A new Doctor Who anthology, Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader, brings together key academic, critic and fan writings about Doctor Who alongside newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates to form a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse. The perennially popular BBC series holds a unique place in the history of … >
Here’s our September 2023 Podcast Roundup – our favourites from the worlds of CultBox. In no particular order, the picks this month are… I’ll Explain Later: a Doctor Who podcast Back for a new season of six weekly episodes, hosts Jon West and Matt Nida discuss classic and modern Doctor Who. Always political, sometimes pithy … >
42, the crowdfunded The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, is now ready for release — we bring you all the details you need More than two years ago we brought details of Kevin Jon Davies project to explore some of the many (many) documents Douglas Adams left to his alma mater (St Johns, Cambridge). … >
Terry Jones’ comic novel is getting the Hitchhiker’s Guide treatment on Radio 4 this Christmas. Written and designed by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Starship Titanic began life as a single player graphic adventure game in the late 1990s. With all his trademark wit and charm, it involved puzzle-solving and … >
The penultimate season for Tom Baker’s fourth Doctor, with a full season of Lalla Ward as Romana, is the next Doctor Who release to come to Blu-ray with Season 17. Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 17 will be released on December 13, 2021. View the specially-shot announcement trailer written by new series contributor Pete … >
Happy Towel Day — yes, 25 May is a day to remember Douglas Adams, and had been commemorated annually since his passing on 11 May 2001 One thing you can say about sci-fi fans (and there are lots of things you might say) is they like a day. There’s Star Wars Day (May 4th!), Doctor Who Day (November 23) … >
The Doomsday Contract was a storyline originally developed during Douglas Adams tenure as Doctor Who Script Editor. Written by his friend and sometime Hitchhiker’s Guide collaborator John Lloyd, it was put aside when the writer became too busy with other work. Now, approximately forty-two years later, drawing on two original synopsis documents, adaptor Nev Fountain … >
A new book 42 — The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams will offer a unique insight into his life and work You can help fund a book drawn from the papers of Douglas Adams, lodged with his alma mater St Johns College, Cambridge, and celebrating his genius. After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams’s papers … >
Douglas Adams was recommended for the Doctor Who Script Editor’s job by his predecessor Anthony Read, and accepted the job after meeting with producer Graham Williams. This was around September/October 1978. Williams was recovering from illness that meant he was unable to carry out his role during the filming of The Power of Kroll. It … >
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency was one of the breakthrough shows of 2016, and it’s coming back later this year with a couple of top-notch additions to it’s mayhem. Yesterday, BBC America – which airs the show in the US – announced that British actor John Hannah (currently in Agents Of Shield, and last seen … >