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Earlier this week, the BBC offered an early preview of the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special, with Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday, beginning their new series of adventures together on December 25th with "The Church on Ruby Road." Set for BBC One, BBC iPlayer & Disney+, the special episode sees the Doctor coming[...]

After a mind-blowing first episode, BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring Doctor Who 60th-anniversary special event returns this weekend with the Tom Kingsley-directed, Davies-penned "Wild Blue Yonder." When the TARDIS shuffles the Doctor and Donna off to a mysterious destination, where the dynamic duo will have[...]

The buyout model was first introduced by Netflix when the streamer began producing original series and feature films and has been one of the factors that led to the Writers' Guild of America strike this year. Image: BBC Screencap Doctor Who has been one of the most lucrative British sources of residuals for former writers down the[...]

Though the fifth & final series wrapped up its run earlier this month, BBC One's Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard & Ben Willbond-created Ghosts will be back for a final holiday haunting on Christmas Day Along with a teaser image for the special, the BBC also released an official overview offering[...]

While the three-episode special event celebrating the 60th anniversary of BBC's Doctor Who is set to end its run on December 9th, it won't be long until Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday take the controls of the TARDIS Earlier this month, a social media post from Disney+ revealed that December 25th will[...]

Would BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring episode acknowledge the creators of Beep the Meep (voiced by Miriam Margolyes)? There it was, right at the end of the opening title credits – with the episode written by Davies from a story by Pat Mills & Dave Gibbons. Written[...]

Or a much-needed return. Image: BBC The newly-reminted Doctor lands in Camden, North London, and runs into Donna and her family just as an alien craft crashes nearby Soon there's lots of running and shooting, and of course, an alien menace threatens to destroy the world That's Doctor Who 101 The trick is to make it feel[...]

Earlier this year, Doctor Who fans learned that Beep the Meep (Miriam Margolyes) would be playing a major role in this month's big three-episode special event from the BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who And they didn't have to wait long to learn if Beep's creators would[...]

BBC, BBC iPlayer, Disney+, and Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring 60th-anniversary episode "The Star Beast" didn't just kick off the three-episode special event This weekend's adventure featured a series of firsts – including the first extended look at the new (and massive) interior of the[...]

That's one episode down and two to go for BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring Doctor Who 60th anniversary special event With "The Star Beast" currently in the midst of being watched and rewatched by millions around the world, it's only fitting that we have[...]

With "The Star Beast" having now officially dropped on BBC, BBC iPlayer & Disney+, fans are finally getting a chance to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who with Showrunner Russell T Davies and returning stars David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) In an episode filled with action, adventure, intrigue & big reveals, viewers[...]

With the first of BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies's three David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring episodes celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who hitting this afternoon, we have a little something special to pass along to help you do a little "cramming" when it comes to the Doctor & Donna Noble's[...]

Doctor Who is finally getting an official podcast right from the mothership, the BBC itself While this shouldn't be surprising, it sort of is because first, the BBC currently has an official podcast for his most popular buzzy drama series like Peaky Blinders, Line of Duty and Ghosts, yet never had a Doctor Who Podcast[...]

With tomorrow bringing the first of BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies's three David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring episodes celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, we have a new preview for November 25th's "The Star Beast" to pass along Previously, we had a chance to see Yasmin Finney's Rose introduce Donna[...]

When the Mark Gatiss-penned An Adventure in Space and Time was reaired on Thursday night on BBC Four as part of the big celebration in play for the 60th anniversary of BBC's Doctor Who (with the three-episode special event kicking off this weekend on BBC One, BBC iPlayer & Disney+ with "The Star Beast"), viewers[...]

It's that the serial was cut down to a 75-minute single episode, down from the original seven 25-minute episodes that's the real draw. "Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour" courtesy of the BBC It's fascinating to watch this early version of Doctor Who when they were still figuring out what the characters were The Doctor (William Hartnell)[...]

Written by Mark Gatiss, 2013's An Adventure in Space and Time celebrated the 50th anniversary of the long-running show by taking viewers back to the beginning for a chance to see how BBC's Doctor Who made it to the screen In the final scene, William Hartnell (David Bradley) looks up from the controls of the[...]

For this go-around, we have two more updates to pass along – beginning with an updated lineup of Doctors on the official key art that was released earlier today – which you can check out below: Image: BBC And get ready to get your feels beaten the crap out of as Paul McGann narrates the official trailer[...]

And that glimpse came in the form of Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), clearly on the run but with Gatwa flashing a smile that tells us the Doctor's more fascinated and fearful – a very cool clip (with more to come, we're hoping). Image: BBC Screencap Here's a look back at the long-running show's 60[...]

We're now down to only days before the first of BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies's three David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring episodes celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who hits our screens That alone would be a good enough reason to share an extended preview of November 25th's "The Star Beast."[...]

With today being the official 60th anniversary of the BBC's Doctor Who, fans have been getting a mix of the old with the new This weekend kicks off Showrunner Russell T Davies's David Tennant & Catherine Tate-starring three-episode 60th Anniversary special event, with a very huge spotlight on "The Star Beast" made even larger by[...]

With this weekend bringing the first BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies's three David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring episodes celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, it appeared we got a little clarity on when on November 25th "The Star Beast" would be streaming on Disney+ From the press kit that[...]

The first adult Science Fiction TV series in the UK, the original six-part serial was only ever broadcast once on the BBC in 1953 Nobody had really seen anything like it on television in 1953 – the story of an astronaut who returns as the sole survivor of the first British space launch who brings[...]

Ghosts, the hit BBC version from which the hit American CBS remake was made, has ended its run at five seasons That's five six-episode seasons of ghostly comedy shenanigans in an old English manor, apart from the upcoming Christmas Special on the BBC that will be the True Ending So many video game references, but this[...]

This weekend brings the first of BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies's three David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring episodes celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who Now, we know that there's been some confusion as to when the special would stream on Disney+ in the U.S[...]

While the countdown rolls on to this weekend's kick-off of BBC, Disney+ &  Showrunner Russell T Davies's David Tennant & Catherine Tate-starring three-episode Doctor Who 60th Anniversary special event, filming continues on the next series of adventures with Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday) With the next year looking to be a celebration of[...]

With only days to go until the first of BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies's three David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring episodes celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who hits our screens, Davies and Tennant checked in with BBC The One Show to offer some new insights into what viewers can[...]

The BBC has launched "The Whoniverse" channel on the BBC iPlayer in the UK, where the near-complete archive of all Doctor Who content will be available for British viewers Sixty years of content is a lot for a beginner, so the BBC got popular British geek podcaster, pop culture commentator, and all-round Doctor Who fan[...]

It's here, "Destination: Skaro," the Doctor Who/BBC Children in Need sketch (or mini-episode) that marks the first television appearance of David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor since the regeneration in 2022's "The Power of the Doctor," and it's a hilarious harbinger of things to come under Russell T Davies' reign as returning showrunner Why, it's as if[...]

Davies and David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) in honor of this year's BBC Children in Need fundraising event Joined by Mawaan Rizwan and Julian Bleach, we learned the "truth" about the Doctor's arch-nemesis Daleks – and the role the Doctor had in creating his own worst enemy Including the plunger Now, we have some official images[...]