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 … >
The adventures of Dodger (Billy Jenkins), Fagin (Christopher Eccleston), his gang and a colourful gallery of Victorian characters are coming to CBBC and BBC iPlayer on 6 February. Written by Rhys Thomas and Lucy Montgomery, the series follows the gang as they are down on their luck, ducking and diving their way through the tough … >
In series 8 of her Diary, River Song (Alex Kingston) was in the company of robots, now, in The Diary of River Song series 9 New Recruit, she’s back in more familiar (to fans) territory — the era of the third Doctor Big Finish may reasonably be accused of overusing the motif of River back in the life of a … >
Set to debut in January 2022, the show promises “an epic conclusion” to the trilogy. The final series of the fantasy drama A Discovery of Witches is adapted from The Book of Life (the third novel in writer Deborah Harkness’ All Souls Trilogy), and it looks as though we can expect an all out war … >