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We're shifting gears with our coverage of the BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who, shifting from the 60th-anniversary specials to spotlight what's to come with incoming Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, new companion Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and new/returning showrunner Russel T Davies' Series 14 (at least, that's what we're assuming it's going to be numbered) And today's[...]

Davies & others sharing details on Ncuti Gatwa's & Millie Gibson's Doctor Who auditions, Netflix's That '90s Show releasing a look at the return of Don Stark's Bob Pinciotti, Adult Swim's Toonami shutting down its "Fan Art" on-air galleries, and Nicolas Cage making sure everyone knows he's a Trekkie (and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds[...]

BBC's Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies, producer Phil Collinson, and executive producers Jane Tranter & Julie Gardner have been a wealth of information over the past few days when it comes to how the next stages of the long-running series Previously, they discussed partnering with Disney+ & what it means for the long-running sci-fi series[...]

It has actors we've seen from Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, and many British cop shows, with Iain Glen, Owen Teale, Mark Bonnar, and many others ready to chew the scenery The problem is we've all seen this before Lots of times, it feels as if this was a Doctor Who episode… but if it[...]

Davies proving that Doctor Who can stick a sick superhero three-point-landing worthy of Disney's Marvel Studios, Paramount+ dropping a set of preview images for the next painfully brutal chapter of "Yellowstone" prequel 1923, us making the case for Batman '66 star Burt Ward to go the animated Nightwing route, Hilary Duff & Josh Radnor discussing[...]

So the last time we checked in with how things were going with the BBC's Doctor Who, showrunner Russell T Davies, producer Phil Collinson, and executive producers Jane Tranter & Julie Gardner offered some additional details on the thinking behind partnering with Disney+ and what it means for the long-running sci-fi series This time around,[...]

Let's face it, Doctor Who is a superhero – and superheroine – now A full-on, outright superhero He didn't use to be In the original show, he was an adventurer, stumbling from one situation to the next, a vehicle or a format for generating stories in the old pulp tradition He was a pastiche of[...]

In what could turn out to be one of the biggest moves in the long-running series' history, we learned that Disney+ would be the exclusive streaming home for the BBC's Doctor Who outside of the U.K & Ireland beginning in November 2023 That means that the three-episode 60th-anniversary event can be found on "The Mouse's"[...]

As Doctor Who fans know all too well, there's a bit of a stumbling block that has to be resolved before new Doctor Ncuti Gatwa and companion Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday) take the TARDIS out for a spin with Series 14 and that "stumbling block" comes in the form of Jodie Whittaker's Doctor regenerating into…[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes us asking Joss Whedon to muster up the ability to do the right thing & step away from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a double dose of Doctor Who looking at The Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker's final adventures & "Dragonfire," a "Separated at Birth" moment involving Netflix's The Witcher: Blood[...]

This is it, the last Doctor Who post of the year and possibly the last Doctor Who compilation video of the year And it just must be another look at the Thirteenth Doctor's (Jodie Whittaker) final adventures That's "Flux," that season that nearly tanked the show Yes, let's pick at that scab again. Doctor Who: Flux,[...]

The Seventh Doctor era of Doctor Who gets a bum rap from fans It was the lowest-rated season that led to the BBC cancelling the show in 1989 It had its budgets cut when it had its most thematically coherent and ambitious storylines for years under story editor Andrew Cartmel Sylvester McCoy's first season as[...]

Speaking with EW, Driver shared how Doctor Who helped her offer some perspective to her son, who asked her about the casting move. Image: Netflix Screencap/BBC "We come from this tradition of 'Doctor Who' where the Doctor regenerates I think we need to look at it far more like it's amazing," Driver explained "It's an amazing person,[...]

In 1979, Marvel UK began publishing the Doctor Who Weekly comic book magazine, later Doctor Who Monthly, featuring a continuing comic book strip One of its first stories by Judge Dredd creators Pat Mills and John Wagner, and Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbonsm was Star Beast Which, as Bleeding Cool previously noted, looks like being adapted[...]

It's Boxing Day, everyone's punch-drunk, hungover, and possibly freezing, and the BBC really didn't need to put out another Doctor Who video We would have forgiven them for taking a day off And with "3 Weird Doctor Kisses", they really shouldn't have Really They shouldn't have. BBC First, why just three kisses? There have been loads more[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes James Gunn shooting down a "fake" report about HBO Max's Green Lantern, Bleeding Cool breaking down the Doctor Who 60th-Anniversary Special Event teaser, NBC dropping preview images for the return of the Raymond Lee-starring Quantum Leap, Paramount+ releasing a preview image for the Joshua Jackson & Lizzy Caplan-starring Fatal[...]

We didn't get a Doctor Who Christmas Special this year, but Russell T Davies didn't leave us hanging He gave us a proper trailer for the 60th Anniversary specials to start the hype in full swing Let's break down the trailer a bit Everyone else is. DOCTOR WHO (Image: BBC) Donna Noble is the Key Let's see… we[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes us breaking down the main feminist themes in HBO Max's Billie Piper-starring I Hate Suzie Too, Chris Rock announcing the date of his Netflix live-stream comedy event "Selective Outrage," BBC's Doctor Who dropping a teaser trailer for 2023's 60th Anniversary Special Event, Hulu's The Orville amping up to social[...]

Beep The Meep was a character created for the comic strip that ran in Doctor Who Monthly – back when it was Doctor Who Weekly – and published by Marvel UK in 1980 Created by Judge Dredd co-creators Pat Mills and John Wagner, Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons, and edited by V For Vendetta's Dez Skinn,[...]

In fact, we get a chance to see Jacqueline King & Karl Collins reprising their roles as Sylvia Noble and Shaun Temple, and we're officially introduced to Ruth Madeley as Shirley Anne Bingham. DOCTOR WHO (Image: BBC) DOCTOR WHO (Image: BBC) DOCTOR WHO (Image: BBC) DOCTOR WHO (Image: BBC) With the special event episodes hitting in November 2023, here's a look at[...]

On the Doctor Who social media accounts, fans received word that something would be premiering on Christmas Day involving next November's 60th Anniversary event from the BBC and showrunner Russell T Davies Along with Gatwa, the three episodes (directed by Rachel Talalay, Tom Kingsley & Chanya Button) star David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Yasmin Finney (Rose),[...]

The show uses our knowledge of her own public history, plucked from drama school – or performing arts high school, as Americans would call it – at the age of fifteen to become a pop star, burned out and recovering from addiction by the time she was nineteen, considered a joke when she was cast[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes The Orville cast & fans "reminding" Disney about the fourth season, BBC's Doctor Who teasing something 60th-anniversary-related dropping on Christmas Day, Netflix's The Sandman S01E06 "The Sound of Her Wings" making our "Best Episodes of 2022" and we're sharing why this "Wonderful" Saturday Night Live sketch might be the[...]

Davies is making sure Doctor Who fans aren't forgetting about next November's 60th Anniversary special episodes Along with Gatwa, the event (directed by Rachel Talalay, Tom Kingsley & Chanya Button) stars David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Yasmin Finney (Rose), Neil Patrick Harris, and more And now, based on a mini-teaser featuring Harris that was released earlier[...]

Doctor Who has had a lot of Christmas Specials This became a tradition when Russell T Davies revived the show in 2005 The end of the first series featuring Christopher Eccleston and his departure kicked off David Tennant's debut as the tenth Doctor His first proper episode was the new show's first Christmas special, "The[...]

"We'll be revealing THE CALIBURN PRIZE, a UK-based prize fund for new and unpublished UK-based comic creators, with the winner of the first £2.5k grant decided by an elite panel of comic professionals, and announced in mid-2023." Tony Lee is best known in comics for writing Doctor Who for IDW Publishing, as well as MacGuyver for[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes BBC's Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa offering us a better look "behind" the scenes, The Always Sunny Podcast teasing Danny DeVito's in-studio visit, Cecily Strong posting heartfelt SNL goodbye, Jon Cryer "confirming" ("The Andrew Garfield Rule" in effect) he's not returning as Lex Luthor for The CW's Superman &[...]

This weekend has been a pretty good one for fans of Doctor Who, what with showrunner Russell T Davies & the BBC rolling out official looks at Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday in full-on character wardrobe mode But that wasn't all, because the BBC Media Centre confirmed that Gatwa & Gibson would be taking[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes BBC's Doctor Who previewing Ncuti Gatwa's & Millie Gibson's official fashion looks for the new series, Jenna Ortega sharing the backstory on how her dance scene during Netflix's Wednesday came about, Netflix's The Umbrella Academy confirming a smaller final season, and NBC's Saturday Night Live bidding farewell to Cecily[...]

To celebrate the reveal, Davies took to Instagram, where he included a line in the caption of the post that Gatwa & Gibson would be "coming to your screens in 2023." Now, we assumed that Davies was talking about the upcoming David Tennant & Catherine Tate-starring event honouring the 60th anniversary of the BBC's Doctor[...]