Two Doctor Who episodes on a Saturday is a treat. Two more Doctor Who episodes the following Saturday is a pattern. On Saturday 27 September and Saturday 4 October, BBC Three will air two episodes per evening of Doctor Who featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. The Eleventh Hour and The Beast Below will … >
The annual Short Trips competition remembers the contribution of the late Big Finish staffer Paul Spragg. For the last seven years, audio producers Big Finish have run their annual Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trips Opportunity. The competition honours the life of Paul Spragg, the dearly missed and much-loved producer’s assistant who was always keen to … >
The actor opens up about playing princes and a (Time) Lord. While we’ve been obsessing over ‘The Power of the Doctor’ and its gallery of returning faces this weekend, House of the Dragon has just concluded its first season. As Prince Daemon, former Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith has won acclaim for a magnetic performance in … >
‘Regeneration Impossible’, the latest Short Trip, sees range editor Alfie Shaw pushing the constraints of the regular format. Thanks to the remarkable vocal talents of actor Jacob Dudman, this story chronicles a meeting of two Doctors: one during his Victorian isolation, before the events of ‘The Snowmen’, the other at the latter end of his … >
It’s almost cruelly emblematic really. That the most closely-guarded Doctor Who finale ever, one which concerns a great secret being discovered, should have its own secrets compromised. And by the ‘Great Intelligence’ that is the collective mind of the Internet no less, rather than the breathy malevolence of Richard E. Grant.
For an episode which did so much to ring in the new, there was an awful lot that was familiar about ‘The Bells of Saint John’.
One of the countless great things about Doctor Who is the way an episode can change in a heartbeat, ending up a million miles away from where it started.