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Davies's upcoming new series of Doctor Who Checking in with Variety on the red carpet, Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) shared how "surreal" it's been taking on such an ironically British role as the Doctor and what the experience has been like so far But our favorite part? Getting a chance to watch Gatwa geek out[...]

It's interesting that UNIT, the top secret paramilitary organization that fights alien menaces in Doctor Who always had fans I guess a lot of fans always liked to play soldiers shooting guns and stuff The thing about UNIT is that shooting at aliens or alien objects on Doctor Who never worked; it always made things[...]

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London Comic Con (Spring) was a very Doctor Who affair The big lines on Saturday were for Billie Piper and Anita Dobson – though Anita probably had the edge This was Anita Dobson's first comic con, and her fame from her years on Eastenders has now been dwarfed, within the chilly walls of London Olympia,[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia & Jason Kelce, Supergirl/Melissa Benoist, HBO's House of the Dragon, BBC's Doctor Who, USA Network's WWE Raw, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, CBS's NCIS: Origins, Peacock's Community: The Movie, NBC's Night Court, FOX's Baywatch, Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, WWE Hall of[...]

One of the things we love about Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies is that he's a man of extremes Sometimes, he's dropping update after update within the pages of Doctor Who Magazine – enough where we can get a week's worth of coverage from what he has to share Other times, he goes the[...]

Marvel star Iman Vellani, Prime Video's Wytches, CBS's Elsbeth, Paramount+'s Evil, AEW/WWE, ABC's Modern Family, NBC's Night Court, DC Studios' Superman, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, NBC's Saturday Night Live, 2024 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, SAG-AFTRA TV/Film Animation Deal, Sting/Undertaker, BBC's Doctor Who, London Comic Con (Spring), and more! Images/Screencaps: BBC, CBS, Netflix, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Image Comics, AMC[...]

Elsbeth is the new quirky detective procedural series that spins off from The Good Fight, which was a spinoff of The Good Wife, and if you look at it just close enough, feels like an alternate universe version of Jodie Whittaker's Doctor Who You might think this was another clickbait article that wants to "Doctor Who"[...]

Davies returning to run Doctor Who is his active desire to do right by past companions and the actors who played them The latest example is Melanie Bush, played by Bonnie Langford, who was the Sixth Doctor's (Colin Baker) final companion and the Seventh Doctor's (Sylvester McCoy) first companion She might be the most underrated[...]

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Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who hits our screens, we have some casting news to pass along – courtesy of the newest edition of Doctor Who Magazine "As the heat rises and May gets closer, it's exciting to reveal even more cast names," RTD shared in DWM – adding, "Bear[...]

Earlier this month, Big Finish Productions rolled out the intel on its upcoming 24-part full-cast Doctor Who audio drama event, Dark Gallifrey When it comes to Time Lords – as much as we would like to think that they're all heroic… traveling through time & space… saving the day time and time again? Well, it[...]

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His spacecraft is made from a mysterious substance called "repulsite", which repels space and time and Doctor Omega is considered one of the early prototypes of the "mad scientist" archetype in science fiction, and a possible inspiration for Doctor Who. Terrance Dicks certainly made much of the comparison when writing for both, Monstrous Books just announced the[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender, Showtime's Yellowjackets, David Tennant/Michael Sheen, BBC's Doctor Who/Big Finish, BBC's Doctor Who/Disney, Joel McHale & Ken Jeong, Apple TV+'s Foundation, Netflix's House of Ninjas, Prime Video's The Boys, Crunchyroll, Robert Smigel/Chris Farley, Star Trek: Anson Mount & LeVar Burton, and more! Images/Screencaps: FOX TV, BBC, Showtime, Big Finish, Prime Video, Netflix BCTV[...]

Before Sunday night's 2024 EE BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Film Awards, host David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) made it crystal clear that he would be steering clear of dropping any Taylor Swift jokes while hosting the 2024 EE BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Film Awards on Sunday But that[...]

Heading into the weekend, David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) made it crystal clear that he would be steering clear of dropping any Taylor Swift jokes while hosting the 2024 EE BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Film Awards on Sunday But what we did get from Tennant was another reunion with his long-time friend[...]

Beginning in April 2024, Big Finish Productions offers Doctor Who fans an epic reminder When it comes to Time Lords – as much as we would like to think that they're all heroic… traveling through time & space… saving the day time and time again? Well, it turns out that not all of them are[...]

Davies's Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who – we've reached that point when "The Mouse" is going to be letting the world know that it's the exclusive streaming home to the long-running show for a good chunk of the globe (minus BBC and BBC iPlayer, of course) We saw some[...]

Sometimes, they were about Doctor Who Sometimes they were about his school He even ended up on the BBC kids TV series Playaway teaching kids to draw before deciding that being in front of the camera just wasn't for him But courtesy of a a few scans and a recent Alan Yentob biographical Imagine… looking[...]

It's a moment that isn't lost on David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch), with the actor set to host the 2024 EE BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Film Awards this Sunday, February 18th. Speaking with Variety heading into the weekend, Tennant was asked if the reaction that Koy received sparked any fears of jokes[...]

British comedian Sooz Kempner revealed how she got cast as intergalactic assassin Doom in the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary multimedia event as a precursor to the TV specials – it was because returning showrunner Russell T Davies and the BBC liked her YouTube videos taking the piss out of disgraced Tory MP Nadine Dorries In[...]

The original scripts for Doctor Who, including for the recent 60th Anniversary Specials, and many more, are now available to download for free as an educational resource on the BBC Writers Room site This includes the scripts for the hilarious 5-minute "Children in Need" mini-episode and the 5-minute script that showrunner Russell T Davies wrote[...]

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Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who set to kick off a new era of adventuring across time & space this May, the BBC Scripts Library (along with a whole bunch of other "Who" and non-"Who"-related scripts) is now the official home for the RTD-penned eight-page "The Fifteenth Doctor Audition[...]

Now the show is back with another Christmas Special, premiering on… you guessed it! Christmas Day! Looks like the Doctor Who Christmas Special is going to have serious competition for the top show at Christmas, and no, Eastenders doesn't count Eastenders is always on anyway, and the best anyone can hope for is another big[...]

Sally Wainwright had been a rumoured candidate to become the showrunner for Doctor Who a few years ago before Russell T Davies returned to take the reigns A female swashbuckling adventure series with magic by Wainwright? We're there! Sally Wainwright, Ben Taylor, Faith Penhale, Will Johnston, and Louise Mutter are executive producers of Renegade Nell for[...]

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Ahh, Doctor Who, everyone missed David Tennant, so Russell T Davies brought him back for one last hurrah in three 60th Anniversary Specials that were needed to herald a transition from the previous era that began with Davies' revival of the show in 2005 and prepare for the Disney+ Big Budget global streaming era But[...]

During the final 60th Anniversary Special of Doctor Who, "The Giggle," something happened that changed everything: bi-generation! The Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant) didn't die from his fatal wound but healed, and the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) split off from him, leaving him alive and well to live out his life naturally and heal from centuries[...]