New artwork, and further cast and story details are revealed today for the first volume of Big Finish’s Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures, Ravagers starring Christopher Eccleston. Due for release in May 2021, Ravagers features three tales written by Nicholas Briggs, and sees the Doctor on a voyage of discovery once more with new friends and adventures. Alongside the … >
We recently discussed how the popularity of the Bridgerton novels has soared since the series hit Netflix, and now the streamer has done some analysis of just how well book sales benefit from television adaptation led by Bridgerton, half of the Top 10 titles on The New York Times Best Sellers list this month are books … >
ITV has released details (and a trailer) for Unforgotten series 4 We’ve been fans of Unforgotten ever since series 1, and welcomed news of its return for Unforgotten series 4. With the inevitable delays due to the pandemic, the show makes its welcome return on Monday February 22. If you cast your mind back to the end of … >
Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels are dominating our fiction reading during lockdown, at least on Amazon Unsurprisingly, major success in one medium (in this case TV) can result in major sales of associated products. The Queen’s Gambit sparked a rise in sales of chess sets worldwide (and popularity of chess as a whole) and the same effect … >
Titan Books has published today (December 8 2020) a new hardback book The Art of Star Trek Discovery We’ve been enjoying Star Trek: Discovery season 3 (see our review of the latest episode here) and one of the many things that appeal to us is the stunning visuals. It seems both CGI and set/costume design has reached new … >
BBC Learning and Tynker have collaborated to create the HiFive Inventor a Next-Generation Education Technology Mini-Computer, helping kids to learn to code with the voice and image of the thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker. The HiFive Inventor is a hand-shaped mini-computer designed to teach kids how to control robots or interface with IoT systems to investigate … >
Released this week, the latest of Doctor Who Magazine‘s “Bookazine” specials is rather special indeed. Rather than focussing on the televised Doctor Who, it features reprints of the Dalek comic strips from TV Century 21. First published between 1965 and 1967, The Daleks comic strips were devised by Terry Nation and largely written by David … >
Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill sat for a video interview to promote Doctor Who: The Monster Vault, a new book by Jonathan Morris, Penny CS Andrews, Lee Johnson, Paul Lang published by Penguin/Random House. The two actresses shared laughs and chills when discussing their experiences filming with Doctor Who monsters. “I love the Pting,” Mandip … >
BBC One and BBC Children in Need have confirmed the tracks for Children in Need: Got It Covered album, which will be released on Friday, November 1 in conjunction with Silva Screen Records. The album, in aid of BBC Children in Need, features a line-up of some of the UK’s most critically-acclaimed actors from stage … >
Technology company HTC and BBC Studios are putting together a special two-day event for Doctor Who fans at Protein Studios in East London next week. Visitors will see a full-size TARDIS on display outside the venue, while inside they can use HTC’s newly released VR headset, the VIVE Cosmos, to play a new game based … >