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Last week press were running the stories that the announcement of Marco Polo would be made at the Doctor Who Afterparty on BBC3 We were wary of that, didn't run it and, indeed, it did not come to pass. But the Marco Polo rumours have been hard to ignore. This is what is currently being rumoured amongst[...]

This is how we are hearing Doctor Who Series Eight will break down. Again, nothing official, nothing released, don't regard this as gospel. Or we'll send

Geof Darrow in the TARDIS. Would the Shaolin Cowboy make a fine War Doctor? Top Twenty Traffic Stories Of The Week Fifty Thoughts About Doctor Who: The

All Doctor Who, all the time. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Sunday: Fifty Thoughts About Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor (UPDATE) Here we go. Our Favourite

The Daily Mirror quotes Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat confirming what Bleeding Cool ran earlier...

A dazzingly inventive fiftieth anniversary episode for Doctor Who, but in seventy-five minutes can everything be wrapped up. Of course not. Here are a few

The internet pretty much shut down to watch Doctor Who yesterday (well, my part of it, anyway), and then spun back up to talk about it. That almost never

TOM TOM Okay, a long time ago, there was another revival of Doctor Who planned for the BBC called The Dark Dimension It would have featured all then then present Doctors, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, but prominently Tom Baker, visibly aged, as a Fourth Doctor that had never needed[...]

Eight seems appropriate don't you think? So, have you watched The Night Of The Doctor yet? Go on, off you pop.

It's Children In Need night on Friday, a big BBC telethon, with lots of TV stuff (including new Doctor Who) and lots of money raising Tony Lee has a long standing association with the charity and has donated his first signed copy of Doctor Who: A Winter's End hardcover which has just topped £100 in[...]

It aired properly on BBC1 tonight, just after Strictly Come Dancing Worth putting up again for those who want a second peek. It aired properly on BBC1 tonight, just after Strictly Come Dancing Worth putting up again for those who want a second peek. It aired properly on BBC1 tonight, just after Strictly Come Dancing[...]

Because it's a manga adaptation of the BBC Sherlock series. Still not translated into English (at least, not officially) this does seem a lot like leaving pounds and dollars on the table, and only accepting yen. An volume adapting Study In Pink came out earlier this year, now creator Jay will be publishing the TV show's second[...]

Filling in for other parts of the BC machine which are currently in motion in various parts of the world, so I'm sure someone will be by with a more indepth analysis soon, but here's what's official for now: Update: See also Michael Moran's much more informative piece on this development. BBC Worldwide North America announces that a[...]

We told you that the BBC News reporting that the BBC has recovered lost episodes of Doctor Who and were putting them for sale didn't give them any more credence than other media organisations reporting the same thing That BBC News was editorial autonomous and didn't work as a PR wing for the BBC Even[...]

Today, BBC News ran an report claiming that the previously presumed missing episodes of Doctor Who had been returned to the BBC and would be put on sale, digitally at the end of the week. A number of websites reported this as the BBC officially confirming the rumour that had been prevalent on news sites since[...]

The Daily Mirror is reporting that the upcoming BBC press conference, which they believe will officially announce the release of missing, presumed wiped, episodes of Doctor Who has been delayed from Wednesday until the end of the week. They state; But a BBC spokesman admitted today they were "not quite ready" and the press conference has now[...]

Doctor Who missing episode news emerging on NYCC week? Zoinks. We're all going to be busy this week...  As I was writing this piece, The Radio Times made

106 were thought to have been wiped or lost, though that's a reduction of the original amount, after hard work by fans and collectors recovering many episodes around the world over the years. We first started hearing about what's been dubbed the Omnirumour around a year ago, that a huge cache of missing episodes of Doctor[...]

UPDATE: BBC Worldwide have called a press conference on Tuesday As of now, Bleeding Cool has not been invited. As I was writing this piece, The Radio Times made it official Missing Doctor Who episodes, originating from the Patrick Troughton era have been discovered, and will be made available digitally this week I have been told[...]

The Sunday People can exclusively reveal that 106 BBC programmes have been unearthed featuring the first two doctors. But after months of ­detective work the tapes have been unearthed at the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency. That's from today's national newspaper, The Sunday People So how do they back up this claim? Doctor Who expert Stuart Kelly revealed[...]

"The Day of the Doctor." Tonight, the BBC got in the act by coining a hashtag for the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who and pushing it out to the masses in a quick video clip between Strictly Come Dancing and Atlantis. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Saturday: UPDATED: First Two Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Promos Launch Its Official Hashtag[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e58GogKsXmA Just in time for the hundredth anniversary of Doctor Who. "Qatar to host Winter Olympics" on the back is a good

If you've got amazing eyesight, and perhaps some kind of sixth sense, you may be able to read a few more little... blurs.

But now the BBC has let out all of their Fiftieth Anniversary plans. ON #BBCTWO: – In a special one-off programme, Professor Brian Cox will try to answer the classic questions raised by the Doctor – can you really travel in time? Does extra-terrestrial life exist in our galaxy? And how do you build something as fantastical[...]

Over at Doctor Who TV they have a photo of Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor) and Sylvester McCoy (the Seventh Doctor) outside of the soon-to-be-rubble BBC TV Centre In the photo there are also protest signs against not having the classic Doctors in the 50th Anniversary Special. In the report it claims that Davison, McCoy and Colin Baker (the[...]

Like The Watcher in Logopolis. Either way, Steven Moffat doesn't seem the type to just throw the name in there for a laugh. We won't know for sure until the 50th Anniversary special… but for those of you who don't know what the Valeyard is, here is the handy-dandy clip the BBC posted on their official Doctor[...]

Well, this is interesting. It appears that the BBC has scheduled an episode of Dad's Army on BBC 2, September 14th It's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker, an episode that was missing, presumed wiped. From the second series of the very popular sitcom on, Dad's Army was subject to the wiping of tapes by the[...]

And as a result, needing far bigger balls. Other notable achievements include the BBC's The Frost Report, which also laid the framework for Monty Python's Flying Circus, starting up London Weekend Television and TV-AM, and his Sunday morning political interviews in the nineties and noughties that managed to ask hard questions of politicians expecting an easy[...]

So he's the New Doctor. But this won't be the first time Peter Capaldi played a time traveller, lost in the time continuum, travelling from time to

The premier Doctor Who forum, that was birthed by the previous premier Outpost Gallifrey when that site ended. Naturally, they've discussed the Doctor Who Missing Episodes rumour, nicknamed the Omnirumour which encapsulates the belief of some that ninety of so missing episodes of Doctor Who have been recovered – as well as the more recent specific[...]