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Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World" ("Joy to the Worlds"?) – penned by none other than writers and ex-Showrunner Steven Moffat Now, we have a few screencaps to pass along from the promo trailer released by the BBC spotlighting what streaming service BBC iPlayer has[...]

Oh, look, it's a new sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who! The Fifteenth Doctor's Sonic screwdriver toy is now up for sale Not only that, there's a third version of it, this time in a different colour! Fans can get an extra special edition of the Fifteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver A replica of this will be[...]

Bad news for British Doctor Who fans and all TV viewers in the UK: the BBC license fee will rise with inflation again until 2027, as new Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy continues with her reset of relations and looks to the future The corporation's funding was supposed to be returning to an inflationary rise last[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who, we've been keeping our radars tuned into what the future might hold in terms of a third season of and if it would still involve the BBC and Disney+ still working together on it There have been rumors, gossip,[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who If you didn't know, the BBC posts scripts from a whole lot of Doctor Who episodes – with the anniversary specials and Season 1 having been recently added That's where we learned that a musical number was meant to go down during the[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who Along with Gatwa and Coughlan, the special also stars Steph de Whalley as Anita, Jonathan Aris as Melnak, Joel Fry as Trev, Peter Benedict as Basil, Julia Watson as Hilda, and Niamh Marie Smith as Sylvia. Produced by Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who, he doesn't see himself returning to the long-running series But then again…? Maybe it has to do with the Christmas Special inching closer Maybe it has to do with a whole bunch of "creative feels" that resurfaced over the weekend when he was[...]

The Cybermen are the most popular villains on Doctor Who after the Daleks Kids love them and they're ratings winners whenever they show up like the Daleks, but did you know they never got a definitive origin story, unlike the Daleks? Well, that's about to change Their original creator wrote an origin story that's going[...]

Doctor Who Day has seen a flood of news and video releases to celebrate the series, including deleted scenes from season one of the Disney+ era, the announcement of a new 90-minute colourised cut of "The War Games," a five-hour video stream of clips from sixty years of the series, and as expected, all the scripts of[...]

It's Doctor Who Day! To mark 61 years since our favourite TV show began, Big Finish is making a full-cast audio adventure available for free In "The Five Companions," the Fifth Doctor meets up with his distant past: the schoolteacher who settled down, the space pilot who became a King, the security agent who died[...]

If you've been following our coverage of Doctor Who Day coverage, then you know that we had some thing interesting happen regarding the upcoming Christmas Special for Showrunner Russell T Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who Set for Christmas Day, the Steven Moffat-penned and Nicola Coughlan-starring epic is titled "Joy[...]

The BBC and social media have been doing their part in some very big ways to celebrate "Doctor Who Day," and that includes a look ahead to Showrunner Russell T Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring, Steven Moffat-penned, and Nicola Coughlan-starring Christmas Special "Joy to the World." Set to hit screens[...]

The BBC and social media have been doing their part in some very big ways to celebrate "Doctor Who Day," and that includes a look ahead to Showrunner Russell T Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring, Steven Moffat-penned, and Nicola Coughlan-starring Christmas Special "Joy to the World." Set to hit screens[...]

The classic Doctor Who story 'The War Games" is returning in stunning new colourisation to air on BBC Four and iPlayer on 23rd December Originally aired in 1969, The War Games marked the end of an era for the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), following him and his companions Zoe and Jamie as they land on a battlefield that appears[...]

With today being "Doctor Who Day," we've been waiting to see what we're going to get in celebration of the long-running series heading into Showrunner Russell T Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Steven Moffat-penned, and Nicola Coughlan-starring Christmas Special "Joy to the World" next month Well, the BBC and Disney+ are[...]

Anniversary Specials are a big deal, and for Doctor Who, they're as much business decisions as celebrations for fans They're done to attract as many viewers as possible, not just hardcore fans but casual viewers or people who like the show but drop in and out For Doctor Who, the chosen gimmick of the anniversary[...]

Kicking off in May 2023 and spanning across eight chapters, Big Finish Productions is wrapping up its epic 60th anniversary celebration of Doctor Who with Once and Future: Coda: The Final Act – and they are not holding anything back for this one A warrior is being hunted by a mysterious stranger in a TARDIS[...]

The series may have other British topliners like Aiden Turner and Danny Dyer, but they're less well-known outside the UK than Tennant, who is known all over the world for having played Doctor Who. Image: BBC "She's a writer with a reputation within the United Kingdom," said Blunt, Cooper's longtime literary agent "But I would say you[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who As much as we know that they were excited about the prospect of the upcoming Steven Moffat-penned, Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special "Joy to the World" streaming on Disney+ and BBC iPlayer first and then on BBC One hours later, it looks[...]

Still aching over the Doctor Who drought until the Christmas Special? Well, maybe this will tide you over – the first season episode "Boom" will be getting a global watchalong on the series' official YouTube channel this Saturday at 7 pm GMT, which will be 2 pm EST and 10 am PT in the US[...]

This Friday's Children in Need charity event continued the tradition of having a Doctor Who event, this time previewing this year's upcoming Christmas Special, "Joy to the World." The script is by former showrunner Steven Moffat, his fiftieth script for Doctor Who, which might be the biggest number of scripts a single writer has contributed[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who had their radars set for an early look and some new intel on the upcoming Steven Moffat-penned, Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special "Joy to the World." Well, what they got was an extended sneak preview that includes an "appearance" from one of[...]

Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and Varada Sethu's (Belinda Chandra)-starring Doctor Who will be keeping their radars focused on Friday evening's BBC Children in Need event for what's expected to be a special look at the upcoming Steven Moffat-penned, Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special "Joy to the World." But for this[...]

Blake's 7, the cult 1970s space opera series created by Terry Nation, who also created the Daleks for Doctor Who is getting a US Blu-Ray release on top of the UK edition Hurrah! The Federation was the evil empire in this series, and the heroes were a bunch of escaped convicts who couldn't stand each other[...]

After years of being passed from one production company to another, former Doctor Who writer Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling London fantasy book series Rivers of London is finally getting a TV series Sky Studios has picked up the TV adaptation of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London and is developing it with Tom Winchester's drama indie company Pure Fiction[...]

Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat is one of the best ambassadors for the series even when he's no longer showrunner or writing for the series. Well, he does have "Joy to the World," this year's upcoming Christmas Special guest-starring Bridgerton (and Big Mood) star Nicola Coughlan as the Joy of the title since Moffat just loves puns with characters'[...]

We're celebrating the anniversary of Sesame Street, which is as much an institution to Americans as Doctor Who is to the British, and guess what? The two series are linked in ways we – or their creators – never realized Sesame Street is pretty much an unofficial US spinoff of Doctor Who ever since it[...]

Nye is a major play starring Michael Sheen staged at London's National Theatre in 2023 – and it has a Doctor Who connection The playwright Tim Price was previously involved in an episode of Doctor Who, namely "The Tsuranga Conundrum" in Jodie Whittaker's first season You can stream Nye for free on YouTube until November 11th, and it comes highly recommended[...]

Are we expecting to learn a lot more about the upcoming Steven Moffat-penned, Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special "Joy to the World" when "Doctor Who Day" hits on November 23rd? Yup – and we're also expecting to learn more about Showrunner Russell T Davies and the Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor), Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday), and[...]

Fans are always speculating about what's next for Doctor Who – who's next, who's returning – often leading to wild theories that could never be true, however much they wish into their Tom Baker posters There's been a news drought before the second season of the series premieres on the BBC in the UK and[...]