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Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-written Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" as it inches closer to our Christmas Day screens, the BBC is offering fans a Season 2 holiday present Earlier today, it was announced that Rose Ayling-Ellis MBE (Ludwig, EastEnders) is joining the cast of Season 2 for[...]

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[...]

Mark Gatiss is one of the MVPs of modern Doctor Who and much of 21st-century British television Not only was he one of the key figures and writers from the 1990s Doctor Who fandom, out of which emerged Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, and David Tennant, but he has also written scripts for the modern revival of[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-written Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" hits our screens, we're getting a chance to get to know Coughlan We know what you're thinking – between Derry Girls and Bridgerton alone, Coughlan isn't exactly a stranger to us – but for this go-around, she[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-written Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World." Earlier today, we took a look at what #WhoSpy had to share on the long-running show's Instagram "subwave network" about the upcoming special Now, we're getting a new look that should definitely help you piece together your[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-written Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" hits Disney+, BBC One, and BBC iPlayer screens, we've been treated to trailers, teasers, image galleries, behind-the-scenes perspectives, and more But it's been a while since we checked in on what #WhoSpy had to share on the[...]

Doctor Who vs Star Trek has long been a bit of a rivalry between their respective fanbases Because fandom, like any other tribe, needs an antagonist Fans often debate which is better, the Doctor or Captain Kirk Now, "Captain Kirk" himself has weighed in William Shatner, in a tongue-in-cheek trolly mood, tweeted, hilariously, "Dr Who[...]

Another classic era story from Doctor Who is getting colourised and a re-edit for modern audiences This year, it's "The War Games," the Second Doctor's (Patrick Troughton) final adventure, and the final story to be filmed in black and white The Doctor, Jamie (Frazier Hines), and Zoe (Wendy Padbury) have to fight The War Chief[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-written Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World", that doesn't mean that there isn't time to look ahead at what the second season has to offer viewers. In Doctor Who Magazine #611, RTD did just that with a Doctor Who-themed edition of "The 12 Days of[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-written Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World", you would think that Christmas was tumbling down our chimnies this week and not in another fifteen days But with Davies set to join BBC's The One Show later today to preview what's to come (and hopefully[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who would be getting a five-episode spinoff limited series Starring Russell Tovey (Feud, American Horror Story: NYC) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Surface, Loki), BBC and Disney Branded Television's The War Between the Land and the Sea sees a fearsome and ancient species emerging from the ocean, dramatically[...]

Out of all of Doctor Who, the Fugitive Doctor played by Jo Martin might be the most surprising and underused, introduced in "Fugitive of the Judoon" and only making cameo appearances in two other episodes for the rest of then-showrunner Chris Chibnall's run Now she's getting her own Big Finish audio drama series starting in[...]

Doctor Who fans always find something to wring their hands over, and the biggest is the series ratings Haters like to gloat that the series' current ratings are lower than they used to be when it was at its peak, but live UK TV broadcast viewership doesn't paint the whole picture since we now live[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" (though we now have a better understanding of why it was also being called "Joy to the Worlds") – aside from there being two Fifteenth Doctors? That was one damn good-looking trailer – with visuals bordering on The Fifth[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" (though we now have a better understanding of why it was also being called "Joy to the Worlds") – with the vision of two Fifteenth Doctors still stuck in our heads, and that was far from the only highlight[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" ("Joy to the Worlds"?) hits our screens, we heard from writer and ex-showrunner Steven Moffat earlier this week regarding what viewers can expect But now, we have the official trailer to pass along that starts piecing together the puzzle[...]

You could say Peter Capaldi played the Ultimate Doctor Who Then, the showrunner created his Doctor as probably the last of the older incarnations to explore as many facets of the character they both wanted over Capaldi's three-series run After his final story and regeneration into Jodie Whittaker, Capaldi has vowed that he would never[...]

Former Doctor Who showrunner and now itinerant freelancer Steven Moffat has been promoting his upcoming Christmas Special, "Joy to the World." He gave a very long interview to SFX Magazine, in which he offered some insights about the special and his process for writing the Doctor, this time played by Ncuti Gatwa. "Doctor Who: Joy to[...]

The BBC has announced the official premiere time for this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special "Joy to the World" We all know it will be transmitted on a live broadcast on BBC One in the UK on Christmas Day, but everyone has wondered if it might premiere on Disney+ streaming earlier at midnight on Christmas[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" ("Joy to the Worlds"?) hits our screens, writer and ex-showrunner Steven Moffat seems to want to ease some fans' concerns Those concerns? That the Doctor's holiday adventure could end up putting a lot of heartbreak and pain in our[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" ("Joy to the Worlds"?) – penned by none other than writers and ex-Showrunner Steven Moffat Now, we have a few screencaps to pass along from the promo trailer released by the BBC spotlighting what streaming service BBC iPlayer has[...]

Oh, look, it's a new sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who! The Fifteenth Doctor's Sonic screwdriver toy is now up for sale Not only that, there's a third version of it, this time in a different colour! Fans can get an extra special edition of the Fifteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver A replica of this will be[...]

Bad news for British Doctor Who fans and all TV viewers in the UK: the BBC license fee will rise with inflation again until 2027, as new Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy continues with her reset of relations and looks to the future The corporation's funding was supposed to be returning to an inflationary rise last[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who, we've been keeping our radars tuned into what the future might hold in terms of a third season of and if it would still involve the BBC and Disney+ still working together on it There have been rumors, gossip,[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who If you didn't know, the BBC posts scripts from a whole lot of Doctor Who episodes – with the anniversary specials and Season 1 having been recently added That's where we learned that a musical number was meant to go down during the[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who Along with Gatwa and Coughlan, the special also stars Steph de Whalley as Anita, Jonathan Aris as Melnak, Joel Fry as Trev, Peter Benedict as Basil, Julia Watson as Hilda, and Niamh Marie Smith as Sylvia. Produced by Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who, he doesn't see himself returning to the long-running series But then again…? Maybe it has to do with the Christmas Special inching closer Maybe it has to do with a whole bunch of "creative feels" that resurfaced over the weekend when he was[...]

The Cybermen are the most popular villains on Doctor Who after the Daleks Kids love them and they're ratings winners whenever they show up like the Daleks, but did you know they never got a definitive origin story, unlike the Daleks? Well, that's about to change Their original creator wrote an origin story that's going[...]

Doctor Who Day has seen a flood of news and video releases to celebrate the series, including deleted scenes from season one of the Disney+ era, the announcement of a new 90-minute colourised cut of "The War Games," a five-hour video stream of clips from sixty years of the series, and as expected, all the scripts of[...]