… ANGIE WATTS! We should have known! It was right in front of us all along since Anita Dobson plays both characters! In this episode, […]
Doctor Who is a unique show in many ways, and why it has so many fans, but the most unique part about it is that every time a new Doctor arrives, their first episode is practically the pilot episode of a brand new show. No other show before or after can do this, and that's […]
It's odd to realize that it's been nearly twenty years since Russell T. Davies revived Doctor Who in its current post-Buffy, very online and meme-able form. Some fans haven't seen that first season with Christopher Eccleston and Billy Piper. Most of them discovered the series with David Tennant, who's still considered the most popular modern era Doctor. The biggest […]
Nearly two months after he was announced as returning to host the 2025 EE BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Film Awards and about a week before the big event, David Tennant (Doctor Who, Good Omens, Rivals) is opening up about his initial reaction to being asked back to host the 78th edition, how […]
Everyone's favourite new "lost" Doctor Who Jo Martin isn't going away anytime soon. She and Alice Krige star in The Fugitive Doctor: Dead or Alive, a second series box set of full-cast audio drama due in July 2025 from Big Finish Productions. Still on the run from her old employers, the sinister Time Lord agency […]
While we're waiting for more news about the next season of Doctor Who, the BBC brought out another video of Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen), the Best Companion. She wasn't the first companion, but she's become the quintessential companion, the template from which every companion after her is drawn with variations. She's also the companion […]
Doctor Who has always been a strange, scrappy little TV series, a kind of Frankenstein's monster cobbled together from spare parts left lying around the scrapyards of pop culture. The original makers didn't set out to make Art or even a television milestone. Then Head of the BBC Sydney Newman, tasked producer Verity Lambert with producing a fun time […]
Imagine if Doctor Who and Gentleman Jack were a team of con women – well, that's what you get when Jodie Whittaker (Time, One Night, Doctor Who, Broadchurch) and Suranne Jones (Maryland, Vigil, Gentleman Jack, Doctor Foster, Scott & Bailey) team up in a new series, Frauds, co-created by Jones. ITV's Director of Drama, Polly Hill, has commissioned a six-part […]
ITV has commissioned The Hack, a 7-part drama about the phone hacking scandal written by prolific BAFTA, Tony, and Olivier award-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne, with David Tennant, Robert Carlyle, and Toby Jones in leading roles and produced by the team from Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the 2024 drama about the scandal that brought down […]
Barbara Clegg, the first woman to write an episode of Doctor Who, passed away this week at the age of 98. Clegg would go on to pen the first serial that was both written and directed by women (with Fiona Cumming directing). That was "Enlightenment," the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) adventure broadcast in 1983. Think […]
This past Christmas has given us all an opportunity to compare the original classic era of Doctor Who with the current one. The edited-down and colourised 1969 story "The War Games" and this year's Christmas special "Joy to the World" premiered within days of each other. Both stories showed how much the show has stayed […]
