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Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who for its second season Now, it looks like we know when that second season will be getting underway – if a teaser that reportedly appeared on BBC iPlayer is to be believed Here's a look at what appears at[...]

Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who For this go-around, we're checking out what Gardner had to share about their co-production partner, Disney At a time when there is a great divide between what's being said on the record and what's rumbling on social media regarding[...]

Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who Slow Horses star Christopher Chung has joined the cast in the role of "Cassio" and will meet the Doctor and Belinda during "one of the darkest, toughest episodes we've ever made," according to Davies "I'm a huge fan of 'Slow[...]

One major mystery in Doctor Who may have been solved in EastEnders when Mrs Flood made a surprise appearance in the long-running BBC soap opera! That's right! Mrs Flood is really… ANGIE WATTS! We should have known! It was right in front of us all along since Anita Dobson plays both characters! In this episode, which[...]

Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who? We're going to assume you are – so with that in mind, we wanted to pass along what Bad Wolf executive Julie Gardner had to share about the second season and Gatwa with the Radio Free Skaro podcast during the[...]

Fresh off of his headline-making return as BAFTA host, guess who's finally returning to his podcast for a third season? That's right, Sony Music Entertainment and No Mystery sounded the alarms earlier today that the latest run of David Tennant's (Doctor Who, Broadchurch, Jessica Jones, Rivals) David Tennant Does a Podcast With… will be unleashed[...]

Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who (or what the long-term future might hold), we know that the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda will be taking off in the TARDIS for one of two new adventures on May 29th Earlier today, it was announced that BBC Books[...]

Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who, the rumors and rumblings about what may or may not happen after Season 2 continue to get louder Despite on-the-record comments from Davies, the BBC, and folks over at Bad Wolf that a decision on a third season wouldn't[...]

This is the kind of news that can really make a Doctor Who fan's weekend a whole lot better During the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, it was revealed that Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper would be reuniting as the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler for a 12-part audio drama series from Big Finish Productions[...]

It's quite obvious that David Tennant is the most popular Doctor Who of the modern era Fans of the modern series who began watching the series in the 21st Century still can't get enough of him and he's still associated with the show the same way Tom Baker continues to be seen as the face[...]

Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who (set to hit sometime this year), we are getting some interesting casting news to pass along Earlier today, the show's social media account confirmed that Susan Twist will be back for the second season – a post that got[...]

Channel 4 has commissioned Tip Toe, a new original drama from the multi-award-winning Russell T Davies (It's A Sin, Queer as Folk, Doctor Who), produced by Quay Street Productions (part of ITV Studios) and executive produced by Nicola Shindler (Queer as Folk, It's A Sin, Fool Me Once) The series will be directed by Peter[...]

Doctor Who is a unique show in many ways, and why it has so many fans, but the most unique part about it is that every time a new Doctor arrives, their first episode is practically the pilot episode of a brand new show No other show before or after can do this, and that's[...]

Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat is having his best life right now. He was invited by current and returning showrunner Russell T Davies to contribute to the new Disney+ era season of the series, and his two episodes, "Boom!" in season one and the 2024 Christmas special "Joy to the World," are two of the most[...]

Everyone's favourite new "lost" Doctor Who Jo Martin isn't going away anytime soon She and Alice Krige star in The Fugitive Doctor: Dead or Alive, a second series box set of full-cast audio drama due in July 2025 from Big Finish Productions Still on the run from her old employers, the sinister Time Lord agency[...]

While we're waiting for more news about the next season of Doctor Who, the BBC brought out another video of Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen), the Best Companion She wasn't the first companion, but she's become the quintessential companion, the template from which every companion after her is drawn with variations She's also the companion[...]

Doctor Who has always been a strange, scrappy little TV series, a kind of Frankenstein's monster cobbled together from spare parts left lying around the scrapyards of pop culture The original makers didn't set out to make Art or even a television milestone. Then Head of the BBC Sydney Newman, tasked producer Verity Lambert with producing a fun time[...]

Along the way, the Doctor encounters a mythological witch in 17th-century Russia, lost souls (including another version of herself), and her greatest enemies – the Daleks! Image: Big Finish Productions Doctor Who: Big Finish's The Fugitive Doctor: Most Wanted The first episode guest stars Leah Harvey (Apple TV+'s Foundation) as imprisoned freedom fighter Fade and Nicholas Briggs as[...]

Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who set to hit sometime this year, we're taking a break from the casting to share who has joined the writing team this season: Juno Dawson, Inua Ellams, Pete McTighe, and Sharma Angel-Walfall "'Doctor Who' takes its talent from a glittering galaxy of names,[...]

Davies' upcoming Russell Tovey (Feud, American Horror Story: NYC) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Surface, Loki)-starring Doctor Who spinoff, BBC and Disney Branded Television's The War Between the Land and the Sea, Davies was giving us a better sense of when we can expect it to hit our screens Now, thanks to an interview with Variety that hit[...]

Barbara Clegg, the first woman to write an episode of Doctor Who, passed away this week at the age of 98 Clegg would go on to pen the first serial that was both written and directed by women (with Fiona Cumming directing) That was "Enlightenment," the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) adventure broadcast in 1983 Think[...]

This past Christmas has given us all an opportunity to compare the original classic era of Doctor Who with the current one The edited-down and colourised 1969 story "The War Games" and this year's Christmas special "Joy to the World" premiered within days of each other Both stories showed how much the show has stayed[...]

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[...]

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