MCM Birmingham Comic Con looks like it might be worth a visit for Doctor Who fans. Heading to the NEC in Birmingham on 18th and 19th of November, the line-up has just been bolstered by the news that Bill herself, Pearl Mackie, will be appearing at both days of the show. And there’s more. David … >
Yesterday we reported on how Nicholas Pegg, the writer of The Watcher column in Doctor Who Magazine, has been dismissed from the publication following a ‘coded message’ left in its latest issue. On the same day, Private Eye magazine has run a report that hints at some of the problems behind the scenes. In its … >
The latest Doctor Who Early Adventures story from Big Finish is The Outliers, a second Doctor story with Frazer Hines voicing both the Doctor and Jamie, with Anneke Wills as Polly and Elliot Chapman as Ben Jackson. This set of actors is now well established as a group and it’s yet another polished performance, directed … >
How the director of photography for the Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker reveal didn’t find out what the job was until very, very late in the day…
Nicholas Pegg has been ‘dismissed’ from Doctor Who Magazine over a special message coded into the latest issue…
Starring the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Mel (who has re-joined the TARDIS after her travels with Glitz), Big Finish’s Doctor Who story The Blood Furnace brings the companions home to Earth and relatively close to their respective times as they materialise at a Merseyside shipyard in 1991. It soon becomes a rather personal trip for Mel too, as … >
The current Doctor will clash with his predecessor (and Bill) in the Doctor Who Christmas special over his dated views, says David Bradley. The actor told journalists at MCM London Comic-Con – including your CultBox correspondent – that the change in attitudes over the five decades since the first Doctor occupied the TARDIS will shock … >
Marc Platt’s Doctor Who story The Behemoth, is the first in a set of three audio releases for Colin Baker’s sixth Doctor and his two Big Finish companions, Flip (Lisa Greenwood) and Constance Clark (Miranda Raison). For a change it’s a pure historical tale, set in 1756 Bath. The Doctor is setting tongues wagging, but … >
David Bradley has a starring role on Christmas Day in the eagerly-awaited Doctor Who Christmas special, Twice Upon A Time. He’s playing, of course, his take on the William Hartnell’s first Doctor, having played Hartnell himself in the Who docu-drama, An Adventure In Space And Time. Bradley was at London Comic Con over the weekend, … >
Filming, as you probably know, kicks off on Doctor Who series 11 before Christmas, with Jodie Whittaker taking over the TARDIS for ten episodes. Casting is well underway too on the new series, and the production team is falling into place too. The brilliant Ruther2 on Twitter has been digging up a wealth of information … >