The Making of Doctor Who, a non-fiction work by script editor Terrance Dicks and screenwriter and novelist Malcolm Hulke first published in paperback in 1972, will be available as an audio edition in early summer. The 1972 edition was principally written by Hulke for Piccalo Books. A second 1976 edition was rewritten by Dicks in … >
The cover of Doctor Who Magazine 587 features a Voc from The Robots of Death as a tribute to screenwriter Chris Boucher who died in December 2022. The magazine features a tribute to Boucher titled Tesh and Blood which includes contributions from producer Philip Hinchcliffe and actress Louise Jameson, who played Leela. Boucher was responsible … >
Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor Season 9 Blu-ray is available for pre-order for a spring release. A specially shot announcement trailer was released, written by new series contributor Pete McTighe (Kerblam! and Praxues) and featuring Katy Manning back as Jo. Across an action-packed twenty-six episodes, the Doctor and Jo (Katy Manning) face off against Daleks, Ogrons, … >
BBC Books has announced that it will expand the Doctor Who Target range with five new titles for Summer 2023. The new 2023 titles celebrate Target publishing Doctor Who books for half a century. – each written by the original screenwriters of the TV episodes with newly-commissioned cover artwork by Anthony Dry. Launched in 1973, … >
In a world-exclusive interview in Doctor Who Magazine 586, Millie Gibson talks about playing new companion Ruby Sunday, what it’s like acting alongside Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, and how she discovered she’d secured the role: “I went to get a spray tan for the NTAs [National Television Awards], and I was in the room waiting … >
Big Finish announce exciting plans to novelise the earliest episodes in Limited Edition hardback format. Audio producers Big Finish have been keepers of the Blake’s 7 flame for many years. From their full-cast audios starring original cast members, to narrator-led series The Liberator Chronicles, they’ve been busily adding to the universe first envisioned by Terry … >
In 2023, East Side Games will release Doctor Who: Lost in Time, an idle game where players explore time space and collecting energy to save the universe. Players tap to power-up waypoints to obtain vortex energy to upgrade their energy collectors and face off against some of the Doctor’s enemies. As the Doctor, players visit … >
According to his Letter from the Showrunner column in Doctor Who Magazine 585, Russell T Davies has revealed that Block One, currently filming now with director Dylan Holmes Williams, consists of two Doctor Who episodes. “I wonder if those [filming] locations will have made the papers by the time you read this?,” Davies wrote in … >
In Doctor Who Magazine 585, Russell T Davies revealed the episode count for Series 14 of Doctor Who starring Ncuti Gatwa and the plans for a festive special and future series going forward. “The Fifteenth Doctor’s first full season will be eight episodes long, with a Christmas special, making it nine episodes every year (and … >
A special edition of Doctor Who Magazine comes out on 1 December. The 2023 Yearbook celebrates Jodie Whittaker’s thirteenth Doctor’s entire journey and looks back on the past twelve months. “The thirteenth Doctor’s final adventures were among the most spectacular in the series’ history. This was a time of transformation in more ways than one … >