With the 60th-anniversary of Doctor Who fast approaching (less than three months away – but who’s keeping count?), an exhibition to celebrate the long-running sci-fi series will be opening in North Somerset’s Weston Museum to mark the milestone. Launching in November, Adventures in Time and Space – 60 Years of Doctor Who Art will showcase the largest … Read more
Original story: FlickLuster reported on August 23 that Series 14 of Doctor Who would land on television screens from Spring 2024. However, the BBC has amended a statement, suggesting they accidentally revealed the date early or became the subject of a leak. The following is what we now know. Update: Doctor Who might not be returning in Spring 2024. Information … Read more
Doctor Who will be back for a Christmas Special before returning for an eight-episode series in the Spring of 2024, as reported by The Radio Times. Ncuti Gatwa’s first full-length episode as the Fifteenth Doctor will debut in December. Presently, the specifics of a December debut are open to debate. The series could adopt a similar approach … Read more
At the end of 1987, Bonnie Langford departed the TARDIS for the final time, having accompanied not one, but two Time Lords in adventures across time and space. Her debut in the classic series was alongside Colin Baker’s dazzlingly eccentric Sixth Doctor midway during the Trial Of A Time Lord mega-series, one year earlier. However, … Read more
The Radio Times has revealed a special edition to commemorate the upcoming 60th-anniversary of Doctor Who, with new images of David Tennant returning as the Tenth-turned-Fourteenth Doctor. We know little more at this stage on plot details and casting information (aside from the four brand-new casting additions announced earlier this week), but the pictures as seen in this … Read more
Ncuti Gatwa’s first series of Doctor Who has added four new cast members, recently revealed in a story by Yahoo! (as announced in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine). The long-running sci-fi series has confirmed the casting of Gemma Arrowsmith, Billy Brayshaw, Mary Malone, and Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy. Beginning with Arrowsmith, the actress is reportedly appearing in this year’s Christmas … Read more
A musical concert commemorating six decades of music for Doctor Who will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 (thanks to a story from The Radio Times). The special event, titled Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration, is expected to debut sometime in the autumn (likely to coincide with the 60th anniversary specials) and will be hosted at the … Read more
A classic Doctor Who serial from 1967, The Underwater Menace, is set to be restored with colour animation and original audio recordings, courtesy of a story from The Radio Times. Into the 1970s, the BBC had no official policy for archiving programme content, and as such, many stories within Doctor Who’s classic era (including two of the four episodes … Read more
A significant fact of Doctor Who history could actually be, after almost sixty years, a myth. Paul Hayes, author and broadcaster, who’d previously penned The Long Game in 2021, a book that chronicled Doctor Who’s absence and eventual revival between 1996 and 2003, has written another, Pull To Open, a story that documents the show’s development between 1962 to … Read more
David Tennant has shared his first ever television memory, and it happens to be a Doctor Who serial dating back to 1974. The story in question was the sixth and concluding chapter of Planet of the Spiders, Jon Pertwee’s last episode as the Third Doctor. He’d served as the Time Lord since the turn of the … Read more