Watch a ‘Suicide Squad’-style trailer for ‘Doctor Who’ Daleks ep!

YouTube user Theta Sigma Productions has created a brilliant tribute to 2012’s Doctor Who episode ‘Asylum of the Daleks’ in the style of DC’s Suicide Squad trailer. Starring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis and Jai Courtney, Suicide Squad arrives in UK cinemas this summer and is the third installment in … >

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‘Doctor Who’ exec still keen to get Peter Jackson directing an ep

The makers of Doctor Who haven’t given up their hopes of persuading The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson to film an episode. Showrunner Steven Moffat had previously revealed: “I’ve spoken to [Peter Jackson] face to face, and he would like to do one. He accepts that there’s no money and that there’s no … >

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Jenna Coleman takes selfie in costume filming ITV’s ‘Victoria’ drama

Doctor Who star Jenna Coleman has posted a pic on Instagram revealing her look in ITV’s major new drama about the early life of Queen Victoria. The 8-part series from the makers of BBC One’s Poldark began filming last year. Created and written by acclaimed novelist Daisy Goodwin, Victoria follows Queen Victoria (Jenna Coleman) from … >

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All the Bad Wolf references in ‘Doctor Who’

Eleven years since Doctor Who returned to our screens, we decided to take a look back at all the “Bad Wolf” references in the show over the past decade.   ‘The End Of The World’ The Moxx of Balhoon says to the Face of Boe: “Indubitably, this is the Bad Wolf scenario. I find the relative laxity of … >

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John Hurt as the War Doctor

Doctor Who: The War Doctor – Infernal Devices audio review

With barely time to catch our breath since December’s epic Only the Monstrous, this second box set presents three further adventures for John Hurt’s missing incarnation of our favourite Time Lord.  Surrounded by terrific, thumping version of the theme, these stories ostensibly deal with attempts to employ super-weapons in the struggle against the Daleks. In … >

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Doomwatch

Rewind: Cybermen creators’ ’70s sci-fi drama ‘Doomwatch’ revisited

‘What are you making down there – poison gas?’ What was it about? Gerry Davis and Dr Kit Pedler first worked together during the 1960s, when Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd brought them into his production team as story editor and technical advisor respectively. Together, Pedler and Davis brought some contemporary scientific realism to the … >

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