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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[...]

And maybe you just have. "Doctor Who: Joy to the World" (Still: BBC) Is The Doctor Still The Doctor? and the top ten stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday Doctor Who: Is The Doctor Still The Doctor? Steven Moffat on Key Theme How Thomas Wayne's Life Differed in Absolute Batman #4 (Spoilers) Doctor Who: The Retconned Road to Sacha Dhawan's[...]

Of all the Big Bads of Doctor Who, The Master is the closest to a nemesis the Doctor has He's like the Joker to Batman Unlike the Daleks, the Cybermen, or the Sontarans, The Master is the only enemy who is the Doctor's equal in guile and intellect He's the flip side of the Doctor,[...]

Is Steven Moffat done with Doctor Who after this year's Christmas special, "Joy to the World"? We don't know, and neither does he It depends on how busy he is and whether he gets invited to write for the series again One thing he doesn't run out of is ideas, and there's one he's become[...]

There are many big bads in Doctor Who: the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans, even the Time Lords themselves, and many more, but one that has lurked in the background for twenty years has been the intergalactic arms manufacturer and tech corporation Villengard, created by Steven Moffat back in his 2005 two-parter "The Empty Child"[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who would be getting a five-episode spinoff limited series Starring Russell Tovey (Feud, American Horror Story: NYC) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Surface, Loki), BBC and Disney Branded Television's The War Between the Land and the Sea sees a fearsome and ancient species[...]

Doctor Who Christmas specials have been an annual mainstay for nearly a whole generation now, barring the four years when they were replaced by a New Year's Special that didn't have quite the same sense that they were a special event, and Steven Moffat has written more Christmas specials since he was the longest-serving showrunner[...]

Doctor Who tragedy made the top of Bleeding Cool traffic yesterday Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six-and-a-half years Founded fifteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip a further fifteen years before[...]

There's another Doctor Who anniversary that's more meaningful for fans of the classic series Tom Baker made his debut as the Fourth Doctor fifty years ago Baker played The Doctor the longest, seven years, and became the face of the series to fans worldwide, especially Americans This is significant in so many ways You could[...]

Doctor Who tragedy made the top of Bleeding Cool traffic yesterday for Boxing Day Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six years Founded fifteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip a further[...]

Doctor Who is different again That's the nature of the show, to change with the times, and the Doctor keeps changing There have been more than fifteen actors in the role by now, but the biggest change has been a more overtly emotional Doctor than ever Showrunner Russell T Davies said he had spent the[...]

"Joy to the World" is everything you can expect from a Steven Moffat Doctor Who Christmas Special It's clever, twisty, silly, funny, and tragic in equal measure, but at heart, it's Moffat's poignant meditation on loneliness and finding a purpose to get out of that Loneliness is an issue for many people at Christmas In[...]