Six box sets in, and with Autons, Silurians and Sea Devils, The Silence, Daleks and Sontarans already faced, it was inevitable that Kate Stewart’s UNIT team would tackle the Cybermen at some point. Of course, they did so onscreen in Dark Water/Death In Heaven, but these stories are set earlier. Picking up on the story … >
Raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust, the annual Sci-Fi Ball heads to the Grand Harbour Hotel in Southampton next month – and Doctor Who’s Ingrid Oliver has just joined the special guest list. The event takes place over the weekend over Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th February, and Oliver will be in attendance on … >
Old and new incarnations of UNIT get together for a series of audio adventures thanks to Big Finish. Here’s our UNIT: Assembled Review…
Ingrid Oliver has hinted that there are “some very small tells” which reveal which version of her Doctor Who character Osgood is not human. Osgood first appeared in 2013’s ‘The Day of the Doctor’, where the UNIT scientist was duplicated by a Zygon, resulting in two Osgoods. One of the Osgoods was killed by Missy in ‘Death in Heaven’, … >
In their second box set release for Big Finish, Kate Stewart, Osgood and the team take on fearsome assassins and a hard-nosed businesswoman, set on profiting from salvaged alien technology. As before, this Doctor Who box set comprises a four-part story shared between two writers; Andrew Smith handles the middle two episodes while Matt Fitton … >
Guaranteed to infuriate anyone who likes to refer to Doctor Who stories with acronyms, this week’s ‘The Zygon Inversion’ was the conclusion of the two-part tale which began with ‘The Zygon Invasion’. With the Doctor granted a pivotal speech on the futility of war, Clara was also busy; first entrapped and then manipulating “Bonnie”, her … >
Doctor Who will return for a new season this autumn. This news summary will be updated regularly as more details are revealed, with the latest updates at the top of each section. Rumours and unconfirmed reports will be marked with a *. > Buy Season 9 on DVD on Amazon. > Buy Season 9 on … >
Hot on the heels of TV’s ‘Inversion of the Zygons’, Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and Petronella Osgood (Ingrid Oliver) return in Big Finish’s new audio boxset, UNIT: Extinction. This time there is no Doctor and UNIT takes centre stage, protecting the world from alien threats. UNIT: Extinction is a big moment for Big Finish as … >
If you’re the kind of impeccable viewer who’s been checking Etsy on a daily basis for Question Mark underpants (none at the time of writing…I’ve, err, heard), or you’re a sucker for choice chunks of Who nostalgia, or if you just savour the relief of a Part 2 that lives up to its Part 1, … >
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has revealed that the Doctor’s next companion won’t be a returning character. Jenna Coleman will depart the show as Clara at some point this season, but her replacement has not yet been annouced. Ingrid Oliver’s Osgood, first seen in ‘The Day of the Doctor’ in 2013, and Faye Marsay’s Shona, … >