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With the endless speculation over the future of Doctor Who, where it's going to end up, and who's going to co-finance it, there's one thing often overlooked in the endless speculation: the streaming rights for the library of the modern revival of the series Russell T Davies brought the series back in 2005 and gave it a[...]

Of course, we're talking about a crossover between "Star Trek" and Doctor Who Sure, there have been some hints, teases, and easter eggs along the way (most recently an episode of Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – more on that in a minute) But it's just not the same as seeing the TARDIS materialize[...]

While there's going to be an eleven-month wait for the 2026 Doctor Who Christmas Special, Big Finish continues to fight the good fight with new Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz adventures starring Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill The series of original stories can be considered the "lost" season, which takes place between the second and third[...]

There's so much fretting about the future of Doctor Who, with fans blaming showrunner Russell T Davies for his creative choices in the Disney+ era It creates a lot of clickbait as they villainize Davies for becoming the hero who brought the show back and then became the villain for staying around too long He[...]

Comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw will be voicing the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who audio adventures from Big Finish in 2026 The six-part run is titled "Run Fast, Be Kind and is set between the Christmas Specials 'The Husbands of River Song and "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" to fill the lost series-long gap before Capaldi's[...]

You have to give the BBC's Doctor Who some credit After all of these years, the long-running show still finds ways to make headlines and fuel speculation on both sides of the camera But at least we know that Showrunner Russell T Davies will be back for a 2026 Christmas Special Will it star Billie[...]

When he's not busy writing and getting the word out about next year's Christmas Special, Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies will be making a special appearance during the upcoming season of BBC Three's RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World The reality competition series features a lineup of fan-favorite queens from "Drag Race" franchises[...]

Peter Capaldi And The Curse Of Doctor Who was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday, again Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past seven years Founded over sixteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip[...]

Before 2025 ends, Big Finish has one more freebie to offer: Doctor Who: Short Trips: The Wednesday That Wasn't, a short story audiobook featuring The Thirteenth Doctor, read by Clare Corbett, who called it "A brilliantly paced original piece of writing with a beautifully drawn main character My imagination immediately lit up, wanting to see more[...]

On a recent episode of the Half The Picture podcast, Peter Capaldi talked at length about his career, including his time on Doctor Who It was perhaps the most insightful look at how playing his childhood hero, The Doctor, was a double-edged sword, the price of celebrity, and the pressures of not only celebrity but[...]

Christopher Eccleston joined the campaign to end gambling advertising in the UK with some light Doctor Who references We can no longer say he's a former Doctor, as he has returned to playing the Ninth Doctor in current audio dramas from Big Finish Anyway, Eccleston has appeared in a Public Service Announcement short film, "Stacking the[...]

So we're not getting an official Doctor Who Christmas Special on TV this year, but that doesn't mean we're not getting any Doctor Who stuff for Christmas Big Finish has launched BIGFINISHMAS25, a twelve-day festive event offering a free download gift every day starting now throughout the Christmas period. Big Finish "Sale bells ring, are you listening?  Merry[...]

We may not be getting an official Doctor Who Christmas Special this year, but that doesn't mean non-canon and unofficial Doctor Who is going to go all Grinch on us There's a Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) Christmas audio drama episode, "Lionesses in Winter," out now on Big Finish, and now closer to the bone, Sophie[...]

And lo, the Doctor Who spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea came to an end Does it stick the landing? Well, it might have worked better if the writing had made any sense The problem is that the entire series had an escalating number of plot holes, which made it increasingly nonsensical[...]

(Unified Intelligence Taskforce) occupies a special place in Doctor Who lore It's the go-to paramilitary organization that every major Science Fiction series seems to need In the cast of Stargate or Star Trek, the paramilitary organization is the star of the show In Doctor Who, it's an occasional supporting faction, which leaves the series with[...]

The Doctor Who spinoff The War Between The Land and The Sea heads into the second act of its blockbuster plot this week, with episodes three and four ramping up the complications A totally expected betrayal causes everything to go horribly wrong for Barclay (Russell Tovey), Aquakind ambassador Salt (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), and Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma[...]

In October, we learned that Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T Davies would be writing a Christmas Special for 2026, with Davies sharing, "Here we go Away in Danger? Jingle Hells? Silent Blight? Hark the Weeping Angels Sing..? O Come All Ye… um, Nimon?" A month later, during an interview with RadioTimes.com, Davies shared that his current[...]

Legacy UNIT leader Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) may be one of the fan favourite characters in modern era Doctor Who, but fans seem convinced she's going to die in The War Between The Land and The Sea Even Redgrave started hinting at it when she questioned whether Kate would survive the spinoff series Is she[...]

There is much debate about what could have made Doctor Who more successful, including various cross-marketing promotions and so forth, but one thing that the BBC and even Russell T Davies seem to have overlooked is giving the series alternate titles, as Light Novels often use. The new spinoff miniseries The War Between the Land and the Sea almost has a Light[...]

Based on the social media reactions, the critics' ratings, and the viewing numbers, it would appear that the BBC, Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies, and Peter McTighe have a hit on their hands with the spinoff series The War Between the Land and the Sea With two episodes set to hit this weekend, the[...]

In the annals of modern Doctor Who fandom, there has been a faction that has assumed and shipped UNIT leader Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) as a lesbian When the last two seasons of the Disney+ era of Doctor Who hinted at her non-lesbian romance with colleague Colonel Ibrahim (Alexander Devrient), they were up in arms,[...]

This year's classic re-edit of Doctor Who is a condensed version of "The Sea Devils," originally spanning six half-hour episodes, condensed into a single 90-minute feature to introduce new viewers to the cult monsters We say "cult" because they're not as high profile as the Daleks or the Cybermen, but somehow they have their fans[...]

The last piece (for now) of Doctor Who is upon us. The standalone spinoff series The War Between the Land and the Sea is a five-part blockbuster Science Fiction epic that's also the final instalment of the Disney deal, and anyone watching wants to know just one thing: Is it any good? Short answer: YES[...]

December 2025 is Sea Devils Month, which is more Doctor Who than you might get as the BBC pushes The War Between The Land and The Sea The BBC, under Russell T Davies, is offering up the original story "The Sea Devils" as this year's re-edited and remastered feature-length episode, cut from six half-hours down to[...]

Back in October, the word came down that Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T Davies would be writing a Christmas Special for 2026, with Davies sharing, "Here we go Away in Danger? Jingle Hells? Silent Blight? Hark the Weeping Angels Sing..? O Come All Ye… um, Nimon?" A month later, during an interview with RadioTimes.com, Davies shared[...]

Speculation remains rampant about which international streaming service will acquire the rights to Doctor Who now that its Disney+ deal has expired Who will get Doctor Who? The sky is falling! The news this week that Netflix is going to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery raises a new question: could Netflix or HBO Max get dibs on the series? BBC/Disney This question[...]

A surprise new mini-episode of Doctor Who featuring the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) and Tegan (Janet Fielding) was released on the official series YouTube channel to herald the upcoming release of the final Fifth Doctor remastered Blu-Ray boxset This will complete Davison's Doctor Who run on remastered physical media for collectors and fans. The minisode is[...]

It was back in October when Doctor Who fans learned that Showrunner Russell T Davies would be writing a Christmas Special for 2026, sharing: "Here we go Away in Danger? Jingle Hells? Silent Blight? Hark the Weeping Angels Sing..? O Come All Ye… um, Nimon?" Speaking exclusively with RadioTimes.com a month later, Davies shared that his current[...]

Nonprofit charity and archival body Film is Fabulous! has amassed a collection of scripts from Doctor Who and an impressive list of cult British genre TV series from the 1960s to the 1990s for De Montfort University in Leicester, England, for the purpose of archiving, scholarship and research The list includes the most popular Science[...]

In one week, a whole lot of folks in the UK will get a chance to check out Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies and Peter McTighe's The War Between the Land and the Sea when it premieres on BBC One and BBC iPlayer For those of us over here in the U.S (and other[...]