There’s another massive year coming as Jodie Whittaker joins Big Finish to lead her own series of Thirteenth Doctor audio dramas in 2025. Producers Big Finish celebrated twenty-five years of making official Doctor Who audio dramas in 2024. However, they’ve no signs of slowing down with a packed schedule for the year ahead. Here are … >
Actor Tom Baker has been honoured by King Charles with a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) award for services to television. The 90-year-old actor was chosen along with other recipients as part of the New Year Honours. Baker is best known for his portrayal of the fourth incarnation of the Doctor … >
Paul McGann and India Fisher appeared live on stage at London’s Cadogan Hall in September 2024. Following a flurry of Doctor Who on television this Christmas, audio producers Big Finish have been filling in the days to New Year with some festive treats. The last of these, released today, is the much-anticipated live recording of … >
The Doctor Who audio producers have also released the winner of 2024’s Paul Spragg Memorial Script Opportunity. We’re still in the Christmas season but the universe of Doctor Who never rests. Onscreen, we’ve enjoyed The War Games in colour, 2024’s Doctor Who Prom and the Christmas Special ‘Joy to the World’. From the world of … >
Doctor Who Magazine 612 looks ahead to the next series of Doctor Who coming in 2025 as part of its Gallifrey Guardian column. Also in DWM 612: • An in-depth look at the making of The War Games in colour, including the brand-new model work and the Troughton/Pertwee regeneration sequence • EastEnders veteran Rudolf Walker … >
On Christmas Day 2024, a trailer was released for the eight-episode Doctor Who Season Two to transmit in the first half of 2025 starring Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor, Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra, Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday and Anita Dobson as the mysterious Mrs Flood. “It’s all a game to them,” the Doctor … >
The 90-minute colourisation of the Doctor Who story The War Games currently only available on BBC iPlayer will become available on Blu-Ray and DVD in April 2025. Originally aired in 1969, The War Games marked the end of an era for the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), as he and his companions Zoe (Wendy Padbury) and Jamie (Frazer … >
Former EastEnders star and 2021 Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose-Ayling Ellis is announced as starring in the next series of Doctor Who. Once rumoured to be considered for the Season One companion, she will join Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor for a thrilling and frightening adventure in Doctor Who Season Two. At a press screening of … >
Jon Pertwee’s debut season as the Third Doctor will be the next release to join the Doctor Who Blu-ray collection. The Third Doctor is exiled to Earth, teaming up with UNIT’s Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) and scientist Liz Shaw (Caroline John) to confront alien invasions and threats from our own planet’s primeval past. The Season … >
A 1966 lost Doctor Who adventure The Savages will be released as an animation on DVD, Blu-ray and limited-edition steelbook in spring 2025. The four-part First Doctor story was originally broadcast between May and June 1966. As the original master recordings are lost, due to the BBC’s historic policy of wiping content after transmission, BBC … >