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When Doctor Who: The Star Beast was broadcast last week, it came with a Prologue The Doctor, played by David Tennant, in a fairly obvious greenscreen against a cosmic background introducing himself, and Donna Noble, played by Catherine Tate, sits in her kitchen on her laptop It reprised aspects of the show from episodes a[...]

Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring three-episode Doctor Who 60th-anniversary special event having just screened, it's time for us to turn our attention to next week's concluding chapter In "The Giggle" (directed by Chanya Button & written by Davies), the giggle of a mysterious puppet is driving the human race insane[...]

Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring Doctor Who 60th-anniversary special event, it's that we don't know a whole lot about it (beyond a robot, that is) And that makes us even that much more interested in seeing what the Tom Kingsley-directed, Davies-penned "Wild Blue Yonder" has to offer With only hours[...]

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Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring Doctor Who 60th-anniversary special event hits our screens, we're getting another look at what's in store for the duo in the Tom Kingsley-directed, Davies-penned "Wild Blue Yonder." When the TARDIS shuffles the Doctor and Donna off to a mysterious destination, they'll have to figure out where[...]

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Earlier this week, the BBC offered an early preview of the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special, with Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday, beginning their new series of adventures together on December 25th with "The Church on Ruby Road." Set for BBC One, BBC iPlayer & Disney+, the special episode sees the Doctor coming[...]

When the BBC/Disney+ released the new Star Beast episode of Doctor Who, based on a Marvel comic book from 1980, it had the credits for the original creative team up front, at the beginning of the Doctor Who titles, nice and big Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons, who wrote and drew the original story in Marvel's[...]

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Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring Doctor Who 60th-anniversary special event returns this weekend with the Tom Kingsley-directed, Davies-penned "Wild Blue Yonder." When the TARDIS shuffles the Doctor and Donna off to a mysterious destination, where the dynamic duo will have to figure out where they are, what's going on, how[...]

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The return of Doctor Who may be cause for celebration, but the new writers' contracts might be an issue for any future writers who might be hired on the show. Deadline reported that episodic writers for the series are now being paid a large fee upfront rather than a smaller fee plus residuals that have seen[...]

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While the three-episode special event celebrating the 60th anniversary of BBC's Doctor Who is set to end its run on December 9th, it won't be long until Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday take the controls of the TARDIS Earlier this month, a social media post from Disney+ revealed that December 25th will[...]

Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring episode acknowledge the creators of Beep the Meep (voiced by Miriam Margolyes)? There it was, right at the end of the opening title credits – with the episode written by Davies from a story by Pat Mills & Dave Gibbons. Written by Mills & John Wagner and drawn[...]

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Last night, I watched the new Doctor Who: The Star Beast by Russell T Davies, forty-three years after the seven-year-old me read the original in Doctor Who Weekly It may have been less twisty-turny and not as political as the original, but at its heart, it was pretty much identical Pretty much And as ever,[...]

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The wait is over, Doctor Who is back in all its glory, and the dream team is back – not just showrunner Russell T Davies, David Tennant, and Catherine Tate, but also director Rachel Talalay, one of the best directors the show ever had, especially with action sequences And it's like they never left Or[...]

Earlier this year, Doctor Who fans learned that Beep the Meep (Miriam Margolyes) would be playing a major role in this month's big three-episode special event from the BBC, Disney+, and Showrunner Russell T Davies celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who And they didn't have to wait long to learn if Beep's creators would[...]

BBC, BBC iPlayer, Disney+, and Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring 60th-anniversary episode "The Star Beast" didn't just kick off the three-episode special event This weekend's adventure featured a series of firsts – including the first extended look at the new (and massive) interior of the[...]

Davies's David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring Doctor Who 60th anniversary special event With "The Star Beast" currently in the midst of being watched and rewatched by millions around the world, it's only fitting that we have a little fun with the "timey-wimey" stuff by looking ahead to next week's chapter –[...]

With "The Star Beast" having now officially dropped on BBC, BBC iPlayer & Disney+, fans are finally getting a chance to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who with Showrunner Russell T Davies and returning stars David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) In an episode filled with action, adventure, intrigue & big reveals, viewers[...]

Davies's three David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring episodes celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who hitting this afternoon, we have a little something special to pass along to help you do a little "cramming" when it comes to the Doctor & Donna Noble's time together In the following featurette, Tennant &[...]

In 1980, Doctor Who Weekly, published by Marvel Comics UK, included a new comic book strip by Pat Mills, John Wagner, and Dave Gibbons, edited by Dez Skinn, Star Beast Pat Mills is best known as the founder of 2000AD and co-creator of Judge Dredd, Punisher 2099 and Marshall Law; John Wagner is his Dredd co-creator[...]

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Doctor Who is finally getting an official podcast right from the mothership, the BBC itself While this shouldn't be surprising, it sort of is because first, the BBC currently has an official podcast for his most popular buzzy drama series like Peaky Blinders, Line of Duty and Ghosts, yet never had a Doctor Who Podcast[...]

Davies's three David Tennant (Fourteenth Doctor) & Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)-starring episodes celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, we have a new preview for November 25th's "The Star Beast" to pass along Previously, we had a chance to see Yasmin Finney's Rose introduce Donna to Beep the Meep – and the latter got an[...]

When the Mark Gatiss-penned An Adventure in Space and Time was reaired on Thursday night on BBC Four as part of the big celebration in play for the 60th anniversary of BBC's Doctor Who (with the three-episode special event kicking off this weekend on BBC One, BBC iPlayer & Disney+ with "The Star Beast"), viewers[...]

One of the interesting offshoots of the 60th Anniversary and the expansion of Doctor Who is Russell T Davies' new plan to remaster and colourise old stories from the 1960s so that kids and younger fans can discover the show's original stories "The Daleks" is the serial that introduced the Daleks for the first time[...]