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BBC's Doctor Who Series 12 finale this coming Sunday promises big changes to the show's lore. It's all about Gallifrey and how everything we thought we knew was wrong. Of course, the BBC saw fit to put together a video primer about the Doctor's home planet as both a summary and way to get newer […]

I was torn about what to do with this post – whether it was worth giving exposure to or not. But at a time when scared little boys freak out every time a woman "dares" play in their corner of geek-pop culture sandbox, it never hurts to remind people just how sh*tty things used to […]

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 […]

MacKenzie Crook is set to play Worzel Gummidge, a role previously played by Jon Pertwee, otherwise known as Doctor Who's Third Doctor. The BBC has released the first photograph of Crook in full make-up and costume in the new children's series adapted from the classic books. As the BBC announced in their press release, "Their […]

Because in the future, everyone gets a streaming service… Pluto TV has announced a major new content deal with BBC Studios that gives the Viacom-owned free streamer access to nearly 1,000 episodes of BBC shows – including 200 Classic Doctor Who episodes. Pluto TV is an ad-supported streaming service that boasts approximately 15 million customers and […]

If there was one major takeaway from this year's BBC Doctor Who New Year's Special 'Resolution,' it's that there's definitely a new Dalek in town. It's broke and has no casing, broken off by a bunch of warriors hundreds of years ago. So what's a poor Dalek in "The Big City" to do when it finally […]

Last week, in honor of Doctor Who's 55th Anniversary, BBC posted an updated compilation of all of the Doctor Who title sequences on the show's YouTube channel. The approximately eleven minute long video includes both the audio and visual sequence changes over the course of the show, 18 different versions. Notably, the collection does not include […]

Gotham's Sean Pertwee has another geek bonafide in a addition to playing comics' most famous butler — with all apologies to Edwin Jarvis — his father Jon Pertwee was the third Doctor Who from 1970 to 1974. And, as the actor tells the Radio Times, he was offered a role on the show last year. […]

Tread Perilously continues its adventure in time and space with the Jon Pertwee era Doctor Who story "Death to the Daleks." The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith find themselves on planet Exxilon out of power and out of answers. The Daleks also land on the planet, but also find themselves out of power. Turned into […]

While talking to The Telegraph about Friday's Doctor Who Christmas special, "The Husbands of River Song," star Peter Capaldi mentioned the next season of Doctor Who, his third, may be his last. "It's terrifying," he admitted. "I love Doctor Who but it can be quite an insular world and I do want to do other […]