For the Sixth Doctor adventure in Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary collection, BBC Books have chosen to reprint a novel by the biggest name in Who prose, Terrance Dicks. A writer and script editor of the show, Dicks went on to pen over 60 novelisations as well as a host of novels and spin off books.
After the turbulent, foreboding first half of Skins Rise hinted at plenty but revealed little, its second half still has a lot to explain.
The last time we saw the manic-hedonistic James Cook in Skins, he was seconds away from killing or being killed in one of the most intense cliffhangers in the show’s history. Cut forward three years, and the alive-and-well Cook works for a drug dealer in bleak suburban Manchester.
Doctor Who has been through many forms on the television screen over the past 50 years, from the black and white adventure serial of the 1960s to the bold primary colours of the 1980s. We recently asked you to tell us which era has been your favourite. Here’s how you voted…
Details have been confirmed for Doctor Who’s official 50th anniversary celebration weekend later this year.
As StudioCanal continue their ongoing plan to release the entire Studio Ghibli catalogue in high definition on Blu-ray, we celebrate this week’s release of Kiki’s Delivery Service and Grave of the Fireflies with a look at our five favourite underrated Ghibli movies.
Ben Wheatley (Sightseers) continues on his winning streak with period psychological horror A Field in England.
From award-winning science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds, Harvest of Time is published by BBC Books on 6 June (£16.99 hardback), featuring the Third Doctor. JT Colgan’s Dark Horizons (£12.99 hardback) is also out now.
The perfect gifts for Father’s Day, we’ve got sets of both books to give away to three of our Twitter followers!
With exactly six months to go until Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary special airs, here are five things we’re hoping to see.
Jason Isaacs returns to BBC One this month as complex and compulsive private detective Jackson Brodie in a second series of crime drama Case Histories.