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PlayStack and Maze Theory announced this week when we'll finally see their next sci-fi VR adventure, Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time We now know the game will officially be released on November 12th, 2019 for PSVR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, and HTC Vive Cosmos We also got a few more details about[...]

The lost Doctor Who episode "Mission to the Unknown" has been regenerated! The original 1965 episode might be lost forever, but students at the University of Central Lancashire remade it with the same production values. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vk6wtVigewVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Mission to the Unknown Recreation Trailer | Doctor Who (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vk6wtVigew) The students from the[...]

Over the weekend, Doctor Who comic book writer Jody Houser had some news about the second year of the Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor series, starting in January, just after the Krampus-fighting Christmas Special two-parter in November and December (or both in November for Local Comic Shop Day participants.) Titan Comics' deal with BBC Worldwide for[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Breakfast at New York Comic Con this morning, Titan Comics took the podium to talk about – well – many things, but to also tease what's coming from their Doctor Who Comics line. And that the writer of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor, Jody Houser, would be spilling secrets about the show[...]

Titan Comics has reduced their line in recent months, some through losing licenses like Warhammer, reducing the number of Doctor Who and Assassin's Creed comics and generlaly being a bit more brutal with the fat, such as the European and crime titles A returning Sherlock series, a new arc for Blade Runner, a Doctor Who[...]

Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio drama spinoff Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon just came out and received strong reviews Rose (Billie Piper) is still a popular companion and her creator, Russell T Davies, helped develop the spinoff audio series. There's an hour-long cast and writers making-of interview on the series boxset which works like a[...]

Jody Houser is the writer of Doctor Who: The 13th Doctor for Titan Comics Rachael Stott has been the artist on Doctor Who: The 13th Doctor for Titan Comics But now they are both working on the ongoing Supergirl series from DC Comics, starting in December with Supergirl #37, replacing Marc Andreyko, Eduardo Pansica, Julio[...]

Would you like to explore Doctor Who's TARDIS in VR? The BBC and HTC have come together for a special event where you can do just that To celebrate the launch of the VIVE Cosmos, the two will be holding a special VR session at the Protein Studios experience in Hackney, where you can check[...]

Big Finish announced this week that Freema Agyeman will return to play former Doctor Who companion Martha Jones in Torchwood: Dissected This marks Agyeman's debut in a Big Finish audio drama, with the actress starring alongside Eve Myles, who reprises her role as Torchwood agent Gwen Cooper. As the official synopsis goes: Big Finish   Gwen Cooper turns up[...]

Rose Tyler is one of the most popular characters in the new Doctor Who She was the entry point for an audience discovering the show for the first time You could say she was the face of the new show, bringing in a female  Billie Piper played her with an unforced warmth and kindness that[...]

The Big Finish Productions audio drama juggernaut continues unabated today with the release of Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon, a Doctor Who spinoff series without the Doctor Billie Piper returns to the role in stories set after she ended up in an alternate universe at the end of the second season of "New Who." She[...]

The BBC's official Doctor Who channel released a trailer for Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 26 Blu-Ray and DVD box set, featuring Sophie Aldred as the 7th Doctor's (Sylvester McCoy) companion Ace. All companions who leave or are left behind tend to carry an air of melancholy about them They always wait in hope that he[...]

Classic Doctor Who writer Terrance Dicks has passed away at the age of 84. Born in east London in 1935, the British author was best known for his work as a script editor on the wildly popular BBC science fiction series Between 1969 and 1974, Dicks is credited with penning more than 150 Doctor Who scripts[...]

Big Finish Productions released the latest "season" or "box set" of Doctor Who spinoff The Diary of River Song this week Alex Kingston's River Song is a character so limitless in potential that the writers are just giddy with where they can take her She's a character who literally can go anywhere and do anything,[...]

We all love BBC's Doctor Who for its freewheeling stories, lovably nutty hero, and ability to be virtually any kind of story it puts its mind to being Sometimes it feels completely random and arbitrary, but it has a lot of deep ideas embedded in its lore. From the 1960's to the 1980's, writers often threw[...]

Here's a look at Titan Comics solicitations for November 2019, with a Doctor Who Christmas Special, a new Rivers Of London series, a comic book spinoff of MediEvil, and a new Minions comic book too… MediEvil HC Writer Chris Sorrell Artist Jason Wilson HC • FC • 48pp • 170 x 258mm • $12.99 On Sale November 6, 2019 ISBN 9781787734197 The[...]

Late author Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" novels have found a home at Showtime, with the cable network set to develop an adaptation of the fantasy drama alongside some of the biggest names in popular culture: writer Toby Whithouse (Doctor Who), Neil Gaiman (Good Omens, American Gods) and Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) Co-produced by American Gods[...]

They already produce epic, ambitious Doctor Who and Torchwood dramas that are bigger than a television budget could ever allow What sets Transference apart is that it's a naturalistic crime thriller with no Science fiction or fantastical elements at all. Alex Kingston plays a psychotherapist barely holding it together She's grieving her sister's recent death[...]

Both Clarke and Walters are actors in demand, and both have appeared on Doctor Who in the past Clarke has also become an award-winning writer, producer and director over the years. The show's plot is utterly generic We've seen all of these tropes before in 70's and 80's cop shows It doesn't do anything new or[...]

WarnerMedia's upcoming streaming service has secured the exclusive streaming rights to BBC's Doctor Who, with all 11 seasons of the sci-fi drama available at the service's Spring 2020 launch HBO Max's new long-term deal with BBC Studios will also make the streamer the exclusive home for future seasons post-BBC America airings. "'Doctor Who' is one of[...]

John Barrowman has been busy playing his most popular character in audio drama spinoffs of Doctor Who He's been in the new season of Torchwood, a number of Torchwood stand-alone stories as well as in solo adventures as Captain Jack in the The Lives of Captain Jack series We say "series" for the latter, because[...]

Torchwood: Sync is one of those fun audio drama crossovers that asks "What if XXXX met XXXX?" Big Finish Productions has an official license from the BBC to produce audio dramas from Doctor Who and Torchwood and they're going to use it to the hilt! An alien spaceship crashes on the outskirts of Cardiff, Wales[...]

Any questions email me. Now, it is worth pointing out that in the first-ever episode of Doctor Who, the TARDIS had landed in a junkyard in Totter's Lane, Shoreditch Which isn't far from Hackney at all But it was rather far from me So I took a punt and spoke to the owner, Fabio who was[...]

The BBC has commissioned Eric Saward to write novels from his two Dalek stories: Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Dalek, the last two stories from the classic run of the show to be novelized – now every episode of classic Doctor Who has a prose version Saward was the script editor for[...]

During Thursday of Comic-Con, Bleeding Cool played the latest offering from Maze Theory, the immersive Doctor Who virtual reality experience, The Edge of Time The game has the player acting as an unnamed Companion to the Doctor, voiced by actual Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker The short playthrough has the player navigate a junkyard (a staple[...]

Big Finish Productions released a preview trailer of their 20th Anniversary livestream this weekend, with a 20-hour livestream on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel – with more than 20 episodes of Doctor Who audio dramas and related spinoffs will be in the stream This includes UNIT, Torchwood, The Gallifrey Chronicles, The Diary of River Song,[...]

For the first time since the game was announced by Maze Theory and BBC Studios, we're getting a look at the TARDIS in Doctor Who: The Edge of Time We knew that this would be centered on the 13th Doctor played by Jodie Whittaker, who will also be voicing the character in the game[...]

The BBC's official Doctor Who Channel on YouTube realised a video excerpt of BBC Radio 4 Extra's program celebrating the centenary of Jon Pertwee's birth The Jon Pertwee Files is an hour-long radio program featuring Pertwee's son Sean Pertwee talking about his father's career. Jon Pertwee had a long acting career before and after he played[...]

So let's talk about Ace (Sophie Aldred), the Seventh Doctor's companion (1987-1989) – because I really don't get all the complaints about the current series of BBC's Doctor Who having too much politics The series always had politics embedded at its core: virtually every Science Fiction, spy or crime TV series created in the UK in[...]

A little more than two months after Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) announced some major additions to the cast and directors' chairs for their highly-anticipated Dracula limited series, viewers are getting their first look at Claes Bang's (The Girl in the Spider's Web, Borgen) bloodthirsty count in the three-part drama – where[...]