The series stars Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan as hosts of current affairs TV show. Writer Steven Moffat’s new show, described as a “dramedy” by Variety, promises a mini-reunion for his Doctor Who era. Hugh Bonneville, co-stars with Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) and Alex Kingston (River Song). Douglas is Cancelled tells the story of a … >
Big Finish’s Doctor Who 60th anniversary mini-series concludes with Once and Future: The Union. October’s second dose of Once and Future brings the Doctor Who 60th anniversary audio extravaganza to a close. Still afflicted by his bout of is degeneration, the ailing Doctor is rattling around his personal timeline more than ever. In The Union, … >
It’s a family affair as Paul McGann’s Doctor reunites with Susan and encounters River Song in ‘The Union’, the Once and Future finale. Updated 25/10/23: It’s the end of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary audio mini-series, but will it enjoy a suitably big finish? Once and Future: The Union is led by Paul McGann’s Eighth … >
The Orphan Quartet concludes the regular River Song audio series after twelve volumes. Since her last appearance with the Doctor in ‘The Husbands of River Song’, Alex Kingston has led her own audio series for Big Finish. Today, they publish the final chapter of The Diary of River Song. Across twelve volumes, River has encounter … >
Professor River Song will open her diary for a twelfth and final volume of adventures: The Orphan Quartet. Ever since her last onscreen appearance as the time-travelling archaeologist, Alex Kingston has been reprising the character for her own audio spin-off. Across eight glorious years of audio adventures, Professor Song has met multiple Doctors, Masters and … >
In Doctor Who Magazine 591, showrunner Russell T Davies discusses the casting of Yasmin Finney as Rose in a feature called The Runaway Pride as the publication celebrates the most significant LGBTQ+ characters from the show’s history. Also in the issue, award-winning writer Jamie Mathieson looks back on his episodes: Mummy on the Orient Express, … >
Friend of the Family sees Alex Kingston’s River Song woven into the history of a single family across the generations Boxsets of The Diary of River Song, which chronicle the exploits of the Doctor’s time travelling significant other, usually consist of four separate stories. Often, there is a theme or a story arc, but mostly … >
A train robbery, a turkey hijack and the horrors of public school await. The BBC have announced that its Dickensian family comedy Dodger is returning for three further specials. This follows a successful first run, which was the most-watched CBBC commissioned programme in the last 12 months. The show, which follows the exploits of characters … >
Two Rivers and a Firewall sees Alex Kingston’s impressible time-travelling adventuress Professor River Song notch up her tenth solo boxset. Free of Doctorly encounters, she instead meets an impossible version of herself, wins an auction, accepts a shopping invitation and spends some time in her digital afterlife. The Two Rivers The set begins with River … >
Peladon charts the history of one of the Doctor Who’s favourite planets through the ages. It’s been fifty years since the Third Doctor and Jo first travelled to Peladon. A feudal Earth-like society, though mineral rich, it was on the cusp of membership to the Galactic Federation – though not all his people shared that … >