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A few days ago, the Doctor Who part of the BBC iPlayer listed a new episode of Tales of the Tardis that will premiere only on the streamer and broadcast on BBC Four in the UK on June 20th, a day before "Empire of Death," the finale of this season premieres worldwide at 7pm Eastern[...]

Now, we have a set of preview images offering some additional clues – as well as some great looks at some familiar faces: Image: BBC/Disney+ #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Image: BBC/Disney+ Image: BBC/Disney+ Image: BBC/Disney+ Image: BBC/Disney+ Image: BBC/Disney+ Image: BBC/Disney+ Image: BBC/Disney+ Image: BBC/Disney+ Image: BBC/Disney+ Image: BBC/Disney+ Along[...]

Grant?? That seems to be the biggest controversy in the episode. Still: BBC/Disney Richard E Grant previously appeared in the series during Steven Moffat's run as showrunner, the first time playing a Scooge-like villain Dr Simeon in Victorian London in the Christmas Special "Snowmen" then again in "The Name of the Doctor" as a classic series villain[...]

Flood (Anita Dobson), Cherry Sunday (Angela Wynter), Colonel Chidozie (Tachia Newall), Corporal Sullivan (Jasmine Bayes), The Vlinx (Aidan Cook), and Nicholas Briggs as the Voice of the Vlinx. Image: BBC Screencap But the big headline-grabber will be the potential "big reveal" regarding who Susan Twist's character truly is In next weekend's episode, she's listed as "Susan Triad,"[...]

In next weekend's episode, she's listed as "Susan Triad," but the promos and previews tease a much bigger reveal – and probably more questions – coming our way. Images/Screencaps: BBC "THE LEGEND OF RUBY SUNDAY" (Writer: Russell T Davies; Director: Jamie Donoughue) THE LEGEND OF RUBY SUNDAY Writer: Russell T Davies Director: Jamie Donoughue #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/NMJWOP4KQ1 — Doctor Who (@bbcdoctorwho) March[...]

Typical Doctor Who plot, right? Yet it also does something new in all the ways you expect a typical episode of not just Doctor Who but genre television, so the series feels new and fresh again for the streaming era. Image: BBC/Disney+ The Doctor and Ruby visit Regency England just to be tourists and stumble upon an[...]

Davies and series stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) Doctor Who Episode 6: "Rogue"(written by Kate Herron and Briony Redman and directed by Ben Chessell) will be bringing a ton of "Bridgerton" vibes to Disney+, BBC iPlayer, and BBC One screens – except with a whole lot more aliens[...]

It seems a new episode of Tales of the Tardis is going to premiere on BBC iPlayer on June 20th, the day before the season finale of Doctor Who, "Empire of Death" premieres worldwide on the iPlayer and Disney+ This is set fans of Doctor Who wildly speculating about what it could be about and[...]

Joining Gatwa, Gibson, and Groff are Indira Varma (Luther) as the Duchess of Pemberton, Paul Forman (Emily in Paris) as Lord Barton, and Camilla Aiko (Fifteen Love) as Emily Beckett – and Susan Twist as… "The Portrait." As for that sneak preview we were talking about? Let's just say that the Doctor offers a pretty[...]

He will be missed." Images: BBC "What a sad loss William played the Doctor's very first companion, Ian Chesterton, back in 1963 A schoolteacher, trapped on the Tardis by a wily old Doctor, unable to get home, whisked off to the Stone Age, Skaro, the Crusades, Planet of the Zarbi..! Wonderful! A fine, nimble, witty, heartfelt actor[...]

Ian was the first one to ask "Doctor Who?" when confronted by the strange old man living in a police box in a junkyard in East London. Images: BBC Russell was William Russell Enoch in 1924 and studied at Trinity College, Oxford He was a Royal Air Force officer during the Second World War before he began[...]

"Rogue" is the episode this season that takes place in a past historical setting, which is one of the expected routes of the narrative series. Still: BBC/Disney+ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single Time Lord in possession of a good TARDIS must be in want of a companion The life of a time-travelling gentleman[...]

Joining Gatwa, Gibson, and Groff are Indira Varma (Luther) as the Duchess of Pemberton, Paul Forman (Emily in Paris) as Lord Barton, and Camilla Aiko (Fifteen Love) as Emily Beckett – and for all of you Susan Twist conspiracy theorists out there, you can look forward to her taking on the role of… "The Portrait."[...]

Hmmm… Joining Gatwa, Gibson, and Groff are Indira Varma (Luther) as the Duchess of Pemberton, Paul Forman (Emily in Paris) as Lord Barton, and Camilla Aiko (Fifteen Love) as Emily Beckett – and for all of you Susan Twist conspiracy theorists out there, you can look forward to her taking on the role of… "The[...]

Joining Gatwa, Gibson, and Groff are Indira Varma (Luther) as the Duchess of Pemberton, Paul Forman (Emily in Paris) as Lord Barton, and Camilla Aiko (Fifteen Love) as Emily Beckett – and for all of you Susan Twist conspiracy theorists out there, you can look forward to her taking on the role of… "The Portrait"? Let[...]

The BBC has certainly noticed since they released a compilation video of "Doctor-Lite" episodes on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel. BBC/Disney They don't make "Doctor-Lite" episodes to torture you and deny you the show's headline star There's always a practical reason, usually due to scheduling The first "Doctor-Lite" episode was actually a Doctor-less episode in 1965[...]

It's not "Death to the Daleks"; it's "DEATH TO INFLUENCERS!" Screenshot: BBC Another Doctor-Lite Episode This is another episode where The Doctor isn't in much of it Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson only appear to Lindy on screen to talk her to safety Either this is an early episode that was filmed during the season, or they were[...]

Davies and series stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) Doctor Who Episode 5: "Dot and Bubble" (written by Davies and directed by Dylan Holmes Williams) hits our screens, how about a sneak preview? Because Disney+ and BBC thought today would be as good of a day as any for one – and that's[...]

He likes to torture viewers that way. Still: BBC/Disney We Know What the Ghostly Old Woman Said …But we're not going to tell you Hilary Robson, whose face we never see, played the Ghostly Old Woman in the distance, said Davies had written the lines that she spoke They were deliberately never recorded[...]

With Gatwa and Gibson being joined by guest stars Callie Cooke (Henpocalypse!, Peacock) and Tom Rhys Harries (White Lines, The Split), here's a look at what's to come – and make sure to check out the previews and more that we have waiting for you below: Image: BBC/Disney+ #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1[...]

Once again, this is a spoiler-free review so feel free to continue reading… Image: BBC/Disney+ So, what do you know about "Dot and Bubble" so far? It's about social media apps and twenty-somethings being all wrapped up in them It has monsters eating people So far, so Doctor Who This is closest to what everyone's come to[...]

Barely an hour after it was released, LGBTQ fans of Doctor Who are already posting their reactions, saying many moments in the story reminded them of their personal experiences when they were coming to terms with their identities and their fears. Image: BBC/Disney+ In "73 Yards," the Doctor and Ruby visit a Welsh hilltop and accidentally step[...]

However, the ghost woman never gets near Ruby to hurt her but destroys Ruby's life, condemning her to a lifetime of solitude with no friends or family to love or cherish. Image: Disney+/BBC A Doctor Who Monster That Doesn't Kill Anybody The high-concept horror in this episode of Doctor Who is that the "monster," the ghostly old woman,[...]

Davies and series stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) second season of Doctor Who has officially wrapped filming. Image: BBC "Wrap party with [Michelle Greenidge] and a beautiful Cardiff Bay That's Season 2 complete, well done everyone! ♥️♥️➕," Davies wrote in his Instagram post honoring the milestone – here's a look:   View this post[...]

Joining Gatwa and Gibson are guest stars Callie Cooke (Henpocalypse!, Peacock) and Tom Rhys Harries (White Lines, The Split) – now, we have two additional looks at the episode that dropped shortly after the official trailer. Image: BBC Screencap Here's a look at the social media teaser that was released shortly after the original trailer – followed[...]

Now that the Disney+, BBC iPlayer, and BBC One folks have all had a chance to check out Showrunner Russell T Davies and series stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) Doctor Who Episode 4: "73 Yards" (written by Davies and directed by Dylan Holmes Williams), you can check out our spoiler-free review[...]

If you haven't seen the episode yet, consider this your "MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!" warning… Aneurin Barnard as Roger ap Gwilliam in "Doctor Who: 73 Yards": BBC/Disney+ In "73 Yards", the biggest villain is human, a Welsh populist political candidate named Roger ap Gwilliam (Aneurin Barnard), who runs on a fascistic "Britain-first" platform full of platitudes of being[...]

From this point forward, there are MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD – consider yourself warned! BBC/Disney Doctor Who? More like Inside No 9! This episode feels more like an episode of the genre-hopping BBC anthology series Inside No 9 That series might hop from horror to supernatural to murder mystery to farce to dark comedy from one week to the[...]

Davies and series stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) Doctor Who Episode 4: "73 Yards" (written by Davies and directed by Dylan Holmes Williams) in our spoiler-free review from earlier this week because, well… spoilers! And with only a few hours to go until the episode hits Disney+ and BBC IPlayer[...]

Davies and series stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) Doctor Who Episode 4: "73 Yards" (written by Davies and directed by Dylan Holmes Williams) hits Disney+ and BBC IPlayer screens As we discussed in our spoiler-free review, this is another one of those episodes that you just don't see coming – because[...]