The BBC has plans to experiment with generative AI in an effort to automate and thus streamline the distribution of promotional content. David Housden, Head of Media Inventory: Digital at the BBC explained how and why this experimentation begins with Doctor Who promotion. “We’re going to take it one step a time, starting simple and … >
The audio producers announce the future for the spacefaring archaeologist and sometime TARDIS traveller. The enduring character of Professor Bernice Summerfield, created by writer Paul Cornell for the Doctor Who – The New Adventures book series, has been around since the early 1990s. However, she gained a new level of fame when actor Lisa Bowerman … >
Two Doctor Who 2024 series actors and two 2025 series directors were announced in Doctor Who Magazine 601. “…it’s a joy to welcome Genesis Lynea on Board,” showrunner Russell T Davies said in DWM. “It was a great delight for me to work with Genesis on an ITV series called You and Me in 2023 … >
Costume designer Pam Downe will discuss dressing Ncuti Gatwa’s stylish new Doctor and how she created looks for the Toymaker and the Goblin army in Doctor Who Magazine 601. Also in DWM 601: • Script to Screen: An in-depth look at how the Goblin army developed, from the original concept to the finished product – … >
A new 116-page bookazine from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine celebrates an unforgettable era in the show’s history. The success of the first episodes starring Jon Pertwee saved the series from the threat of cancellation. A year later, the next phase of its reinvention introduced a new assistant for the Doctor and a debonair adversary to … >
Along with a special recorded video message from Ncuti Gatwa at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles California on 17 February 2024, Disney sponsored a new poster for the 2024 Doctor Who series coming this May. Dressed in the costume the Doctor wore at the end of The Church on Ruby Road and will … >
The Third Doctor is acting suspiciously, but the Brigadier and Sarah Jane Smith are on his trail. Can he be trusted? The first skirmish of the Sontarans vs Rutans mini-series took us to Ancient Ireland with the Eighth Doctor. In the second, the action shifts to Doctor Who’s much-loved UNIT era in the 70s (or … >
Starring the maddest, baddest and most dangerous to know villains of the Whoniverse, Dark Gallifrey will play out across four years of audio dramas. Across the aeons, the Doctor’s own people have generated a significant number of notorious renegades. Some have Time Lords head out into the universe to explore and ended up as a … >
Big Finish’s first lady Bernice Summerfield will encounter the Ninth Doctor for Buried Threats. Updated 16/02/24: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Buried Threats is released. Christopher Eccleston is back another box set of Ninth Doctor audio adventures, released on the actor’s 60th birthday. To mark the occasion, producers Big Finish have dropped another … >
Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies put a name to the phenomenon by which enabled the villainous Toymaker and his legions to enter the known universe in his script for The Church on Ruby Road posted on the BBC Writers website. In a scene which wasn’t included in the special where the Fifteenth Doctor and … >