Doctor Who as chaotic evil: a time of chaos behind the scenes
We dig into the history of Doctor Who script editors again, at a stage when calm was being sought after a particularly choppy era behind the scenes…
We dig into the history of Doctor Who script editors again, at a stage when calm was being sought after a particularly choppy era behind the scenes…
As promised, former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has published an earlier version of his script for the show’s 50th anniversary special, Day Of The Doctor. It’s for the charity book A Second Target For Tommy, that’s aiming to help raise funds for Tommy Danvaband in his battle against cancer. Moffat noted that “this is … >
The highlight of Doctor Who videogames so far has arguably been the series of adventure games that the BBC made available for free that debuted back in 2010. Five in all were produced, with scripts penned by Phil Ford and James Moran. In the end, the BBC opted to concentrate more on console games that … >
Jodie Whittaker made her debut in the TARDIS last Christmas, courtesy of her brief appearance at the end of the Doctor Who Christmas special. Her first full series as the Doctor is currently filming, and will premiere this autumn. It’s expected that Whittaker will have signed up for a good few series of the show … >
Production of Doctor Who series 11 is ongoing, and the shoot thus far has gone from Cape Town to Sheffield to Gosport and – of course – in and around Wales. This week, Doctor Who is back home too, as the shoot has taken to the streets of Cardiff again. Location filming was taking place … >
It’s not much of a secret that Christopher Eccleston didn’t have the best of times on Doctor Who, opting to leave the show after a single series. He played the Doctor in 2005, of course, before handing over the TARDIS keys to David Tennant. It’s only in the last year or two that he’s begun … >
Michelle Ryan is returning to her Doctor Who role for a Big Finish audio drama series. David Tennant will not appear alongside her. Ryan played a glamorous master thief by the name of Lady Christina de Souza, alongside Tennant’s Doctor, in the 2009 special Planet Of The Dead. At the end of the episode, she … >
The brilliant Jodie Whittaker is about to appear on the big screen again in Paddy Considine’s new movie, Journeyman. As such, she’s been doing some interview work to promote the movie. The subject of Doctor Who has come up in the midst of that. Whittaker is currently filming Doctor Who series 11, of course, and … >
While the Ninth Doctor showed Rose ‘The End of the Word’, it was not until the second series of modern Doctor Who that we saw the TARDIS visit a whole new world onscreen, when the Tenth brought Rose to smell the apple grass of ‘New Earth’. Later, he also brought Martha and saved the New … >
Potentially mild spoilers for Doctor Who series 11 A few new details have come to light about Doctor Who series 11, that’s currently filming under the watchful eye of new showrunner, Chris Chibnall. The Mirror has a new report – and should be taken, of course, with usual doses of The Mirror salt – which suggests … >