"It's Doctor Who meets Harry Potter"
And with those golden words, the BBC has signed up to a new Russell T Davies TV show, Aliens Vs Wizards for their children's CBBC channel, something he has previously described as a "small committment".
Revealed by his agent's website, he is also listed as creating the show with Doctor Who[...]
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This might be enough to encourage Dan Slott to make the trip to the UK again.
The Doctor Who Experience, at Kensington Olympia 2in London, is running an online two-for-one ticket offer if you book by the end of the month.
I went with the kids the other month, and we all thoroughly enjoyed it[...]
After a screening of the Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe, showrunner Steven Moffat told the crowd of press and blaggers including George Osborne, Ed Balls, Charles Kennedy and Tom Watson that Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill would return to Doctor Who in 2012 – but would then leave the show Gillan[...]
Including a Doctor Who Nativity scene Each piece is available to buy for £25 in the shop It's well worth a visit… I'll show off the He Man, Superhero and Star Wars displays tomorrow…
Orbital Comics in London is currently showing off a display of pop culture cardboard cut-out constructs by one Ryan Hall[...]
In the war-torn Britain during the Blitz, the Doctor and a ginger version of the kid from Stuart Little find a magical snow-covered forest inside a wardrobe in an old house.
Oh alright, so maybe it's a cardboard box and not a wardrobe, and perhaps the omnipotent Jesus-lion has been replaced by Bill Bailey in an[...]
The idea that there are over 100 "lost" classic Doctor Who episodes, and that every few years one or two of them are found, has always fascinated me It's been seven years between this new find and the previous one, apparently, and hardcore Doctor Who fans are beginning to give up hope that many more[...]
Philip Sandifer writes for Bleeding Cool;
The big news today in Doctor Who is that two previously missing episodes have been found – Part Three of the Season Three opener Galaxy Four, starring William Hartnell, and Part Two of Patrick Troughton's third story, The Underwater Menace The former had no surviving episodes, whereas the latter had[...]
The new Christmas Radio Times, the BBC Worldwide TV and radio listings magazine, naturally has a feature on Christmas Day's Doctor Who, The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe And how Steven Moffat found it hard to get back into the Christmas spirit when writing it in the middle of hot, sunny August He writes;
"Help[...]
And it's Doctor Who related I know, I know, it's not fair.
But the BBC America Shop want you to go to BBCAmericaShop.com when looking for Christmas gifts and are giving away a couple of $500 gift cards
And to promote the promotion, they want to give one Bleeding Cool reader Doctor Who (Series Six, Part[...]
I don't think the showrunner of Doctor Who could make it any clearer Steven Moffat just tweeted;
To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot.
And on David Yates comments on rebooting the concept as a movie that were[...]
And now that they have started covering Doctor Who, it's even better Bleeding Cool has reported on previous articles that have had a tendency to be contradicted by the BBC, and then mostly come true…
The Eye gives some context to last week's news about a David Yates directed Doctor Who movie under the auspices of[...]
The official Doctor Who Twitter feed has been buzzing away today feeding us tidbits about the Steven Moffat-penned minisode of Doctor Who written for this Friday's Children in Need fundraising drive With three days left before it gets aired, the episode still hasn't actually been filmed The scripts were delivered only yesterday and the sets[...]
BBC Worldwide have announced their own Doctor Who Convention taking place in March 2012 With only Steven Moffat and Matt Smith confirmed as guests, odds are that whoever the companions are in series seven will be along too.
Will it justify £100 for a day? The schedule is repeated from the Saturday on the Sunday…
The event[...]
Originally created for the wrap party for Doctor Who Series 4 that saw showrunner and producer Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner step down, by way of Victoria Wood's The Ballad Of Barry And Freda.
So here, finally on the internet is The Ballad Of Russell And Julie, performed by David Tennant, John Barrowman and Catherine[...]
What if the hero in every action movie had a sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who? Why that would be brilliant Or not…
Welcome to a new semi-regular video feature for Bleeding Cool, Afterwards They Will Explode from the superb Patrick Willems.
Patrick Willems decided the logical thing to do with his film degree was to [...]
Namely, the recent DOCTOR WHO "finale" played most, if not all, the cards I was planning for my series.
This presents a major problem for me, as a writer I could simply go ahead with what I'd planned, and assume most people would remember this was stuff that had[...]
Shelly Horwitz writes for Bleeding Cool:
As piping hot from the latest Doctor Who Magazine, the cast for the Christmas Special and their characters:
Madge Arwell: Claire Skinner
Alexander Armstrong: Reg Arwell
Holly Earl: Lily Arwell
Maurice Cole: Cyril Arwell
Bill Bailey: Droxil
Arabella Weir: Billis
Paul Bazely: Ven-Garr
Bill Bailey was recently on Danny Baker's radio show, when he described his character Droxil[...]
Every week, comics artist major comics artist Francesco Francavilla has been posting a black and white image to sum up that week's episode of Doctor Who And last night he ran this image based on Doctor Who: The Wedding Of River Song.
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat was so taken with it when Franscesco posted it,[...]
Tom Huxley writes for Bleeding Cool
Don't read this article unless you've seen the last three minutes of Doctor Who series 6 as reading this article would otherwise completely ruin all of it.
And indeed be sure to watch it first as nothing in this will otherwise make a lick of sense to you.
(I wonder which[...]
Storm the castle! Ready the rampart! Fire the cannons! Whatever one does in a time like this.
Joshua Hale Fialkov has announced that with issue 13 of the Doctor Who ongoing comic from IDW, that he will be the new writer for the first arc of 2012, drawn by Matthew Dow Smit;
"the four-part As Time Goes[...]
So That's Where The Money Went
There's been the observation that there have been a bunch of what you might call relatively budget episodes of Doctor Who this year Was this down to BBC-imposed cuts, or were they saving up?
Well, steam powered trains running on scaffolding from the London Gherkins to the Pyramids might count[...]
On October the 31st, the BBC will release a new Doctor Who Adventure Game for free online in the UK (paid version for the US coming later) set during the events of November 5th, 1605, The Gunpowder Plot which, um, you might know from the V For Vendetta movie So it's Guy Fawkes… and aliens.
The[...]
Above is from Doctor Who #9 by Tony Lee and Josh Adams out this past week Below is from Super Dinosaur by Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard from earlier in the year.
And this is by Karla from 2009…
In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree[...]
That's what my six year old daughter asked my wife after watching Doctor Who this weekend She was told that not even Santa can buy Cybermats in shops.
Not yet anyway Not for about three weeks at least The Bump&GrindGo Cybermat is out from October 16th and can be ordered from Forbidden Planet right now for[...]
She's putting herself through the task of reading the DC relaunch in its entirety, a comic universe of which she is only vaguely familiar…
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Eyepatches All Round – These Pictures From The Doctor Who Finale Would Be Spoilers If I Understood Them
There are several promotional images below, from this year's Doctor Who finale,[...]
And for your parents and children… well…
Anyway, while lots of Doctor Who endings have been described as Power Of Love endings, when to be frank, often they haven't been (Last Of The Time Lords was a Power Of Will ending for a start), this blatantly was Although it was something else as well.
When I became[...]
So Presumably The Lift Buttons Are Sterile Then
There is a lot that's weird about the medical centre behind last night's episode of Doctor Who That isolates people who identify themselves as being infected by a plague that the Doctor had never heard of on one of his favourite planets (which suddenly makes Torchwood: Miracle Day[...]
Both mysterious figures, the identity
On the left the recent Doctor Who Annual with different tales of the Doctor drawn by different artists, each of whom draws a version of the Doctor for the cover And the cover to Secret Origins: The Phantom Stranger with four separate origins for the character, one written by Alan Moore.
Of[...]
Okay, so what do we have, apart from spoilers to the episode of Doctor Who that aired tonight.
1 Fear Him
You know that was one scared kid Terrified he was and convincing in that fear Brrrrr.
My eldest daughter was annoyed that River Song wasn't in it, but my youngest was gripped and stayed close to daddy[...]
Here are some photos and video taken from the set of next week's episode of Doctor Who No scary doll faced children, you are spared that Thanks to Matt Booker of Auttomatic Comics.
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