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 […]
BBC Radio 3's Gatsby in Harlem might be one of BBC audio drama's crowning achievements, even if it has to use Ncuti Gatwa from Doctor Who as a gateway drug to attract an audience. Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams has set F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in 1920s Harlem with an African-American (played by an […]
Ncuti Gatwa has been very busy when he's not filming Doctor Who, including acting in audio dramas like Dickens adaptations, but the most interesting is Gatsby in Harlem, a new BBC Radio 3 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby transposed to 1920s Harlem. This is not a gimmick or an exercise in identity politics but makes the story […]
While we wait for the second season of Doctor Who to premiere, current Doctor Ncuti Gatwa has been keeping busy. He has recorded Gatsby in Harlem for BBC Radio 3 and is on stage right now in London's West End in a new production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Max Webster (Donmar's […]
Doctor Who stars get to act in all kinds of productions in between seasons, and Ncuti Gatwa and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who played Martha Jones' sister in the David Tennant run and a new role in the upcoming spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea, are the leads of a new BBC Radio 4 […]
Is Steven Moffat done with Doctor Who after this year's Christmas special, "Joy to the World"? We don't know, and neither does he. It depends on how busy he is and whether he gets invited to write for the series again. One thing he doesn't run out of is ideas, and there's one he's become […]
There's another Doctor Who anniversary that's more meaningful for fans of the classic series. Tom Baker made his debut as the Fourth Doctor fifty years ago. Baker played The Doctor the longest, seven years, and became the face of the series to fans worldwide, especially Americans. This is significant in so many ways. You could […]
"Joy to the World" is everything you can expect from a Steven Moffat Doctor Who Christmas Special. It's clever, twisty, silly, funny, and tragic in equal measure, but at heart, it's Moffat's poignant meditation on loneliness and finding a purpose to get out of that. Loneliness is an issue for many people at Christmas. In […]
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 […]
