‘Extremis’, the 6th episode of Doctor Who season 10, is packed full of Steven Moffat’s trademark high-concept themes and plot twists. Oh, and it’s dark – very dark. Doctor Who has always been great at making you feel sympathy for the strangest things. Just this season, we’ve been invited to consider the perspective of alien puddles, … >
The striking Doctor Who episode ‘Oxygen’ all started with a single email… Writer Jamie Mathieson has taken to his personal website to illuminate just a little of the work that went into creating the episode ‘Oxygen’. He’s shared the text of the original treatment email he sent to Steven Moffat – a mail that started what he calls the … >
Are you ready for the weekend? Well, Bill Potts is here to help you make the right decisions about how to spend you time… It’s the weekend… IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES! Getting in touch with friends, and making plans for a night out… So you can hang out with people you really like spending time with… … >
Doctor Who returns to BBC One this weekend with a new episode, ‘Extremis’, written by Steven Moffat himself. In the Haereticum – the Vatican’s secret library of blasphemy – there is an ancient book known only as The Veritas. Throughout history, anyone who has ever read it has immediately taken their own life. Now a new translation … >
This first instalment of a three-part Doctor Who adventure perfectly sets up the finale of Peter Capaldi’s time in the TARDIS. There’s a piece of text going round online and it makes all who read it want to kill themselves. But enough about my review for ‘Mummy on the Orient Express’, we’ve got a new Doctor … >
Michelle Gomez was too… When a certain tabloid – which shall remain nameless – decided to spoil the reveal of John Simm’s return to the role of The Master in series 10 of Doctor Who, it reduced some of the impact of the news. Apparently, Stephen Moffat had expressed a wish that the secret be kept … >
Though today’s Doctor Who news has been all about Missy, this short clip is sure to whet you appetite for Saturday. There’s not much to go on here, we’ll admit, but 10 seconds of Doctor Who is better than no Doctor Who, right? See, told you. Still, it’s enough to get us pumped for the … >
The female incarnation of The Master will depart with Capaldi and Moffat after series 10. I don’t think that many people would argue with our opinion that Michelle Gomez has been one of the highlights of Peter Capaldi’s reign as the Doctor. Watching the pair verbally joust across multiple episodes, and the sheer devilry she … >
If you thought the future of capitalism was bleak, this week’s episode of Doctor Who agrees! ‘Oxygen‘ sees a disconcertingly essential resource become monetised, with disastrous consequences. I sure hope any developing space companies are taking notes about why this is a bad idea. But here are some other interesting things about this week’s jaunty … >
Patrick Ness is a man with with a pretty stellar writing pedigree. Not only did the man behind Doctor Who spin-off series Class pen the book upon which the fantastic A Monster Calls is based, soon more of his novels – the Chaos Walking series – are to be made into a film starring Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley … >