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While we're waiting for the BBC and Disney+ to announce a premiere date for the Doctor Who spinoff miniseries The War Between the Land and the Sea, the official website for the show, run by the BBC, has been busy The Black Archive section of the site, which is supposed to be the server for[...]

Davies' Doctor Who Unfortunately, that might still take a while What that does is give us some time to look back over the two seasons of the new era from a number of perspectives For this go-around, Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday) is getting a chance to open up about what it was like having to[...]

Fans and clickbait-chasers (like us!) keep harping on about whether Doctor Who has been placed on indefinite hiatus or cancelled, despite the BBC and Bad Wolf having to keep reassuring everyone that the series will be back, that it's not going away On practical terms, as we've said many times, the series is too financially[...]

Whether you're a Doctor Who fan, someone who covers the show, or both, you know that it's tough to speculate what Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor regenerating into Billie Piper's Sixteenth Doctor (maybe?) could mean when there are still so many question marks surrounding the show's future. Showrunner Russell T Davies, the BBC, and the folks from Bad Wolf[...]

The Holy Grail of classic Doctor Who fans has always been the recovery and restoration of lost episodes from the 1960s to the early 1970s A total of 97 of 253 episodes from the series's first six years, from 1963 to 1969, are currently missing, leaving 26 stories incomplete, because the BBC erased or reused[...]

Bad Wolf, the production company currently producing Doctor Who and several other prestigious TV series, is ten years old this year Originally formed by Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner after they left the BBC to go independent, they named the company after the season-long arc and Rose Tyler's (Billie Piper) alter ego during the inaugural[...]

Davies' Doctor Who hasn't exactly lacked in "experts" who are more than willing to drop their "expertise" on what the future holds for the long-running series For some, the Disney factor and the waiting game are just examples of how television works in the streaming age For others, it's a whole lot of Chicken Little/"The[...]

The End Of Doctor Who in LITG two days ago, was oddly the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday 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[...]

Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat loved to insert timey-wimey easter eggs throughout the series, even before he became showrunner A few years ago, he revealed that there was one last easter egg that nobody ever noticed in his third story for the show during Russell T Davies' third series as showrunner Davies brought up[...]

The End Of Doctor Who was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday 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 for a further eighteen[...]

That surprise final scene in the most recent series of Doctor Who has turned out to be more divisive and controversial than anyone could have thought By now, we're well past spoiler warnings since it's all over the internet and social media with endless debates In case you were living under a rock – and[...]

Russell T Davies, still the current showrunner of Doctor Who until we all hear otherwise and writer of acclaimed series like Queer as Folk, It's a Sin, and the sadly prescient Years and Years, was presented with the award for Outstanding Contribution to Television at Sunday's BAFTA Cymru Awards ceremony He used his acceptance speech[...]

Yes, it's true – Slow Horses is pretty much Doctor Who for grumpy grownups Seriously And Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) is the Doctor for grump grownups Do we really have to say "grumpy grownups"? We can just say "British people", right? Except Slow Horses is a hit, or at least as much of a hit[...]

In the last week, David Tennant and Billie Piper have been doing the rounds together at several US conventions where they chatted with fans about their memories shooting Doctor Who in their one season together in 2006 that hardcore fans still remember as the revived show's peak Fans always asked about the Doctor and Rose's[...]

There are so many untold stories behind the scenes at Doctor Who that we can never know all of them, partly because many are private and confidential, but also because there are way too many, and it depends on when someone involved in the show decides to tell them Take, for example, the 50th Anniversary[...]

Davies' Doctor Who, everyone and anyone can take their turn weighing in on that potentially game-changing moment during the season finale, "The Reality War." Normally, the return of Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor to meet up with Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor would be the headliner Normally But when you end a season and head into an[...]

What runtime or format should Doctor Who have? Legendary producer Philip Hinchcliffe recently weighed in on what he would like to see with the series, namely a return to a feature-length story told in segments, which was the classic format of the show when he was running it Hinchcliffe is a highly respected producer who[...]

Speaking with The Times, Whittaker discussed what it was like being the first female Doctor, how she handled the haters, and how she doesn't plan on shutting the door on Doctor Who anytime soon. "The second I got to Cardiff, I felt like I was home, even though it's a different studio, a different TARDIS[...]

Alex Kingston is going to be on Strictly Come Dancing, but of course, people keep asking about Doctor Who Small wonder, considering River Song has been one of the most popular characters on the show, and is still her most talked-about role Then there's the fact that her dance partner on Strictly is Johannes Radebe,[...]

Russell Tovey is one of our best actors who has worked with Russell T Davies on Doctor Who, but also on the underrated but prescient Years and Years. His career practically began from his starring in the original UK version of Queer as Folk, which was created by and written by Davies, which put Davies on[...]

For someone who is in the public eye – and has been for some time – as much as David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch, Good Omens, Rivals) – it's been refreshing to see just how open and honest he remains when it comes to addressing some of the important issues of the day From defending[...]

BAFTA Cymru has revealed the Special Awards recipients for this year's BAFTA Cymru Awards, announcing that the BAFTA Cymru Outstanding Contribution to Television Award will be presented to Russell T Davies, who, for the last two decades, has been a trailblazer within LGBTQIA+ drama, while also leading BBC hit Doctor Who as showrunner. One of BAFTA Cymru's highest[...]

Alex Kingston was confirmed to be taking part in Strictly Come Dancing, probably the top show on the BBC, but all we want to talk about is Doctor Who, of course What were you expecting? For us to talk about the finer points of ballroom dancing? Nah, Doctor Who it is, since Kingston spent years[...]

There are many reasons Jodie Whittaker became a beloved Doctor Who during her run, and one of them was when the whole world locked down during the COVID pandemic in 2020 While Film and TV production was suspended worldwide because everyone was forced to stay home for a year, an unexpected short – how short?[...]

Davies' Doctor Who, we've been hearing from a whole lot of folks about "The Reality War." Specifically, Ncuti Gatwa is ending his run as the Fifteenth Doctor after two seasons, and Billie Piper is possibly taking over as the Sixteenth Doctor Though he's previously addressed his decision to depart the long-running series, Gatwa had some[...]

Of all the shows on television, Doctor Who is a very strange one where life can imitate art, or art seeps into life in very strange ways, which is what's happened to David Tennant You couldn't make this up without everyone saying it's too far-fetched Tennant's life and career have been heavily affected by the show in the[...]

A Star Trek/Doctor Who Easter Egg crossover was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool, yesterday  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 for a[...]

Jodie Whittaker is back in Doctor Who in a series of twelve audio dramas from Big Finish, which will be released bi-monthly and will take up the next two years That's probably how long the TV series will be on hiatus before it returns to the screen, so guess what? The regular Doctor for now[...]

One of the most controversial changes to Doctor Who lore was when then-showrunner Chris Chibnall introduced the Timeless Child arc where the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) discovers her true origin – she was an adoptee that the Gallifreyans exploited for her regeneration energy to power what became Time Lord society and she had countless lifetimes and[...]

Earlier this week, we passed along a look at how Paramount+'s Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, and Ethan Peck-starring Star Trek: Strange New Worlds dropped a ten-ton tease that the universes of "Star Trek" and BBC's Doctor Who are much more connected than folks might think In an exclusive clip for S03E10: "New Life and New Civilizations"[...]