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Oh look, it's a new BBC Doctor Who compilation video highlighting UNIT leader Kate Stewart… that doesn't have enough Kate Stewart in it! Come on, BBC! What's up with the person or people who cut these videos together? Didn't they read the brief? Or is this another cry for help? Or were there just too[...]

Ncuti Gatwa has been very busy when he's not filming Doctor Who, including acting in audio dramas like Dickens adaptations, but the most interesting is Gatsby in Harlem, a new BBC Radio 3 adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby transposed to 1920s Harlem This is not a gimmick or an exercise in identity politics but makes the story[...]

With all the debate over what makes a good or bad Doctor Who, it's worth looking back at Peter Capaldi's run as the Twelfth Doctor He and Jodie Whittaker are the most underrated and underappreciated runs in the modern revival era His was also the most experimental era during Steven Moffat's final three years as[...]

Doctor Who is in an oddly unique place out of every other TV series in the world It's been around for over sixty years and has been revamped not once but twice now, each time for a new generation, and with a show that's been around for that long, is it getting too old to[...]

While we wait for the second season of Doctor Who to premiere, current Doctor Ncuti Gatwa has been keeping busy He has recorded Gatsby in Harlem for BBC Radio 3 and is on stage right now in London's West End in a new production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest Max Webster (Donmar's[...]

Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who But that doesn't mean we don't have time for some final "housecleaning" when it comes to the Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-penned Christmas Special, "Joy to the World." So how did the holiday special do viewers-wise? Earlier today, Radio Times[...]

Doctor Who stars get to act in all kinds of productions in between seasons, and Ncuti Gatwa and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who played Martha Jones' sister in the David Tennant run and a new role in the upcoming spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea, are the leads of a new BBC Radio 4[...]

And maybe you just have. "Doctor Who: Joy to the World" (Still: BBC) Is The Doctor Still The Doctor? and the top ten stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday Doctor Who: Is The Doctor Still The Doctor? Steven Moffat on Key Theme How Thomas Wayne's Life Differed in Absolute Batman #4 (Spoilers) Doctor Who: The Retconned Road to Sacha Dhawan's[...]

Of all the Big Bads of Doctor Who, The Master is the closest to a nemesis the Doctor has He's like the Joker to Batman Unlike the Daleks, the Cybermen, or the Sontarans, The Master is the only enemy who is the Doctor's equal in guile and intellect He's the flip side of the Doctor,[...]

Is Steven Moffat done with Doctor Who after this year's Christmas special, "Joy to the World"? We don't know, and neither does he It depends on how busy he is and whether he gets invited to write for the series again One thing he doesn't run out of is ideas, and there's one he's become[...]

There are many big bads in Doctor Who: the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans, even the Time Lords themselves, and many more, but one that has lurked in the background for twenty years has been the intergalactic arms manufacturer and tech corporation Villengard, created by Steven Moffat back in his 2005 two-parter "The Empty Child"[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-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[...]

Doctor Who Christmas specials have been an annual mainstay for nearly a whole generation now, barring the four years when they were replaced by a New Year's Special that didn't have quite the same sense that they were a special event, and Steven Moffat has written more Christmas specials since he was the longest-serving showrunner[...]

Doctor Who tragedy made the top of Bleeding Cool traffic yesterday Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six-and-a-half years Founded fifteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip a further fifteen years before[...]

There's another Doctor Who anniversary that's more meaningful for fans of the classic series Tom Baker made his debut as the Fourth Doctor fifty years ago Baker played The Doctor the longest, seven years, and became the face of the series to fans worldwide, especially Americans This is significant in so many ways You could[...]

Doctor Who tragedy made the top of Bleeding Cool traffic yesterday for Boxing Day Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six years Founded fifteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip a further[...]

Doctor Who is different again That's the nature of the show, to change with the times, and the Doctor keeps changing There have been more than fifteen actors in the role by now, but the biggest change has been a more overtly emotional Doctor than ever Showrunner Russell T Davies said he had spent the[...]

"Joy to the World" is everything you can expect from a Steven Moffat Doctor Who Christmas Special It's clever, twisty, silly, funny, and tragic in equal measure, but at heart, it's Moffat's poignant meditation on loneliness and finding a purpose to get out of that Loneliness is an issue for many people at Christmas In[...]

Of course, we're talking about the second season of Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who Heading into today's Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-written Christmas Special, "Joy to the World," we were keeping fingers, toes, and various other body parts crossed that we would get a teaser/trailer for the second season – and[...]

This year's Doctor Who Christmas Special "Joy to the World" is the most Steven Moffat of Christmas specials you can possibly get, melding timey-wimey shenanigans, snarky comedy and farce, surprising emotional insights, and a tear-jerker ending Christmas Specials might be considered a bit outside of the usual series stories, but Moffat is in Maximum Showoff[...]

Doctor Who: The War Games is this year's remastered, re-edited, and colorized story designed to introduce new and younger fans to the classic series It's not just a cleaning up of the video to make it pretty for modern audiences but added some surprises that may have retconned the story to bring it in line[...]

Doctor Who: The War Games, the Second Doctor's (Patrick Troughton) final adventure, and the final story to be filmed in black and white has been colourised and edited down from its original four-hour runtime to a faster-paced 90-minute cut for new fans to discover The Doctor, Jamie (Frazier Hines), and Zoe (Wendy Padbury) have to[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-written Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, and Disney+ screens As we get down to the wire with Christmas Day looming, Disney+ released a new key art poster – and it looks like "The Mouse" just can't stop itself[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-written Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" hits our screens on Christmas Day, guess who's back with some interesting images/clues to what's to come? That's right, #WhoSpy has been sharing new intel via The Subwave Network on Instagram – here's a look at the[...]

Doctor Who Christmas Specials are now a time-honoured tradition The Gods of the series, or rather the showrunners Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, have spoken! Let's pretend Chris Chibnall putting them on ice in favour of New Year Specials was just a hallucination Or a dream Or a temporary fall into an alternate universe[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring, Steven Moffat-written Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" hits our screens on Christmas Day, Moffat is opening up about the upcoming Christmas Special, his run on the show and if he would consider returning, and much more In particular, Moffat addresses the rumblings of concern[...]

Tom Baker, best known for playing the Fourth Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who has recorded a very special Christmas message for all of his fans around the world and beyond This video was produced by Cygnus Alpha Events You probably don't need to be told he played The Doctor longer than any other actor,[...]

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[...]